... INTERNATIONAL EXaIBITION OF OBJECTS CONNECTED WITH FISHERIES. LFROM TEE FIERL.j IT will interest our readers to hear that the munici- pal authorities of Bergen, with the assistance of the Norwegian Government, propose to hold this year an international exhibition of produce, instruments, and other objects connected with fisheries. The exhibi- tion willfbe held at Bergen, in Norway, and will be ...

... .AMATE UR THEATRICALS AT THE LECTURE HALL. 1is- y Those public writers who have lamented, and those stern moralists who have rejoiced over, the assumed decline of the be Drama have not, we think, sufficiently recognised the growth of that popular amusement known as private theatricals. But we have never been told what we are to accept as evi- dences of a love for the Drama, and before we can ...

... COUTRT AND FASHITON. Her Majesty the Queen and their Royal High- Inesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise received the Sacrament of the Holy Communion on Sunday morning, at Whippingliham Church, which was ad- ministered by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dcnn of Windsor and the Rev. George Probhero. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince n ad Princess of Wales and Plrince Arthur attended the morning ...

... L.- TUE STORY OF THE LIFE OF GEORGE STEPHSNEON; INOL~ ?? A MEMOIR OF ISo SOiN ROBERT STE- 3 PlENSoL BY SAMUEL SMILES, author of In- dustrial Biography, &c, New edition, thoroughly revised. [London: John Murray.J JAMES BRINDLEY AND THE EARLY ENGINEERS. By SAMUEL SMILES, author of Self Help, hc. [Lon- don: John Murray.I We have sometimes wished that men who have originated or greatly ...

... I The perfornanceeo uedmanced la-t evading with thel In- tensely interebting dranle of the Cscurer of Lyora.s Foseudud on fact, having a strange plot, and abounding in scriling inoi. cents, it always commends a large attendance, and, if ads- qua-eiy repremnanta, woll repays the audIence. There are few, if indeed there Issnytheatro, at wbich it 1i more effdo- tively presented than at the Qr ...

... I T7e Economy of CpiEtal, or Gold and Trade. By R. H. PAMTTzsoN. Blackwood and Sons. Mr. Patterson's work, some portions of which consist of a series of articles recently contributed by him to Blackweood's Magazine, is a long and elaborate indictment of the whole monetary system established in England by the Bank Act of 1844. So far as the object of his book is concerned, our sympathies are ...

... IPINE ART& : I THE SOCIETY OF FEMLALE ARlTS | The exhibition of this Society, ,Which opens to the public to-day, is decidedly the best we remember to have seen since the first attempt of some five or six years ago. We observe that this year the Society is said to be reorganized, and the list of lady patronesses, members, and honorary members, is increased by several influential names; so that ...

... - In ?? Church-yard Under this stone lies Mlerideth Morgan, Who blew the bellows of our church organ. Tobacco he hated, to sm11olie ?? unwilling, Yet never so pleased as when pipes lie was filling. No refllctiori on Win far rode speech could be 0cast, Though lie gave the old organist miany a blast. ° No piffiar was lie, Though a capital blower; Be could fill double G, And nollW lies a note ...

... On Thursday, Mr. Frederick Strange, proprietor of the Alhambra-palace, Leicester-square, was sum- moned before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough- street police-court, for performing stage plays with- out authority in the above establishment. Mr. Besley said he appeared on behalf of the plain- tiff, the proceedings being, in' fact, instituted by a number of lessees of licensed theatres, amongst ...

... I THE ACCEPTABILITY OF THE DIDACTIC I NOVEL. The reason why we have said that most of the objections to didactic fiction are the offspring of pedantry is this, that not one person in a hundred who repeat, like so many parrots, that they don't like novels of tbis description, is qualitied to appre. ciate the grounds on which exception may be taken to them, And nothing is more unadulterated ...

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... p etry. ?? * .CHARADE.. My First reversed is always at the head: _Iy Last you eyer at the foot may find; My Second boug a famrs'iband has led, ?? usefulness and literature designed. My Whole in many a fertile field is seen, It is a boon too high as well as low ! 'Tis drest in verdure liks a fairy queen Its bonnet varied hues is wont to show. THE BROTHER AND SISTER. In a winding deli, thllk ...