... I PUBLIC AUSEMENTS -, I IDiavolo, - I Trovtore, and la Soenambtir,' opera which are regardied with enca aori ?? esc: favour in. ac the scheme of the week at the b exad y o.rja stage is2 now occupied1 by a company organiwd by Mr. J. W. Turner, a singer the power and beauty of -vnh e voice base made him popular. Ther was a large attendance within the auditorium of the Mlexandra on Monday, ...

... BOOKS AND .EADERS. Mr. Peter Cowel, F.RRES, principal librarian of the Liverpool Free Librares, under the auspices of the Corporation, lectured last night, at the Rotunda Lecture Hall, on books and theirreaders. At the outset, Mr. Cowell said that people often talked with a feeling of regret of the good old times, and by repe gthe phrase came, possibly, to believe that the old tines were ...

... HER MA.rESTY?g ?rHHATRE. T1 .OPO COED -Q 'AZ -- . a. -. ,-Edward Conpton, young th~ough he is, does znot d require at this tim~e Outlaw-n fd xii~l -it&~idiiction Z- to Aberdeen playgaoers; ,muc& lhess d1oes fi~i-cg Ii call for commendatory conmnents. -The namie of ,tComiton and :English comledy are a traditional L- com~bination- which fame has familiarised, and the s present representative of ...

... M1ONDAY POPULAR (CON, lai'. - 1 - r . - A-l -1 .. o. .. .1 I . Af tey anl interval of tenl moniths-dev,iiaz11 is not too mnuch to say no perodiifi-~~ entertainments have been moredel pi Monday Popular Concert Society ie:'t iii' for 18,66 at the Colston hail last uhhrit. lit of so severe a character, and wit II G. , ~h- c~ut of the Centre of the city Ii' A -!I uritertainmnirts making a Start ...

... WOODBRIDUE HORSE SHOW. The agricultural show, season, for this part of the county at all events, commenced yesterday (Friday) as usual with a grand display of horses, under the auspicies of the Woodbridge Horse SlIoF. This is in some respects the most important and attractive gathering of the year, so far as a large district of the county is con- cerned. If any proof were wanting in this it is ...

... IUsIC. 1 TOVELY.OWS CATORIO COWERTS. I The fifth au(l last but one of these excellent concerts took idace at St. Janes's HaIl on Tuesaiy I vveuiazg, ,%ben tile ?? originally ancnounced was deviated from by the substitution of Gluck's over- ture to p ?? en Aulide (with Wagner's ending) for Goetz's cantata, The Water Lily, and of a mis- cellaneous selection for Wagner's The Holy Supper of ...

... . EHIOR A-YD VDRUITIES. I . I -1 _ I VIMERRGAL.COURT. 7ir Esceulies sthe Lord Lieaawt aad the ouo t ?? Aberdeen, with their Children. =ad wmpmie4 by Sir Mkthe7 sead Ldy. Eidley a.-d attended b; lieuteliaie Colonel A. E Turmer(Private Secrdery)sad Ciptaizis Noa Latbto and 39o Tnjmas Mshub.s (AMsde^Ynp in Watftg), went 4 Ginne'vt'r Circo o@ Saadyaftrnooi ,Their Exselenits 4w Lftrj Lieutaensa: ad ...

... GEnlTRL THEATRICAL FUND. fc>,ioll alld the public joined forces on The tI ct to swell the resources of the above- Thilr~ lt cliet institution, the claims of which have 0Lid ciit. been set forth and advocated in these 4t1f510.,. DV of the brigbtest stars in the theatrical 0lurit9tt ;,siocd the committee by their readilncss to fec2 airief period on the Drury-lane stage, and a biaiiei e ...

... LESSONVS FROM TLE BOOK OF LIFE. TO-DAY we publish a second batch of the reports of our invests gators into the way in which the poor live in an East-end treet. IHere are the facts of existence plainly set forth, a commonplace story of commonplace life written out simply before the eyes of all men. And this street is but a section. of a whole, vaster than the imagination of man can conceive. ...

... T-ILLJLA'M DAY, OF DANEBURY., i' crnnot deafne this book as faultless in composition or in tone; and ast ice sane time we freely own that seldom, if ever, have we read a work f this stamp (turflte) with: greater interest ; and we also feel ?? that racing men as a body will say the same. Mr. l1ni writes con amore; he makes no attempt to conceal his likes or dislikes, his admiration or his ...

... TIE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. ALADDUIN,-TTfIS al~l IEVERY EVEN'ING at 7-20, anid FVE.`rY WEDNE:SDAY v SATURDAY, aT e.T:o. AiLl) I)DN is a agiugificcot realizationl of the ramlous `Aralnas Nighlis 'story. -Ir co1!inbioc int one entertatinmeft toe be.st features andtean oF o1&ffa'rhionzd pantonm Mt, tile alories of mo1dern speetacle, the grace sif French ...

... ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHRURC. EGYPTIAN FANCY FAIR. A fancy fair of a novel and particularly interests- ing character was opened yesterday afternoon by the Mayor (Mr. Alderman David Radciffe) at St. George's Hall. It has been promoted by the clergy of the Society of Jesus con- nected with St. Francis Xavier's Church, with two objects-the liquidation of the debt resting on the elementary schools, ...