... AUTUMN EXHIBITION, FREE | LIBRARY. No. VII. No. 619, Examining a Witch. Charles Cattermole.-This is a very important picture, historically as well as artistically. It carries the mind back to the remote periods of Saul and David; and, unfortunately, if inquiry was made, remnants of this ancient superstition may still be found in many counties both in Scotland and England, particularly ...

... POETRY1,, INCENTIVE TO VIRTUOUS ACTION. Use to the boat the powers thou heat Thou canest not say bow long they'l iast, Nlor what the future bath in store, As days pasw on and years roll o'er. Then form aright the passing hour, Results are not within thy power; But If thy deeds be true and just To-morrow tbou muy'st safaly trust. Let not the spectres of the past Brood o'er thy soul; the past is ...

... 2e I No. VI. ty Let not the visitor to the exhibition suppose that tythe pictures in the vestibule, corridors, and other '3 queer recesses are necessarily inferior picture,. ?? are swae exceedingly fine works here, ea account of there not being room elsewhere. No. 427, The Brecon Beacons-Misty Morning, t Henry B3irtles, is a nice misty scene, well handled. . No. 434, Brambles. Mrs. B. ...

... ?? ?? ?? ?? . ?? ?? ?? ?? I GEMS OF THOUGHT. Men do more things fren custom than from reason. f There is Ro doctrine SO false as not to, be mingled with t some truth. It is easy to do good when that which would forbid it is r afar off,. It ought to be every one's ambition to be remembered o by a ?? nosterity. s Every man'efortene is shaped by his own conduct. a We each of us knowv moro good ...

... PR INC E'STHEA.TRE. I I' ~ ?? e NELL GWYNNE. The Prince's Theatre within the last two years ho tndergoneawonderful revolution. Sinoe the timev;i3 Mr. Charles Calvert ceased his connection with t9 management, it has oscillated violently from an al.ir national reputation for effective and remunera-3 Shaksperian revival to being marked as special abode of comic opera of a light s4 somewhat ...

... PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT The chief interest attaching to the second con- cert of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society last evening was the first performance here of Niels W. lade's cantata, The Crusaders, given for the first time at the recent Birmingham mnsical festival, which on this occasion again caught the tastes of a very large and discriminating audience. Gade has already been ...

... I, PUBLIC A; MUS. I UBtX IE ROYAL- ALEXANDRA TREATRE. The long and strong discussion as to the dis- tinguishing qualities of Mr. Henry Irving's Hainlet naturally excited much interest in tee minds of playgoers, and this fact will doubtless account for the crowded state of the Royal Alexandra Theatre on Monday evening, when Mr. Irving appeared for the first time in Liverpool in that character. ...

... IBITION. The following is a selection from the list of awards made at the Philadelphia Exhtibition to exhibitors from Great Britain and Ireland :-- Fairbairn, Kennedy, and Naylor, Leeds-Machine for spinnng jate. Samuel Lawson and Son, Leeds-Machine for spinning jute. Howard and Bullough, Acarington-Carding engine. &C. Thomas Gadd, Salford-Oalico printing maohine, ?? Greenwood and BILtley, ...

... Popular as have been the engagements of Miss Lydia Thompson's clever companyof comedians and buriesque actors in Manchester during the past season, the latter days of their entertainment are likely to be even more , attractive than the first. On Saturday evening they e groduced for the first time a new burlesque which s as been written for them by Mr. R. B. Farnie, beingthe very latest edition ...

... THOUGHT AND DEED. pull many a light thought masi may eherlsl 3 Fuwl many an idle deedmay d*; Yet not a ded Or'thought shall perish- ' Not oce but ho sball blea r rue: When by the wind the tree is shaken, t Thore's Dot a bough or leaf can fall, Bet of its failing heed is taken . By One that sees and governs nIl. I The tree may fall and be forgotten, And buried In the earth remain; 1 Yet from ...

... LIVERPOOL PHlILI{ARy~§yD-N SOCIETYS CONCEF:T. r- | IThe Z5th season of thiP Sciet w., 1 - if opened last evening at the ra II in -e re where the first concert of tbe tvWv,. e'tec it From 1]6S to 1]T . was given in rhe kar-hg cf a i V very large and highiv apprer .v; ai_. )e During the sfum er vcaticn. ma-er.4, rci ?? ; been made in the constitution of men-mbers. and several alteration. in -- o ...

... LITERARY INOTICES. L he~afd~ofScripthwre. Bya Clergyman. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. This volume, which, from its ability at least, need not have been published anonymously-has been suggested by the recent case of Jenkins verses Cook. From a strongly orthodox standpoint it deals with such subjects as the personality, apostacy, princedom, power, and final doom of the Devil, and bears marks ...