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A curious present has been made to Mr. Disraeli by

Mr. Andrew Currie, of Glasmont, near Kirkcaldy. It is a magnificently carved silver-mounted walking-stick, made from wood which formed the stair leading to Adam Smith's house in Kirkcaldy. Further, it is said that Mr. Disraeli is greatly pleased with the curious present. We have heard of the Eton boys giving a new head master a birch, but we never heard of a master making a boy a present of the birch with which he had been frequently chastised,—and still less of a boy who was gratified with and treasured the gift. Yet Adam Smith has so often been the stick with which Mr. Disraeli has been sharply beaten, that we should not have expected him to be thankful for Mr. Currie's present and parable.

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