... I GOSSIP WITHl THE CH[LDRE.N | BY UNCLE OLDMAN. Rumblegrumble has found a new cause for com- plaint. You know already that the great smoky old giant is quite clever in discovering reasons for dis- content. This is because he gives his mind to it. Anyone who wants to find fault can do it, and at length become highly accomplished in the art of making himself and everybody else miserable. ...

... LIVERPOOL THEATRES AIND ME LIESING SESSIQINS. DnPOlTAN'rDECISrONSOFTrB BExCH, | The anual tbeatrical licesing sessions for t!e St citv of Liverpool was held yesterday, in the I d Liverpool Police-baildno& Sir James A. Pieton | presied, and the other magistrates on the bench were Dr. G Ale, Dr. Gee, Dr. Costine; Messrs. Kennedy, T. Holder, B. L. Beas., E. f Lawrerc3e H. L Haborby, J. Brancker, ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMETS. ALEXAXDRA THEATRE. exp With what manner of man shalt I deal now? ma says Mi. Pinero, sitting in the solitude of the place my in which he forges his shafts of cynicism. I par have shown the skeleton which inconveniently Ths rattles its bones in the honse of a magistrate ; why the shouldn't I open the cupboard door of an ecclesi- M'1 astical dignitary and make him tremble ...

... j TO VVI VtTOR3 Om Ta3 LIVZUPOOL E)IKICU'T. Gentlemnen.-In rny letter in your issue of to-dav I animadvert on the position taken up by tbe two principal Liberal clubis ini Liverpool during the past yeer. That this censure was not uncalled for the, result, as exhibited in the report of the Junior Reform Club ju4t issued, Avil3 show. (onzrastulations on Mr. Gladstone's birthday, a . anq net ...

... e On Wednesday afternoon, the senior member for Preston opened a Grand Fancy Fair in the Public Hall, i Preston, in the interests of the Congregational Chapel in lt Cannon-street; and with respect thereto, it may be said, ia short, that the Dissenting body of Preston have toepped right to the front in a most unanimous and e pleasing manner, with the view of helping to place on its feet again ...

... I _ , ?? RIATIONAL RHYMIES. Wc vwaiit SBomc rhymes conitaining reasons, st uit the sulbject aned the season, ce givc wle ?? a rhymo for Breed, *ton'il hod~ the rhymeo within your bead ?? the word, and do not stutter- Tie proper rhyme for bread 18-Dtittcr. lew lt u, bave a rhyme for Beef; tant it for my own relief, ,T tlllk about when I'm at dinner, ?? Some sotuc other carnal sinner. bo sithing ...

... LTB'1RARY NOTICE : I The 'mbed-YVon o9f W HbOsy Bal ad W New TM*kzmen Puntedfor the Universiies of Oxford and Caabridge. Load: Eavy Frowde, Oxford Warabouse; C. 1 Cay and bok,~ ~ Z, Cidgee Wsb. both of the Blble ndof tbe NewTeamentare tno'weillknown by this time to nebd descrip- t9;- The reason t rsh copis ae being b sent t fo review is that Ftie ce has been conudembly reduced. The Bibles ...

... In conetion with the presence of Madse I Marie Roze recntly in liVarpool, the following a pleasing letter has been sent ber by Sir George 5 . ciarren, in the name of the diroctocatc of .the Roya Academy of 31ua:-TentsrdeaL J street, Harkover - square, Oc. 12 1S87.-My I dear Mad ,-Please to accepthe t of a the Committee of Management for your great t kindness in distributing the certificates ...

... I I it BY UNCLE OLDMAW. :0I had the pleasure of attending, a short while ago, a very pretty little show held by a children's window. fgardening society. Down the contre of the school. le room in which the display took place was a long table ir covered with a white cloth, and on this were set out the pots containing geraniums, fEchsias, and other to plants all grown in cottage windows under ...

... Essays of Mrzzinii. Edited, with an introduc. tion, by William Clarke. Proca * Writinqs of Hernich Heine. Edited, with an Introduc- tion, by Havelock Fillis. London: Walter Scott. These are the two lout volumes of the popular Camelot Series, edited by Mr. Ernest Rhys. The essays, selected from the works of Mazzini, include Faith and the Future, a Lanennaij, ?? and Goethe, The Genius ...

... - i'IRES AT THEAT'IRES. 1! L: - . . -. -- t- I Madame Marie Roze.-Abpleiole writing on the cI above sulrject ?? ?? ,t late ti ere hlis been a rv considerable amuount of controvorsy ou the suibject ct of fires in theatres, but. amiong tihe many sHgget-. tioits that have been Inmido for the safety ot the public I have uot seen any tstioiit suggetitig reform ou tiO stage, wheto the fire invariv ...

... .I 1 - 1 T : L- L .- . L __ ! I I A letter, from Alderman Hibbert, appears in lour correspondence column, to-day, disputing Ientirely the statement made, at the last meeting of the Preston Town Council, to the effect that the Ribble Improvement Scheme has been the means of causing a considerable reduction in railway freigh rates, chiefly between Liver- pool and Preston ; and the reason ...