... LIBRARY, MUSEUT, AND ARTS I . Commm-, B A. special meeting of this committee took place : Yesterday morning, at the Free Library, for the conaideriation of the financial position of the insti- titions. SirJames Piton presided, and there w|s ?? present Msr W. J. Lunt, P. iL Bathbne, H. D. Holt, and Robert Hamilton, and the Rev. ! E w ?? CIaavN 1plamed that M Z~r. Oewell ths principal librarian, ...

... WALLASEY RORTICULURAL I The eighth annual exhibition in connection with tle Wallasey Horticultural Society was held on Saturday afternoon in the Worlmen's Hall, a short distance from the parish church, and close to the ancient village. The market gardeners and cottagers of Wallasey have been long famous for their fine early potatoes and other root crops, and is may be now said they are also ...

... I PUBLIC A EURMTTS. ALEXANDRA TSATRtE t The professional visits of 3Mr. 3Jo En menet to this country are now of such rare occurnce thai his appearance would at anytime bedt exceptional interest, Especially, therefore, is his presence at the Alexandra Theatre invested with significance, being, as it is announced, a farewell engage- menet. For all Mr. Emnmet's long absence; the dememoeur of ...

... CHESTER AND NORTH WALES i CMUSEUM. OPEnING BY THE DUKE OF in1 WESTMINSTER. all The magnificent structure in Grosvenor-streeat an Chester, which has received the name of the W Grosvenor Museum of Natural History and Archteology, with schools of science and art, for di Chester, Chesbire, and North Wales, was yester- mn day formally ogned by the president of the ira- e Ktitution, hs n race the ...

... The 15th exhibition in connection with the Little Woolton and Gateacre Cottagers' Floral and Horticultural Society took place yesterday, at the Grange, Gateacre, by the kind permission of Sir Andrew Walker, Bart, the president of the society. The weatherwas beautifully fine, and the attendance was therefore very large. The exhibits -the vegettbles in particulars-taken as a whole, were ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEN'TS. ALE=S1NDRA TIll-&XTRE. I Mr. Charles Sullivan and a very carefully- ( .elected Irish cornbination company present at the 3 Alexandra Ti'heatre this week two of the most n popular of the many dramatic pictures of Irish ?? Shaugliraun and The Colleen 1 Bawn, Lass evening 'The Shraughraun was B the attraction. The play is so very popular that e its name is suficieat to ...

... LITERAIRY NOTES Mr. Escott has retired from the editorship of the Fortnightry Review owing to prolonged ill- health, Down to a year ago be was quite the most successful of unattached journalita, if that designation can be applied to a writer who had many journalistic connections but no single absorbing position. He. was a leader-writer onl the Standard, and his earnings from that source alone ...

... MICAL NOTES. } A rumour has been set afoat that Dr. Charles HalWd does not intend to give a series of con- certs in Liverpool during the coming sean; but its progress may be stopped by the an-l no t that already the dates of the concerts of 1886-7 have been fixed, these being t November 2,16, and 30; December 14; Jannary E 4andLB;FebruaryL,&andMarch1. Thuaswe I shal have the customary eight. ...

... LIVERPOOL LICENSED VICTUAL- LERS AND THE EXHIIION. T lhe montl-eeig of the :ivepol LIcned Vicuallers' Asocation was held yesterday at the officeofE the association in Victoria,-treet, Mr. Richard lghan in th'e chair. The other mem- wer te Messrs. JL El, L. Turner C, . or, J. Sewart, P.Azinatrong, Johni'e, *; a Hannsz W. Pooley, J. T. Brms, and The CAaxAs said he had taken special -nuifje of ...

... -BPRASS'BANDS AT THE EXHIBITION. TO TIM EDTORS OF THE LIEPOOL MRRY. Gentlemen,-The excellent letter signed An Occasional Visitor in your impression of the 2nd instant, on the above subject is, I think, very opportune. I am one of those whosuffer from too much brass at the Exhibition, and shall be glad if you will kindly grant me a little of your valuable space to put in au additional ...

... In point of variety sad interest, we areI Inclined to regard the programme which has been compiled for the approaching Choral Festival of the children of the Liverpool aunday School Union as of a higher degree of ?? than any of the programmes of the previous seventeen festivals of the Union. The -aea of J. & Bach, Handel, Graun, Haydn, 'Niedermeyer, Mendlso^ohn. Berlioz, and Amber occur in it, ...

... I As early as eight o'clock yesterday morning, the main approacbes to the Liverpool International Exhibition in the spacious thoroughfare now known as the Queen's-boulevard were sought by great numbers of people, and so severe did the pressure ultimately become that the doors bad to be opened before the ordinary hotr, ten o'clock. It was evident from this sign that the August Band Holiday was ...