... (From ?? Tinmes.) To Liberia belongs the honour of being first in the field at the Great Exhibition, for on Saturday her consignment of goods was delivered at the building uand stowed away prno tern. in the French court. It was a modest beginning of the future glories of the great show, inasmuch as this first portion of it bnly consisted of certain greasy boxes filled with palm and other ...

... TIHE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The ?? are progressing with wolidel~fil rapidity-no fewer than 4,500 men being employed throughout the hluge area of galleries, scaffolding, and floor space. The Ti'mes says Nave nld transepts, nlnex and side courts, are all now being piiinted, walls are rumnin.,g up or being under-upinled while cellars are excavating and courts are floored almost by the acre ...

... (From the Times. ). The rush of goods into the building has not yet com- menced, The most remote of our colonies seem to be the first in the field. St. Helena follow6d close upon the goods from Liberia, end on Saturday the collection from Prince Edward Island wsos deposited in the French Court and on Monday that from Newfoundland. These latter, or course, consist entirely of colonial produce1 ...

... (Frvom the Athewnrum.) Of the contents of the building we have to communicate somfe arrangements for setting out the great masses which will fill the nave, in the form of trophiesoor gatherings of distinct manufactures, each in its appropriate group, com- posed in effective centerings. An avenue seventeen feet wvide will be left on either side; nothing whatever will be ?? against the pillars. ...

... THEATRE ROYAL, While the mechanical adjuncts of theatrical representa- tion play so important apart in the estimation of the play- going public, it is scarcely surprising that dramatic liter- attre itself should languish and degenerate as we find it, and that, s Ia consequence, melo-dramatic revivals, or adaptations, in which a ghost scene, a water cave, a house in section, or a masquerade, ...

... TEE SCHOOL OF ART. EXHIBITION OF THE STUDENTS' WORKCS. As the annual meeting of subscribers to the Govern- nient School of Art will be held to-night, we take this opportunity to offer a few comments on the works of the students, now on view at the Society of- Artists' Rooms ini New Street. Exhibitions of this description can scarcely' be considered fitting ?? for elabo'rate re- view; nor, ...

... TIlE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The following are the general' rules for the admission of persons and the reception of articles during their arrange- meat:- ADMISSION OF PEsSONS. 125,-No person *hatever will be admitted into the building unless lie is the bearer of a pass or day ticket. IPASSES. 126.-Passes, for the period specified thereon, avail- able only at a particular entrance, and ...

... NOTES ONT NEW BOOKS. Li5sOF WIToiS ANTI IUTMOUflIST'$. By JOUN' Tj~jnj,, FS.A., Author of Curiosities of Loridon, Anecdote Bliography of Painters, &C. III two Vols. [London Richlard Blietley.] Mr. Timbis line, not in this publication attempted to place before us the eracile (it ?? of Eiil-,1ish wit alid humniour. ,Such an undertaking would prove ant Augean task, ro- tquiring, as it ...

... FROM E FOLLET. The only difficulty in describing the materials and styles inivogue at the present moment, arises from the great number from which we have to select. So many new fabrics have been introduced, and so many old ones im- pvrpedtbat the description, given so as to present an idea of their real appearance, is no easy task. .ireis and taffetas antiques are as much in favour as ever; ...

... THE: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Colours were flying, on Saturday, from the summit of the eastern dome, and in the midst of the jubilant display a tall gilt spise, or finial, crowned the luge edifice. The flags ivere hoisted, not in lhonour of this topmost object, which had been raised to its place on the previous day, but to celebrate the removal of the timber supports from the twelve iron ribs ...

... THE ALLOTMENTS OF SPACE. At noon yester day, a meeting of the Birmiinghlam Com- uuittee was held in the Town Hall Committee Room, to vonfer with Mr. 'Wright, the Superintendent of the Haril- ware Classes, who had been sent down by the Consis- sioners for that purpose. The ?? presided, and amongst those present were Mlessrs. Everitt, J. Bettridce, Warren, Tonks, T. B. Wright, E. Peyton, J. Lowe ...

... MAIDEN BEA UTY . Er S. R. 1BRADBURY (QUALLON). more gleaming cye% were never Seon, Withl love they lighted up her faoe Like sunshino stealing o'er a rose Half hidden ill a shaded place ! She looked ais caln as saint at prayer, And sang as sweet as birds in dells, Wlims amorous winds in morning hours Toy vith the cowslip's golden bells ! No snow-wreath whiter than her arms, Lips ne'er before ...