... I _ * ?? The twenty-fourth annual show of fat cattle,l sheep, and pigs, and of poultry, roots, corn, and implements, held under the auspices of the Bir- Iningham and Midland Counties Society, com- menced on Saturday with the judging, and to-day is thrown open to the general public. The collec- tion of fat oattle in Bingley Hall this year is slightly weaker in quantity and considerably poorer ...

... LONDON. By GUSTAVp Dounr and BLANC55AED JERROLD. Grant and Co.-We have here a double number, the conclusion of this remarkable work, and the illustrations which are to be found in the part are very attractive. Lord's Cricket Ground is a bril- liant scene, though the subject does not give Dord full scope for his great powers. There is a vast deal of character in Tbaetersall's for the artist is ...

... )I| ; ?? Since the princely speculation a Alderman I, Joydell, at the end of the least and beginning oftthe present ee~atury, there) has be~len' no sueb suspe~rb I 'attemnptto illustrate'dur ohief of poets as that which ?? Virtue and Co. are now making i. their i | 'Imperial Shakespeare, edited by Charles Knight. ti, Thb Alderman set the first English painters of his ri time to work to ...

... Mr. T. C. KING at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle-on. Tyne. Of late we have been accustomed to the cry that tragedy and tragic actors have deteriorated, and that we do not possess such bright geniuses of the muse as ft urished some half century ago, when the Keaos and Kembles reproduced Shakespeare's lofty ideas with such intelligence and force as to ast in names for themselves which have been ...

... GAIEY TWMT= Mr. Charles Mathews tas this weekintroduced two of his most famous impersonations to delighted audiences; As Mr. Affable Hawk, in 2l' Game of Speculation, he agaig excited the keenest and most eager interest by the artistic natare of bisperform- Iiance, which will always be cited as the perfection of ease and finish. Totally different, but equally suc- cessful, was his Plumper in ...

... ldTERARY MSCELLAMEA. Too L&Ts Pop, EXPLANATrIox.-Lorrd Mark Kerr, vwh distinguished himself at the battle of Fontenoy, was a good but eccentric officer, and a terrible duellist, His iobfs was remarkable. He was a lad of slight, effeini- nato appearance, apparently void of spirit. His father, the Marquis of Lothian, when he brought him to London to join his regiment-the Coldstream Guaids ...

... 5fUSIC THERE seems to be a revival of interest in Mendelssohn's first oratorio, St. Paul. It was performed last week at Oxford, last Saturday at the Crystal Palace, and next Friday it will be heard in Exeter Hall. On every account this is matter for congratula- tion. Less dramatic than Elfiah, and, therefore less adapted to excite popular interest, St. Paul is, even morethan Elijak, an ...

... . . GLOBE. . iecg+t iho are interested in drsgtic~ ^stv l~,b~iahardofa little piece by Meoirs,~iiee8n e4u a i&!idrlea Dpaqasrce11e e bearing the title ,ofjar6el, wih wes'roduced at'be ThdAtre Frangais in may'qjt, and which ?? at that theatre unabated ppar*slty. n the pro notoof Mdme e3).GlrardriU6 Za 0Joe PhtPeur ,a, hq same house, nearly twentyyearsago, thn'efeid'o, ?? believe, been no ...

... FALSE SHAMX E. Without being prepared to agree with Mr. Montague, that in the case of MIr. F. Macshonals play of FaIkej Shame, at the Globo Theal re, a sucesso hab been obtained in a new direction,' we are delighted touind the public so willing to detect the mnritoriousside of a young author's work, and so courteously critical as to be impressed with its general interest rather than ...

... Amateurs at the Gallery of Illustration A tolerably large audience assembled here last Saturday, attr,,ted by the announcement of an amateur dramatic performance in aid Gf Miss Stride's Home, an unpretending institution, Whilch, as l London is aware, has been the mean3 of working a vast amount 0, good, and ot rescuing a large number of young women troai degra. dation and ruin. The object ...

... I -v.: :! From the dayp of therenowne4 fi>ico6rboal'or to those of the no lese famous Hans Breitmann, Dutch cn'd German types of character have furnished American writers with opportunities for a kind of humour whilch is strictly of Transatldntio origin; and, in rcent years, these types havo been transferred from-the novel ahd the humorous poem to the stage, where they have enjoyed a ...

... REVIEWS OF BOOS.e LM IdFE OF CHAisiS DiCayNs, By J. FoR- m Clitpnzan and Hall,-This is the second w~eno of The Uife of Charles Diohens, by Piritaed, Mr. Forster. It comprises the period ?? life from 1842 to 1852. A large pordon of 'ime was spent abroad, for economy's sake; iw, notwithstanding the enormous sale of his weuks, somehow or another he appe rs always t bhave been oppressed by ...