... TaR ART JOURNAL for July. London: J. S. Virtue. Belfast: J. Harton, Waring Street. THE engravings this month are Peace, from the icture by James Drummond, ?? and Bacchus and Ariadne, by Turner. The'former is in the Royal collection at Osborne, the latter in the National Gal- lery. They are very different in style, and no two pictures could better illustrate the different effects that art ...

... A T N I G H T. 1DYiNG? ?? do butjest! You smile in the dark, .1 know! Surely I should know best How the quick pulses go. Lay your hand on my cheek: FEEL, though you sup not, the red. Why, in another week, I shall have left my bed! It 'was being so long alone- So sickof the world's vain strife, Uncared for, and unknown, That sapp'd the springs of life! You have given a world of love: Nay, ...

... By degrees flounces appear to be regaining the posi- tion which, for a time, they had partially lost. For dresses of thin texture they certainly form the pret- tiest and most suitable ornament.. On. barege or tarlatane, plisse or bolliflonne may be used effectively. For Summer toilet, large open-sleeves wvill be adopted. Bodies arg worn low, or high and buttoned up,. In the former case ...

... BY-GONE HOURS. 'Ts sad, 'tis sad, to think upon The joyous days of old, When every day that wearies on Is number'd by some friendship gone- Some kindly heart grown cold! Could those days but come again, With their thorns and flow'rs, I would give the hope of years For those by-gone hours! 'Tis sad, 'tis sid, to number o'er The faces, glad and gay, Which we have lov'd; some smile no more Around ...

... I FASHION AND VARIETIES, Ilis Excellency entertained at dinner on Monday last, Colonel the lion E n Littletob, Lady Margaret Litileton, Major Ihe Hon A Wrottesley, and the following offlcers of the 2d Staffordshire Regiment :-Capt Buller, CLpt Anderson, Capt Wilson, Capt Nugent, Capt Disney, Mr Cold. well, Mr Jervis, Mr Pattison, Mr T W Sneyd, Mr Lcntlhall. Mr Lowe, Mir Hcillot, Mr Baldwin, ...

... T II E C O U I T OSnORNE, JULY 5.-Tho Queen. and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe.Coburg and the Royal family, arrived at Osborne yesterday evening at'seven, o'clock. lier Majesty was gra- ciously pleased, on Tuesday last, to stand sponsor in person to the infant son of Colonel and the Rlon. Mrs. T. Al. Biddulph, in the private chapel at Buck- inghlam Palace; the Princess ...

... I (IDROM OUR cosrHErVsro The above old-establishel . .fir.) on Monday. The ._ Bad important fair carte, bnumber of buyers was prettv lar. ..e ~h ..cunt 'of stock on the green not so cattle u ad ,nere were, nevertheless, many fair lots at cattle sheep; but, generally spealing, the fair WI, so large as is usually held here on this month . priccs realised showed rather a fall. Priame b'eer0 ...

... T , E C O U R T. OSIORNE, SATURDAY.-The Earl of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers arrived yesterday on a visit to her ilikjesty. In the afternoon her Mejesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consoit embarlled in the Royal yacht Fairy, and steamied. up the South- ampton, Water, accompanied Iy Prince Leopold, Princessl Helena, Princoss Louise, and Princess Bca- trice. The Earl of Clarendon ...

... ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW OF THE NORTH.EAST AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. TO-DAY, the sixth annual show of the North-Eas Agricultural Association opens in Belfast, and in the number of entries in stock there is very little differ- ence from last year. There is a nominal falling off of about thirty entries, but this does not occur in the cattle, horses, &c., of the Amateur Class, in which there is an ...

... TrE Corriare Mf.lcaetile.publishes a translation of the Pope's allocution, delivered in the Secret Consistory of the 13th. The passage relative to Sardinia is as follows:- In various parts of the regions of Italy unjustly sbjected to the. Subalpine Government, public schools have been instituted, in which, to the great detrinefittof .obis, ll, cinds'of errcieous, false, and depraved doctrines, ...

... TIHE AGRICULTUIRAL SHOW AT COEK. I (Irnas! oun SPECIAL iRiiPORlTLIi). Jj Co;ai, TtioVAY.-j01 that [lie preparations have o nearly all been compilted in tlhe several sectins, that CO the implements are placed and tile stock are just co I- ing in, the statement n ay be confidently repeated] that t the present show will be one* of tile largest in point of p( entries, and probably the greatest of ...

... ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW OF THE INORTH-EAST AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. YESTERDAY, the sixth annual show of cattle and agricultural implements, in connexion with this society, opened in Belfast. The number of entries was numerically somewhat less than last year; but, all things considered, the exhibition fulfilled the most sanguine hopes of the members of the association. It was known to the committee ...