... n . Saturday. To-pay lias been, to all intents of business and pur. twees of pleasure, Christmas Eve. touch of frost in the air has seasonably come to remind us of winter, and to send out mammas and the young ladies in the furs and velvets proper to the calendar. The streets at I]io West End have exhibited their usual lmstle, and Lave put on their usual gaiety. The shops have displayed their ...

... THIS ATHERSTOXE HOUNDB.-4* Wednesday.. Dec. Shuttington Bridge. Friday Newnham. Saturday Artraiy. IHE DTK! 01 BEAUFORT'S HOUNDB.-At tta. This day . Dec. The Mermaid. CMOia Mil Wednesday.. „ Lower Wood*. [font. Friday Saturday 23 THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.—At Xleven. Wednesday.. Dec. Wrenbury. Thursday 31 Cholmoodeley. Saturday Tabtay. THE COTBWOLD HOUND6.-At gltvtn. Wednesday.. Dec. 20 Cooper ...

... Victoria Club, Saturday, p.m. Considering the season of the year, the meeting at the club was large, most of the influential bookmakers be 1115 present. There was, however, little disposition manifested to speculate either upon the Two Thousand or the Derby. For the Newmarket event Student would have been backed at his last quoted price—4 to I—for £'100. if those odds had been obtainable. Not ...

... TRENTSIDE.-There are two or three cases of cat. I tle plague at West Butterwick, but no death has l yet occurred, and it is hoped the disease is assuming its mildest form, Mr. Coggon's beast having re- r covered. Th complaint still continues at East I Butterwick and Amncotts, and there have been seve- ; ral deaths at each place during the past week. The total losses at the former place exceed ...

... THURSDAY'S TELEGRA MS. I 4E MURDER AT THE DEVONPORT BARRACKS.. le PLYMOUTiS, Dec. 27th.-A murder has been d. committed at the Raglan Barracks, Devonport. d The facts of the case are as follows :-Thomas ?? and John Thomas Johnstone, privates in le the detachment of the 65th Regiment, that arrived '8t at Plymouth on Friday last, in the transport Rob of Roy, from New Zealand, were confned in the ...

... NOTES OF 1HE WVEEEK. rGIVE A DOG a bad name and hang himi at once, is a proverb of time-hobnoured acceptance. But there is an improved modern version :-If one cow dies, kill the whole herd. That is the approved veterinary doctrine of the present day. Last week six cows died in Hull, and fifty were killed for fear they should fall ill. And now a week has past and there are no more deaths, and ...

... BILSTON. We are informed that it is the intention of the directors of the Dudley and West Broinwich Banking Company open a branch in this town at the beginning of the year. It is understood that the manager, selected for the proposed branch at Bilston, will be restricted from engaging in commercial pursuits—that there will be no expensive board of salaried directors —and that business is meant ...

... YESTERDAY. Before Messrs. T. C. S. Kynnersley (Stipendiary), J. Poneia, and S. Buckley. Assault a Wife. —John Laundy, (52), marine store dealer, Slaney Street, was charged with violently assaulting his wife, Mary Laundy. The prisoner quarrelled with his wife on the previous evening, and struck her with some sharp instrument on the head, inflicting wound which bled profusely. She was taken to ...

... return moved for in tlio House of Commons in lulv last reference Endowed Grammar Schools, lias' just been issued. It includes all schools this class in and Wales, and gives the income cf each endowment, the capitation fees payable by the scholars, the incomes of masters (derived from endowment fees), and the number of scholars, distinguishing those respectively upon and not upon foundation. So ...

... R-iDD LES - OU U . ?retn the chreiefaa Number 4b Blo Bells.) What in the dIfference betWeeunaCept0od and rejele d lovers 'eae~itddaa themfrsesandtherfeJ wted misses the kit~es, -Wby le a-ft ;old gentleman like a wIndow /-Ber cusne heIs IIIof pals ...

... On Wednesday afternoon, a fire, which resulted in the deastruction of a large amount of valuable merchandise broke out in a warehouse at the I corner of IRorth John-street and Harriegton- a street. The warehouse, which is an extensive R one, seven stories in height, comprises a series of m rooms, let off to various parties, for the storage of re goods About a quarter, past three o'clock Police ...

... I-S- ECOND EDITION..: ] ~~~~~- I 133r Tm9LEGRAXpn.] :Vr. Gosobei'ivP., i has made au emphatic epqech oe thes neoesaity of bhuroh extension in' por district.. The Sth esy6 thgy s oer nint has not yet comipleted the arrangementa for the. Jamsica Commission, or decided on'thie name.of a gentle- man to accompany Mr. Russell Gurney. MURDER AT' THEBDEVO1POuT -, ''B;ARR-AlkiO; . B.[EUTnin'H ...