... a ArrmnRfoo tel (says the Graphic) are just now, to all the rage, more especially in the co'untry and at the seaside, Theme gatherings are sometnles of a friendly, at others of a ceremonlal character; for the former the ordinary walking dress only to need. in ful, whiler the latter gives ample scope for display of the most dainty. toliettes, At a falahlonable waterlng place last week, there ...

... MEY'S FASHIONS. Tir sombre seasons Iwe have of tlte been poseehg throngh hive had a psaisfncorf chastenirg ffcot h ouan n's aittire. ' A few years ago, when nanywereg' making money and all were spending It, A florld ap.: parelwas thought becoming to all men; thoee were do days of great glory and self satisflstion to the ml generous. undergraduate and eportieg subaltern, us who could lot their ...

... MESSRS. CASSELUS PUBLICATIONS. Im the Faemily Magaztine two new serials are oorn. menoed- Horame M'Lean and Hidden Gold. They are very different In type, so an to suit a diversity of 'leadere, The first is, we think, the more likely to prove attraotive to those who is, gard the element of romance as essential to a novel. The olearing up of a myetery can always be made the subject of an ...

... [WE1rTEN FOR THE BELFAST NEWS.IETTZZ] Miss GENavinvx WABD, or to give her her prople name, Madame Guerabella, has by her excellent aoting of the part of tho Marquise de Mohrivrt, last vweek, at the Royal, created a deep Impression In Belfast theatre goers. Mies Ward is of Spanish extraction, and previous to her adoption of the drama, she appeared with considerable huooss am an operatl singer. ...

... MR. OSMOND THARLBn 0 commences an engagement at the Thestr6 Royal tonight. Noticlng his perform. anoe of Hamlet, with which the bill opens this evening, the Manchester Courier says:- Mr. Oomond Tearle, a gentleman by no means unfavourably known in dramatic circles in this city, appeared at the Qaeen's Theatre last night In the charaoter of Hamlet. It would be difficult, perhaps, to introduce ...

... Tirn SI. Jamee's Theatre, London, vae crowded 0o2 Thursday evening by a faobiorhabio audienoce, anxious to witness the new one-act pley by the Laureate, entitled The FAlcon, and founded upon a well-10u D vn story ir Boccaccio. The tale, It may be notr d, has dona duty before on the stage, having been set to mmalo by M. Gounod, under the title of II La, Colombe, au Engliel. version of whiclh ...

... * [FROa1 L1 FOLLHT] ., A RaratoEmoTnvui glanoe at the fashions of the pass. r. tng year proves the truth we have so often Inr. V pressed on our hearers-namely, that a sudden and radical change in La Mode need never be ex. ,a pected or feared. When panfers were re intro. 1. duced, a few months ago, many drescrmakers and English writers on fashion informed thoese who knew less than themselves ...

... THEATRHE ROYAL- VALJEAN.' Tnee Herculean task of adzap'4ing to the stage M Viotor HngO's novei, Liv Miserables, ?? been attempied more tbar Whoe, hut we do not think it has ever beeu tuccorisfully accomplished. One ha3 really only to read the book to becomee aware of the Imposslbl~ity of ever effootiog a stage arr~ns,, ment oi the story as written in tbe spasmndio, forcible style of the ...

... I ANNUAL SHOWW. I CRowING, cackling, and ooting resounded through J the corridors of the Woraing Men's Institute yes, torday, eofence and art and all the other legitimnte I purposes of, tbe.stahliahment giving pl cc for the F time being lo the attraotions of the show of the Belfast Poultry and Pigeon Society. The ock'se N shrill olarion ohanted his nobes olear and strong I above thoee of his ...

... THE-DBERY P~UBRATIONS. I THE SHUTTING OF THE GATES. e-HoH OUR RE;Pronvs.] 1. DgRnY, T1UaBDAY, --Ths 191st annlversary of the ff shutting of the gates of the Maiden City In 1688 was d celebrated to-day. This' ?? anniver- °t sary was, as already telegraphed to ydu, ushered w In by the firing of snmall ordnauce, which continued y up till one o'olook this morning. At midnight one of the ilty bands ...

... THEATRE ROYAL-MR. OSMOND TARL1' 3| HAMLET. . . , g , LAST evening, Mr. Oamoud Tearle, who my,be Sqi oonnldored the foremost favourite in tragedy in Be] Belfast, commenced a fortnight's engagemennt at tloe the theatre by appearing as H mlvt. We bhve Ail had go many previous opportunities of becoming ?? acquainted with Mr. Tearle's idea of the Dane It low now unpepgcssay tp, pertionliese It ...

... IRELAND: ITS SCENERY, MUSIC, AND ANTIQUITRlS. DIORAMAS, ever a popular entertainment in Belfast, were last night well represented in the opening to a wellfilled house of Ireland: its Scenery, Musio, and Antiquities. Perhaps tbhere are fewcountries whioh present such prominent and striking features r of natural scenery and historloal Interest as Ire. land, whiob, together with Its riohnesa of ...