... FiThe amiral sahw tanner tle atnpi~es of thn Jahle| Cos.ine Society taink piace :'.vterday t'.i the Gwsd Tenar I Ha~ll. t'aiils'. 'ilere wcre Zi claswes for ?? io, anl d thle enliries nussered cloie cn 407. Th^ cxhibits ver.' ex- c.i'tnt In tarititA, morve escialy in thc collic (lasses, whicr' leyo CrissliterjLLh' abere thc average. The s'r.ee',c' armr.unted to £7S, and, in addition to this. 1 ...

... RRUSSIA AND THE I The able wrter wo conceals his identity under thesam de gerr of Vladimir has preparedia vlume fell of wefl-chosen and well-digested inforrme. On the development of the Rssian Empire is tine detion of the PMee . SRe has laid under con. tdiucn many works not accessible ts English readers, andl has Prepared, himself f s task - by a, IOur-jnoths lcurney across Siberin fromz ...

... IN UEPWARUDS HALF A CE-NTuSY~x. D a21Y WE ThEATEE RXOL To- uiH U Dfntr, TEr Col ¶'WZcZDAr.n. 1.50 & ?.30.J&CE AN-D THE BEANTl rm Dn l2nd. Johmde Dan1nT , CaLd G EALLt. W Nolmn MeleLwj DU.a PEmio T.i S. ts. .ha Tlaois SVER YA3ESTrS THEATBE. Tro-Tha.ys: 7.16 and 8.16, KLN(4 JO RN. IMr. Tree. Mr. r~nkl 1arrMr. La Cnvet~ 3ir. Will trm Mol [ra . EL A. Cookamn, Mr. )SoPKR. oel M.GA LwV M r.n ...

... FI I RS. KINGSCOURT-Thlis monthly fair weas held yesterday, and was well supplied with stock of all kinds. There was a good attendance of buyers and business was brisk all round. Store cattle in good demand. T'hree year old heifers and bul- locks fe.tched from .£10 10s to £12 10s; two year olds, £7-15s to £69; vearlings, £4 153 to £6 5s; weanlinrgs, 35s to 50s. Springers in active re- quest at ...

... ICUMAR& AT TBZI ALMT NA g m. BnRnU'3S VBa&OK LAA Now Year's Day * I 1e pormaee of the MeDsah wR given by the Royal Cboral Society at the Albert ell, under Mir Frederick Bridge; Mozart's additional scctpanints being abandoned, vad the rendering of the oratorio, to a certain extent, approaching those of Handel's own day. A true Handelian performance is. of I Course, now imrlpracticmble, szept ...

... lent- cult tent The first four volumes of the new series. of lese the Oxford Classical Texts (Scriptorum Classicoraum are Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) wvill be issued imme- oks, diately fro ...

... FASHION AND VARIKiS -VICERFIOAL COURT. The Lord Lieutenant, K G, received Sir I wniiam~l JiTtc9ernc vesterday afteroolt and bade him farewell previous to his departure for South Africa. ARRIVAL.a AND DEPAt *dRES. Captain Haghes has arrived at Kingatown; from England. Licutenant.ColOill S Watson. R F A, has arrived a Kingstoswon from England. Captain Leigh, 1st W A F, has arrived at Kingstowin ...

... I ,SA]BBATFiT YN NCJHYTTRItI. I (Yn ddiveddala trerliodd ainl Gynmro yn Ysgotland Sabbath gydavnti gilvdd, a dyma fel y rhoddasant fylnegiad i'w hiratbth am Sabbath yn Nghymrni). Salbbath gwyn1 yw Sabbath Cymru, Sabbathi tawel anwyl yn, Sabbath llawn o wir addoli- Sadbbath o ddcyrchafn Dmv. Er mai eiddil gysgod ydyw O'r tragwyddol Sabbath mawl, Sabbath y Sabbatran ydyww Yniblitb holl ...

... With Vaudyck at the Academy, and Rubens and the Early FIlemish masters at the New Gallery, the new year has. begun excellently for the exhibition-goer. The Vandock show is generally pronounced to be equal, at least, to the collection at Antwerp last year, and those people who do not quite understand Vandyck'sxwell-defined position, higher tha1] most, yet not among the highest (which some of ...

... ?? fMMWDS LhM. The s woe of im prde esors no ?? | Pleadu's sznpat~ot~io h~inigtt into girl-rxture, I en~les her to furnlish tl3 wth a suenssinn of froslh und lovable typos of heroines. WVeterna Wielihain, luovilig in high Nociety, and god- ?? of a diliess, finds ?? at tweuty- I ro cillold upon with hor widowed mother to fnce piworty. Of the wrack of their fortunes uifly the widow's penixion of ...

... REVI EWS. A ADELIGHTFUL BOOK.S1 FEw of: those who read. the '.' Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holrpyd can have been content to take leave of that delightful young woman without-a strong hope that it was only ni; ;'ezvir. There should be accordingly a 'hearty welcome for these letters written after her marriage with Mr. Stanley, afterwards Sir John,,and later the first Lord Stanley of Alderlev. ...

... INCORPORATE D 8CIETy O. MUSIIA S CONFER' CENCE AT SARBO~UOBI; Yesterday was the first day of, the fifteenh an nual -conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians at the Grand' ERote!, IScaborough. On Monday evening- the Yorkshire section bad held a reception for membera -from ore--distanit parts, .but the business of the con- ference did not really commence until yesterday morn- ing, ...