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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hon. Robert M. McLane and family have sailed on the steamer Normandie from Havre for New York.

Wayne MacVeagh, at a Savage Club dinner in London recently, made a very clever hit. In the course of a long speech he said to his English auditors: "We admire your pictures -and buy them; we welcome your actors-and pay them; we read your books-and steal them."

Col. M. J. Nickel, who is associated with William F. Cody and Nate [Saisbury?] in the "Wild West Show," in London, returned to this country on Saturday. "The Wild West is a great go," he says. "We have had from 15,000 to 18,000 people present daily and expect to run the show until October, when we will go to Paris and show at the Hippodrome."

Gen. Fitz John Porter is at Spring Lake Beach, N. J.

Henry Irving has been elected a trustee of Shakespeare's birthplace, at Stratford-upon-Avon, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Dr. Ingleby.

Mr. F. Marion Crawford will return to America in October and spend the winter here.

A year ago County Commissioner Van Pelt, of Chicago, who is now being tried for bribery, was at the head of a delegation of business men who called on the President to ask him to [appoint?] [McGarigle?], now a fugitive, to the Marshalship of the NorthernDistrict of Illinois. Mr. Cleveland, with whom first impressions go a great way, did not like the looks of either Van Pelt or McGarigle, and appointed another man.

George Francis Train is said to have declined an offer of 31,000 for thirty lectures.

Senator Sherman and party arrived at Toronto yesterday.