... C ST'rrANGeBs in Paris at the present moment, says j the Paris correspondent of the Globe, -may spend 1 an agreeable hour or two at the Exposition de Sauvetage, which is being held in the Palais de j P'Iadustrie. It was opened a fortnight ago, but, X like all exhibitions, it was behind time, and is only now getting into apple-pie order. I must, how- ever. warn visitors beforehand that the show ...

... THEATRE ROYAL-, -THE GOLDEN LADDER. Win question very much if better work thin that which appears in The Golden Ladder? has ever been associated with a melodrama. The piece, which was performed at the Theatre last evening by a highly efficient company, bears every token of having been moulded under T. the skilful hands of Mr. Wilson Barrett, a manager TO whose judgment has never been found ...

... ULSTER HA.LL PROMENXADE CONCERTS. TnaE second of the series of promenade concerts. which was given last eveninv in the Ulster flail, was one of the most enjoyable that has been held this sea on.The hall was tastefully illuminated under the direction of Mr. Motherell, the area bieing nicely carpeted, and decorated with hand- somoe greenhouse and other plants. The vestibule, whieh waq fitted tup ...

... FASHIONABLE DRESS I NOVELTIES IN AUTUMN AND WINTE2 FABRICS. FROM THE LADY'S PICTORIAL. LADIE.s who are still debating as to the choice of materials for their autumn gowns should certainly lose no time in writing for patterns of novel dress fabrics to Henry Pease & Co.'s Successors, the Mills, Darlington. They will receive by return of post a neatly-packed box of most tempting patterns, 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 ...

... * CAPTAIN BAYLEY'S iHEaR: A tale of the goldfields of California, by G1. A. Henty, with twelVedfill. page illustrations by H. M1. Paret. Lcndon: Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dnbliu. Mnsans. BLAcrnE & SON have for several years past occupied a position unapproachable by any other house as publishers of books for young people. Indeed, it is not too much to say that to the intelligent ...

... LEAVES PROM1 A TRAVELLER'S NOTI'-BOOK, hospltal in or near lilelbourne for the nscomn oda- tion of English Fatients. The Australians thetn- selves see the absurdity of this proposal, and, as they have no wish to attract to their ?hores the hopelessly.diseased elements of the population of the mother country, there is not much prospect of the venture becominganaecomplished fact. Until, however, ...

... DRAHATIC AND MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. Now that the Carl Rosw Opera has become an settled institution of Liverpool, a lively interest is naturally felt in Mr. Carl Rosa's enterprises gene- ruUy. Our readers will thank us for correcting a. misconception which has passed into circulatiorn as to the new theatre whioh is about to be erected in London. An idea has prevailed that it is to be solely an ...

... ,1 BAZAAR IN THE EXHIBITION HALL, A BAZAAR and sale of work in connection with the Magdalene Parish Church, and which is inuaid of the funds of the schools of the church, the Mag~ I dqlene Asylum. the Scripture Readers' Society,, and the Church Missionary Society, was opened in the Exhibition Hall yesterday. The bazaar,.whichj is the outcome of the efforts of the ladies of thee congregation, ...

... I THE I IRISH EXHIBITION. . ~ ~ ~ -4-- iii OPENING CEREMONY. V FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER. p BY SPECIAL WIRE. tl LONDON, 3liOnDAY.-The Irish Exhibition, so | long looked forward.to with an anxious interast by a thousands, was fairly launched to-day amid the a pomp and circumstances of civic ceremony. Shortly after ten o'clook the doors were thrown e open to the invited guests, and by half-past ...

... THLE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT. Tulfs amateur concert in aid of the funds of the I Philharmonic Society, announced to take place in i the Ulster Hall on Friday evening, cannot fail to attract a larre audience. The ladies and gentle- men who have so kindly placed their services at the disposal of the committee are well known as I amateurs of great ability. The object of the con- cert, to ...

... LITERAITU1S. POOR FOLKS, LrViiz-: Ballads and ,Stories in verse. By i~ffierib Latd -~rd'e uhro Srt P,>k by the A-ngejs, &erae. on- f Smpin Marshall. & (JO Tua Rev. Frederick Langbridsge is perhaps the most successful of modern poets of the people, and it is impossibre to' say that his success is out Of proportion to the actual value of the work which he has accomplished; He is an artist ...