... THE ROYAL. Since the structural alterations here the visitors have shown full appreciation of the extra provision made for their comfort and convenience, and the advent of the Christmas holidays found the doors besieged by crowds eager to share in the delights promised by a long and liberal programme, Companies-limited liability and otherwise-it has been said, have no consciences, but the rule ...

... IE ?? ?? ?? >A IRA; OR, DANTON IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (Lee and Shepherd, Boston; Dillingham, New York), is a book, and not a certain number of pages stitched between cloth covers. Mr. L. Gronlund's ' Co-Operative Commonwealth is so well-known in America, that it ought to be better known here. When Co- Operative Stores in small towns are able to give back 20 per cent. to purchasers, ...

... (FROMs ouR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, JAN. 5.-The week's novelties have been limited to a brace of reviews, into any description of whose flimsy vagaries it is needless to enter. That produced at the Chiteau ?? proved a particularly dismal affair, but it was enlivened by one of those rowdy scenes enacted from time to time there by volunteer performers in the celestial regions. The ...

... PICTURES OF THEE P ST. 3(Drawnz from. tfe Files of thle a Lhzmp- shbie Telegraph.) Ol 0 March 5th, 1837, 1 devoted an article to e duelling days in Portsmouth. I traced the I various sanguinary conflicts that enlivened the e local annals from 1799 to 1803, including the t famous duel in a passage of the Blue Posts Inn, where Lieutenant Stapleton, of the 20th Foot, 'f killed Ensign Grainger, ...

... ?? -o~ip i arI . I I I rmrmimpam DEB . .BY. 8UNCSe QI1DIN.: It Wouid a great miltake,9 the psr o my bos 4apd girb: $? thej, imalir4ed that the letters which Ot* prlinted in tmi5 oo~ln1 conatan ill the ms6ag53 ?? pnd~goodvill whioh cometo me. OntlheoptrUT, I.repeivG500f9Whirhi are never published. Nearly every child who sends answers to the puzzles adds a ' fiew wopda, of gfreetling to me, ...

... THIE OUBLE MARRIA ;E' o A Play by the late Charles Rt vh-. IRevised arid in parts Rew ritte, a!d liev is Cd at the Woreester Theattre Rioyal, on Monda. , Jia. 21. t1888, Camille Du i-rdin ?? Mr Akyrn Ii DlACRE Jean ?? ?? Mr OSCAR ?? f General Ranihart ?? Mr JIIIns (IGION Colonel Mauhert ?? ..r RANdIS - Colonel Diibois ?? Air Tn ?? . Captain Leblric ?? Mr I SIurEY I'APe Sergeant Lacroi . ?? ...

... A MOTHER'S SIN.-Prince of Wales's T., Grimsby. A RUN OF LuOR.-Theatre Royal, Norwich. As IN A LooKNGo-GLASS.-Coventry. BEATRICE Co.-Theatre Royal, Ipswich. BENSON, F. R.-Gaiety Theatre, Hastings. CARTE'S Continental Co. (A).-Hamburg. CASTE Comedies (Austin).-Theatre Royal, Lincoln. COMEDIE ANGLAISE. LA.-Public Hall, Aberystwitb. COMPTON Comedy Co.-Theatre Royal, Huddersfield, CoNFusioN. ...

... ,Tun, MPO TIOI HImIT1O v -M l Xessrs. Dowdesa*dU will, hold a, private view to day at thir Glri, 160, Noew Bond te, o d c CqlletUii of upaftias that w1l be ielytrous e Imuch lab. tetnd discussion in the art world sad.pro- 4?id tffPUlG forth. iss l lt loew lof pPe. all MMr. Thre woxl t , ?? artlo e oS *Ahlphe this Wi a. native ci 1 sl, !h died diA . i r of laittyear. O is produ O i5lo haxo ...

... E g o~I- ET MONDAY week is the date fixed by the management of the Sr. JAMES'S for the revival of A Scrap of Paper. Mr. Hare, who for some time has had no part to play on the St. James's stage, will appear on the occasion as Dr. Penguin. Mr. and Mrs. Kendal will, of course, resume their respective characters of Colonel Blake and Susan Hartley. The part of Lady Ingram will, for the first time, ...

... FIRES IN THEA TRES I. FOR some weeks after the terrible fire at the Exeter Theatre the Press teemed with letters emanating from all sorts and conditions of men, in each of which the writer favoured the world with his own special views of what ought to be done, if not altogether to preclude, at least to greatly lessen, the likelihood of any similar calamity in time to come. That a consi- ...

... TO IV. E. G. | I (Somntsof adieub ; from he UnioVnbs. I Greatest of Demagogues I whose honied tone Allures the listening mob, with base appeal To the blind passion and misjudging zeal, Into strange paths whose issues arc unknown; Say who will reap the crop that thou hast sown, Strife and class hatred 7 Or whose arts will heal Thy country's wounds, thou foe to England's weal, And friend to ...

... MIUSICAL CONFERENCE. LosaoJw Famr. The third day's preedings wer held at the Ba hall of the Paiates'. Asooiadtio Dk Un o£ ' Birltenhead, presiding at the monin niaetine , i The Chainnau, at the outset, .aid thee wee oneo .subject to which it wmass ential to 4llude for the I sake of carrectipg errmnyms imprweioz and thab, o1n was the position of the sical tourin relatiio I to the sociey. The ...