... [FaruST NOTICE.] The article by MIr T. P. O'Connor, M.P., on Home Rule occupies the post of honour in Time. The member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool reviews some of the objections made to Home Rule, and emphatically denies that Mr Gladstone's measure will lead to separation, and incidentally remarks '-that the very largeness of the business dealings bectween England a-fnd Ireland ...

... FASHION AND YA RTiES. VICEREGAL COURT. Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Aberdeen, attended by Captain the Hon H Ormsby Gore, A D C, left the Viceregal Lodge for Lon- 4lon yesterday evening. Colonel A E Turner (Private Secretary)andCaaptain the Hon T'Ashburnhaxn, AD C, also attended their Excellencies as far as Kingatown. ADAME MARIE ROZE. London, Tuesday Night, Madame ...

... The melodious solos and choruses of Reinecke's cantata The Enchanted Swans, as rendered by a choir of lady students, at the concert of the Guildhall School of Music, provided an agreeable piece de resistance for the numerous friends of the school congregated in the splendid Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House on the afternoon of Saturday last. The foundation of the story of The Enchanted Swans ...

... REVIEW BY TRE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. Yesterday. morning the Field-Marshal Commending. in-Chief, accompanied by memberi of the Horse Guards. visited AXderehot and revfewed the troops nuder General Sir Archibald Alieon. The 3rd Bedfordshire Militia, who tl eornpleted training yesterday, and the Hampshire k Yeomanry Cavalry,, who will be disbanded to-day, were T included amoig the troops. The total ...

... MUSJIT AND THE DR AMA. (FEm07 5 OUR SPEClAL COFlRThPODlzuT. , London, Sunday Nighti. Un Balloon in Maqacdera, the last opera which Verdi wrote for the Italian stage, Was .resiVed C at ovent Garden last night for the first t re sirce 187S. The occasion was the *i-but of 31dlle. Giulia 1 alda. This young lady is an American, a dsughter of MKrJ. B. Wlieelock, of Boston, uiece of tlieHon. W. B. ...

... mUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPE1RA. On Tuesday evening Lucia di Lammer- moor was performed, with Madile. Ella Russell as the heroine. This was the second appearance of the accom- plished American prima donna, whose previous success hers as Gilda in 1 Rigoletto has been noticed by us. in On the occasion now referred to the lady's suecess was tir more than confirmed; indeed it was enhanced to such ...

... Last night Mr. C H Hlawtrey's 'Private Secre- tary Company opened an engagement of six nights in the Gaiety Theatre, and the crowded house which greeted this sparkling farcical comedy-one of the great -successes of the day- showed that the memory of the keen enjoyment of the two previous representations of the piece in Dublin had not faded from the minds of theatre-goers. Everyone who ...

... The lateness of the modern' dinner hour has been held responsible by essayists with a turn for paradox for the gradual deterioration of the quality of our curtain-raisers, if not for what they are pleased to call the decadence of the modern drama, no less famous a personage than DI. Sardou lending his weighty authority to this theory in a serious pamphlet. Mindful of this, and emulous of the ...

... i i s - A - - u - N - - - -Q - SHIPBUIIDI!G EXHIBITS. (vROXs OUR SPExTAT CoESPONDEiST.) In only one department of the Liverpool 'Shipperies do the exhibits from Scotland bulk largely. But for the models and drawings of Clyde-bailt vessels the Naval Architecture section would be a mere appanage of the Exhi. bition, instead of being its distinctive and most commnenble feature. In every other ...

... L The list of pasesas-t the recent examcitions f-the Royal Academy of Music in this neigh- bourhood may be expected any day. The public distribution of the certifates -will take place in St. George's HaIl in the course of next month, and it is understood that the Mayor (Sir David Radcliffe) and Lady Radcliffe will take part in the proceedings. It is no secret that the Roman Catholic - Bishop ...

... Daur itibrarp Abhet+ Vasjty Fair, Vo0. 2. (London Smith, FElder, and ve- Co.) Co1 We xpessd ot on siceou dmiration. for this Bui &-nyand charing 1?toeiino hceao erf r deo covesto the `-flI ?? it Rolime pJhde. By Arthur Sketchley. S.1 ond onm S1 ioutledge and Son.) Lai The publication of (Iie of the serial and humorous Na C'eorge ]Rose's We1I ]cnosvf ')apers is very opportune In nt the present ...

... On Saturday, May 29th, Gounod's Grand Opera FAUST E MARGHERITA. Margherita ?? ?? 1adanme ALBrAr ?? Mdll. LUBATOVI Martha .. ?? Mdlle. DasvisUsEf Mephistofele.. Signor MONTI Valentino ?? Signor D'ANRADB Wagner ?? Signor U&IrerTi Faust . .. Sign r GArYfrta Those who had imagined that the reign of Italian opera was ended must have been rather astonished at the brilliant aspect of Covent-garden ...