... I WVMENEVER the present Ministry falls, there is every prospect of its doing so with a dull crash, not an individual soul of them having saved himself by judicious ratting. This may signify nothing on the score of personal sympathies, but it is to be regretted on broad public grounds. A great abrupt political catastrophe will be offered to us, shorn of a whole series of interesting preliminary ...

... 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... On Thursday, Mr. Etimpson gave his second lecture on church music to the members of the Church of England Young Men's Association, at the Town Hall, assisted by a choir. The Bev.J. 0. Bllssardpresided.-Tho CHAIRMAN said that what was wanted In church muslc was melody and expression. The music of our churches should not be simply the rigs and jigs of olden time, nor, on the other hand, that ...

... AVerOON PARTY AT BUOGE PALA&CE. Her Majesty the Queen gave an afternoon party at Buckiogham Palaee yesterday, from five to savon o'clock. Ths following members of the Royal Family were pre. wnt at the party: HisRoyal *ghness the Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke. Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, Marihionesa of Lome, attended by Lady Sophia Macnamara and Cap- tain F. ...

... - A Member of the Church of England is anxious, it seems, to help the youthful Christian in his study of the wonderful life of the Son of Man, and to assist in making the transcendent beauty and value of the Gospel revelation understood and appreciated by all. By a happy instinct he has lighted on the undiscovered cause which has hitherto prevented the Gospels from being as well ...

... I Gr¶ &LLO TT COLLECTION. At the galleries of Messrs. Christie, Manson, .and Woods are now exhibited, previous to the sale to-morrow and Saturday, the pictures included in the second portion of this remarkable collection. As in the landscapes, now dispersed into various new quarters, we saw the English school at its height in Muller, Linnell, and Graham, with Turner entering upon his later ex- ...

... 5Iteratnrt. Robert Ainsleigh. By the Author of Lady Andley's Secret. In three volumes. London: JOHN MAXWELL and Co., 4, Shoe-limo, Fleet-street. The vigour and energy which mark Miss Braddon's writings are something marvellous, when we remember the rapidity with which she produces fiction after fiction. Of originality there is very little, either in the conception of character or incident, ...