... Fa BE S ASO WRY. Meetings for N9ext Week. Monday, November 29th.-Lodges, Pythagorean (93), Globe Tavern, Greenwich. Tuesday.-Lodge, Faith (165), Freemnasons' Tavern. Wednesday, Declember 1st.-Grand Lodgae-Lodges, Westmineter and KZeyetone (10), Freemnaeone' Tavern; Jernealem (233), Freemasons Tavern; Florence Nightingale (1,008), Frenasone' Tavern, Woolwich. Thcreday.-Lodgee, Egyptian (29), ...

... Ship Parramatta. n- II- - _ _ __ . .. . . .. I On Monday a new iron paddle steam-ship, intended for West Indian mails and passengers, was launched at ths Thames Iron Works and Ship-building Company's (Limited) yard, Blackwall. The vessel was designed by Mr. Rennie, the draughtsman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, whose property she is, and has been finished by the Thames Ship-building ...

... The Great Handel Commemoration of June 1859 is now closely Occupying the attention of the Committee of The Sacred Harmonic Society, as well as the officers of the Crystal Palace Company. The Society, as before, undertakes the musical arrangements, and is already preparing the list of performers for this unparalleled musical display. The publicity given to the 1857 Festival, and the wide- ...

... On Wednesday evening, after having been closed for nine weeks to admit of certain alterations and improvements, which had been for some time contemplated, St. Martin's Hall was again opened to the public, the inaugurative performance being Mendelssohn's fine oratorio of St. Paul, and all the resources at Mr. Hullah's disposal being employed to give effect to its execution. The change that has ...

... - - - T -- AN - I , I I - . .. t - - The new Lord Mayor was fortunate last Tuesday'in the first day of his reign. A finer November day was scarcely possible in the English climate; the atmosphere was bright, clear, and bracing, and at noon the sun shone forth with autumnal splendour. The streets were thronged from London-bridge to Westminster, and rarely have there been so many spectators of ...

... THEI RIVAL LONDON OMNIBUS Companies.-Magisterial Investigations. Last Saturday afternoon the two rival omnibus ?? London General and The Saloon, bad their affairs brought under the notice of Mr. Paynter, the sitting magistrate, at West- minster Police-court. The proceedings of the companies are familiar to the public through the reports of various police courts, each of them having been at ...

... FIVEi MINUTES' ADVICE TO MR, bSpurgeon. The New York Herald received thes morning has the following paragraph:- SPECuxAT&G IN TIM GOSsEL.-They say that Spurgeon, the sensation English preacher, has been offered ten thousand dollars and his travelling expenses to make a six months' tour in the United States. Why not P He drew crowds to the Surrey Gardens at a Sliding Scale of prices from one up ...

... TEETOTALISM and the SOCIAL SCIENCE | I Association. We every now and then hear of the discovery of a new star in the planetary system swelling the already turgid study of astronomy by another increment of astral facts; nor are we greatly amazed when navigators bring us word of new found islands, and log them with the credentials of latitude and longitude in the world's geography; indeed, so ...

... The BuS Driver's Sunday Song. (ORIGINA^L). I don'tgramble, But I can't eco Stir, or mumble, My famrily, But in my day Rxcept asleep I've heard folks say, When home i creep That Sunday isa holy day. At night to sect ?? anld clec And it secms st.ra ngo, O(h, it in hard No rest or chan)ge. To b deebarred For such as me 'Xime to recruit, Can ever be J Imt lite a brute, Through all thi. life of ...

... -- - ?? I Thif~ks paeqe still always lbe fowced inter'esting to .Liceseaed 'Uictaaliers, and flee op~erations of tlee UNITED TowNs' ASSOCIATION AND LICENSED VIC- TUALLEBs' DEFENCE LEAGUE are pucblisledc under their' owen secpericrtenenctce. Licensed Viotuallers and the Army and Navy. 'The Central Committee of the United Towns' Association of Licensed \rictuallers at Birmingham call the ...

... ?J) IN bITION FOR EARLY MORN2ING TRAINS ON SATURDAY. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1858. Lord D)ERBY was the orator- at the LORD MAYOR'S feast on Tuesday last, and, of course, acquitted himself with his usual fluency and felicity. His description of the condition of the country and of its foreign relations was exhilarating, and his statement as to the remarkable decrease of pauperism was gratifying in ...

... udiBriou1Y TlConsistS less in giving profusely than in giving ?? Bruyere. passAT weapon do, a young lady resemble whose acquaintances Pass 1her in silenco, and without notice ?- A cut-lass. AN Irishman complained to his physician that he stuffed him so much with drugs, that he wals sick a long time after he got well. TitE man who lately received a lock of hair is on the look-out for a key to ...