... CONVERKAZIONE IN EXHIBITION HALL. A conversazione in connection with the Girls' Temperance Club, of which Miss Walkington, T'aornhill, is president, and Miss Walker and Miss Bell are honorary secretaries, was given last even- ing in the Exhibition Hial. The club is in a very prosperous condition, and is doing a very usefa1 work for the promotion of temperance in the city. Thc hail hod been ...

... BEL4FA.ST. A RT GAtL iLRY. . AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF trh PICTURES. ,th THE N'EW LOAN FROMt SOUTHe K;ENwSING- th TON,.z~ Thlere is a~t present on view inL Roomn A of she ?? A4rt (lallery of the Free Public Library a very to fine collection of vwater-colour ,uaintings, which eg .w~ill well repay iaspectioul by the citizens gene- wv tally, and which will be of special interest to the fr ...

... .nioya-l Academy and New Galleiy Pictures. Tbhose who wish to have an illustrated record of the pictures of the year cannot tio better than per- *hase this work, w-hich is published, at the price )f one shilling, at tbe offices of Black and WVhite, 63, Fleet Street, London. The pictures cre well printed. aid an excellent impression of the works of our great artists is conveyed. In the same ...

... The long-expected selection from the papers of I Lady Louisa Stuart-Lady Mary Wortley -Men- tagu's granddaughter-is to be, iisued at la-,. It has been edited by the Honourable Jaines A. Home, and consists of some unpublished letters to and from Walter Scott, a family history of John. Duke of Argyll and Gieenwich, 'The Diananad Robe, and other sketches. A German translation of M-r. Sidney ...

... The annual show in cnnection with the Donegal estate of the Earl of Erne was held yesterday at Ballindrait under most favourable and pleasurable circumstances. The weather was beautifully fine, the attendance large, and competition in the various sections keen. Theentriesnumberedin all close on 150, being just about three times the number shown at the first exhibition in 1854, as well as an ...

... NIEYR BOOKS AND MAGAZINES' THE LAw. RELATING TO LocAL GovFar_3iExT a InLts.ND, being the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, and other statutes affecting county anul district counedls; together with orders and rules made therein: edited with notes of deci- sions, tables of cases and statutes, and an index hb George F. B. Vanetbo. M.A., LL.D , Bar- riSter-at-Law. Editor of 'The Grand Jury ...

... Tan second annual amateur concert was given yesterday evening in the lecture-hall in con- noction with. Fortwiitam Park Presbyterian f Church, and wvas 'very successful. The a large hall, which was decorated for the occasion by Messrs. George Morrow & Sons, North Queen Street, was crowded. The first part of the programme opened with the overture, IDn Calif de Bagdad (Boildicu), by the ...

... FASHIONABLE DRESS I NOVELTIES IN AUTUMN AND WINTE2 FABRICS. FROM THE LADY'S PICTORIAL. LADIE.s who are still debating as to the choice of materials for their autumn gowns should certainly lose no time in writing for patterns of novel dress fabrics to Henry Pease & Co.'s Successors, the Mills, Darlington. They will receive by return of post a neatly-packed box of most tempting patterns, and ...

... ROYAL TUBJLEE EXHIBITION, MANCHESTEIR 1887. I rnest OUIR SPECIAL rEPRESENTATCVE.] Tim people Of Manachester are certainly to be ConD gratulatej on their choice fori celebrating the Jubilee year of our Gracious M8ajesty's reign. The Exhibition, whicll stands about two miles and a half outside the city. at a. place nesred Old Traf- ford, will be undoubtedly one of the most impor- tant ...

... FASHION ABLE EVEN'fG DRESS. A LADY correspondent of the dSis; cr-d wries:- This is essentially a ribbon season, ribbion trini- Mings being largely employed, especially for ball dresses. Dozens of vards are used for one gownt arranlged either in trails or loops. bows or Qots. cascades or rosettes; while in many instances the v.hole skirt is made of ribbon sewn in lines on a lace or net ...

... THEATRE ROYAL-, -THE GOLDEN LADDER. Win question very much if better work thin that which appears in The Golden Ladder? has ever been associated with a melodrama. The piece, which was performed at the Theatre last evening by a highly efficient company, bears every token of having been moulded under T. the skilful hands of Mr. Wilson Barrett, a manager TO whose judgment has never been found ...

... C ST'rrANGeBs in Paris at the present moment, says j the Paris correspondent of the Globe, -may spend 1 an agreeable hour or two at the Exposition de Sauvetage, which is being held in the Palais de j P'Iadustrie. It was opened a fortnight ago, but, X like all exhibitions, it was behind time, and is only now getting into apple-pie order. I must, how- ever. warn visitors beforehand that the show ...