... FINE AR TS. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS IN THE PORT- cal LAND GALLERY.al The second Exhibition of the season was opened to Pl1 private view on Saturday. The crowd of friends and otl amateurs attracted on the occasion was so great as to H render impossible that deliberate examination of any An picture which ought to precede criticism. We can op only speak as yet of the general impression produced ...

... INAUGURATION OF THE NEW M1USIC HALL AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY EvIRNING. The formal opening of a new musio hall, just erected In this town, took place ti-lay. The great concert I %U iln this town (unrivalled in Europe) is not likely to be superseded by any other building, and we have reason to believe that the prcjectcrs cf the new ball have bad no such object in view; their purpose ...

... FINE ABRTS. _-4* SIBERIAN AND CHINESE SCENERY.-WhO has not5 in looking at a mop r f Asia, experienced a feeling of intense curioeity mingled with wonder, and even a certain awe, on marking the enormous dimensions of the continent to the north of Persia, India, end China, bearing, as it does, only at intervals of about the length of Great Britain, a few un- couth names just to suggest the ...

... LITER A T URE. - Roe Jgfava; or, Itindoo Annals of tle Provittceof . Goozerat, in TWestern India. By ALEXANDERC XID;LOCa FORBES. Richardson Brothers. 1856.X Mr. Foxb-e holds an appointment in the East India Company's Civil Service, and has taken advantage of the facilities Efforded to him by his position to acquire k some valuable information with respect to a portion of Indian antiquities and ...

... LI Y'ERA TUBE. Letters from ?? Quarlers; or the .Realtties of the War in Ile Cri'nea. By an OFFICEB on the STAFF. Muaray. The staff officer's letters and journals are valuable as a corroboration of the general accuracy of the reports from the seat of war furnished by the special correspondents ot the daily newspapers. It is true that the writer is very indignant at the audacity of civilians ...

... music. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. We have received from Mr. Lumley, who has j]ut arrived from Paris, the folio ving information respecting the ?? he hes made for the season. The ime donne engaged by him are Albeitini, Piccolo- mini, and Alboni, who re appears alter an absence of five years from London. Alboni vill open the sfason on the 6th of May. Piccolomini will arrive on the 10th, and will ...

... SONS OF TUB CLERGr. The annual festival of the Corporation of the S of the Clergy, which hbe been held every year dete a under the patronage of the highest authorities in the cdhn6 state, and city, took plece in the Merchant Ta-is.h Thedfternooa service in St. Pat's Catbkedral wu eetl i in due state by his Royal Highness the Duke of Camria the Archbishop of Canterbury, end severkl otherprea ?? ...

... LITE Aoge lTUR The Siuhotpffne Kingdom, or, Ezperiences and tudies lin the in Satoy, P-iedmont, and Genoa. BS BAYLE 6T. la JoaN. Chapman and HallI. Of thii MIr. S . Jobn'c wvork isa6 strfking proof of the tthe facul y some men have of talklnio by the hour, and won!o wiriting wvhole volumte3 on suhjects they knownv ?? mrse about. His ^Experieflce5, to judge from his ow lthem narrative', extend ...

... Last evenlicg about 400 gentlemen assembled atI th ,Iys~ Fela., Sydenihem, to celebrate the V'2od anni- I Jey,,ry dinner ox IhIS society. Lord Asunnro cp ed e the chair, and ArOmogtta oor itncihdprs r-a I'ent Ir, tte DMa' of Her-ford, C.-nel Sibine, 'Mr. i Ewant, my.P, Sr Charles F,~x, CO~Ionel Sykes, Dr. Boith (ve (Chirroan of the Ccuncil of the Snoicty), Sir Jcteph ha The Health of her ...

... MEETING OF THE MANCEIESrER EXECLTIYE COMMITTEE.a The Manchester and Salford district executive committee for the Paris Uttiversal Exhibition of 1855 met I ?? orciethe report prepared by the seecrettry, Mr J 0,Muniky.Several glass C55e5 On the table con tainednumertoos sabmples oif twist, &c._ of all counts. There were also.o te tale the grand medal. of honour, or large geld medal, awarded to ...

... £I1VB ARTS. LORD WARD'S COLLECTION. (S1COND NoTICS.) The early schroo of Giotto comprised a large num- ber of pupils, who generally remained faithful to the old traditional subjects arranged by their master. They preserved many of the characteristic features of Giotto in their forms and attitudes, an well as in their compositions, and as a natural result gave a sort of family resemblance to ...

... ITIOAW OF WORhKS OF ARTAT HANLEr. This exhibition was closed on Tuesday evening last, having been very successful. The inauguration took place on Monday, August 25, 1856, since which ldate the exhi- bition has been visited by upwards of 2G,000eprone. l The exhibition consisted of works of art from the private collection of her Majesty and the Museum of Practical Art, IXarlborough-houee; also ...