... BATURDAY PROMENADE 0OXCERT3. A waste spot in our musical week has at length been brought under cultivation, and a problem which has long puzzled our shrewdest public caterers satisfactorily solved. The great Saturday evening blank, we are happy to aay, no longer exists, The breach has been filled up, the mslsing link restored, the desert patch transformed into a mulling and fruitful oasis, ...

... Signor Verdi is again in Paris. Mr. Hannay is engaged on a H History of the Times of Queen Anne. Agassiz is superintending the illustrations for his Journey in Brazil, the text of which is in the hands of the printer. Mr. Parton, author of the lives of Andrew Jackson, Aaron Burr, and others, is preparing a work on Iater- national Copyright. Emerson has prepared a new course of lectures. ...

... LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AID ART S CRAP S. Costa i2 tiaily expected in Paris from Eoulogne. 31adlle, Caclotti I'tti has just visited Dresden. Tibalberg is in Paris, and w ill loavo for Naples in the mliddle of October. idadlle, Arktt has had considerable succoss r Alanabheiin, one of the mlost musical towns of Gor- 5155 n13'. i liesort uejesls highlbly of a forthcoomisg work, ' The Darwinian ...

... On the conclusion of The Poor of Blirmlngham, vwhich, for three nights past, hsA occupied the plants of honour in the bills at this house, a new four-act drama, founded on Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, was last night introduced for the first time to an English audience. As the piece commenced considerably after ten o'clook, and did nost torminate until near one this morning, we cnn ...

... If managerial promises were not, like piecrust, made to be broken, we should be curioua to know how the Festival Choral Society, who have lately assumed the management of these entertalnmuents, propose to reconcile the very comic concert which they gave In the Town Hall on Monday evening with the high-elown profeasions and ingenious plans for the elevation of public musical taste contained ...

... TElE EXHIBITION OF ECCLESIASTICAL I ART,' AT WOLVERHAMPTON. On Wednesday we gave a general description of the cn- tents of this exhibition, and explainod the eorts, shapes, uses, and symbolical meaning of the 'veotruente dis- playrdthere. Tothat notee a few rough notes may be added on the contrast presented by the ancient vestments exhibited at Wolverhanipton, and the modern ones hang- lg ...

... I [Iteromr Coi Trrcsapodcnt. HiEs.eFroRT, Saturday. The concluding scene of revelry by night, which, by modern Dneoc;iptio, closes the week's Festival of the Ihree Chioirs, was enacted last night. The following is the programme anrounced:- Trio, isoss Edit!, Wynne, DI% Montom Smith, and Mr. Weiss, 'To sol quest, lrihna (Attils), Verdi. Quartet (poothirmnrva), Andante and varn., and ...

... If we may judge from the irritation caused among the representatives of newspapers from London, and some of the principal towns in the country, including the reporters for the local press, by their exclusion from the Curzon Hall Exhibition until a late hour on Saturday evening, the curiosity of the public respecting the Dog Show Is expected to be very intense this morning, At all events, the ...

... 15 1,ast week we glanced briefly at some of the contri. Pe ?? ?? butions by local artists. WVe have now, in' a coan Ti H. eludliug notice, to mention the remaining painters sit 0, -whose works fall within the above mentioned division, hi r, Let us take the portraits to begin with, Mr. loinde pi Dr sends four-varying considerably in mode of treat* ye 1g in cut, in character, and in merit, ...

... 1 TRUE TO THE CORE, AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, True to the Core-tho new national nautical drama, by Mr. Angiolo Slops, which won the prize bequeathed by the late T. P. Cooko for the encouragement of the nautical drama, in which he won his laurels and his fortune-was produced at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night. The usual experience of tha results of prizes will not have excited very ...

... HIARBORNE FLOWER SHOW. Yesterday, the annual flower show, in connection with 'the Ilarborne Cottagers' Floral and Horticultural Seniety, was held in the grounds of the president, Mr. W. E. Dey- kin, Barlow's Road, Edgbaston. The weather was very unfavourable, and this had a baneful sefect upon the attendance, and consequently upon the receipts. The show itself was good In quality, but small1 ...

... WALSALL FINE ART AND INDUSTRIAL i EXHIBITION, This exhibition still throws its doora invitingly opan to the publio, offering an agreeable lounge, and affording to pretty nearly all, however varied their tastea, an uppor- tanity of spending a few hours pleasantly and profitably. The readers of these eoinmus have already an idea of the appearance of the bhall and the general arrangement of the ...