... IOUR ILLUJSTRATED - ,LONDON LETTER. That Christmas is upon us we are forcibly reminded by the opening of the great ha1l and grounds alreidY known as 4 Olympia, at Kensington, on Monday next. Ihavereferredto this pet schemeof ?? LATHO1N two or three ...

... selecting goods made only by the leading London houses; their show room and fancy bazaar is fnow open with a variety ofearticlee ranging in value from 6.1. to £3-antelope leather goods, the latest London fashion, new shapes of albums, with floral and landscape ...

... THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES. On Tuesday night, the various theatres in London were crowded to witness the pantomimes. First in order came- DRanY-LANz TI4EATRE.-TO have witnessed the ?? crowd which thronged on Tuesday ni ght the precincts ?? would have thought ...

... Plot and Passion, came the new pantomime, historico-geouraphical, as its name implies, for it is entitled, Columbus, or the Old World and the New. It is-what cannot be said for more than a very small proportion of these Christmas productions-a really clever ...

... S ,h ilksP, all shades ; handsome tinsel ?? ; plain and ] ad- hmocededl satin reerveilleux ; new. crtpei Stnanley ; new cl tth failla Fraticaiss silks ; new Bongaline silks ; usew Serat ~ i ds silks; plumn ied fancy obolffonev, all npw evening slhades ...

... farrago ast our Christmas puod- ding Befre offer, you any details as to`the obser-; vance of Christmas in the old entie shl'etreo fread to you the graphic description which Sli W. Scott- gives us ia-the pages of Mtsrmi:6u ?? -- On Christmas Hve, the belle ...

... Itis to be illustrated on a new plan, by whiohb pietnrebauii drawings can be copied upon stone and reproduced very quickly. On a similar, but I believe a more advancied method, a daily illustrated newspaper is to be started very-shorfly in New York by the ...

... FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LEGAL OBLIGAIONS OF THE RUBRIC OF ORNA- MENTS.O r 0 To~ the .&tfor of the Ipswich: Journal. . ?? my last letter wasainserted In your paper a valued friend, an eminalnt barrister, hase charged me with unjustly imputing to Dr ...

... CHRISTMAS, AND CHURCH DECORATIONS. . .. . - - - We have hfad one of the wettest holidays on record.L Christmas, 1876. has been a time of rain and Storm. C From morn till night, from night till morn, we have had I Showers alternated with storms, the whole ...

... friends> are the c only desiderati. In London, we are- left alope to make E the-best pretence we may of enjoying the season, and I some oft us- manage very well; but hardly a man or t woman remaining here for the Christmas week but t ruminates on the country ...

... believe, supplies one of three somewhat long stories which will form the Christmas Number of the 1 Gentle- man's Magazine. Mr. Francillon's Christmas Number will this year be illustrated by a set of brilliant coloured plates by Grant and Co. ...

... LONDON NOTES. (By oer Special' CoIrae9pondent.) So far as it is possible; everybody runs away from Lon- ?? Christmas. The great city grows ever more and more intolerable in the, short days of Winter, for any other purpose than hard work. We do not get ...