... MR. SCHARFS THIRD LECTURE ON ART LUMINARES. Mr. Scharf delivered the third of his course of lectures on this subject in the Theatre of the Midland Institute, on Monday even- ing. There was a numerous ...

... MrR. SCHAflF'S LECTURES ON ART. Last night Mr. George Scharf, iun., delivered his fifth lecture to a largo audience in the Lecture Theatre of the Institute, and began by remarking that the Insertion o ...

... The second showv for the season took place yesterday, bt isroveiloshat fxliuulea call a blank draw, owing to the thunder storo alid heavy rains, whiliI continued ...

... 'Xittrature Df t4t Wlfuat?. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE has lately contained some of the most spirited, and, so far as we can judge, reliable sketches of the Indian war. This superiority is not only due to t ...

... CLOSE OF THE lROYAL AGRI- . CULTURAL SHOW. . X Friday was the concluding day of the show fa which was thrown open to the public, at a charge Di Argl Is. each. The admissions were about 5000 in excess whit of those on the preceding 'day, and the visitors in Aed the aggregate were quite a different class of persons. Ao ADMISSIONS AND RECEIPTS. Ahs The following Showvs the number of admissions MO ...

... l 92. Portrait of the late Professor Wilson, of Edin- s rnburgh, by Sir J. N. Gordon, hAi., Edinburgh.- Is There is characteristic expression in the rendering of f ...

... ' The Marchioness of Waterford has arrived at Di Newtown Anner from Curraghmore. ff The Earl of Donoughmore, Vice-President of to tle Board oS Trade, arrived by the four o'clock train on Fri. 1 day evening from London. His lordship, who we were deo tb lighted to observe ranuch Improved in health, proceedei mme- diately to Knocklofty, whore the counteas has been for some 0t weeks stayin3g- ...

... THEATRE ROYArL. The success whicic has attended the presentenigage. ment of Mr. nnd Mrs. Williams we may truly esay is without preoedeut. Night after nigrht umbers of persona ?? obliged to leave from the actual.nmpoasibility (and we use the term literally) of obtaining even standing room; and if the moat unanimous plaudits 'and hearty laughter be an indication of the popularity of uotors in ...

... Jo I 7t A . . , A ,- X . CuLLOIIILL -At this fair, on Mlonday, tle Eshowz of hioried cattle was Ema!l in the extremne, and there were but few blyers for etock; bat the EUPjly of Pheep and tambs was very large, and thle demand very great, gau U. cu'aiy fuor beecing ewves. at conrs nveraged from Si to 121; new milch cowe not to be had ; very fewv two year oids and yearlings, and not Eought fur. ...

... LITERATUBE. DR. BARTH IN AFlRiCA.5 Dr. Barth' further experiences it North and Cen- tral Africa are sow before thepublic. We have here most remarkable and most valuable insights into life in Negrolad; pleasantly and intelligently told by a most intrepid and persevering traveller. We catch glimpses. too, of & dawning commerce for nu in these regions, that should tempt capitaliats in the wake of ...

... CREMORNE, ETO. It is with the deliberate intention of refning an ?? cruelty, tbat, for a few linss, we meaa to sirg the praises of the gardens of Cremorne. Bat, perbaps, the sieging of these praisos may-thsmelody ovtr-lead us into more solemn contemplation. W6, Simpeon will, doubtless- as he takes up our journal at the club-fancy that the end of a season is an inauspicious oecasion to select ...

... LITERATURIL Titan for Norenber includes some pleasant and p1natmetive gossip and word-painting from Munich, from which we sabll extract some pusazes, even at the risk of wasting space to touch upon fthe new, bright number of 1 The Virginias; or the Henry the Eighh of John Gilbert in the November part of Routledges Sballspere. It would seem, indeed, from our Munich pictures, that the ...