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FASHION AND VARIETIES

... I His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Miss Trench, and suite, arrived in town yesteaday from Eng- land. The Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly Lord, Bishop ,of Clogher, has arrived in town on 1I19 way to the 1temral city, accompanied by the Rev, Patriok M'CuUlochb, CC, -Carrioliralross. Viscount Adair and suite arrived in town yooterday Irom London. The Hon. CaptainStourton, 10th Husainr, has arrived at ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &c

... PUBLIC AMSEMEBNTS &v. Prince of Wales Theatre.-Mr. and Irs. AlW Wigan Btill Water- En Deep, and Seoret Ser9ile. Royal Amih -theatre.-Miss Maarotti The Lady of L ons,) and Ireland As It Wa' Vhe ...

Fine Arts

... I AflUt?It4? al ; . ?? i intV' ,~ -7 7 .-777,t,rM,, k J ROYAL M~ADXY. d ([Four s Notice.] In the genelu display of showy pictures by painters more bent upon attainingpopularsucces than any Q achievement in art, and the indifference or positive feeble- e ness of the academician painters generally, we find it e both hopeful and refreshing to see that there are some *s painters amongst us who are ...

WHITSUNTIDE FESTIVITIES

... LEEDS. The weather on Whit-Monday-the dayr devoted in Leeds, as elsowhere, to those Interesting Sunday sobool gatherings which enlist on their behalf the hearts alike of young and old-is becoming as proverbial for its fine cha- racter as the Royal weather that almost invariably attends any out-door demonstration in which Her Majesty t takes part, and we are happy to state that yesterday was ...

THE ROUND OF THE THEATRES

... THE ROUND OF THE THEA TRES. THEi following is the first of a series of letters which we have received from a country gentleman who has lately made the round of the London theatres:- Like most people who live in the country and meditate on the won- derful things they read in the newspapers, I sometimes ponder on those incomprehensible compositions, the theatrical criticisms. Whether they are ...

NEW BOOKS

... Under the title of Begged at Court, a Legend of Westmin.9ter (Chapman and HallL), Mr. Charles K night has furnished us with a very pleasant one- volume story of old times. The brief preface by which it is introduced mentions a fact with reference to the author which his many admirers and well-wishers will regret to learn. f Desirbus, writes Mr. Knight, of finding some literary occupation ...

Literature

... itittraturt. I A Song of Italy. By ALGERNON CHARLES SWIW- BurlNE. London: J. C. Hotten. It is with sincere pleasure that we find a singer of such splendid powers as Mr. Swinburne for- saking the very questionable vein on which he thought fit to enter in his volume of Poems and Ballads, and striking into a path full of all sweet and admirable things, of the loftiest visions and the grandest ...

SCIENCE FOR FARMERS

... SCIENCE FOR FARM3fERS.i IN Con fmon with many other newspaper writers, we owe an apology to the farmers of England. Hitherto, it must be confessed, we have not enter- tained a high opinion of their scientific acquirements, and may occasionally have fallen into the foolish practice of speaking of the bucolic mind as vanting in cultivation. In the presence of Messrs. Seller and Stephens' hook we ...

LITTERATURE

... LITTFE-RATl URBO -4- - i - - - A WIRD'S.EYE VIEW. Qoth the boy- I'll climb that tree, And bring dlown a neat I know. QOth th girl-I will not see Little birds defrauded so; Cowardly their nests to take, .nd their little hearts to break, And their little eggs to steal;- Leave them happY for my sake, Surely little burds can feel ! QUoth the boy- My senses whirl; Until now I never heard Of ...

THE PARIS SALON FOR 1867

... THE PiRIS SALON FOR 1867. WE have already described the chief pictures of interest exhibited this year in the Salon ?? at the Palais de l'Industrie; some yet remain which deserve a few words of notice. The picture most poetical in con- ception and treatment must not be looked for among the grand canvasses -grand in aim as well as dimensions-nor even among the figure subjects properly so ...

LITERATURE

... Io. ?? . re..- -1-_ I I TuE IRISH ECOLBSIASTIOAL REOOUID.-(J. E. Powler).-A remarkable paper by a zealous Catholic Ecclesiastic, whether bishop or priest we oannot say, deacribes the eriritual condition of Irish Catholics in the United States. The development of Catholicity in America is one of the phenomena of our times, but is accompanied with some discouraging facts. There are considerable ...