... TIllS MONTH'S MAGAZINES. SECOND NOTICE. Xaccem ?? second of two leotures ..The Middle Ages and the Revival of Learning appears this month. They were originally delivered at the Edin! burgh Literary and Philosophical Institutio; and will be readavithmuchinterestbythestuldent. The author's researches extend over a wide field of literature. Mr. Black's Strange Adventures of a Phaeton is con ...

... MISUELtkfximous. The ?? -cdm~xiiion opens o~ueans 3, and closZ Jul Wde o31en onk Thutdar, May, Bear.Admiral W. H. Stewart has accopte the perma-. nent poat of Cemptroiler onf the Navy. A marriage Is, it in reported, on the ?? between Miss Fox, the daughter of Lady Holland, ana Prince Withen- gensteii A Cockney archseologist, who has recently visited Salls. bury Plain, says that Stonehenge is a ...

... A correspondent of tfhe N 7w Yc 2is w~rites from Susquehanna Depot, Peansylvala, on the 12thinst. The proverbiali hatred of cartain. clasies of ?? to negroes his been ilaustratedai this place bya most fiendish and unhesrd'of aot. A few days sinea there eame here, frora Hawley, Penn., onone of the Erie freight traia. a negro boy, abut 13 years old. By-his qualit and amusing notionr he becase ...

... MR. TOOLE AT TEE THEATRE ROYAL, Mr. J. L. Toole appears at the Theatre Royal to.hnght. in company with Mr. Paul Bedford. As we ourselves bave already said what we had to say In antIcIpation, we need scarcely do more than quote from the Liverp5o0 Mernsy of Saturday, an account of the manner In which, at his farewell benefit, Mr. Toole was received by the Liverpool public:-- The farewell benefit ...

... Benefits, In the theatrical sense of the word, may Eezve equally to welcome the coming, or speed the parting guest. Last week, an interesting ceremonial of this description was employed to hoonnr the departure, after twenty-seven years' public service, of the manager of our oldest local theatre, and last night the same device was put In requisition to consolidate the position of the ...

... Lewwood Coal, dis. : and Birmingham Preference Shares, 9}. Stratford Bent Charges quoted 30 ; Wellington and Severn Junctions, to : Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas, shares. 5 pm.: and Alliance Fire, pm. There were sellers Banking Company's shares at IS; Birmingham Joint Stock Bank, 10, and Town District Bank 172. ...

... ST. THOMAS'S PARISH, BIRMINGHAM. Yesterday, at noon, a meeting was held the Provident Institution, Ann Street, to take into consideration whether any, and if so, what steps shall taken towards the erection new church in the parish of St. Thomas. The Rev. T. Wilkinson, rector of the parish, took the chair. There were also present the Archdeacon of Coventry, the Hon. and Rev. G. M. Yorkc, Rev ...

... YESTERDAY. Before Messrs. T. C. S. Kynncrsley (Stipendiary), (>'. Dixon, ami D. Malins. Oi.d Offender. Mary Ann Mansjicld (41), prostitute, Livery Street, was charged with attempting steal watch, value i' 2., from the person of Francis Middleton, of Blews Street West. Between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning last, the prosecutor was passing along Summer Row, when he was accosted by the ...

... BIlTNOHAM ROYAL SOCIETY OF; ,RTEW B XAUTUMNR EHBIXHON ' THIRD NOTICE. Among the numerous figure afiblect which IPpO 5uQ1 unwonted animation and human Interest to ihe. prieet exhibition, M~e large Canvas (LOI) by Urs. B. toug, whlch: OCCOPIesthe place of honour, Li s mole prihcePi. It Is 1urns. questionably a mnarteuly production, whether we regard Its' spviritual or Its icohinosi qualities, ...

... FESTIVAL OF THE TIEME CHOIRS. [F- LFrom out- Correspmndeat.1 WoRoaes, Thursda. Last night's concert at the College Hail wan triiumph. The hall wax filled nearly to the door, and the allery, which on Tuesday had notl 50 ocupant, overfioweld. The sipecil uttraction was the selection from gandel's serenats formed on Milton's L Allegro and II Penseroso. The rest of the sohemo war made up of ...

... I Any temporary loss of popularity which the postal ser- vice of a country may have suffered through its recent mfsalliance with the telegraphs ought to be in a great measure repaired, so far as this locality is concerned, by the excellent concert given in the Town Hall, last night, in aid and inder the auspices of the Postmen's Provident Society. Such an entertainment makes amends for a great ...

... BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.-AUTUMN EXHIBITION. [TuissP NOTIcE.] Whatever his merits or defects of execution, Mr. C. J. Lewis may always claim the' credit due to high artistic aim and feeling. His landscapos are never the mere transcripts of external nature, to which avorage artists limit their ambition; but in design, at least, veritablo ex- positions of the temper and mood of the ...