... MILTON aouS. ss D.srs D. Thail & Co. have this year devots'r the beck of the ground fleer of their premtsee ia Cowcaddens to their annual Christmas Fancy Fair, Here they hasve arranted a very interesting grotto constructed oF cork. bark, ferns, and other greeu plants, and with a small 'lake in the centre, iroma which a tiny fountain seads sn oraamental spray- Of water up to a heighlt of about ...

... SIR MORELL M ACKENZIE IN I.1 EDINBURGH. hil - - s LECTURE ON SPEoECH AND SONG. - I Last evening Sir Morell Mackenzie lectured in Jthe Music Hall, Edinburgh, to the members Of the 'g 2Philosophical Institution, tle title of the discourse - beiug Speech and Song. The ball was crowded. r: MrJ. R. Findlay presided. 'The lecturer, in his introductory remars, stated that when first he s was ...

... (IoFXO5 OUR OWNI coofhhoGnmn) London, Sunday Niglz* I Messrs Sims and Pettitt's now play The Silver Falls was produced last night at the Adelphi amid every evidence of popular success. That these two experienced dramaltists would travel too far out of the beaten track of Adelphi melodrama was not to be expected, but at any- rate they have displayed considerable ingenuity in construction, and ...

... ?? CHIORAL UNION CONCEUT. THE GOLDEN LEGEND- LORD I ULLIN'S DAUGSTER.1 At the first concert of the present seasont given last night in the Greenock Town Hall by S the Crcenocl Choral Union, one of the I S cbicZ works prteromed is by an Engiish camn- P poser, whs25 years ago gave promise of things' 'greater than he has ever fultilledl: the other by a a young Scotcihmari, whose productions ...

... F GLA.SGDO CHI-ORAL UNION, LI R~fITT&L COCERT. C, Li~ ~ ?? ?? . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . t ?? Ar the ?? orchestral Concert of the Ohm Al ionirs a arg andicace testified by their; I li'ic.''s Inal Cii'a3attention the steady growth 0 ?? uc r-'n'rpthy fcor whiat is best in music, anditheir cnienein. the able canductor under i ,h -eee uianethey have becom a aiirisd viti nliy of the greatest ...

... , en - _ ..7 ,.7 f .. e O wns ?? the mart yesterday there was a fair supply f stock, and a large attendance of dealers. Trade for beef and. mutton similar to late markets Store cattle diaacult tosell. ?? heifers, £9 cs to £16 2s 6d; fat cows, £9 to £11- fat buil Oks. £9 2s Sd to £i6 2s 6d: solving cows. L 4to £16; do. hcifers, £ID to £14 5Ics; bouse-bred sti ks, £6 Ss to £9 4s; Irish stirks, ...

... MUSW9 AND THE DIZAIMA. I V 1 (reOM OUR OWN COanEsP0oDNFT.) t Loudon, Sanday Night. 9 Thze new Lyric Theatre, which is the ?? j 3addition to London places of amusement, will be publicly opened to-morrow, when ?? V 'performance of Dorothy will be given. ?? the house was courteously thrown r open to members of the press, aud last night fart: into the small hours of the morning a reception was ...

... 3r'.SlC AND THE DRAMA. (FRO-M OUR OwN CORRESPooDmaX ) London, Sunday Nighbt. The Grand Theatre at Islington, built on the site of the house which was burnt down last year, vas opened last night for a weel's run of the princesses piece, The Still Alarm. A ,rivate view was given a day or two before of t 1 house which is intended to be managed more o pr 1ess on the lines of an ordinary ...

... CHORA-1 - OrtRClESTRAL I CONCERTS. I LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. . ~ ?? __ t1L Cioens. The iharge of the Liarht ?? ' r - 52. Air, Whsre the .4.. , ?? ?? . C.,. 5. Aria, Che ?? 0 ,nz.Ee t rdi ?? ?? 4 Ballad tfo orchstra, 'Tiso Doie ic Dsu o ?? 1 m tune i Yarroes . .. 5. Air, Thou caasyi ieat c to h:t'e ?? ' * 6. Air, ' l sen, theut Angry slauri ?? . 7. PTcersoin,:ca Srei aid (Ahoesus ...

... S ITURDAY POPULAR CONCERT. German flaneo lot ?? ~ o civ a'S Ar-'Lend! me yor 1 , S cherze . nd Woddiug Starch ?? 6O Symphony inrF. No. s ?? YS Sn --I ccci fo the n vey loe r: Smiepbeciehoecm- LI R.eat dOanihaie. ..cL. lioeS i- si3y Onice ?? ?? .. Meir-Stn J10. Giomy Dances from, Etienne ?? -Sei~ Iii ?? of the mnuah-regtetled illness of M1r Andre~w Black' and a difficulty consnected Iwith ...

... LI ThEaA T LT RE. . h'OTES 0 Nil B-) Qfl'S. Messrs -ampson Lew, Marston, Starle & Rivington (Limited) have publsiied Men and Measures of Eiall'-aCentury: Sketches and Comments, by Hu.h II'Cullsch, U.S. Secre- tary of the Treasury in the Administrations of' Presidents Linrcoln, Johlson, aasl Arthur and Vol. II. of Mr Arthur Way's ?? Lliad of Homer done into English ?? XIII. to XXIV. -Mr ?? ...

... TH1EATRE-ROYAL. L THE FORTY THIEVES. While the managers of thehoterttwo Glagow theatres at which pantomisae is to run its merry coarse, through t Christmas seazon are busy fc rehearsing witll closed doors, Messrs Howardl & fc Wyndh am, having applied the closure during the ic past week, challenge, as they did last night, the a public verdict with respect to their first Royal ai pantomime, ...