... PUBLIQ AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL. This week an attraction has been made in the performance at this theatre by the substitution of the comedietta. of The Boarding School for The Artist's Wife, the latter having met with such success during the past fortnight. The sub- stitution is certainly'not an improvement, although the piece creates much anusement. A troop of yeomanry is quartered at a ...

... THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITIO?.| AT PARIS. I The Parie special correspondent of the Tjau writing under date Feb. 25, ea~s-' The expen i ture of the English Commission is, I see, attratin. much notice in the Hoise of Comm. ns, tbout only £116,000 is asked for. This sum will n: cover the expenses our commission has alrtsdr incurred. At least £el-50,000 has now been l and before all is over this bill ...

... 10E MAYER .COLLECTION . I . . AT THZ , . Be LIBRARY AXWXMUSEUMI - ~ A the m s V-X 'b Fejrvary ivornes form a speccat lesare in gayer'a collection. They comprise specimens 0q11,early Christian, medi eval; and Oriental o d include some of xthe most rare and ramples in this partioular branch oi From the earliest times ivory was a favourite opzal for ornamental purposes, and in Greece I ;me the ...

... True FRENCH EXIIIBIhION. I I ?? -I.. IA . A s. T7-/ 1 [1iomi oar Own Uorrespomlcat-l PAl-Is, Monday. MtO;?OIIUiin m. I; ZOuAV i, the miracle worker, has com0 to grief. Theo, Government, tired of his pranks, have stopped his morning sittings in the flue J.oqiuette, but this is not the worst. A sceptical bookbinder, who overheard Jacob making some remarks which he considered as blasphetollos, ...

... THE FRENCH EXHIBUIfON. [Froln oatr Hpecial conrcsponelecnt.1 PAIRs, Wednesday. ON Saturday last, a ease was settled here, the result of which will please many a poor, forlorn, and swindled traveller who has this year partaken of the hospitality of 1Frinch hotel-keepers, A rascal named Limoineo proprietor of the H~tel des Italiens, Roe de Choiseul, 29, has been sent to prison for a month, and ...

... Yesterday, the annual Fat Pig Show, for prices (established by Mr. J. Beach), was held In the yard, Alhna Place, ?? Street. Theor wore aboutforty pigs exhibited, and for qualitytbey were not to be eurpoosed, Tire principal attraction was a pen of three splendid pigs from tire Hattons Farm, but these were not entered for com- petition. The admisston, no usual, was free of charge, and the ...

... MEETINGS, AM.USEY33 .' ?? MONTIAY. FEBED) tV Higb Courtiof Justiefay-li A.M. M~eeting of Parochial Bosx-Trevl t o, .1. .J i Meeting in Heriot's Hospital ot the o .L Mecting'of City Roed Trest- CounciL U. Abttrssuxmv ,- ...

... THE PAIUS EXHIBITION. The English portion of the Exhibition will, it is confi. dently believed, be equal for its size to tbht of any other in the world. T 'he whole of the central building contains 1,.500,000 square feet, and of this space, according to the etiquette of these displays, half, or 750,000ft., goes to -France, the country holding the Exhibition; of the remainiing 7a0,000ft; no ...

... LITE-RATURE, PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN INDIAN ME80HNT Binglo Memorials, of Robert Brown, late of.B-ombay. Corn- no ,piled by his Sister, HELEN CoLviN. -London: James *Ts Nisbet and Co. ex The subject of this memoir. was a native of Edinburgh, ho -where he was born in the year: 1822. ~-The~ passages of no -which the book is almost entirely made up are extracts or from his diary or letters, so ...

... -1. .A{EL POLA MAZURKA. By FRED GODFREY. ?? BN SOIB GAnoP. By FmD.. GoDFREY. 3 FREYSCHUTZ QUADBMIL, By J. KMiL. 4. BONmeo VALSE. By A. SCARD. 5. AuTuMN FLOWERS. By EHmNY SIMMS. 6. T1ERE I8 A ,LAD, ADnEa, LAED. Song., By ?? MACKAY. 7. Str AE THAT SONx AGAIN. Song. By GuGLIBLMo. 8. THE OrEN WINDOw. Song. Miss 'LINDsAY. RobertCocks andCoo., London.. Nos'. 1 and 2 of the dbove series are' -from ...

... EXEIBjTIP1 OF -.TqYC qKTISH ?? ' ,! ' Txhebj~ fort'lrstheA' ihhtin f h oyl cots' bxhbjtd o~ te cadsn~ emwalls for somre, seasons.-. ,ve since thc opening day. the: rooms have been daily 'SWarmed by liv ely, Appreciative Eisemnblages of the adm'ters of the beautiful in art., O f course, the eager expectncy wit -which crowds besieged ?? h pn~ing.dy has become, after repeatedaopportunities of ...

... T:: i TMU X T; U E : . ?? z ' ' . ' 1 , . ?? S'i l I . I If,, ~-Il ty' ' :i MUsINGS ABlOUT mm. By HEr .ocraTauthorof Many Thoughts of .BnyihW'flluotrated. Lon-a don: Ward, Lock, *I r. zn Ty lr. This is a haidso foluiwe of eitrcts corpiled andA ari l ?? i'ole wi ings Eof-th;Jgud;la nd 1 great. Alnos-y ?? Eu'ian cbsrcei-, J ?? phase of hhar axszne!,ixr; ?? Sion; ad di~biop~m~,,s ez ...