... H.ARVEST FESTIVALS AND THANKS- GIVING SERVICES. This week has been, like last week, one of Har- vest Festivals, of a character very different from the boisterous saturnalias that signalised the autumn rejoicings of our ancestors. The bacchana- lian mell suppers and harvest homes of the north. especially are now things of the past, exqept in places where modern ideas of refinement have ...

... I 1 BY h:oRTIMER COLLINS. CHAPTER XX. CecSRr-Nc. LITERATE PERSONS AND ILLITERATE. It is thb teb tbof June. The moon is nearly at the fall. and poars a flood of light down on the roses of my lawn. I have one or two rests that are perfect in their loveliness and fragrance. Ala, the rose, when at its climax of beauty, is divinest of all flowers. The rhododendron, being late in this yvear of ...

... JARROW. A LIVELY MEETING. The usual monthly meeting of the members of the Jarrow Town Council was held on Wednesday, in the Council Chamber, Grange Road. The Mayor (Ald T. Gray) pro- aided. The minutes of last meeting and several letters having been read. the Mayor called upon Mr Gibb, who had given the following notices of motion-namely:- Mr Councillor Cibb (1) will call the attention of ...

... AN OLD COITNTRY TOWN'. In a country like that which the pilgrims called pleasant and mountainous, in the far north-west, Kendal stands, one of the ancient seats of industry in the region where bold hims and fertile valleys are interspersed with longblesak moors between Lancaster and Carlisle. The place of the town in history (says the Buialer) is no unimportant one; its industries have long ...

... AMERICAN ITEMS, Ay *10IRW20hZN 2111Pfk 16 DO.NNA. Bliss Clara Louise Kellogg, when showing her jewels no A, Chicago reporter the other day, is quoted as relating this story concerning one of her bracelets:- Years ago, when I was in EDnland with my father and mother, the Duchess of Somerest showed us a great deal of attention, and awnong other guests we were invited to meet were the Duke and ...

... E12C tkoa5t (uralit ESTABLISHED 1711. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13,1878. TRE WEST OF ENGLAND BANK FAILURE The failure of the West of England Bank has done much to re-awvaken the feeling of distrust which was aroused by the collapse of the Glasgow Bank. The result is that several of our financial corpora- tions are being subjected to severe tests. The im- mediate cause of this last disaster was a run ...

... WINTER IN WEARDALE Reats's description of winter as a season of pale mls- feature is one which commonly is supposed to be most applicable to the North; but there are nooks which do not deserve the phrase. One of these is Weardale, a tract of wild country in which early Bishops of Durham had their great deer hunts; where their successors had their deer parks, and exercised privileges over ...

... TdR ALMA TADEMA AT ROME. The W1o7rId sketches Ur Tadema, the painter, at home in the quaintly beautiful home he built himself some years diuce rear the North Gate of the Regent's Park, London. It says that no born Briton is more hearty and downright in work and manner than the Dutch gentleman who has rade his home among us; who has married an accomplished English lady. herself an admirable ...

... Re Gardm. OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. Tur Gomr~aeora anC aav ?? the hard- FILE UESOBE AND CONSERVATORT.-l e ad wooded plants that have not yet been transferred from the houses to the open air should be got out as soon as possible. The best position, if it can be found, is one where, without being under the drip of trees, the plants may be slightly shaded during a portion of the day; but they ...

... EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. There was a violent storm on Saturday at the mouth of the Tagus. Three vessels were lost in the river, and eighteen persons drowned. FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER. The steamer Rosamond of London, supposed to have been bound from Cardiff to Malta, sprang a leak at sea, and foundered off Vigo. Crew and passengers taken off by the homeward bound steamer Nellie Wise, belonging to ...

... (From the Worli.) As your political prospects are looking up, Lord Harting- ton, you may perhaps bear to be told that you have been guilty of a little social nisdemeanour. Intending to give some evening parties-a resolution which must have cost you a prodigious effort, and which I welcome as a proof hat; you are thawing-you ought to have copied your distinguished father's formula, and ...

... PROTECTION FOR FATEN2S. In these times of commercial depression and industrial inactivity manufacturers will have ample time in which to examine the Patent Law Bill in- troduced into Parliament last week. This is not the first nor the second Bill of the kind which the Government has brought forward, for the need of revision in the existing system has long been felt by all who are interested in ...