... THE nBIMINGHAM CATT1AIr AND POULTRY EXElBITION.j POULTRY. Writing In the year 1860, when the competlilon of a .2y tal Palace exhibition caused some falling off In the number of poultry pen In Bingley HaIll we made the fol. lowing ?? are now 1,85 pens in the hall, and that is quite enough to represent the several varieties as 'well m to awafy the curiosity of visltors. It wea scacely ...

... FASHION AMD VARIETIES. I THE VICEREGAL COURt. Their Excellencies the Earl and Countess Spencer at- tended divine service at the Chapel Royal yesterday, attended by Lord George Paget. Lore and Lacy sDown, Mrs. Leslie, Mr. Couitenay Boyle, Captain Bridgae, A.D.C. in waiting. The service was performed by the Bev. C. Wright. The sermon waspreached by the Rev. Cole T. Ceghlan. MTARRIAGE OF .R.E. ...

... t~c nP-P AND YA1ITRTTES. -r~ ?? , ^T t I'>r Fv.xrcncies tbe Lord Lieutenant arnd the Cairn- Slpecer, ac!onpaipr'cd by Ercount :a01 viscoaante s 2 L nL'. , ?? .: ?? -Id Lord G-.a:c Poaet. a' attended by Cant-ne Bridges, left Azniens-srmet ter- a , a a e .serday boy (xsstrd Castle, counte' . , . . : . F r! .f C -ford Their E.xzel- a s a'S re sap- ted to return to Duluhie in the caurses of h .e ...

... AMERICAN THEATRICALS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESFONDENT) NEW YORK, OCTOBER 17.-Mr.,James Albery's comedy of The Two Rosies was performed for the first time in this country, at WALLAC N's THEATRE, oH Monday, the 10th inst., and was rapturously received by a large audience. It wan excellently cast as ?? Grant, Mr Charles Fisher; Our air. Jenkins, Mr. J. Ii. See dtart; Mr. Fornival, Mro s. Lanagan; ...

... -XT-ACTS FROM -PUNCH. THE CRY OF ENGLAND. And nlust we sit with stony eyes, And folded arms and silent tongue, While Gaul at German hands abyes The challenge Gaul to Gorman fling ? Because she thought to work the wrong That now she suffers from her foe, No bounds of vengeance have the strong, The weak no hmiting of woe P Grant France was loud and light of mind, Eager for empire, Proud, untrue ...

... 86OCIAuISm IThD PA~tRIOTISM.,~ s snlvY age as Riehl days, shan its own' r 'ghost.l The terrorof our age is Sociiaism, with its sister the Red Republic. Shortly before the ncommencoment of the war the stream of Social- * ist principles was in full flood. The Emperor of- France, in order that he might unite the proletariac of Paris the more closely to his stan- . dardihad calledtogether an ( ...

... spite of the favourable appearance which the negotiation wore last week, the proposal for armistice was eventually a failure. With his usual dexterity, Count Bismark not only kept up the hopes of M. Thiers for six days, but succeeded for a short time in making the world believe that the responsibility of thwarting the truce rested on the shoulders of the French. The Prussian Chancellor ...

... Mr Arbei's reprint of the rare sermons by Lever, so valuable for the illustration of Henry the Eighth's time, is to be issued this month. The death is announced of Captain Chaiuier, the author of Tom Bowline, and other novels which I were very popular 30 years ago. A new twojienny edition for children has been brought out in Holland of the never-dying '* Robinson 1 Crusoe. The enlightened ...

... EEVIEWS OF BOOKS. THiE CASTAWAS. By IMIAYNE REID. Nelkon, Patsr,, aUster-roIV. -This is one of those enter- taining narratives of adventure with which the n1ame of Captain Mayne Reid is so intimately associated. The Yolume before us is fall of inte- resting and startling in-ident, which ozcurred to a boats' crew of si human beings, Americans, Irish, anid Malays, cast adrift in the Indian Ocean ...

... I . . .. . . ,1 -- I - . Yorkshire is well represented thie year in the twenty. second annual exhibition of fat stock, poultry, &c., which was opened for judging onlv on Saturday at Birmingham. A spirited competition was attracted from all parts of Elgland and fromn the herds of the far north. The show ?? be pronounced a success in point of quality, as it undoubtedly is in point of numbers, ...

... THEATREROYAL ' MISS HELENF AUmue p lt in on no ordinary occasion that we permit ourselves, in oar own name and in that of our readers, to welcome one of the most distinguished of living British artists to Glasgow. For some time it has been feared that, in Scotland at least, where Miss Helen Faucit's merits as en aotress 6have met with the warmest and most cordial lacknowledgment, the stage ...

... A(fittratur :?61 - I - - t . MAGAZINES FOR NOVEMBER. p F4IU8T NOTICB. I tV TheArtJouratel. No.CVlI.,NowSeries,NoTember. Lon- u dou, VIRTUE and Co., 294, City-road. On the Wav to School is a charming engraving, of a G scene the counterpart of whichl may have been often wit- nessed by observant countrymen. Van Dycks picture in the Royal collection at Turiu, The Children of Charles I., E and ...