... ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS' C EXHIBITION. The following is the ligt of sales during the season of the water.colour exhibition. The result is very satisfactory. The attendance of visitors shows a considerable increase on the number last year; and the receipts for aales exhibit a still more marked advance. in lS70, the sales were £922. and £374. Art Union sales-total, £1,2TJ. This year the sales ...

... . An Actress writes to the DailyNewos:8- A few days ago al letter appeared in the Daily Nzews front a Music mistress, stating that she wet obliged to hand over to her husband all her earningq, 'because he threatened her, if she refusel to do so, tofarhid her to paruse her profession. My ate is somewhat similar. I am an' Wacrss. Some Years ago I ?? .a solicitor, and it was understood that I ...

... ROYAL. SOCIETY OF ARTISTS. I SPRING WATER-COLOUR EXHIBITION. I FOeUTHs NoTIwa Among the figure subjects of the exhibition, those of F. W. Tepham, though not aiming at high intellectual ex- pression, are conspicuous alike for grace and freedom of drawing and excellence of colouring. It is long since we have seen a more charming group than his Young Anrlers (148), whether we regard the ...

... I ART AND LITERARY UOTSIP. hli -,1 e Arnn Bish(lp is expected shortly in EBaglald. ?? Eiieey, l go is tco trilc of Mr. Falconer'8 forthlcorafig piece. Mr. Jlhn S. Clarke will return to the Straud Theatre nest unoilth. 1ledauir Arabella Gloddard will mak-e a concert-toar in Cemially ia the autuann. The * okes family aw engagod for America, but do not le.ave England till March. .Ampart: a ...

... i THE -ANUAL INTERNATIONAL 5 EXHIBITIONS. A meeting of Birmingham jewellers was held in the IMiddle Clases School Boom, Frederick Street, Newhall Bill, yesterday, to consider what steps it was desirable to take in connection with the emsi intnijional exhibi- tion of selected works of fine indutril art and scientific inventions. The chair was taken by Mr. G. B. loyd (3fayor). send thorn were ...

... OIJR LOCAL VITERATURE. I TEiz TEN COMMANDMENTS. By R. W. DALE, M.A., Author of Week-day Sermons. [Lon- don: Hcdder and Stoughton.J Volumes of sermons are not often popular with literary laymen, who are apt to be critical without eompparisons, or laudatory when they have only cut some leaves. This present volume, however, not only from its contents, but from its style, attracts attention and ...

... THE I INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. i THIRD NOTICE. Since the discovery of the elements of hard or Chinese porcelain by Bttcher, in 1710, there have eeen few mrore important devolopments of Ceranmic At, Illn the comparatively recent revival and iniprovelliont of Majolica ware, for which we are mainly indebted to the labours of Mr. Herbert Miinton. This beautiful and effective material, ,Oinin, ...

... THE JEWELLERY TRADE ANm THE i I INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. I The Mayor has received the accompanying letter from Lieut.-Colonel Scott, RPE., secretary ot the Annual Inter- national Exhibition, and it is his Worship's intention to take an early opportunity of convening a meeting of the members of the jewellery trade, and ascertainingtheir views upon the subject to which it refers. Upper ...

... THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIOX FOUllTHI ARTICLE. Though we recently described the house of .Josiah Wedgwood and Son as the parent firra of modern English pottery-a distinction to which the labours of the elder Wedgewood thoroughly entitle it-we are reminded, by the excellent display of the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works, that it, point of antiquity, one name must take precedence even of that of ...

... BR. T. RUGHES, M.P., ON ENGLISH- I ADMICAN INSTITUTIONS. On Saturday afternoon, Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., gave, before a crowded audience, in the Theatre of the School of bMines, Jermyn Street, an account of his recent visit to the United States. This latest recital of Mr. Hughes's remi- niscences of America formed the first of a series of lectures on social and literary questions, to be given ...

... MAGAZINES FOR JUNE Bdaekwood is not so brilliant as it was in May. The powerful article on The Battle of Dorking raised that particular number far above any of its contemporaries, and we are glad to see that it has gone through several editions already. The opening article in tbe current num- ber, on Charles Dickens, scarcely does justice to the great- novelist ; and is, we presume, by the ...

... IIE BytAYAIAN PASSION PlxY. ?? ?? t.>V't( ?? NEE.A1TMVco-&RG, uno 24 P-vouDing)>--It s impossibl to give In awequate, idea of the contrast between the' granisr of the suiroundinglls ?? aed the quaint kra!l iotY o£ the theatre' in Which the Passion Play is %MpIfne. .a I sit writing. just atter the telrminatieu of Stheplay-, the monutan usare almlost hiddert by dark neasses tc cld ay, the ...