... 3LSiC L NOTES. The annmal meet ng of the Liverpool MusicQl pab 5upplemented, as usai, by a dinner at theTH &-,arls Par, tooks place on Saturday evening,TH m~d proved as pleasant as such events have, Th 'ince tueir inauguration, been. There 'was& m a The lead muster of professional and amateur seem- twas he 1,,rs, Mr. W~. D. Hail being in the chair. Thean tio h 4tter gentleman has succeeded Dr. ...

... IWALTON POULTRY, PIGFON, AND Ib CAGE BIRD SHOW. I y, The second annual Walton exhibition of Rc 18 poultry, pigeons, sad care bitds was commenced b 0 on Satmuday, at the Zoological Gardens, Wa~toz- T adon-the-H1iLl. The entries namerically showed a C grin mroeto t peiosyabeing 7 vs nearly doubled. In the poultry section ?? i3 Si. were hO~ eetrir'sin the pigeon sention219, and F ~~7 in the cage ...

... MR. P. G. HAMERTONS NEW BOOK * No one who knows anything about Mr. Hamerton (and there are few readers who have not read at least one of his works) need be told that his new work on the Sa6ne is a very pleasant one. Mr. Hamerton always writes like a scholar, and a man of obser- vation and taste. He has, too, an agreeable and unobtrusive humour, which, like a delicate sauce, gives zest to the ...

... 11. MR. W. M. AcNVORTH begins in the New Year's number of lffurray a series of papers on The London and North-Western Railway. In Part I. much interesting information is given about this particular line of passenger and goods traffic. Mr. Acworth remarks on the habit railway men have of taking an ordinary English word and giving it some special technical sense. The word bank, for example, ...

... Only some slight pieces serving as preludes to the more substantial portion of the evening's entertainment have been produced as novelties during the week. The dramatic chronicle of the time may be briefly sum- marised. La Ailascotte has been played in French at the ROYALTY. The comic opera Babette was brought out at the STRAND on Thursday evening. The Old Guard at the AVENuE reached its ...

... LITERA-tTUEh -.ZOTBEri ?? 2721 BOOKS. Messrs Macmnillan & Co. have issued this * W' neti a reiv edition, thoroughly revise2d, of tlhe .al 3 Green's ''Short Iistory of the Eag. I ?? POte.''-Messrs Loscgmans, Grecn & Co. * I.v.e pu.blished 'Greek, the Languarge of Christ and His Apostles, by the Rev. Alexandur 1 hoibert, AD.D, Pxroeussei of JU1i1olnty, St Anudrew;-: c ssrs J. -isbet 9& Co., ...

... THlE LADIES' OU COUN ?? ql FASHIONS AND FOLLIES Op T'lEl :I, FASRIOS FOB a TIo.nTU The Styles shown for the New Year able for their plainneseor, more corretelry al for their artistio simplicity, ever, a Pakthi given to the draperies, wihich are nftio 0be!I caught up here and there in inde8c- 6d 4D8 and folds, and some of the ?? cabalrl ticularly graceful and becouinge 11iodels Plat. Plush and ...

... Tan second annual amateur concert was given yesterday evening in the lecture-hall in con- noction with. Fortwiitam Park Presbyterian f Church, and wvas 'very successful. The a large hall, which was decorated for the occasion by Messrs. George Morrow & Sons, North Queen Street, was crowded. The first part of the programme opened with the overture, IDn Calif de Bagdad (Boildicu), by the ...

... BURNIG OF A THEATRE. i mom ouli 0033381NDU2T,) MAtDRID, SmnaT PS.M : Yeta Morning tbe Vanodades Theatre. ws bnxnato the monnd in five hours. This for tuetre Wu ouqed u 1843. Itcad vryb - br ' U nit da#s Wi Its eomuic works. Political and iA lifisD t mtnwus werer beld in Ihe house lii w baforo and after the revolution of 188. During thf theireiqu of Moso tbemonsroh and the world tbi 5f IdSon ...

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... Mr. Frrude's lutut Book. BICg. FiouDE, has oompletidhia survey of the Bixish. systemtwith his book on The gilehin the West Indivs, just published by LONGMANL aul Cu. Ile has now visited the. whole orb of ullsire in search of a moral. against. modern Libuxalisin, and he has found it. inwild.luwu-i ?iance in every clime. ?? Pacisfio Colonies Proudue this bread-fruit of Tory poleruiiacas ...

... A STORY OF GOID IN WALES. Mfr. Wilbraham Taylor, of IHadley Hurst, in a letter to the Tinws, relates the following experience :-About the year 1860 a bustling little Welshman entered my room in London, and, after making sure we were alone, undid a heavy parcel tied up in a coloured bandana, displaying a lump of rock, and, almost bursting with conscious import- ance, said, There, you see ...