... TOWN COUNOIL REPORTS. MUSEUM AND SCIHOOL OF' Alir CotrMaTTri-.-The report of thlis commnittee, for lvrcoentatiou to the Council tomorrow, states that the new Museurm andI Art Gallery building is in na very forwnrd slate; tile tiles are laid in galleries Nos. 5 endl 6, anl are being laill in the ?? galleries ; the plastering is csrjplatCd, and the niasterers and carvers are now tat work in thle ...

... HER B AAE-STYS THEATRE PRINCESS IDA. Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan have styled this their last operatic production that has been presented tq us ia respectful perversion of Tennyson's 'PI.ri csms,' and in most respects it fully justifies its name. Of course it taies fQr basis tie Laureate's well-known poem, and in the develop- mert of so much plot as is necessarj to comic opera follows more or ...

... MkR. COLLETTI At THE P*ATNOB2 THMATRU. Last evening Mr. Charles Collette appeared upon the fifth night of his engagement at this house, the enter. tainmeent being specially devoted to his benefit. The state of the weather somewhat thinned the attendance in the popular parts of the auditorium, but there was a numerous and fashionable audience in the circle. Mr. Collette, on making his ...

... FROM OUR OWN CORRESPON4DENTS.) ABER-DEEN. HER MlAcrET's TimSATRE.-Lessee, Mir AV. M'Farlancl - General Manager, Mr H. M'Farland.-We have Mr Clarance Holt'; company here this week, playing Thes Donaghs. by Mr G. F. Rowe, one of the most acceptable Irish pieces presenited in Aberdeen for a long time. It is well played, too; while the beautiful panorama of the Lakes of K~illarney, from the brush ...

... ' Dr. Taylor brought his series of lectures on The World before Man to a close on Friday evening, and was honoured with a large and influential aadience, the Mayor (Sterling Westhorp, Esq.) occupying the chair. Dr. Taylor said he had to go somewhat superficially over a great deal of ground, for he proposed giving them a sketch of the last great division of geological time called the ...

... DEAR, DIRTY DTBLIN. i Last might, at a meeting of the Young Irelandu I Society. at their rooms, 41 York-street, a paper: entitled Dear, Dirty Dublin , was read by Mr. 'w Bardon. The chair was occupied by Mr. C. Ma Carthy Teeling. vice-president of the society.: The attendance was large. and included many ladies. There were presentl- Messrs W P Bai-don, P Hifetor, P T Havylen, ii, Dixon, ...

... .Tl'E COLONIAL EXHIBITION. ISPEECH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. (BY TELrGRtEa.) London, Monday Evening. The Royal Commiision, appointed by the Queen for the purpose of organising the Colonial and In- disn Exhibi tion, to be held at South Kensington next year, ruet for the first time to-dy ay Marl ':borough Rouse under the Presidency of the Prince of Wales. Among those present were the Duke of ...

... I ! I 4 The concert of sacred music given last evening by permission of the Lord Mayor and Lady 3Mayoress in the Round Room of the Mansion House in aid of the Charitable Educational Con- vent of Nuns, 18 and 19 Eccles-street, for the maintenance of higher education of respectable orphan girls left destitute, was in every way sue- cessful. No more imn-ortant object than the higher education ...

... DINNYERS AND DISHES.* A c . al live for thrce days ?? bread, but no man can live for one 'I ?? A ,. W was an aphorism of Iaudelaire's: you Can live Without an ld iu- .c, but you can't live without eating, says the author of atid ! -ies: and this latter view is no doubt the iuore popular. d 1i. n, in ic-e deoenerate days, would hesitate between an [ . an oml]. ttc, a sonnet and a salmi? Yet ...

... THE MI KADO; 0R, THE TOWN OF TITIPU. TIuE cortain drops. The audience calls with rapture for ' urnm-Yum, Piati ,ng,: P~eep-Bo,7' the three young ladies. There are calls for Ko-Ko, the L(rt High Executioner of Titipu; for the Mikado, humorous but ironical ; for Nauki-Poos the second trombone in the Titipu town band, for Poob-Bah,:' the stolid. Then loud cries for Gilbert, Sullivan, ...

... T W I N S. By T. B. M. C 1 A P'T E 1 XII1. Oh! the horror of it' Shall rever forget what I felt as I read that letter I remembered how ho had said he should know Mabel Down had succeeded at last if he ever lost leo in a way he could not understand. And now here he was coming to Milton, perhaps he was already in the town, and I knew that if I refused to marry him he would go away and seek the ...

... By the Authbr of Her Husbands Seret Cliffs Hollow Postponed; Fib; etc. CHAPTER 11. DENIS PAYNE'S ENTRANCE INTO SOUTHFIELD. The vicar of Southfield was a Mr. Howlett, a worthy man, and at tall one, also-in that same week, when Mr. Burton succeeded in getting his roof repaired-the vicar was a sorely perplexed man, for he had a grandson, left but recently on his hands by his son, an ...