... PU3L10 AM lMEIT, ? a I 20alI Alexandra Thatr.-a NOW Cmd Sellp&' Boy sp~hinthitm-7' Thte inti.ia, n -#The Dead Heart~ _.Teq Dee° prneof Wales ahIre.- Tic Grand Duchess of Gerobtatefo. ?? Colosseum Theatre.- Our Old Iouse at Bomer, Peter Woll the Waggoner, &. fit. Oeorgeh 1alL-Organ Root by Mr. W. T. Bes. jeW SteB Nude HIL-Lor-lon Alhambra Compny, Ifr. and Mrs. St. Xohn, Mt. 4annes Hillier ...

... VARIETIE S. 1. a POPULAR IGNORANOE.-The popular ignorance of this tie enlightened age is ?? astounding. Onythe In other day a customer of an eminent silvoersmyitb, 29. admiring sorne exquisite piece of silver chasery, re- 25- marked, How this would have delighted Cellinil ace We shall be happy to shlow it to Cellini any day he he Will look in, wag the polite observation in reply. at ...

... MIR. DAWSON ON ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. Eseayg and Reviews, and the treatment they have met with, formed the subject of a lecture delivered by Mr. George Dawson, before a large audience assembled in the Music Hall, on Friday evening last. Setting gat with the observation that the book called Essays and Reviews neither contained anything new nor displayed any great ability on the part of its ...

... THlE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. MANUFACTURES OErWOLVE RHAMPTON AND TEE I)ISTRICT. No. 1. A recent pamnihhid asks and professes to answer the question, What is good iron, and how is it to be got ? 'Tlhe writer contends that from the very first the progress of the iron manufacture has shown itself only in the incicased facility and diminished cost of production-not in improved quality. The hot ...

... It slowly steals away; WVitlh silent step un1heede(l, it depaits; The beauty and the glory of the day Fail from our eyes and hearts. Faint gleams the leafy rill With softened fnush the cloud of evening glows Wane all the sunset fires, and ens the hill Dies out the fading rose. It is the quiet hour When sights and sounds that have disturbed us cease; And weary hearts are folded, like a flover, ...

... THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1802. (Frion Mce Times.) All the works connected with the South Kensington Palace are in a most satisfactory state of forwardness, ex- cepting only those for the constriction of the enormous glass and iron domes. These, in fact, are the most difficult worke in iron that havo ever been andertaken.. &over were so many awkwardly shaped pieces of ironwork designed to fit ...

... BALSALL HEATH AMATEUR ULORI- CULTURAL SOCIETY. The second annual show ofthis society was held yester- .day, in a field adjoining the Calthorpe Park, rerahore Road, -which was kindly lent to the committee by the owner, Mr. Bell. The present, we understand, is only the secndyear of the. society,!s-xietenice, and we can onliY say that tle exhibition of yesterday, though not of large ex- atuddrn ...

... TILE CoaiNimos SENSE OF TL£E WATER CURE;. Py Ciqr tain J. H. Luisa, late of the Gist Regiment and the 1;orth Eihban Militia. Ve have to thank the author of this little work for giving vs the best written description of li9eandtreatinent in a hydropathic estalblishment it has ever been our lot to read. Common sense views of any subject, especially hygienic, are so rare, and writers on ...

... I NOTd1I ON NE7 -;S I!,~NOTE8 ON NBWV BOOKS. JOUR1(AL OF A POLITICAL MISSION TO AFGHANIsTAN IN 1857, UNDER MAJOR (NOW, COLONEL) LubmlDeN; an Account of the Country and Peoplo.-By !E W. BELLEW, Medical Officer to theMission. With | Jll??i~tions. [London: Smith, Elder, and Co.] Lest tlie Ciia of this work may lead to a misunderstand- iag as to its contents, we may begin by stating that the ...

... SMITHrFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. (From ouir Special Cesrespondeiti) LONnoN, Saturday Night. The private view of the Smithfield Club Cattle Show was hell to-night, and was attended with a more than usual interest on account of the new locale of the exihibi- tion. During the sixty-four years which have elapsed since this club was established it has been continually gaining in impoctance It ...

... Ono of the boldest and most arduous undertakings in which a modern Admirable Crichton can engage, and by no means the best remunerated in these days of esmpe- tition, is a monologue entertainment, in which by the varied aid of dress and languages, song and dance, paint and powder, vivacity, versstility, and ventriloquism, a bingle individual contrives to produce upon tbe spectator an illusory ...

... The simple and oft-advocated expedient of engaging a military band, last night converted the Town Hall from the howling wilderness it usually appears on Monday Inights, into a smiling and fruitfnl garden in which brigltb eyes and smiling countenances did duty for any amount of pansies, daisies, and daffydowndillies. In addition to the excellent band of the Royal Dragoon Guards under Mr. ...