... lRaottTv, v CERISTMiAS ROSES. BY V, BitUGOITOzi. WHtN Wilrter'e days are draving nigh With long and chilly hocurs We strive to save from cold aud snow some ?? flowers. We presa rnd dry with c.-kreful hand, That so we msy remanmber Theo sot sunnhiny (lays of June In dark December. That, though tticir colour f.d03 e aWy, their perfumne may rominud us Of golden gloriel in the days' We leave ...

... ANNIVSRSARY of the OPENING of the GAIETY Theatre, Dublin. Banquet to the Proprietors, Measrs. J. and M. Guru n. (FROMI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The anniversary of the opening of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, was celebrated on Thursday evening, the 5th inst., by entertaining the enter prising Proprietors at a magnificent banquet at the Antient Concert Rooms, at which about 150 of the leading ...

... Dir. J. L. TOOLE in Edinburgh. The Edinbt urgh Daily Resieu, December 3d, 1S72, says:- Last night this famous comedian commenced a six Fights' engagement at the Theatre Royal, appearing to a crowded house In Paul Pry and the new serio-comic drama Off the Line. Paul Pry is a comedy of the old school, which keeps the stage, despite a very involved and uninteresting plot, through the excellence ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEM.ETS. THEATRE S'O'rAL, DREYRY.LABU. SOLe Leossa Aec, RAVAERl. F. 1B. C19AvPRallON ?? 15, 17.Ia. and! 19,.TIlE LADY QrTHRILAKE, e ,writion and desf .ned by Audrevy Halliday. Founded on tbae.lebriitcd poemu by 'ir Walter Scott. I'loostratod with megnild' oent eoenery ylWirlliamnBevcrley. Cbcrsctera by Meess. H. Sinclair, INPO~ySIN.Prce ro I t k.Box-ffo open tO tils daly. cd tie Din ...

... L L T E BA TU R x CE0lSTMAs LlTEPITR aness Me Iis the title of a massive volume Issued. by Dean and Soa, of Ludgete-hill. As may be in- jarred from the heading,.it contains a collection of enigmas, charades, ?? charades, double acrostics, woanudrums, verbal puzzles, hier oglyphics, anagrams, kg. The book is excellently illustratedsby Craik- ehnk and others, and will prove immensely amusing t ...

... - IA 0DEBT OF HONOUR. is ! j A ?? STORY. BY n 8 AS L. YouNT BAEuT. / (Erom the Cbh*jtms number of London Society.) numb i what was that cry, Io low but yet so pierc- Ing, so strange bnt yet so sorrowful? It was SlOt the marmot upon the gide of the Rigit-it wa not the baron down by the lake; no, it was distinctively E human. Hsh I there 'it is again-from the church. I yard wshiolb I have just ...

... ~FBBO1 FR ~tMBERR Whe ?? aoroue, wor thii ttay L' .ble a, [.gxn~tsII mpoklng. in4h -h'dieooming to tha- bdm. Epleioi the effldc Oi d bhiqD fn l aoea:lrI It h to*b - ' ?? ?? . tn e ?? Gaet,,hhfo3~arwe ano- dV .-fr apln ?? re~~~ m~~q~8 ~~~I~sure ' dpro ero tledde {dnt,lt~oareitui ei, b an e~ dep 4.bleu )fogi4dbj 0o I~w F6u *I to ' 19 *9tu ?? S S 49t oea kitnJ , b e$%nao$, Te tuick th ...

... J 1TERATUARJ Dmscouitss BEARING UPON THE SONSorr ALII9 BROTHERHiOOD OF BELIEVxEiR, and ,other. kindred subjects. By Robert S. Cmtnlusiji D.D., &o. Edinburgh: Adatn & Oarlesc Black. 1872. WE .are very glad, to see Dr Capdliss. nainI onice rmoreoon the -titlel age ?? i that pliasureive aro sie Will b ?? Altogethir frtbfitheir opifoiY f of the book ifMP ikor ?? igusi to foar th~t, his. *v, or~k, ...

... SOIREES, qONOCRTS, ECTURES, &o. L TsLxGitAPH CLEnxW A1gNNuti, FsTIVALa.-Tbe I ?? of the telegraphempnfyds was held in 'the-Assembly Rooms Bath Street, on Tuesday I L ?? Riohard Hobson, Postmaster, in the v c1ehair, In the course of his'address, the Chairman c stated that the incease in the number of messages v . passingthrough the Glasgow offlce during oneweek v in November this year, compared ...

... The Queen ard suite left Windsor on Tuesday mornipg for Osborne, where they arrived in the after- noon. John BuUl announces that a marriage is arranged between Mr Charles Tyrrell Cavendish, second son of the Hon. Richard Cavendish, Thornton Hall, Bucks. and Miss Dickinson. eldest daughter of Mr Robert Dickinson. hhotley House, county of Durham. MARRIAGE IN HTGU LiFz.-On Wednesday morn- ing, ...

... | SMNTHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. ' The annual show of the Smithfield Club was opened on Monday, the public being admitted inside the Agricul- tural Hall at two o'tlock. For several days previous, cattle, agricultural implements, and articles for exhibition have been constantly arriving at the various railway termini, and 'marrie Islington put on the bucolic appearance she is wont to assume in ...

... TRE FATAL U R$E A M. COONOLUDeD IFR0OM Ols LAsT.] The report of poor Mapleson' dleath spread rapidly in all directions, and made a deep sensation in the neighbourhood, where he was known to everybody, and universally respected. it was also known that he was about to become connected to Mr. Fremont's family, which made him a still greater object of interest. Crowds repaired to the spot where ...