... LISTENAriG FOR THE NEW YEAR'S CHIMES WHiEN youthful hearts like music beat I To rhythm of their own delight, Ard every dawning day they greet I With radiant trust in all that's blight, The Chimes which hail the chill New Year Seem rung by joy to youth's quick ear, Like tuneful choral voices blent By one harmonious intent. I The Future ! Ah, what pictures rise | When Hope, the busy limner, ...

... I LITERA TUpE. e - THE FLrusirnamsrso;.GRAND By PATaIZtc KsrssNDY, Author of several Irish stories- (Dublin : H'Gfani and Gill. )-We don't remem. ber to have met anything in the Irish story line half so novel or so interesting as Mr. Kennedy's little book. The stories are told as a peasant would tell them at his orwn fireside: with quaint turns, provoking drollery, charming redundancy, ad ...

... LITERATUREI I I The Pontificate of Pins the Ninth, just issued by Longmans, London, is the third edition of Mr. Magnire's well-known volume Rome and its Rulers Reenteevents in the Eternal City have induced Mr. Maguire to re-cast his former work, which was published in '57. In almost all respects The Pontificate is a new book. The volume has all the interest of biography, and all- the ...

... 1?ottq. I SURNAMES. Men once were surnamed from their shape or estate, (You al may from history worm it,) There was Lewis the Bulky and Henry the Great, John Lackland and Peter the Hermit, And now, when the doorplates of misters and dames Are read, each so constantly varies From the owner's trade, figure aud calling, surnames Seem given by the rule of contraries. Mr. Box, though provoked, ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) ABERDEEN. M'rFARLAND'S MUSIC HALL.-Miss Adele Leicester is the star, and gives great satisfaction as a seriocomic. 'the acrobatic contortions, in which Mons. Chanlan is the performer, are really wonderful. Mr Harry Twist gains applause for his comic songs, while his Cure Upside Down is both novel and clever. dr and Mrs Cruickhank are the Niggers. The lady has a ...

... FAS HION. VICEURGALL COURT. The Lord Lieutenant, attended by Captains Campbell and Chaplin, on Saturday accepted the lnvitation of the Hon. Mr. Batler for a day's covert shooting. Their Excellencies, accompanied by the Viscountesa CUilden, Lord Bssaborongb, and Lady i Sarah Spencer, and attended by Captains tirling E and Chaplin, went to the Amateur Musical Society's C Concert, in the Antient ...

... ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS niilA Tn AM-Ti m s It would be difficult ton the musical public of this con t - debt of gratitude as to Signor Mnarie, adc indeed delightful to be present lastev e the Queen's Rooms, and Witness tho est 3 f reception awarded him on his farewdll r4 t inGiasgow. Whothathasseenthis great tr FauSt, as RaouZ, and as the reprsen tativetk e elsa other rolec, can ever forget ...

... TIlE WICKHAM CORRESPONDENCE.# HAD these two volumes contained half the number of letters and three times the number of notes which they now consist of, they would have been a great deal more useful. And we must once more, though it is a weary repetition, enter our protest against the increasing slovenliness with which works of this description are being edited. Sometimes this shows itself in ...

... ',qEZEJJEL. A ?? melodrarna, written by Mr. Boucicault and entitled 'Jezebel; or, The Dead Reckoning, has been produced at the Holborn Theatre. A main portion of the plot is avowedly of French origin, and may be traced to Le Pendu, a sombre play which obtained applause upon the Boulevards some fifteen years ago, and at a later date appeared in an English dress at the Grecian Theatre. Mr. ...

... NATIONAL -DOG 81OW. *¶IA_3 A 3.- -. . - .. - . . The following ts a Wat of the dogs sold In connection with the ehow last week, and the prices fetched by e3.h. (861) A, foreign dog,'exhbibtor, Mr. G. L. Lotr, Sherlock Street, Birmingham, 220. (415J A retriever, exhlbitor, the Farl of Oaledon, £8. (49) An otter hound, exhibitor, Mr. Harrison, Dudley, £20. (720) Blaek.ad an ter. nier, exhibitor, ...

... The performance recently given by gentlemen connected with the army and navy in aid of the poor, and which we noticed a fortnight since. was repeated on Tuesday even; E ing with equal success. The pieces selected were the farcee He's a LAnatic,;' the little drama of The, Dark l Cloud ; and the popular farce of A Reo.ular Fix, In the first piece the amateurs were Mr. :Monro. Captain Molony ...

... I I - gituarm ?? a man's reason, drowns his memory, defaoes hiseuy diminishes his strength, inflanes hi's blood it causes internal, extern l, and incurable wouEda; 'ti a witch to his senses, aldevupl to his son!, a thief to his Purse, and a beggar's companion 'tis a wife's woe and children's sorrow; itmes a strng man weak, and a wise man foolish, and h itmks wor setrong bes or is asentoth ...