... TAY BRIDGE ACCIDENT FUND CON CERT. Last night a concert was given on behalt of the sufferers by the 'l'ay Bridge accident ia :oe Ci;v ' Hall by the INorLh British ;taidwav (hlsogW Musical Association. Thee vwas a large ptherig, the ?? being quite crowded. -Lr Etoei.t Yong, who took the chair in the absence f YMr Sticing of Kippeudiavie, in a brief address at ce oiset, 4.saidithay SIO5XtIA ...

... 1USIC AND THE DRAMA. (FROM OUR OWiN CORRESPONDE?T.) London, Sunday Night. f TnE debut at Sadler's Wells of Herr Martin Eife, reputed to be a member of the famous dramatic company directed by the Grand Duke of M einingen, attracted yesterday a small but highly representative audience. Herr Eiffe { seems to have mastered the difficulty of the English tongue, but he can hardly be accepted as a ...

... THE GAIETY-H.M.S. PINAFORE. A large audience assembled last night in the Gaiety Theatre to hear the marvellously popular opera (words by Gilbert, the music by Sullivan) H.MH.S. Pinafore. The attraction of the evening was preluded by a so-called musical absurdity Four by Honours. The plot we had some difficulty in making out, con- sisting as the farcical piece does of one or two scenes ...

... AGRICULTURAL SbJOIOW. UNITED EA_1FS~llBU 100131Y. The spcring show of breedinrg stock, rat cattle, Seeds, sd roota, netter to' auspices or tie Un't-d Psotfahies Agrierri. toral Society, woo odld in tire Market Place. haorl, yse~a. day. Tr .e.orte is o hr oolcsaa~~c offarmers end ~tihers. ressearec'er-os!hr horns iso; pouned bulls, Fat stock were fairly reparsent.d4 white ce,~s nd lit wre ...

... LITERATUREJ (1) A Treasury of Sonnets. N Such need as may have existed for a collec- at tion of sonnets ought to be amply satisfied by or Mr Main's Treasury of English Sonets. bi The editor has eviden ty devoted himself to his hi work, and every page bears testimony to his se capacity for taking enormous pains over not only fr matters of importance, but even over any trifle that might add ...

... MUSIC D THE DRAIA. (nOwI OUR OwX COUMBxsPOIDNT.) London, Sunday Xight. Tsx Carl Rosa opera season at Her Majesty's Theatre closed last night, When Mr Carl Rosa, iu response to a generally expressed desire, made' his frst and only appearance this year at the conducto's' desk. An extraordinary audience assembled to welcome the popular impresario, i and indeed many people gathered At the ...

... GREAT SIORiTHORN EXHIBiTION AT BIRMIINGUHAM. (FRO.U OUR SE E(ar.AL a5EP1RTEoT Birmingham, Tnesday Night. T=E largest and. most important show of short- horn stock ever held in the United Kingdom. or indeed in any other country, opens to-morrow morning at Bingley lail. Four hundred and forty pure shorthorns have been entered for competition ard sale, and among the number some of the most ...

... THE THEA TRES. THE GAIETY. LA PETITE MADEMOISELLE. La Petite Mademoiselle, Leeocq's latest f opera, was produced on MIonday night in the L Gaiety Theatre for the first time in Glasgow- e for the first time also in Scotland, unless we are greatly mistaken, It was produced originally e in Paris less than a year ao, and has since had '3 a rnm in London in its 1Enzlish dress. y The action of ...

... PERPI ANNUAL SHOW OF S OTORIN | A-\D POLLED ANGUS CATTLE. Yesterday, M\essrs Macdonald & Fraser held their great annual show and sale of pure-bred shorthorn and polled Angus bulls, cows, and heifers As usnal, the importance of this event to I breeders and others interested brought together an immmsze number of agricilturists from all parts of Scotland and Ireland, and at no previous sale I ...

... GAEAT SHORTHORN SHOW AT BIRMKINGH'AMI. (nB oun. SPECIAL RElORTER.) Birmingham, Wednesday Night. ra! agricultural exhibition season has opened 'eii. Not that its prospective attractiveness ,as3 much enhanced by the Cart 4forse Show at llie!gtonL last week-an exhibitiou -which not e' en the presence of Royalty could make a good is!e-but that Binglev Hall has seen to-day, as I indicatcd yesterday ...

... TEE SHORTHORT SHOW AT BILBKNGHAX (FROM VUn SrCIAc REPORm .) Birmingham, Thursday Night. TEE results of to-day's sale prove that there is still a considerable amount of money in the hands of the agricuiturists; at anyrate among that portion of them who devote their energies to cattle-breeding. A more satisfactory sale of shorthorns could hardly hare been anticipated by the moat sanguine ...

... Last night Mr Carl Bosa's English Opera Company inaugurated a short series of perform- ances in the Gaiety Theatre. The audience did not entirely fill every part of the theatre, yet there was a good attendanbe. IMignon, an opera after Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, was first performed in Paris at the; Opera (omique in '66. When brought out it I at once caused an enormous furore, and had a run of ...