... i I BELNAEBffO~ It- b OBABiXuunaT. xuwr. {t | e.firat iinpreesson'whiehseeo r 0Q.s foreigner, oven- on- a r Sltuxndafr- sypla of gre4!tivity',%witia sad tetb and promenades. Trnmwvai and vehiclis of all kindsn, ?? D to the ras or taking struigzsrto, the Y wibiedE hich will not be oom- - ~j: rsoae time yet, though the Queen opens - S unday. Tho great attraction forthe - n of ?? who have already ...

... ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIO. Thursday, and occasionally other evenings, areusually employea by the students of the Royal CoUoge of Music ia concert-ginug in the excollentmusio room now available to tbem at Alexandra. House. The programmes, which are selected under the supervismon of Sir George (i'rove, are, of course, models of whatsuch things should be, and these semi-publio musie-meetiugs not ...

... ?? TIM3. PAOMENAD CONOERTS. Another classical programme was given at Covent Isst eveninoro, and although theterm elassical seemed to have benu ied in a somewhat elastic eOnse, tho selection 'ghe Wm apaentty qulb satisdor to I the audience. Tiadame Ukslo. for eO-Ie, made her 3 first appearance l season, singing in the o ela d portion' QuanDo a tao et from Faust, and for 4 4 enoerothe ...

... ;LITERARY':NOTES .Meo 'Athenezum c'sys :-Tho Council of the Manchester Literary Club is making'sn appeal to the ?? behalf of the weltl-known authoress Ma. Linnieus Banks, who is aixty-five years of age, and, we rgrc t to say in indifferentcircumestances. Asubcrip- tion list has bean opened, which is headed by !r. JohnD Bright with a dountion of 61. It isproposed to purohaas en annuity forMrs ...

... 'THE LOTHIANS ORCH RERAL CONOERTS. Thanil to the kinduess of his fellow country-. d mDan, the well-known artit, Mr. John 'Pettle, B.A., the young Scottish museanw, Mr. Hasnish Maclunn was enabled togivo at The Lothsna'! lst night the e lot of a sesieo of orchestral oncerts. The Lothians, as everybody knows, is ono of the largest b studios in the artistio colony which is clustered n ...

... TIRAVELUNG DRESS. If 'aevrwe~ may reckon on suntshine in this most versaltile of climastes it is dulring the month ?? many Thousands of Londoners , are now preparing to get away from the beat d and dust of the great cityr to seaside r'esorts or to Continental lakces, rivers, anld mountains, t Tihe bad weather hus by nO means aonfined its sx depressing influences to England, but has At ...

... Art ill vila~techmpol . Tfi latest ?? of thn Whitualinpul Art Exhibition is to bo till art sallool and guild for tho ellcourao nl;;t of tbe art of ?? nta1;ing beautiol thilngs. This will probably bc one of the beoneficial results of the present year's exhibition. 'I'ho school is ea-peeted to open early itl Mny. In the meantime distiig-lishoed artists nro doing their best for it by addresses ...

... THE CONINETNTAL GALLERY. At the Continental Gallery, 157,,New Bond- street, Mr. Dierken has arranged a collection, of about two hundred pictures, and, as on former occasions, the artists represented are of many schools-chiefly Nor- wogisn, Belgian, German, French, Italiaos. and Spanish. A new painting by M. Jan Van Beers, called The Rendezvous-Bois de Boulogne, is intended to be the pi~oe ...

... USI1C. BAND REHEARALS FOR BIRMINGHAM. The orchestral rehearsals for the Birmingham Festival began yesterday morning at St. George's Hall, i and will be continued there daily till Thursday even- ing, the whole party resuming the practices with the chorus at Birmingham itself on Saturday morning, and concluding them on Monday; and the Festival itself beginning on Taesday. Thus-altogether apart ...

... TI lE VOLUNTEERS AND THE LORD I MAYOR'S 8HOW. A large mnooting of oflcers in conmnanc of metropolitau Volunteer Corps, or their reprosentatives, wasa hold on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Queoe's ?? Rifle3, Buchingharn-gats, to onsider a proposition made by thie Lord Mayor Eloct (Mr Aldermnan Witehead) tant the Volunteers of the metropolis should take part in the annual civia proces- sion ...

... If anyone who event to the Court Theatre yesterday afternoon to see Little Goody Two Shoes anticipated that allowance would have to be made in consequence of all the performers being chdidren, nu agreeable surprise must have been the rcsalt. Through- out a brightly-writton piece of 'ive scenes there -wan not the slightest hitch, notwithstanding that some of the little actors ha1d an heavy ...

... TJ-flhl H4NDFIL FESTIVAL:~ Although the attendance-returns at the' publio ta1 rehearsal for ?? Randel Festival are ?? eweted to reach the figures o the plformatuces proper, yet the rehearsal day is gradually growing in importance. Sarnest .ausic lovers mranifestly aprpd to a rooramme in which most; of vol Buars tUU no prt and in which the glgeuah choru and orchestra-that is to say, the ...