... FAIR WOMEN. * AN old baronet, Sir Howard Champion, of good family and property,.. has three daughters, two of whom marry well and fill the ancestral hall with grandcbildren; but the third runs away with a handsome young: gentleman farmer in the neighbourhood, and is accordingly renounced by her indignant family. She enjoys a great though short-lived happiness, and dying, leaves an only ...

... THE BRITISH MUSEUM AS A SCHOOL OF ART AND HIS TOR Y. [FOURTH ARTICLE.] CONSIDnRED simply as works of art, the Museum busts of the C-esars supply a painful and humiliating contrast with the vast majority of our portrait sculpture of the present day. At the first glance you see that you are not only in the presence of a race of men to whose- countenances no parallel could be presented by the ...

... PUBLIC A=tTSEMENTB, &o. floyal Alexandra Theatre.- The Tempest. Puince of Wales Theatre. - London Assuranco, and Jenny IUnd at Last. Royal Amphitheatre.-Six Months Ago, and, The Laneashire Lass. St. James's llail awd Operetta ?? Opera The Blarber OfSevSlle. ?? Rtoyal Colosseum Theatre, - The 61ray Ladye of Fernlea, The Probsgang, &'C, New Star Music Hall-Mr. Harft yihi, iir. ...

... Arfemoir of Parkin Jefficock, Civil and 7Uininq Engineer.-(London; 'Bemrose and Lothian, 21, Paternoster Roaw.)-We have here a memoir of a well-known mining engineer who lost his life by the sadly fatal explosion in the Oaks Colliery last December, written by his brother, the Rev. John Thomas Jeffcock, M.A., vicar of Wolstan - ton, formerly incumbent of St,.Saviour's, Hox- ton. The private ...

... BR, REA'S CONCERTS. These concerts continue to attract numerous and f;shionable audielnces to the Town Hall, and the interest in the perforinaices on the part of the mulsical and general public seems to increase each week. Friday night last was a Mozart night, the whole of the first part of the pro -raw ne consisting of selections from that coupat ers works. The vocalists were Madame P~ttey ...

... I fl -U0 e i HPER MAJESTY'S THEA;TREI Md]1e. Kellogg, whose successfal ?? in Fa-mt we recorded on Monday, made her serond $peataucerL ere last night as Violetta in La Vsid't!iqa,. the -performasa'ie of which was postponed from Tuesfdaynight in -consequence of Mdlle. Kellogg's temporary indisposition. The success gained by this accomplished artist on her first appearance was fully confirmed and ...

... RXTOCTi FROM 'PUNCH. I IF NAP KNOWS ?? latest news from Italy makes it pretty tertain that for the present t at least Rome is Not for Joseph - Garibaldi. I MARVELLOtS EVENT AT HULL.-On Monday ^ last week, at the Town-hall, Hall, a statue of Andrew Marvel was consecrated ; invested with aF mew office by solemn rites. At least, a newspaper report says that it was inaugurated-see John- 1 ...

... THE DOG SROW. The entries for the Dog Show fall considerably below the number last year. This result was arrived at by the com. mittee when they decided that the guinea subscription should henceforth be for the exhibition of two dogs Instead of three. It will be remembered that the Carzon Hxhlbf. tion Hall was not large enough last year for the number ol dogs shown. Hence it was necessary to ...

... FASHION A1D VARIETIES. DEATH OF LORD RONALD HAMILTON, We regret to announoa the death of Lord Ronald Wismll- ton, fourth son of the Marquis of Aborcorn, at Malvern, on Wodnesday.- His Excellency tbe ILord Lieutenant has jbcen plome to appoint P. T. Kearney, Esq., of Mihltowzo Ylouae and Culmoylyn, a deputy lieutenant for the county of Meath, on the recoimcmndatton of the Earl of Fingsil, ...

... rrage of the Ring of the Hellenes to the Tile Ins ?? took place in the 6dan Du2 se St Petersburg, mo thle 27h. The finter ' I, crow~n on her bead, and a crimson vel- ?? e liled with ermine, over her dress. A lret loan 0itj4efied, after which the married couple vantl 15Llj rictts picture. bread. and salt, from the ,tcreivv l% I 5 fl rewiticl and liq Prilncess. The town ?? it . mtedl in tile ...

... ALITERA2TURE A flicrbt Or rHE LAW OF SCOTLND RELATING TO ,wa Poos. By J. Guthrie Smith, Esq., Advo- cate. MVsers T. & v. Clark, Edinburgh. (Second' Edition.) 1Y this book-niakrng age it is strange that no one has yet attempted a history of the law. Such a work would be integesting and useful, even more to the general public than to lawyers. Oar older statutes, which, for their brevity and ...

... jpct¢ino from 'iVutcb. 1 THE ROUNID OF P.EXAsURE.-The trois-tempS step waltOUGHT ON THE KNIH'EBOARD.-The truth is Ald sometimesuninteutionally. For instance when one sees ?? Rumanity on an omnibus ! ASYLLABIc AUGaENT.-The Atkanceuem speaks of ee riding Cantatas by three different musical com- posers. Ought not these works to be called Canter-tatas? ?? Bantam: Well, guv'ner, if tb'ser ...