11 DECEMBER 1858, page 13

Death By Fire.

Wrrn the winter comes the old calamity,—a series of deaths,—of preventible deaths—by fire. The mode changes with a changing civilization ; but the anguish and horror recur as......

Circences For Good Children.

A SENSATION has been created in the Theatre Francais by the introduction of an English custom while the perpetual encroach- ment of certain indigenous French customs appears to......

The British Officer At School.

Tim Duke of Cambridge seems resolved to try whether it is pos- sible for a nation which tolerates the purchase system to have officers for its Army as good as it ought to have.......