... BIRMJNGHAIVI MUSICAL FESTIVAL. A ?? of the General Committee ef the Birlungbham Musical Festival was hold on Saturday forenoVn, in the t Socretary'H room, Midland lnstitutoe The Rig'>Han. 2 Earl Beauchamp (President) occupied the chair, and there 1 were present the Mayor (Mr. T. avery), Mr. Gee. Dixonl, t MDP,, Air, W. J. Bealo, Sir. Timothy Kentvick, Mr. IT Sharp, Mir, Howard Luokcock, Mir. ...

... 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 ...

... LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND ART SC R AP S. The tenor Formesl, brother of the great Carl, is engaged at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna. The Orcleofivl announces a forthcoming volume of new songs by Tennyson, with music by Arthur S. Sullivan. Aldme. Parepa Rosa makes her rentr4: in America, in the operas of Don Giovanni, Norma, Otello, and Lucrezia Borgia. Dr. Costello, the editor of the ...

... 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 ...

... Judging by results, we should say that not even Dr. Watt's little busybeehas been more industriously employed during the shining hours of our recent Festival, than the lessee and manager of this establishment, who seems deter. cmined, whatever differences of taste or opinion may exist regarding the character of his entertainment, that the most perfect unanimity sehall prevail respecting the ...

... True FRENCH EXIIIBIhION. I I ?? -I.. IA . A s. T7-/ 1 [1iomi oar Own Uorrespomlcat-l PAl-Is, Monday. MtO;?OIIUiin m. I; ZOuAV i, the miracle worker, has com0 to grief. Theo, Government, tired of his pranks, have stopped his morning sittings in the flue J.oqiuette, but this is not the worst. A sceptical bookbinder, who overheard Jacob making some remarks which he considered as blasphetollos, ...

... THE FRENCH EXHIBUIfON. [Froln oatr Hpecial conrcsponelecnt.1 PAIRs, Wednesday. ON Saturday last, a ease was settled here, the result of which will please many a poor, forlorn, and swindled traveller who has this year partaken of the hospitality of 1Frinch hotel-keepers, A rascal named Limoineo proprietor of the H~tel des Italiens, Roe de Choiseul, 29, has been sent to prison for a month, and ...

... THIllD NO*TIOE. Passing next to the contorets of the galleries, and starting from the left side of the stage, the first objects olaiaing attention are several large pieces of Berlin wool work, one of which, The Carnival of Venice, by Altss Anstow, of Wolverhampton, should stir the emulation of those young ladies who, having passed the sampler working stage of the art, are desirous of ...

... THE LIVERPOOL PRINCE OF WALES THEAT1HE. The Lircrpool Daily Post says:-Drr. Henderson, after a somewhat brie absenre, has returned to his first love in Olayton Square. Some seven years ago he converted the Clayton Hall Into a pretty little bijoe theatre, and in that establlshment he won opinions and connections whiclh It is not unnauural he should, aftar his experience elsewhere, wish to ...