... LONDON XUSIC HALLS. ROYAL ALOAmBR.A.-Mr. strange must have expended a coni- derable sum in keeping up appearances. At the present time, belsind scaffold poles and white hangings, a new proceium is being prepared which will as deuht increa's'e the brllat appear- ance of-h ulig n enider it more perfect titan ever. 'Thess alterations interfere in no degree with thle regular entertainments, which ...

... ANNUAL SHOW. j rnOO OllB CWX BEPOIRTx.] YETERrDAY, the anacal show of the Newtownrde Hortienltural Society was hell in the beautiful grounds attached to the Nursery of the Messrs. Dicksonf, nwaserynen, Newtownard&. Before spe9k- ing of the atnndance, it may be %ve l to say a ?? in relation to the show itself, apart from the visitors. It is well Lnoowi that the New- townards Hnorticanlnre ...

... WAKEFIELD INDUSTRIAM AND.ART EXHIBITION. (SECOND NOTICE.) Probably no department of the F1shibition hag attained to so much success or been the touroc of so maclh real pleasure to the thousands of persons who have vited the building since it was ?? cd as that devoted to at. It has been foundwe should thi jk, thaeven on those days when it is most densely crow ded, and When the large majority of ...

... Mr Layard liar made a speech at Readin. in con- nection with the distribution of the prizes at the ?? of Art, in which he attributed results of immense consequence to the Exhibition of 18.51. To that was owing, lie said, all the improvement in taste which has distinguished us as a people during the last few years. In 1851 the Englisl artizan failed in matters of taste, where form and colour ...

... OS WALD HA STINGS.* ADvENTURES are to the adventurous. We are afraid to try Captain Knollys' hero by any of the ordinary standards. A youth who rises from the ranks in so brief a time, and earns all imaginable honours in three short volumes, who loves an heiress, marries another girl from her likeness to the first love, has an affair with a Turkish lady and sees her drowned in a sack, is ...

... * AL. POUCHET is a man who has made considerable noise in the scientific world, first by a physiological discovery of some importance, and latterly by an ardent advocacy of the doctrine of spontaneous generation. He is, moreover, director of the Natural History Museum at Rouen, a professor and an investigator. The announcement of a work by him setting forth in popular language the wonders and ...

... OPENING OF MSE BRISTOL WORKING ?? 'S INDUSTRAL ZXHIBITrOLY. Yesterday the Working Men's Industrial Exhibi- tiont, ih has been openod in the Great Drzll-l.ha1 f, the lit Gloucestershire (Bristol) volunteer corps in oeeac. at hon with Bridtol, Bath, the west of England counties, and d4 South Walke, was opened with much ceremony by the civic lu authorities, the biabop, deam, and clergy, and ...

... HICADMZG IN61USTRIAL ERXHIBITION. I oni IETllRR~~o (ra. OUR (BW O B=) BIADING, WEDNESDAy. The formal opening of this exhibition took place to-day under circumstsnee of coniderable ceremony. From the time when the notion of holding a local exhibi- Uon here was started some months ago to the pro- i soet day it promoters hare met with continued success The patronage of her Majesty was secured at ...

... IMVEWS OF BOOKS. -4-b TALES FOn Tim MABIm E By WALTEB THOWBS7BB. Sampson, Low, anrd Co., Ludgate-hill-Ai the Marines are traditionally a very credulous body of men, we pre- StmA 31r. Thorubury's amusing collection of stories will be thoroughly appreciated by the gallant corps for whose Fpfci-al odfieation it is issued. Some of the tales are pleatautly told, and the sket'aes of life in Russia, ...

... MORLEY AGRICUiTURAT SHOW. I . . . . . The floral and horticultural exhibition of the Morley society, held on Tuesday, was followed by that of the agricultuyal stock on Wednesday. The separation ?? tw departments of the show did not appear to have had the result which might have been expected-that of diminishing the attendance, not on the whole, but on the individual days of ex- hibition. On ...

... JU Memoir of the Life and Writings of Sir Richarda Steele, Soldier, Drarmatist, Essapist and Patriot ; t arith his 'orrespoindence, and Nowes of his Con- temporaries-the Wits and Statesmen of Queen Anne's Time. By Hiaxty R. MONTGOMntEY. 2 vols. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo. We thank the author of these volumes for taking f us into exceedingly good company. We have spent many pleasant hours in it ...

... A*tT410. 1fHi' ROY4LTY TgAT=E This little ho4. opened for thle season on Satur. ~IA raY night, wlen lipentertainmentos omaitedcofthe farce in, Lof Poor Psillicoddy, a new opera in two adts, Cautie Ginus, rag and Mr. W. Brough's burlesque. PrisceAmoae. Th. new hi epera~written by Mr. E. Raee, and composed by Mr. G. B. nisi nobs Allem, is a light and agreesb'e trifle, which panses mu off ...