... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... WARYWICKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL . SOCIErY'S DIEErING. The meeting of the Warwickshire Agricultural Soclety for 1867, at Sutton Coldfield, was yesterday brought to a close. We stated In our notice of the show on Tuesday, the first day, that the exhibition was likely to be a poor affair, and we are sorry to say now that the sequel of the second day has completely confirmed that opinion. The meeting ...

... Yenterday, the seoond exhibition of the Worcester Horticultural Society was held at the Market Hall, Wor- cester, which, an was the case at tho previous show, in July last, was again very tastefully decorated - an important item in tho general arrangements for which the committee have to thank MIr. F, Woodward. Tho exteriors of the Guildhali and Market Hell were gay with flags, and the ...

... [Paris Correspondent of /ise Queen. Very convenient and graceful opera cloaks, or sorties dc spectacles, have lately been Introduced. They arc a k ni of small shawl pointed at the back, and with square ends in front-made of either blue or scarlet cashmere en- broidered In black silk and seed jet beads, and hordered? with either black or white guipure. They are now lined with white silk, ...

... 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 ...

... LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND ART ISC RCRAP S. Mr. Cave, of the 'Marylebone Theatre, has taken the Victoria, Mario and Grisi are about to make an artistic toir in the t'sited States of America. The drama by Mlr, T. NV. Robertson, preparing for the Holborn Theatre, is on the subject of gaming. A periodical avers that a wooden shoe which paganini made into a violin is now for sale in Paris. The ...

... BIRMINGHANI ARTISANS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. A correspondent sends us the following :- In the British Workmen's Hall of the Paris Exhi- bition (the rendezvous for the representatives of English industry), a book Is kept for the observations of visitora to be entered. It contains some very Interesting souve- nirs, and not the least amongst them is the following, drawn up by Mr. S. Wall ...

... 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 ...