... GREAT FIRE AT DERBY! 3 THE, GRAND THEATRE BURNET DOWN. TWO KILLED AND TWO INJIRED. Last night, the Grand Theatre at Derby was reduced to rains, by one of the most alarming fires which has occurred in the town for many years; For last night Mr. Edward Terry, comedian, and a selected company from London had been engaged to appear, and their visit .was eagerly anticim ted. Shortly before seven ...

... DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE AT THE IIMASON COLLEGE. :- On Friday night an interesting dramatic performance was given at the Mason College by the students of the iustitu- 0 tion, before a large and influential audience, The estab-t lishlment of a Dramatic Section of the Union of the college students has been most favourably received, and, judging t from the initial performance on Friday, the section t ...

... ' SHORTHORN SHOW AND SALE AT I- * BINGLEY HALL. The eighteenth annual oxlsibstion andl sale of ?? shortherns, in connection with the Birminghami Agricul- tural Exhibition Society, was comineneedyesterdsly atjiing- lay Hall. Taken as9 at whle~ th(e chow is fully up to the average, the number of entries being 631, Only voelvo less than last year, whetn the total was the highest eor esxpeti- ...

... THE SPEEDWETJL BICYCLE SHOW. EXTRAORDINARY TRICO RIDING. The Speedwell Show of bicycles, tricycles, &c,, at Bingley Hall, is now got into thorough order, and the appearance of the hall is exceedingly attractive, especially to those interested in the latest developments of cycling The event of the (lay was the debit in -Pirniinbani of Messrs. N. E. Kaufman and lerant a1eAnuey, the American ...

... Out rics.- i-§ totRi' QAINED fROM JHE PEAD. Ties bone of fellowship that linked ts together was not one of affection; our tastes were too dissimilar, and our sympathies too widely sundered, for any emotion of that natunre to join us. The feeling that united us was more a thing of intellect than of sentiment; perhaps its chief strength lay in the fact that we never wearied eacb other, for ...

... Bevond the fact that he is labouring in the cause of civilisation somewhere in the Soudan, very little is known in this country of Emin Bey. Yet he is a truly remarkable Iran. It is now eight years since General Gordon appointed him Governor- Genera] of the Egvptian Equatorial Provinces, a district so large that Great Britain would lie in a corner of it. Emin Bey, who isan Austrian doctor, ...

... LEarrRs AND JOURNALS OV WY. STANLEY JEVONS. Edited by his WIFE. JLondon: Macrmillan & Co.J In April, 1863, there was published a tract entitled A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold, and its Social Effects Set Forth. It did not attract much attention at the moment. Tle author, writing in the following July, says: I have just received the bill for my pamphlet on Gold. The total cost of ...

... IEHAW&LIT ON THE FRENCH STAGE. ( VThc reris .orrsspoadeut of tbh Slorazsfrd, telegraphing on Tuesday night, saye -The Brolch version of the greatest of Shakespeareau dramia, brought out at the ,fre isns to-nv'lit, i; aai old friend seith a Bew face. It was first performeQ at the Tbolttre Wletorlque in 1847, and was cite joint I;roduction of the elder Dumias and IU. 'aul iio'urice. rbu lattor ...

... The annual exhibition of this society-ono of the oldest in Shropshire-took plarce yesterday, in the Castle grounds at Ludlow; the president for the year being Mr. B. H. Giles, of Hope Court; and the vice-president, Mr. John blellings, of Lady Halton. The weather was miserable, rain falling heavily and continuously, and the financial results of the show must be considerably interfered with in ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF PRIMS AT QUEEN' COLLEGE. Q The annual coriversazione and distribution of prizes in connection with Queen's College, Birmingham, took place last evening at the College, in Paradise Street. In addition to the professors and students there was a large attendance of visitors. The company were received in the library by the president of the college (Lord Windsor), and then an ...

... THEATRE ROYAL THE CARL ROSA OPERA COMIPAYY Ias been a matter of complaint hitherto with many I Of 3S., Carl ROs%5s Supporters that he has somewhat forced the pace in recent extensions of his repertory by produc- irdg, not too many novelties, but too many of the E advanced modern school' which dates from the Wagnerian era. Old opera-goers cannot readily reconcile them- . Bel ves to the freer ...

... THE BMMINGHAM EXHIBITION. The ?? Exhibijtion would haive been seriously inlcom1plete if it hsad contained nothing to represent the sesni-comnmeroial undertakings of which rhoe Corporationt has charge. Lilt tihe necessity and fitness of each a repireisentation \vag not overlook~ed by thle Exhibition Commitee~i, and threo departments of thle work of the Town Council, are shown to thle poblic ...