... IRAIMINGRAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL . ?? l T' B DAY. THE MORNING PERFORMANCE. b The Messiah morning of our. Festivals has for ma Ly years held a distinct and special position, At no other perferiutflce i ...

... SMITHIWELD CATTLE SHQW. f The elghty-fifth amnual Cattle Show of the Smithfield Club opens to-day at the A oultural Hall, Islington, and both as reiards numbeirsan general excellence the showwill prov ...

... ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY. t I think there be six Richmonds in the fieldl. Only a o iweek or so ago we had to record the performances of one t . Royal English Opera Company, an ...

... I REDNESFORD AND CANNOCK CHASE - -n~f1iT 5. POULTRY AND PIGEON SHOW. g Tho sixth annual two-days' show of poultry and h pigeons was opened yesterday, in the Market Hall, Hednesford, with 580 pens, div ...

... THE OLD EDWARDIANS' LITERARY AND DEBATUG SOCIETY. The members of the newly-formed literary and debating society in connection with the Old Edwardians' Club met on Thursday night, in the Governors' Roo ...

... TREATRE R`OYAL PAN TS aying revived with LroaL mt - , -I . ;er, Haying revived wiith reat suoeen lxste~ Ohe Illercer Simpsqon cannot he blamned for IntN9irjeitmsi tpir siot another subject onl which o ...

... GREAT FIRE AT DERBY! 3 THE, GRAND THEATRE BURNET DOWN. TWO KILLED AND TWO INJIRED. Last night, the Grand Theatre at Derby was reduced to rains, by one of the most alarming fires which has occurred in ...

... DIlB FRITH'S R.EMINISCENCES. Mr VI ii Frithi, B.A., hlas just pablishiod, in two large 6.tavo vnshurics, his autobiographly anld rotmiliSMC03ce, OX- , i iovr the slixty-eight years of hi-i life. Ho th ...

... NAVAL REVIEW AT KIEL (Bevter's Telegrams.) KInJ, September (8.30 ?? here are now all in position preparatory to being [ reviewed by the Emperor this morning. The Austrian squadron lies next to the tra ...

... - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THE NATIOXAL ASSOCIATION I FOR THE ADYANCEBIIFT OF ART. II THE WR3IENGOH-AM O5gGRESS. The proceedings of the Birmingham Congress of the National Association for the Advanceme ...

... The inaugural dinnerof the Arts Club took place on Saturday night, at the clubhouse, New Street. Mr. C. .F. Mathews (the president of the club) presided, and about 130 members and a few ...

... Mr. H. A. Jones's powerful play, The Middleman, was reproduced last night at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The remarkable success it achieved at the Shaftesbury Theatre was ...