... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. ALTHOUGH to many of your readers the events of the Derby are comparatively uninteresting, writing as I do, just after the storm of excitement has swept Over this metropolis, and London is beginning to re- sume its wonted presence ...

... already exist. Another im- provement is making progress in London—the new ride in St. James's Park, from St. James's Palace, along the Mall, skirting the Green Park to Constitu- tion Hill. The new drive is to be skirted with trees, and will be worthy of ...

... It would not be extravagant to estimate the total annual expenditure of Itll the institutions at £500,0110. LONDON SOCIETY, for NovemLer. London 9, St. Bride's Avenue. THIS magazine is sui generis, and a large class of readers prefer it to any úf the others ...

... t's family, the day school was. by advice of the medical officer, dis- missed for their Christmas holidays rather earlier than usual. For the same reason the new-year's feast was postponed, and was not. shared by the girls, who had theirs apart -at their ...

... extra Christmas numbers of the principal monthly magazines each in turn tempted us to lay one of it, budget of tales before our readers, but not until the present week have we found opportunity to make a final selection. Mrs. Brown's Christmas Story ...

... the same time but, on the other hand, many more like to turn rapidly over the pages of a new book, so as to get some notion of its contents and see its illustrations, if thus ornamented. But A Great Reader' does not notice three valid objections against ...

... road, Rev. E. G. Grange, of Portsmouth. Bethel chapel, Mount Stuart Square, Rev. D. Jones, B.A., London. Hope chapel, Canton, Rev. D. Ketterns, of London. Tabernacle chapel, HayeN, Rev. B. Williams, of Pemb, ey, and Rev. H. W. Jones, Caermarthen. Siloam ...

... when combined with the profusion of illustration characteristic of London Society, it forms a shilling's worth of Christmas lore not surpassed by any of the other extras as annuals. In the December number of London Society there is an admirably told ...

... Turkish baths, 46; hot water baths, 53. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. We direct attention to an advertisement in another column, by which it will be seen that ihe Taff Vale Company will run special passenger trains for the Christmas holidays at reduced fares. DIETRICHSEN ...

... itself to the names of Liberal-Conservative, Conservative-Liberal, Constitutional, and so on, it will, with the new titles, have acquired a new power of being occasionally in the future less wrong than Mr. Bright says it has consistently been in the past ...

... best, being compelled to put into New Romney in consequence of the bad weather. The Arundel Society is about to issue a new work, being a description of its own publications during twenty rears. This book will be illustrated, and has resulted from the success ...

... closet at the back of No. 35, Picton-plaee, Canton. An in- quest will be held at the Cross Inn. TIIE NEW FOR MEKTHTR.—It is a notice- able fact that the London Times, which so frequently leads public opinion, places Mr. Fothergill in the first seat for Merthyr ...