... Signor Ronconi's state of health is such as to prevent his coming to London this year. Halvy is said to have left behind him an opera in readiness for immediate representation. Her Majesty's Commissioners intend to invite foreign visitors. to an evening party at the South Kensington Museum on Friday next., The new rooms containing the Special Exhibition of Works. of Art will be lighted for the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ?? 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, ...

... - - (Fraenz err Specal CorrespcItoclet.) It is little more than half a century sine stock-breeding on scientific principles was first attempted. Before that time this important branch of rural industry was shamefully neglected. The stock was allowed to increase and multiply after its own fasllion, and although there were one or two exclusive families amongst it, for the most part it consisted ...

... No. 8. BU1TON,. AND MISCELLANEOUS ARTI6LES IN METAL, SADDLERY, &c., &c. Amorg the various trades of which Birmingham is the ickuowledged centre, there is not one which has undergone a greeter change, or which has more stimulated the inven- tive powers of those engaged in it, as to new metheds of manufacture and the discovery of new materials, than that of button malcing. The gilt metal button ...

... THE STOURBRIDGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL The third musical reunion of the Stourbridge Gramlmvar School Choir was held in the new school onl Tliurelay evening, and on the same occasion tho annutal diktrilbitie5 of prizes took place. The visitors began to arrive fearly an hour before the proceedings commenced, and in a sliort time all the available space in t!he room was occupie'l, izossini's famous ...

... The Ultramontane journal, the Monde, has an article from the pen of M. X. de Fontaines on the Exhibition, occasioned by the manner in which, as he says, French products are disposed of at the Exhibition:- The jealous meanness of the English has refused it space, and in this respect France is undeniably the worst off. The finest glass cases have hardly a little space between them, which makes ...

... THE PAST, THE PAST, Y S. i. B..l)BUIIY, (QUILLON.) Long dljesislhed dreams linked to the past, Cone o er me as I muse alone; ISe deld pleasures round Zic cast, r iite retals from young blossoms blown F ethe laths whelre I have strayed, 1, oucst of joys that could not last Ia v ll, to hold those joys l'vo played, TIle ,IeCot ml0emorials of the past ! TheI 'xc gone like dream that comes no more, ...

... (Fromn our Special Correspondent. ) MONDAY EVENING. The annual Show of the Royal Agricultural Society opened to-day. The white tents of this great agricultural encampment are dotted over the pleasant green meadows, and are surrounded by the handsome groves that now usurp a large tract of ground by the side of the River Tlhmes, at Battersea, which, within soere seven or eight years, was half ...

... HIADSWORTH AND LOZELLS FLOWER S H O W. The second exhibition for the present season in connec- tion with this Society was, held yesterday afternoon, in the Glass Pavilion, Aston Hall. Though the weather proved tolerably fine the company was not so numerous as was, anticipated, but it was a very fashionable one, ladies constituting the principal portion of the visitors. With regard to the show ...

... INTE RNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The reaction after Derby dissipations and, still more, the miserable weather of Thursday, told to some extent upon the rapidly rising exchequer of the Commisioners. The total visitors amounted to 41,090, of whom 4,094 were by seasot tickets and 36,996 by payment. The reduction in the number, however, was less than anticipated, as the sums received on wet days in 1851 ...