... Erer Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice anl Prince Leopold, left Windsor yesterday morning, at 10.50, by special Great Waeitern train for Osborne. The Queen proceeded wti Basingstoke to Gosport, where the Royal party would arrive at 1.10, and cross to Osborne. The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse left Windsor-for Ion- don en roste for Darinstadt. The Bishop of Ely *es presented to her ...

... COTJRT AD FASHION. - - E e Dcmber 9.-The Queen and TjSj nded by the Countess of Errol, Be letrica, afttlelo o The Prince and Princess ,,e~ nt Y r dined with the Queen in f. pn1ne the PrinOess Mary Adelaide and his jr,.rriinv h fluk- of Teck have left Vionna for .cel~~hn n,. ~gt t ?? the z ° Dato their RoY urg-Strelitz. Licb5ss Of DMccklen I l)uesidd or. Tucndd at r meeting -:eln' ej 11 i9 ...

... LOVE \AND__DECEPTION. A CURIOUS STORY. At the Borough Costrt, Bradford, the other day, a well. dressed young man, twenty-one years old; 4vith a large amount of assurance, ?? gave the name of Frederick Ya~dUaco or Jackson, and said lie was a clerk was charged with being on the prarmisis of Mlr. Longield Brawn, , Carlton Place, Great I6orton\Road, for an unlawful pur- pose. Mr. Brown is a ...

... FASHIONS FOR DECEM3E1R. Thle diversity that is to ~be seen in fashionable toilottes this, winter is something linparalleled ; never was titers gre-ater choice, yet we erra bound to confess that amidst thlis enithors (IC r'ey/eassa, there aire sensle stylcs wh'lich are antigbut graceful. 110 sever, with good. tasto for her guide, alady lies no difficulty in avoiding the adoptionl of thait ...

... T1HE DRANIMATIC AMATEURS' CLUB. The Birmingham Dranmatiz_ Amnatcurs' Ctlubs gave their ?? performsance at tho Prince of 1iales Theatre last cvening, in aid of the prize fund of the Birmningham ]B:Lt- talion of tbo Warwicksllire Volunteers. This is tho sixth yeay in which the clab have appeared beforo the public and the performance last night was attended with the uisitdl ?? as regardB the size ...

... OUR CHRISTMAS STORIES, ,;Jt of rbater at - BEFORE THE CURTAIN. IT Was a Decenmbor evening. Thle cathedral clock was trjking six, anid the chimes sounded soft and clear tjrougli the still, frosty air. Ladies vero hurrying through tlo streets, cloaked and hoodled, some in parties, some in ptirs, some even alone. All were wending towards the same point, for it was a grand night at the Hof-Theater ...

... An extensive collection of wvater-colour drawings ane oil paintings, forming part of the estates of the late Mlessrs. Walter and J.. B. Welcb, of Heathfield House, Small Heath, is onx view to-day in ?? AssemblyRoom, preparatory to -the auction sale to-morrow, by Maessi. Clarke, Barrows, and Clarke. Including a few fratud medallions, there are in all some 170 lots, of which 61 are drawings. O; ...

... A GALLIMY OF LIIFIS If, as thio sage deldares, the proper study of inanlilid is msen, thtre shouid be no more fitting or instinotive subject of meditation tbaz a gcod portrait gallery, more especially when, as in the present case, the portraits are supplementedbybiograpbialanditical nokesupontheper- sonageasreprosented. The artvalue of such acollection, bow- ever, isen6 thing, and its ...

... * Sir Arthur Helps has been so long known as an essayist, as a writer of those pleasant sketches of social peculiarities and individual character which macke our most readable booksj that it is remarkable he has never tried his hand at an orthodox novel before. In acute observation, in suggestive reflection, in perception of character, in advance of thought, his Friends have been the ...

... There is no lack of amusements this Christmas, and visitors and pleasure-seekers will find no difficulty in making a selection from the following ample list of enter- tainments which will be given to-day:- THEATRE ROYAL. As was stated in our review of the dialogue on Monday last, the patomnime, which will be presented to the public at the Theatre Royal for the first time this aftesnroou, is ...

... A' REMINISCENCE OF- PARISIAN . LIFE. - THE dRAND'OPERA AND ITS CLACQUEURS. [From a Correspondent.] The recent destruction of the Opera House, or Academie de Musique, Rue Lepelletier, Paris, recalls a singular experience the writer had in November, 1871. A month or two after the Commune Govern- ment was subdued by M. Thiers, and Paris, still smouldering, and reeking with the burnings and ...

... FHE.-AIRTS. I Probably no theme of young romance has oftener inspired the painter's art than the star-crossed loves of Romeo and Juliet, every phase and -incident of which has been pictorially stereotyped ere this by one or other of our great artists from RIynolds downwards; but the subject is practically inexhaustible as human 'nature itself, and in treating it, even within the narrow ...