... MISS BATEMAN AS LEAH. Ifence,valn deluding joyn of Comedy ! avaunt ye nods and beoks and wreathed elmiles; ye qudps and crank and wanton wiles, with which, as with husks of swine' we have too long been striving to sate our intellectual appetites I Suach hallow trifles please us not, or rather please as no longer. We crave more solid and ser1 enduring enjoyment, Gaiety palls, wit loses ...

... THE EXHIBITION OF ECCLESIASTICALI ART AT WOLVERHAMIPTON. Those who wish to be instructed in the mysteries of Ritual, and to learn the shapes and uses of Vestments, spey gratify their desire by visiting the above nsned exhibition, opened in the Sohool of Art, Darlington Street, Wolverhamspton. This is the third exhibition of the series. The first took place at Norwich, in 1865; the second at ...

... We have seen larger audiences than that assembled last night to greet Mr. T. C. King's return to these hoards, after long illness ard remote sojourn, but we can con- scientiously say we have never witnessed one more heartily and unanimously onthulastlo. The pit half rose in Its excitement as the familiar form of the popular tragedian. diaped in the oharsoteliatle rngeof JuIlian St. Plerre ...

... TITE F,,,NCI. , TEXTITBITION, pyoant oitr. e ian, C9 ?? P IIns, July 27. ON Sunday last (you know I 1usd nothing whatever to do with the choice of the day) one of the most colossal concerts ever given took place in the Faldis do l'li!diitrlie bujdjing. The representatives of Austria. Prussia, 13Avariia, Saxony, Ruassia, France, and a hos0 of minor htates contended for a music prize. Aud bear ...

... l--. I ? - I -1 ? ?? ?? ?? 1111-1-1 :0 1.1 ?? ? ? ? .1 'XI IBIMO'N. ? 1. - ?? I-, I LFJum our c!m 'Corr-esponldent. I I PARIs, Monday. Tu'ie hanquct wsl-ih it was proposed to give to the Ermp?eror, as a testimony of the gratitude of the French and foriein exhibitors for the Impoeial favours lavished on them, has ?? a stumbling- block to miany. Those of the French exhibitorsu Echo are a ...

... THIE, -IFTENTI-I EXHIBIrION. ironh our ole Go(}csposdenL] PARIs, WNed1esdaY- iTit; ,e, tihe wvhole ite, and nothing lit the flte renE l ?? our attention at the present titme, bat amidst the rijdoiings of to-morrow there will be one personage Ms ho Adi).l climn the sympathy of all your readers-tn C it, tt oislriug of mod-ern aupoerivilistitionf the long-sn lklrinf, anti ntueh- utited animal, ...

... THE CATTLE, POULTRY, AND DOG SaOWS. We have been furnished with the following list of noble' men and others present at Blagley Hall yesterday :-is Worship the Mayor of Birmingham (Mr. Thomas Avery) his Grace the Dfke of Sutherland, his Grace the Duke of Athole, her Grace the Duchess of Mfarl- borough, the Mlarquis of Bristol, the Marquis of Dow shire, the Right Hon. the Earl and the Countess ...

... THE COMING SaOWS. Bingley Hall Is booeming gradually filled. About half the cattle, the whole of the Implements, and a small portion of the pigs and poultry are already located In the Hall. Some idea of the extent of the poultry show may be formed when it is stated that If the pens were all placed in a line, they would reaob a distance of a mile and a half. The whole of the animals and birds ...

... THIE FRENCH EXHIBrIfNO. [From oser oet' Cmorrespoeufestt.] PAins, Friday. I ss ilu jesly the Emperor of all the Russias and her most Cacholic M;kj Sty the Queeu of Spain have just t ut ed in a gr(a' a: t of p olicy, for which those who know the value of evests in the dull season ought to be grateful to them. They have expelled Le Petit Jours't from their doriniont, and henceforth the obnoxious ...

... IBIRMINGHAM BOTANICA.L AND HORTI. I CULTURAL SOOIETY. I Tho seeond exhibition of thL isssociation, which occupies the placo var excellenor1 as Ote horticultural soielty of the district, bringing together by far tho most varied snd tho ehoicest oxhibi 3 tion of flowoesand fruits that perhaps may be seon in the Midland Counties, was held yesterday, in that inimitable ehow-ground, the Botanlcal ...

... TRY ( 'A . I, Mlondtay, Till presjiret of the palace of thel b.haioaatdof the Li endior, t of culrioes flil i lins if the park being all Sovld its olb rul hbisli in NtT\lltbe, bahi b:t 11) a S4irli of ai lattiot in fa vtou c of the it pre andattan, all eti rts ot ex traortdinary p.rojectt alre daily sent it to the 111 peri at ( ?? , slowiiighow the structures now standi:tlig in the Champ de ...

... The last flower show of the season InI connection With the Wolverhanipton Horticultural Society was held on Tuesday afternoon, in the grounds of Mr. G. L. Underhiil, at 1Newbridgo. It comprised a large collection of all the stove and greenhouse plants usually shown at this seasson, excepting only ferns, which were in smaller supply than ueual, owing to certain of the gentlemen who usually send ...