... We learn from Ze POWet that costume dresses are more than ever in request. They are sometimes made too short. the length should be just sufficient to escape the ground. Nearly all axe composed of two skirts, or the double skirb is imitated by a trimming. The latter is, perhaps, the more desirable for small figures, yet it scarcely produces'~ tbe stylish effect of the draped or bouffanto upper ...

... WORKING MEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITOIN. [Ferm our Londronm Bewrter.] It was not until Saturday that the Jurors' list of awards was Lftished, and by the courtesy of the Chairman of the Jurors (Mr. G. Savage), the following distribution of local and district awards for inventions and machinery was handed for publication. Jn two weeks the Ex. bibition will close, and the delay in the publication ...

... ] Nature, which proverbially delights In contrasts, must have been nearly as rejoicedas Art with last night's Chamber Concert-eo opposite in Its refinement and intellectuality to the popular worship of animalism, which is the prevail- ing ?? of a Cattle Show week. At all events, we can answer for the enjoyment which the concert afforded to those who had the good fortune to hear it in Neck's ...

... The thirtieth annual exhibition in connection with the Xerry Barr Floral and Horticultural Society was hold yes- :terdey, atPerryVillage8choolRoom. Theweatherthrough- out the day wae most unfavourable, and militated greamtly against the succesa of the slow, so far as regarded the number of visitors. The quality of the exhibits, how- ever, compared very favourably with the long list of pre- ...

... A largec audience assembled hlere. on Saturdav evening, to welcome the return of the favourite actress, .Miss Cie, e- land, after an absence of many yearS spent in, ailing to her laurels beyond the seas, and ministering to the enjoy- ment of the playgoers of the New World and Austral-a. T'he play was Buckstone's ever Green Bushes, which in this country is almost identified with the fame of ...

... last evening, hlr. J. H. 0hamborl'in, ?? delivered a lecture en this subject, at the Rooms of the Royal Society of Artists, New Street. The leotnrer 'said that hie subject ?? only part of a large one; it formed a portion of what wan called decorative art, which was not held in very gh eteem by professional artists. He v sture that artists themselves would gain immensely by htrdying tlis art, ...

... j ?? ' ..t ?? ;I. .. I y' ?? E , O . I ?? r ?? -S! I -i g YIP Wt il- W ., (pl i W 1. t I 6 1, I (From tf poeuhe f4 lb It is: thewish of the Khddive tonrnder (aii0 re.' tvO tio foreigners as- a wit ,'reside gahd - u a t' ,t~ai,1iig :objit I4eyw ioadq~ lp finie bveaues hasve' 4ked Wade; fine bgarden hTe' been Wd~iout, 'her eac dy p'~ltr andq ?? arohltr a CircUS h ' eb-6k, htablished ~Ad ?? ...

... THE 'BMNGHAM BUTTON MAKER T B I AT WATERLoo. A In a review of the life of Charles Young, the actor, the Timnea of 3esterday refers to variu apocryphal stories of the Duke of Wellington, and adds: There is a story resting on the same unstable founds- tlon,. that the Duke towards the end of the day, when many':of. his staff . were lurs de combet, and the rest de'patobed with orders, turned to. a ...

... FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBEI, - - i d (From Le Foltt.,) e The brilliant weather of the lut week or two - seems quite to have inspired our modistes and routurieres, and thetoiletsprepared for this month, se principally of mixed materials, are most admirably 7 suited to the variations of temperature Incidental id to the autumn. In appearance also this idea is to carried out, the light tints and silke ...

... PUBLIC A31USEAHENTS. EtROYAL AMILTHEATRE. 1 Mr. Undo Courtenay's first personal dramatic c venture in conuectico with the inauguration of his 8 a regular season at the Royal Amphitheatre, which S a was made last evening,was crowned with legiti- C a mate and dezerved success, as the enthusiastic a. V applause of a crowded audience fally testified. i For weeks public expectation has been at its ...

... AIx'OMS EXHIBITION, FREE LIBRARY. I I ig tNo. V. V. No. 337, The Goose with the Golden Egg. G. Y. ?? legends and nursory rhymes of ten is give subject for art, and they are always pleasing, calling to mind those early days when we thought - the world was covered with golden flowers and no b sorrows blfore its. Too many in life will not wait ic for the legitimate supply of their golden ...

... MISS BATEMAN AT THE ARPHI- THEATRE. It may be said that Miss Bateman is a one- character ' actress. This, in some degree, wvil be by some held to be a fair remark; but, at the 2W same time, it cannot be denied that the one character-that of Leah-with which her name is specially identified is one of the most remarkable 4( creations of modern dramatic art. The moral, 4t dialogue, and action of ...