... BY T. R. THRELFALL, tih SECRETARY LABOUli ELECTORAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT ne1 BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 15t pri My innocent remarks last week upon shop Sul assistants have brought me a deluge of letters.H Happily, with scarcely an exception, they are of an Su appreciative character; and they are unanimous in to asking my advocacy. Strange to say, many of the Y correspondents had been members of a ...

... I LTL TGHT'S RESERVtD| I . - ,- I IT. SNOWDEN WARD. PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE WVORK. Portrait photography may on the whole be considered as belonging of right to the professional man, and at' though T may strongly recommend amlateurs to practise this branch, there is no likelihood that by so doing I shall take bread out of the mouth of the professional. If there were I should not give the ...

... S A N DB BA Cel -N X X D I~~ ?? DJE3 I. S T R I C T B Y O U R S P E C I A-L C 0 M M I S S I 0 Ni R. S KE.T-C OH E S - B Y 0 U R O W;N A R T.I S T.. Place-names nave alrmost invariably a mean- ing, and are generally indicative of the plhysical aspects or peculiarities of the place to which they have been given, 'though from familiarity, we give constant utterance to them without so much as a ...

... CHEADLE HULUE. The eighth anunsl show of the Cheadle Healme Horbi cultural Society was bold on Saturday in a field at Hill Top, Cheadle Eulme. The entries showed an increase on those of the previous yeari. The show of grapes and of culinary fruit generally was very good. Major Pearson tclr first prize for six stove and green. house plants, and secarod premier prizes for ferns, colens, stocks, ...

... afra. autrielsi, XANOnsTIs SHIP OAt &AW t3333 Among the former projeets for pibvldisg Maid ehester with a ship danal was one which ?? the cuttingm of such a cnnaal to the river Dee. Xifd6gst a number of othdt *hinjg and oddities perpetrated by Mr. Benjamin Oldfield, a noted Manohester wit of the early part of the Ientury, is a broadsheeb entitled The Manchester 'Ttnes and Stretford Chronicle ...

... | THE CHIL.DREN'S HOUR.I COXDUCTED BY | lO1VORiAY; MEMBERS OF THE GUAD; OF GENTLENESS. Tfzt BISHOP OF MANCHESTER. Tam BISHOP OF WAKEFIELD. THi BISHOP og SODOR A:N MAN. ALDERMAN A. MARSHA=L (Lord Mayor of Man Chester). ALDERMAN PETER KEEVNEY (Mayor of Salford). RIGHT HON. SIT JAMES FERGUSSON, M.P. Sia WILLIAM H. lOULDSWORTH, M.P. OOL. THz HON. FRANCIS BRIDGEMAN, M.P. JACOB BRIGHT, EsQ., M.P. ...

... I :1 CONDUCTED BY HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE GUILD OF GENTLENESS. TnE BISHOP or MANCEESTER. THE BISHOP ow WAKEXFIELD. Tm BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN, ALDERMAN A. MARSHALL (Lord, Mayor of Man chester). ALDEBnrAN PETER KEEVNEY BMiyor of Salfofrd), RIGrHT HoN. SrR JAMES FERGUSSON, MDP. Sip WILLIAM H. IOULDSWORTHi, M.P. COL.7 THE HON. FRANCIS BRIDGEMAN, M.P. JACOB BRIGHT, Esq., M.P, JOHN WILLIAM ...

... e A S P RIXN G R A.XB LE T.N.; D A RLE Y ?? . D:- D:A: B BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER. S : E T a H E S BY O U R OWN ARTIST. That must have been a aynical and dyspeptic Frenchman who discontentedly declared that our 'Elnglish spring -was but a shabby excuse for pro. g longing the dreariness of winter for another ' three months, for though in these northern c climes it may not unfrequently be ...

... .- - T4lE SA.GPl. A RcyiA Divorce& is pa$ ding a return visit to the ,064+0e Royal, but without ?? Graee Hawthorne, who is so eloselY associated with the chtaracter of Jose- phine. Thil interesting part: is, taken bv Miss B. Willis, who ?? a creditable representation . of it. dr. ;George .W% Cotkburn appears as Napoleon. ]Ls nike-up is a clevelr imita Ition of the faee and figure w0i'ch ate ...

... 1&'AdLl Ptav .PqRRVET). j A iINATEL R PH OTOC RA PHY. 11. SNOW DEN WAliD. I. On1ly ;oulse 20 yemas eg-or, Io ba liore ermaet, in 18i7i--it was enmputed in t ste tistinal soridL e Owltsome 4,000 parsons inl the British Isles earniptl thril livings by photograsifi -d irectly us indirectly. Thi}'. wa sqtale ins a somenwhat trillinpharit marnner, as an evidleieo of the great importance of the ...

... | .LL UlEkf'jS BESERVED. | IIATIER PHOTOGRAPHY. R. SNOWDEN WARD. III. S FR1ST STEPS AND FIGURE STUDIES. Ths amateur wjho has obtained his first outfit is c zusfily in a state of ill-concealed anxiety until he can f sally fortb and try it. And this is as it should be; for witbont enthusisasm there is little hope of excellence, c In Photography or in anything else. A result of this *nthnsisism, ...

... IALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I I -I GAMATIEUR PAOTORAPHY. BY IH. SNOWDEN WARD. V. INTERIORS-SEASQAPES-ANIMALS 1 Three somewhat incongruous branches of photo- graphy, but similar in the fact that each is a special ! line that provideefull opportunity forthe tilents of the mostambitious worker. interior work. in whichlbut l Iittle scope is left for the study of emoposition and arrangement,since ...