... itt rat Ut t. TEE PERIODICALS.: - nttention is. of course, first dIrectd, In the orderof !Ii' j imprtskth addition to itt comprehensive review of contemdPorar i fitrate in ofrlae ntt Iaag mentaies a sI gets wbut le full ri appagrentbly udecVr~iderdi not adversa °roegatrdsu f~theton of. iUGra3- the Blooh staegryoun olt~gaf thhe disadvant hagoiusrie i tf3 nreoroeolude Artices orsnTts ...

... * BALLINASLOE JANUARY FABR. Fe (vRon ?? COURsRSPOaDENT.) 3 BALLONABLOB,.SATURDAY.-This wag the third anal- it versary of our'new fair, and, though a fatlure to a certain a eitent, was and ?? this yearby the inlsub'tants of fhe h town and the l farmers. I cm happy to state those It towpn atond h ot becn realized. Some of the great a lelolster buyeri, o take so prominent a part In our greati Qe ...

... The second of the series took place last ever. ing in the Music Hall, which was crowded with a brilliant, fashionable, and enthusiastic asEera. blage. A considerable portion of the prograrout, consisted of a repetition of soune of those pieces per. formed at the first concert, on which we PTeviousls remarked, and among them the Valse Fern Leaves', which was rapturously and most deservedly ...

... .5Boo~s rca flEvtsw. -Dooke%, Mlusic, New Engravings, &C.. intended for review, left at the establishment of M1r. C. MITCHELL~r, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed ' to the Editor of the Derby Mercurys, will be forwarded and receive attention. MUAGAZINES, &c. The Arst.Jour'nal. No. XLIX., New Series, January. London : GEORGE VIRTUE and Co., 25, Paternoster-row. 81ackwood's ...

... Mqr and M rs Howard Paul al~liear~ in London on !Moii I day, inl their comic and musical1 Patchwork, which will be given for the first tine at St James's Hall, The cc entertainment is to be iembroidered with fiew patterns. di A boy prodigy on the flute will probably be a young.. ' lion of the London ?? Drew Dean, ten years cc .of age. He is apupilof Richardson andhlis performedl before the ...

... GRAID MASONIC BALL I The teth manual hall of the masonic brethren belon In to this province and neighbourhood took place on Toesday, in the magnificentsuito of rooms of the Town Hall. The company began to arrive shortly after nine o'clock, and wore received at the foot Of the grand staircase by several of the com- mnittee and a large number of W. Masters and P. XfasrB in fit 3br ' . .-nc er ...

... J.YAiL ZNGLISH OPF1A. BALFEMS I' ATANELLA-SECOND NOTICE. was Meyerb.er, who In reply to the communication from a friend that the latter bad only the night pre- *iouely beardths/'Huguenots for the first time at the Grand Opera in Paris, quietly replied, I shall sen d you. admissions for the next fortnight, to hear my new opera, and after nix represesnttioas come to breakfast with me,, and ...

... 49-Beeook, Pb'lots, Mi~osir,-t', fior rev/enw, are requested to be left at Air. C. Molthellt'o, ied! Lion Court, Fleet-street, London, aolreeseot I, o Ithe Editor of Ike Extnsea FLYINGO POST. These wit! be ditay fortes 'ted, and receive an early notice. LONDON UN IVE RSI TY MAGAZINE for December. Lotndon :Arthur Iloall, Virtue, and to.,Paternioster-row. 'fits is emt haicattolly o t ...

... -LIT E AT UR E. Tnie LoGIc OP AMTISETSIr. Three Lectures1 bV the Rev. Henry Batchelor, Sheffeldl. Londlon: Judd & Glass. Glasgow: George Gallie aud James MacLehose. Turs volume hias a peculiar interest at present, as being the production of the pastor-elect of the Elgin Place (formerly West George Street) Congregational Church, recently vacated by the I'ev. Alexander Raleigh, renmoved to ...

... COURT AND .FASHION. WINDSOR, MosNDY.-Her Majesty the Queen of Spain having conferred the Order of the Golden Fleece on his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Prince has been invested at Windsor Castle, by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, a Knight of the Order, on behalf of her Most Catholic Majesty, in the presence of M. Ist riz, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from ...

... VICEREGAL CoU!r1.-Hiq Excellency the Loid Lieutenna.t and the Countess of Eglinton entertained at dinner on Wednrvday evening at the Viceregal Lodge, the following ?? and Lady Crofton end Miss Crofton, Lord Naas, Lady E Montgomery, Miss Hremyer, Mies Noakes, the lion Mr and Mrs North, Colonel Bagot, the Hon Mtr ant Mrs Handcocit, Air and Mrs Stewart, Colonel and Mrs Mande, Mr and Mrs Stronge, ...

... LITERA T URE. I Kllfdred Norman, the Nazarene. By a Working I Man. Longmans. The dedication of this book to the Earl of Shaftes- bury, a nobleman who devotes so much of his valu- able time to the interests 'of his poorer fellow- countrymen, gives on the title-page ar. intelligible indication of the class of literature to which it be- longs. It professes to be, in fact, a glimpse of the inner ...