... 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 ...

... $ THESE volumes contain sketches of a highly interesting family, and of a number of men whose names are as honoured as they are familiar. Francis, Julius, Augustus, and Marcus Hare- the most brotherly of brothers, as Landor called them-are vividly represented here, and so also is their ancestor Bishop Hare, a man of great learning, but wanting, one would imagine, in common-sense, since he ...

... I - The dark colourS worn this winter (says Le Folle) are, generally speaking much more becoming tb the complexion than the effacda shades in vogue earlier in the season. The olive greens, though not in themselves pretty, are very ele- gaut when employed in the toilette; the other shades of green-such as bottle, beetle, lizard, and duck-are very much more beautiful and richer in effect. ...

... I FASHION LAND YzflIETIEl- I FASHION WAND VARIE TE8. it, The Prince and Princess of Wa r rieed at Gunten Hall last night., n a on lit 9 and Lady Suffield.a iitoid The fluke of Edinburgh landed at Dov~r yesterday afternoon. and proceeded to Londoa * The Comte de Flandre, with their R Elghneqes the Prince and Princes ot Saxony. a a v Bit to Antwerp on the 20th alt. ;, 1 u a The infalit Princess ...

... THE LIOERSED'VIOTUALLERS 7AND TEM OAT!LWAHOW. At the 81rm50gham ?? Offic yesterday, before.DLx.; T. . W KyMnneriily an 1the MAyor {:(Adertan1Bgg),' blr;'laher made an 'apple'atlon 'on behalf of the hohel- keeperi for 'an o04adcail Ieais H, ?? he wax :aware heo should have to' applyfodr the Holenses sriadm;' and the firat onehe proposid to apply fo'was on behalf- of the -ptoprietor.. ol thes ...

... THEAT RE-ROYAL. MR B.ARY SULLIVAIC Mr Baiy Sullivan,. the tragedian, commenced on Monday night a fortnights engagement at the Theatre-Royal, oith the tragedy of Richard the Third. The audience was not onily numerous,. bat in an appreciative mood, under the stimulus of which the performance went beautifully, and was, to our mind, a very conspicuous success. We have on former oc- oasions had ...

... ?OflKSllIRE OThRISTMAS CATTLE SHOW, n.vfllrnl ? ,? *3?? t I - - The sixteenth annual meeting of the Yorkshire Society ( ? ±i?e Christmas Exhibition of Stock, &o,, took place yeeterday, in the wool sheds at York; and, notwitlistand. ing tte previous reports of oatt?.c plague, which has now y?app?ly to a11 appearance been stamped out, there was a larger show of cattle than Inst year. The ...

... DR. LIVINGSTONE. A continent to open, Its land explore alone, And cross a hidden centre To science vaguely known, Teeming with life or barren Where the sun smites by day, Surmounting all of peril, Though death might bar the way- A traveller went onward, Onward, onward still. 'Mid the glare of torrid light, Orwilds obscure and dim, In all its myriad shapes Was danger met by him; He had the ...

... vottrg. I THE Y-EAR. First camo the rsmall green leaves Down in the ditch, Threi with their buds of brown MleliNer grow rich. Celall I itempeopell out.soon, Ono hero aid therar T'ffin caliro mooet violets, Scouting tho air. Iiirdl with tbilr chosen mates Built tb*ir nests zlnxt, Labnis at thu first spring rain l,ookql much perpl rxed: Then canio a hurst of green, Sunshine and shower, Fi'letl ...

... CLON2MEL-A SCENE.' CLo-sELa, TUFSDAY.-A special meeting of the Corporation was held yesterday for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the ensuing ysar. The only candidate was Alderman Edward Cantwell. ?? was proposed by Alderman Joseph Kenny, J.1P., who alluded in complimentary terms to the career of Alderman Ceatwell as a successful merchant and private citizen. Alderman Wood seconded the ...

... )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 ...

... 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 ...