... The all-absorbing subject at present in connection with the Great Exhibition is the forthcoming fetsa at Paris, a programme of which we have already given. We believe that to-day the cards of invita- tion will be issued by M. Sallandrouze de Lamornaix to those persons who have signified their intention of being present. With respect to the arrangements for reaching Paris, we understand that ...

... L YCB UM THEA TR'E. The Lyceum play bill, which has for a long time appeared to be stereotyped, has at length been varied. Last night TMr. CHARLES MATHEWS' benefit took place, and that event was made the occasion of introducing to a London audience one of the most remarkable dramatic works which have te been presented for many a day. It was termed a st new comedy in three acts, and no hint was ...

... After the very satisfactory replies given by Mr. Fox to the interrogations put to him at the Society I of Arts on Wednesday last, with respect to some of the principal objections which have been from time to time urged against the strength of the building for the Exhibition in Hyde Park, we apprehend there are very few who now entertain a doubt upon s that point; To such persons it may he ...

... TION. e cgive to day a secoiitl notice rcspecting those articles in tile EIMlibiti-jn hlich rangc themnsclves under thu headl of the Ecclesiastical Departiletilt. Thle ol jcts wiich ini ay be included uander thislicad are of tb, It nost. divclsified ch aracter, Wal dit to b. foutld scattered in alhnost every divi sioa of Inaatll- facture ald tiec arts. They include architectural models, ...

... ARCHBISHOP [VENISON'S LIBR-i RI Y I for We wish to call the attention of our readers to the above io elb library. It is situated in the midst of public buildiiigs, such as the National Gallery, the Leicester-square baths and 'ed by washbouses, and the St. George's barracks-recent insti. wCczn_ tutions which have far outstripped it in public attention. grecld ere are several thousand volmies, ...

... THlE GCE AT EAHIBITION. The Queen having, as Nye previouslY iitinliateti, signified her Royal pleasure that arraingemenlts c should be made to enable her a11 5esty to gratify aV wish very generally expressed on the part of the public to be present at the interesting ceremony by which the E xhibition will Le opened on Thure-It day next, the 1st of May, the Royal Continissioner- s, at their ...

... I smne There is probably no branch of industry ill.s-_ I trated in the Crystal Palace of greater national im- pro~ 1portance or magnitude than those connected with vari the production and preparation of metallic ores ; dur and we publish to-day a seventh notice onl this de- the . and partmcnt of the Exhibition, with more especial dur. reference to Iron and its Ores. The various speci- oft ...

... ~it - ully Continuing olur daily' notices of the contents theo of the Crystal Palace, we propose to-day call- his ing the attention of* our readers to specimens ised of a class of articles which, in the most striking 5080 manner, illustrate the great end and aim of the h to Exhibition-the progress which man has made in ord- subduing nature to himself. We have shown Dme many of the varied uses ...

... VERSES F OR 181:M. Happily for our age, the dogma of Dr. Johnson, that all devotional poetry is unsatisfactory, can be no longer acquiesced in. At no time could it be wholly true-at no time could it be earnestly be- lieved; but certainly the period in which it was pronounced was that of all others in which it was least likely to be examined, and therefore most likely to be admitted. Hardly, ...

... THIE GREAT EXHIBITION. Ilis Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes- terday afternoon at a mecting of the Royal Commis- sion fur the Promnotiou of the Exhibition in 1851 of the Works of Industry of all Nations. His Royal Highness arrived at the Exhibition buildinig in Hvde Park at three o'clock, attended by Lieut.-Colonei the I-Ion. C. B. Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut. ...

... THE GREAT EXHIBITION Fewv things in the present day have rrebably given |ce to more discussion than the su%,ject of the con- |trusCion of the building of the 'wshibition, or of the CrvltaI Palace, as it has bee-_ very properly termed, andits decorAtioflS. Mne immense extent of the building, it9 roveltj of design, the application of ?? to . str'acture of such dimnensions, and its utifttea ...

... - I Saced aon sy, consiting of Morning and Evening Service, Psalm, Chants, and Jesponses. Edited by John Henry Haycroft. Addison and Co..-The plau of this handsome and valuable volume of church and sacred music was to make the compilation of which it con- sists chiefly from the works, many of them MS., of composers of the present day; and accordingly the list of contributors contains many of ...