... Tan second annual amateur concert was given yesterday evening in the lecture-hall in con- noction with. Fortwiitam Park Presbyterian f Church, and wvas 'very successful. The a large hall, which was decorated for the occasion by Messrs. George Morrow & Sons, North Queen Street, was crowded. The first part of the programme opened with the overture, IDn Calif de Bagdad (Boildicu), by the ...

... . _. AN IRISH HISTORICAL ROMA.NCE. I ETENE. Being a truthful history of the great: and final settletneut of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell, and certain other notevorthy events, from thelBe- cords-of Ethne OConnor and of Roger Standfast, ca tam isn the Army of the Commons of England. Edited by Mrs E ME Field. London: Wells, Gardner, Larton, and Co. S ---lNot on since . Mr. Gladstone, in writing 'o ...

... FPASEION7 AYND VARIET7.2. ,t Lord Lurzani nnived at Kingstown yester- 1 terday from England. . - d E Dwye:r Gray. M P. and Mrs- Gray ar- rived at Singstown yesterd:ay 'rom England. Pierce Mahony, MP,; arrived at Kingstown yesterday from England. s Viscount Stopford has left Kingstown for . England. I | a Ladv HMacnarara has left Kingstoarn for v Eugland, a Mr Broning, C B, has left Singstown S ...

... Di tHE - - .S0E SIOAL A . .i- - ETA - L -- l ;The eiglih Uo.f theisreeiawas ivel - | ?? the theatre of'6lie DabliA Societ Iousdj Kildare-atrctt, eommefcfing, saa theafterpoo. | recitals do, at four oclock. There wa a-crowded attendance. The programme *as a yepetitisis of that ef the previous recital--namely, that of she 19th December. This is a moat excellent plan. T seieconrwopportunity thuus ...

... FA.SHION AiND VARIEIZS. A. Crofton, ;Jth Fusiliers, has -leB, x ?? for Enlgland. | . P. Fits~patrie-, 16ith LancerS,- ar- riveffli at ?? Yesteral:;y fronm Englinui | eneral and Mrs Nkol)le have left -Kings. town for England. Capt H Chichester. Royal Irish Regiment, has left Kingstown for si-ciand Arthur Williams, .iM P, has left Kinrasa town for England. William Redmond, M P, arrived at'Kings- ...

... IFAS-JION AND .ARILTIRi. Lord As hblurrse arrived Lt 1 u -ert:.y freon ilarisne L~ath nav..euin sallred t 5' lsi . 5 terday from E-ngrid ' V' Lady G wendoline Cceil arrived irs town ynSter6iaY front EngLand. Captain and Mtrs Miavlin- arrived at R town Yvste&L- from Engas d. ?? Stolkes alnd Miss A Stoke at Kingstown yesterdav from Enclani Lady Mandeville has lefs linastrsxr%: England. Lady ...

... T ASHIO 7 AND ARI.ET1IS. | Lord- Kilmaine arrived at Kingstown yes- terriay from nugland Sir Richard Martin, Bsrt., arrived at 1K[ings- t0owvn yesterda-y from Englsns. W 'E Fisher, Nl P. arrived at Kingstown yesterday from Erngland. Captain Monteith arrived at Kinostown yesterday from England. it Dwyer Gray, NK P, and Mrs Gray have ?? Kingstown for England. Major-General Mtdaquay andc Mrs ...

... I . IN BUSSIAN AXD FRENCH PRI-SONaS By Prinei Erapotkhie. London Ward and Downesr This volume is for the most part a reprint of 2 series of papers upon Russian and French prisons, w;hzc appeared in the Atjtctcentt Cent-unf. Some new matter has been added, bringing the subject down, so to speak, to date, and rendering tle book in a sense complete. Prince Krapo'aimo writes with ?? zlpon his ...

... PASHIONY AND a ARIRTIRS. _ ?? CHIEF SECRETAPY'S LODGE. I Mr and Miss Balloar gave a dinner party at the Chief Secretary's Lodge, Phirnix Park, on WXednesday even- I [i3g. The following received ?? Right Hon the Lord Chancellor and Lady Aebborne, the Right ron lon T'rant Hamilton and Lady Victoria Ham-ilton, the i Right Hon the e2ster of the Rolls and Mrs Port, the Right Ron Lord Jastice and ...

... TlE11 MAGAZINES FOR JINUARY. Tur 1IJ-oen'j TlTforhl mtay now be pronounoed aa undoubted success. Not only are the papers which it contains various as regards the topics touched upon, but they are invariably well considered nnd gracefully writ-ten. The illustrations are also as charmingr as Could he imagined. It is long since woe lave seen anvything better than the drawings which accomelnny ...

... ROMANTIC STORY Q;F A ONION OF FIFTY AND TWENTY-FIVE. [ A telegram from Brainerd,- Minn,: to the New ,York Herazld, relates -the following picturesque love 'story:AThe uyiet marriage of Mrs Mafgda- lenra Schwartz ?? Robininon, a young man, is thc seauel tse-ne of the most romafitic -:exp'e- riences in local knowledge. When Brainerd- bid fair in the early days to some time be a' town a ?? named ...

... A REMARKABLE STQRY. AT Plymouth recently two Swedes were landed, the sole survivors of twenty-eight pssengers and crew, all told, of the American ship Alfred Watts, which was found in a wrecked condition off the Bahamas by the Lizzie Perry, They tell a re- markable story. lt appears that the Alfred Watts, after terrible experiences, was thrown on her beam ends; all on board were cast into the ...