... ' 'ITALAN OPERA COMPANY. The revival of the enterprise known as Her Majesty's Italian Opera Company, alluded to yesterday, does not necessarily imply that Italian opera itself, like the fabled Plicenix, is about to renew its existence. Pending the long-talked-of production of Signor Verdi's Ot4llo, Italian opera appears still in a moribund condition. But opera in Italian isquite another thing; ...

... AGRICULTURAL NEWs. THIE BEEDS FAT STOCK SHOW.. [FROMs Oug OWE REPOflrns.]1 LsnnsS, TuesdaY.; The Leeds Smi;thfied Ea stc shw ihoee this morning in the Leeds Coloured Cloth Hall, can-a not b-sdisinguished above its predecessors either in: she extent of its entries or in the quality of stock exhibited. Breeders from the north of Scotland used. to be fairly well represented here, but the prizes ...

... -our JUbrarP Zablt* ZI~sfa~cos IdedtUtie. ] J. B. Wa re- (Londo: i Diprose and Bateman.) hi little Jvolume is a colnetioi of the stories 02 debrated coases of imposture. from the Martin Gnerre to ?? case. They are a remdarkhble series of 3 Farra'ives includi ing the courier of vyonm, form in others. V wemay remind Mr Ware, however, that the atn gustioe Bovill tried the first Tiobborne ease. .5 ...

... l) T/4P; Cwssre~ct rtf-'cZi' Dcnsic A rcl7itetcfs1rf I o 'Sco'ind. lodernl usage has now so much limited the application of phrases like domestic architecture that it is seldom thought of except in connec- tieD with mere cottage or street work, and then generally, it imust be added to the credit of the profession, how convenience or utility and 1 health may be best securedc alone with such I ...

... Yesterday the Dublin Art Club opened their jwinter exhibition at thre Leinster Hall, Moles- worth street. The collection of pictures is, taken all round, an excellent one, and the exhibition can claim to be the best which the society has yet succeeded in getting together. The committee may be congratulated upon the way in which they got tbrough the difficult task of hanging the pictures, ?? ...

... I A WRITER in the Queen, dilates on the season- f able topic of daucing dresses. There are a variety f of stuffs to choose frlmt this year wlhena dancing. 3 gown has to be decided on. Tulle is always the l most costly and the most legaut ; its soft filni- ness culiarly becoming to youth, and young a married women who dance introduce haudsome panels and embroideries with it. The skirts of tulle ...

... | Inlieu apparently, of the Thursday morning performance of opera which is usually given here by touring Iyric com- panies for the benefit of country visitors, Mr. Mapleson's company gave on Saturday a so-called morning concert in the Town Hall, at popular prices. The performance, which commenced at half-past two o'clock, was exclusively vocal in character, and the programme was so ...

... HALF A CEAETURY OF LOIVDON LIFE. TIE HAYWARD CORaRESPONDENCE.* IT is nearly three years since a remarkably brilliant and widely representa' tive crowd gathered to pay what we call the last tribute of affection and esteem round the open grave of perhaps the best-hated man in London,. and some one else has long ago succeeded the little wrinkled old gentle- man in the occupancy of Theodore Hook's ...

... PUBLIC AIUSEMENTS. TOOLE'S THEATRE A large and enthusiastic audience assem- bled at the little theatre in King William- street on Monday night, to welcome the return of Mr. J. L. Toole. The popular comedian brought with him a new comedy, or farce by Mr. and Mrs. Herman Merivale, called The Butler, which, though founded on antiquated ideas, was sufficiently full of bustle and action to create ...

... . Last evening this society gave the second of its current series of concerts in the Town Hall, the programme con- sisting of Eanileggers dramatic cantata Fridolin,' and Mr. Anderton's The Norman Baron. the principal vocalists were Madame Georgina Burns, Mr. Barton MicGuckin, Mr. Robert Grice, and Mr. Watkin Mills. Mr. A. R. Gaul, Mns. Bac., was at the organ, and Mr. Stockley conducted. ...

... ITALIAN OPERA SERIES. The closing night of the series on Satuday was de- cidedly the best in point of attendance, if not also as regards the performance, but even so the audience was quite inadequate to the merits of the company and the entertainment, and it is much to be feared that the venture must have proved a sub- stantial loss to all concerned in it. The opera, Mozart's Nozze di Figaro ...

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