... COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS LOCAL EXAMINATIONS- CHRISTMAS, 1886. A. - . - . . - The Christmas examination of pupils by the College of Preceptors at the Derby Centre was held in the second week in December last at St. James's Hell, under the superintendence ...

... Manchester and Liverpool. In 1885, 1886, 1887, and 1SSS 148 wvere convicted (as aga1inst 192 in 1864, T8GS, 1866, and 1867), and of these 47 were flogged. The precise figures are :-1885, 25 convictled, 4 floggled; 1886, 28 convicted, 10 flogged; 1887, 48 ...

... IOUR ILLUJSTRATED - ,LONDON LETTER. That Christmas is upon us we are forcibly reminded by the opening of the great ha1l and grounds alreidY known as 4 Olympia, at Kensington, on Monday next. Ihavereferredto this pet schemeof ?? LATHO1N two or three ...

... Club. Cattle Sho3W, ?? opened on Monday at the Agricultural Hall at isling- ton, is aln indunbitable sign of approaching Christmas. Last wecek uitnessed thce Birmilng- ham Cattle Show, and the Norwich Show w;as held thle week before. The exhibition at ...

... rhymester, wwhose quaint and rnugcd mnctres are preserved in. the British Museum, narrates the pleasant legend that -lhenrever Christmas Day falls on a Sunday it is an augury of great material good to the com- muimity as a whole, and to certain lucky chil- dren ...

... Il(1uitrated Police News.s I SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1886. THE wol, it isS stid, knows nothing of 1ts greatest inuni Aprmirently it has also but a small costisu lace ot its nlmst Curious lllollsters. Mr. Clr Goemm, clhai rmiia of the London H1ospital, reports ...

... being about ;£100 in excess of the sales of the previous year. A new departure was taken by Mr. Philip Rathbone, who, by devoting one room to the productions of the Marlborough Club and the new schoolof painters, for the exhibi- tionof theirworks,!practieallya ...

... though ou December 11th there was someo skating in the neighbourhood of London. The new year, however, set in with decidedly severe weather, and the snowstorm of January 6th in London was the heavseet since the menmsorable fall of January 18th, 1881. The ...

... coachbuilder in London, who went abroad about the year 823 of Henry Davies, who left London for Natal abont the year 1850; of Daniel Kitohener, a master mariner, tradingto the East, who married in India in 1824; of Wiffiam, Rawlings, clerk m a London bank between ...

... propertie, and new enternrise took root. The financial revival in that couutry is the chief aud qeite the most memorable incident in the past year's business. It has affected our commerce, the means to build new ailways .-about '7OG miles of new live were ...

... viz.:- larvest of WVheat Barley. Oats. lfey. 1882 . 95 95 .08 l 128 1883 . 9 101 101. 100 1884 107 99 98 .. 86 1886 104 101 97 .105 1886 9 82 .. 96 . 95 .. 99 WIsse. -Our wheat reports this year number 534, and the fact that the harvest now begun is ...

... drunk; and then the Royal party left for London by the 5.15 P.M. ?? engravings are from sketches by Mr. Arthur Cox. MARION FAY MR. TROLLO'E's New Story, illustrated by W. Small, is con- tiuned on page 637. CHRISTMAS ABROAD: A SKETCH AT NICE WHEREVER an ...