ASHBORNE FAIR AND STATUTES

... t-1 - I - f This fair, held on Tuesday, Dec. 15, was well supplied with ci a cattle of all descriptions; ant those which changed hands o Iwere sold at reduced prices. Though a great many fat sheep |0 e were penned, but few were disposed of. Beef may be quoted E Dat 6id., and mutton at 6sd. per lb. . The show of fat cattle was first-rate, but more.limtted than ' usual. The principal object of ...

Selected Poetry

... ,stiectro vortrij. FAlIVilELL TO DECEMBE R. Hail to thee! bail to thee ! summer day sun I Brilliant and long is the course that VO a run Lightning thc rose on the straw-covered hut, Storing the hedges with berry and nut. Flash on in the strength of your glorious pride, Scorching the green-sod and gilding the tide. But my welcome is ncithlr so long nor so loud As it is vhen you pcep from a dark ...

GERMANY.—Vienna, Dec. 1. —Lord Ponsonby, the new English Ambassador at Court of Austria, since the notification ..

... incorporation of Cracow, has lived retired, and appears nowhere, lie is said to have received, on the 29th, a note from Lord l'almi nton this subject, which he immediately communicated to Prince Mettemich. The recent accounts from Leinberg, say those person* of the array who have been condemned to hard labour in fortresses were removed to Kufstein. All of them, thirteen in number, belong to ...

LITERATURE

... LITERAT UR'.E. The Silkhs and 4glhians. By SHi A1MAT At.r. X I I Iu r ay Shahamat Ali is one of the imost proini-iiig off- shoots of that rysteul of E nrop.'an Cli ueatimti .a- blished in India by tile genirotrS phllila tilropa of t Lord Anmierst's governt nt, tile benctits of se ibtelt to the natives of that country have subse(lulently been extended and lollowt'l up by tihe ('eliltlitellf Ila ...

POETRY

... II ,1, ,11 O.E' . I - IJ he ;i e il t'cd wit d snt;vr, '3 li rie er ht, rtttcI is lt)t ?? I Ao'd Ili s t.-Ct4atf.ItS t ioW tO faly,. The pilci on Oli tree ndil 0le aIpri:, - t Nvi tlte 'o chill 1:at1 waeS StrkTi.l dubll) ?? ?? 1Ow e',Ct lhibi 1:1t, Y. t .it.,bin juhall still haivu lis el uitut. ?? the seilzlin It s sileIc'tI hle title ' hich ertt ctzitid [fly ?? y Ir;uiV -isut tt~e atorois o ...

HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS

... HOLIDA Y' A MUtWSE TS. DRURY-LA.~TL TH!EATIIE. (ii ristrn'ili 1A come again, and the genijui of pantomnsie J ogain at work. At Oid Drury Hecr Majesry,, Flervaotfi Carrie out oil Sliturday night w~ih IHoi~helliii ?? S;- George ctod th~e Dragon, a subject~ which hue, .lready bee-, fnre~quently dramatiIed, but Which Vet seemed to afford ionpIL nmiterials for II showY ?? : 4d indeed nothinqg ...

Lucretia; or the Children of Night. By the Author of ' Rienzi.' Saunders and Otley

... .Lucretia; or the Children of Niqht. By the Author of ' Rienzi.' Saunders and Otley. We have a few words to add to our last week's notice of Lucretia. We see a very general attaek directed against the book, on the ground of certain promises in its preface which it is accused of not having kept ; and a remark of ours, thrown out with no such intention, has been used to countenance the charge. ...

FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER

... CFron diet Ladies' .M1gqazine of Fash/ion.) Gauzes Constantine, Aixa fagonnes, Siam crapes, Mousse- lines Luisa Fernanda, bareges Havdee, with oraandys, tulles. &c., are the fashionable materials of full dress; for walking and neglige plaids of every dimension, checked foulards, taf- fetes chinois in stripes or waves; taffetas mauves shot with lilac. green taffetas shot with a different tint ...

MUSIC

... M us IC. JULLIENs ALBUM FOR 1847. 214, Regent-street. Al. Jullien's musical annual for 1847, contains, according to the prospectus which accompanies it, thirty pieces of vocal, and fourteen of instrumental music, the greater part of which have never before been published, the copyrights having been purchased expressly for this work, at an immense cost, with the view of tendering it superior to ...

Published: Sunday 27 December 1846
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 645 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

OLD JEST BOOKS

... (Elrom Bentley's Miscellany for December.) Not a few of the anecdotes current at the present day, and told of the generation just passed away, may be distinctly traced to the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies. Thejest-books of that period are full of curious and entertaining matter; a few selections may be amusing to the general reader. We will comm ece with one enti- tled Wit and Mirth, ...

CURIOSITIES OF THE CATTLE SHOW

... CUR1IO1SlIBTIE T1. XTLI 8OF0W T . , - ~ C ~ ;~ on One ptrty ofladiei attraicted iy attentio iby the free. 1Y doan of their crificisme, not alone on the fat alauisis ly but on the feeders. _,,fhey ,cameto tie_ exhibitien Ia A cairiage1 with liverned attdndants, l suppose therefore 5- that they must belnj tothattclass tseciety mnosetlikely n5 to iknow sdmething of the Lod they so freely ...

A Christmas Garland

... 2 Cbriotmag Oarlanb. PArT II. The following lines possess at least the merit of being well.timed, and, therefore, may fitly form part Of our Garland:- WINTER, CaT ocossa WILLIAM WHE3lE1,.] Stern Winter thou art come again With tottering palsied hand; Crisping the grass upon the plain, And whitening oil the land. Now rimey dews and boary frost Bedeck the grove, the field; The trees their ...