... I THE THEATTE. --GAIETY-' ALADDIN. The Gaiety Theatre in London, the hwad- quarters of burlesque, is at present-given up to sarah Bernhardt and the French plays with i !iwhiqh her name is associated. In the circam- 1e stances, Mr Hollingphead has sent- his comntpany on tour, and last evening we had Aladdin*'l transferred to our own Gaiety. Mlwr Hollings- h head, however, does not favour~ ...

... LITEP.-ATURE (1) ?ek-L ore, w mithin vcparativelV recent times stories aud popular tales-those le- 0t;:5 rv tiold by the race of yore, who - infancy upon their knees -were - saspected of conear ling, beneath their absurdities, relics of the myths of a race;* but7 now (thanks mainly to the .3Grimm, of Gerany) tthese nonsense and fairy legends are engaging the r ?? of many of thu most intelli ...

... DUTC E AYD MLEM S ART. iT The collections in the Corporation Galleries e are specially rich in examples of the great Dutch and Flemish masters of the seventeenth century. 1P Speaking generally, that art does not belong to , k the loftiest regions of endeavour-it is not N exalted in its motive and aim; but what the F artist does undertake he accomplishes with mar- C yelilons precision and ...

... B',ATTLE SHOWS. - ,EW IORKil&.el. ..fisp the N-ew lonekland C'attle Show was held on the ecourse Park, at Drumobathie, under somewhat un- eauspiceY Ths weather in the morning was dull di, and early in the forenoon a drizzling rain begans to . contiued throughout nost of the day, but for- c:i c ared a little just before the trotting commenced. n.s, hovwcver. a large turn-oit of spectatore, ...

... WESTERN DTSTRI4CT OF DUMRARToNsHIBI AGR20ULTURtAL ASIOOCITION. The twenty-fourth annual alaow of this aSG Olai was held 0n Saturday, in a Sald of Wvoodend farm. elleensbnrgh.I For aoeni nears the association has not bean in S. avey flour-. Heblaeg catdleiond buonew, tie feortmhaer b peing o. limte on Bithande and withoult Cmetitioniendty e taatwn gothd Lleale161t, fnd aouixdeweegthaeeirit ...

... THE CA2'NtBMGE PLATONStS.* Certai events of the Laudian and Puiritan strife are necessary to be held in remembrance before either sympathy, arpraise, or judgalleat of any kind ean Sbe justly; applied to the smal sil band of scholars lkown. even in their own day as the Platenists, but more fequently as Latitude men, who at Cambridge, according mi toBurmet, 1studied to propagate ...

... CA TTLhI S LEO WS. Yesterday the annual sbow 6i the A;wsts A.C~ii±Zii I dtyws edin a tiells beloer. ito lear nme hansy. Ihwurer.e number of pieces duringthecay. Iertooebfi C .Sarely so aulntroul a few ven_- eazk: Lbi. =het o the ciasses for quality were, ?? ell .ntLS-ny timnes the judges lad a CtetuI,5 ZW, liopiltou; and job. *n tlsa. oit 14: - mannsot5. S'oc borcos nice. C(nX5ii tinsl..51' ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRANMA (momf cUR OWN CORaEPONDENT.) Sunday Night. a For the benefit of Miss Elan Terry Romeo tand Juliet was last night performed at the ?? Theatre for the hundreth consecutive a time during the present revival. Among the e audience was Mr Edwin Booth, who had only arrived from New York at five o'clock in theafter- Y noon, and who had hastened to pay this tribute, e of respect ...

... FORTH CATIUl SHOW. 3 Yesterday this show. noderthe au~pcs of the Aaloluliraj Society oathle district. Was held in a field ?? to 35r C 4'MClloh4. 4teday was 5ne there3-a. large turn-out of spectators, among whom may be named Kr E. T. MLean, Caruwath; Messrs Jlhr. Paszig. of Climpy, G. E. Dirling,-of Ckeuns CGar Flu WJLsontown; CMot. Roberht son, of Lawbead; A. Lean, Cosagiofon A. N'Bae, B ...

... LITERATUBE. - h !nfeetec i te 1 CiGiriisaiOn of of scodand. ue AMichel's critical inquiry into the l ag,,e is so full of ilterestif and i,- tin, valuable on its own account, I -y.e the readcr a passing shade of , tnment to ?? that it is less illustra- ?? ?? and ]srojress of cividsatioll 3- iad as civi isation is usually t5&eed1 pn~osoariCiially, than of the origin of ' ,,2 ~d prases ...

... LITERATUBE. Sh E e; Roil, of &od. -d. hs the new or fifth ?? of, pry e ,rr appears at firt si~ht thes ,,,beer *z oof the custumor3 a bulles, > 5ttained within its well-filled pages, : 853 ~~~'erabt rv ~le light n b bs::cbscure reigns of the Stewart Ridge. - .ss has hitherto been used for its ,ch .'was not only-limited as to variety, t scertain value so far as credia- ft °;3t.The ...

... AGRICULTURAL SNOTOS. 2;Yesterdlay the annual show of the Avoendale Agricultaral ;Sticiety wee bhld iii the OlIebe Park. titrathasvee. _Norwvith- ~:staniding nectisional citoweis the weather was taot unfaroor- abstle, act the antesidanc wan fatly an avcrege, As regecrls otiestweek there wvas so laflieg oft is the nlumber o~ tuttist, Iend tte qusality was vrey bite. As the centre else ...