... M I - Too OXVORD MUsIC HALL.-Looking, in at this fb ou0 place of aemueeent the other evening, we found the Grand Hail filled to repletion, very many of those present evidently being fi country cousins, whilst others were equall y a ein foreigners, all of whom appeared to thoroughly enjoy the entertain. ments presented with uncommon zest. Full as tile Oxford alwey' is, we have rarely seen ...

... THE INTERNATIONAL EXEIBITION. WASHENG MACHINES. t ? BRADFoRD's washing machines ara situated in the ? Eastern Annexe. Originally patented in 1857, they ? have since been considerably improved, and they re- f flect high credit upon the ingenuity of their inventor. The perfection of machinery being, after all, to ,j approaoh. as nearly as possible to human work-for a which it may be substituted, ...

... PE1:1iAPS most persons will hear with regret that the French have determined to hold an Indus- trial Exhibition, similar to that now holding at Brompton, in their own capital next year. Whether this rumour is correct or incorrect-and though it comes in a circumstantial form, we by no means gua- rantee its truth-it at least deserves attention. We L fully recognise the value of these great ...

... NOTES ON THE EXHIBITlON, TV. w v o - s UTIvO*N (From Our Occasional Corresponderat.) The Exhibition varies in Its complexion, As the sn warms It, the domes, so splendid from the inteior, teauro ire, down too much light Into the building, and we, the ktbrw the eyed children of a misty island, seek the shade to whd w D are moest accustomed. Strange that all men avold thesu- *lon from the ...

... MESSRS R. COCKS & Co., NEW BURLINGTON STREET, LONDON. FAIRY TALF.-Waltzes. By CARL FAUST, of Bres- lau. I We have been favoured with another charming set of five waltzes, by the most fascinating of modern dance writers, Carl Faust, of Breslau. The (G4erznan title, which is, perliaps, untranslatable, is Maclhr chen ans schoener Zeit. After a romantic introduc- tion, in which the theme of the ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GABDEN. La Traviata, about the lmost indifferent of Verdi's works, and one of the most objectionable, whether in plot or detail, ever written by any author, was produced on: Monday night for the purpose of presenting Madlle. Patti! to a London audience, for the first time this season, in the character of Violetta Valery. In this character Madile. Piccolomini made ...

... On Saturday evening, an event of a rather unusual character took plaee at the People's School, Briarley-street, being the performance of a eacrea Drama, entitled Yaboeh's Vineyard, written by DMr Wililam Moore, Stcsk'e. lane, Stalybridge. The Drama is founded ?? the 2Ist chapter of the let Book of Kings It is divided into Five Acts, and opnes with a Scene res presenting Naboth (John Stephenson ...

... . INVENTIONS AND MO6DELS. THEa invention of a compactly folding umbrella does not forbid the same creative faculty to which it owes lati its portable form from planning a dock. There is bee Mr. Sedley, the inventor of a chair which obeys every ME movement of the reclining form by the agency of a nec crank plcdwthin convenient reach of the right ciii hand. 'This chair is to be seen at the ...

... LITE RAT U RE. it, al Eec &'r ON SOIENeTIF10 AND OTHXR SUBMITS: CONTRIUITED -b~ aver TO THU EDIUBUBGR AND QUARTSBLY RtEvrawiL By Sir lu Iff. Hollaod, Bart., M.D., F.R B., ?? Oxon, &co, Fi Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Physioltai In mod Ordinary to the Queen. London : Lougaman, Green, Long. eube man Ic Roberts, 1862. stool Tns last twenty years have worked a revolution In thle ' ...

... POLIO &UBE~ME e f the 'eSaustir Oq''Abble (the Ihte She jO w Thetheaneelsewher)abe real whlb, of V~cicae I nothing either novel or V artlina gurre°~ ~ ,,i ?? r byctrlid. hebit thea treis sssr allI byte xbibitlen; perhaps the Seor l058 pro it fl~d Prince9e%, more than any Or10rcbet, rod LsYerDb d D)undrelry is the great attrae- ;Y gr Shte ?? O' Day, which so completely °'?shfiret tt ?? after ...

... I ?? IN TIHI Birn?npha.rn ? Po8t A NOTIOJI SONNET, ?I?AUOU1?,1ION OF ?? STATUI? OF JOSEPH , e,0 of Birminghamn, yo have done well le ra statluo to your tonwlilnan Sturgc- Trelrlunent that long will live to tell A Ie. l ticads leo hath dlone; and onward urge The g~ Terelce a kindred spirit tow rds the gonl, e. peeflf s goal, which ho so nobly won tislte rutle greatnless, dignity of soul, ...

... [FROM AN OCCASIONAL 60 Pol'mESO 0T.] | LoNON, SATUnDAY. WRtsaNTyzrn week bas brought its thousand to th di 3; Great, Exhibition, who. otherwise might have lived 1 and died in the more; distant parts of the country without ever having seen London.. To your readers E in Ireland the Whitsuntide Holidays are unknovn ; but here in Eugland. they are- looked forwaidto diii ing the whole year as a ...