... SC RAPS. 105U From Punch. Pe( t DLmsmssA.-What are YOU puzzling over, Ponsonby ? wh -I'm trying to answer a note from the dear Duchess, du( as you call her. She's dlone me the honour to write and ccA ask, if that St. 'Bernard pup I gave her should he fed on M meat or biscuits ?-Well, biscuits, shouldn'tit ?-Of course, but she spells biscuits with a K, you see, and I don't like rec to spell ...

... CABUELL'S MAGAZINE,' for October, contains a good paper on Eddystone Lighthouse. A history of Old New York has even greaterintereat, as salowing the amazing growth of that city. The price of the island on which New York is built, in 1626 was 24 dollars (24 16s.), and the Indian owners thought this a very good prio. Not less wonderful than its growth in value ha- been the advance of the ...

... * THE science of religion, though in a certain sense coeval with the first attempts to solve the problem of existence, is essentially a product of modern times. The theories, e.g., of Demokritus and Parmenides as to the ultimate cause of being, or of Anaxagoras, rising from the materialistic and pantheistic notions of the Ionians and the Eleatics to a more spiritual conception of the primal ...

... vxt Ani 9Wratum A magniflcentcallogue of the library of tbatsworth, is now finisheds, and it occupies four volumes, Yr John Morley½s Life of Cobden, already announced by us, will be in two volumes, octavo, and will be published imincdia- tely after Christmas. The magazine which is asout to start at Christmas as a rival of the old Genatkimaas Magazine, is to be called The Antiquary. lir ...

... ?? AND D&NO OIUMM i ha Yesterday the Mirddlusex Magistra~tan met for the 1ik purpose of heain 1~iotiox for new bwncees for music and for music ana Dcing combined. Captain Moarley, the Chairman of the Court presided ; ansd there was 50 A great an attendance of magistrates thst the whole of the to bench, the jury-box, andl that part of the court generally k, appropria~ted to the public was ...

... MP. WALTEHR BIfElS PIANOFORTF' RECITAL. The well-merited reputation of Mr Walter Bache as a pianist of the modern school, cli the interest arising from the fact of his having been a favourite pupil of the world-renowned Liszt, ensured a very large atteidsiance at his pianoforte recital at St, Jamles's Hall on Wednesday afternoon. There was, however, a still greater stinmiulmt, for lovers of ...

... The correspondent of tilte ?? Adveres gives tho following account of the opening of the Exhiihi- ties on Snptemrber 17T:-Peoplo generally turned out cn Stattiic, f ...

... gr. 13unmflC ;l1 rapta~ton-A1 here By T. W. SPEIGHT IV. SiR, William arrived in dee course. Ile was sixty-six years old at this time. He was dressed in a suit of clothes that was shabby enough to have ...

... A NATIONAL FANCY FAIR, For many years the Jesuit Fathers attacbed to the Church of St. Francis Xavier have held in e: Liverpool, as elsewhere, the foremost position It as trainers of the minds and man ...

... RESCUED, AT THE ADELPI. Mr. Boucicault, the author of this piece, has neithi obtained or deserved success. It failed at New York, anl we cannot think it will succeed in London. The story which is mostly hashed up of haelcied materials, is ell eumbered by seenes and dialogues that have no relevanqc to its action or development. The plot may be thu briefly sketched. Lady Sybil Ferrers (Miss ...

... DRESS AND FASHION IN PARIS, It is net easy to convey an Idea of the enormous variety and riobness of the new dress fabrics introduced this seaeon ; two kinds of plush stand in the front ranks, one of these isthe modern material of the name. the other an imitation of the plumb used in the reign of Louis XVL. ; shot and ribbed velvets and brocaded cebmeres will be in great vogue. Theme ...

... The fourth of the yearly shows of cows, heifers, bulls goats, cheese, butter, poultry, pigeons, and apparatus is held this week, in London. by the British Dairy Farmers' Aseociat; n, In plate, money, and medals, £t,5C1 is dis- tributed in prizes; the entries in each class are many in number, and in most are important in quality. The poultry and pigeon show contains about 1,500 birds, while ...