... the past week, and subject to great delays. As an instance, it mav be mentioned that the train on the London and North-Western, which leaves London at 6.15 a.m., bringing down the morning papers, and which is due in Manchester at 2.40 p.m., has been delayed ...

... remembered, read, by desire, before her Majesty, the illustrative verses of the d Oratoriesof AtI/alic, Antiqoene, and Qidipus, to appear as s Falstaff in the first part of IeInry i V., at Windsor next V e Christmas, when the dramatic representations are to be ...

... public libraries. It is tces that in. London we have several old, though - canty libraries. But they wouldbhetotally inadequate, even if improved, to meet the wants of our extending' poepulation. The old part of London is the partbheetsunplied with libraries ...

... 000 it appears that there are ml only 246 readers resorting to the King's College Library. sh IR'v. Henry Christmas, Librarian of Sion College, London Wall, was next examined. He stated : Li ISion College was founded about 1630 by a Dr. White, the rettor ...

... impossi- ble that the general historian should devote to them, and many new ones have been opened, whose value was previously unknown. An abundance ot facts and ideas, illustrative of the character and man- ners of earlier ages, have thus become public ...