... (2taoX OUR OWN COUREmaPOiDENT8 .) GRAN Co~uuT.The IRDBIIJ.unrth GatiD C~gcaa.-he rand clocing concert of the Reaoneo, udr dirctocrate of the Total Abitininee Society, Come off with groat eclat 0n the evening of Tuesday lost ilo the Muste Hall here, when this large building, as 0n former opcaaions woe filled to Overflowiag with thae elite of the towa and district, ne~arly n t -usn peroo being ...

... FOREIGN DRAXATIC INTELLIGENCE. I (WRITTEN ElXPRBE5LY FOR THE ERs.) The French Academy of Medicine has agaid directed the atten- tion of the authorities to the extensive sale of certain cosmetics, much employed by the theatrical profession, and highly deleterious to the health, although the ravages may be of slow progress, Those osametlcs are vended under a variety of names more or less de ...

... I [TMe Jolowilg afpearea in our Tows EDIO las Sunday.] I FINE ARTS, FEENCH GALLERY, 120, PALLMAIL. T}E Rort= FAmXLINS OI3 ENGLAND AMD DzMAxsEa, WIT}: ADDITIONAL PoamILIS. We very recently gave an account of this Exhibition, embracing, as we then stated, many portraits of her Majesty (both alone and accompanied by one or more members of the Royal family), the late Prince Coneort, the Prince of ...

... WINDSOR, APRIL ?? Queen, accompanied by their Royal l4i1nes.ea princess Helena and Princees Beatrice, attended ly thle Duees3 of Athole, drove out yOgterdlaV efterneoom in a carriage and four. Colonel the llonourable A. Hlardinge attended on horseback. IHi9 Royal Highness Prince Allred, attended by Lieut.0C lonel KlmngscOte, rode this morning. WINDSOR, APetL 12.-hre Queen, Ptince Alfred, ...

... LITER AT UR E. BLACKWOOD'S El:iNB1URG MAGAZ7XBg, No. DLXX. W. Blackwood end S&ue, Ediubuigb and London. The opening article, Sensation Diplomacy in Japan, gives a very trne and lively picture of thc difficltties, to say nothing of the dangers, of ekacting the terms of any treaty from the bartatian Japanese. Tbe aceount giren is fionaded on Sir Rutherford Aleock's werrr, The Capital of the ...

... The Easter novelties seem likely to continue for some time the leading attractions of the Theatres, and to the copious account we have already rendered of these nothing need now be added, further than the statement of their success being rendered more decided by repetition. The resumption of the sittings of Parliament, and the return of aristocratic families to town to DartiOipate in the ...

... FOREIGN DRAMATIC IqTELLIGENCE. (WERITEx ExnarssY Pvo 'TEE ERA.) M. Octave Feuillet, the well known writer, who was recently elected a member-of the French Academy, in the place of M. f3eriba, delivered a brilliant eulogium on that eminent dramatist, in the presence of several members of the Imperial family, and nearly all the Academicians. It was stated by M. Feuillet that Scribe was born in ...

... WINDSOR, AvaIL 4.-The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out this afternoon, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. WINDSlOR, APEIL 6.-Her Royal Highness Princess Louis of eesse (Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland) gave birth to a Princess at a quarter before five o'clock this morning. Her Majesty the Queen was with the Princess constantly ...

... [ HE MAUBIC HALLS DURING THE I i E~aster Holidays. ..I These now recognised establishmentes for the amusement of the million have been all well filled during ?? holidays,not only by the pleasure.seekers of the Metropolis, but by a vast number of country visitors. Like the Theatres, there is generally a consider- able change in the artistec engaged at these Halls at Easter, some of them having ...

... WINDSOR, MAECH 28.-The Queen, accompanied by her Royal fighness the Princess of Wales, drove out yesterday afternoon attended by Lieutennt-Colonel Hon. D. de Ros. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton, the Heon. Mrs. Bruce, Lientenant-General Knollys, and Lieutenant-Colonel Kieppel, left the Castle this morning at half-past eleven o'clock for Sandriughain Hiall, ...

... Amateurs at the Prineeea's. On Thursday evening the society of Amateurs known as The United Thespians gave a dramatic performance at this Theatre, on which occasion the house was filled by a very full and highly respectable audience, evidently comprising a large number of the friends of the gentlemen who thus practically manifested the interest they took in the dramatic art. The programme, ...

... PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS- (FRcOM OUR OWi X o C cI'EPNDRIBBah) AIBDRIE. 'EIDTsb'S CIRCUS..'..Thspae!oruenil stltiae t Coat Bridge (adjoiuieg Airdrie), ben o ?? Of tlee season, and is a neve falin souce f ~tratlonto bc ?? Which fill this lorge buir flding sighlyed th otyed ptdtrnpsietnr, Mr James Embdy, ever anxious to Please hi osre ?? sporing flo exes l bringing forth novelty igteps wel, Mr ...