... OPENING OF TIWJfl PHILADELPHIA UIZUTEf MAIL EXHIBITION. PHILADELPHIA, lAY 9, EvNIxa. Tho city io crowded. The Emperor of Brazil, PLtksident Grant, the members of the Cabinet, the judaies of the different courts, and the members of both Bouses of Congress, have arrived.. The In- depazdluce Eall wus illuminated, and the streets ace proiuely decorated. About 49D0 InvItations have been issued for ...

... THlE I)RAMA IN PARIS. I Ono. of our Paris Correspondents writes: Ant nlusluil event ha;S talell p1lac at the Thftitio l'ranenis, tlbe produlctioll of twvo neiv pio'os on the same niiht. Tfho first is it collody in '1lo act, entitled lu (0iolie c Jc e les 1ourm7is, ald it is written b~y MI. Leogoave, the illus- trious orator and acalelnlicitil, in collabora- tion rvith Mr. Elug'ntIo Labicho, ...

... THE DRA MA IN AMERICA. (FROMl OUR OWN COHRESPONDENZ) NEWD YORK, APRIL 22.-If any person anticipated a revival of interest in theatrical affairs at Easter he was disap- pointed. The festival week brought a reproduction of Panto- mime at the OLYMrPIo THEATRE, and also a few changes in the Variety Theatres; but the more important houses stack to their established programmes, and the public ...

... 3 The modern playgoer has come to regard Harlequin as a Mute. If he stood at the door of a family mansion clothed in black to assist at the funeral of its deceased proprietor he could not be more speechless. He is an important personage still in the Harlequinade, which takes its name from his pranks- but, according to snodern ideas, he must not suit the word to the action, although lie may ...

... 1'Ir J. Robinson, the architect and surveyor to the Lord Chamberlain for the Metropolitan Theatres, has also been appointed architect of a permanent Circus, to be erected at Liverpool, at the top of the Brunswick-road, opposite the Necropolis. This will he the largest Circus in England, holding about 4,000 persons. It will be 100 feet wide by 140 feet deep, with a gallery over the front end ...

... OaUMNOcK CATTLE SHOW. n-l enhibition of fam stbek of thi The annual eibibition of farm stock of the Cumnocii Farmers' Society was held yesteday, in a field*near the- Dumfeles Arms HoteL The judges ?? ?? i Hl.D. B. Hyslop, Tolver, Eirkeonuell; Alies. Mrmelh. 1 Dalry; and: Young, llruntseoodhill Galaton; for dogs- Lindsy, HIolm, Sanreuber. and Beattie, -Damfries ousse- for poultry-MIntyre. ...

... a ? I - - ?? ?? I -- - I - SHOW. i 9.the auspices-of thu-society, was cqptifnntd yeste&'- C day oic ahcessastd-weitlfez T` adisd othg hteavier portioztbftb' Wuolts-hYsjdayj, thelwr of the iridket' g eieday ?? stockanxlr m earlylihour, and th~juxdging we iloelu 0 h: 24L of Cattle Watnb6tsoiiirba hfre sid,-] whn, the' f~rmorac-were l-uie-i'hefrtD7 uinaie'oiea graned-show; bitntibtainut a _ o .f ...

... WE have heard so much during the last few years of literary copyright and the necessity of extending it that it is surprising to learn all at once that as regards the rights of musical composers the Legislature has already gone too far. The reports of the meeting recently held at St. James's Hall for the purpose of protesting against the law of copyright in connection with music were not very ...

... THE number of original English pieces laid under contribution by French dramatists is but small. Milman's Fazio, of which the plot is derived from a story, published as true in the Annual Regnister, became in the bands of Fred6ric Souli6 Clotilde, and in those of Alexandre Damas L'Alchimiste. Voltaire, Ducis, Alfred de Vigny, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Sejour, have all tampered, more or ...

... BEAUTIFUL SPRIN.G. The epring iB hero-the delicate-footed May, With its alight iingers full of leaves and fiowers And with it- cene a thirit to be away, Wasting In wood-paties Its voluptuss hours. A feeling thatie like a sense at wings, itsetloss to soar sbove these perishing things. We pass out from tile eity's fevei11l humn, To iind refreshment in tile silent aoode Auid Nature, that is ...

... MINAGAZINES, &c. Therich variety of interest tobe found inthat, initsway, mteless repertory of art, the Studiesi arid Sketches of Sir BbrisE Landseer, is well exemplitiedI in the May number of AeArt .Jelfrrual. Though that publication has now for UArY a year and a half been giving its readers selections fym these productions, the specimeut; in the present number mikce the eye with as much ...

... .. . . . . . IN the mid May season, when the turn-out of the Coaching Club or the Four-in-Hand brings half fashionable London to the Park, and the short-stage coaches on every road wait but for west winds and sunshine to bear their loads of passengers between Kent and Surrey herige-rows, a book like Captain Malet's Annals of the Road (Longmans and Co.), can hardly fail to meet ...