... ORCDqSTRLT. CONCEPi'. , us be eos of the ?? ?? 3. ?? ,ietee ?? eriiei; cat 1 eeemoiejoiao' 'jr-ileeora ?? ?? CIL 64e. There , Fo,,0; Shti; TlVeh') l Inil'a cli 7. VWelo So1cn1 Soeo'S-MLauiqus.aitw- ?? Mat Lk1-irS ?? .DW3 T'ic ninthi xid last orchestral concert weas res. *mat-irele for the first production here of a new vll oeetto, magnificently played by 'Franzc so, Odie, for the firfl; ...

... 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 ...

... . FAIRS AND STOCK SALES. COATBRIDGM-A. thp wperly sale on Tuesday the uom- bers forward were 93 cattle. 114 sheep, 17 fat, atd 2S young pgS, There was the usual excellent attendance of buyers erom Al parts. The cattle n-ore an ercteotsbyw. including Monae lots of fine bullocks of preme quality, rar, iul from £2D2 to £24. The sheer, iucluded enmo em tra loets o blackfaced icethers and ensuee ...

... ItISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. The Expositor. Vol, VI.-The present Is' volume of this really useful periodical contains a Pr portrait of Dr Maclaren, of Manchester, and a Pe notice of him by the editor. The portrait is pa admirable-a most striking likeness; the notice is in extremely bad taste. Magazine editors St should ever bear in mind that vulgarity and th candour are not synonymous terms. As to ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. - (sROM onut ow-S CO55REsFOWEXT.) d d London, Sunday Night. The present activity in theatre building in i t London is doubtless accentuated by the sudden ic and largely increased demand. When the fact recently became known that Miss Lydia 6 Thomson proposed temporarily to relinquish t m inanaaement no fewer than six managers competed to secure the Strand Theatre. Ac 'I ...

... SEDITION 'ERIALS IN SCOTLAND., To' those ?? with the deliglotful Mle- tuerilal of Lord Cockburn, or even if they Unod~artaod sthetrwie ?? sheet the savage to-a JuIst' .-Clerk1 Bafild thet tw o new troblljtss~ issued this morning so thle foro'a of an L~c~M~aaiO or TriaL, for Seilitien. will Us 1O'ecooosed. as au insiserttant addition tie the literature of a period whenu it Was almost safer ...

... NOVZ.LS AND STOBES. By Virtue of His Office: a Novel. By Raymond Gray, author of Lindeablumen, &c, I Vol. (London: Kegwas Paul & Co.)- There are two systemns on which the title for a novel may be constructed. One is to take 6 leading character or incident., Aybhr is to take a phrase or motto which has napparent connection with the story, bat irhich will do as well as anything else. Cmeth ...

... a ?? of. J-Xii1i3111v I, JL L i INTETvNAIO -U F'l(ldl ?? -IrA, 2v , Exiil~ilM US 1A- D)u-AL~- An irlternations5i iibtor11c1 ' i r the aujs~icest of the D-iLeno a J e I'latgrapiiic Assoc;du, is ?? Albert listiluLe, Dutide, to. d se c i number of pictures anil pj . ' - 'Z have CoiC corivard frotu ?? ri ll' a Scotlaud and .lLnglsnd, lint a te I ai qurlity of tileexhaeits as a 0 s1 i u advasce ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL EX:HIBITION. 'MEETING OF GENERAL COUNCIL. A meeting of the Association and General Council of the Glrisgow International Exhibition was held yesterday7 in HEitchesons' Hospital Hail, John Street. Thbe Eon. Sir James Ring, Lord tProvost, occupiedL the chair, and there was a good attendauce. Apologies for absence were intimated from the ?? of lvostreee, Sir Windhubm t ...

... COLLAPSE OF NEWCASTLE EXHIBI. TION BUILDINGS. I __'%nbUtI~O r - THREE PERSONS Ii{JURED. Between nine and ten o'clock yesterday morning about 20 men, under the direction of Mr Carrich, general superintendent, and Mor C. Dixon, foreman of the works of the Newcastle Exhibition, were engagea in reducing the south court, when, front some unexplained cause, the whole erection of the Exhibition feol ...

... It __ i NOTES ON IN'EW BOOKS, - Messrs Vizetelly & Co. have issued this week as oce of the Mermaid Series of the best plays of the old dramatists a selection from the works of 1'James Shirley, with an introduction by Mr . Edmund Gosse, M.A., and a portrait of Shirley r from a picture in the Bodleian Gallesry.-Messrs Macmillan & Co. have published a volume con- tainia.g four ghost stories by ...

... LITERATURE, (1) Ebiaigms of tie Spiritml LTLife, In attaining its due recognition this book el bans to contend wvith a double disadvantage. | The practical secularist, belonging to theii widest of sects, be his theories orthodox or ! cc the reverse, holds that a clergymas has had fc his innings inl the pulpit, and is seldom able to assert his claim to have therm again in 16 the press. The ...