... REAPPEARANCE OF MISS MARIA 11. HAWES (MRS MEREST). Ryde last Monday was enlivened and delighted by a couple of concerts, in which London has a strong con- tingent interest. An old favourite of the English public, Miss Maria B. Hawes, who, since her retirement from her profession, has been for the last eight years married and settled at Ryde as Mrs Merest, is about to return to our concert ...

... FINE ARTS, THE PICTURES OF THE YEAR. [Eleventh (and last) Notice.] The Picture season ends to-day, by unanimous consent, with the closing of the Exhibitions of the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, the Portland Gallery, and both the Societies of Painters in Water Colours. To-day, therefore, we end our comment upon their contents. It only remains for us to speak of the portraits ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COTENT GARDEN. We have had at Covent Garden this year a season of good music admirably set forth. Excellent performances of The Proph1te and the Huglienots, a run upon Don Giovanni evenly well sung with the restored score, and in which opera Madame Grisi has joined her Donna Anna to the Zerlina of MIadlle Patti that we might admire in the same evening the setting and the ...

... 4 j The Poetical )Vorks of John Milton. New Edition. Vol. II. Bohn's Illustrated Library.-II. G. Bobn, London. T'Pns volume completes lilr. Bohn's well-printed, well-illus- trated elition of the worlis of Milton, forming an admirable addition to the popular series which embraces so many other productions that the world will not willinglv lot die. A very useful feature of the volume before us ...

... og Altqatulj?- 77,. Letters ass Wrk of LsndV Mary Wortley Montague. Edited by, her getradson, Lord Wlharncliffe Trhird Edition, with Adiin and a New Memoir by W. Moy Thomaas.-Henlry G. Bohn, Londbnt. Solss, four or five generations have elapsed since the piquantt genius of Lady Miary Wortley Montagu gained her a brilliantI faile anmongst her contemporei'ies, and though a similar lapse of time ...

... OLYXP1C THEBAT7: The prolonged illnes of Mr.F, Robsoa has rendered neces- sary a complete change of perfoirmancei at this theatre, And the strengthening of the company by the engagement of Miss Amy Sedgwick. Sheridan's brilliant comesdy of the Sehool ?? was the first piece produced under this arrange8 ment; Mliss Amy Sedgwlck performing the part of Ladly Tcsacic. It was at once obvious, ...

... LORD DWBNSLEYDALB AT AMPTHILL. The twentieth annual exhibition of the Silsoe and Ampt- 'WiU Labourers' Friend Society has juet been held at Ampt- ' hill, the competitores being assembled. Lord WmnsnLmDaL spoke as follows: Referring to them as his friends and neighbours, his lordship said it gave him great pleaeure in being present at the twentieth mneeting o'fthis exclent and usefal soojety. ...

... TORD UAYOR'S DAY. ORDER OF THE CiVIC rROCESSION. d the Ertertainment Committee issued their ~xegre Y mme of the civio pageantry On the occei so t~e~l i ~rara t Lo3rd NayorCrbitt to his second y° r of v ion wlill start from the Gaildhall at about 'r ptocee nhe ?? o'clock, in the subjoined order ali-aet Nical,3DConstables to clear the way. Ci ainj~goon, tboe DpuY ?? of the ?? Poliee, Mountedo r ...

... The cotcert on Saturday-the seventh of the 'Winter Con- certs, resumed after an interval of soume weeks-although of undoubted excellence, presents few points for special oriti- clam. The programme was almost irreproachable, and the artists, if not of the first class, were far from nameless. The band, under the direction of Mr. Augustus Meanns, keeps up to its old point of efficiency, and on ...

... oidd h ,n d- MAYFYRDODAU UWC'I BEN BEDD Y DIWEDD Id AR BARCH. JOHN HUGHES, IlVEBPOOL. lU Ax yma y gorwedd ein myg wron, ,- Areltbiwr enwog, yr atbraw union, Yr hwn a'i nertbawl, dreiddiawl 'madroddion o Yn nod a daniai eneidian dynion? h, Oedd ei leferydd i la o feirwon id Mown gau, ddfn feddau 'n fywydawi foddion: m ln hyf, y gvreitbiai, hyrddai fyggthion, ib Gwae ! gwae ! jtr trejowiyr, a ...

... HANESIAETU DYN. Y DYDD wawriodd-mewn 'stafell lenog, gudd, Yn llawn o ddmudfawr beraroglan prudd, Mae boneddigee deg yn wyw ei grudd. Y dydd ganodd-'r ol geni prydferth ros, Ond am y foneddigem ddisglaer, dlos, GorphwysaIn ddietaw mewn tragwyddol nos. Y gwanwyn ddaeth-yn wyrdd yr oedd ei bedd, Ac aml iawn o ddeutu 'r farwol sedd, 'R oedd baohgen mwyn 0. phryder ar ei wedd. Blynyddoedd ffodd-y ...

... EXHIBITION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC W( SOCIETY. otli The eighth annual exhibition of the Photographic so Society op ns to the public to-day, at the me gallery of the Society of Painters in Water pox Colours, Pall-mall East. The photo-graphs here Jai exhibited (many of which are on sale) are frto the most part submitted to the public merely as the most pleasing and popular specimens are of the art. ...