... TEE THEATRES ROMEO AND JULIET AT THEE ROYALTY. The production of iRomeo and Juliet at the Royalty Theatre last evening was in some respects a memorable event in local theatricals. I It was witnessed by a well-filled if not a crowded house, and in the special circumstances | we are glad to be able to add that the audience was equally appreciative and indulgent. The p present revival of ...

... ,THE SA&TURDXY EVENING CONCErtTS. The twenty-ninth season of tite Saturday Even- ;ing Concerts, arranged by the directorate of the (}lasgow Abstciners' Union, wvas inaugurated in the City H-all on Saiturday night. Despite the fact that no decided novelties were promised, andi that the management only undertook to pre- sent what may be called a good average entertain- ment- the au~dienlce ...

... ROYALTY THI ATRE -MISS WALLIS. Theatre-goers who have been educated to the point o3 appreciating acting which is always intelligent and such as to satisfy tie nmost re- lined taste, wrilt be glad to now-il they have not already acqulainted themselves with the fact -that M~liss ~allis has comeo to the city in iul- filment of a very briet enagemeut at the Royalty 'theatre. A few Weeks since she ...

... INTERNAYTONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITIOlN. OFFICIAL LIST OF AWARDS. The oflicial list of the awards made ly the jurors on the various classes of exhibits have now, with the exception of two classes, been completed, and last evening were given to the representatives of the newspapers. In one of these classes the jurors have not quite com- pleted their work; in the other the bharacter of the exhibits ...

... LITBERAT URE - -I ti (1) Hidsory of the Insane in tke British Isles. a, A dark house and a whip for madmen was, not a thoughtless expression on the part of, r, Shakespeare. nor did it spring from any! y want of sympathy towards those labouring I so under the most distressing of human afflic. .o tions. On the contrary, he has wealth of kindly 'h thought to suggest, not only for Lear ...

... S.. Tho' fiery an' fiercely the sun may arise, He'll be pale ere he sinks in the west, A match will be waged till it e'en shakes the skles, An' a vict'ry be scored for the best. You brag o' the brave wha ha'e won for you fame In the red ranks o' danger so grim; The.brave for the present, whaurever their hame, r Are the skips with the best Dicket bruine! Chlorus-Then, hurrah I Johnny Frost in ...

... ALITED A TUBE. (1) Craik's Life ofk5ew?. The reading public is to be concratulated on being put at last in possession of a life of in- comparably the greatest of British satirists, which is exhaustive without being unwieldy, is free alike from bias antl fromn sentilneultalisml, and which, dealing with personal matters in- voiced in an unprecedented amount of mystery, and therefore tlhe subject ...

... LITEBATURE. (1) Feour Years of isr-is Bistory (1845.1849) To Sir Chazles Gavan. Daffy belongs the supreme felicity of those whose youth and age are in accord. His early eadeavours were de- voted to inaintaining and steadying the banner of Repeal, which he found had at length begun to waverin thelhands of O'Connell. After a somewhat prolonged. and bighly distinguished career as a Victorian ...

... THE NEW THEATRE-ROYAL The construction of our new Theatre-Royal now almost completed, and little more than the finishing touches require to be given to allow it being, opened as arranged on. the 26th inst. The house has been erected from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr C. J. Phipps, RS.A., rof London, who, after building some thirty Itheatres in various parts of the United Ring ...

... : YMr actaggart bas been spdnding his summer months by his favourite shores. his water- colour -work has never been fieer. Broader, mellower, and more cunningly devised to hide method, and the technical strokes which give vulgar merit to less artistie work, TMr Mlactag- 'gart's ?? are steeped in the essence i of water-colour art. A sketbhy view of Camp- beltow nfrom the roadside across the ...

... ORCHEDSTPL COICER pROttAi5RE. Overtare to BErm's ausd (OP. U. *.8 Coecerto for Fianmoarte and estmira, 'o 1 inG Minor top. ?? Sc*¢ia, Ocen.r Thee Mighiy Monater '&&ioi;;'s Sy h oy. ?? ?? Io. S ia D minor (Op. it7). Posihumas loth fabgo in F sh ajorue ?? ?? ?ooe~ue.5-rmpitoizitii leIA e ~epse Pifoirtes ios--i--SJ* i'w ?{ove1]ettern laX.nS fbJ ?? -- - song, Sing. Sweet lir .lcidental Xu[* ...

... 0 The Edinburgle Review, in an article on the I recently published Reminiscences of Thou. Carlyle, says :_ Some fifty years ago TMr Carlyle addressed to i a young mau of letters then entering upon life a brief letter, couched in the ffollowing words-we'] have them now in writing before us ?? Remember now aid always that life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality, based upon eternityand ...