BOULOGNE FETES

... BOULOGtNE FETES. (PROM AN OLD CORRESPONDENT.) T'raiment Le Bon .Dieu est en cslbre avec nolss, has been the exclamcation of the good people of Boulogne for the last eight months, but, luckily, a change for the better took placa on Assumption DAy, and a bright sun shed its influence over the fltes of that event. I shall not trouble you with a lengthy account thereof, as I did last year, for ...

Published: Sunday 19 August 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 735 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

COURT AND FASHION

... I OSBORNE, SATURDAY, JULY 28.-Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort gave their annual dinner and fete yesterday to the seamen and marines of the Royal yachts, the deleta1hmoent Of infantry stationed at L',,ist CoWes, the labourers and workmnen. employed on the Osborne estate, and the Coast Guard and Trinity -hotase ena. Dinner was prepared for about 560 persons, and was laid in ...

Published: Sunday 05 August 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1428 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... L ?? - T .wE L LI T~StAAT U'E. ~ TBE HifsroltY ObP t A'sieews H~c o ga LT c T EMNLRsaP YE-Afl': A Lecture. 'By D). Runeiman, D. D., states Minister of tblvt P~ariah, Glasow. Gltasgow: Robert that .Andesron5. Queen TPsis Lecture was delivered in the Corporation Gailleries boor C in March of Qais year, anid is now publisherd 61y rueqttt. It Slater is respeotfulby dedicated to Honi. A. GalbraithI ...

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST

... FASHIONS FOR AtUGUST. 'IUO ?? character of the iweather has ?? entirely prevented thbi.adopilon and el ?? then ad n ?? light t ee torlettes reonred' in antioipation of `Wrerching the'ADD knee, .. avr Henohi th foracsbqon (whiad we; d oipd or-thr.e Henc the fashi Palethan , uis ' for a day) of large silk pahet~te, oi ?? owith saleve, astalmos uhi versally followedp Forthe pli b esaill o s' la ...

ART, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE

... Mr. James Hanray is about to withdraw from London, to assume the editorship of the Edinburyhj Couranrt. Mr. Townshend, late M.P. for Greenwich, is once more an auctioneer: the stage has been abandoned. The editorship of the Quarterly Review has, it is stated, passed fron the hands or Mlr. Elwin, and has been entrusted to 'Mr. Al'Pherson, a Scotchman. M. Horace Say, the son of J. B. Say, and ...

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... FICKINGS F ROAx PUNCH. THE EDINBURGH REVISB SY. (TUESDAY, AUGUST 7.1 There's an ancient periodical, in blue and yellow bound, That appears on old Whi tatles as quarter-day comes round, And many a good od- tisvoned Whig would make L sad ado, 'Were a quarter-day to pass without his E&tinlurgti Review £! But not in ?? uniform of blue and yellow pied Wascdad that Edinburgh Review wvhichnow wakes ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... !I . FASHION AND vAmEIES. - I Oi305t;N& ''AUtGUST I.- Her ilajesty, itcon- jpilaned la, tle P'rincess Alice, embra ked in 'tle Fairy on Tiues- day aftcrsuoori, and acent ore'r to Southi nspton to meet hsis ! o,, IH~iness thc Prince Consort on his return rlOU the ! eligl. n College The Ceuute a of D sart and'lijor DLI ?? ere in Ctotidmlic. The Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Psincess' ...

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST

... (II Aom Le .ollO4.) The unseasonable character of the weather has almost en. tirely prevented the adoption of those light- and elegant tnilettes prepared in anticlpation of warm daya and snony skies. Hence the fashion (which we hoped ,was but for a day) of large silk paletohs, or burnous with sleeves, is still almost universally followed . For the oame reason siks, poplins, poll de ehevre, and ...

A REPORTER SOLD

... We read in the Bfirminthum Post :-A practicaV, joke, of a character quite amusing, and somewhatex. cusable, has just bsen perpetrated at the expense of a, local paper. During the assizes at Warwick last.: week, the representative of the paper in question, as it is his habit so to do, annoyed the other reporters considerably by the way in which he was perpetually poking his head oiver their ...

FASHION

... THE COURT. OSBORNE, JULY 28.-Her Majesty and the Prince Consort gave their annual dinner and fete yesterday to the seamen and marines ot the Royal yachts, the detachment of infantry stationed at East Cowes, the labourers and workmen employed on the Osborne estate, and the Coast Guard and Trinity House men. Dinner was prepared for about 650 persons, nnd was laid in large tents erected on the ...

WEST HALLAM FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW

... ?? ?? , zsu at - WEST HALLAM FLORAL AND HORTICUL- TURAL SHOW. This annual shlow took place last Wednesday in the Rec. tory Grounds, and was attended by a goodly gathering from this and the neighbouring villages. The judges were Mr. Taylor, gardener to A. Al. Mundy, Esq., Shipley, and Air. o L. Small, of likeston, and their decisions gave great satisfdc. tion, although in some instances great ...