... TYAIE FRENCHI ElII BITION. F.our etc's Goen-Cvspoocdntf.j PARIS, Jul1Y 10, Tim t istribntion of the primes has lilled thousaild of the cases in the IExhibition with flowers, and the test f the world with grrumblors. The numbne of prizes and honourable mentions having becn incroased from the original estimnate of 5,000 to lupwards of 12,0010, and the towas numberof exhibitors being about 40,000 ...

... I Mr. Harry Bckltett, having completed his fourth year In Birmingham, and having obtained an engagement at the Prince of' Wales Theatre, Liverpool, took his farewell benefit at the Theatre Royal, last night, He hae boon a favourite during the whole of his stay in thie town, and co is recognised both by the profession and the public as one of thb beot low comedlans in the provinces. He hae ...

... [Tiwio' SPecia/ Corr'eoflcfUtot The review held in honour of the Emnperor of Austris, on Friday, was favoured by a continuation Of the lovely weather which has marked the course of the month, giving a therm to the waning beauty and sadness of the autumn. Paris looked its best, and what that is just now no one can imagine who has not seen with his own eyes. The sun, after some early dalliance ...

... THE BURNING 01O HER MAJESTY'S THE&TRE. On Frilday night, one of the handsomeat, certainly, if rot the finest, theatre in London went the way of all theatres, end was burnt to the ground In lOeS than two hours. The fire, while It ragod, was one of the fiercest ever known in London, and though thn main building, the beautiful theatre, quickly burnt itself out, and crumbled away in a towering ...

... [-roj1 Birmsszglhan; Journal of SaudrslYu] [FOt'RTu ATICLE.,] ig TEIE OLD WVORKS AND ORDER OF THE Pill). 0, FOEML~ANOES3. )3 Having now completed our review of tho Festival novel- ties, relative and absol-te, as well as cur limits and the condition of the works themselves would allow, it only re- i malnes for us to describe, in brief and general terms, for the honefit of our non ?? readera, ...

... THE FRENCH EXIHIII LION. [Front our osen Correpondelt.] PARIS, Monday. I wcr roiton Thursdaytoseetllef.te whichis hold here every 15th of August, in honour of the blessed Virgin and the Emperor Napoleon IIL. There is something in this combination of names which is strange, if not repugnant to the English mind ; but here, where soldiers are so intimately nmixed tip with the pageants of religion ...

... The Paris Exhibition correspondent of th3 Tibms writes as follows :-Thoe only country which competes with France on anything like equal teris in gold and ailver platte is England. Spain and Italy havo their damascening to show ; Prussia sends one case full of good silver work- the work of Messrs. Sy and Wagner, of Berlin; and Russia sends a quantity of gold and silver articles, some of which ...

... 33INGLEY HALTI -Show of Sheep, Pige, Poultry, &G., Monday, Tuesday, Wednosday, and Thursday, Auc- tion of Poultry this day (Monday), at eleven. CUTBZON EXmIBITION HALL.-Dog Show, same days. Admission, 9 a.m. till Sm0 p.m. - ET, JABIES'S HALL, 105, ?? Street,-Exhibition of Rabbits and Canaries, same days, SOC(rTY OF ARTISTS' Ex 111s11TION, New Street,-Daily, from 10 till ii, and 7 till 10. ODD ...

... EXHIIITION OF CANARIES. The annual exhibition of Belgian and other varieties of carazies-one of the satellites of the great show at Bingloy Hall-took place on Monday, at the Odd Follows' Hall, Temple Street, The exhibition, though of a modest uin pretenduig character, relying for its attraotions almost entirely upon one species of the ornithologiooI race, is one from which not only the fanoler ...

... LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC AND, ART I SCR A PS. Madamc Eistori has gone to Havana, The Italian Minister of Public Instruction has pre- sented a valuable collection of 4,000 volamea to the municipal library of Turin. At the Italiens, at Paris, last week, Patti made her debi as Evira in Ernani2' Nothing could oxceed the enthusiasm of the audience. The idea of erecting a statue to Voltaire, started by ...

... WE MIAY BE HAPPY YET. Ob I Ili ss you vero wont to smile, Now we ?? a leaf Which Seotise our Eorrows for f whils, And banishes our grief. Lorg as Yulk Passage yet sh1ll Iest, And osuch a Tea we get, Unmindf al of our sorrows past. We mnay be halppy yet. Chorus-- Wo may be ?? yet. Is,, 1s. 4d., is. id., 2s., and 2. Gd. leer lb. ?? can meet Vilth some Octraordirary BRTgalg1 Rt tih YU.ItK ...

... Our anticipatory notices of the works to be performed, and close record of the different stages in the long work of preparation, have so effectually disposed of aU the pro. lifminary phases of the great musical event which will dawn upon us to-morrow, that, without trespassing upon the pro. vinces of Dr. Cumming, Mr. Plant, or the sporting pro. photo, and committing ourselves to positive, ...