... play Tie Squire is founded upon, or was in any way suggested by, Mr Thomas Hardy's novel called 'Far from the Madding Crowd?' My play originated, long before I had opened a book of Mr Hardy's, in a memorandum which I have now before me, in my notebook. This ...

... has become of Mr Thomas Hardy and his ?? John Comyns Carr? When last I beard from them, neither of these gentlemen had seen my play Thze Squire. But I am informed that since the writing of Mr Cl'rris most recent letter both he and Mr Hardy, in company with ...

... drivenout bythepicE tures-occupy each page, representing the contrnbutions e of Mr. G. W. Curtis, Mr. W. D. Howells, Mr. Thomas f Hardy, MTr. Clarence Stedman, Mark Twain, and other distinguished writes. Bat the especial glory of the number is, of course ...

... proposal of Mr. Hardy's as to the status of the 'e characters in the drama being raised is entirely e false, Upon perceiving, to our regret, that it there was some resemblance in the play of The 1. Squire to the general character of Mr. Hardy's ? novel ...

... _ _ _ _ _ AnasmriTY AeProKTxE'n\rs.-Tho following appoint- mante have teen made at the AdmiraLty :--Staff Commander Alfred Thomas,to the Invincible, commissioned. Licu- tenants Walter Hailstone, Barton I1. Bradford. Henry T. Smith-DBorreo, nod Arthur T ...

... MondaY, t~ie xorrwof -tMxt ENGLA.N1 , Lonshar sies do W, odley~~ ~ qo Gates, of the~iy arPtr, Vipan, of Satton EoaSto, ?? k~hI2 Hardi. of Siaint in' owr y hs ees -yorkabire, Esq. Cuztxn-Arthur Hogh Smith BOVY, o ab al XaothwidI4-REvq,;James.-To of CMSAD46nas ...

... very hardy and free. There is a very deep-soobered kind, named Rob Roy, a pink-mottled kind, named Pink Beauty, and a charming rosy pink-qusiled kind, named Princess Beatrice. The variegated Kinds are also very handsome, though not quite so hardy. RNovios ...

... Times. MRS. BERNARD-BEERE IN THE PROVINCES as BATBSHEBA EVERDENE, in Messrs Hardy and Comyrns Carr's successful Play, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. I wish that the Carr-Hardy play could be seen in Londen, for the sake of the acting of &lrs ?? as Bathsheba ...

... Dismore, solicitor, of Liverpool, was killed on Sunday by a fall down a precipice on Snowdon. He fell 300 feet. A man, named Thomas Taylor, was killed on Monday in the Assembly room at Stafford. Some workmen on a scaffolding, who were decorating the roof ...

... by the Victoria Cross, and it is to be hoped that Sir Garnet Wolseley will set his face against all unprofessional fool- hardiness. Officers should understand that their lives are not their own, and still less their liberty if left alive. The second reading ...

... some Nerotline siccative on board his flagship the Ti-is;/zz. , which caused the death of William N. F oxon, able seamian Thomas H. Davies, gunner, R.M.A. and Charles Legg, gunmei R.IxM.A and wounded the following-viz., Frederick G. Pavett, private ? ...

... luckless gunners whoseaimproved untruewere the victims of good-humoured chaff. On board the Invincible a young midshipman named Hardy stationed himself in the main-top, and signalled the effect of each shot to the officers on deck. On the same vessel a young ...