... I (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDETS.) ABERDEEN. THEATRE RoYAL.-(Malager, Mr. M'Leini.)-Oar -short summer season began auspiciously on Saturday evening. The Theatre was full, Use little company proved themselves able to work smoothly together, and the performances gave evident gratification to all parts of the house. Since the opening night several additions have been made to the corps, and, if we ...

... MIDSUMMER. Past many a shady nook, The babbling meadow brook, 'Wxt grass grown banks with feathery fern abounding, Glides on lis devious way Through all the livelogn day . While fields and woods with summer songs are soundlng. The deep creek, winding, flows By shelving showers where grows Toe silvery willow marked with sun and shadow, And In Its glassy wave The cattle come to lave TheIr ...

... t COYEI~TR'Y AND IMDLAND EX-HIBITIONsw T1h tnnT A ThT R TfNT IlNAIJGURA TION BY E3AHL GRA?IVILLE, X.G. On Wednesday the Coventry and Mildland Coura- tiee Manufacturing, Industrial, and Art Exhibition at Coventry, was formally opened by Earl Oranville, KiG. His Lordship arrived at Coventry from London about eleven o'clock, and was met by Lord Leigh, the Lord- Licutenant of Warwickshire, who ...

... The Pyrenees; A Description of Su11mmer Life at French Watering Places. By Henry Blackburn, Author of ' Travelling in Spain in the Present Day,' etc. With upwards of One Hundred Illustrations by Gustave Dorg, and a New Map of the Central Pyrenees. Low, Son, and Marston. A Guide to the Pyrenees. Especially intended for the use of Mountaineers. By Charles Packe. With Maps, Diagrams, and Tables. ...

... ]ROYAL ITALIAN OPEiRA. Don Carlos, which occupied the best and brightest of its author's hours last year, was given to us for the first tire on Tuesday evening. Written especially in honour of tic great Exhibition, it was produced in Paris more than two months ago. The French capital was not then crowdaed by visitors from the rest of the civilized world; the cold and cynical habitues of the ...

... THE ANTIPODES. IN these times of absolute managers and long-suffering audiences it is perehaps hardly safe to venture upon a prediction as to the probable run *of an) particular play, but in the case of The Antipodes - Mr. Tom Taylor's new play, brought out at the Holborn Theatre on Saturday-- there can be little risk in asserting that the chances are decidedly againist its enjo)njent of ...

... b No lover of dogs cana fail to find plenty of entertainment in this hand- some volume, though it is rather a book for professionals' So to, speak, than for amateurs. It may seem a strange complaint to britg against a book on dogs that it is doggy but we believe our rea-ders will quite understand what we mean by it. We mean that it is to technical, and too exclusively devoted to matters ...

... * THE Marquis d'Azeglio, whose reminiscences are now before us, was known to many in this country in the familiarity of social intercourse a few years since. They will call to mind the courteous and polished gentleman of rare conversational powers, whose opinions in art and literature were those of an adept, himself of no mean reputation in both departments; and whose experience of public men ...

... DtU.M13A1.TONSHIRE CATTLE SHOW. The annual show of the Dumbartonshire Agricul- tural Suciety took place yesterday, at Dalreoch, Dunnbartn. OUtf Ayrslxire stock there was not a large number of tirst-ciass animals shown, and of sheep there was a great scarcity. Of horses there was a ery fine display, and the lots of butter shown were of very superior quality. The prizes offered for poultry were ...

... OF SOOK8 -ANEODOTES OF THaS Urpes TrN TnousAND. By the EOON. GRA'NTLEY BERn Ty. B-etf4y, B-rlington-street. -Our old friend Grantley Berkeley is again in print, but he is neither so lively or amusing as hltatofere, albeit quite as bumptious. He tells us ho is now sisty-seven years of age, and it really seems to us that the honourable gentleman has outlived his time by at least a score of ...

... i- R L ILAM P AS sgp noi toil, as the ?? sa make your- selfreinmrkable by somae talent or other. -FLATTERERs are as mean and sordid a they are mis- chievous and odious. . Avorn'drinking-ie.vsls ,; or in case you cannot entirely refuse, withdraw at least after the first half-hour. MfaNY men live better with past ci with future ages :thanAkitl .the present. *- OLD Az.-There is a quiet repose. ...

... The thirteenth exhibition of fruits and flowers took place on .V cdnesday, ina field ?? Park. Although It was in many respects not equal to the showv of former years, there was a very creditable display. Tho great exhibition at Old Trafford, at the end of the present week, had the offeat of caufing mesy odatributors to hold baok, and thlek loss was capental'3y felt In tho *las of stovo and ...