... LIT ERARY NOTICES.- PBDUCA rOSS O0 CASSEI, r5MER, & OLP Ws' have received the usual monthlyparcel from this emiinent publhishig firwn, the only addition being the first padt of the History of India, ihich we have already noticed as promising to be a very valuable work. The Family Mavgazine comm111enccs the ncvW year 'with renewed -vigour; its contets are varied li'4 hi-etructive, profnseh ...

... Tau attention of ladies and their modistes is, says Le Follet, at present directed to the creation of toilittes intended for seaside, country, and travel- ling wear. Of these there is a great variety, both of material and style, a costume that would suit one locality or hour being totally out of place in another. For seaside wear, all wool materials are infinitely better than any woised ...

... IRIS EXHIBITORM.A.TTHE CENTENNIAL I EXHBITION. 5 TuaE2Pkiadelphia Pubffc Chedgd, of the 20th of | -Octobser, gives assi interesting account of the exhibits fjrli ?? Kingdomh, al thie exhibition. We extract the following notices of a few of the Irish riexhibits WATCHES, JEWLEP.S, lO a The British jewellers are well represented by s several first-class firms. The Irish and Scotch jewellers have ...

... F AIRS. COnoSGAs APRIL FAIR.-At this fair, held on Wednesday, there was a large show of cattle in all departments. With the exception of milch cattle, for which there was an active demand, business was dull, but prices remained firm. First quality beef sold at from 75s to 80s; second do. drew from 60s to 70s; and third rate quality changed hands at from S0s to S0s per cwt. Springers sold at ...

... PER9ONAL SKETCHES AM) RECOLLECTIONS or Etis Ows TiiEs. By SirJonah Barringto). Gle9z-' and London: Cameron & Ferguson. ALTOUGIH written with a degree of inclegan ', anmounting frequently to actual coarseness, ise reminiscevnces of Sir Jonah Barrington cannot l:e read without interest, The author is an invetcn'-te relator of anecdotes of the last generation, wvhen the breadth of the humour ...

... A BLUM MAN'S OMrnm'a. By B. B. Bowen. [New York. Published by the Author.] Tais is in many respects a very remarkable volume. The author, who is at present in Belfast, is an American, and has been blind since he was sax weeks old. He was born in the town of Marble- head, sixteen miles from Boston, Mass., in the year 1819. His early life was one of difficulty; but, as he tells the story, he was ...

... I LAST evening, Mr. and Mnrs. George Owen appears4 at the theatre in the drama Aurora Floyd.` The play has been produced frequently in Bel. fast, and its merits and defects are so well known to an audience as to render criticism sorperfiuon, The play is as good as the novel, or as bad as it as some people would say. It depends for succes solely upon the amount of business Which is crammed ...

... TiiE Eage observation that l abour conquers all things is no less true than old. A visitor to the i Ulster Hall but a few days ago would have found, I it difficult to conceive that the exercise of any reasonable amount of energy would have evolved order, and devised system out of the heterogeneous collection therein displayed. Sections were as yet underined, and textile fahrics, antiquities, ...

... THEATRE ROYAL - MR. IRVING AS CHARLES I. Tnxcrowdedhousesandthe expression of enthusiasm on part of the large audiences Mhich characterized the four performances of Mr. ?? Hamlet may, l we think, be accepted as significant of much as re- gards appreciation of true dramatic art in this town. We must confess we have never known of a more legitimate triumph on the part of an artist, and the ...

... THE INDUTSTFIAL ENIITION. FINER ARTS9- MODERN OIL PAlETNfl.fl. Own-.a to the necessity for economising the limited space at commard, it was, of course, found impos-p sible to classify the pictures at the disposal of the E committee in anything like order, either with reference to period or school. The only design attempted to be carried out is in grouping the works from each collection in as ...

... t1,E ROY 0 Y A L. ., ;:ti slis 'larriott, supprted by her I ' ! ?? an (ngrigeWnent of Six F ,, rl-'nf e of Jeanie Deans, the - ..,it1at:'n of ?? Walter Scott's novel, 1 , * Mid-i thian The drama is so ' . t-.roly ?? to make a re- Ir c;, ' t uf all the novels written by ?? ich have heen reproduced in a r ite one fourming the foundation of ;,s ra% If ?? in curopinion, the most success- I. Thc ...

... | =T Or:SI.XG OF Tin ItEG¢LAPt SEASON. TiE date of the opening of the Theatre Royal for the commencement of the next regular season is already pr tty generally known, and it cannot be now atmouuicfld as an item of news ihat that interest. jD ( ?? .Nlonclay evening. It is not merely to put that fact befute the public that we n1ow refer to it, bnt ,i bih Ute view of drawving their attention to ...