... I The Rev. Dr. Margoliouth has a work in the press on Abyssinia. The death of Mr. Charles Pitt, the tragic actor and lessee of the Sheffield Theatre, is announced. Madame Parepa is to be the Peri in Schumann's Paradise' at the first Philharmonic Concert. The Crown Prince of Prussia is engaged in writing a history of the electoral Princes of Brandenburg. The Prince of Wales has accepted the ...

... TIHE ANTI-RITUALISTIC MOVEM EN'T. MEERTING AT THlE CONCERT HALL. ti nin11- Last evening a meeting of wvorkin~g men, reel. members of the Church of JeNgland, was held at f trees the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, !in reference0 Oi-to the novel and unasitborised ceremonses rathl, recently introdunced into the Church of England. i sits- The body of the hail and the galleries were about ...

... ITERARY NOTICES.. TnE AiLTiJOURNAL ror FEBRUsAiY. London: J. S. Virtue; Belfast: J. lVEdson, Waring Street. I1IERBERT's picture, Suannab, is engraved this mu. lb in the Art Jownual, but cannot be said to jossess anly special merit. It is a studv of a Jewish woman in'a devotional-attitude, but there is nothing beyond the name to indicate the special subject. Veery clifrurent in style is ...

... CASTLEBLAYNEY tAIR. I - - - 1 - - - . - CASTnnMANEr, Fans. 7.-Our first apri-lg fairi came off to slay. The weather, which for seine lay-s JcrstIt haul been of the most boisterous nature, ?? calmed down, and the attendance of E,11,-s al buyers was nearly an average. In store cazttle, there was comparatively little business done, as Uontrasted with former fairs, nor were prices within It. io0. ...

... Our , i-karil B3LxAcKWKOODl 1lAtaAN for del'iisrv.- London ti t Edinburghi: Win. Blalsekioo(l d aolls. I The opening paper in Miga, is on the ques- tionu What wvill the Goverunment (to? The conferring office upon Mr. 1o'urtescu, Mr. Forster, and NIr. Go0-e chen, supplies, the writer thinks, an answer to this ques- tion. Sir Robert Peel, who, with dlI his eccentricities, c lnevel, to the l ...

... THE PANTOmmIES. It is no sign of allegiance to the true interests of our stage when it pleases us to turn our thumbs down at burlesque and pantomime, because they appear just now to be dying, and we wish to see them put out of their misery. Burlesque and pantomime are too natural a part of dramatic literature to be got rid of by any healthy people. Have them we shall, good or bad, as long as ...

... Faust, the chef d'iusre of the most: celebrated French composer of the day, was, performed' at the Theatre.Royal last night. Elsewhere the. , opera has-been a remarkable success. It sWas, ,equally uo here. In stating that. Gqouncd is' a4 treat comp'oser, we but echo' the common 'senti- L ment of th4;Auasioalworld.' .Heisa great artist. in a higher sense. .: His Ml5li as eminently re- ...

... LIT''ERARlY EXTRACTS. TiE Patuss Ih PrAtULlA~fENT.-Asfor the Fourth Estate, it wvas unrecognised iu the days of the old house; and reporters had to perform their arduous aid difficult duties standing amilst and hustled by other strangers, without any special arrangements for their convonience. In the tetmpurary building, a small and awkwardly constructed gallery indicated a reluctant admission ...

... PUBLIO AUSE E^, -A Rmsc1 n Aadttamch et (the title of the seawplen at th e Haymarket theatre) 1Y always a plea affair 'for the actors and actresses on and off'the stge Bit the pointu issed at the Hamerket. obere is no Sromance. We have two pais of lovers. lovinug the wrong way, like the unihappyctuiples. in the late Frank Stone's %ainting- Cro Purposes' only that, in tho painters gracnel ...

... TIlE TEACHINGS OF MODERN PHIYSIOLOGY. In the Lqetssre Theatre of the Midla'nid Institute, yester- (lay evening, a lecture, entitled A 'Glan11ce at Some of thle Teachinlgs of Modern P'hYSiology,' Was deiveired by Dr. T1. ?? Hoesiop. There was at siu11ylnerou audfience. Having referr-ed to thle gradu11al gr-owth of the s~pirit of enquiry into thle wonders of nlature, the lecturer Spoko of thle ...

... I v THE ZkLHXKIBITION 4X ui e ?? l - ?? $i 1igtion whih was tfor s ti0 It jh~ley ~ Eppll sn-hail, se Ig , to see ho' far it ulgbt be possible to bra*l a really c. P ?? f~ied r d .sa. sx~j~i s isbelog to eelther d , i ue w~t.aelpuf , Aejotee C proved so detdedt snces tohi tho psobabs teshav t e er with great qoufidonce pon a stoon pao., .e isi { isa y jry great sa~tisfacto t be able to easy~ ...

... lfITElRATURE. rseOTAN AID TM2 STORY OF Tlim DooAR Wia including Sketches of a Three Months' esidence In the Himalayas, and a Narrative of a Visit to Bhotan in May, 1865. By Surgeon Rennie, M.D,, 20th Hussare, author of The British Arms in North China and Japan, and Peking and the Pekingere. London John Murray, Albemarle Street. (Pp. 408.) WE are very glad that Dr. Rennie has published this ...