... MRM NOTE&, ?? 'fOnt Saturday, the Art Congrea;having ter- tIinated, the autumn. exhibition of pictures was resumed, witn the-result that there was rge attendance both morning and evening. Thb vening ...

... 'THE' AUTUMN EXHBITION AT, . THE WALKER ART GALLERY. The usual preliminary gathering of the 18th autumn exhibition, known as therivate view, will take place to-day at noon. e inaugural ceremony by his ...

... BIRKENREAD SCHOOL OF ART. The 32nd annual dis t of prizes in con- . nection with the Bigtenhead Government School I of Art took place last evening in the largo lecure hall of the mnstitatio by Profess ...

... SCOLARSHJ & EXHIBTI S I IN WALES. I . ?? tN1VTrfY OOLLNG BANGOP The following sobobrhipe and exhibitions have been awarded by the Senate on Lte renult of the recent entrance choliqrship e'zwnin&tou:-L ...

... PUIBLI AMUSEMENTS. > AL XA'RA THBATRE. jis Most readersof the late George Eliot's novel, Adam Bede., would hardly associte with that work the possibility of presenting its main iDCt- t dents in fitt ...

... e- The grodwof the Llveqpod xibtion loozed all the better-yetwrday Iorthaan whish-ell at interr-duringthe day. 0 £core thee shoers to some-extent xoteded with the attejdanee at the autdor sport, but t ...

... ITHE POSi OPERA SEASON. Distinctive as the first work designed by it' 1 auther for the lyric stage, Esmeraida' is an i opera strong indranatide contrast; and of the; many musical settings of plays b ...

... New SrAR Morro HAn.n-The usual specially. attractive features of the Star programme were again conspicuous on Monday eveniraz, when the crowded audience contained a very larze pr ...

... 3LSiC L NOTES. The annmal meet ng of the Liverpool MusicQl pab 5upplemented, as usai, by a dinner at theTH &-,arls Par, tooks place on Saturday evening,TH m~d proved as pleasant as such events have, T ...

... OUR VILLAGE COAVCER T WE manage our concerts at Slopton-by-Shlmley, in Wheatshire, so as to attain two ends: the elevation of the masses, and the aid of some specific object. The specific object we ha ...

... CAPTAIN DoUCE, of the P'einisular and Oriental Company's steamship Eleplhanta, was an admirable sailor, hut one of the shyest and most reserved of men, lie had saved several lives ...

... ??t MR. FRANK BARRETT in Folly Morrison (3 vols.: R. Bentley and Son) adheres to the theory that if probability clash with his inci- dents, or even with his characters, so much the worse for probab ...