... OUR VILLAGE COAVCER T WE manage our concerts at Slopton-by-Shlmley, in Wheatshire, so as to attain two ends: the elevation of the masses, and the aid of some specific object. The specific object we have aimed at this year is a sufficiently high one, being the church weathercock. It was felt by the parishioners, noticed by the churchwardens, and remarked upon by the Vicar that this ...

... The supremacy of Paris in matters of fashion isa2 fact which goes so entirely without saying that the French capital can afford to he bon prince on occasion, and acknowledge superiority when manifested else- where. It has already accepted andI taken to itself, as it were, an En glishman, whose name is a bouseho dI word among us, bilt whcsc position here is not due toc any talets peculiar to ...

... SPECIAL MUSICAL SERVIOES AT St. MARV 'S.ON TEE-QUAY. Th.of -ne 1-z ewt 4 sopA - n ?? .. The special services with which the congregation at cl St. MarWS Roman Catholic Chapel on the Qcay celebrate li the eve of the new year-were heldyesterdasy, and were th accompanied by the most elaborate ritual of the Roman 13 Catholic Church. There was a crowded congregation in II the morming, when Haydne' ...

... X-Ittriarg UnA artiMi?. 'DI M[SPIICIALLY CONTIBUTED.] n- I hear that the Hull Literary Club had a most suc- as cessful gathoring on the 9th inst., on the occasion of IBt their fourth annual dinner. I have before me the toast list, cleverly illustrated by Mr. T. T. Wildridge, ty and with Shakespearean mottoes happily selected by he Mr. William Andre ws; and I find that among the in speakers and ...

... IATERATrI: .SUOOS§£30RcmsVX Byron ah- ?? IR P. .1J Webb and Sonj M9ddle~bbey-.i -. - _ ; : -to a question whlich now ~more then e~vera il ?? public interest of this country The Inisb Poor- .lr in its present fom io admittedy nostirefee elf,+ e6 i u,, v j~t. pav Ieezftt2Vtia 'aaes aecea: -zle - purposes for wieuih Sit v/honten. 0- CIf Ltb pqorwl14 4eftpoetve, 'effele ~en to {corrupt and ...

... FASHION AND VARIE VIES. THE COURTI. Osborne, Thtsdi!y. 'A'he Qtueen dreve out geoterdar at ternoon attended by' the Dowager Marebtloneus of Elv. Her Majesty walked with Pritces, Beatrice this morn- ing. THE VICERIUGAL COURT. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, K G, accom- panied by Lord Charles Bruce, J) P, and attended by Captain Hamond, B N, A D 0, and Captain MlLaren A FP C, visited the ...

... RAB SHAKEH: A HISTORICAL ROOMANCE. .BY SHADE OF WILLIAM WALLACO HVn SE&Wl of ilmnoaock, Bab hbakeb the M.P.. AganIel the Zion of the nortla JDorlsdd war hash ha. WiWth Ishmael. Samarfa, And the godless Phil.stin,. He has sworn to measure oD thre dnA The spires of te boly sbrine. On his right hand Rabairls Of Paisley for the fight His Arab wld bsth repucled- A guvle)wa oell And on his left. 1o ...

... ALITED A TUBE. (1) Craik's Life ofk5ew?. The reading public is to be concratulated on being put at last in possession of a life of in- comparably the greatest of British satirists, which is exhaustive without being unwieldy, is free alike from bias antl fromn sentilneultalisml, and which, dealing with personal matters in- voiced in an unprecedented amount of mystery, and therefore tlhe subject ...

... THIE LON\DON MUSIC HALLS. THEE OXFORD There is no better conducted hall in the metropolis than 'the Oxford,' just as there is none more conveniently situated and none more popular. AU the year round it boasts a liberal programme, and the outcome of good catering is liberal patronage. This pleasant state of affairs, as we have repeatedly pointed out, is due in no small measure to the energy ...

... BY HENRY IRVINt;. I have been asked to write a paper for The Spirit of the Timses, descriptive of the actual work of preparing a play. To how great a pitch of elaboratioll moders enterprise in this field les been carried American readers do not need to be told. They have had the advanltege of seeing Julb's Crsa)e; as it was produced by Edwvin Blooth in New York. But it is possible that cven ...

... \Ve presume the London Literary Society was responsible for the arrangements at the Egyptian Hall on Monday after- noon, and if so the London Literary Society cannot be complimented on the result. It seems to us that nothing would have been easier than to have ascertained the number of visitors the hall was capable of accommodating, but it appcars that, without lany consideration as to ...

... PrtOvI.NCIjAL THEATRICALS. F1OM01 OUR OWN COIORRSFONIJJ;U A4LDERSHOT. VCOYTII;A1'tEO. LOe,,e Mr Steele-T'he pantomilme season is test (Irriwing llto a dose, 1't this 't aind the benefits have comn- nested. The clow, (Mos Lotis thoare) took his on the 12th inst., ?? N little lied r3iding ; h 1 (hissNelllie ...