... I THURLES APRIL FAIR, (From our Correspondent.) The usunl monthlyfair of the above town was hold ou Tuesday when a very large supply of all kinds of stock was exhibited for sale. Buyers were numerous, anc prices for anything in good condition showed a decided advance over quotations of late fairs. Strippers and good two year old heifers vwre much looked aftjr The demand for bullocks was not so ...

... . MUSICAL DICTIONARY. * DR. STAINER and Mr. Barrett, in a well-considered preface, point out some of the difficulties which must of necessity attend the compilation of a musical dictionary. There is a danger on the one hand of incom- pleteness; on the other, if everything relating to music be included in the volume, of positive unwieldiness. Everything is connected with every- thing else; and ...

... I JOAN OF MaR AT THE F RENCH OPERM A special telegram from Paris announces thali M. Mermets Jeanne ?? was produced last nighti at the Grand Opera. One of onr Paris Come-ai spondents sends us the following account of tha- work: It has been often said that musio is the only artb in which we have unquestionably cxcelled our forefathers. Possibly; but the statement ?? ba1 fenced about with as many ...

... I Tax HICORiCAL RwcORD OP TrIM 27TH ISxIa- srIIoG RBzonxrT, from the Periodof its Insti. tution as a Volunteer Corps till the Present Time. With an appendix, &IC. By W. Copeland Trimble Wm. ClOWes & Sons, London; W. Trimble, E nniskillen.- Ta title of this work indicates its object, a com- mendable one on the part of a young Enniskillener, who seems to have thrown his whole heart into the ...

... 1 I BELFAST EXHIBITOPtS. WE are glad to find that Belfast manbfaturers will be largely represented at the forthcoming Centen- nial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and from an in. spection of some of the products which are to be forwarded, we believe we are justified in saying that they will not only naintaih the reputation which the Northern Athens has already acquired for the skill, energy, and ...

... LISBURN HYACINTH AND SPRING I FLOWVER SOCIETY'S SHOW. [FP.031 OUR REPORTX&2 LisBauaN, WEDNS-SDAY. SomE short time ago it was felt by a number of re- sidents in the neighbourhool of Lisburn that an exhibition of ?? flowers, held in the earlier patt of the year, wo-ould not only receive the suppn t. p.tvot.ace, ant eneot.rage.nent of the p ?? gene. r.Al, but that :t would tend to increase their ...

... POUSHKIN'S DRAMA TIC SKETCHES. LYvRic poets would be scarcely human if, instead of confining themselves - to the exercise of their own special faculty, they did not from time to time write plays. Accordingly Byron in England, Alfred de Musset in Fiance, and Poushkin in Russia, all published dramas of which the fate, as. connected with the stage, was different in each country. Our managers ...

... LEEDS COLUMBARIAN qOoETY , !I A -- 9- -I-- -1 ~ ~ ~ ~ iiO A very fine show of pigeons was opened in the Corn Exchange, Leeds. and ?? bc ~ day. Tbe promnoters ares the Leeds Coloclharciaji whose qbject in to encour age the breedino ~ pigeons, and especially of the Itorbti valuable classes. 'The soaciety has so existence, but whena we ?? tha t i Lieut.-Col. Child; the vice-presiccesitB . ' ...

... I ,fA.li]U)'N ?ALNi V~liT.lTLES. Tli, QUEEN. Baleli Iladen, wednesday. tfor Mtajesty the Qneen and Princess Beatrice wili; leave Bnden at t.40 this morning for Darrastadt, and re. turn here at 8.12 to-night. Darmstadt, Wednesday. Queen Victoria arrivedl lere by special train, Mt ono p.m. to-day, to visit the Prince and Prlncess Louis of Hesse. 'His IPoyal Hliahness the Duke of Edin- bmngh ...

... musra. - - O.- ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. This woek's performances commenced with Les uguentlsc on Mondav, when Signor Carpi undertook the character of' Raoul di NanDgs, for the first time in Bng- land. The artist just named made his first appearance in England last season, when he replaced Signor Nicolini as Lohengrin, in Wagner's opera so named. In his new assumjption, Signor Carpi again made a ...

... THE DRAMA IN NE W YORK. NEW YOREK, JlldrC/ IS. THE history of the drama in New York has been one of constant migration, and there have been within the memory of people still living no fewer than three different stages of development in as many different parts of the city. Old playgoers remember when the headquarters of the drama was in the lower part of the city, now entirely given up to ...