... [From Punch.] SHORT AND (NOT) SwEnaT.-John Arthur Dogtear'em Roebuck, Esq., once a Bath Chap, and now a Sheffield Blade not always of the best temper. CHRISTMAS WAITS. Europe this Christmas waits to see What's to be done with Italy: Whether the despots mean to free her, Or sornewhat farther first to see her. The Pope, too, wailts, with visage grim, To learn what's to become of him ; Whether ...

... P V ?? PROVINCIAL -THEA RICAL5. (FROM OUR OWN CORBRESPONDENTS.) ABERDl7BN. The amusements provided in this town for the Chrhristrae holidaye are more numerous this season than we recollect them at any former period. At the Theatre Royal the burlesque of Lalla R2okh, which was brought out at the Lyceum under Mr. DBillonts management, hes beon produced with great sucCesS. The Pcople's Concerts ...

... THE DEFENCE OP ENGLAND.* Sir Howard Douglas has written a timely treatise on the capacities of England for self defence, On this subject he is a great authority; and we should thank him for having undertaken to show how Eng- land may guarantee herself against a threatened in- vasion. With the technicalities of Sir Howard we shall not deal. We shall, rather, turn to the descriptive parts of the ...

... A NTARRATIVE 0O' ~TillS IsC6vEiR OF SIR Someq FRAISKIri-NiVx' Vin Coori~.Nlcsies Ey Captdfh F. L. rative of ?? bold abvntnewhich hag. at ] ast revealed the fate; of Sir JSibhn Franlklin and his compittona It WEIl h~bsmb~red& by-ties large0 Majorily of Grescders that, in te yar 845,CuparnSic ohnFrakli, of the navy, depatedon hs tird oyae totheArcti, regions,' with absence ofcourse awkndthet ...

... I COURT AND VASHION. wlNDSOR CASTLE, MolrD^Y--the Queen, with Plinecss E pje, a, in the Home Park this morning, and visited hor Royal - fhice Duchess of Kent at Frognaore. His Royal Highness } i Prince Consort went out shooting, accompanied by the Prince lb eales and Prince Leiningen. Princess Helenia and Princess joalsa rode in thl Riding-house. The Duchess of Kent and the ?? and Princes' of ...

... THE POPE AND THE PANTEIET. The Opini one of Turin publishes the following ob- servations on the pamphlet, The Pope and the Con- gres :- The pamphlet may be regarded as the programme of the policy which France will uphold on the question of the Romagnas. The temporal power of the pope is henceforth doomed. It is a form of rule contrary to the duties of a Christian so- vereign and the wants ...

... 'LITERARY MISCELLANEA SE}ious RLEUM ?? is so unjust as to a man's genius or his 1~ood qualities, because he ?? sconally writes or does a &Urd or wrong things. great, or brilliant, or virtuous, mut be tid What is etried in right of itself. If Paradise Lost had been written by a bad or ~ridiculoud~man,though -I do not think it could, would o alter its merit ? Alen are often wise in the closet ...

... CHRISTMAS BENTERTAINbENTS. | An observation which, commencing possibly as a proverb, has now grown into an apology, tells us that Christmas comes but once a year, and no person of less temerity than the gentleman who beat the ace of trumps will be prepared to dis- prove the remark. That the advent of Christmas Thould be simply annual is a very fortunate circum- stance; for we can see ...

... Sir Cresawell Cresswell's court has beceme a popular London exhibition. The reporters of this exhibition are among the decidedly amusing writers of the day. Ladies are dis. covered to us in those weak moments when they call their husbands l ovey, and speak ts them adoringly in the neuter gender. No man starting on his honeymoon trip ean 'be certain that the words of endearment, spoken behind ...

... TENNYSON'S NEW POE11. Macmillan's Magazine for this month contains the pro- misedpoem by the Poet Laureate, called Sea Dreams- an Idyll. The scene and the subject of the dreams are suggested in the opening passage:- A city clerk, but gently born and bred; Big wife an unknown artist's orphan child- One babe was theirs, a Margaret, three years old': They, thinking that her clear germander ...

... LITERA TURS. y princs a, i/edgey. By Alr;FD Tzywrsoy, it ?? Poet Laureate; with twenty-six illus- ni tratiouS, engraved on wood by Dalziel, Green, al ,Ibols, and E. Williams, from drawings by le D1niel 31acliSe, R.A. London: Edward Moxon gid Co. yl I've poet dwells in a land where ideas reign, and ti ts are more or less ignored. Of all things that t sees he looks only to the beautiful; of all ...

... TEE HAGAZINES. ale ?? Pt '.Some of the Frmni nal of these publications ect notably Frazer and Blackioood, have. done honour Dn, to the new year by coming out in fresh type, to the rk', great improvement of their external appearance. ing This, however, is for the most part the only tribute 2an they pay to the season ; they have neither summa- fris riae of the past year nor anticipations of the ...