... COUMT AND .'ASHION. On Tuesday night Lady Margaret Beaumont bfhad a reception at the family residence in Piccadilly. It is stated that Mr Rusqell Gurney Wsill be raised to the Peerage. Lady Louisa Percy has arrived in London from Cannes. The Earl of Durham has arrived in London from Lambton Castle, Durham. The King of Sve ln, according to news received in Paris, is reported to be on his death ...

... EREWHON. Erewhon; or, Over the Range. TrUbner. To help us to see ourselves as others see us, to examine ourselves from an entirely indifferent and external stand- point, nothing is better than fiction. We are so completely at the mercy of traditionary views, that even originality is seldom more than a leap frorm one set of formulae to another. And if we could divest ourselves of every shred of ...

... I I SPECIAL TELEGRAM. (From our Correspondent) Limerick, Thursday Night. The great hall-yearly sale for horses came off to-day. The buying on the green and the animals offered were, in number and quality, far below the average of former years. A marked contrast was offered to the fairs held of late, when buyers from France, Germany, and England attended, and sales were easily effected at what ...

... C') , ? I i? I I ENGLYNION HEWN SLWCOH AC ;C ~A1DDIFEADRbWYDD. ei FONiEDIGI:OrN, ...

... LIT B ER AT -UR B. YORKSHIRE: PAST AND PRESENT.* FIBST NOTICE. What Mr. Thomas Baines has already so successfully accomplished for Lancashire and Cheshire, he has under- taken to perform for his native county. He is engaged in writing the history of Yorkshire, and the two handsome books before us form the first instalment of this Herculean task. At no period has Yorkshire had any reasoa to com ...

... il;,R. FREEMAN ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTIOM,~ I MR. FREEMAN has given us plenty of evidence how prodigiously big a book he is capable of writing, and how long a way he can make even minor circum- stances go. In the present essay he shows the far more laudable skill of being able to write a small book on a big subject, and we hope the public sill appreciate it sufficiently to encourage the ...

... Ix the hall of the Lancasterian Schools, Frederick Street, last evening, a grand concert and readings was given in aid of the provident fund in connec- tion with the Industrial Schools. As might have been expected from the meritorious and charitable object of the entertainment, the audience, which was large and most select, completely filled the hall; and amongst those present were numbers of ...

... IA 1, ,S ELLA% .ZUidxo.-A bvight old i on Rfieah green ilae- 'hAte hauses nestling in tlic udst of4gree. trees; quaint stieets, arcades, aad mopnress:;grim mbsters looking down on shop and stsl;'wide' qua an bridges, piers and water mills; old canvents, wal'l, an towera; new ool- leg'e)- hotels, andy'ilwty.linesJ thereosrds aa thousand yeirs, the fasiols'of *.phesisg.d: n clsrot of Charles the ...

... TIIB INTERNATIOMAL EXHIBITION. ] The Ptime Minister and nearly 'all the other R members of the Cabinet have accepted invitations di to be present at the Royal Albert-bll to-night, U where the, official reception takes place which is ix to be substituted for tha formnal inauguration of a previous Exbibitione. The Duke of Edinburgh ci will reesive the guests as representing his elder b brother ...

... There can be no doubt that important advantages would accrue from the amalgamation of the two water-colour societies, and no good reason can be assigned for the con- tinued separation of two institutions which pursue the same object by precisely similar methods and with an almost equal degree of ability and success. In combination the Society and the Institute of Painters in Water Colours as ...

... IN default of new operas we have at least the opportunity of hearing plenty of new singers, to say nothing of singers as good and better than new, who xeturn to us one after the other from the beginning to the end of the season. Ait Her Majesty's Opera the manager tempts the public with a succession of prima donnas, strengthened by Mdme. Trebelli-Bettini; at the Royal Italian Opera the ...

... QP* C;Nratllt?- !Ph G~wil o l1e iralfle oneiftfo fom the, Earliest Timeo. lag Ily dwad A Frema, ZLA.(ifcnso~s an Co lonon).- thiin In anury astou aooiullced eihbor, r. reman. the plac Constitution 'and these, wit some expansion, tr h he u chapters of die volume before us. the taxi of whc innrce t' with a valuable and intsresting masse of notes. From th very 1 essence of its composition, of ...