... 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 ...

... us -- ?? g on After the hearing of all sorts of operas by all Cat srt sorts-of composers, and belonging to all sorts of the :-schools, some wondering was set afloat as to com tt, what sort of impression would be created by r ;t; the revival of Esmeralda this season. The be i. work is well known, but its music is not so deal . catching as that of many another composition mer he of similar ...

... Colour. An Elementary Manual for Students JBy A- I. Church. Cmssell and Co., London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne. This is anew, revised, and enlarmed edition of a useful little work in which Mlr. Church cx- plains, in a concise and popular form, the chief adts connected with the origin, the phenomena. and the employment of colour. Besides a con- siderable mumber of explanatory diagrans, it ...

... _ _ _ ?? LIVERPOOL DOG, POULTRY, o. PIGEON, AND RABBIT SHOW. I ?? I The eighth arnnual Liverpool exhibition of dogs, poultry, pigeons, and rabbits was opened yesterday, He in the 'North Haymarket, Ca netas-street. Last S n yerthe attendance was isoger than any previous 4' yer and this year it is gratifying to reco-rd, as 47showing the pwa~rd tendency of the show in the He pablc estimation, ...

... -AT NOTE of TEE PANELS AT ST. GEORGE'S HALL Dn It is a great point in any question of import- qi th suce to clear away encumbrances and to make Be sre a circle about the object in dispute, so that r ot there may be a clear view of it on every side. of ic No w that the second panel, representing the nd Progress of Justice, has been placed in position p ml on St.. George's Hall, and, as reported ...

... IJ1ThARY - OT!IS. 27w £bazsast qf )eace By Marvin X r NVnedt D.D,, L0Sel4anm Nlisbeta adM 1 Co. We..ae herms serim;of tw ent sernoS au - eminey pastoral characte, n which t# Da * autor the Rev. Dr. Vnc~et, I deals in a ID$flfl ransiin~eas it is diretb and pracal Be r with certaen bard, painful or pasi pisee W. of Jiristiax ~xpe~j~n, an 'nil as with cerin Da duty and pcspnla4 (Ckiiw amceptioeu ...

... A-N AuSTWRAANI~ DIETOY. Lord Bosebery once said that a jomnsy fnrough GraerItain was both an education- p ,nd a revekam . Those whocazmot makekhst journey my lern a great deal, and not be aithoat a revelation, by a short study of the ?? Federal Directory. Tlis class of book dmes not usually furnish very in. teresting~readi~, at least to most people; bat a tbhdirectorybefesisararkableexception ...

... IART iNOYES. The Mlade Professor at Oxford, Mr. ubert n Haerkomer, A has undertaken to deliver the a course-of lectures on February 2, 9, and 16, ists at the rooms of the Society of Arts, on etching, 3 of memotint, and engraving. We understand that pd Mr. Herkomer, who is a worker both with the pe etching needle and the scraper, was rently proposed and seconded-as a publishing member ISO, of ...

... LITERARY NOTICES Tj Poeti£2 Works ?? B sfa Bmwnixg from 106 to 0 4 Edited, with a memoir, by John IL ngram. Ward, Lock, and Co*, London and New York. This is a cheap and handsome reprint, inD oe volume, of uch of Mrs, Barett gmwniag's ?? as am no longer subject to the law Of COpYi t-in other words, of about two of the 9 five v mesua of which the complete workl con- sist. It includes The Cry ...

... Althongh, doubless, twas merry in the ba daring the past fortnight or so, and ;hough there has bee1 presumably a fair mount of household revelry in progress, yet tt the past fortnight has shownr no visible or ox- m ternal sign of musical merriment or, for that I n matfer, of anything specially mas-s! atam being te anapTO~Yt55. Now, however, the hoiday b' jfscce is over, and almoet by the ...

... ?? -o~ip i arI . I I I rmrmimpam DEB . .BY. 8UNCSe QI1DIN.: It Wouid a great miltake,9 the psr o my bos 4apd girb: $? thej, imalir4ed that the letters which Ot* prlinted in tmi5 oo~ln1 conatan ill the ms6ag53 ?? pnd~goodvill whioh cometo me. OntlheoptrUT, I.repeivG500f9Whirhi are never published. Nearly every child who sends answers to the puzzles adds a ' fiew wopda, of gfreetling to me, ...