... The eighth annual exhibition of the Stourbridge and District Horticultural end Floral Society was held at the Corn Exchange, yesterday. The previous Ehows have taken place earlier in the year, and the present one can scorzely be compared with those of former years, from the difflrence of the season in which It is hall. One effect of this was that the show was not so large a one as usual, the ...

... HOW WRE MAY SHOOT NIAGARA ON A RtAFTER. IF,,,c'g tiansl'atcdfrom>the Cmql/csej ?? Since heptarchy in Encgland reigned, Such bitter beer wae never drained :o hulgely critical pelrhapes, As that for which we iling our caps With aeli con ceit [froil' Cihsleae spread] Igo INot man Coiqueror a head (Tiat mighty view we never read) To bridle and to see It driven- And guide ns high and wide to 1lavez ...

... THlE FREN Ci I L XUlbIlB'0(N. [From ovir mviv (!.orrxpondeszt ] ?? Monay. Ld. sI; L,SErs, of the Sue.; givel, gives daily, and will continue to give throughout the presetoi mouth, lectures of much intecrs upon the great work with which his name is identilied, The ''conferences, as they are callod, are delivered in the building appro priated in the Egyptiau Exhibition to tllO plans in relief of ...

... 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 ...

... MIONDAY EVENING CONCERTS. It is by no means sO generally known as it deserves to be, that these modest enterininments, so far from beoug extinguished by tho greater splendour of our recent Festival, have derived a new lease of life and energy from that event, 'nd are fast assuming, underthetr new manage. mont, the proportions of regular concerts. The attendance, aithough still by no means so ...