... MISB FARNINGHAM has engaged to deliver one of her popular lectures in Wood-street Chapel, Wednesday evening, January 19th, 1881. CHRISTMAS DINNER TO THE POUR OF ST. JOHN'S PARISH.—The annual dinner to the poor of St. John's Parish was given on Monday in the Crockherbtown Schools. In the boys' school places were prepared for 300 adults, and in the girls' school accommodation for 200 children ...

... ?? r- - , )- ?? F \- 'TIiE CHRISTMAS SERVICES in the churches and chapel. of London and the suburbs were in most instances attended bv fulf congregations. Dean Church preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, Dean Stanley at Westminster Abbey, the Rev. 11. White at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, the Rev. W. Hulton at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, and the Rev. F. Garden at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. At ...

... PUbBLIC BOAR9DS. En .. .oneEr ?? A S1-a an TeIxAcet BOJLT a'D OF G rusAxU)A .-At the fortnsigbtly meeCUIrgenUThu~rsdey, a letter as as read ftroni life Josaciab .Plrescott, formnerly erie of tile reliehing officers of the Iunlion, arid winO was era Friday last cetursirited for trialt e I y theoSt. Helenis niagi'tratesn er chsrge ofsteaainn Ss.I ; Losh money of the guardianxs, remiiidis the ...

... MiARVIELLOUS ESCAPE 0F A CHILD. on Wednesday afternoon it littie broy arnaed Alfred Day, ?? years of agc, residing at the Jenny Lind Gjal-y4rd, Garrison-lane,- iBirineaglDsin, mu. withI a singulrx accident. 4 About ?? 'cxck h: and anumber of com- panions wore plaving near a ?? little otlage' inl Garrizon-iane, wivhen the roof fell in. Day ilappened to be just inside til door at the tjim', maid ...

... SOUTH WALES NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD FPU 1881. An adjourned meeting of the general committee for the carrying out of the South Wales National Eisteddfod of 1881 was held at the Temperance Hall, Merthyr, on Thursday afternoon, under the chairmanship of Mr David Rosser, president. There was a fair attendance. At the last meeting notice was given by Mr Lleweliyn Williams that he would move the ...

... THE FAIR MAID OF YSTRAD TYWI, A TALE OF THE TUDOR ACCESSION. BEING THE FIRST PRIZE TALE AT THE SOUTH WALES NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD, 1880, BY BERIAH GWYNFE EVANS. Author of Bi'onwen, Roundhead d; Cavalier, Owen Grlyndior, &c„ &e, (All rights reserved by the Author.) CHAPTER XXVIII.-A NEW ACTOR, Arthur and Sir Francis returned to Abermarlaiu, deeming themselves fortunate in having escaped. ...

... T'le mystery vhich surrounded the disap- eran e of I\liss Sarah Crow, who some kveelvs ago left nton Station fur Ludlow, has been c'.eared up. The unfortunate girl has been diacovaed in tho Richmond Dis- trict Lunatic Asyium, at Dublin, to which ill- stitution she had been committed, on magistrates' as a dangerous Itiiiat I C. She passed fro;* Holyhead to Dublin by steamer, and her demeanour ...

... The present has been more favourable to the develoi ement of fashion than that of last winter. Cloaks nnd mantles are trill.med with different coloured fur-1. Evening dresses, both in London and Paris, are receiving more attention than they have done for eom-i time past. The Ulster, with hood, and the cloth polonaise, with cape and are useful and comfortable, nnd yet are perfectly feminine in ...

... the town, who had made their fortune, or at least gained a competency by their diligence here, and who devoted all their surplus energy, together with whatever. talent and experience they possessed to the government of the town, we cannot help feeling that the loss is great, if not irreparable. Within the last two years mem- bers, whom we considered indispensable, have been removed and their ...

... THE DISPUTE AT BWTIO!N I MINES. The Executive Committee of the Cleveland and Forth Xorkshire Miners' Association met at the oflces, Ruby-street, Saltburn, yesterday, for the purpose of considering the objections of the man to abide by the aw ard of Mr Forster in connec. tiou with the dispute at Brotton Miaes.-The matter was discussed at considerable length, but in consequence of Mr J. Toyn ...

... at IT is curious to reflect that, over all the ativilise(l world, on Saturday every nation of g- Chyristendom, with the single exception of Sect- ns land, was, as a nation, occupying itself to some e, extent in the public celebration of the greatest a, event recorded in time. In their apathy and in- lY difference to such a celebration Scotland and ts Dahomey stand much on1 the same level ; and ...

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