THE NEW TOWN HALL

... THE NEW TOWN 13ALL. ! . ' ?? IT; is a fortunate circumstance that our Town Council, before committing itself to an absolute and final selection of the best of the competitive plans for a new Town Hall resolved upon eonsulting an architect of Mr TITErS eminence., Mr TiTE, as will be seen from his letters read at the council meeting yesterday, will pronounce no hasty or ill-considered opinion, ...

VARIETIES

... V A R I E T I E S. th Why should physicians have a greater horror of the gt sea than anybody else? Because they are more liable to to iev sicknesj! lit illustrated with cuts,' said a young urchin, '1 as he drew his pen-knife across tihe leases of his b g ramtilar. a] I Jack, your wife is not so pensive as she used to ir be s'-No, she has left that off, and turned ex- t} pensive. at 'Now, ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... -a ?? . THE OPENING CEREMONY. ] he Tines of Monday ?? no time since the coummencement of tile building has such an amount of work of all kinds been accomplished as during tile past week. The English exhibitors seem to have been fully lawakened to the daueer of being too late, and have began to send in their goods, erect their courts, and fill their cases with such rapid energy as has already ...

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

... English Puritanism and its Leaders. By the Rev. Principal Tulloch, head of the University of St. Andrew's, &e., &e. Only two years have elapsed since Dr. Talloch published his most excellent work on The Leaders of the Reformation. The matter and style of that history are still fresh in our remembrance. The Rev. Principal exhi- bited to us the four great reformners-Luther, Cklvin, Latimer, ...

TEMPERANCE FETE IN ASTON PARK

... Apart from the inspiriting influence of charming weather and holiday time, the fete which took place yes. terday, in Aston Park, In connection with the Temperance Association In this town, must have been replete with agreeable assoolations to those who participated in it. The object of the gathering was notmerely amusement, what was aimed at being something practical and useful in the cause of ...

THE EVENING CONCERT

... As the hour of eight drew on the streots, which had gra. dually thinned of their multitudes during the afternoon, again began to fill-the only variation upon the morning features of the crowd being the Intermixture with its more orderly and respeetablo components, of a horde of young zapeoallions-the outpourings of the faobories and schools, whose ingenuityseemedoonatantly on the raokfor the ...

FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER

... PiCas Lu FOLLEMr. Winter has come upon uss iiaddonly andwith such severity, tliakt before 'wve have quite arranged our article on autumn dress, we are called upoin to devote our attention to a description of the different materials and styles more suitable to the present accompanirnents-of this season of the year- frost and snow. Two distinctly opposite styles will, it'is said, meet with ...

THE EDGBASTON PLAY

... ,.BHE EDOBASTON RLAY. The sec?4 annual drauiatiC representation by the pupils 'of ~tle Bbsston Proprietary School, took place ?? the school building, Hagley Road, last nightT in the preene of a large, fashionable, and onthusiastlc audience. The general arrangements were not inferior to those of the previous year, while the programme and the youthful CO7P dramatique, were in nearly every ...

SUTTON HORSE SHOW

... The annual show took place yesterday in Mr J. a Woolley's field, adjacent to the railway station, 8 The attendance was greater than last year, and the c number of animals exhibited was also large. Entire _ horses were as numerous as on recent preceding s occasions, and there was a good competition for other classes. The judges were Mr Stephenson, h Bushy Hill ; Mr John. Ingramn, Wood Hall ; ...

BRIDLINGTON AGRICULTURAL SHOW

... BRIDLINGTO ARICULTURAL SHOW. I I -e 11 I . The thirty-fourth annual exhibition of the Brid- lington Agricultural Society was held on Wednes- B day, in two fields belonging to Mr R. Medforth. The number of entries was about the eame as on Previous occasiona, dad included 17 sheep, 10 short- n horned cattle, 18 pigs, 187 horses, and 130 poultry. e The entries in seone of the classes would have ...

LIST OF FAIRS, 1863

... YOBESHIRIE. Aldborough ?? September4 Bavwtry ?? , ?? Novemrner 22 Beverley ?? ?? November 6 Burlington ?? October 21 Doncaster ?? . ?? November 10 Driffield ?? August 26 Easingwold ?? ?? September 2 Frodincha n ?? October 2 Hedon ?? . ?? September 22 Hornden ?? ,. ., August 13 iow .en ?? .. ?? . September 26 Hull ?? 11 and 12 Hunmanby ?? October 29 KIMham ?? , ?? Angust 21 Leeds .November 8 ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... THE BEST THING OUT.-An aching tooth. FOOD FOR THE IMAGINATION.-Faucy bread. CAUTION TO SISTERS -Harriet: I say, Charley, I've been stealing some of your scent; but it isn't very nice-something odd about it-smell. Chiarley: Not wiped your lips with it, I hope? It's the new stufffor my moustaches-brings 'em out an inch every night ! FAAIILY PRIDE,-First Boy: My father's a orficer. ...