... -0a CONCERT AT THE ROYAL AQUARIUM. The weekly concerts at the above institution have hitherto afforded little opportunity for critical comment. It istruethat the list of works performed at them comprises many important orchestral compositions, but these were generally mixed up with other works of such doubtful standing as to somewhat lower the artistic character of the concerts themselves. We ...

... . a GEMS OF THOUGHT. KNsoWLroOn.-Avail yourself of all your knowledge without making a display of it. That machinery works best that is hidden from view. WRoes-DOING.-TOO Reany persons are far less-ashamed of having done wrong than of being found out. HURRY AND CUNNING} are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them over learned their master's trade. TnovsLES.-A person is ...

... I F-AHIONS FOR APRB. (J}oe L! loUu.) The fashlons of this saoso win, we think, he much adnilred by all whose artulate taste and just appreoiatior of the qualities oentulg til 616ganoo render their opi ...

... LORD MACAULAY.' [FIRST NOTICE.] THE two volumes in which Mr. Trevelyan has given us the life of his celebrated uncle possess one great merit: they are an honest attempt at genuine biography. When we consider the boundless field for disquisi- tion, both political and literary, which is offered by the life of such a man, and the strong temptation to expatiate in it which must be felt by the ...

... ?? [P- !I) I ~i i SH2N TiE seeds of ?? taste sown by the School of Art Needle- work are already bearing fruit. The extravagant toun of last ?? has merged into graceful folds of drapery, the straine ...

... I - VARI E' I ES. w; It AnvicC To AsPIRANTS.-If von go in for a Spelling Bee, T and are brought down at the first shot, mind not to be e' ?? s d le Nrw Foitm OF FoOT-AND-MIOUTHr DIsEAsE.-Skating d Rinks and Spelling Bees.-Jandy. r. Sr. PATREIC's D.,Y.-Cardinal Manning addressed a letter to his dock with reference to keeping the festival of d St. Patrick's Day, which stated that an indulgence ...

... FASBIOI. AND VABITIB2. l -Sir James and Lady Power left Kingstown yesterday for England. Lady Burton left Kingstown yesterday for England. Major Rnox left Kingstown yesterday for England. Hon. 0. Ponsonby left Kingstown yester- day for England. Captain Stanton arrived at Kingstown yes- terday from England. Eon. Stanley Monk arrived at Kingstown yesterday fromn England. The following are ...

... Tt* Dq- the Ctttarm BY R. D. BLACKMORE, AXiAor of LornZl Doone, Alice Lorraine, &Ac. CHAPTER XXXVI. MAY MORN IT was the morn when the tall and shapely tower of Magdalen is crowned with a fillet of ...

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... ii: l?P.!IiL? MIE1MOIR AND CoOR1rSPONDrNCE OF CAROLINE HERSCHEL, by Mrs. John Herschel (John Murray).-The little sister of Thackeray's pathetic sketch rises oddly to our mind on reading these me ...

... a, The annual stallion show in connection with n I the Durham County Agricnltural Society wvasts A heal yesterday, in the Oveanl Staud Euclosure of tb e the Durham Race Course. There was a numerous by attendance. The sum of £25 was offered by the ag d Society for the best thorough-bred and cart th e stallion. There were thoet entries for the thorough-breds, and nine for the cart stallions. E ...

... ANNADEL's RIVATL, by Dora Rnssell, author of The Vicar's Governess, &c, (3 vols,. Tinslev).-With regard to merit, Annabel's Rival stands, we think, about midway between The Vicar's Governess ...