... THE PLEASURES OP PLAY-WRITING TO THE EDITOR OP THE ERA. 8ir,-Well iay Mr Burnased vindicate the originality of lis rra;tdta Icomedy against tile ill-conditioned liiisrr'preS1 tion of his New York critirc. We have all grosm too Pick wickian, nolwadnys, to use the stern old rulonosyllahle which is the best condemnation of this sort of tlijir. It is the same everywhere. We have the Houses of ...

... Tne Catholics and Liberals in the Belgian Chamber of Represen- tatives have begun a quarrel on a question which profoundly interests the whole Romish priesthood, and which has started a violent contro- ?? and Italy as well as in Belgium. Referring to a large bequest which had been made to the curd of a Belgian parish in order that he might say a certain number of masses for the testator's cocl ...

... TiiE exvperiments which are now being made with the electric light on the hrnames Embankment and Holborn Viaduct, with the view of testing its- efficiency for street illumination, suggest a few reminiscences of what eccurred at the beginning of this century, when gas-lighting was first biought under public notice. The contrast between the interest with which the probable introduction of the ...

... IH QRN- .W Rn jTH13 GARDEN.-BY MR., W. FARLEY.| |SEASONABLE GARDENINiG POR THEI WEEK1 ENDING DIUENIBEIR 21. Probabiy the past fortnigisi or thrde weeks hais dolle ulore to convilnce 'g4owers of the gleat injury which damp does to their planti than all that we have been able to say, however much asnd frequently we may have endenvoured to urge the inipatance of the mitter. Prolablyn .ew weekts ...

... LO AIR. 1ENRY DAWSON, the landscape painter, died un Friday morning, at Chiswick. I A TELEGRAM from Algiers states that the theaor, P of Congtantinopie is reported to have been totally destroyed by fire. r Ali. O'DotmNsE, one of the police magistrates, has e announced that be kill inflict the ?? possible I punishment on persons arrested for.slifdn in the streets, as hiehas been informed i.t ...

... ELECTION 22TfzELLzG NCE. 1T . ?? XI--- ?? b 1 A1 0. s-uuwsss-aUiX. ijladstone has conveyed the 0ol- lowing reply to the request of the Liberal 'Two Hun- dred to allow himself to be nominated for the con- stituency at the next election:- I need not say that I am very grateful to the Liberals of Southwark for the high honour they have done me in the proposal you are good enough to communicate. ...

... J-BERITISIE ARISTO Y.., ? AM TOC mi, ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND CR I S. C¶KPTER XVIII. LuCY WATLRS, alias BARLOW, FOUNDER OF THS DU;AL FAYfILY OF BUCCLEUCO.-HER ILLEGITIATm SON, TH: DnUnOF 9 OltO sUT' .: W. F. DI. DbuGLAS ScoTT, Duke of' Bucclefich -fil *Queensbury,. is a great man in the - English 'aristocracy.' He is the owner of nearly 460,00 abres, and his estates are to' be found in nearly ...

... 81amSpm81oN OF ANOTHER SAVE. The following statement was issued by the directors of the West of England Bank:- Bristol, Dec. 9, 1878.-The directors of the West of England and South Wales District Bank deeply regret that the adverse rumours so persistently circulated, in many instances most unjustifiably, kave for some weeks caused a large and continued draw upon the deposits. Latterly that ...

... EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE MORNING JOURNALS I --r-UT~)AX'JAT AlW' TUTR WT1TNRIAN MTsRqaN TA rAnr, THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE RUSSIAN MISSION TO CABIUL. The Times, referring to the orders which it is stated have been sent for the withdrawal of the Russian mission from Cabul, says it is a matter for the greatest satisfaction that the firm protest on the part of the British Government has met with ...

... PARIS, ThUrsday, IT will not be forgotten how vehemently the Liberals denounced the system of virements indulged in by the Empire, when sums voted, let us say, for public instruction were employed by the War Minister. M. Pouyer. Quertier, the indefatigable Minister of Finance, who aided M. Thiers in carrying out his financial arrangements for the payment of the war indemnity, having at a ...

... O THE EDITOR OF BEYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. Snt,-What is the cause, or causes, of the repidation which has attacked several crowned teads of Europe? Is this sudden, and appa. *ently violent, seizure real or assumed P Upon t thorough survey of the subject, it appears to ne that this monarchical mama is due to various ibnormal conditions of the social system, al. hough I will not'deny that the royal ...

... ?? 0fl~~il CALIFORNIAN TESTIMONIAL TO LORD BEACONSFIELD THIs casket has been subscribed for by a number of British residents in California, and contains an address expressive of their high appreciation of the brilliant statesmanship *which the Earl of BeaconsfielH evinced during the late European crisis, and the interest and pride with which they have watched the successive triumphs which ...