... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... LITEBATURE. 'rThe Village Beauty, and other Poems. By Robert Gernmell. (Glasgow: Porteons Bros.)-This is not the first time Mr Gemmnell' has appeared before the public as a poet or prose writer. A good many years since he published The Deserter, a series of military sketches, and previous to that Montague: a Drama, and Sketches from Life, all of which were favourably, and sometimes ...

... aAT2TLE SBBO fVS GREENOCKIC. The annutal show under the anepicen of the 0 Lower Ward of Renfrewshire Agricultural Society vc took place cc, a filed at Battery Park, Greenock, yesterday. The weather though dull kept up, and tiD in spite of a. Aircing and irather chilling wind trhere Was aL large attenidanice of visitors, Takitrq tile'A onuons, or entries in tire various classes9, there was I a ...

... £flE ThTNERNATIONAL EXBITIQS L ?? n CAuOmNA AnIaiaaNM -- I ?? Thi'rdis a very interesting section of the Ex- ar- tiboition, not only to teachters in general, but toj af' Is oeen of music. Everyone admits that :anusic is a branch of education, but to judge - omte proportion of musical instruments On ,-Vew one would i.maghine it to be by far the most Aimpoxtant of all branches of learning. ...

... LITEBA2'UBE. (1) Mythical Monmsrs. in this extremely interesting work Mr Gould discusses t±1 question of the possible existence bh of many of. the animals which in more recent p times have -beaen relegated to the domain of h mythology. In the elaborate investigation sC whichzhe instieutes with theviewof detertining a the problem, heavails himself of theaid afforded tr by theisciences:of ...

... I -- RENFREWSHI?RE AGRICULTURAL tl? SOCIETY. The Renfrewahlre Agricultural Society's annual cattle show avas held yesterday en the grounds of weather was ?jy[ ? giel Paisley, under beautiful, end, though a chill east wind prevailed, that was a small disadvantage, as there was r constant sunshine. '1'bough the quality of the exhibits was quite equal to any former year, there I was again, as was ...

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... CATTLE SIIO7VS. CUMBEIRCATJLOAGJIICULTURAL I SOCIETY'S SHOW. Thle annnal show of cattle, horses, sheep, dairy produce, poultry-, &c., undaeL the ~auspices of the ?? Agriculttural Society. tookc plots onI 'Ioddilekn ~was Fieldr, Unrithernauld, yesterday.I TIhre weather unfurtuonrely was of a disagreeable charactec, rain falling heavily ?? the greater4 ~part of thle afternoon. 'Three %,:ere ...

... ABl along the line tbe leaders set their men in war array, Checking, uiging, curbino, guiding For the coming battle day. Union is the common watchwordl- Union of their native land; One in purpose, one in feeling, One in heart, and une in haudl. Bvmingbam is linked to Bury; Comarades boldly stand cozfeosed, Beach and Bright are pledged ogether, Churchill, Cavendish abreast. Fllioks, Malcohns, ...

... CAiTTLP 'EIuWS. [J3OflWOLAGMZC ULTURZAL SOCIETY. 'hin`LTalnua. show1of t'he Lothiec'l Agoriculto; ci *Sncoetv ws iheld inl Iboffkwcll Castle Grounds on zSatureay'. While ci e wcathler wase :avourable, the ~ittedain~ce, awing to the counter attraction of tao, Yeoxuany sports no iHamiitco, was below the lusesa. pe. The sarne remark ?? to thle entries, I jttequality was ninexceptionable. Incthe ...

... BOOKS -REEIVE1D. *'Whisperings (London: Sampson Low, Marston Js Co.) is an anonymouts volume of poems, mrusical enough in expression, but other- wise difficult to understand. To one of the pieces the writer very necessarily prefixes the statement that to the -tast majority of man- kind the drift of his muse will be incompre- hensible. We must confess that we have found it so throughout the ...