... MA CLEAN'S GALLER Y Tan twelfth annual exhibition of pictures at this gallery, wvhich wvas cpcned to the public on Monday last, contains a hundred and thirty-three examples by British and foreign rainters, all of which, it may be safely said, are above mediocrity, and many of which attain a high standard of excellence. A gallery of manageable size which can be viewed comfortably within a ...

... -0a CONCERT AT THE ROYAL AQUARIUM. The weekly concerts at the above institution have hitherto afforded little opportunity for critical comment. It istruethat the list of works performed at them comprises many important orchestral compositions, but these were generally mixed up with other works of such doubtful standing as to somewhat lower the artistic character of the concerts themselves. We ...

... . a GEMS OF THOUGHT. KNsoWLroOn.-Avail yourself of all your knowledge without making a display of it. That machinery works best that is hidden from view. WRoes-DOING.-TOO Reany persons are far less-ashamed of having done wrong than of being found out. HURRY AND CUNNING} are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them over learned their master's trade. TnovsLES.-A person is ...

... LORD MACAULAY.' [FIRST NOTICE.] THE two volumes in which Mr. Trevelyan has given us the life of his celebrated uncle possess one great merit: they are an honest attempt at genuine biography. When we consider the boundless field for disquisi- tion, both political and literary, which is offered by the life of such a man, and the strong temptation to expatiate in it which must be felt by the ...

... FOREIGN PICTURES AT THE PALL MALL GALLER Y TAKING a *wide sweep of selection from the Paris Salon, through the studios of Belgium, Holland, and Germany, Mr. Wallis is able to focus in the narrow limits of one small Gallery a very fair representation of contemporary Continental art. GenrIe has in all foreign schools so taken practical precedence of large religious, epic, or decorative art, that ...

... W ~~AT RB-igwh U:SU~~s Mr. Cr.A\EN'S historical drama at the Duiut's Theatre has given place to a new play, in two acts, from the pen of Mr. Robert Rleece, which bears the title, An Old Alan. At the Duke's Theatre, as at some others, the real business of the evening is burlesqute or extravagana ; but as the patrons of entertainments of this kind cannot easily be induced to occupy their stalls ...

... ii: l?P.!IiL? MIE1MOIR AND CoOR1rSPONDrNCE OF CAROLINE HERSCHEL, by Mrs. John Herschel (John Murray).-The little sister of Thackeray's pathetic sketch rises oddly to our mind on reading these memorials of the elder Herschel's self-denying fellow-worker. But it is the little sister glorified-sweeping the heavens for nebulae and comets-a satellite, but the satellite of a star, and living ...

... BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SOCIETY OF- I ?? SPRING EXHIBITION.-THE PRIWATE VIEW. Constancy is a ?? which wo never appreciato somuch els in times of trial or depression, and it is one for which the lirminglhesn public, therefore, ought to be very grate- fill, in theso days of comumercial decline and moteorological penance, to the local Society of Artists. Other notes andi amenities of the vernal ?? ...

... 1 ?? ?? ?? - ?? M ii 06?j THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE TERAI MEASURING THE TIGER This is a sketch during the first days' shooting in Nepaul. The Prince of Wales has just shot a tiger, and several of the suite, including Mr. Bartlett, the taxidermist, with the Prince, have got down from their elephants to measure the animal. The party, writes Mr. H.Johnson,ourspecialartist, formned ...

... N~ ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.--There is not much to say about Mr. Gye's opening night. The opera selected was Rossini's Cuillanme Tell, the characters in which were sustained, with no exception of any moment, by the same artists to whom they were assigned on a similar occasion last season. M. Maurel, as the Sowiss patriot, exhibited marked improvement. His hand- some person and dignified bearing fit ...

... I - VARI E' I ES. w; It AnvicC To AsPIRANTS.-If von go in for a Spelling Bee, T and are brought down at the first shot, mind not to be e' ?? s d le Nrw Foitm OF FoOT-AND-MIOUTHr DIsEAsE.-Skating d Rinks and Spelling Bees.-Jandy. r. Sr. PATREIC's D.,Y.-Cardinal Manning addressed a letter to his dock with reference to keeping the festival of d St. Patrick's Day, which stated that an indulgence ...

... a, The annual stallion show in connection with n I the Durham County Agricnltural Society wvasts A heal yesterday, in the Oveanl Staud Euclosure of tb e the Durham Race Course. There was a numerous by attendance. The sum of £25 was offered by the ag d Society for the best thorough-bred and cart th e stallion. There were thoet entries for the thorough-breds, and nine for the cart stallions. E ...