... ?cfugfns fromI jontb. TAUTOLOGY.-Calling a woman an angel.-Jen&ias. HAVE YOU ORDERED THOSE COALS, DEAR ?-Happy is the husband whose wife never asks him for any Jawel- lery, save black diamonds I LARGE DESIGNS. -Louis Napoleon, having failed in setting the Thames on fire, has been obliged to content himself with crushing the Universe. Georgina: Well, Gus I and how did you like your party ...

... ANECDOTE OF Louis XIV.-When Rudyerd's Eddy. stone was building, Louis XIV. was at war with England, and a French privateer took the men at work upon the rock, and carried them to a French prison. When that monarch heard of it, he immediately ordered them to be released, and the captors to be put in their place; de- claring that, though at enmity with England, he was not at war with mankind. ...

... II A THOUGHT IN THE SUNSET. BY S. B. BRADBURY. Oh I mildly sets the nan this eve, Over the western hill; The trees like monarchs bear the light, And clouds lie bright and stiI. There's not a wavelet on the lake, All tranquil there it lies; The sun that rose upon its breast Adorns it as he dies I Even so. Love dwells upon the mind 'Till deis nearly oer; Then masts a lingering look behind, And ...

... FASHIONS FOR FEBRUAXY. f A. _ .. ?? (From Le Folet.) s BALL DIBSSES.-Some of them, from tine light- ness of the material and the combination of ilowers, tulle, &o., may almost be called fairy-like. One we will describe. It was composed of white tnlle bouil- lohn6e. At the lower part of the skirt it had three skirts of double tulle, each caught up by ribbono of white taffotas, embroidered ...

... TP.ESMLEN'S GRAD FANCY, FULL DRESS ED JUVENILE BALL IN ST. GEORGE'S HALL. 20. ( i evening, St. Georgeis Haii again presented a 21. splei cene of innocent revelry and festive I zhth The ball was not so numerously attended Pn a oa the former occasion, but still, on the whole, thob It compared favourably with tho grand pageant 0y1 witmed in the same noble building a fortnight ago. excee na ...

... ITRA~ES~I IDED lFANOY |AND muJ DRES BALI icate,) - tU is uns)' e JGe OSOns that the tradleampA of Liverpool as *1 bdy step out from the pursuit of that industry thiehi energetic antin iawhichehas -entrlimtu so mwin- to the lrof ehrity of the good 0i'g town, aa-vrtuf theinse yes so high inj the i*t- Iflation of the oommerfaf world. In some insaItr, however they do stand cun !nto the public ...

... IN ST. GEORGE'S HALL. 8 The fancy dress ?? held Jut evening in St. E George's Hall was enc of the most magnificent spec- r tules ever witnessed in this country, rivalling as itf did In splendour and effect even the gorgeons pa- geantry of Court displays. The object of the splen- did gathering was to assist the funds of the Royals InfirmAry, the Northern and Southern Hospitals, b the North and ...

... A GALLERY OF ART FOR MANCHESTER0 THE very Interesting suggestion which Mr. THos. FAIRBAIRN, of Manchester, has made for the for- mation of a permanent gallery of art in this city, will, we trust, meet with the attention it deserves from all classes of the community. By Mr. FAIrBsAIRN's proposition, he aims at establish- Ing, permanently, an exhibition of a character slmilarto that held at Old ...

... Iih iorn kI u ,I First Elegant Creature A -don't you danea Charles?-Second ditto, ditto: - A-no-not at pwo- sent I I always let the girls look, and long for me first 1 LATE PROM TRHE NtunSERY.-Governess: Now, Frani, you must put your drum down if you are going to say your prayers.-Frank: Oh, do let me wear it, please 5'l pomise not to think about it. A PLEASANTRY POR THE POPE.-A ...

... TIHM FTN, ARS T IN LIVERPOOL. The good old tovfn in rapidly taking that -rank amongst the patrons of the fine arts whioh is due to the conspicuous rank she holds in the pursuits of commerce and to the intellectual distinction which has been attained by so many of her sonas the recent local examinations instituted by the ancient univer. 8itie& giving ample justification for Bishop Butler's ...

... INGENIOUS MIODE or TYrNa HotsaEs.-The Icelanders have a most curious custom, and a most effectual one, of Preventing horses from straying, which, I believe, is entirely peculiar to this island. Two gentlemen, for instance, are riding together without attendants; and, wishing to alight for the Purpose ef visiting some objects at a distance from the road they tie the head of one horse to the ...

... .A 'RETROSPECTIVE QUESTION.-It would not do to ask how Lord Derby or Lord Palmerston, Lord Malmesbury or Lord John Russell, disbursed the £30,000 or £40,000 a year during the last eighteen months as seeret-service money. But what harm could it do if parliament and the people were made acquainted how this money went, say twenty years ago? Very likely, if that were revealed, the items for secret ...