... 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 ...

... - IA 0DEBT OF HONOUR. is ! j A ?? STORY. BY n 8 AS L. YouNT BAEuT. / (Erom the Cbh*jtms number of London Society.) numb i what was that cry, Io low but yet so pierc- Ing, so strange bnt yet so sorrowful? It was SlOt the marmot upon the gide of the Rigit-it wa not the baron down by the lake; no, it was distinctively E human. Hsh I there 'it is again-from the church. I yard wshiolb I have just ...

... ~FBBO1 FR ~tMBERR Whe ?? aoroue, wor thii ttay L' .ble a, [.gxn~tsII mpoklng. in4h -h'dieooming to tha- bdm. Epleioi the effldc Oi d bhiqD fn l aoea:lrI It h to*b - ' ?? ?? . tn e ?? Gaet,,hhfo3~arwe ano- dV .-fr apln ?? re~~~ m~~q~8 ~~~I~sure ' dpro ero tledde {dnt,lt~oareitui ei, b an e~ dep 4.bleu )fogi4dbj 0o I~w F6u *I to ' 19 *9tu ?? S S 49t oea kitnJ , b e$%nao$, Te tuick th ...

... 1si7 F IN IE ARTS. . . . .. ?? Connoisseurs and coI eetosi will be interested to learn thbt the indefatigable '.rtgleener and. deleor, Mr. McClean, of Lonilon, is again iuireslugham, with a 'choice' 'collection of oil paintin aniid wator.colour diawinvg, mbstly recent acquaistdlns,.,vhiek AreInow'ou- view for, few days at the Great. Wstebrn ,otel., The oil paintings, though few in number, are ...

... 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 ...

... THE FORTHCOMING. UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION AT VIENNA. Some time ago her Majesty, in pursuance of au invita tion received from the Austrian Government, appointed a Royal Comonsmlon for the purpose of representing the British and Colonial exhibitors ab the Universal 'Exhibl- tion of Werks of Industry and Agriculture as weU as of the Fine' Arts, to be hold at Vienna, next year, under the Imsmnediate ...