... CHRISTMAS ASEMENTS. ROYAL ALEXANDRA THEATRE, As usual, Mr. E. Saker hao for several months been h making spoolal preparations for the production of his COhoktma, annual, which has so long and deservedly held first plase in Liverpool; and, If report speaks correctly, the grand comic OCrhetroas pantomime 'Little Lalla Rookh, which will be produced this evening (Boxing Night), will equal and ...

... A727 -L ST. A .w&OnY r 1 r, I' a 'woman, and thikigh I icant say that I' earn t, mnuch at 'fiho 'ring ' pree am- so low, and we haven't got a unrnn yet-I mean to say I work, apd 8 bard too, and for more hours a day than most men; and perhaps at the end of the week, if anybody r. took the trouble to rekokn iS all up, It would he feousd that my, cek% work was as much profit and n boneditto my ...

... Kiftratlre4 MAGAZINES FOR DECEMBER. (FIRST NOTICE.) C The Art Jownaml No. CXLIV., Now Series, 1)ocember. London: VIRTUE and Co., 294, City-road. ' The qurrent number closes another volume of this splen- did art treasury, and the veteran editor must be congratu- lated upon his success. Dean Howson concludes his inte-v resting papers on the Dee; and Mr. Jewitt continues his notes on Art in the ...

... . ?? 0 ? I . i . 11 Wlltl, X: I 1O(II' i, ?? BOQYS.' ?? il ,il. c- \l:t:utc SdVic. ?? Vi ii'.li I5:, ' no IIi2 icr weiar, oi)wt' .>hi YI' froii lear iiid Fair. ?? ?? ; ll~l lcut~l,; ?? 1. o!r jN:, w-Y - gu t. a I :kly ihtlIe: Stit lil Ic I-e1 , i gnth ur nigbi, Yn thili -i-,f ?? ei ly's delig'ht.. i 'e m 'in onllt ii.A -! 'ell ocl', - i. i i pt ilw ; ti vn . *lll DV- Dot liins. !: e gpifl 'Cd ...

... Christmas is, of course, a very busy time at the Music Halls, anti there is no denying the fact, that such is the liberality and spirit which chasacterise the lanagement of the majority of thelsu, that they run our Theatres very hard in thle racs for inorulerity anti public support. Pantomisno is very wcl ini its way, hut thlere are thousands like their Panto- suissc wstl their puis, and who ...

... L J :'Ili It TURE. -- ?? (i) N'ie's Life an.d Lall(r's tn LEastern Africa, ts The Rov. Charles vew has for the last eleven st years been a faithful and hsard-workng nmis- . dionary on the Blast Coast of Africa, in the f .saeighbourhood of Zanzibar, His name %as first brought into notice in the exciteient ir raised over our unfortunately mismanaged P Livingstone relief expedition, which lie ...

... C1RJATMNAS CATTLED SRO WS. This v IITw was told 7etittrd&ay at the well fitted- vt% Aucteo' ItingofiMessrs Laurie &syrvfngt~or. U1nn10former occasieon HA of the kind was there ever half tire fatnrest shiown, and tire a~ttendesco may well besaid to ave be~n docide that of any ?? show. It Wau calculated that fss Y 1500 persons visited the Ring. In oehbto nt pes W there ever been such a lerge ...

... Miss WALLIS, as Juliet, at Theatre Royal, Drury-la~ne. From the Tek'qsapli, December 5th :-Little more than a twelvernosth bas elapsed since Miss Wallis was it debutntase, and withinl that period her progress has been singularly rapid. From the time when an exceedingly effective assumption in Sir Charles Young's play of Mostilman, produced at the Queen's Theatre in September last year, ...

... FASHION A-AID VARIEIRETJ X Tar COURT. WVndso;-eAle, Tueday. 'hre Queen and Princess Retiet% tcconauaied by the a-ctess of ~rrfol, drove out yesteray.memaoon. ?? M0sty, vjii lPtinoes9 Louis ofe Hese and Priaces; E:.-cice, drose cut this morning. 2;. e Prince and Princess COtistwair, of esrig lstein dined with the Q2ueen this eveilg ],'inces9 1 ouis of Hesse, attended by Colonel Von WWe v.r fr, ...

... FASHION AND VABIBET. _ THE COURT. Windsor Castle, l'rlday. h, Qneern accomnpanied by Princess toslis of Hlesse and Princess t'end-ik,1 drove out Yesterday afternoon. lk- ,r. Martin bad tbe honour of dining with the Queen aidl poyal fataily in the evening. i-er MJaiestY, 7ith Princess Loluis of Hease and Prineess Bent-ilee' drove out tbins orning. The Altrchioness of Ely wa2 ji attenthdnce. ...

... LEEDS FAT CATTLE SlOW. A -,4-7Ah At a Ia A I Arrived at that stago when it has come to be recognised as an institution, and one of the gathorings of the season, the Christmas fat cattle show in Leeds, as at York, Bir- mingham, and London, seems but to have to assounee its recusrence to command that attention from stock-breeders to fill its pesls, and that patronage from the public to fill the ...

... WHEN a foreign artist visits London in the winter as well as the summer it is a sign that he has become acclimatized, and is on the high way: towards a species of naturalization. Dr. Hans von Bilow is somewhat in. that position. His success during the high season was so great that now, when the minor musical season is beginning, he is again among us. He- has already reappeared at the Crystal ...