... TIHE ?NEA EMIIGRATION FIELD. ll1 RiIVER PLATE AND THE EXHIBITION. The niuihier of medals and honourable mentions awarded 1v lhe juries of thc International Exhibition to the pro- dswsts of tlse Republic of Monte Video, relatively to the e tnilt of thc collection, has excited surprise among those to whous that country is almost unknown, and must direct the pul~lic attention very strongly to the ...

... SECOND DAY. When the dosos of the Town Hall were re-openod for the admission ot visitors yesterday morning, it was re- mm krld with much gratification that the splendid collection of flowers bad naufferee. but little from their exposure within the building during the previous day and night, and that they, for the most part, looked nearly as fresh as whel they were first staged. Those who had ...

... THE PUBLICATION OF THE AWARDS. (From our Special CarrcsposedcNt.) LONDON, Friday Evening. The ceremony to-day was very much a repetition of that on the opening day. Of ceremony there was, strictly speaking, very little-nothing more, in fact, than a pro- ?? of dignitaries, officials, hc., through the building, who delivered as they passed at certain fixed stations copies of the awards to the ...

... TilE INTERNATIONAL EXRIBITION. - -~ ~ ._ I THE FOREIGN COURTS.-AUSTRIA.. ii (FIFTH ARTICLE.)b For a country-numbering nearly forty millions of t inhabitants, and occupying a good twelfth of Europe, e. Austria makes a singularly small and modest show in t, the north western transept of the Exhibition. In the artistic excellence and symmetrical arrangement of her a: display, however, the land of ...

... THE FOREIGN COURTS.-ITALY. (SIXTH ARTICLE.) As in ItaLy every road is said to lead to Rome, so at the International Exhibition it would seem as if every avenue terminated in Italy. No matter from what point of the building tho visitor starts, or in what direction he wvends his way, the Court of the newly- fledged kingdom of Victoi IEmmanuel is certain, at some point, to cross his ipath. ...

... D., Deal, a pleasant writer, and one of the judges at the late Rose show, writes thus of that exhibition, in the current number of the Cottarle Gardener- A Rose Show in Birmsingham ? Anything so poetical in so matter-of-fact, practical, smoky a metropolis of iron as Birminglmmn? Yes, truly, and what is more, a Show which in point of beauty of arrangement, excellence of flowers, and general ...

... THE FOREIGN PICTURES. No. IL As might naturally be expected, our French neigh- bours occupy thegreatest share of the foreign galleries; and had they adopted the same limit as that selected for English art, the wvhole building would have proved iisufficient to contain the pietures they might, and probably would have sent us. With all deference to those critics who regard a hpreference for a low ...

... HALES OWEN AND HAGLEY FLORlAL AND HORTICULTITEAL EXHIBITION. Sure]y no more aplpropriate place could be chosen for a floral'exhibition than the Leasowes. Erst the birthplace and residence of the author of A Pastoral Ballad, in four parts, aid other Poems, and described by Dr. John. son as ' a sort of rural paradise, upon which the owneir (Shenlstone) squandered mo8t of his meaus, oxpceding ...

... BiI~j~N'GU AT AT EtR EIA ' -; - - - f EXH ?? IBITYON., ~~ Tlie reporter'of the Standard has the ?? city of Liege, as all know, is the formidable rival of our own Birminghami, in supplying hunters of men and hunters of beasts throughout the globe with the means of indulg- ing their 'murderous propensities. Guns and pistols are made there by the million, and are despatched far and near 'wherever ...

... An Italian Scientific Congress will open at Sienna on the 14th of September next, and terminate on the 27th of the same month. A memorial window in commemoration of Vincent Novello is about to be placed in the north transept of Westminster Abbey. An equestrian statue, by way of memorial to the Prince Consort, is to be erected at Y-alifax, to be wrought in bronze by Mir. Thorneycroft. ...

... FEMALE LIFE 1N PRISON. BD A PRISON MATRON. In two vols. [London: Hurst and Blackett.j These reminiscences are written by one who has retired from Government service, and whose long experience enables her to offer a minute statement of prison life and adventure at Brixton and Millbank. It is. not seldom we can get a glimpse behind the scenes of prisonlife, and what ideas we have about this kind ...

... The following are additions to the list of awards:- CLASS I.-_cdat.-Thompson, Hatton, and Co., Bil- ston, for tin-plate of excellent quality. CLASS XXXII., SECTION A.-MIedals.-Mogg and Co., Redditch, excellence of needles and fishing tackle; Thomas and Sons, Redditch, excellence in needles and fish-hooks (and not metallic pens, as incorrectly stated in the official list of awards); Townsend ...