... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... J1USIC AND THE DRAMA, (FROs OUR ows C9RRESPONDRNT.) London, Sunday Night. ,z'The Haymarket Theatre last night re-opened for the seasonwith Mr Haddon Chambers's play, I Captain Swift. The piece, it will be recol- r lected, was originally produced at a matinee, r anid it has since been revised, though not per- I Laps with such thoroughness as could be wished. t Mr Beerbohni-Tree again plays ...

... |EDINBURGH AUTUUX, FLOWER SHpI(-. The annual autumn sbow hield under the auspices of tha CaledQnian. Hocticnlara Society was opened in Mhe Wavirily Markot, Edinburgh. yesterday. Neither in point of number of entries nor quality of enhibits was the show equal to those of folmer years, the falling-off in nunbers being chieffyin fruit entries. In the case of outdoor- grown flowers and fruits the ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL ..iX H111TI I 0 N. The bad weather experienced on Saturday bad an appreciable effect on the attendance at the Exhibition, and wh^en, the returns were made up at closing titan it Was found that 43,062 persons had passed the turnstiles against 62,80S on the previous Saturday. Very many ci the visitors came to the city by excursion trains.from Leeds, Bradford, Liverpool, ...

... ' KNOTES ON NEW BQOXS. Messrs Chatto & Wiedu9i have published, M' Modern Street Ballads, by John Ashton, author of Social Life in the Reign of Queen , Ainn, gwith 56 illustrations reproduced from the old ?? Swan Sonneonchein -& Co. Epublish A Moral Bigamist: A Story of I Ourselves in ?? Messrs Seeley d 2 Co. we have The Captain of the Wight * A o Romance of Carisbrooke Castle iA 1488, by ...

... - OTES ON NLiW BOOKS. V First among the gift-books which bogin to I appear with the falling leaves is the volume for E 1887-88 of the English Illustrated Magazine. It c is a mine of literature and art, and aetogether , s wonderful production at the money. Mr T. li Fisher Unwin, who publishes the foregoing, also il sends us 1 Esop's Fables for Little Readers, a told by Mrs Arthur Brookfield, ...

... LITgRATVRE! wt accused,: Dr Abel Wynd, is charged with having ab poisoned hisfather-in-law. The evidence against C .him is so strong that his guilt is a moral .lu , certaiity, but there lacks just sufficient legal proof. to enablea him to escrspe the scaffold. th body of the- Court is thoroughly convinced- f . f hisguilt and filled with admiration for the taudacity, ?? wbhiclehasaccou. as ...

... LITERALTURE 7- N VOTES ON NEW BOOK?. Messrs Swran Soienschie6in & Co. have pub. lished. '4The 'Pageant of iL e, its ePiC poem i five books, by George Barlow.LTo the series of Great Writers 'Mr- Walter Scott has added .Bunyan, 'by Canon Venables, of Lincoln.- A -ig- aud;! ot Ka 'rmg. -'is the tills. of .a story in one illustrated volama which Messrs- Swran -Sonnenschein . sCe. have ...

... ; MR IRVING IN LOUIS XL t The popularity of Mr Henry Irving and his d company has been attested during the present a engagement more fully perhaps than on the b occasion of any former visit. It is only a year Since Faust was produced at the Royalty x Theatre, so that it was not of the nature of a k novelty at this time. Moreover, this is Exhibi- F tiess year in Glasgow, and since Mr Irving ...

... SUALES AT THE EXHIBITION. f I INTERIM IN TE RDIr GRANTED. t Yesterday afternoon the application by tbe i Executive Counoil of the Exhibition to have . Mars CampbeU & Co., fruit and Japanese merchants, Glasgow, interdicted fron selling goede s at, and to ba carried away from, their stall in the Exhibition without 'special permissior came up t again before Sheriff Guthrie. His Lordship ?? t the ...

... I OT __ D o nnt anual show of the Scottish XKeanenlI aelb a pened i* the Wavorley Market, Edin.3 burgh, yesterday,, The exhibitions which was the largest yet bold-there being In all 1045 entries, or 100 over laot year's number-also cropmped favalor- Abl~y in point of quality with previous ahews. As ,formerly there were a large number of prizesj 0 ofered for competition in the- various classes ...