... ToZR TATTM33D FLAGS. (A Song of Our Squarc.') When the poor and the outcast asellible In protest 'gamnst folly and %svriug, Then surely our tyrants should tre!iile As they see. 'mid the onconlinlg throug, These banners that bid us remeliber Foul crime that is bitter to bet- That was wrought in the dreary Sovesihere When the waning day glooiaed o er o Chorus. Tho' these banners with mud are ...

... QHAPTEf XVIII. NOW THEY PAssED THE -UNION, AND AYTIS. Do not unite with us, sir; it would be the union of the shark with his prey; we should unite with you onlyto destroy you.-Dnt. SAmuiEL JOHNSON. If it must be called a union, it is the union of a shark with his prey; the spoiler swallows uip his victim, aidi they bccome osie and inseparable. Thus ?? Great Britain swal- lowed up the ...

... AN A r1ERICAN JoulNiry. By B. AvELIeG. 1Reeves, Flcet-strect.-An exceedingly bright and entertaining description of a sojourn in America, extending over a period of about four months. Luring this, so to say, brief stay, the author certainlv made the most of his time, as he tells us he visited no less than fofty-four towns, and in his canacity as lec- turer, journalisat, and dramatic critic ...

... LIjTFATUJF4 11RLMAGAZINES. A'I ?? view of Euio' ~fo5who take a ci o England 5tosprt and the ?? to Of an ffirs, -11 findd ample encouragemwent PC rtculat 171 ii Bitish Army', contri- il P 1 pepnc . e e by the author of i, toe e eoF ° w shall points of' de- bst - ritai nd the writer runls (tgoea touched 'RDopinion with the re-' 1ier thiek tb, tendency to re. uc coir;, j t f ofters altogether ...

... -4 VAUDEVILLE THIATRE. Mr. Robertl Buchanan has contrived in d2oserh's Sweetheart an interesting love story, which is unfolded in an exciting way. The likeness of the play to Fielding's romance is very faint, though the same period has been chosen. Joseph Andrews is a handsome young retainer of a fashionable lady, who, captivated by his personal graces, makes him a Battering proposal of ...

... DRURY LANE. kaGUGSTUS HAlixas. LEssEg LwD MANlAGER. E vEBN IN G, A T 7.30, A RUN OFf 2UCKC. Sloo.Pr~ry Nich ollS, Percy Lyndal, E. W. GeRdinlsr Victor Stephens, Fred Gould, Itritboi inch, Artllir Yates, A. oileing, aild Herbert Standing. Ass.;- Hesdamees Fartescue. Pdithi lriice, Blanche Massey. Yinnie Inch, Mario IyAltra, 3Iaria W~illiams, Millicent mildamay, and Moond milton, &;O. Box-ornIce ...

... DRURY LANE. In reviving last night A Rau nf oLuck, the sporting drama which filled the National theatre nightly in the autumn season of 1886, Mr. Harris has provided a strong holiday attraction; for not only is the drama based on popular lines, but its subject nearly touches the favourite pastime of Englishmen, who, next to loving a lord, dearly love a horse. Its pictures of sporting life, ...

... somAiPS exom ?? JOUZI-TALS. LFrom Punch.j TnE COUNTY SQUIsE. (A Song in two paits, as sung before and after the introdie- tiou of the Local Government BiLl. Air.- The Holy Friar. I.-131OR N. I am a squire of the present day, To quarter sessions I take icy ray, Couitnty bus~iness I have i nmy grip, With peer asid parsou 1 sit ind sip,- Geto ,sitlitit uie the ouunty cas't,* Whou higlihways ...

... L G S-_L DRURY LANE TREliATiE. The arrangement for the temporary lesseeship of the national house by Miss Sophie Eyre having fallen through, and the Egyptian dry-as-dust play of Nitocris having consequently been shelved, the patrons of Mr. Augustus Harris's theatre are to be congratulated upon being provided in its place with that stirring realistic drama of modern sporting life, happily ...

... THEATRES, ETC. Our London managers are starting their sprin; season with more than the average amount of novel ties and revivals. Heading the list is the reproduc tion of a Bun of Luck at DRURY LANE, one o the best sporting dramas the stage has given, am 'which was removed from the boards of Mr. Harris' house, in the full tide of its success, to make wa: for the Christmas pantomime of 1886. ...

... THE CONINETNTAL GALLERY. At the Continental Gallery, 157,,New Bond- street, Mr. Dierken has arranged a collection, of about two hundred pictures, and, as on former occasions, the artists represented are of many schools-chiefly Nor- wogisn, Belgian, German, French, Italiaos. and Spanish. A new painting by M. Jan Van Beers, called The Rendezvous-Bois de Boulogne, is intended to be the pi~oe ...

... CHRISTIAN A GNOS TICISM.* Mlcci as Mungo Park must have come on the bit of desert moss among the heaps of burning sand, have we, among the vast breadths of dreary, pulpit commonplaces, come upon Dr. Salmon's volume. We do not remember often having read a sermon so well within the capacity of the ordinary English reader, so profoundly simple and true on the great subject which gives the title ...