... THE COURT. Her ?? and the Prince Consort wvill leave town, for WVindsor Castle, on Tuesday, for the Ascot week. A succession of visitors will be invited to the Castle, and on Wednesday and Thursday grand din- ners will be given. St. George's Hall will be used on this occasion. The Court will return to Buckingham Palaca next Saturday.-Court Jorw'nal. Her Majesty the Queen will arrive in Berlin ...

... TaR ART JOURNAL for July. London: J. S. Virtue. Belfast: J. Harton, Waring Street. THE engravings this month are Peace, from the icture by James Drummond, ?? and Bacchus and Ariadne, by Turner. The'former is in the Royal collection at Osborne, the latter in the National Gal- lery. They are very different in style, and no two pictures could better illustrate the different effects that art ...

... TuE ELLISONe GALLERY.-We (Adienseutms) have to announce the fiundation of a new public gallery of art- the Ellison Gallery-henceforth to rank in name and standing with the Vernon Gallery and the Slieepshanks Gallery. Mrs. Elizabeth Ellison, of Sudbrooke Holme, in the County of Lincoln, has made to the Department of Science and Art tit South Kensington a most noble gift. It consists, for thle ...

... A T N I G H T. 1DYiNG? ?? do butjest! You smile in the dark, .1 know! Surely I should know best How the quick pulses go. Lay your hand on my cheek: FEEL, though you sup not, the red. Why, in another week, I shall have left my bed! It 'was being so long alone- So sickof the world's vain strife, Uncared for, and unknown, That sapp'd the springs of life! You have given a world of love: Nay, ...

... FAS -I [ON. . T Hl E C O U R T. WINDSOR CASTLE, NOV. 22.-Ier Majesty's dionel- paltV vestilav includedO i PrineA tied, Piincess Alice, and iet i'rincess of Leiiingen, tile ?? Prince and Prilicess of' ilolsteiti Augnustenlubomrg, thle Eall anld uniltess of Clarondlll, tile Lady in Waiting to thu I [ereditnlry Priicess, Lady Caroline BarringtDIn, Major-General ie, Nlon. C. and Mrs. Grey, tile ...

... or THE debate in the. House of Lords, on Friday t, evening, was of sufficient importance to demand more mn than a mere passing notice. The problem of how to at reach the lowest classes of society-or even classes at considerably above the lowest-with any means of re- of ligious instruction has long been a question of deep at interest, and of great difficulty to a large class of persons. Year ...

... L I TE R A T U R E. TER-CENTENARY OF THlE SCOTTISH REFOSIMATIOXN5sComlfle- c merated at Edinburgh, August, 1860. With Introduction W by Rev. Jamfs Begg, D.D. Edited by Rev. F. A. Wylie, m LL.D. Edinburgh: John Maclarjn. 1500. ?? th THIS is a very fitting record of the interesting nstionalecb- m- inemration of August last. The editor has show oider- ai ablo discrimination in his selection from ...

... WIND AND SEA TbaSes is a jovial comrade, ye laughs wherever be goes; His merriment shines in the dimpling lines That wrinkle his bale repose- lie lays himeelf doiwn at the feet of the Sun, And *1akee all over with glee, And the broad-backed billows fall faint on the shore, In the inixth of the irighty Sea. Ent the Wind is sad and restless, And cursed with an inward pain; You may bark as you ...

... THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES. Blaekwood* discourses on Spiritualism with its accus- tomed lucidity and analytical power. The article is entitled Seeing is Believing, and the writer argues thatman is credulous from his very impatience to get the truth, and his inexperience of the ways in which truth oau be sought. Supremedisregard, says the writer, to the accuracy of the facts on which its ...

... (lrom Le PdM1.8) Throughout the season gold and eilver gauze has been very fashionable for ball dresses. Tarlatane, with flounces em. broidered with coloured spots of velvet or gold-spotted all over with gold, silver, white, ceries, &o.-are all in favour. We have also remarked an organdi, with white stripes, which makes a simple, but very charming dress with two skirts or a tonio; body round, ...

... 94614-f Wit The Epigrams of Martial. Translated into English Prose. Bohn's Ctassical Library.-H. G. Bohn, 'London. MAROTIAL is celebrated among scholars for the witand purity of style of those uumorous books of shortpeoius whieh havegiven him a lastiu~r name in literature, but these produetions, while throwving a good of light on the manners, morals, and modes of thoaght of a mostdebased ...

... vwfr?. A SOMG ?? 41I8T)IA. i,-D ?? O. CoDM, decorate *iAi holly, Hang.up the misletoe, Aad let us all be 3ol1y; Bright let the yule-log glow. iosi is tho time for me tiun. Old frieuds aptd children tscar, Let rich onies otffr greeting To orphans, ?? drear. Let none be sad and pining, Or shivering with cold, - The Christmas sun is shining On mortals young and old. Do good whiie in tihT power, ...