... MR. I: S E. S . II. . In The Life of Lord George Bentinek there is a famous passage with a pomp and circumstance' as stately as the Homeric catalogue of the ships, where the future leader of Conservatism musters the Tory gentlemen of England.' Conspicuous in that muster roll for the amazement of' a whole' generation stands the figure of the great Protestant champion of Eng. land and ...

... fS MJADLLE. SCHNEIDER IN LA GRMENDE )r DUOHESSA of Last night's performance, in which the famous French le syren, Maolle. Schneider, made her first curisey to a Bir- A- mingham audience, supplied the one link wanting to the r5, chain of our artistic experiences. Every other artist of musical note had paid Birmingham the tribute ot a public Ldvisit, but until the vocal idol of Paris, the fair ...

... THE. SPRING BALLOT., The Spring ballot of the Birmingham drt Union took place yesterdaiy at the Rooms of thei Society- of Artists, NeS Steet. Dr. Bell Flotoherprealded Mr' 3. H. BAKEu,' hon. iecretary, read the following report Your comittee, adhering to the plan-adopted fn the spring ballots of former yearsa,ihave confined their opera- toens to the town and neighbourhood, reserving their more ...

... MA(GAZUUS FOR MAY. The Cobnhill this monthi, is again enlivened by one of those racy:sketches of modern French life, which have con- tributed somuch to the interest of recent numbers. Prince Maleskine's Conspiracy, thouph professedly the history of a Eussian socialist bubble, is really a satire on French -evolutionary schemes, the prime mover in the conspiracy being a harebrained French ...

... MADLL13 SCHNIDER'S BENiEFIT. The attractions of a composite programme, comprising selections from the three operettas previously produced, brought togethera comparatively large audience on Friday night. The dress circle, It is true, was but poorly at- tended, but there was compensation In the other parts of the house, the pit, in particular, being crowded. The selection comprised the two first ...

... .bENING. OF -E DERBY FIL -ABT , :07 yD INWUTRIAL E X - - . ?6 of, iheeA 4Y enrjichd with pictures- pakworkea ofars ee f~cp 5 -1lbd'nds 'oi~ obf, Gluls&4thk a' wedctb ?? ?? enda i~s whrcaissrs fze, eti ta Tjil WDo5S dwbhilduhc re,th cooler costomet of ~he asaut ' Oxg12s tma ctmseting si 5aspo gain~e&nprn ~tstsli ~jJ~e Dxli~el~ sa eusiereteslby~,rptedupi~aiy~finuet~ s~ao Jhb'ouder'O~l, n ...

... MADLLN. SCHNEIDER IN GAORPIEE AUX ENFERS, After witnessing the original version of La Grande Duchense, on Monday night, we somewhat hastily con- eluded that Birmingham had nothing to learn, in the way of stage impropriety, either from Offenbach or his eloquent apoetle, MadRle. Schneider; but another night' experience of their entertainment has considerably shaken our opinion. We have, in ...

... - Tninii NOTICE) Our local art season is at once so brief and so rich in Interesting matter, that it would be scarcely possible to exhaust Its treasures in the limits avril&bte ia Ia joernal devoted to general siubjcwis. Atl th t, x3 a v1 h 1po to ?? is to describe some of its more salient fetturea, arid ltlve eor art-loving readers, with the help of there sirup1e , to explore the gallery for ...

... BIR. D'9IRALI7S NEW V NOV.ML*. Rolf the world were yesterday---S the better day the 1 better deed-popclinrly suprn-edl to bi readiug 'o'Iair, I whiell vaL' to ha b o .^ _ the et bof nd i the other half will be similnrlyocoupiedto-day. Abrief6ut- line of the plot, and an extract or two, anticipatory Of a fuller notice of the book, will not be unaeceptable to our readers. The critics, so far, ...

... MR. BIOKLEY'S CONCE AT. If things were always prized in proportion to their rarity, the entortaininent given in the, Town Hall on Thursday evening, Rhocld have attracted an overflowing audience, for a rniscellaneousconoert in Mayis almost as scarce a pheno- muenon as strawberries at Christmas, or a snowfall In the dog.-das. ' Unfortunately for the beneftciaire, Fophion is nothing if not ...

... On Saturday a distinguiahed company were entertained ln by the President and Council of the Royal Academy, in m their new galleries, Piccadilly, at the accustomed banquet n Inaugurative of the exhibition which opens to the public s on Monday. aR The doors of the Academy were thrown open at two tc o'clock, and the company arriving early employed the in- hi terval till dinner was announced in ...

... The third monthly volume of the series of Ancient Classics for English Readers is devoted to Herodotus, and Is by Mr. George 0. Swayne, ,4A. The two previous volumes, it will be remembered, introduced the student to the patriarch of Greek poetry, as represented by his Iliad and Odyssey, and it is in the natural order that we should now make the acquaintance of the father of history, ...