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DURHAM, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND NEWCASTLE, BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

... greenhoase plants and fruits. The dahlias were a very superior show ; and the bouquets aud cut flowers, too, were admirable. Speaking of the show generally, although it may have been excelled in some departmnents in fornrer years, no department presented ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... Bucoleuch as Chancellor of the University. The Solicitor-Ganeral, seconded by Dr. Alexander Wood, proposed Lord Brougham. The speaking lasted till two o'clock, and the roll of the 1393 members was then called over, which occupied the meeting till nearly five ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... upon it. He is, beyond all doubt, and by the admission of all partiea, the most per. feet orator of his day. Eis style of speaking differs essentially from that of tho great statesmen of his own or the preceding age. His leading feature is neither the ...

FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER

... present whether the Louis XIII. round hat with long feathers will be adopted this winter, or at least next summer. We cannot speak positively on this subject, so we will describe what Is now netnally worn. The form is large, rather open, andiforward on the ...

GRAND CONCERT IN THE NEW TOWN HALL

... concert room; but we thought the one in use on Tuesday had done duty rather too long. Of the instrumental performances we must speak in terms of unqualified approbation. Rarely has such music bean heard in Newcastle. The band included some sixty per- formers ...

COURT AND FASHION

... gone into for croving the ekfleaoy of the ?? by Mr A. Wail for instantaneoualy decompoeing fire- damp. The Mining Aournal, speaking of these experi- mente, says :-i 'it'e crude fire-damp was forced through a screen of but four inches in thickneas, anid ...

FASHIONS FOR APRIL

... the nose-bag of the frightened horse, he found a live mouse among the ?? London correspondent of the Manchester .Examiner,,speaking of the Jbournal des Debaets, saye: Most of the men who have eonferred lustre upon its columns during the last eight years ...

FASHIONS FOR JUNE

... promptness of action. But she was not without a lady's accomplish- ments. She embroidered well, played on the lute well, she could speak English, Latin, Prenob, and Spanish, and she could read Italian; as we have seen, she could be her own housekeeper; and if ...

COURT AND FASHION

... RESPECTING THE CHINA 'WAR. -I had an interview yesterday with Mr Whampotsan e well-known Chinese merchant, of Singapore. He speaks Rnglish fluently, educates hie son at Edinburgh, and seema to hasve emancipated hitshf from the trao- m mes and prejudices ...

TANTOBIE FLORAL & HORTICULTURAL SHOW

... whether belonging to the Established Church'oF to those numerous dissenting bodies, of which- widely as I differ from them-I speak with all gratitude and all respect for their exertions in the cause of education and religion. (Cheers.) And although it is ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... title. 2laokIWood gives, on the'wbole, an impartial estimate of the deceased statesmen ; yetthinks it wouldbe '!:too much to speak of him as. one of England's greatest statesmen. He possessed (says the writer) little orgi- nality of mind, and no genius ...