... A meeting of shareholders in the Metropolitan Music Hall Company, Limited, was held on Saturday after- noon, at the ball, Edgware-road, the circular convening the meeting stating that the directors regretted to inform the shareholders that in consequence of the failure of the company's bankers it had been found essential, for the protection of the assets of the com- pany, that a provisional ...

... 1.: .- I-- . A: - I-- - TM BALL' ATf vn~xmsoN HOUSB' Aa 4sb e-h ?? Pieirs fo this a week- The ee_' lbyee ~At Z ' at ' e en Wedmsia ev e a tlhe brigts ad. lietlat fasta ffI tur tor log s~it in the fiu old hiNted. walh, ?? amy dvai entertain. smuts hwe from ixap to time Mm Keny, wife of Wm lordshio 3westaxy (whe. by the wa, is a. mmober ci the &og Bar, an a y soureoe- ge- tlena tboq). acted The ...

... SA TURDA Y, SUNDAY, AND. MONDA F. : SATURDAY. Royal Botanic Society-Election of Fellows, 3. SundaySSchool Association-Breakfastand Meeting, Essex Hall, 9. National Health Society-Ambulance Lecture, 27, Coilingbhaingardens. Sweating System-Street Parade, .,3o; Meeting Mile-end Waste, 6. to. C. Armrlnuser on Wagner,- Royal Institution, Professore Ayrton and Perry on Electromotors, Physical ...

... 71liE LIFE OF BIShIOP WORDS WORUTHI.* -I I - , - - . A Ii cannot be doubted that we owe much of the completeness of this picture of Bishop Wordsworth to the collaboration which has produced it. No one could be more competent to speak of the Bishop in his home than his eldcst daughter ; Canon Overtorn, on the other hand, as a Lin- colrishire incniilhcrt and a prebendary of the cathedral, saw ...

... TEE GLASaOW EXEIBITION. SECOND NTOTIOL. (By Oa~r O0 Beaursr) In default of any more convenient place, we have, in our first notice of the Glasgow Exhibition, sketched the more interesting objects in the long* nave and in the transverse avenue. The courts E lying to the sides of the nave, thirty-sevren in num- her, next invite attention. Three courts and part of a fourth, adjacent to the ball ...

... I NEVER quite know what to make of critics, said Sir Everett Millais in an interview which we reported yesterday; ' one. condemns what the other applauds. Sir Everett Millais is quite right, as the following parallel passages, culled from some of the criticisms upon the summer exhibitions, will sufficiently show. What, for instance, we wonder, will Mr. Strudwick make of the critics who ...

... irbeatricat oxms. I I I.Ir Barnea of New York was put in the evening st the Olympic last week-, hub somehow the uvon it iB not favourable. d es Dornton has secured the provincial anmy Kree, with the exception of a few >h reserved by DMr Barrett, Garrick reahes its 3BDuh night at the I terion to-morrow, 1istated that M Ir Richard Mansell, lessee of the t ThaTtre, Manchester, has secured ...

... N I D N I GH T. A New and Original Romantic Play, In Five Acts, by James IV. Furrell and Eugine C. Stafford, Played, for the First Time, at the Princess's Theatre, on Thursday Afternoon, May 24th, 1883. Mathilde ?? FRANCES IVORL Rebecca .Miss ELEANoR LErOYtON Christine ?? Miss LUCILR HEATON Lorenz Aerts .Mr LEONARD OuTRAM Mordecai M Air CLAUDE LLEWRLLYN Franz . , Mr PHILIP DARWIN Peter ...

... MR. APTOMMAS'S EARP MATINEE, The brilliant harpist Mr Aptommas gave the first of I a series of concerts, in which his own performances will be a prominent feature, at Steinway Hall, on Wednes- day afternoon. Mr Aptommas has been called the Paganini of the harp, owing to his great command of the instrument, and, although the violin and the harp are as dissimilar in character as can well be, ...

... GLASGOW INTERNIAT ION AL EXHIBITION. GLASGOW, SATURDAY BVENING.-The follow- l lug is the record of admissions for to-day (28th L May) :-By payment, adults, 20,752; payment, a children, 3,890; railway, ateamboat, and coupon a tickets, ,8 9 82; season tickets, 23,019 ; attendants, 4,054; total for to-day, 53,677; previous admissions, 3 588,469; total since opening day, 642,146. The inaugural ...

... PW I.LHELI. THIE EIVIONYDD PAROCHIAL CHOIRS FESTIVAL. The question is often asked: Of what use are the Church Festivals ? We may reply by asking in turn, Of what use are family rejoicings ? The answer in both oases is the same-they mtist he. Modern Christians have yet to learn a truth wel!- known to their forefathers, that what exists must be. That is, if there are certain things in ...

... Ecormous as Was the amount roalised by tho recent Wallach bcnefit in Now York-namely, 22,000 dollars, or 4,5001.-it did not, as the A.mericaus say, 1 beat the record. The largest tionut ever talcou at a benefit in the Ihnited titautes was 3,500 dollars, or upwards of 7,O001. ,The fortunato rocipient of this magnificent pro-, seut was Mr. Abboy, the ?? manager, in whose honiour this ...