... 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 ...

... £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 ...

... ART FOR THE MILLION.-No. 11. THE PHOTO-GALVANO-GRAPHIC PROCESS. There is no art which has made more rapid progress and aroused a greater interest in the public mind than Photography. There is something poetical in the very enunciatiou of the principles of the art. Ovid thought that the mere request of Phaeton to drive his father's chariot for a day was the very extremity of audacity; but what ...

... OLYMPIC. tetels ih B A new farce was produced at thin thar as ihgiving callied Crinolinse. The title is obviously suggestive Of an one mca attack on the vast circumiference of skirt with whioh ladies tween unwadays adorn their Persons, as they suppose. For this Itewar parpose Mr. Robson is made a jealous husband-anld with in th that statement one might almost say the story was told; iii the ...

... BIRXINGHAM AND MIDLAND COUNTIEBSa CATTLE AND POULTRY SHOW. BIRMINGHAM, TCuBnA1vwiN. f This show opened for the privatea view to-day. I The prizes fog csttle appeared in to-day's Daily News. The following are the awards for sheep: t SHERP. X ~~~CLAss XXIt.-L61C1TESP. Pen of three Fat Wet here, not exsoeding twenty-two, months old. Firat pzino, 101., eilver meal, as beat pen of Long-woelled ...

... LITISRA TUBE. Thc Uyrtle and the Heather. A Tal. A . ?. (joODRIC1n. Author of 1Owen, &cJ.W parker. fron 6The Myrtle and the Heather is an advanceint upon(wenl. It has more streng~thlessseutimieti- gv tolty endcontains sketches of character better con- th celive and morehglpiihd The tendency totoC ~eMIieis less marked, and the power to tell the A story without continual appeals to the ...

... IHE SIXTH CONCERT AT THE CRYSrAL PALACE. The sound of mnsic at Sydeseham at this damp and gloomy season produces effects both on the spirits and senses somewhat analogous to those crested by the sight of the chrysanthemums in the gardeD. It ls restorative, it is consolatory, it is a brave struggle with the calamities of climate, it is tbe pursuit of music under difficulties-difficul. ties of ...

... - I musla AMATRUR MUSICAL SOCIETY. Tbia socety has entered Uponi its eleventh season. The first concert took place at the Hazovar-sqnare Rooms last night. The committee of manastelnet coasists of the following distisgulbbed amateun: Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Mr. Bonamy Dlobree, IJn., Colonel F. W. Haonilton, Mr. Edward Jekyll, Mr. Henry Ltelie, Mr. Augustus Oliver Malssy, Lieut;Clolonl Patrick ...

... ,SMITEFIBLD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. Notwithstaniding the very recent occurrence of the cia, Birmingham cattle show, whioh might be supposed Badik to forestall a gret deal of ihe pubic interest in fat C1,, oxen and sheep of fine proportions, he exhibition of Creiff. this year at the Baker-street Bazaaris by no means Oi MO] considered as to a certai extent gon ak u largy it must be recollected that ...

... FILE ABTS. i LORD WARD'8 COLLECTION. Lord Ward in entitled to our ?? gratitude, I because he has set' the exampiekof giving to the 9 public free ascees to his collection. Hia liberality, ii is true, has been slightly appreciated, for but few visitors are ever to be seen in his gallery. Yet such - names as those of Raphael, Correggio, and Bento l Angelico-should alone suffice to attract the ...

... -.4. ST. MARTIN'S HALL. The perfbiance of the Measiah last evening, under Mr. Enllih'i direction, was good, but nbt :jlte.) gether satiafactbiy. fri. Sims Reeves saug heiaenor,6i W menoone buthecnflnow ringit; for on bimalone. as a F Handelian singer, has Braham's mantie fallen. Miss Dolby, td too, sang the contralto with her nesal beauty eadl 4impli. city. Tbe soprano part, according to ...

... MUSICAL PUBLICATION. C bsa (is B Flat for the Pianoforte. 0Como for the Concerts of the Amateur Mus f oiely of 3 London. By S. W. WALEY. a 2 rio in B Fat for Pianoforte. VioalJ, asod Volon I cerlo. By S. W. WALEY. London: Schott and CO. ?? publications are proofs, among many othere, B of the state of musical acquirement among thr E1ug- a lish amateurs of the present day. Here is a young B ...