... IRAIMINGRAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL . ?? l T' B DAY. THE MORNING PERFORMANCE. b The Messiah morning of our. Festivals has for ma Ly years held a distinct and special position, At no other perferiutflce i ...

... SMITHIWELD CATTLE SHQW. f The elghty-fifth amnual Cattle Show of the Smithfield Club opens to-day at the A oultural Hall, Islington, and both as reiards numbeirsan general excellence the showwill prov ...

... ' I THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL &t HORTI- I CULTURAL SOCIETY'S SIHOW. .; | . ?? 0 The annutal show of plants, flowers, and fruit held by shil Y the Birmingham Botanical and' Horticultural Society was two ...

... THE - DESg O T RF E ALHAMBRA it TEI TRE.l As was briefly announced in a portion of our impression I yesterday, the Alhambra Theatre, in Leicester Square London, was foaeid 'to lbeof ifre shortly after ...

... Justic. Day had before him, yesterday, the cri e t a as. r I Mr. Justio Day had before him, yesterday, the care of Sennett and wife v. Cllark. It was an aotaef to recover compen ...

... PHILHARMONIO UNION CONCERT. to_. -L2._r ?? AM . 9- Departing- from tho ?? -practice of- asrs yost Dsoratorio at Christmas, the ahovo society give,.1listnuiilt!l Nron, ii sniscollaneous concext, whinch ...

... 1o TH HARtY DAYS OF C~rAM1MkNVYf. BY FRDRWOM W.IV FAliflAR, D.D., P.B.S PLodon: Cassell, Potter, IsGalpin, and Co.] - ihteetopndr~ oue ao Farrar bri'g99 to~e cnclusin his nfinitly labrious welveyears' task of e an iteorial nd ipoitoy cmpaionto th o New ' ; Testament. 'In te Life of Christbe dealt with the b a, Gospels; in the Life of St. Paul with th~e Acts of tho a ~.Apostles and the 1?aulino ...

... An Irishman who had just landed said: 'The first bib *f mate I ever ate in this country was a roasted potato, boiled yesterday. And if you don't believe me I caln chow it to you, for I have it in my pocket.' The Waco (Texas) Examiner tells of a man with 'one bullet in his brain and one in the head.' This leaves a very unpleasant doubt in the reader's mind as to where she man carries his brain. ...

... I ?? .- I |CASEL1'S BOOK or SPORTs.-NOW that the spring season has fairly set in, boys will be cover- ing every open space in the metropolis, and every country village green, in pursuit of their favourite games; our lanes will teem with bicycles, and the rivers will be alive with youthful boatmen. Oppor- tunely with this re-awakened activity in healthful out-door amusements, comes the first ...

... A paragraph in a Utah newspaper speaks of a man who narrowly escaped being cartridgised. The best of fuen and the most earnest workers will make enough mistakes to keep them humble. Kind words are bald-beaded. They can never dye. ' Thieving in the outskirts' is the latest designation for picking ladies' pockets. A turtle dies hard, especially the upper part of him. A Dublin paterfamilir's ...

... SACRED SONGS AND SOLOS.-( The Christian Office.)-The hymns bung by Mr Ira Sankey have previously been published with music, but in two parts. Messrs Morgan and Scott have now, how- ever, combined the two, and published them in a handsome volume. The new issue-as enlarged and extended-appears simultaneously with the commencement of the new evangelistic campaign of Messrs Moody and Sankey in ...

... PUBLIC ANIUISEIMENTS. A ALEiLs XNRATHEIlTRh Mr. G. Osmond Tearle, whose recent performt- ol I abees of Handet and Othello at the Alexandra D de t Theatre obtained considerable attention. appeared d a ...