... gitralry THE GIRL FROM THE WORKHOUSE. We extract the following from Dickens' X11 the Year Round :-What have we to show for the thirty thousand a year spent on theteaehing of the young in workhouses? Instruction with. out education, Next, to nothing in the case of boys. Worse than nothing in the case of girls. There the young girls are-not young criminals as in a reformatory, but simply ...

... An eminent statistician has just prepared a very elaborate report on the subject of vocalists' salaries, in which he calculates the value of every note they sing, and gives a table showing the cost price to the manager (roulades and floriture apart) of the best known phrases in the tenor and soprano parts of the most popular operas of the (lay. The tenor's salary is put down at £4000 a year, ...

... The editor of the SicCle forwards to the poli- tical secretary of that journal a long letter narrating his first experiences in London. A man of broad generous views, he is entitled to be heard; and since he has great influence in France we give from his letter some of his criticisms on our na- tional feelings. He says:- *1 had hoped that the old antipathies which have been so evil in their ...

... OPENING OF THE GREAT INTER- NATIONAL EXHIBITION. [FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTERS.] LoNDON, Thursday. The Second Great World's Fair was opened to- day. What a scene! It is utterly impossible to describe, so as to convey anything even ap- proaching to an idea of it, in the few hurried minutes left't&despateh, and amid the bustle and excitement of tens of thousands of intensely de- lighted people. ...

... DITIJTY LANE. i'r. Dion Boucica-ilt is stot disposed to let his pstreos fall off for want of novelty in his programmes The pieces in his well-filled portfolio are ?? half ex hausted, uad long before the Collccis Bawi bats ceased to be attractive, a new military spectacle is produced to intro duce Mrs. Boucicault after her longaab3ence. JcoieC Brown, or /hc Be/iOf of Lrkaoieo, as it is now ...

... THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN AND THE I THEATRES. The members of the ?? Church Union, of which the Hon. CoLms LND8sAX is president, have agreed upon the following address to the Lord Chamberlain: 1. That your memorialists have heard with great regret that it is your lordship's intention to permit for the future the opening of the metropolitan theatres in the holy week preceding EAster, commonly called ...

... - INE BARTS. I 1 EXHIJBITION OF THE NEW SOcIIETY OF PAINTERS j . ~IN; VATER 00OUA{JS. We take the first opportunity of redeeming ou promise of giving a fuller notice of this exhibition. It is pleasant to be able to report favourably of the progress of this society, both because an unusual effort to stand well with the public has evidently been made this year, and because its affairs are ...

... MVUSIAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. This society's fourth concert took place last Y evening atSt. James's-haii. It wae the last of the society's~ fourthseeasonk,which it brought to abrilliant close. The V. following was the programme of the performance:- Overture (Athalie) . I.. ATMendelssohn, it Air, Dies Btilducss ro oabrd oiic )lDlc Zauberttitte) Hlerr Wachtel (Irsia Vi. A enci) ?? it Concerto in ...

... LI TERA TURE. Tire Old Licemarttii(It end thin Son. By the Editor 3 of Good Wi ords. 2 vols. London: Alex- alder Strabair anid Co. There arc mearny fundamental objections to the emplreylaeit of fiction as an instruienttof religious instluciion. They asy be summed up in one senrtence-that which is false cannot be a suitable vehicle for that vhichl is true. (ircumstances have to be iniagiried ...

... FIINANCIAL SUMMARY OF THE EXHI- BITION. I Though The International Exhibition has not yet d run its allotted c ourse, but is destinedl to drag b throu.-h a fog ?? season, for the benefit of ~I\Iesrs. -elk and Lucas, a point has ar- riveci at which ve muay fairly enlarge those weekly t financial accounlts which we have constantly placed tl before our readers, and present a more detailed ...

... I THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBT.ION. I Just seventeen days, shilling and half-croa'n, still remain for seeing the great International Exhi- bition, and as yet there are but very moderate symnp- toms of a revival in the public curiosity. The weather shows symptoms of breaking up, the days grow short and dark, and the end approaches. Nevertheless the daily attendances compare very badly with the ...

... MAGAZINES, &c. d LSECOND NOTICE.] a Th7e Cornhill Magazine. No. XXIX., May. London c SM ~rH, ELDER, and Co.,65, Cornhill. e Temple Bar. No. XVIII., May. London: 122, Fleet- I street. The St. James's Magazine. No. XIV., May. London: W. KENT and Co., Paternostcr.row. Bentley's Miscellany. No. CCCV., May. London: CHArVMAN and HALL, 193, Piccadilly. The Paris Elegant and Journal of Fashion. No. V. ...