... THESE sketches of Australian life and scenery have been taken in the flourishing colony of Victoria. Their chief interest is as reminiscences of its rapid progress in the last quarter of a century, and of the changes that time has wrought in the conditions of colonial society. The anonymous author professes to have had some literary experience, although he has let it rust through a long ...

... m cyottru. THE QUEEN OF THE ORKNEY ISLANDS. Oh, the Queen of the Orkney Islands, She's traveling over the sea; She's bringing a cuttle-fish with her, To play with my baby and me. S oh, his head is three miles long, dear; His tall is three miles short; And when he goes out, he wriggles his snout In a way that no cuttlefish ought. S Oh, the Queen of the Orkney Islands, , She rides on a sea green ...

... 1 , 7 ! A b ' A lP) II THE COnRT. Bsd'enpBdOn, Sunday. rnv~ ~k. ~asp. eforsed thi's moihiin at $li~litk - ?? before the Queen, PrNncess'ea etiffO, ?? tbe~lseiiseholl , i ev. Aiiald Whit., Englibli= ghpli a adn officiated. 'The Queen 111 s taelk quiet drives in the Ineighbour-hood. A visit wa pidt tbe tomb of her Majesty's imutnntel sister, Princess Hoheiolhe, on the nrtt morning after the Quee ...

... IUTERATURE. APRIL MAGAZINES.li Becton's Yetang Enqlisehwomana (Lonldon: Ward, Looke, and Tyler) lose somo very useful papors on a variety Of subjects for young housekeepera tand also furnisbes all the information aecesmary to enable thorn to keep pace with the i fashions of the day. The Coloured plate shows three g1ood praotical costumes~ for out-door. wear, end there Is a largo go supeental ...

... littratur.c. Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy, and the Knightage, 1876. London: DEAN and SON, 160A, Fleet-street. a Debrett is well-known. Those whose business requires frequent reference to a work of this class know that De- brett's Peerage ia unrivalled for accuracy and conciseness, whilst, at the same time, no information of real value is omitted. The editor ...

... LIT ERARY AND ART GOSSIP. Messrs. Hurst and Blaekett will shortly publish a novel, Ia entitled Linked Lives, from the pen of Lady Gertrude an Douglas. 1P The National Exhibition announced to be held this year a at Naples is postponed, and will not take place until May t' let, 1877. i it The annual dinner, in aid of the Artists' General Beore- a volent Institution, will take place on ...

... THE performances at the Royal Italian Opera follow without resembling one another. So extensive is the repertory, so numerous the company, that each night for the first ten or twelve weeks of the season might have its own particular representation allotted to it without the same work being given more than once. Doubtless the forty-six or forty-eight operas, more or less ready for presentation, ...

... 0 REMEMBER MEli Translated from ALFRED DE MUSrET'S Raffelle-toe. 1. Remember me, when opas the tlmid dawn Her glorious palace to the golden sun: Remember me, when pensive night has drawn Her silver veil of dreamy beauty on. At pleaeare's call whon palpitates thy breast, At ight, when shadewov woo thee with their rest, List I how the silent glades This murmuring phrese pervades- Remember ...

... - THE THEA TIRES. THE ROYAL-~AFTER D K. one r- Mr Boucicault is seen 7)at his beti irms dina like 1The Shaughraurn. He. is ounch 'less disq in happy in pieces like Aftet Dark; a Tale of& le 5f London Life,1 which was produced on nwia Dr Monday, rind Was repeated last night with a fair amount of success. The mathrial of the tr g, work is' 'common, and for the rniost part commion- 'deal ar ...

... FACULTY OF ARTS-1875-76. TnE prizes in th~e Faculty of Arts, for the session just ended, were distributed at noon on Friday, in the Uni- versity Buildings, Old Aberdeen. The ceremony of cap- ping th grauats tok plac inthe Cha2pel At two o'cock inthepreenc ofa lrgeassmblge, chiefly coom. pose ofladis. ittig rom culdnotbe obtaincd for the reaer orton f te sudetsandthey were obliged to sandin ...

... DERBYSHIER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. .k THE STALLION SHOW. ot The third annual show of stallion cart-borses (open to al da -d England) took place on Friday lset, upon the enclosed Re ground adjoining the Cattle-market Hlotel. The eariyrpart P. t of the day was exceptionally fine, and a large number of W he gentlemen, farmers, and other persona Interested in breeding f oh borses availed themselves ...

... ALEXANDRA THEATRE. On Monday night Mr. F. Wilkinson. the courteous treasurer and manager of the Alemandra, Tneatre, took his besefit, ahen ho warn favoured with a large atterdance, the pit and dress cirole being so crowded that many persons were unable to sit. The entertainment commenced with tile per- formance of an adaptation of Sorihe's vaudeville L'Ambassadenr,` entitled 'Too Clever. It ...