... utu iu X go. Mountl Etra is now in a state of eruption. Lord 1t. Churchill 4vill probably visit Belfast at Easter. Trains can now run direct from bSunendria, on the Danube, to Nisch. The Queen is expected to visit the Continent in about six week;s. The Philadelphia cricketers will sail for England on the 17th of May. The Sultan of Turkey has sent the Chefkat Order to the Queen of Spain. The ...

... Great efforts have been made lately to introduce poplin as a material for ladies' dresses. The Duchess of larlborough, as Lady Lieutenant of Ireland, particularly interested her. self in the revival of the manufacture. It has now been adopted for the purposes of furniture, and the dining-room at Marlborough House has curtains of claret-coloured Irish poplin, with the Royal arms thrown up ia ...

... (ftv-COfrom 54 1 ,cr LBO h=i THUlF TLIF. OF ALUflCA. I IForis count for llttle. The Rlomans expelledl their liigs, :2., ?? to abhor the very iname cf kiag. Blat und.er ti t i mine of ('Casars and ILperators, that atit frstr meant no lrlre tir;:r, our *boss, they crouched before tyrants more :tbztn:e thian lings. We bave already, under the popular :.amc ot b. ssee,' developed leoitic.s ?? in ...

... [ALL rll;f(TS jtjl:s?pvFD 'IlE M4 AN Sf]E CAiRED FOR: A NOVEL, Bly TF. W. RO1BIN-SON, 10' P. Yi t ?? 4lvi ~ i',NSTE.; ?? .tle ?? CUAIPTER. 'XVL-Bo-M GRATEFUL. Was there. no real shamne in the Offence for w-hi'ch this Aeggi' Challis, had suffered imprisonment, thought H'amil- teni l-ldclove, or had she grown callous to society's punrish- ascot, and defianit of it, or was she, by one of those ...

... cf-'xtracto from 4,1, tat Lboho. TIlE EXAMtINER OF ?? 1 I The late- Examiner of Plays, Mr Donne, before a Parlia- mentatry Committee gave evidence of the difficulties be ex- p, rienecd in his mudeavours to interpret ballet and panto- mirrie. and expressed his opinion that to very many people the matter was as obscure as it was to him. A ballet is rarely understood, he said, by more than ...

... It is inevitable that John Brown should fill a prominent place in Her Majesty's pages. Her subjects will now learn, fdt the frst time, why Brown's services were esteemed so highly by his Royal mistress, and why his memory is so cordially cherished. It has been stated that the book will be to a large extent a biography of the Queen's faithful attendant. That is not the case; but fall and ex- ...

... I ALL RIGES RSI ZWD. I DE NOVA VILLA; Or, THEE HOUSE OF NEVILL IN SUNSHINE AND SHADE Br TEB REV HL J. SWALLOW, F.S.A (EDJW.), FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SoCIETY OF LITERATURE; MEMBER OP THIE AsCiAMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BauMnsI, &C., d&c. CHAPTER I.-Tn SAXON. IRex est cui metuit nihil' Hoc regnum sibi qunsque dat. L. SE*ECA Thycs es a l . A manuscript In the British Museum (Earl. Collect) ...

... O4VII(to frout ?ftlv ??0.040. TflE D ZMANU OFill W. The Doers were fighting for individual liberty, for the d: right of every man to do as seemed besr il his own eyes. rE They co-operated in order to gain this end. And they have gained it. Hence, those undoubted cruelties have taken is place, which we are asked to condone, because, forsooth, we is are toll that they were in opposition to the ...

... I BEA-ED A VOICE. I heard a voice at sunset Arise from a merry ?? Of children's voices, ringingr With innocent mirth and sonz. ?? a child's voice light and joyous, AffectIon unbridled-free- F! ow'd tbrough eachb ?? and action None were so happy as hle. I heard a voice at twilight, W4hen tbxesun was sinkig low, Swell from the villa.ge choir Till the music seemed to fow Through my soul with ...

... [ALL R'V;-i ?? iF: 1 TF'E MlAN SHE CARED FOR: A NOVE I BY F. W. ]ROBIN-SON, joule Zr err.' a. 1u;, acAon.c' [i-clrs' SI-aca,. ]Lca-aie. no -i5r' W'ooAai-,firut, &C. CHAPTER X V-~goER IEMOltSE. 31-sDan Cre-el-I the elder was not a womin ofanuegreat degree of1 anere; there was a uroan?' ol5. weaknelsa abouit hlr or walich her ?? nu1'dey, or her nitural c~ancitution, was accountable. She ...

... A, vt aud gittrature. ;?;d The publishers of the Queen's new book announce that the first edition was exhausted on the day of publication. Mr Lang contributes to the March number of the Antiquuary a paper on the iron age in Greece, which contro- verts some conclusions arrived at by Prof. Sayce; Mr W. Carew Hszlitt contributes a paper on the prisons of Venice; and Mr Wheatley gives the second ...

... * o proof of the adage that extremes meet, it is heralded in fashionable circles that the prodigious fur muffs which our great-grandmothers carried, capacious enough to stow a small wardrobe away in, are likely to reappear and take the place of the very diminutive finger cosies so long worn. In the earliest spring silks shot and shaded grounds pre- dominate, says the Parisian correspondent ...