... be raised. Charles Dickens in Sheffield. —Our readers will be glad to learn tbat they may look forward to a visit from this distinguished author. In reply to an invitation given by the Mayor on behalf of the Mechanics' Institution, Mr. Dickens, after alluding ...

... Sons of the C . 11. Meeting at the London Adelphi Theatre, for the ose of establi ing a Shakes 6 Foundation School. Mr. Charles Dickens presided. 12. Police-constuble Thorpe presented with a testi- monial for his gallantry in saving the Sharman family on ...

... They cerity of such expressions may possibly be doubted, were in debt, and were paying it off yearly ; but they Robbery at Mr. Charles Dickens’s.—On Friday a were exempted from paying the rates. Why, then, person named George Blackman, who was described ...

... girl, and had obtained from Slack, who is a clerk in the station, the wages of labourer named Dicken. and she had represented that she had been sent by Mrs. Dicken. A second claim was made for the money and then the fraud was detected.—The jury retired but ...

... used also to have a preference for preparing his votes on gilt-edged papwr—a preference which he shared with Charles Dickens, all events when Dickens was youug fame.— Glasgow Herald (Liberal). CANARDS OF THE HOUR. The trial is so near hand that is. hardly ...

... expected. Special constables ere being sworn in. MURDEROUS ATTACK AND HIGHWAY Departure op Mb. Charles Dickens fob America. —On Saturday Mr. Charles Dickens sailed from Liverpool for Boston, in the Canard steamship Cuba, Captain Stone. The great novelist ...

... hoped the magistrates would deal leniently with him because he was drunk, was sent gaol for three months with hard labour. Robbery by a Cutler —A dissipated looking man, named Joseph Pmcbottom, cutler, living in Rookinghamlane, was charged with stealing ...

... stipendiary magistrates on the superannuation list, with pensions ranging from to year. Juvenescence of Dickens.—There was that boyelement in Charles Dickens which has been so often remarked men genius, to appear as almost inseparable from the highest gifts ...

... many years associated with Mr. Charles Dickens the management of Household Woi da. A Dorchester telegram states that the value of the articles stolen from Lord Eldon's residence is £20,000, and the perpetrators of the robbery are still large. A fairly serious ...

... the possible exception of G. 8.5.” Admirers of Dickens will the advent of collection of the iih»trations of Dickens’s works Phiz, Fred Barnard, Charles Green, and others. “Scenes and Characters from Dickens” (as the book called) is every way an admirable ...

... hended from the ice and snow when a thaw shall come. — Economist. A correspondent writes from Naples, February 26 : — •' Charles Dickens has been gloriously filed here during his short stay, and started this morning for Rome by the old road, through St. Germans ...

... THE SHEFFIELD BAIL TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, la6o. Theatre Royal. Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities,” dramatised Mr. Tom Taylor, was produced here last night. Mr. Dickens’ works, we need scarcely say, have been in a great measure successful from the minnte ...