... Tars show opened at Bingley Hall, Birmingham, on Satur- (lay. The prizes are of the value of 22,280, an increase of £76 over last year. In this atmount many special prizes are included. The entries this yearare much smaller thanlasb year, the falling off being no doubt owing to the arbitrary regulation of the Smithfield Club, by which they exclule from the forthcoming show in London all ...

... LrIT J AT 0 BE entISTMAS ANNUAIA. ' gelgrnvia A.nnual.-Miss Braddon's Christ- The' is only a fair one. It contains nothing ?? numnirble in any way. It has a list of good veryl zuarr . but they must have been uninspired tatutoete 'jts, or in a bad humonr, for the stories bytbeiry 5cecnmonplace. Miss Braddon's stories- mery es and 'AGood Hater-are, of cos as, ?? Tite but are not up to.-her ...

... THEATRIOALS IN AUSTRALIA. (EROS OUR OWN CORRrSPONDENT,) MELBOURNE, OCT. 11, 1872.-Of course the sensation of the month has been the marvellous Lottie, who with her brothers Frank and Victor have been astonishing all beholders. It appears next to impossible to whet the appetites of the enthusiastic audiences that nightly greet her and most handsome offers have been made by enterprising caterers ...

... THE Winter Exhibition of the Society of British Artists is now open at the gallery in Suffolk Street, some seven hundred works in oil and water colours by members of the ...

... THE COURT. Windsor Castls. Thursday. egi CIO The Queen. accomrpanied ?? Beatrice, drove grs out yesterday afternoon, ple Her Majesty's dinner party ?? Royal da: Higinesses the Prince and Princess Christian, H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge, and the Lord Chancellor. Ad Tke Queen walked in the grounds this morning, ac- compaanied by Princess Beatrice. H. B. H. the Duke of Edinburgh, attended by D ...

... T I The twenty-fourth Birmingham and MdadCute Exhibition Of fat cattle, sheep pis iln ?? Iigroots, corn, poultry, P and implements ?? ~trdyiBingley Hall. The ar resolution of the Smiithfield Club not, to-allow cattle to M exhibit at Islington which had previously appeared at H other Shows hardly appeared to have shortened the entries, as the stock oomjrised quite en average number, taking the ...

... YUBI3JO AmOINTS, THE THEATRES, &C. r We should remind our readers that the ergagement of . Mr. C. Mathews at the Gaiety is drawing to a close, and , hiat the time for enjoying the interesting performances of this most nccomplieheo comedian is brief. Dnring the week the theatre has 1 eeu crowded to witness sho repre. lentation of A Gname of Speculation, whersin, as 611r. Afable Hawk, Mr. ...

... The eleventh winter exhibition of sketches and studies by by members of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours is characterised by a high degree of general artistic excel- lence and interest. There is now little to distinguish the winter exhibitions of the Old Water-Colour Society from the summer ones, except that the drawings composing the former are described in the catalogues as ...

... : THE Duke of Wellington has made a handsome contribution to our military literature in this volume. For although, like the prizeman Mr. Maurice, the writers have almost of necessity given their chief attention to the pressing want of the hour in our service-an improved system of tactics suited to our improved weapons-yet the changes they advocate are so great,. and the arguments for them so ...

... -The E;RATICS at St, George's Hall. T'wo pretty women, with an inexhaustible fund of go- aid . elegant properiies, good scenery, the ?? costuniec5 ot Harrison, an audience to ire numbered among the clitc of -ociety, alr excellent band, and the politest and most obliging ot steoards, did not succeed in making * rle Erratics' first perori armnc for tie wirnterseason, 1872 3, at St. ...

... TUB- OATrLB AND DOG SHOWS. ' I There was jlwarr. atkwd M-s at Blgfts ENAl yesterdq tanoan the, orresrdlg day ofa ha yezr by 1,298, snd the reoeipts wore £47t iAmoke., I hdeed, the hudu s thewhole a1 t ...

... LONDON: A Pilgrimage, by Gustave Dor6 and Blanchard Jerrold (Grant and Co.). In this work M. Gustave Dord has given us a collection of drawings, good always, or nearly always -for so ...