EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... ARCHBISHOP VVATE;LEY_ 'lAddressing A talented professor one day, he said, quite abraptly, 'Ar. ?? you are one if the first nen of the ?? Really, your Grace,' replied the flattered professor, bowing lolly, you are too kind, too complimentary. YoU ovec. estimate the value of my services and of my little pub. licatione, which owe their chief merit to the liberal use that I make of your Grace's ...

LITERARY, ARTISTIC, AND SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS

... LITERARY, ARTISMIC, AND SOUNTIFIC SCRAPS. The whole of the Pourtalea collection of pictures, statues, &c. will be sold in February and March next. The catalogue contains 2,O00 lots. St. Canice'u Cathedral, Kilkeany, is to be newly roofed, as a first step towaris its restoration. Mr. N. Deane, of Dublin, is the architact. An energetic attempt is ?? maie to obtain the erection of a statue of ...

BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL LITERARY ASSOCIATION

... BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL LITERARY ABBOOIATION. A converaz one was held last evening, In the Assembly I Boom of the Boyal Hotel, Temple How, in conneoblon with the Central Literary Assoelation. The members of the soclety with their friends mustered In large numbers. Al present were in evening dress, and the scene was one of much animation and gaiety. The bust of Shakespeare was placed within the ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAY. Btfort Mcurs. T. C. S. Kynnersley (Stipendiary), T. Lani, S. Buckley, and J. Ponc*a- As Incorrigible.— Thomas Alfred Allen (13), labourer, Loved*; Street, waa charged stealing shilling, property of hla employer, Benjamin Price, Loved.*/ Street, manufacturer. Monday afternoon last the prisoner lent upon errand. He never returned, and given Into custody. Hla mother gave him a very bad ...

LATEST NEWS

... |li, TKI.F«n*I I the WAll NEW ZEALAND. ~,1:1,1:1: -MISSIONARY. (Time hW'' edition) have received the following I rum'our own ivrrosi>oiidont - SYDNEY, MARCH N,w Zealand news the 11th has been received. has boon captured : of the enemy were killed taken prisoners. '• ...

extraordinary trial, lately held in Washington, lias given rise to some very severe comment the administration ..

... criminal tribunals of the United States. A woman named Harris was arraigned for the wilful murder a Mr. Burroughs—an officer engaged at the time of his a&sassination in the service of the American Treasury. Some two or three years ago, this Mr. Burroughs resided at Chicago, where he formed the acquaintance of Harris. The friendship then established between them warmed into love, or rather into ...

A new Jewish synagogue in Southampton was conse crated on Monday L>r. Adler, the Chief Rabbi. The anniversary ..

... Royal Ideographical Society was held Monday, at Burlington House, Piccadilly ; Sir lode rick I. Murchison, the president the society, presiding. . Wednesday, the Lord Chancellor gave his decision the case of Walford Gray, &c., which came before him on appeal from the Yice-Chancelloi Court. His Lordship confirmed the judgment of the Court below, deciding that the plaintiff, jnfant, was ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUBLIC -AMUSEMzNTBk MONI4MY AVENbMG0bORT Our Musical Mondays ?? nuuk>et, and the conoert of Monday next Wil be the la4t but a e of the pre.1?estvai series., To genuineo sle.m 1 l o ther a lON ,w1 rnot be a ver' sever6 one-more opesiy With our irennial deluge of sweet isoX3 , close woapeot-.for these entertalunmen have long e ese Ident bed' with the Intets of snusis , and ?? at thq present ...

PRINCE OF WALES' THEATRE

... PIINCE OF WALES' THEATRE. We were under the Impression until last night that Mr. Swanborough's autumnal seasonhad commenoed some three weeks ago. We even fancied we could remember Mr. Bncketone, and thejlesdig members of the London Hay. market Company, lending the ncat of their names and presence to the Inaugural performance, and being sue. eeded, after a ?? successful engagement, by an ...

THE GREAT FRUIT AND CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW

... THE GREAT FRUIT AND CEHRSANTHEMUM BELOW. Among our autumn shows, there io not one that appeals erore directly to popular ay mpathy or receives more general support than the exhibition whose name stands at the head of this article. For a man to ba learnedift the matte of bulW, a connoisseur in reapeot of dogs, and well up' in tre points of Corhin Ohines, Dorklugs, or any of the hundred and ...

SHAKESPEARE'S OWN PRAYER BOOK

... SHAKESPEARE'S OWN PRAYER Booes| The following letter appears in yesterday's TUmrs:_uk A book catalogue has thie morning reached me bestial Its title-page, In conspicuous red letters, the anaons ment that 9Shakespeare's own prayer book' Is ?? No doubt this catalogue will be very widely Gtcircu1. for Its leading announcement Is a rather startling one, ?? I am much more startled to find that my ...

HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION

... HISTORY ASSASSINATION. The l~ni!>'t Caltolica gives the following curious list of all the attempts at political assassination that have been made since The Oueen of England.—(Jfueen 'v ictoria can count four attempts her life. On June 28,1850, she received a violent blow with a stick from one Robert Pate, retired lieutenant of the 10th Hussars. The Kings Prussia.—ln May, the late King of ...