... MR. CHAS. HALLB'S CONCERTS. Theso attractive and popular concerts have now entered upon their third Season; the first of the four per- forsnarces announced for this winter having taken place last night in tbe Victoria Hall. We need not look far for the causes which make those concerts rankl so highly in popular estinmation. The perfect iensemble of the band, Mr. lialbe's well-known abilities ...

... THE WINDOW GARDEN S,8OW. On Saturday the first window garden flower sl8 -looked forward to with so much itterest-ns held ?? Park, and was attended with a deeso of success which mpust have more thaii realiseche E most sanguine expectations of its pronaoters ?? must be a source of great pleasure to those getle-w men who have so enesigetieally and praisewoaily, exerted themselves for a ...

... $1,USIC IN CGRHtSTIAN WORSHIP.: | On Tuesday, at Albion Chapel, the Rev. R. A. Redford, M.A., ?? delivered a most able and extremely interesting lecture on Music in Christian worship, it being the commencement of services connected Fwith the spring meeting of it' local auxiliary to the Congregational Home vlis. sionary Society. The lecturer dwelt upon the importance of music in Christian ...

... I l ORNSEA FLOWE.R SHOW. I I Yesterday the third flower show in connection with is the Hornsea Horticulturalj Society was held at the of above pleasant little wrttering place. Great credit, is in due to Mr. Niven, the able curator of the Hull of Botanuc Gardens, through whose instrumentality the lrd Hornsea shows were first established, for the succese ld Which they have attained. ' The one ...

... I ]3RIDLITIGTON FLOWER SHSOW. C. On Friday the Bridlingtonl and district floral aid horticultural show, under the presidency of Sir H. Boynton, Bart., was held in a spacious field belonrg- me ing to Mr. 31. Kirby, near to and on the south side ok of the town, On entering the large marquee the ts. first object that attracts is a splendid and large col- for lection of plants, consisting of ferns ...

... (FROM 1?FTwcH.') THE BRIaHT AND BEALES JUNCTION.-A politi- cal line, supposed to have been abandoned by its promoters last summer, has been suggested as eligi- ble for affording the shortest cut to Reform, by Mr. Bright, at Birmingham. This line, of which the honourable gentleman appears to be one of, the principal directors, is the Hyde Park Railway. I . ASEnious UNDERTAKING.-Weareinformed, ...

... JAPANESE FTNB ART; WOODOUTS. ('Dom isle Chroniak.) deaji In describing any phase of art so exceptional et? mon the Japanese, bounded by such positive imperfections, and Prur so unlike that which we are accustomed to see and to. med accept in discussion as the understood standard, one is ks?35 liable, unless terms of qualification are constantly repeated ad neesseam, to appear to be speaking ...

... EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH. PUNCH'S DERBY PROPHECY. Being ?? anid Seventh Chapter of the Koran, (Favoured by Mohammed the Prophet.) ENTIEDALDVurmx. BEEALED iNFLEET-STuT-. Every one among ye, 0 Faithful, who would win gold and silver by those who come riding swiftly upon the glittering horses, and using the most objectionable lan- guage at the Comner,'ye will doweU to abandon euchhopes, and to say ...

... The throng in Paris now, from all tho world, is L'!zieg, and the city appears proportionately joyous. . tul)Y every hotel is crowded; lodgings are scarce and I Oar; all places of evening amusement glow with the I Llic's of profit and success, and by day the streets are Peat cxhibitions of themselves. But the grand ceremonials i (Ithe Champs de Mars are yet to come, and among them, i r1e Weill ...

... The Times' special correspondent ?? French artists and critics look round the galiery of British pictures, one of the first remarks which they make is- But you have nothing of the nude. What chance have you for excellence in figure painting, when you neglect the nude F' The reasoning is specious but false. A painter is bound to know the anatomy of the human figure, but he is not bound to ...

... A RORRIBLE STORY. I, We commend to the notice of those *ho are so persistently eloquent on the subject of the pec'liar thirst of the African for blood, as illustrated by the massacre of some twenty individuals during the riots in Jamaica, an accbunt'given in isonday's Times of certain acts recently' perpetrated by the inhabitants-of Ardor, a' small town in Calabrin, about seven miles from ...

... I LONDON GAZETTB T2uescy, lFeb. 26. BANKRfUPTS. Notice of Adjudication and First meating. ot Creditors. Tro Surrender at the Thankrurta Count, London. Allan W. D., Lower Edlininton, March 20, at I Ashbenr E ,late of Rlegent's-pitck. grallite mnerchant. March It, at I Ballord Gi., Iltghgate, licetised victuraller, Match 11, at 12 B31leuchlltwer IV., late of P'algravo, Oviler, Match 12, at tIL ...