... favourite with the majority of readers, is more than usually interest- ing just now. The story of the Trumpet-Major, I ? by Thomas Hardy, has reached Chapter xxxiv., and is in just that stage in which readers of fiction most delight. Such a scene as the author ...

... W. R. S. Ralston; 'IHow to Ie Wash a lIog,' by ' F. W. ?? 'The Christmas Choir,' from 'Under the Greenwood Tree,' by %s Thomas Hardy; and the opening stanzas of a at ballad 'Winstanley,' by Jean Ingelow. The t-illustrations are particularly pretty and ...

... EDWIN ARNOLD ?? The Rcine and the Moselle. MAx ADELER His Speech. W. R. S. RALSToN Autobiography of a Wedding Ring. THOMAS HARDY.. The Christmas ahoir. JEAN A. INGELOW WinstaUley, a Ballad. With Original Illustraticos by F. BARNARD, M. L. GOw, W. B ...

... were cap- ,e tuired. s It is again asserted at the Record Office that Sir . George Jessel will succeed Lord Romilly. Sir Thomas D. Hardy retires from the Deputy Keepership of the Rolls on his full salary. The vacancy on the Bench of e the Court of Exchequer ...

... withdrawn at £1,610, at which price the vessel was afterwards sold to a London owner. SUDDEN DEATi1.-On Tuesday a man namned Thomas Hardy, 75 years of age, died suddenly at Mrs.; S. A. Lock's, lodging.housef Manor-street. Deceased went there on the previous ...

... on remand with stealing a wooden potatoe scoop, a quantity of sugar, and about 20 stones of potatoes, the property of Mr Thomas Hardy, wharfinger, Sand South- I end, on the 31st ult. The Chief Constable prosecuted, and Mr A. M. Jackson defended the prisoners ...

... (Hull) Petty Sessions, held at the Town Hall, before Mr. T. Voase, Mr. D. Wilson, and Mr. H. J. H. I Pease, a labourer named Thomas Hardy, charged with being drunk and riotous at Cottingham, on the 31st ult., was fined 10s, and costs, there being five previous ...

... cask of oil, the property of Messrs. Green, Smith, and Lambert, were committed to the sessions. DISORDERLY ALEnousE. - Thomas Hardy was charged by P.C. Bray (19) with keeping a disorderly house in Garden-street; Mr Codd defended. The policeman said that ...

... imprisoned for twenty onle d rlys f, abscoldidhg from the service of his master tar a: a-,tay last. Si Earalx.S FeUIar. -Thomas Hardy. Stephen Richard- s-laierL Edwin Sykes, three boys, asere charged with Stta.lialr lr curall epualltity of ber-licc fram ...

... the instances ofMr. G.EB. Newten, th ihippingngent, fr having, on the 26th inst.,' per. li unaded ceirtain seamen, named Thomas Hardy, seel William WIa'ker, and James Edwards to desert from th, British ship, called the Brin Aver. William Tamn, sa' hle, ...

... Ruid to Thomas Morrill; Druids' tl Arms, Lime-street, from James Xerehaw to Ann Watson; Ferry Boat Tavern, Church-street, from~ Henry Hansley to William Cole. Beer and wine : 'Builders' Armas, Garden-street, from William stamp to Thomas Hardy; 19, Le ...

... previous day, at Bishop Burton, was committed to prison for fourteen days.-J. Robinson, labourer, l charged with assaulting Thomas Hardy, of Bever- ley, labourer, at Woodmansey, early on the Sun- . day morning previously, was ordered to enter into ] his own ...