... The Liverpool Floral and Horticultural goolety'. firat exhibition for tho present year took place yester. I day afternoon In the Wavertree park, where an ex- a tensive morquee had been erected for the occasion. a Somewhat Singularly of late In the history of the I scolety's exhibitions, they were favoured with a really fine day, and the attendance, therefore, we need l scarcely state ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEUIENTS, &c., THIS DAY. Pree Puboo Museum, WBillam Brown-street-Publio Days: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and flaturdays, ?? anm. till dusk. On Tnsmdays and Fridays the Museum Is closed (except to student) for cleaninp, arranging, &o. During 3aster, whitaun, ani Obrists weeks the Museum is open daily, except on Christmas Day. Free Public Llbrary, William Brown-atreet-Open daily, ...

... Elcction and a Fr-ce Offer: A Sermion pr'eached before th e Free ,Synod of Aberudeen, 8ta April, 186l2, usir published fi at their request. Abordeen A. & Rt. bMiln. SYNOD Sermons are frequently distinguished by their dul- niess; some of them are marked by average ability; others, 0 again, aro really valuable, and worthy of publication; Mr Surellie's discouras, which Ias just been issued in the ...

... 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. ...

... - 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 ...

... 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. ...

... A 5ONSTER OE A LOCONOTM. . Tf'r, (Iecat Norltioru of Frane Ranilway Compatny ?? , cil* piC ff-fd ?? of it locomotive, which 1!;, ,. i: . . iwl.-lt r i.. wetor-Itiomli, and coal-honk, !O, ah.w lodiler to Siilic a height that the iw onei,; is how it can passm under an ordinary bridge. Its4 ?? instead of standing straight upright; as is the manner with ordinary locomotives, has to be cailed over ...

... (FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.) It is unfortunately too true that there is a sad ?? of management among the authorities of the Exhibition. Whether the Wvorki has been too nnuli Tor tle staff employed, or the division of lalolur becen carried out upon a bad principle, curtaln it is that many things have been made a m les, and a very bitter feeling of dissatisfactioln geij r:ted in the mninds of ...

... 91p Pitmruafifna . ttt ?? We have said nothing of the Exhibition buildigi t incomplete state, and have abstained also from premature comment upoflnits contents. But now that it is open we shall proceed from week to week through a somewhat full discussion of the picture it presents of the World's material progress and of the present condition of the Fine and Thul International Exhibition of ...

... (OROM oUR OWN COREBSPOaDoxNxT.) A Cwctu fr he AR~BROATH. A COWonar for thc Betfit of the Mechanics, Beading Room camed off on the eveniag Or Monday last in the Trades Hall. The Avbroath Coloured Minstrels made a vtry creditable first appearance. The great feature of the eoening was the Binaing of a new version of Sam Cowell's favounrite song of Hiy Barlow written an~d iung by Mr G. B. ...

... Since our last the interior of the Exhibition has been vastly im- proved, not only by the progress which has been made to bring into I a state of completeness those Courts which were so much behindiand (notably, the French, Austrian, and Italian), but also by the removal from the nave of many of the trophies (that word always appears to us to be the wrong one) which blocked up the principal ...

... TrHE INTERNATIONAL EXHTIBITION. The Exhibition has been very nomerously attended deering the week, the number of half crown s'i?eters ranging each Of day from about 11,000 to 14,000. The flr't issue of tite et shilling tielsets was soon exltausted, the Queen end the as Bank of Eugland being amongst the largest purchasers. 3e Tho shilling days coennoecce on Monday next, cc Tisere are some ...