... NOTZCE11 IMPROVEMENT AND EXTENSION OF THE ERA. It is the essence of success in a Public Journal to adopt every improvement which experience suggests or the requirements of the day demand. Those who lag behind in such a course are deservedly left in the back-ground, and have to thank their supineness, or want of activity and energy, for the inferior position to which they are inevitably ...

... REAT ESTERN . RAILWAY.- G on CIRISTMAS DAY the Trains will run only as on Sundays. with the addition of the Down Day Mail Train from Pad- dington to Bristol at 100 am., and the Up Day Mail from Bristol to Paddington at 10d0 atn, which will run as on week days, with the excsption of the Branch Trains between Maidenhead and Wycombe- Reading and Basiugsloke. Reading and 1Hdngerfocd, between ...

... RIME AN ARMY FUN ADo tjj 28, Hill-street, Berkeley-s sqare. Cem1buTT55. Chairman-The Earl of ELLESMERE, LG.. The Duke of Richmond, LG. Alexander Barclay, Esq. The Duke of Wellington. ?? ?? Buckley, M.P. The Marquis of Blandford, M.P. Major-Ceneral H. Beatiuck. The Viscount Mandeville, M.P. R. W. Couse ns, Eeq. The Earl of Chesterfield. C. J. Benan, Esq. The Earl of Shaftesbury. J. Evelyn ...

... 13 GtREAT MARLBOrtOIG}I STREET. HURST and BLACKETT CCESSORS TO MR COLBURN) HAVE JUST PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING NEW WORKS. TURKEY; its History and Pro- gress from the Journals of Sir James Porter, fifteen, years' Ambassador at Constantinople, continued to the Present Tinme. By Sir GEORGE LARPENT, Bart. 2 vols. 8vo. TROPICAL SKETCHES; or, Reminiscences of an Indian Journalist. By W. KNIGHTON, M.A. ...

... WORKS ON TH.E FINIE ARTS. The following Workif are now ready, TREASURES of ART in GREAT 3lRITAIN :being an Account Of the Chief Collections of Faintings, Sculpture, &c. By Dr WAoAtAN. 3 vole, too, MoS. II. KUGLER'S HANDBOOK to the GERMAN DUTCH, SPANISH, ,nd FRENCH SCHOOLS of PAINTING- Edited by Sir EDMtuMD HEAD. With illesltrationS from the Old Musters. 2 vols, post 8ov. 24s. LIFE of THOMAS ...

... BE HOTEL- T LET. - ?? upoo on 25th MARCH net, the WHITE HART HELin the City of Bath. - ' ; ! The WHITE HA s lan Old.establishad First-class Fatally House, belngiW o te Carty Trustees and the CorporationL of Bath It Is te c~eo an on ofthe principal Hotels in that City. ' It as bo FftyBedromcs, a proportionate number of' Sitting. rooms, coffeeu.rsOmTap, and numerous Coach-houses, Stabling, &c. ...

... BOARD O TRADE, DEPARThSENT OF SCIENCE & ART. Aid to Public Schools in Obtaining Examples for Art Instruction. T HE Lords of tne Committee Of Pri VPCounefiif o Trade, havinsT T rebolvedto turniesh examples to Schools In cordance who the pl~an ndopted by the Commi'ttee of frivy Comooil for Educea- tines, and to dies eon~e the , noo of keeping a stock of such octetn attheDeyrtmnl,?IO'JO ?? on ...

... itreing da)'s, will be iadble 04 Isa' flkviii?*MAR1C iumJ~l, I * tlnii5r' . o Euston Staliott, Dec., 1854. NOR./ESTER ?? MID- PO ~A HOLIDAYS.-First STIETS ll beissued from the Euston e *3li, to Bradford, i2e Leeds, at lNllO, Xorillarton, an M ,als' Oskeijohaw, kriio Doncaster, r~lccirtlc ~ Sheffield, ihsu' and Masboro', Ic rtisr TrlISo Saturday, Dec. 28, Sunday, 11 th 'r 'st ?? turn With by ...

... CAHRISTMAS PRESENTS.-The most appro- % priate offerings for this season of festivity are those which tend to the promotion of health and personal attraction; none can be more acceptable than ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, for im- parting a transcendent lustre to the Hair, and sustaining it is do. curative charm. ROWLANDS' XALYDOR imparts a radiant bloom to the Cheek, and a delicacy and softness to ...

... WEC IN THE SWIN. ySNITY -HOUSE, LON;DO,, Dxc. 122, 1854. be hereby givein, that a GR~EEN BUOY, ,OIt itn Ithe WOra 1Wreck, has been placed 20 fathoms N 1Ilo'tle.A rlit near the Swill Middle Light Veso'el. f% iIc~' .014 fatherns low waler spring tides, wvith the to ss~erogo si.~Et, distant 3-10thS or a mile. ?? ?? bl. E. 1/a E. i 3lOnler11 ?? jy ore, J. HERBERT, Secretary. BIOILBAkNK.-The ...

... ~VITT an MSIOORE'S AUSTRALIAN 7 INE ofJ PACKET ?? SYDNEY Direct, the fal fieet- D ].8,.builtsbip GREATBRITANIN, A 112 year', egistel 4, CEL Coimander; lying in the St. '.Atharine Docks. U'eacei1ent accormoisdati~c o ?? terms of freight ogeapply to lHEN ani CALVERT TcULMIN, 31, Guest O,rPllelos'5 or ?? MOO RE, 9, 'tilliter.,,tr~eet * ?? and MIOORE'S ANUSTRALIAN LINE LI of PACKET SHIPS.-For ...

... TADIES' DRESSES.-PATTERNS sent postage flfashiotuiabte Check Silk Droo~'Cssc .. £1 6 9 the full dress. Steal 3'rench Mferirlo in every colottr 0 IS 9 ditto. Angol: (:dl vvoot) 'ravellig Cloaks . 10 t Op-era Clos (lined throttgl: ith silk) One Guinea. All the rew fabries in dress, ribbons, lace, hosiery, &c., at cqually znoderate pr ices. WHITE and COMPY., 192, Regent-strect. MOURNIN }G ...