... T1IE THALIA Amateur DraMatic Club. The Thalia Amateurs gave a porsriusuace, on Monday evening at St. George's Hall, for the benefit of the Home for Little Boys at Farning-ham. It was the opinion of' one of the Club, expressed to a lady who formed one of the audience, that the perlormance went down, and, adopting his words without the meaning he intended to convey, there is no question ...

... 6 THE story of Hannibal has exercised the pens of few poets beyond Silius Italicus, who has covered it with a mythologic and gladiatorial garnish which could only have suited a prehistoric period. He has proved, however, that the theme is impressive in many features, but, at the same time, inordinately complex for even the epic form of poetry. A still greater difficulty must, we deem, have ...

... THE BIRMINGHAXt CATTLE ANDj POULTRY SHOW. i The numbers visiting this Show have been very large during the past week. On Tuesday 10,741 persons t- were admitted. Our local exhibitors of machinery are l- largely represented. A Birmingham paper says of ie them:- Messrs. Ransomes, Sims, and Head, of Ips- n wich, are again at their old stand, to the right of the is entrance to the implement ...

... T- E TRE RECENT METEOR SHWEEB. - | Much interest has been excited by the recent occurrence of a fine display of shooting stars. It has been supposed by many that the falling stars seen on the evening of Wednesday, November 27, belong to the so-called November system, and that the display had simply been delayed 'ak;fortuight owing to some displacement 1 lthe syste ofl meteors, and it is quite ...

... THI BIRMINGHAM CATTLE POULTRY EXIBON THE I1MPLEM~Nl7, &C. Vlctrhthsotanlo that the Zxhibition Socloy~offerstr no rizas for cusplesnents and other' m ha ica pp~lance~s for ?? operations cormocled with thelifarm asp dals, thits department elf the Show not ?? but excelsithat, of last year, Whereas the numsber of stands ?? year. was 88, filat tsipesn showit is lot, and the display made la replete ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... I E THE VICEREGAL COURT. Their Excellencies the Lord Lieatenant and tts Countess Spencer. accompanied by the Marquis and March'oness of Drogheda and Mr. Horace8eymoSir and attended by the Hon. H. Leeson, Lieutonants Colonel Caulfield, Lleutonant-Golonel Eorster, Cap. tain Lascelles, Captain Hutton, and Mr. C. Boyle, went to the Exhibition on Saturday, where the csremony by which it was ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...