... WE M RARMOLCJLBILEE. F A CETURY 'OF MU7-SIC IN Iiic g LIVER.POOL. at ,r ?? for though the Liverpool Lia Pilrnruic Society Only claims existence as it i rom 1840, yet its predecessors and early inr w oraries are entitled to some place in a I of its-deeds and its memoirs on the occa- oie t jubilee. And it is sonewbat hard chi ,wswhereto begin. The-chrunicle of mnch ai gt t b't be cse, had ...

... ART NOTES 1 1 -. i The exhibition of the Liverpool Society-of Painters in Wate-colours, at the Walker Ast Gallery, closed on Saturday. We regret to learn that the sales were nder £200. The artists who sold drawiang were W. J. J. C Bond, 1; J. Towers, 1; B. D. Sigmund, 2; Jolan Pedder, 2; Emma Walter, 1; Iee Rogers, 1; James L Watta, 1; Helena 3lagure, I; M L Seffi, 1; Kate Macauly, 1; Mary ...

... In these days when criticism has coped with I tre-t so various and by paths so diverse I that it seems to have left nothing unexplored lI the domain of accessible knowledge, Chinese ! ,*t has had the singular good or ill fortune to ,scape all researches. Hitherto we have had 8 - general ideas or partic lar views on ithe ,ethetic manifestations of the Chinese genius. For 40 centuries Chinese ...

... TflE LAWYR. 1 RDM~D BY A BARRISTER AT LAW. - R No. CXIX, maul AN~SWERS 'TO CORRESPONDENTS. ntd WILiLS. IB~A.ROW.-We Would recommend yon to vest all W., your property in two trustees upontxust for sale and 1875, coniversioin at your death, and for division of the Pro- mom ceeds among the persons you wish to benefit. The the following is a concise form of will - This is the last offici will of ...

... GossiP WITH THE CHILDRFNs I BY UNCLE'OLDMAN. In the old orchard wvhere the thrusb, of wbic~h I spoke a few weeke ago, had built is a splendid apple tree with U thick-guarled trunk and far-stretchlng branches, which latterly have been covered with bloom. I have had a garden seat placed benesth it, and there Aunt Mary and I have spent some pleasant u hourd during the sammner-like days with ...

... EARTH AND HOME. BY A LADY CONTRIBUTOR. The Art Museum in Aucoats reminded us of its V existence by thbe annual meeting of its supporters thh held on -Wednesday. The Committee seem to find of r great difficulty in ?? money ?? to carry Ofte ant their plann, which is surely a6 great pity when one he considers what a go~id work ;it id that they have in the hand. For one thing the AA~ Museum, is ...

... 31USICAT NOTES. t woul appear teat even greater interest the was anticipated has gathered round itheF on F ifty Years' Music in Liverpool,i w$ b ich appeared last Tharsday and on $,Forsdsy Ceek respectively. Although the 7 bsr , pains have been taken to render the * Des in question as accurate and complete as --tie, many details must almost of necessity [7,been omitted which would interest ...

... US= NO= k8? rle mi ~r~ dealing with the, ,toryof the pasteo-year, orsosof msi i :a lo Iverpool, afl - cnnecation with what w _s t..mi thertin a correvaoadent painhiw _hst ' hc cgdm e -af ctad tionesto 4daja. ; -was itended vit ard to the final e Of, of rg tte-old FestLhal Choral Society-was is. In- M -or abcetl852 it had toaU . and purpes -received its r me at tbe hand of the them 9 - ...

... Br D of The Southport Corporation Spring Exhibition ar id closed on Saturday. The attendance of visitors at .ij has been very good, and the result of reducing mn e. the admission to threepence from seven to nine le p.m., Ras been that the aalleries have been e Is crowded in the evenings. During the week, m rt and since our last publis'oed list, the following di pictures have been sold :- ...

... BURLESQUE EXHlBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. ad In the remarkable series of between 80 and a oh 90 drawings in monochrome, which are now on a view at Mr. Grindley's gallery, Church-street, v Mr. Harry Furniss, of Punch celebrity, shows a himself to be both :a thorough humourist and a versatile mimin The pictures constituting this n of Artistic Joke, whioh in London was nick- r be named The ...

... THE EXHIBITION ATUNEW BRIGHTON. OPENING OF A CLUB. In consequence of the magistrates having refused f to renew the license for the sale of intoxicating i liquors to the Brewers', Vintners', and Industrial Exhibition at the Palace, New Brighton the a exhibitors aud others interested in the Exhibition have formed themselves into a cluab, called the 13 New BrIghton Exhibition Club, by which ...

... bo Yesterday, the sale of the Boadle collection ir of pictures was concluded by Messrs. Branch be and Leete, when the following were the highest r- prices realised for guineas .- The Defeat of ir Ki~lerman's Cuirassiers by Somerset's Cavalry y, Brigade at Waterloo, 350, Sydney Cooper, d R. A. ; Snowdon from the Pass of Nantlie, It 225, Copley Fielding; The Last Man, 65, t John Martin; ...