... :rgv GLASGOWY EXHIBITION. eo- FROGsrESS OF THE OPERATIONS-THE Itn ROYAL 4 VISITORS. I ye ,--1t is now stated that the Prince and Princess Itb *f Wales during their visit in connection with the openin.g of the Exhibition are to be the Po Sof Lord Hamilton of Dalzeli. The severe ea ' iler of the past few days has somewhat i.l. larded the progrr.ess oi operations in the open I an 5ir -enartment ...

... , en - _ ..7 ,.7 f .. e O wns ?? the mart yesterday there was a fair supply f stock, and a large attendance of dealers. Trade for beef and. mutton similar to late markets Store cattle diaacult tosell. ?? heifers, £9 cs to £16 2s 6d; fat cows, £9 to £11- fat buil Oks. £9 2s Sd to £i6 2s 6d: solving cows. L 4to £16; do. hcifers, £ID to £14 5Ics; bouse-bred sti ks, £6 Ss to £9 4s; Irish stirks, ...

... , I -1-- WINTER EXHIBITION. p a The present exhibition is the best of theh Institute that has yet been held. This praise, P however, has to be qualifiedO The exhibition'sm superiority consists to a great extent in the cir- E cumstance that the walls are no longer crowded C with pictures, that the hanging is consequently bI much improved, and that there is not such an h overwhelming number of ...

... DR CHARLES HALLE IN I ED INBURGH. ,e CHAMIBER MUSIC CONCERT. Ut 1 Qnin'ette-1aneiforte and strings- op. 44 . ..S S nion 2. Solntu foe pi.o d olln. A r or5 ?? BC ' . 5. Solo itnootorts, Caprica Brtllit ?? ?? OIUendrllou is Snlesae nod ?? in E minor . Mrendetso;e, 4. Solo ?? in 0 minor . .pohr. I lb Solerzaini D ?? ?? , ,. C 5. tir.n . Sept ..r, , , , ., tBsehecm3 r Contrary to the cusoomn ...

... MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE-THE FUTURE OF THE EXHIBITIOH BUILDINGS. A iispeciai meeting of the Executive Council of the Exhibition was held yesterday in the ball of H Hutbtesous' Hospital-Sir Archibald Campbell, Bart., presiding. The minutes of the Entertainments Committee bore that the committee bad agreed to ?? end r thates ergagement 'of Mr De Banzie and the Exhibition Band should terminate at ...

... ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY'S HOSE SHOW. The twenty-first annual hone and sheep show - of the Royal Dublin, Society opened yesterday .moraiag at Ballsbridge. The weather unfortui. nately did not turn out so favourably as could bave been wished, but this did not prevent a large n.uaber of visitors from putting i5 an appearance. The Lord-Lieutenant was au early visitor. He entered some of the rings ...

... I MELBOURNE CENTENNI&L EXHIBITION. THE OPEMNG CEREXIXNt. w4rto OUR OWN CunR5ESCOIXDENT,) '4 Melbourne, '2d August, 1888. The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition was opened yesterdaybyj Sir Henry BroughamI Loch; the 4overaor of. Viotoria, and associated with him. on the dais were five Governors of the Iseighbouring colonies, naniely-LoldCarrington, of New South Wales; Sir W. F. . .Robinsor, of ...

... THE ARTS AND CRAFTS ; EIXHIBfTION. k (moM o SPECIA COREsO ST.) The New lallery could have been pot to no worthier use than to contain the-exhibits ofij the first display of the Arts and Crafbt Society. I' The body has been much discussed aforehand, and its aims widely sympatbised with, though 1 the voice of the scoffer-particularly he of the! slender purse-has not been unheard. OE what ...

... K KILLEARN CATTLE SHOW, The annual show of the Killearn Agricultural Association took place yesterday at Killearo, The show is the largest in the district, which comprifes the parishes of Killsarn, Strathblane, Drymen, Balfron, and Fintry. This year the entries showed a considerable falling off as compared with last year, the numbers an the list being:-Horses,,so; cattle, S1 ; sheep, 73; ...

... ROYALTY-IMISS LYDIA THOMPSON t AND COMPANY. Such a merry piece of recklessness as the v Kenilworth burlesque is perhaps the very best C thing that a manager could put forward at a fl time when popular favour has so vary strong at- tractions held out to it elsewhere ; and bur- d lesque will surely have lost much of its charm e wvhen the Yolatile Leicester and Varney and his U villanies have ...

... - me 1 Figure subjects largely~ determine the popu- out 'larity of an exhibition of pictures. This perhaps pet ifis a pity, but it is none the less true. Portraits de ...

... NYOTES ON Fr- BEOfTS . | Messrs Hurst & Blackett publish To Siam aend Malaya in the Dnke of Sutherland's 1 Yacht ' Sans Peur,' by 'Mrs Florence Caddy, i author of, Through the Fields with Linnau, in one ?? George Redway publishes The White Ring; or Charles the First and the Menand Women, Life and Manners, Literature 1 and Art, of England in the First Half of the 17th Century, by WV. H. ...