... THE ORATORY PLAT. Aftsr reposing for a couple of years upon their well-won histrionic laurels, the pupils of the Edgbaston Oratory School came up on Friday evening, like giants refreshed, to the scene of their former successes-the great class room overlooking the Haglay Road- and demonstrated, to tbe satisfaction of the large audience present, that long disuse had neither rusted their weapons, ...

... TIllS MONTH'S MAGAZINES. SECOND NOTICE. Xaccem ?? second of two leotures ..The Middle Ages and the Revival of Learning appears this month. They were originally delivered at the Edin! burgh Literary and Philosophical Institutio; and will be readavithmuchinterestbythestuldent. The author's researches extend over a wide field of literature. Mr. Black's Strange Adventures of a Phaeton is con ...

... MISUELtkfximous. The ?? -cdm~xiiion opens o~ueans 3, and closZ Jul Wde o31en onk Thutdar, May, Bear.Admiral W. H. Stewart has accopte the perma-. nent poat of Cemptroiler onf the Navy. A marriage Is, it in reported, on the ?? between Miss Fox, the daughter of Lady Holland, ana Prince Withen- gensteii A Cockney archseologist, who has recently visited Salls. bury Plain, says that Stonehenge is a ...

... A correspondent of tfhe N 7w Yc 2is w~rites from Susquehanna Depot, Peansylvala, on the 12thinst. The proverbiali hatred of cartain. clasies of ?? to negroes his been ilaustratedai this place bya most fiendish and unhesrd'of aot. A few days sinea there eame here, frora Hawley, Penn., onone of the Erie freight traia. a negro boy, abut 13 years old. By-his qualit and amusing notionr he becase ...

... BIlTNOHAM ROYAL SOCIETY OF; ,RTEW B XAUTUMNR EHBIXHON ' THIRD NOTICE. Among the numerous figure afiblect which IPpO 5uQ1 unwonted animation and human Interest to ihe. prieet exhibition, M~e large Canvas (LOI) by Urs. B. toug, whlch: OCCOPIesthe place of honour, Li s mole prihcePi. It Is 1urns. questionably a mnarteuly production, whether we regard Its' spviritual or Its icohinosi qualities, ...

... FESTIVAL OF THE TIEME CHOIRS. [F- LFrom out- Correspmndeat.1 WoRoaes, Thursda. Last night's concert at the College Hail wan triiumph. The hall wax filled nearly to the door, and the allery, which on Tuesday had notl 50 ocupant, overfioweld. The sipecil uttraction was the selection from gandel's serenats formed on Milton's L Allegro and II Penseroso. The rest of the sohemo war made up of ...

... I -E- ON a UI - EE A NOTES ONS-ERTERT.URB, BCIFNCH, AND ART. 'THE Rose of Avondale-a' novel by a domnestic 'servant -will be published shortly by Mir Bush. The next number of the .Britishc Qucrterlys will, it is ex- peeled, contain an article on ~William of Ookhaan,l by the Ti Rev. T. M. Lindsay, the newly appointed successor to'Dr in Gibson in the Free Church. College, Glasgow. A uniformn ...

... . MR SHAW IN THEl USIC HALL BUILDINGS 2 !. i , I ON MONDAY. . On Morida y! afternoon, a4hl-atoeoedk rSa the, Moderate and. Independent candidiate. for the represen- tation of Aberdeen, addressed a meeting' in.the Ball-roem of the 'Music Hall Buildings. *The meeting was a large and influential 'one', and the Ire- ception accorded, to Mr Shaw was moat cordinl,' He was accom.paiiied to the ...

... LITERARY DISHUNESTY. l'o the Editor of the Brigtol iteweasi. Si-l have often been pleased with the contributions to the Poet'mt Corner of your paper, but lafft 8aturday it was dbt- igured by what 8senet Without BUme explanation, to be as flagrant ais Instance of ?? fraud as I have ever moet with On that day your paper contained some very good linee with the title of Xature and Fattb, ...

... I titi-i asked that question of hundreds of people-b.elievers in thss loer of Tie supernaturisl, itlgetaud ottentificth t~ry . Yby Meicalman~ortaitlyconsitlered lie had set the nostt.at rah'indigestion, said he,Indigesition. lint this dictum Was delivered long after the event, no.1 when thfi afivlveya threads were beginning to showantoginy browvalou&e. viogheasa '1the event happened when. ...

... j1rHH OAT SHOW AT THE CRYSTL PALAOR. ! This being the third oi the Anuual Cat Shows 'which have been instituted at the Orystal P'alace, offers a fair test of the likelihood thee Is of similar exhibitions bsbeoming pormauently popular with the public. Yester- day was the first open day, aud judging by the number of Visitors, and their style and apnearanoe, we should be very snuob inclined to ...

... TH P1an0~B GALI. The Spadiou and well .adapted galleries, which miuge on the opposite sides of Ithe Horticultural oardenor over the arcades, ere not so amply fied ,as ?? were last year. but the visitor will probably find that quite enough has been done for his gratiflostiin) without taxing the powers of ordinray mortals too far, and with- out cloying the appetite for beautiful th4age, The ...