... An eminent statistician has just prepared a very elaborate report on the subject of vocalists' salaries, in which he calculates the value of every note they sing, and gives a table showing the cost price to the manager (roulades and floriture apart) of the best known phrases in the tenor and soprano parts of the most popular operas of the (lay. The tenor's salary is put down at £4000 a year, ...

... The editor of the SicCle forwards to the poli- tical secretary of that journal a long letter narrating his first experiences in London. A man of broad generous views, he is entitled to be heard; and since he has great influence in France we give from his letter some of his criticisms on our na- tional feelings. He says:- *1 had hoped that the old antipathies which have been so evil in their ...

... MVUSIAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. This society's fourth concert took place last Y evening atSt. James's-haii. It wae the last of the society's~ fourthseeasonk,which it brought to abrilliant close. The V. following was the programme of the performance:- Overture (Athalie) . I.. ATMendelssohn, it Air, Dies Btilducss ro oabrd oiic )lDlc Zauberttitte) Hlerr Wachtel (Irsia Vi. A enci) ?? it Concerto in ...

... :Eer 3VEajesty'8.-Although yesterday week the Trovatore was given for the third time, its attractivenees has not, apparently diminished, despite the regrettable absence of Signor Giapgliai, en absence, however, which is only temporary. Unfortonate, on one side, Mr. Mapleson may thank his lucky stars on the other, in providing him with a worthy substitute in the person of Signor Naudin, from ...

... LiTrERARY EXTRACTS. l ?? FAnl;EaS .AND SPiRaRows- In St. Pierre's 'Studies of tt Nature,' we read of ann iucident that occurred in Prsia, or a s1 dir iSio:I f it. The farmers were much annoyed by sparrows, iV and sorght to eradicate them by a kind of poll-tax, the U authoritics allowiug part of the imposts to be paid in sparrows' neads. They succeeded; balt what was the consequence? In t twvo ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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, ...

... . 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 ...

... BALMORAL, MAY 30.-The Queen drove out yesterday on the Bslster read, accom~panied by Princess Beatrice. Lady Augusta Bruce was in attendance. MAY^ 31.-The Qaeen, drove and walked yesterday, accompanied by Prjrc5Ss Alice. JvH 1.-The Queen, with Princess Helena, attended by the DnclO555 of -Athole, drove aut yesterday. Return of the Court to Windsor Castle. WINDSOR CASTLE, Juir 3.-Her Majesty ...

... FOREIGN DRAMATIC INTELI..LIGENCE. (WRITTEN EXPRSSLa'Y Yous THR ERA.) Wallb, we are told, have ears, and so we may infer that the private boxes of Tteatres are not devoid of those useful appendages. Now ears are not, in general, very far removed from mouths, however long the former may be, and thus certain political conversations which passed in the Royal box of the Theatre of Como have found ...