... THE LIVERPOOL DOG' AMD POULTRY SHOW. The LiverpOA D~og, Poultry, Pigeon, and 7aRabbit Show [lag always been a featare of the hiti It I lr~ Ityear in the city and bas, over ranked high among 01( grdull ' hbtimns. FOr twelve years it has law gaulyprogressed in public estl toi .ha l!Portance, and in quality- and ths thirteenth show, 1,1 MI'which was opened yesterday at the North Hay- h a ...

... |TKE ROYAL COURT OPERA , if HOUSE. | I i- & . in 7 h- VERDIS OTHELLO. iD- rill Verdi is one of the most interesting and, despite ed his advanced age, one of the most vigorous per- F ed sonalities in intellectual Euroane. Even now, M in his 80th year, he is engaged upon an opera jal whose libretto carries the subject of Falstaff. A be A mervly cursory review of his career as a comr- con ~he ...

... DLNCING AS AN ART. ITS HISTORICAL ASPEC7. There has rarely beeo so nulwwoS a XStb g of the momners of the Liverpool Teacho Gui-:d and their fnend as was seen at L niver-ity College on Saturday evening, ?? E A. Strong, LLD., being in the chziz-Mre. G:rzU read a paper on The Hitorical Aspuat cE Dancing. This may bave beo partailly due to the fact that the antique dces of which she bs, were to ...

... -Right's Right is a melodrama of a conven- tional type, but it p.3ints a moral and adorns a tale. Obviously ite auther has extended experi- ence of tbe stage and the purpose of the latter, and this knowledge is skilfully applied. There was a large audience at the Shakespeare Theatre ?? evening when Right's Right 'vas nerformed by a company wboze members by their talents empba- sued the ...

... - I26th Agll AloWz the Piver: a Noel By the auth¶r I&ftc ef Lady Aadley's Secret, &c. In thre ham volures. (31s. 6d London: Simnpkin, Mar- on shail, Kent, and Co.) Somereaders will con- Anot Eader the title-pages of this work to be mis- chnr leading, as the novel ends in the second Jas , ,olue, and a ?? of eight stories makes I tc .p the third. The small tales are very pleasat corp redinl ...

... IiTHE ROYAL SHOW AT CHESTELI f_ -- ALTENDANCES AND GATE RECEIPTS. e The Royal 8sbow ground at Hoole, Chester, pro. le seated a very different spec on Saturday frot d thstwhich it had borne durinz the preceding six ra days. Large numbers of live stock had been re- ty' moed on Friday night, and on Saturday nearly the whole of the live eahibits had disappeared. The machinery and implements will ...

... THE ROYAL SHOWt.- TH E CLOSING DAY. FURTHER AWARDS. The'rain, vwhiob is gladdening the hearts floi agriculturists, had a marked effect upon the at- tendance at the Rwoal Agriculturl Sbow which ended last evening at Hoole, near Cheater., Up to four o'clock on Thursday there was a fair! prospect that the show in point of attendance i would have excelled any of its predecessors, the number of ...

... THE ROYAL. LANCASHMR- AGRiCULTURAL SHOW. Yesterday afternoon-a largely-attendedtmeet- ing of the council-of the Royal Lacaahire Agri- cultual Society was held on the show ground, Scarishrhck New-road,- Southport, Mr. G. S. Hale, of Knowdey, piresding. Mr.I Birch, the-secretay4 presented fhe. follow- ing ?? arrangements for the forth- coming shoarnrein a;-fcrwartcodition. Entries for implements ...

... THE ART GALLERIES AT C ONWAY. d The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, which I e enjoys the immnedinte-patronzige of the Prince and 'wi' B. Princess of Wales, will on Monday inaugurate Tr, le its 14th annual exhibiticn at- Plas Mawr, Coln- te w, nar. The new gallery,' which as. opened in tbe e Feorary last, and has been constructed from 5e U. the designs of Mets.ra Baker and Hughes, ?? ,des .h and ...

... I MMAQZES FOR THE MOMe _ c'onheI pio y Review- 0(Distsr sod Ca.) prominence is given to, an article on -The Futur of Home Hule, in which is ad--bnS5- the meival of Mr. John Biht's scheme of It e_ n Irish Comimitee. Mr. Deanetrmus C. BoaGe~r rMin1 te supplies an interesting but not very contvincing and Vo sccocant of Li Hung Chazzg~s pafitio 3msift Cap, it His cemmunication is certainly more ...

... ITHE NEW BRIGHTON TOWE CONIMTS. ?? Another continaee of the concerts at New Brighton Tower falls imo the line of record. That of Sunday upheld the standard of tbe art of which Mr. Granville Bantock has the firmest grasp. Physical exercises have no portion in conductng Coquelin is never tired of preaching the gospel of the eye in acting, and like Richter, Mr. Bantock is a believer in this ...

... DOG SHOW IN LIVERPOOL The second annual show of dogs and cats, in- ?? da-as 6or Photograp and bread, under the auspioes of Messrs. Haymes and Frankland (the exhibition of the animuns being und E:ren- nel Club license), was neld yesterday in Lucas's Repository, Hotham-street, London-road, where there was a good attendance during the day. The number of entries in all departments was 2Z2, ...