... TJ[EATRE ROYAL. It is gratifying to find that the atern business of political warfare, in which Birmingham iH noew # earnestly absorbed, has so little influence on the public taste for gecn, or and more humaniaing pursuits, and that it is possible f jr m em - bers of the snse community to take very opposite views of rival election candidates like Dixon and Lloyd without abating a jot of their ...

... There Is a feminine waywardness and perversity about Festivals which will often sot at defiance the most carefal calculations and the most seemingly perfect arrangements, Here we are within a few days of the great triennial event, for which we have been more or less actively preparing since the Festival of 1864 faded from view, and though we have bad the lemsons of a century's experience to ...

... The eighth annual exhibition of the Stourbridge and District Horticultural end Floral Society was held at the Corn Exchange, yesterday. The previous Ehows have taken place earlier in the year, and the present one can scorzely be compared with those of former years, from the difflrence of the season in which It is hall. One effect of this was that the show was not so large a one as usual, the ...

... BIRMINGHAM CATTLE SHOW, DENTITION OF PIGS, The following statement, In reference to the recent diaqualificatione of pige, has been forwarded to us:- PEN 205, CLASs 41,-Threo Fat Pigs, of one litter, not exceeding ten months old, having been disqualified -by Profeesor Gamgee, with the remark, Disqualified-the state of dentiteon indicating that the animate are of dif- ferent ages, I think it ...

... B IMIEIGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY I SHoW. A meeting of the Council of the Bsingbanham Cattle and Poultry Show was held at the Queen's Hotel, yesterday, at noon. Mr. H. Luokecek presided, and there were also present the Mayor (Mr. T. Avery), Messrs. J. Mathews, IL Adkins, G. C. Adkins, W. B. Mapplebeok, J. Smith, T. 1. Wright, T. Brn-man, J. Shackel, F. Sabin, T. Bur- bidge, J. Lowe, R. C, Chawner ...

... WeTEWICESBURY REGATT AND FL ,WR E iTBVVKESB ~s a 0 \V. ADFOLI In tho somewhat exotensivo Ijet of papular li - gatherings in the midlnrd counties, the regatta a. * her, *i cultural exhibition which is held at Towkesblay tak high, If not the highest, rank; and that thil is, s - to be wondered at, when it is considered that the ar,,t ments which the committee labour indefatigably to lrvcvi for ...

... Soft stillness and the night, according to Lorenzo, become the touches of eweot harmony, but, when there is momentary risk of the stiilnees being disturbed and the night mnado hideous by the approach of a riotous mob, peace lovling burgesses may well be exoused for ?? to surrender themselves to the enjoyment of even such a tempting musieal banquet as Mr. D. F. Davis spread before his guests ...

... The nge of ruins is past says the sententlous and In- rcrutable Sidonia, one of the pet heroes of the not lesi sententious and inscrutable novelist and politiolan, Mr, Benjamin Disraeli ; but, however true this dictum au regards the mass of mankind, there are happily still a few people whose poetry has not becn quite soared away by tho whirr of machinery and the shrier of locomnotive, who ...

... LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND ART | SCRAPS. 3' Mrs, Alfred Mellon will be the future dircetress at W the Adeliphi Theatre. .S40 Air. Arthiur .v Beckett has resigned the editorship ?? of the ('0'lol eIlNr, to undertake editorial duties on the 4 stall of another journal. vld The verses On Southeae Beach, in the October 13 number of Lon1, on &Bor ty, are by Mr. Edward Legge, sof the I1 'urccqrtc ...

... [Prom our eCowprennt.] PAins, June 20, A FymenD of mine, who is obliged to be very careful as to what he eat;, drinks and puts on, having a weak digestion, and being most uasceptible of influenza colds, is annually taken with what he calls the back- woods fever. It comes on with great regularity about this time of y. ar, and generally leata until the arrival of cool weather. The symptoms of ...

... AIfresco eavos.dropping under the winrlows of a eonnert room on a cold rainy evening like that of Monday last-- even when combined with the advantages of free loaommo tion, occasional umbrellas, and nothing to pay, wili not appesl to the majority of our readers to be a particularly inviting occupation; nevertheless, this very slender enter- tainment sufficed on Monday to attract an audienc! ...

... PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, Last night, the new and exciting drama, by Mr. Clarence iolt, based on Hugo's famous romance, Les biserables, was produced before a large and enthusiastic audience. The piece was not only put on the stage with new scenery and many novel effects, but was played throughout with a completeness rarely found on the first night of a now piece. As tbe detailu are numerous ...