... LANCASHIREi BIIqDS. BY IMERLIN. W No. XV. oh THE LITTLE BUSTARD. il (Otis letra.) Two of the noblest game birds that Britain has ever Itis possessed ware the great anid little bnstards-now, WC iunfortunately, extinct. There is no record of Of 1the great bastard for Lancagihire, and only meagre The Iand unsatisfactory ones. with regard to the latter to species. The isolated instances of the ...

... . NOT FOR JTOM - I No, Not for Joe; ab, dear-ne, He has sold ux to the foe. He has tawht us 3or he-cam All thing. be to every man. in his & _ Storot He ha1 searu'd ?? e the trub. He has cast his lot with those On the le who impose L tinh our leaders still mnt bs, Tm se el-nat suh #A he. and prid, ?? Who'd base thogt li--v't 'Iss; Who'd bare tholght it once Of Joe I it to tum d Gay- we lookad ...

... I _WALKER ART GALLERY. e EXHIBITION OF THI LIVER SOCILTY OF ARTISTS. The first spriug exhibition of this society, hitherto better known as the Liver Sketching i oClub, opens to-day in the first or Fountain Room of the Walker Art Gallery, and com- i Dprises 284 frames in oils and water colours. i a This society has hitherto recruited its merobers i t from the younger disciples of art; and ...

... IREARTU AND HomE.1 BY A LADY CONTRIBUTOR, a t It is cleasant to chronicle the successes of women c in branches of art which have hitherto lain ont. - side their limited sphere. The last number of the Musical World contains no less than three notices t of remarkable performances by women: A novelty unique of its kind in London, and pro- bably elsewhere, has added a new phase to our musical ...

... , I Those whose avocations are counecte with the Fine Arts will welcome Part VI.L uf the new edition of Bryau'e Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, whieh has reoently been pub- lished by Messrs. Bell ad Sons. An important work of this nature cannot be hurried tirough the press; Irtill it ie proeckngf to habve to wait soilng for the lae of the dzfferent parts. Tbe newv number cninenes with ...

... I LIEPOOL JILEE, EXIM ON. There is no ceaation of the ?? whicb at th6- oxtset characterised the work of prepar&ion at tbi Exhibtion, and each sooessive day bring. 'ithi! some new and surprising development. Tbe fin watber with which Iw have been favoured dazzag the Past few day. baa helped to gretly ?? importent outdoor operations, such as the widen. ing of the promesedes, the excaations for ...

... I MUSICAL XOTEST. Mr. Cellier's comedy opera Dorothy has been having an exceptionally successfn. run at the Prinoe of Wales Theatre, London-not Liverpool, be it undergtood-and in the most correct and proper order of things has found its way to our Royal Court Theatre, where it is to be heard for the first time to- night. As one of the very best of the writers of modern opera of a lighter ...

... LITM~ARY NOTICES. If I.s|l T7% G(zxCeer of ae world. Edited by2a Fellow of the Royal Geographioal Society, assisted by mans eminent geographers. Vol. 7. London. Tmas C. J0ok. MiAevolumebegins with a :CtftChina nad end with vilage I It fro ch it Will at once be seen the space covered to very large indeed. !Ihere oro UW F Queens. d land, Panama, Peru, And SC Bolivian peniu, Rome and its cleans ...

... ' SWALLOWS. 13ro\C 11r0.e wallow, I wolconme 'thee backls Wit thy h white , nd collie, ciatch me? !lIght, W~'culil, 'J welconue to tboee All e.*iu,ter loug, tlhroiugh the darkneqs and cold, Where, tell ne. where thou bast been; jideter of ftie linds I alay never behold, ~l r o it j5i1j liast thou Been, Sit'cctiellIty wheln I found ye no more, heard no Found- flel, ig1ht and uorni ug between 1 ...

... I LIVERPOOLJUBILEE. EXHIBITIOLN* zr Every effort is now being made by the Council, dthe committees, and the otitials conested with un the Liverpoul Royal Jubilee Exhibition to cons. an plete the work before the day fixed for Opening U mriveS. Last year, anfortunately, the Canadilan Government ware tnnable to make a dixplay at the e Liverpool Exhibition from the fact that the it Colonial ...

... it At the Walker Art Gallery, the following I' ,_ pictures, lent and received from the permanent it collection at Manchester, have been arranged el in the Rosetta Gallery: - The Good a Samaritan, an heroic upright group by G. .s P. Watts, B.A., painted, according to the a catalogue of works, by this artist in 1850; 1 The Idea of March, by E. J. Poynter, RA., apurchased from the Academy in ...

... A NEW ENGL1SH OPERA. Nothing ought to be more welcome to English ears than English music, to English appreciation than a cleverly-told English story, or more pleasant to E~nglish eyes than the scenezry of our owrn dear England. And as in Mr. Cellier's newest opera every one of these qualities is exhibited in lavish quantity, it goes without saying that , Dorothy must be a pronounced buccess. ...