... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... * 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... RAOUL DE LA CHAS2-RE.* THIS is the sort of book which a man does not proclaim that he has read; nor would he readily invite his wife to the rich feast of nervous idiomatic French which these five hundred pages supply. For undoubtedly from the English point of view Raoul is a sad scamp; and ladies will look at things from the English point of view. All that can be said in his favour is that ...

... ROSENAU, COBURG, AUGUST 24.-TheoDuchess of Holstein- Augustenberg, niece to her Majesty, arrived at the Callenberg on Sunday on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, accom- enied by her brother-in-law, Prince Christian of Holstein. The ruchess and Prince Christiall visited the Queen at the Rosenau on Monday, and remained to luncheon with her Majesty. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe ...

... 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 ...

... THE DESION FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF I 1867. (From the Buiilder,) abi In our number for Februaty 16, 1861, we pub- V Jished a design for an exhibition building, with suggestious for method of classifying the contents, submitted to us by tb Mr. G. MawandhMt. EdwardJ. Payne, the-main feature nf noi which wrq the combination of a geographical and general eve cltssification; that is, that in one ...

... DANTE READ IlNGS.* THIS volume was given to the public with reference to the sixth cente- nary of Dante's birth, celebrated this year. The fitness of the occasion tempted the author, as he says, to offer the results of his investigations, such as they are, without waiting to make them more complete and exten- sive. The consequence is that the volume is a somewhat crude and imperfectly digested ...