... I rTHIRD NOTICE.] In the opening article of the CONT'EMPORARY REvIEW (London: Isbister & Co.) Mr Dillwyn, M.P., discusses the subject of the Procedure of the House of Commons. While advocating certain minor changes, such as giving the Speaker more power over the conduct of debates, repealing the half-past twelve o'clock rule, &c., the reform on which he lays special stress is that ...

... GAMES AND PIC-TCS. CULTS.-The second of these annual gathetin-s took place on Saturday last in a field near Craig- bank, kindly granted for the occasion by M1.r .Josvpb 'Reid. The attendance was large and representktiyE of those resident in the district, summer visitors, aid tthe general public ; and, but for the nupropitia-, natlre of the weatber-drenchina showers of rain fallins' at ...

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... HER B AAE-STYS THEATRE PRINCESS IDA. Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan have styled this their last operatic production that has been presented tq us ia respectful perversion of Tennyson's 'PI.ri csms,' and in most respects it fully justifies its name. Of course it taies fQr basis tie Laureate's well-known poem, and in the develop- mert of so much plot as is necessarj to comic opera follows more or ...

... FASHIONABLE MARTUAGES, The marriage of Gladys Lady Lonsdale and Earl De Grey took place at St Martin's Church, Charing I Crosis, at halif-past eleven o'clock yesterday. There were no biidesmiais, and the cercumony was of the ]I cimplest possible character. Therl verc but few psriocsi in the church, and these, for most part, the ni immediate friends of the bridc and bridegroom, an- chudiun the ...

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... WOODSIDE' BIRD SHOW. The fourteenth annual show oif the Woed- b Side Ornithological Society was held oil Satur- I 11 day in the TBhrgh Hail. Yoodaide. Te |r entries numbered 470, being 70 more than 1' last year. There were 246 exhibits in poultry, St being an increase of about 40 ; 73 canaries-con- w siderably less than last year; 12T pigeons, beiuo nn jjn advance of about 30; and 24 rabbits. ...

... I .1AGAZINES FOR FEBRUARY. I LEt FoLer for February-is of course full of in- terest forladies. This is essentially the Journd If -du Gmandixlnde, and of the polite literature of fashion. The fashion plates are in their way tasteful works of art. Here are a few par:graphsI from La Mode columns:- Velvet is the -watchword of the season, and the favoured few who are in the secrets of la ewde, ...

... The results of the examinttion in connection. with the Donaldson Prize Fund for pupil teachers, held in 3' Marechal College ,'n 20th Acugut last. have just b.l air eceived. The examriner~s wreu Dr' Binnie arid Aliti. T in schliis %6tlsisin tic! couoit! a of Abelerle)e, Kinou'r. ,lo~ine .21: lii th; junle, 4irsde thurma wees, 20 y rizs, eiim,,.- Ia I m tprV. 2 if;A 1 d-=.ecold~ ~hetiver ..) ! ...