... On Monday evening the third of the eeries of pro. monade concerts in connection with the Ipswich Conser- vative Club was hold at the Royal William Gardens. Mr. C. Cullinglhm again opened his pioturesque gronnds and gardens adjoining, and the weather fortunaielyheld. dine, but the attendance was comparatively. small. Another andndable programme was provided, including the excellent string band ...

... A BOOK FOR ORATORS AND SINGERS. - THOUGH there must by this time be in existence almost as many hand- books for singers and speakers as a fast reader could skip through in a lifetime or so, publishers still find them safe investments. Young people who are born into that fringe of the musical and theatrical professions from which we draw our great stock of deadheads are generally much at a loss ...

... I r BY RANGER. No. XXX. the VItI.-ETH CONENG OF TIM BIRDS. the Whenever a beautiful or rare bird comes to our to shores it is immediately done to death, and usually is before it gets far inland. This is an ornithological It fact long established; and the beautiful blon bird, or bul blue-ftroated warbler, has proved no exception in the It treatment which it has received. Only a very limited ...

... t I (Fi-OU 0010 owVxN REPOsRTER.) I Itn weather whicho rather resembled thle bittorisess ofI~ Marcha than the joyful wvarmith of July, the fourteenth V annuail meeting of the Milliron Agricultural 0ooiery toolt place yesterday. The show strengthened th6 j. reputation p~reviously attained by the society. The a numbur' of nmaswas not quite so large as beg been scsil, bust it was noct bolow the ...

... I PIAHION AND YARLT1BE& THE COURT. Osborne, Monday.5 The Queen drove out yeiterday, accompanied by the Vriace and Princess Henry of Batteaherg . JipThe Queen went out this morning, accompanied by the Princes Beatrime The Duke and Duoheas of Cgnnaught,with the Prln- cess Margaret, Prince Arthur, and the Princess.Victoria of Connaughtk arrived at Cowes tilis morning In her Ma- jesty's yacht ...

... THE COST OF PAINTING A PICTURE, THE comi1c story once told of a moneyed man who went to an artist's studio and asked the limner how much he would charge for a picture eight feet by six, if the purchaser found the materials, is not quite as comic in reality as it was intended to be. At any rate, some of the humour of the situation disappears when the actual cost of painting a work of those ...

... THE noble collection of pictures so celebrated in the art annals of this country, and so long the glory of the magnificent palace with which the nation commemorated and' rewarded the services of the Great Duke of Marlborough, is now brought to the verge of its final dispersion. - The beautiful pictures that adorned the palace of Blenheim are to-day*' on the walls of the auction-room, once more ...

... ' The annual distribution of prizes at the Leamington CJollege took place yesterday morning in the large ball of the college. Lord Leigh presided, and with him on the platform were Dr. Wood (principal of the college), the lies. Wm. Nicholson, Dr. Pr. IV. Tharsfield, &c.-Lord Leizb, referring to the work of the school, said he was delighted to hear that Aeaud had gained an open scholar- ship at ...

... StNDtAY ENTERTAIMLENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN. TO3 3M =fLfOl 01 NUZ LTYUOOL NMCMa. I * Gentienza,-Ik having anpeared in various I ibewspapers that it is intended to discountinue the saced Tnnite coneerts held on the Great1 Esstern on Sundays, we bes- to enclose you a copy of a letter we have sent to the lawyers of the L ord's Day Observance Society m reply to the wrt received from them. ...

... LITERARY, I: ART, AND DRAMATIC NOTES. I H1 fed The tile rtonr last, with Iic ie 'ided the nary ana the d I rior i t out tome ppor t 200 ants' thohi was too ame eest treeS but Lion U M' were Ficeri all a a rarde tite whw been The was and Rev. and, The Ith hole The thle 'veil' o nel ajor tant and eons Man ence theta nder ex- and the n at nling site. dise I by p of ,ton, The dges Wie. vent aire ...

... THEIATRICAL TRIBUNALS. The suggestion contained in the letter from Mr JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD, concerning a recent thea- trical action, which we published on July 17th, to the effect that outside people do not understand the rules and customs pertaining to the stage, and that, therefore, disputes between actors and managers had better be submitted to professional arbitrators, bears the usual ...

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