... ' I Messrs. Branch and Leete will sell to-day, the 14th, and to-morrow, at Homes Hey, Croxteth- drive, i collection of pictures, drawings, prints, and high-class furniture, the property of a well- known merchant and shipowner. Among the 50 pictures and drawings exhibited on the walls will be found After the Storm, (562) an academy picture of 1877, by W. Small, repre- senting a number of ...

... I~~~C t14 Thstre.'-bs Clocnes (n UOLMC-. j ,vetre.-Mother-}Ia-L&W Coa es.Ain r r..ove-maklfg; Colleen Barn. P .p ,_ighting Fortune; Pretenreof Mind. P- ril~ staowroolneim etrectl- Exhibition .30sh.,owusroos, f~ii:aguSS Minstrels. 3i li-rellaneos entertainrment bjtiCD and Musie IPromenade, Lime- S etie pradise-street. . ..-E3bibition of Paintings. ose Colquitt-5treet.-Open free C, 1,jtt-street. ...

... I PUBLIC AMUSEAMENTS. ALEXANDRA THEATRE. hiss Bateman began, last night, at the Alexan3ra Theatre, a brief engagement, when she appeared as Leah in the famous drama of that name. There was a large audience, over which the performance of the piece exercised the old fascination. The company associated with Bliss Bateman is a most competent one, including, as it does, Mrs. Lyous. Dir. H. Holland, ...

... IIHE HALLE CONCERTS. |During several years, the Haild coner~ts have w been an important awgency in the extension of T. musical culture in Liverpool. Than Mr. -Hall, cC no musician has donle more to enlarge the aos-f quaiutance of the peopleof thiacountrywiththe tl classics of theart of wghich heisso distinguished mn an executive exponent. Manchester and Liver- jn pool enjoy the presence of an ...

... ART NOTES- ?? p Yesterday was the privute view of, M5Th _ Agnew's annual exhibition of selected pictures by living and deceased English ?? &tsts, at their ExchinOge Gallery. -The cata- loge numbers 15) works, the majority of an which mnay be classed as representative, while of some ha-ve- been among this years leading Pa .taiitionua at Burlington Huse and the Grosvenor. Among the later there ...

... ?? Thie Contemporary ReIvew (London: Strahan and Co.) presents an unusual variety of papers this month, although only one or two of them . profess to deal with particularly pressing sub- jects. Mr. W. E. Bear replies to the Duke of l Argy31 on the principles of tenant right; arga- ing that payment for value received is the only l fair measure of compensation to tenants due from landlords, just ...

... NAVAL AND SUBMAIRDYE EXHIBITION. Although we have had exhibitions, permanent t and otherwise, of naval architecture, there has been nothing at all to equal the display which is to be opened to-day at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, f London. Perhaps the absence of such a gathering till now may be due to the fact that marine engineering as a branch of applied science has, in truth0 sprung up ...

... THE SEPTON PARK FLOWER 1: SHOW. I by On. Saturday, the fourth exhibition of tire Liver- Po pool Horticultural. Association was .opened in El tefton Park, and will be eontinue'J ?? wf holiday). Nearly £400 wa's offered 'in prizes, and ()L the result is an enormous advance on all previous ot shows, a -marked improvement in the character as JMl Weoll aSS in the number of the exhibits being the ...

... MAGAZIES FOR DECEMBER. Art and Ieter's.-The December number of aL Art and Leters (Remington) commences with bn the second part of Some Modem Italian aid ox Spanish Painters, with four illustrations of ei . the work of Signor Pio Joris-imonette--and f ,De N-ittis. Articel No. 3 on Pompeii m and the Museum of Naples, with four si illustrations, is 'very readable and to the ti point. The ...

... nc .Hinppy Thoughts. By F. C. Burnand. Illis- In tlated by Harry Furniss. London: Bradbury, in Annew, and Go., 8, 9, 10, Bouverie-street se A shiling reprint of these famois nondescript humorous sketches from Punck is itself a happy zu thought, on which author, illustrator, pub- U lishers, and the public are alike to be congratu- th lated. at Cr &rtqgles and Triumphs; or, the Pecolectioms PI ...

... NORTH LONSDALE AGRIECIU- - TURAL SHOW. This annual show ceame off at flverston yesterday, and was the largest and best the society has ever held. The entries were more numerous by about it 100 than in the prebeding year, and about 50 more Is horses competed. These, especially in the hegy fr classes, were a remarkably ine collction ofianimals, at though the leaping fell soriewbat below the ...

... THE SOCIXY OF PROFESSIONAL MUSICMNST. I A sneetiag of tbe Society of Professional Musicians was held on Saturday,,ia the Union Hotel, Clayton-square. lIr. J. C. Bridge, BLA? , hlus. Ban. (Chester), presided, and there were also I present Dr. R. IV. Crowe, and Messrs. F. Haworth, I J. J.Monk, WI. D. Hall, and EL Grimashaw (Liver- r pool): Bra. Hiles, Horton, Allison, and George z Marsden, and ...