... B IMIEIGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY I SHoW. A meeting of the Council of the Bsingbanham Cattle and Poultry Show was held at the Queen's Hotel, yesterday, at noon. Mr. H. Luokecek presided, and there were also present the Mayor (Mr. T. Avery), Messrs. J. Mathews, IL Adkins, G. C. Adkins, W. B. Mapplebeok, J. Smith, T. 1. Wright, T. Brn-man, J. Shackel, F. Sabin, T. Bur- bidge, J. Lowe, R. C, Chawner ...

... TJ[EATRE ROYAL. It is gratifying to find that the atern business of political warfare, in which Birmingham iH noew # earnestly absorbed, has so little influence on the public taste for gecn, or and more humaniaing pursuits, and that it is possible f jr m em - bers of the snse community to take very opposite views of rival election candidates like Dixon and Lloyd without abating a jot of their ...

... [Prom our eCowprennt.] PAins, June 20, A FymenD of mine, who is obliged to be very careful as to what he eat;, drinks and puts on, having a weak digestion, and being most uasceptible of influenza colds, is annually taken with what he calls the back- woods fever. It comes on with great regularity about this time of y. ar, and generally leata until the arrival of cool weather. The symptoms of ...

... TITE F,,,NCI. , TEXTITBITION, pyoant oitr. e ian, C9 ?? P IIns, July 27. ON Sunday last (you know I 1usd nothing whatever to do with the choice of the day) one of the most colossal concerts ever given took place in the Faldis do l'li!diitrlie bujdjing. The representatives of Austria. Prussia, 13Avariia, Saxony, Ruassia, France, and a hos0 of minor htates contended for a music prize. Aud bear ...

... Tl-IE FRENCH EXHIBIrION. [pom aur ouman ConAspondent.l I PARIs, July 8. 1ku.w : terrible news which was received here on Monday last, the very day of the distribution of prizes, has completely paralysed all the arrangements for th- roviows and fetes and balls to be given in honour of the Sultan. The announcement of the tragical death of the Emperor Maximilian has had aa extraordinary efect ...

... :5 On the occasion of Madame Lancla'a benefit, last night, it the houee, as might be anticipated from theunueualattrac- tions provided, and the well.earned popularity of the e belfficieire, was crowded from door to ceiling. The pro. grmmae was of the most comprehensive character, com- 5' bining the threefold interest of opera1, concert, and farce, n and ?? into play ?? theresources o aladame ...

... WVE MAY BE HAPPY YET, (Ihl smile is you were wont to sonile, NoW wo hsve got a leaf Which sootoles our sorro NS for awhIle, And boinislea our grief. Lorg as Yomik PasaIge yet esall last, And sech a Tca we get, Unrtndnlifel of our sorrows past, We may bc hapipy yet, Chorus-' Wit may be happy yet, Is,, Is. 4d., Is. Cdt, 2B., and 29. od. per lb. 9hPopkeelceru ian meet witit Smeo extraordinary ...

... A rainy evening, at the outset of an election contest, is not, generally spraking, the most favourable moment for launching a new theatrical speculation, but to judge by the magnitude of the attendance at this house on Moonday, Mr. and Mlrs, F. B. Egan and their associates are practi. cally Independent of season and circumstance, at all oveat I when they enacb so thrilling a drama as Mr. Watts ...

... I I . . . Yesterday we published a list of [the gold medallists; to. day we give a full list of the other awards, amongst the recipients of which will be found many loeal names. GROUP II.-APPARATUS AND APPLICATION OF TILE LIBERAL ARTS. CLASSG6.-PHNTIINC AND BOOKS. -Silver Modal: Brad. bury ane Evans, Cassel, Petter, and Galpln, Chambers, Hanhart, Illustrated London News, IV. Maskeonzie, ...

... T'lE TICHBO{NER BARONETCY AND ESTATES. Wvhalt need for sensational dramas, or that novel writers sobnld cudgel their brains for fiction, when our courts of 11W presenrt i,,iteriabl that prove clearly the value of the *old proverb, Truth is stranger than fiction, We have now before u at tllree-volume romance, contained in the bills filed in Chancory in the causes of Tichborno v, Tichboxno ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...