... - THFATRE ROYAL THE CARL ROSA OPERLA COMPANY. Bizet's bright, piquant, and characteristic settina of Carmen has always been a favourite with )f7 Rosa's audiences, and it is satisfactory to . that even the loss cf so gifted and popular an imper. sonator of the heroine as Madamn Marie Bore has not sensibly diminished the attractiveness of the opera. The interest of the story and the charm of ...

... [RescTs Tl'eg7am.] SP-A, September 29.-The jarors of the Beauty Show have given their awards. They have assigned the first prize of 5,000f. to 3Mdlle. Bertho Soucaret, aged 18, of (4uadeloupe: and the second of 2,00Q. to Mldlle. Angele del Rosa, aged 16, of Ostend. it is thought, says the Dail?, m'cwz correspondent, that some of the gay young jurors (Belgian barons and French vieomtes) are ...

... E MRa HENRY IRTING ON ACTING AND I AGTOBS. I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Last night~ Mr. Henry Irving was entertained to a banquet by the Edinburgh Pen and Pencil Club. in the Wa~terloo Hotel. Mr. Lowe, George Harlot's Hospital, presided, and pronosed the toast Mr. Irving and the t Drama.' Mr. Irving, who was received with loud auplanse, said I return to youa my most earnest thanks -for the hearty way ...

... NEWBOOKS. ;S- re: ' Romance Founded on Fact. 1-k ,- } ;ey CoL. in Three Volumes. T Fisher Unwin.r id f.,,tca;_ a vLC>3 othewvayinwhdeh~fia work of art my b o e Lathered from the following sea- ic' whia eceen ' ust as thme reader is supposed to b 'e 'mit Gen toe denoannent of a story intended )-,t;:rious ,_ Although the brave, ,e's not fizro .s one ii. y stYo, still, Y think, consider- ;--rc? ...

... RE~~mOSZESCES ~~or Two Exs (Kossath and! Puistrl ) Two PYeats (Crimean and Franco-: Austrian). By F. W. NYVWMA. [London : Kegan Pant, Trench, ando Co.] Te evet and cha aters witha which Professor Newma-f deals are probably to the -majority of ti eerunailiest' more ancient hi:story than the s~candal about Queen Elizabeth. Professor N~ewnan took. , warnsl and glowing interest in them 'tlene they ...

... Yesterday the Blistol Musical Festival Wa continued at the Colaton Hall, the works selected for the morning con- cert being Cberubini's beautiful Mass in C (his fonrth), and Mackenzie's Rose of Sharon. Bottlhese items received their initial representation in the tern city, and the richness and perfection of their rendeA tg will long live in. the memory of those who listened toile ...

... I ASWD;SSIGFN, Zf IT SERa Or LESSOmS. B RaC. LEtA0, ILA., F.R.LS. [London: Whtita-ket andi Co.] fL 1eland claims for his system that by it any per- son capable Of learning to write may also learn not! on1l to draw but also to design or to invent originals outline decorative design, and that every lessoni1 eay, and forms a gradual advance from tle preced- and further, lhe affirms that it has ...

... CARL ROSA OP61tiA COPAXbY. Brief mention has already been made of the attrac- tive programme which MAr Rosa has-arranged for the short season of opera that commences at the Theatre Royal to-night, when Meyerbeer's Robert the Devil vwill be produced with an exceptionally strong cast. The special novelty this time will be HalTvy'| grand spectacular opera La Juive, first produced in Paris in ...

... A MUSEUM OF IMIOSTURES. Most people are aware of the existence of the Museum of Criminal Curiosities at Scotland Yard. though the privilege of visiting it is somewhat jealously guarded. But I have never met anyone who has ever heard of, much loss seen, the extraordinary collection of pictorial and literary appeals to the benevolent that the excellent Society for the Renr3ession of Mendicity ...

... I SDGTULAR WATCHES AND CLOCKS. Mr. Octavius Morgan has made a handsome bequest to the British Museum, a feature of which is a collection of remarkable clucks and watches. For fifty years BMr. Yforgan fwas engaged in the collection of his gift. The col- lecton includes clocks and sundials as well as watches. andit mey fairly claim to illnctrate all the varieties of mechanism which many ...

... CA[RL ROSA OPERA COMPAN'Y. Balfe's Bohemian Girl' last night brought to- gether, as usual, a large and appreciative audience, and, in spite of the new influences which are abroad, the melodious attractions of this popular example of English ballad opera are evidentlw as great as ever for the mass of music-lovers The cast was as iollows: - Thoxddeus, Mr. John Child; Count Arnkcem, Mr. Leslie ...

... on SRaturday there was a private view of the tenth anneal Exhibition and Maiket of Machinery-appliances Sc end produce in connection with brewers, mal1taters, distil, in lers, wine and spirit merchants, mineral-water manufac- H tursrg, and other affiliated trades at the Agricultural th Hall, London. Although at present in a crude and de unfinished state, the exhibition is so far advanced that ...