... T H E A R T C R I T I C. LFROM A COk-RrSPONDENT. I once lived in the subirbs. A fine open viewoil the sea and within easy distance of town. Thus ran the advertisement which beguiled me into making in quiries. My first impression of the place was no; favourable. It was a sumi-detached house, andvn perfectly new. There was a certain dreariness even i its newness. The masons had not yet removed ...

... I _ _ . The projected Industrial and Art Exhibition at the Pomona Gardens, the arrangements for which are pro- gressing satisfactorily, will, it hae now been definitely decided, be thrown open to the public on the 1st Sept., when the opening ceremony will he performed by Dr. 5 Manle Sutton, the chairman of the company which has the matter in hand. The extensive patronage which the undertaking ...

... THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT POMONA GARDENS. I The period which has elapsed since its opening has sufficed to see effected a considerable altera- tion and improvement in the Industrial and Art Exhibition now being hold in the Agricoltural Hall, at Pomona, in this city. Owing to delay on the part of exhibitors in sending in their goods, the show was on its opening 'day in a very incomplete ...

... -- ART -AND LITERARY GOSSIjP..'| I FROMt TO-DAY'S AT!5 tf.. The opponents of the admission of women to the Tripos Examinations at.Cambridge are not desisting from opposition on account of the overwhelming nume- eial majority against them. It has been proposed that the arrangements for examining women be placed nndbr the control of the Local Examinations Syndi.- cate, who have had a large ...

... I [FROM TO-DAY'S ATHNZMtJM.fl It is said that the sermons, lectures, and o literary remains of the late Rev. Dr. Morley PallShOil w have been placed in the hands Of the authorities of the v Weslovau Conference Offico for publication. By the death of Miiss Elizabctlc Fleming, of sl Edinburgh, at thle a-e of 72. a link in colitieoifot withl S Sir Walter Scott is sev ered. Misos l~eting's ...

... TE N1W MEMEH FOR THE AYR DI810SN. Mr. James Somervell, of Sorn Castle, Miuchline, Ayrshire, was born in 1845. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1870. For some years he was en- gaged in journalistic work in London, and on the death of his father succeeded to large estates in Ayr- shire. He is a magistrate of that county, and has held a ...

... I' . :BY UYCLE OLDMAN. 'Dear uncle, may I tell you a true story ? asked Laughaway.1 Nowr to bear my fairy friend tell a story, and to see her while she is telling it, always gives me the greatest pleasure; and, being at leisure when she made her I proposal, I at once cordially accepted her offer. Wdl, she began, standing at the head of. my desk and waving her wand to empbasise her words, ...

... : MAY.DlY sO ,. - ?? I [Y The sm shone briiantly to welcome the firtt of g May. A gentle westerly wind blow, and attracted by the fine _weather and the hope of seeing processiTs: of gaily capaisoned horses and -vehicles worthy vf thlir steeds, large numbers of people con gted in sote as. of the principal thoroughfares of - the city. Theie i was litte to reward- their. 'patience. Orgained D, ...

... ?? ?? t~ , l i-, I. I I . fi -; . I f - ?? . ?? , ..FIollcwi cg .oar euconm ary practice, we give ver bieiflz y to day a - uide ?? aind forms .of 'enjor .. : . ent~wvhiob era offered forthe enetrtainment of 'vsidt~ar. sc . at the 'holiday sreason-hiohi~begi to-norrow; :The fi time-honoured representation of the Mesiah willM- ba given at 'the' Free trde Hall .on Christmas Day. i ,Last night. ...

... I| - t THE THEATRES, I d' ofthe~te ?? Latetohi Memk ococuptiesthe stage' ~e, of th6 Theatre Royal this week, and ini the htans of competent conmpany seems to lose none of the powerful interest with which the author has in- vested it. '0 At the Prince's Theatre we have Moths back hs again after an interval of three years. Ocaidas t, exciting novel has lent itself.weflonu the whole to ie ...

... THE.C ILDREN'S fOtJ- I~ - BY UNCLE OI)MAN. p On ?? last, the Manchester Branoh of thes Royal Sciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held its annual meeting in the Town HalL. This society very properly tries to obtain the punish- k mert of persons who are proved guilty of torturing animals. It is sad to learn how many people have been C convicted of such offences during the past year. ...

... i EDITED BY A BARRISTEIR AT LAW:. No. CXXIII. be ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. P bi all WILLS. ?? E. F.-As the monely was settled upon you by T mnixriaze astti' ment you certainly cannot disp?55 of hi it br will, unless in pursuance of someo power in the ml settlement enabling von to do so. t F. 1H. D.-Under the will of S. Dl her Ron T. D. Of became entitled to all her real and perlsonal property ...