... I.OA'D R USSEL L ON THINGS IN GEA7ERAL* I tlhis formidable collection of parliarnerntary speeches and official despatches contained nothing besides the documients to Which its title refers, the three inpoing -6olurncs of which it consists woulid htve ilentb'accumulated the dast in nian11v dig-,nified libraries, ?? would rarc~y haN e occupied thle time of modern readers. AS it is, however, they ...

... A DICTIONARY OF OPERASt PLENTY of theatrical dictionaries exist; and since Rousseau, many writers of greater technical acquirements than belonged to the author of the Confessions have produced dictionaries of music. But to M. Felix Clement, already known as the author of an enormous (and often inaccurate) biographical and critical work on Celebrated Composers, belongs the merit of having ...

... MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS I IN LIVERPOOL. I ?? LaRt elvening the third of the aeries of four e Monday Popular Conoctrts was given at the a, Thilharmonic Hall, and was in every respect fi'lly ir p to the standard of those which have preceded. v e nttendance was even larger thnn on the two d former occsions, every section of the hall being ;s all but fully occupied. The following programme e wnM ...

... 'THE THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL to Sli: J PAKINfJTc Oh CN EAR. 1)LDLEV'S OPFIOE'. (51'.ON OUR Rl'O9raTI..) aVOCESTEIR, SATmUP.AX NW.5i'i. Iln complianlle vvith re'qugition to the Mayor of Wor- r. ceAter, a public meeting wvas held this afternoon to merno- s ?? the ?? and Chapter of Worcester in reference to nl the offer by the Earl of Dudley of a sam of X10,000 to complete tbe restoration of the ...

... Tw PiT.ENEE.S A4ND LouinsEs; THEIsR SANC- rdunw;SES AND SERINaS. By Dr-as SenEc LA.Loa. (Londocs-Longmans and Co.)-There are few Irishmen who are not familiar with the name of the author of this work, for even to the Inising generation the former associates of the great O'Connell must be known, at. least his- torically. Hence the volume will have attracted attention by its title page before it ...

... COMINGS FROM THE COMI 3JO#XNAL. (From PnCh.) , MosE THAN COULD BER ]EXPCTIRD-SOrne peoplesseem so utterly stupid that one feels relieved even to bear them say that they have `half a mind. . IUR EDUCATIONAL OBSTRUCTiVES.-What can be tbe difficulty about teaching the children'of' the Mobilitythe Three R's ? 'the difficulty of agreeing what to teach under. thename of a Fourth lE. Each sect ...

... aricties. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Open evil at all eveits does this good-it keeps good on the alert. Every art is best taught by example; good deeds produce good friends. Any one tny do aA casnal act of good nature, bnt a continua- tion of such acts sbows it to be a part of the tealperasowet. Mirth should be the embroidery of conversation, not the web; and wit the ornament of the mind, not the ...

... - ?? I ?? I i I I K bo *WWEtiTRIFLE,:. ?? eoolt*~41e top of Mont Blanc. Wost against a farmer's graint 1His mowing, An tiec'ay ncewrote over his door, ~All kbinds'of dyings~itufs sold h'enre. A man has amplied. for a divorce in Chiicago, on the giound that be was niarried only in fon.'' A sulhoilbov's aspiration-' u, how I wish I were at foun- fain, fi)r then I coulil always be playing! ...

... O f?7 ? . I 11 ? ?) -flt,5 H tT GO . 17 _ , ,v, .1 ?Illnl-'L; 1? ?11 dxwedd I~!B ~ W-U, S tregetI Mieito~~~lirldsawera~~~~n;l*N 3IP UV aernl -ehddv~ dd I r Ond g ied6 iX w ff!rr; f t ! 1- 0 , it I , I ' ( t3f' - Thdr,fam.yaOwdflsnu.- ~Yn eqn anigauliethu enC , ' a d-veai'n6 ,. o.,; B h ddwniw, Oihadgi facbgeu 3£II ar yd'er;, Yn aewy etngoleitIafion Fi 1 , - Arwyddion fitorm yn ...

... THE Thd91tre de Chlny has not been fortunate of late. Le-Mledecin des Dames,proving unsuccessful, has been withdrawn to make way for a new comedy called La Tache Originelle, the failure of which is still more decided. The tache in question is not the original sin whereon theologians discourse but the bar sinister in the family 'scutcheon, and M. Ch. Frigoult, a provincial professor, ...

... - I I PARIS, S!ada Tlc French are really an impaticnt people, and j ournal Ihich the other day complained of the 1pidh with which Ministers were hurrying for- .,ard the comlmissions, parliamentary and extra- Vi,.iialutaty, their circulars and decrces, now dc- lc5 tllat the Cabinct has lost ground during the liich has lasted about a week, because no w reform has been announced. The iYe;;ns, by ...

... STRATIIHBOGIE FAT CATTLE SHOW. ON Thurzday, the annual spriog show of fat stock, and grainl, in conection with the Strathbogic Farmer was held in Ihulntle. Tibe cattle, as usual, wer ex i* on the Squiare, aod the seeds in the back-yard of the( Arns Hotel. TD. show of cattle this year waas sun!-:-. . regards quality, to that of last year, and grain wi i i'': good, both in respect to quality, ...