... birthdays, christenings, marriages, the seasons of the year, such as Christmas, New Yjsar, Sc., invariably re- ceive special commemoration. The attention of one f t1» great London manufacturers MR J. W. Benson, of '25, Old Bond street, and of the City ...

... Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail- way (now the Great Central) with a ter- minus in London. Amongst she biggest fashionable crushes of the year was the Press minus in London. Amongst she biggest fashionable crushes of the year was the Press Bazaar at the ...

... sent to Mr. P. M'Mahon, of the Oxford Circuit, in place of Mr. W. N. Willes, who has been appointed a county court judge. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY.—At Bridgwater about 50 of the principal firms have signed an agreement to close their places of business on Monday ...

... street and St Mary street, have a large stock of clothing specially suited for Christmas and the New Year. As they have, for the Christmas season, added to their stock numbers of new articles. the variety oÍ goods is exten- sive, and these, they state, owing ...

... Mr and Mrs Hollyer also visited the institution. They inspected the Christmas tree, and left presents for the patients. On Christmas Day the inmates were regaled with orthodox Christmas beef and plum pudding. CRRISTMASBOUNTY AT THE ROATH BOAD WESLEYAN CHAPEL ...

... ted albums of an entirely new style would make valuable and ornamental Christmas presents. Besides the more expensive articles there are hun- dreds of smaller ones of less costly design, in- tended as ornaments to the Christmas tree or presents to the more ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. CHRISTMAS AT CARDIFF. CHURCH DECORATIONS. At this petiodof the year the human mind seems to feel more acutely the influence of Christian love and chmtv— ihe one to lay homage to Him on whom tbeir eteri.i'y depends, the other to ...

... about a dozen views of well known places in London executed with all the beauty and elaborateness for which Dore has become famous. As a book for the drawing-room table probably London has no equal this Christmas, while the description and historical i ...

... children. Both are fully illustrated. The English Illustrated Magazine maintains the high character of its illustrations. The articles on Antwerp and Coaching Days aud Coach- ing Ways deserve special notice, the illustrations in both being not only well ...

... (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, THTTRSDAT. Already the shadow of Christmas has fallen upon us, and there is a wonderful dearth of news. At this time of the year everybody is either hard at work making up His accounts, or hard at play with the ...

... been some four new theatres in the Strand within the last twelve or eighteen months, and the number of new newspaper offices I will not venture to reckon. The Graphic has admirable quarters hard by the office of its rival, the Illustrated News, and close ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT, LONDON, THURSDAY. I spoke too soon when I wrote last week of the delight ful coolness of this present August. We are a week nearer the winter solstice, that the waning days tell us; but the thermometer would lead us to think ...