... ILONDON PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS. Scrooge in his original frame of mind-before Mr. Diekens got up for him that elaborate dream which cost so much mental toil and so many letters to Mr. Forster- would have watched the preparations for Christmas this year with ...

... best Christmas, the most eil hitai col Chistas;ard tat he orl ?? de. generated since the last days of December caime to t to7 be distinguished by soft aran and tepid warmth. lt seems also o be generally assumed that every- body feasts at Christmas. from ...

... of .tlsirestabliahments, w~e crowdedl wth good things. Ne'er was such pro. fusion seen sice last Christmas. If cur townspeople do Mit have a merry Christmas' itwill not be the fapslt of those to whom Wie look for the supply of our bodily wants. All kinds ...

... CHRI:]STMAS AuNNuAs.j Two years ago Mar. Farjeon wrote his first Christmas story. It dealt with the career of twin sisters, deserted and orphaned whilst still in their earliest infancy, and thrust upon the tender mercies of the world as it is found in ...

... G. 0. I'revelyao,. M.P. (London: Longmans and Co.); No. I. of the Educational Review, embracing Topics in General Literature and Science, (London: John earall and Co.); No. I. of Home vords for Heart aid Ihearth, (London: James Nisbet and Co.): and ...

... amount of attention to the sacred books of Sacscrit literatare. A new psriodicaI is to make its appearance with the new year. It is to be called the Practicajl gagazine, and will be an illustrated cyclopradia of industrial uew4, inventions, and improvements ...

... fallenl As to new clubs, I have not -very much to say. The Turf Club, at the corner of Clarges-street, with its new and ornamental read elevated trout, promises, when quite finished, to be a great improvement to Piccadilly. A scheme for a new club in Victoria- ...

... OFFICE NOTICE.-The Christmas numbers of the e Illustrated London News, ?? Graphic, Gardener's 11 Magazine, I llustrated Sporting and Drainatic News, it Pictorial W~orld, 'Whitehall Review, World, :e Penny ...

... mortgaged Mr. Gould is paying now. NEW YORK CLOSING PRICE& NEW YOMir, Wedneadav.-Gold closed at 112k, the highest quotation during the day 1l21, lowest lll. Sterling exchange on London 109J. United States o-20 Bonds, 1886, l14-W; Do. 1867, 11'4 Do. Funded ...

... extra day deslpatch of letters f ,to London and the South of England. The new bag c ,will leave Gainsborough by the 11.16 a.m. train. (M. S. and L-U station), and it is thought' that letters will be delivered in London in sufficient time to allow replies ...

... Japan; specile £lfOos. 0D, AaDi%, COMMERCIAL NEWS. Naw Yonr, Thursday.-Goid closed at 109t; the highest quotation during the day was 109o, the lowest log Exchange on London 106f. United States d-20 Roa9s (1886) 110; Do. (1867) 113i; Coatzal PIoiflm goluI ...

... Advicas from Mexico state that the Mexicans insargcnt Diarz has been defeated i-i two general cEnagemnout3. A FACTION OUTRAGE AT NEW ORLEANS., N1An OnuLEAis, Jan. 9. A factional split in the Louisiana Legislature has l rcsulted in the violent death of one of ...