LAW NOTICES.—This Day

... LONDON BANKRUPTCY COURT, LINCOLN'S-INN-nELDS. Baroas Ma. Hazliit, sitting as Jidgb.— Applications, motions, to., 11. Adjourned petition, at 18. Private sitting : and Co.. at 12. Mr. Registrar is the registrar tho day. The Court closes at two o'clock. ...

The Post-officb Guide.—The official publication issued for upwards twenty-three years the British Postal Guide ..

... Quids. Not enly has the title been alteiod, but the arrangement of the contents greatly improved and the size enlarged. The paper and style are also better, and the size of the volume is increased by sixteen pages useful matter. Another novel feature is the introduction of coloured leaves assist finding the divisions relating to foreign and colonial mails, money orders, savings banks, ...

LITETRATURE

... LIT ETRA T V R E. THE LIFE A'ND LABOURs OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, in a4 Continuous Narrative.,.- , Charles Michie, M.A., Rector pft:SkIver Streets Ala y sAberdeehi. ThirdtEdition, Re- P,,tec l od, Sons, Edinburiti it *aird edition ...

HOGMANAY ENTERTAINMENTS

... HOGMANAY EKTERTAfl?MENTS. |LOB] PROVOS' ANNUA DNNER TO TEPOOL On the invitation of the Hon. the Lord Provost, about 2000 poor people assembled in the City Haill yesterday afternoon, and partliok of his Lordship's seasonable hospitality. The company was nccom- modated in the galleries and area, and w~as coml- posed of those who seeme'd' to belong to the very poorest of our poor. Tlhe larger ...

MEMOIRS OF PRINCE METTERNICH

... MEMOIRS OF PRINCE ?? 72~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? r have,, if wemsaent TonvlTON4S Of these most interesting memorshviwemtaen, * appeared from time to time in various foreign newspapers--among others, in ?? Beige. One most interesting letter in particular we can call to mind, in which the late Chancellor speaks of the events of 1848, at which momentous epoch he, to use his own words, retired from the ...

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY

... I FX8H[ONS -FOR JANUARY. I - _ _ _ . . ?? (From Le Polket.) The total absence of summer weather daring the year just elapsed, and the long and dreary winter through which wd6 are sfi'd passing, ?? the ad- vent of the new year, wtith the bright hopoes and encouraginlg promises it alevats brings, more uel- come than ever. Jauuary, being only half way through the winter se:onJ is not the time for ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... . The Succession to the English Crown: A Historical Sketch. By Alfred Bailey, of Lincoln's-inn, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, M.A., &c. (Macmillan and Co.) This volume looks to us very much like a collection of notes taken by the author for his personal use in the course of his own reading, and then, as seeming too good to him to be thrown away or left in perpetual obscurity, cast into shape as ...

THE STORY OF A FEMALE NIHILIST

... THE STOR I' OF A FEMALE NIHIILIST. * M. ERNEST LAVIGNE, the author of the work before us, must have lived,- long and observed much in Russia; or, what seems at least as probable he has produced his Story of a Female Nihilist in collaboration with a genuine Russian who possesses more than an ordinary acquaintance with the tenets and practices of the Nihilist conspirators. The latter ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... MUSIC AXD THE DRAA.)1 (52011s 0C2 LO3D0N COaZROflDfT.)l Yeserdy ateroonLondon, Wednesday.l Yeserdy ?? Sullivan and Gilbert's new extravaganza The Pirates of Penrance was announced to be performed for, the first time on apy stage at the theatre of the| |little town of Paigoton, in Devonshire. The re-} presentati On was, of o urse, a p urely formal onBe,I and was in compliance solely wmith our ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &c

... PUBLIC AKLUSEMENTS, &o. Royal Alexandra Thest:e.-Forty Tileves. Korning ard Evei-g. Prince oi Wales Theatre.--O.iderela, Royal AmpbitLestre.-Di.n'k. New Rotunda Thertre.-Dick Whlttington and his Oat. Naw Star Music Hal.-M oflneous entertainment. Bt. Jamez'e EtnU.-ilegue's -snetrols. Yengler's Giand Oirv-e, Brusswick-road. Morning and Eveng. Amobango Art Gallery.-Picture, Brlde f Lhammer. moor ...

THE RECENT MUSICAL SERVICES AT THE CATHEDRAL

... THE RECENT MUSICAL SERVICES AT TUE CATHEDRAL. A~~ ~ I .. .. v . . . . . . . The following correspondence hlis been forwarded to u for publication :- Canons' House, Dee 29, 1879, Dear MIr, Dean-I regret that you were not well enough to attend one of the three special Advent evening services this year. On each occasion every available seat was occupied, and, as I think must be admitted by all ...

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

... :JA.CK AND THE, 'BANSTTALjK. *~ 11 When Joe Grimaldi, the famous clown, gave-his grq- 18 tesque and veritably eide-splitting entertainments in the n Great City, and attracted to his performances all the wit d and fashion of the' town, he little thought of the longroil of pantomimes (in almost every place that boats a i theatre) to which he wag giving a virtual paternity. ,Grimaldi used ...