... A rainy evening, at the outset of an election contest, is not, generally spraking, the most favourable moment for launching a new theatrical speculation, but to judge by the magnitude of the attendance at this house on Moonday, Mr. and Mlrs, F. B. Egan and their associates are practi. cally Independent of season and circumstance, at all oveat I when they enacb so thrilling a drama as Mr. Watts ...

... ICATTLE, POULTRY, AND DOG SHOWS, STATISTICS OF TIlt S13Owi It would appear frow the rotuins 80'rnished to -as by Mr. Shaokel that the enormous number of .145,000 parsons hay0 visited the Cattle Show, at ?? Hali' this year, Thu following atre tile figures 1884. 105 18. 18. Ssubscribesa' tickets ,,49,248 5,980 4,087 0,080 Fiee shillings eatch ?? 3,601 1,810 1,004 875 On ?? each,,., - - - 600 5, ...

... I I . . . Yesterday we published a list of [the gold medallists; to. day we give a full list of the other awards, amongst the recipients of which will be found many loeal names. GROUP II.-APPARATUS AND APPLICATION OF TILE LIBERAL ARTS. CLASSG6.-PHNTIINC AND BOOKS. -Silver Modal: Brad. bury ane Evans, Cassel, Petter, and Galpln, Chambers, Hanhart, Illustrated London News, IV. Maskeonzie, ...

... THE FRENCH EXUIBITION. [Faom our own CorreqPoaclots] PARIS, Monday. Tone Emperor of Austria will enter Strasbourg to- morrow, and, after breakfasting, ho will proceed to Nancy, whither the Court carriages have already boon sent,to takehis Majesty instateto thePrefecture, where he will be entertained with music, but no dancing, for lie is still in mourning for the death of the Emperor of Mexico ...

... 'TIE FRENCH EXHIBITION. [Fromt our oton Con'espoxdeat.] PARNs, August G. We have only had one King to see us all this week. On Saturday last, at six o'clock in the evening, his Majesty of Sweden arrived at the Lyons Railway Station from Vichy. The Emperor, in private dress, went down to meet himo-for his Majesty's visit was strictly incognito-and conducted him to the Palace of the Elysee, ...

... LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND ART SO R A PS. Local journals announce the opening of a handsonme new ?? in Necvastle. hI. Conned's ?? Romeo and ,hdiet has been ?? into rehearsal at Nurecnbcrg. The name of a njew German tenor, Herr Nachlaur, is beginning to be spoken of favors rably. Mr. Lambeth, of Glasgow, whose meI rits asa musician are of no corlluon order, ?? been appointed an Anlersoniau ...

... TITE FRtE.qCll EnXiiIBUIlON. I Feoi cur 0,0 ?? PAUR, Monday. Tie Great Es'xhibition of 1867 is at an end ! The palace loors were closed last evening at five o'clock, not to be reopened save for the paclkers up, and therein 4onsisted the whol ceiemony of the closing. No Mtate pageant, no military, no Imperial speech. Why not ' That is the question that everybody is asking, And it would be very ...

... I BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVA. [Proet Biroreinghkll Journal of Selrdarsy.I (TiTTDn ARTICLE). BNENEDICT'S LEGEND 0r' ST. CECILIA, The last of the three Ceollian works included in the present Festival scheme, differs from the two noticed ine our previoes articse, not only in the more medern style of the rausie, bst to a yet greater degree in the character of the libretto, which, instead of the ...

... T'lE TICHBO{NER BARONETCY AND ESTATES. Wvhalt need for sensational dramas, or that novel writers sobnld cudgel their brains for fiction, when our courts of 11W presenrt i,,iteriabl that prove clearly the value of the *old proverb, Truth is stranger than fiction, We have now before u at tllree-volume romance, contained in the bills filed in Chancory in the causes of Tichborno v, Tichboxno ...

... The nlreenoth annual, show in BBngley 11til opens iat's morning, under ?? which contrast very favoar. ably with those of either of the past two 3ReoOuR. In 1SG5 the show was hold at a time whon rindorpost uvas raging a the veryheilhtot itsfury, Althooglsoo regssiatlonsthenpre- vented the transmissieot or exhibition of cattle, proprietour, sentry of thi ii, objeccl cds enud valuable cattle into ...

... I hl. SOTFIMN AS A WILD GOOSE, WVhatever successes Mr. Sothern may achieve, he seems I dotormiued that the credit of them shall be all his own, I and that the dramatist at all events shall have no preteon 3lena to divido the palm with the actor, Of the various i new plays, comedies, and farces, which he has been the means of introducing to the notice of the English i public, scarcely one ...

... BIRMJNGHAIVI MUSICAL FESTIVAL. A ?? of the General Committee ef the Birlungbham Musical Festival was hold on Saturday forenoVn, in the t Socretary'H room, Midland lnstitutoe The Rig'>Han. 2 Earl Beauchamp (President) occupied the chair, and there 1 were present the Mayor (Mr. T. avery), Mr. Gee. Dixonl, t MDP,, Air, W. J. Bealo, Sir. Timothy Kentvick, Mr. IT Sharp, Mir, Howard Luokcock, Mir. ...