... IT is said that the Berlin ladies are contemplating a re- volution in dress. The elaborate fashions from Paris are to be rejected, and the simple village costumes of blue and white will be adopted, while chignons and all capil- lary falsities are to be abolished, and the hair worn in two plaits hanging down the back -in fact, the cos- tume invariably worn by Marguerite in Faust is now to ...

... THE COLUMN OF UVLY THE Place de la Bastille, where in 1789 stood the famous prison-fortress, which surrendered to the Paris mob, has lately been the favourite rendezvous of the Parisian Radicals and malcontents. Here indeed the insurgent National Guards may be said to have held their headquarters, and woe betide the adventuresome foreigner who wandered into their precincts. A Parisian mob is ...

... FOREIGN NE WS FRANCE.-Sme'l/er eadem, Paris and her journals are hard at work grumbling at M. Thiers, his Ministry, his rihine, and his As- sembly. Not that any one ventures to propose another Dictator, for all shades of opinion, from the most Conservative of Legiti- mists to the most Radical of Gambettists, agree in owning that no one else is equal to the present emergency, but the country ...

... THE CHURCH CONGRESS at Nottingham has conlude1 jts labours; and, judging from the official return of urmber; Of , | I bers, and tickets issued, it has been the most sulceesfal yet held rfl addition to the subjects mentioned in our last notice, an 1 discussion was maintained on the s Relations betveciS CHlerc!u and State, Canon Gregory's paper being vely Sput iritl. spoke of the present ...

... SUJNDA Y SCHOOL 2 UBILEE AT HALIFAX AT Whitsuntide, the great holiday time of the poorer classes, a large meeting of Sunday-school children took place in the Piece Hall, Halifax, to hold the eighth com- memoration of what is called the Sunday-School Jubilee. Twenty-nine thousand children and teachers made up this monster gathering, an orchestra 500 strong supplied the instrumental portion ...

... WE are not always able to agree with M. Maizini, but we must frankly admit that his article in the Contemporary Reviewo on The Franco-German War is full of sound sense, and con- tains many ideas which not only Frenchmen but other nations also would do well to lay to heart. M. Mazzini begins by exonerating the Germans from the charges of barbarism which have been so frequently brought ...

... c E- 0 Ez 0 a, I- PUNT FISHYIAG WE presume, says Leigh Hunt, that the most philo- sophic of anglerswould hardlydelight in catching shrieking fish, and we must admit that logically there is nothing to be said in reply; but we fancy his disinclination for the sport induced him to seek for the arguments against it, and not the arguments which induced the dislike. It was one of those things ...

... THE Queen has now entirely recovered from her long illne On. Sunday Her Majesty, for the first time since her arrival at Balmoral nearly. three months ago, went to Crathie Churclh where the Rev. Norman Macleod gave thanks for the Quenis restoration to health. On the previous Saturday Hler M1ajesy held a Privy Council, at which Parliament was prorogued to sin 27th. prox. The Queen is now alone ...

... SEPULCHRAL URN DISCOVERED NEAR JEDBURGH CHAIN AND BADGE PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR OF STAFFORD COLLAR AND BADGE PRESENTED TO THE MA YOR OF STAFFORD THE Lord High Steward of Stafford, in his presentation speech, reminded his hearers of the time when they had to go and look for their mace, and discharge some little lien upon it before they could meet Her Majesty in person at the railway station, ...

... IN his famous essay on Murder as one of the Fine Arts, De Quincey has laid down the principles which cause any particular example of this species of crime to excite an intense interest in the minds of the public. There is a kind of murder where the interest is merely loc4 and transient, as, for instance, when a person labouring under the effect of drink, or affected with some other species ...

... IT is not pleasant to be left behind on any occasion, and yet it has doubtlessly happened to all of us at one time or other. Who has not missed his train or his steamer, or, worse still, been overlooked by his companions when en voyage ? How angrily has he then blamed the cocher for his slow driving, or grumbled at the thoughtlessnes of his party, when all the time it has been his own fault, ...

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