... as they dd yesterday a of seeing asmal force compel a larger one to retire, when they did not know that the small force was armed with I the magaxine rifle, and was supposed to have unlimited i ammunition. After a succession of such contests they I would ...

... ' by G G. Chatterton. (John Longj.) Waward Hearts, by Darby Ryan.. (Digby Long and David k'olmore, by Miss l:dge. (Digby Lonr and Co.). The Holne of Hardale, ?? Perk-ins. (John Long.) His Prentice EHand, by Sydnrey Phelps. (John Long'.) A Fighter in Khaki ...

... open tow a charge of want of interest in the subject- Thes: Early Life of John Bunyan. There are few, if any, at English -writers -who have spoken to such multitudes fd, as John Bunyan, though he has spoken mainly to tii them in his two books The Pilgrim's ...

... atmos- ijireCt. MAlr. Birtle's Chialnging Pasture (23) l.cii a moment's attention before Ewe pass to Mr. asterly portrait of John Jaifray, Esq., J.P. (31), rable example, not only of his conlmand of technique, i;i wonderful facility for grasping the character ...

... of Examiners on the 21st inst., viz. :-Messrs. Thomas Theodore Steward, Wolver- hampton; John Harvey, ?? Birmingham; William Baddley Wellington, Shropshire; and John Edwards, 3irmiiigham, (of the Birmingham School); and James Proctor, Iroi Bridge, Shropshire ...

... I THE ROYAL ACADEMY. l FOURTH NOTIOES Tamy are few pictures in the Exhibition mnore striking than the Hon. John Collier's bold portrait Miss Julia Neilson (Mrs F. Terry), (210). It is a ful-length life-size figure of a lady dressed in rich and gorgeous ...

... the wonton on Easter AMonday, and being themselves t lifted and heaved in like manner on the folio wing day, by the strong-armed wenches of the locality, received, we are scrip to say, no practical illustration iii Birmingham a so far as our observation ...

... Mir, Collier presents us with an attractive portrait of the sometime mistress of Achilles. The flesh painting of the exposed arm and'shoulder is especially good. We cannot consistently bestow like praise upon the somewhat namby-pamby piece of pseudo-classicism ...

... Exhibitor, Mr. Joaeph N. Beaeley, Chapel Bramspton, Northampton. Breeder, Sir John MacNell. Alder. Age, 8 yearS . Second ditto, Exhibitor, Trlso~glst~onourabis the Countess of Cardigan fleece .tark, Waseford, Nerthamplonshire. Breeder, Colonel de Boraey. Hfector ...

... waters o itthatbituminous lake where Sodom stood, and dream more grotesqueland spectre-haunted than even Professor pepper, armed with his patent apparatus, woald attemp to reproduce, the Christmas keepivg world rose tardily on ,aturday last to the con ...

... hI:onds, and Englishl old-fashioned bob-tailed sheep- ?? Colonel Le Gendre N. Starkie ard Mr. J. H. l hitfhoasc, pointers: Mr. John Wilson, dandie cinmnont terriers; -Mr. A.. C. Jackson, bulldogs, black- nd-tan terriers, poodles, pomeranisns, Schipperkes ...