... Royal Borticattural bociety. The second fdteo of the Season at this Society's Gardens last Wednesday woald have been a success had the weather been favour able, but the rain which fell in the morning, and the threatening aspect of the sky daring the afternoon, kept hundreds away, and diminished the company to those who are prepared to admire floral beauties nuderany circumstances. Their ...

... Philharmonie Society. | The Jubilee Concert, announced in the commencement of the year to be given in commemoration of the Society's Fiftieth Season, came off last Monday night at St. James's Hall, in presence of one of the largest audiences ever assembled there. Considering that the price of ?? to the principal parts of the Boom was one guinea, the suceess, in a monetary sense, may be well ...

... I Railway Fassengers' Assurance Company. On Wednesday the Half-yearly General Meeting of Proprietors in this Institution was held at the Company's offices in Cornhill, Mr. J. Clay, M.P., in the chair. The following are the principal paragraphs of the Report, which was read by Mr. W. J. Vian, the Secretary:- The statement of accounts which has been circulated among the Proprietors shows that ...

... FOR LICENSED VICTUALLE-S. *a* 2i p~page will mostly be fogund itereilltinyg to Lsceyrseir F tcllekrs, and the opetations of the UNItITBD Towxi' ASSOCIATION ND iLICENSBD VIC- TUALLERB' DFFLycfixc LxEAGUA ay'e ?? under 94f6r own szern ncxencd. TRANSF1ER OF LICEDISVIS. City, April 11. ALTIGITHs.-.Boblack, Duke-street, Jane Kirkler and Joseph Barker to Jane Young. BiLLIrOIAGIATS.-Green. Lattice, ...

... I mt,: - - - _ , , .. I . . .. . . _ This ancient Festival has continued the whole week. On the first day (MoNDrAY) the proceedings commenced with the opening of the Guild Court, in the Grammar School, Cross-street, where the Mayor, Corporation, and Guild Officers attended. The Guild books were opened, and the formal legal business of the Guild duly and solemnly transacted. This important ...

... ORIGINAL COBRESPONDENGE. TEa EDIOR ZS NOT RoR5POU 5IRL IO s !UU x V 5NS XIPRUSISD By' The Dealine of the Drama. T O THP; RDITOR OR TH;U T n, ,. Mr. Editor,-From time, to time some well-nueaning enthusiast, or somo disappointed fabricator of blank verse, enlightens the pablic wvith the declaration that flthe Drauia is decliningpredicating -the assumption on the fact that .sundry performannces, ...

... TOWN E D I T I O N. ERA OFFICE, SuNDAY, Two A.ac. TELEGRAPHIC NJEIWS. FRANCE. PARS, MAT 9 (EvizN=G).-Thn Presse of this evening says:- eIt is reported that the Marquis de Lavalette will postpone his de. parture for Rome until the 18th inst. The Patric of this evening states that the French fleet still prolongs its stay at Naples during the presence of Prince Napoleon in that city. RUSSIA. ...

... TYRR EDITORs NSGOT esoS5IaTSLE FOR THE MTINIONS EIPREUssal es CORBSETrONDENTS.] Lord Dundreary. TO THs EDITOR OFo THU ERA. Sir,-It was with much interest that I perused the letter by ';An Old Playgoer, headed as above, in your impression of the 19th ult. I Passing over the far from eulogistic comments on the popular Dondreary (whom, I may observe, en pasentlhese, I never imagined was ...

... I ERA OFFICE, SurzAY, Two A.m. LATEST FOREIGN. pg1NCEB GORT8CF1AKOFmL's REPLY ON Wedimtion, ST PATEERBUTGH, Nov. 15.-The Journal de St. Petersburgh o to-day contains the reply of Prince Gortschakoff to the note of . Drorryn de Lhuye. The Prince, after recalling the constant efforts of Russia in favour of Conciliation in America, says :- It is requisite, above all, to avoid the appearance of ...

... Gymnnastic Festival at the Crystal Palace. On'Weinesday the members of the newly-established German 'Turner Society, held their iret public gymnastic festival in the gardens of the Crystal Palace. The Turner Society is simply as association formed for the purpose of cultivating gymnastic exercises among young men-a system of physicsa education intended to -deve'ope the muscular and agile ...

... i JoeB Lon3 (No. 237).-The Brethren ot ldlbb econan mcting of the Eeesion at the re ernac' Ball etof t Lg ,et street, on F~dday, J9tb lnee. Tbe Lodge wee dely oeelld Gn th Qa e SeeondhDegree, wbeo Br ey aing een ete i ably paseed ?? ?? no Mnaooue ?? for tbe ?? year wra at Oona I Deoeedee Of electing the Wxt, b to he t nenimon in fajecr ot FD ,l,. the ballot >. Tho ?? neanimreoely redeleted d ...

... Since we last wrote the London General have held an extra- ordinary General Meeting, at which some extraordinary admis- sions were made. The Chairman, with a load of sorrow taken off his back, announced that they had arrived from a state of ex- treme poverty to one of conaideiable affluence. On Wednesday, September 24th, 1862, was the world, for the first time, made aware that this ...