... A SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (By a Colcestbian.) With brilliant sunshine, and a clear, almost cloudless sky, it was much more tempting to take a run down to the green lanes of the country, and enjoy in solitude the works of Nature, than to saunter in the dose, crowded rooms of the palace of the works of art. However, Saturday is the Londoner's holiday, and as I knew I .-should ...

... On November SOth. a grand ball was given at the 1 Athenaeum, Bury St. Edmunds, by a Committee of 30 gentlemen in acknowledgement of a very successful «• Rose Ball given last February by ladies of West Suffolk. The invitations, which were very numerous, were issued on behalf of the Committee by Lord Franck Hervey, M.P., Col. Ibbetson, Mr. W. Gage Blake, Dr. Macnab, and Mr. W. E. Lake (Hon Sec ...

... FIRE AT THE IRON WORKS, WICKHAM MARKET. .jessrs. WHITMOIRE & BINYON -ASTEN to express their high appreciation and if gratitude to their employsd and many friends, who, tlleir great and untiring exertions, prevented the far- itier spread of the above disastrous Fire, and preserved to iipoertaut a portion of the property. ?? nd his Brigade, also the Wickham Mrket an d Woodbridge Brigades, the ...

... SUFFOLK AND NORFOLK BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The annual meetings of the Suffolk and Norfolk Baptist Association (Strict Baptists) were held ou Wednesday aud Thursday in a field at Bradfield St. George, kindly placed at the disposal of the Association by Mr. A. Edgar. Those connected with tbe Baptist cause in Bradfield, upon whom most of the burden of the work of preparation had necessarily fallen, ...

... My friend B- is a great enthusiast on big gerne shooting; not being a rich man or a commander of elephants, he will use a humbler method of obtaining his game, and sit up for nights, perched in a tree,.with a bleating goat or a howling pariah dog tied to a stump beneath. I having been sent on detachment with hin *o a tiger and leopard district, was of course made to partake in the enthusiasm, ...

... Christinas Day passed off in a very quiet manner in ?? KdmundV, no special event being' observable. There was a lack of seasonable amusements for the (•lirii-tmas holidays, and the dense, unwholesome fog which pr ...