... VARI ETIE S. A recent lecturer oin common law says that, according to that code, a woman when she married lost her identity ]her distinctive character, and was like a dew-drop swall lowed by a sunbeam. ; There are ties which never should be severed,] as an ill-used wife said when she found her brute of a husband hanging in the hay-loft. A contemporary suggests that a lady, Onl putting on ...

... 1 ATHY, WEDimSDAT.-The June fair held on this day Vnas thinly supplied with stock. A goodly num- ber of purchasers were in attendance, chiefly from Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Dublin. Large numbers of horn stock were bought for the English market. Owing to the much looked-for rain which we had for the past few days, small farmers are not over anxious to get shut of their stock. The follow- ...

... I HORTICUUTURAL SHOW AT KINGSTOWN. The stummer shlowY of the Royal Horticultural 2 Society wras held yesterday on the handsome and w well laid ant groundls of. the Royal ~Marine Hotel a' Company at l~ingstown, and passed off most nuccessx I fully. 'The day kept up, beautifuly, and permitted Ii the attendance of a numerous and fashionable assemn : blage. The fine band of the 02nd Ifighlanders ...

... SKREEN (CO. MEATH) SUMAIER F. A-IR. I Skreen,Thlusday, Jiune 21. This celebrated old establibhed fair, one of the two held here annually, came off on yesterday. It is a noted horse fair, and also famous for the exhibition of store cattle, sheep, and lambs, and the weather being fine buyers and sellers wereon the ground from an early hour in the firenoon. The supply of beef was moderate, ...

... THE SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTHIENr. The report of the Science and Art Department to the Committee of Council on Education has just been issued as a Parliamentary paper. In regard to the aid given to industrial classes in obtaining scien. tific and artistic instruction bearing on their occupa. tions, It appears that there are at present 158 science schools anu institutions in which science ...

... IDm O C Y.' Tim authors of this book have been for some years engaged in the endeavour to raise to the highest possible pitch the individual and social condition of the idiot, and they give us here the results of their experience. Too much gratitude could hardly be felt for the boon they have thus conferred upon a class than whom none more heartily deserve our pity and our aid. They have had ...

... AMESEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. PRINCE OF WALLS THEATRE. The highly amusing serio-comic drama Milky White-in which the author, Mr. H. T. Craven, supported the principal character-having had another good run, gives place this evening to a comedy from the somewhat prolific pen of the same gentleman, and entitled The Needful. This, the public are informed, is an entirely new and original piece, and ...

... The number of London theatres now licensed by the Lord tl Chamberlain for the performance of any kind of drama what- ti ever is 23. Of these we give a list, together with the num- a ber of persons which each will contain, extracted from one t, of the statements laid before Parliament:- n Her Alajesty's - 2,200 Surrey - - - - 2,000 a Drury-lane - - - 2,500 Pavillen - - - 2,305 a Covent-garden - ...

... AICtEICAN THATRICALS. NEW YORK, MAY 28. THE principal topic of conversation in theatrical circles is the burning of the Academy last week. Manager Maretzek is sup- posed to have lost an immense amount of property. Miss Helen Western has appeared at the BROADWAY in .Teany Lind and Satan in Paris. Madame Celeste has been engaged by Mr. Lingard for the NEW BowErY, and she plays in The Woman in ...

... THE RAILWAY STATION. WiH.EN 'Tr. W. P. Frith completed his pii-turc of 'he Derl)y Day, it seemed-anld scemel to tl. ?? best kncow his powers-that hle bl ach:eved a work which it was not possible even for 11 s ova! pencil to surpass. And yet, while we have a vivid recollection of that wonderful canvas beforc us, we Cen lhardly hesittlk to say that the artist has ex- celled himself. Th2re is ...

... THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF| I ' L 'LIVING ARTISTS. [FIRST ARTICLE.] Two incidents which gave rise to some comment marked the opening of the French Salon this year-one, the suicide of a young painter because his works had been rejected by the jury appointed to examine the pictures sent in for exhibition the other, a controversy in the newspapers originated by that enemy of all that is ...

... RFlPA1 E,At TgE OlLimpic. C Au OP-racotttravsgs. t with the abiv title, and em- ;W~ylng much Of Offeabacht snusic, set to the same their ,! las been presented at. thea Olympic in ai most' attractive .ga r, The autorof the lbrsetMr. Behlughai, has 1u but own the prsery tale overboard; and our old friend. rd La scarcely recognisable in the -sew version of . ,htry. 'n this. B.'ue Beerd :is ...