... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-I beg to state that Mr Tom Brown did not write atll the earliest songs fur the above, as the songs of s The Fiddler's Wife, Paddy is the Boy, The e Eiiglish, Irish, and Scotchman, Paddy's Dream, e Hung on a Gooseberry Bush, were among the first d he ever learnt, and were all written and composed by Yours truly, GEO. WARE. n THE sporting proclivities of ...

... THE COURTe. !`WINDSOBR CASTLE, MAX 17. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, atteuded by Lady Southampton and the Hoc. Mrs. Legge. The Duchess of Bucclauch (Mistress of the Robes), the Austrian Ambassador and Countess Deym, the TurkishAmbassador, and the Earlof Lathon (Lord Chamberlain) arrived at the Castle. Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included ?? Prince and Prlcess Christian ...

... There was . wunusesally fall attendance in the Hous of Lo° yiestery, aongt other Ra comers being the Prince of Wales The Duko , of St. Albana 4 oved the second reading of the 7 Doceased Wife's Sister Bill, Earl PerCy MO ynn h its rejection. Lord Grimthorpe s5iported the tl Bill, u did Lord Herschedl, Lord Sbore re- b delivering his customary protcit a.Ist the xi measure. The'Duke of Irgyll and ...

... NAVAL AND MILITAR~Y. (FOl ?? LoxtUON otusrrum ,UA111LIRLTY. Mka I 01 snb-T,!eut.13.31t. V. liaritfelt hias been piwoxnted to the L rar& ci liutcnant ire her Majesty's Fleet. L AlDMTEQAL'I'V. 21x 4. 4 IV it. i'iw, th has been ?? to the rank Of T thr u I1in ivre 2tajcsty', Firet. fe iii hPv'rtor'.tJ, %eral If it ~'oitala and Fleets P:. T.. 3orermer he.' teen prroioet,! to, ttn rnok of ?? J1 of ...

... A Dismal ReCOTd DEATHS frOM Starvation, Metro- polis is the short and businoss-' like title of a Parliamentary paper - As - - i t . . .a just issued, wherein the instances of such, deaths that have come under the cognisance of the Coroners' Courts within the Metropolitan Police district during the past year are duly tabulated. How many have failed to secure a place in-this mournful.register ...

... KING HUMBERT'S ARRIVAL IN BEELIN. ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION. -K (FROM OURt CORRESP03MENT'S.) BERLIN, TnusniY NIarn. cc The King of Italy lias made his entry into ul Eerlin in fine weather such as we scarcely dared cI to hope for yesterday. Though it had rained rather heavily during the night, the sky this nmorning almost resembled a soutbern one. Never before has a foreign sovereign been so ...

... The Olaavl- Bea of ?? Ckki4of SASHy. I M. VILLUX O'B s 'twoio for the adjoarnment of the Hous, aiter question-time yesterday ras rejected by the eomip&atively small majority of 46 The brief debate upon it, in which Mr. GADSTOrs and Mr. mPArLL took part, was chiefly remarkable for the atti- tude adopted by the CRum SR WARY. Mr. O'Bxirm called attention to certain evictions which are fixed for ...

... HE SUGAR CONVENION AND BREACH OF TREATIES.. DY SIR T. H. PARREB The Government are purnsing the policy of m nystery and confusion which they have pur- tb sued throughout with respect to this unhappy tb Convetion. Like the oattle-fish, they try to BE conceal the form and nature of the oreature by re saurrounading it with an inky cloud of rnyatifi- w ¢ation. Sir J. Fergusson tells us that the ...

... A very agreeable violin and harp recital took place on Wednesday evening at Prince's Hall, the chief per- formers being Mdlle. Marianne Eissler and Mdlle. Clara Eissler, the former being the accomplished violinist, who has been frequently heard at concerts, and whose great advance as a violinist we have often had the pleasure to notice, Mdile. Eissler has seldom been heard to such advantage as ...

... APRCHlTECTS AT PLAY. That Art and Humbug are very often to be found in c close association we knew before Tuesday week, but we lhardly expected to find the fact illustrated ?? professors. Oh, dear no, I never wash the dirty linen of my calling away from home, we heard Mr Pownceby Sharke. ?? remarking on the evening named, but, at the same time, we felt that we were assisting at a function ...

... SSTORY OF A WVHITECHAPEL VICTIM. In his speech at the Presbyterian Synod on Tues- 3ay evening the Rev. John Mac3Ieill told the follow- ing tale: He was speaking of temperance, and said that on Sunday (when he preached a temperance sermon at the Tabernacle) he received a letter that had been written by a lady on the danger of the use at communion of fermented wine. The lady in her letter told a ...

... At Ieempton Park on Fridaytherewas a large colnp.'ny to witness the race for the great ?? Jbi~e Stakes, a banficap of 3.000 gulneas. The following was the result:-Amphion, 3vrs. 7ist jib (1);i Screech Owl. 3y'r5, tat l2ib (2); h Jlejected, flvrs, Bst 311s (3). Sixteen ran; Amplifo. ait 100 to8, winning very easily by three lengths- An equal distance sepal ated Screech owl (100 to 8) and The ...