... THOUGHTS IN PARKnSTREET, CLIFTON. Suu~rc-pRfrr~Trr gentlos arie smniing arid ehattering, *Sleek-coated horsesi ar e trasrpli~ng arid ladttering, &hildren aind poodles are irumling and poettering,, Climbing ?? iri New fangled villas tatnd, Over tire Avon, arid ever the dleep. Hovw ofton nray have mrreorl ripen this spot, The youthful badl in Bristol's streets begot.! We~ll, what of thett A ...

... IETERATURE. TuEli tinefixEEuCA. ByBJon JFranciis.Maguire,- M.P., author of Romm and its Ruler, Father Matlcw,ah pgratpy, Uo., &o. London: Long. mata. (P.p. 09.1) JOHNr FEANeCS MAcurns is well known as a poli- tician, ann is in a fair way of becoming equally well known as an author. His earnest endeavours to obtain whatheconsiders justice to Ireland have secnred for I am a ...

... THE CONTINUITY OF RELIGIOUS DE VEL OPAIENT. * IT was improbable that the termn employed by Mr. Grove in his presidential address to the British Association in i866, , The Continuity of Physical Science, a term which of itself had at the time a curious fascination for people of certain ways of thinking, would be reserved for physical science alone. Continuity is far too expressive and ...

... I _, FASHhION AND VARIETILS I The heralth of the Prilwcose of Wales has so much Improved that her Itotal lightiss was i hpbledl to uttend On Chrirtissa Day at the church in the park at tsn- drinehea, -- Uedind Timic ,i rd a, Mie, The Prince of reok is expected to hoenonr Lord LendeItoroug i;l wth his company next weka at his lordall,'s gorat In Y. orabire. Four court balls are spoken of as ...

... GRANDFATHER'S PET. ids is the 'oom where she slept, Only a year ago-. 4olet, and carefully swept, Blinds and curtains like snow. 'There, by tho bed in the dusky gloom. She would kneel with her tiny clasped hands, and pray I Here is the little white rose of a room, With the fragrance fled away! Nelly, grandfather's pet, With her wise little face- I seem to hear her yet Singln about the place: ...

... jULCAUEE~ EAY M. treating little drama, by Mr. Edmund Fal- ntes produced at this theatre on Monday 0eo, under the title of A Wife Well Won. The e '!1founded on a French novel, which is known this coun ry as The Mann with the Three Pairs of Br~eehes ?? is the story of a young French rioter, who, during the first French revolution. re- plyes 3 mysterious legacy in the shape of three pairs : ...

... I ;l f ' Tuat OUR COMBUSTIBLES OF COMMON LIFE. In the good old days departed, Before chemistry bad started 6n the fast career of progress which 'tie travelling at now, There was naught that went bang louder, Did more damage than gunpowder. We have things that far exceed it both in violence and row. Modern chemic science culminates Not only in the fulminates Of mercury, and silver more ...

... A'ND VARIETIES. (A;I:T LE.i:: kN' V1Sll1Ft'i 9' , V P1,i'f it 0: 0e, t sN, t'IlY t, 1*Sl.13 2 6l' I'dl I,'nVtenan t wi lolll aIlI m SJA'It ,. II z.SticP, o11 a.1 0L; ).kY, vte iIlI febrmtvy, kitst, (tltii atil . ?? vitl (I, Ol!ein a ttulp,,liu4 Lho Loveo 1.. 1l t 11 tl ?? Vtd 11 li S,lI/l w('t l'lbwe' olJ Rci' i- ?? ?? to l di tILI rerutd tiota p onunspptiuln ti tJ e l~lselt: 1l. Corridor ...

... LITERATURES ON A SPITEFUL LETTER. 13Y ALl=IEIO TXNNYGON, i.C.L| Here, it is here-the close of the year, Aid with it a spiteful letter. My fame in song has done him much wrong, For himself has done much batter. 0 foolish bard, is your lot so hard, If men neglect your pages ? I tbiitk not much of yours or of mine, I bear the roll of the ages. This fallen leaf, isn't fame as brief P My rhymes may ...

... m PROPOSAL TO DISSOLVE THE BURTON DISTRICT. ig At the Staffordshire Quarter Sessions last week, the Clerk he of the Peace having read the requisition signed by four jus- he tices praying the Court. to pass a provisional order to dissolve F. the Burton-upon-Trent Highway District, so Mr. C. W. Lyon rose and Said that in accordance with that notice he had to move that a provisional order be made ...

... I (FCROa OUa oW:X COoaEmSONDmTS.) ABERDEEN. TssE.vTia ROAL.-(Manager, Mr. M'Lein.)-Hlere, as elsewhere, Pen- tomnime rules suprense for the mo tent, and on the present occasion Mr. acd Mrs. M'Leia have surpassed their former efforts hi setting before their patrons beauties of dreamland and pictures of the never-to-be. 7se Psaince asd t/le Pe; i s or, Iarleqoin Canas'alzanzoas, and tf/e ...

... ,THE IRISH IN AMERICA.X IN the course of last year Mr. Maguire, member for Cork, paidavisiit'I British America and the United States, with the fourfold object of as taining from personal observation and inquiry how his countryne i getting on and what they were doing on the other side of the Vitnllc why they managed to succeed and prosper, with no capital to start itb. the New World, when it ...