... ins is The Dog Show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, on or Tuesday, drew together a very large and fashionable con- 'jef course of visitors, among w1hom we observed the Earl of be Westmoreland, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Suther- a land, Lord Sefton, the Duke of St. Atban's, Lord Ports- he mouth, Lord Chesterfield, and many other distinguished of members of the nobility. to The ...

... T HE SHILLING DAyD AT THE EXHIBIrNO. On Monday, the first of the shilling days, tbe atten- dance was by no means equal to what had been expected. The admissions were, by season tickets 3,875, on pay- mernt 22,115-total 25,990. The anticipations with regard to the effect of the crowding were modified by this day's experience. The visitors came to see their chilling's worth, and, not finding any ...

... THE GRAND OLYMPIC I - FESTIVAL. iI Some Idea may be formed of the attractiveness of the great athletic fete to take place on Saturday next, on the Mount-vernon Parade Ground, by the perusal of the following LIST OF Wl&T1IRS, GRAND PROozSION OF COorpnORs, headed by 14 Band of 4th L. A.V., to platform, where the name 0 of the Prize Esgalet will be announced by the tV President, C. P. Melly, Esq. ...

... LITERBARY NOTICES. TFASEW'S IAL.AZIcE,.-Tle two stories which have run throughl severail sueossive numbers- Tlodatta and Barren I ioneur-nro brought to n close; and the latter will, we thini, be found most in favour with the geoeral reader,-the talo being skilfully planned, vigo- oiisly told, and poilnted with all excellent moral. hie ivoll-known signature of A. K. H 1;, appeais at the ...

... POEE TRY. . . . - 0 THEt SUMMER WOODS. re Go gatheir sumbeamas wcre they lie Oil ON-ery lull-side sleeping. And put them where they will not die, te Within your young heart's keepling. NY Thefrrnt ithlrgt~wth ovig hndthe bloessom when ites at owingin The tue he iro o e-cr lndan blsswhereonr they fall; A Kee eer da, ik Sioicrga, fr elowAutumn'e glow- R Forhapyheatehae einuo ay, ndsushine over ...

... L I rs, 's POSaT-oY5Cn GrIDE TO Loyrjoor 1tr THE YEAR 1862. Kelly and Co., Boswell-court, St. Clement's. The Messrs. Kelly, so long and favourably associated with the geat Metropolitan Post-Office Directory, have just issued in the above work a book that, in its use and information, is likely, if not to rival, to command as universal a satisfaction as the great mercantile end domestic work ...

... THE) INTERNATIONAL -EXHIBITION. ML8AAAo- I - ?? L- . OF . - - - I - . A . . . The attendance at thW tqternational Exbibition during the past vwe$elsbn*wrbaiivata i npidly advancing in public favour, and that to Mtide of prosperity his fairly set in. The tnrnrtiles which register the numbers do their work very inefficiently, but there were at least 60n000 presept on Monday, 56,358 on Tuesday ...

... . Ti Hlandel Festival was brought to a close on Fri- Tax Handel Festival was brought to a close on Fri. day by the performance of Isral in Egypt, the lnagnjicent. ohoruies of which made it a work peen. liarly fitted for the Crystal Palace. An immense audience assembled. T'ne simple recitative, Now there arose a new King over Egypt, sung by Mr. Sims Reeves, opened the oratorio most ...

... The approach of an Edgbaston Flower Show, or a Bir- mingliim pleasure Fair, is an indication of bad weather, as certain as are heavy clouds and low rainy winds. When, therefore, both 0vents'were fixed for the same day, that man must have been of ai singularly hopeful turn of mind who could have anticipated anything but a day like yester- day-muddy, wet, and miserable. Had it been a flower Show ...

... I The Exhibition has now got to that point of its B existence where it requires no aid from injudicious I friends. To a certain extent, it may now be left c to run alone. It is true that the figures of Wed. c nesday have not reached the figures of Tuesday, any d more than the figures of Tuesday, June 24, 1862, reached the numbers of the corresponding day in c 1851. Those who know what the ...

... xfttrarg 110ficts. THz DiviNE FOOTSTEPS iN HUMAN HISTRoY. Pa-e Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sonso. to I THE, speculations of our race as to the workings 9 of Providence, and the guidance of a higher hand land than any we can see in the affairs of men and Scot events of history, are often such as to excite sur- yeart prise at their daring, and in most cases disap- relig pointmnent at their want of ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER, Convent Life in Italy. By Algernon Taylor. Skeet. The form of this book, and something perhaps of the spirit in which itq is written, carry us back to medieval times, when the traveller found his warmest welcome at the ever-recurring monastery instead of at the infrequent inn. Hospitality was an essentially monastic principle, and to judge by the welcome which Mr ...