... The Seventeenth Annual Iorse Show, which opened at the Agricultural Hall, London, on Sataulay, will be found to bear comparison with most of its predecessors, both in the quality and the number of the entries. In the bunter classes more especially does this year's show bear the palm, whilst intheother classes appropriated to riding horses there is a fair splinkling of sterling merit. For arabs ...

... THE CITrY OF DREADFUL NIGHT. and other Poems. By JALEs Tisoalsox. [London: Beeves and Turner.] u The longest poem of this volume, and the one which gives a a title to it, is an allegory of very doubtful mean- t ing. We do not pretend to have penetrated the meaning, A for though of remarkable power, and containing very i forcible passages, it is not pleasing enough to induce pro- i longed study ...

... RCAR ROSAT OPER.A COMPANY. |The auiencA was mucci larger last night, when. Biznt's popular Carmen was represcnted, the cast being a good one, as the folloxing nalues testify-rrecn Mliss Georgiia hiurns, Dol Jose, Mr. Henry Nordblom Bca- airo, 3Mr. Ludwig; Besacndado, Mr. Charles Lvall Dais- cairv, Mr. Sna-elle; 7a., Mr. J. HI. tilliard; .1roralc Mr. Oharles Stewart ; Prorccca, Mice GiObil ...

... -: ?? l - ?? -rnn .-t r 1rna -n-ndzi Major Burnaby, tbough generally wrong, has occasional lapses into reason. In one of these he said, about a year and a half ago, that it was owing to lfr. Gladstone that we were not at war with Russia. It was in the same pious speech in which he wished to God that we were at war with Rusgia, and his exact words were, Unfor- tumately it was impossible to ...

... f- ~4 Tmr-:- V.E MAR. AN) AIRS. FLORENCE, American performers, who have, we believe, not been in England since 1856, when they performed at l)ruy Lane Iheatre in The Yankee Houseketer, made their first appearance at the GAIETY on Monday last in a comedy called, after \\ashington Irving's famous phrase, Thle lig,,hty Dollar. This piece, which is of purely American origin, aims at satirising ...

... b - I.: A MIR. Tom TAYLOR'S Still ?? Run DeeCp has not been seen on the London stage since the decease of the late Mr. Alfred Wigan- the original representative of the effective part of John Mild may when this comedy was produced at the Olympic Theatre in 1855. During the lifetime of that gentleman, indeed, a well-understood principle of etiquette, not to speak of the risk of unfavourable com- ...

... I III I I / e) V-1 w P-7- THE ROYAL ACADEMY II. - MR, MILLAIS sends no important figure composition, and no landscape, but as a portrait painter he is seen to the greatest advan- tage in the present Exhibition. Besides being full of individuality, and painted with masterly, but well-restrained power, his six pictures display great variety of style, the treatment in each being exactly suited to ...

... .1 IFO1 - TuE long-announced series of French performances for thepresent season commenced at the GAIETY Theatre on Monday evening, when Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt appeared once more upon the stage where last year she received so enthusiastic a welcome. Careful observers of the indications of public feeling have declared that the friendly manifestations of the audience exhibited less warmth than ...

... REHIES.; I . , , COBBET1'S Extaishi GRAMMAR,-(WItrd, Loock and Co.. Salisbury-square)..-E[undredsof persns now living would have - knowtt little of granma. but for the late Wm. Cobbett. The stern, phleg- matic politician, whatever 'his fault. i uiderstood how to write with perspicuity and : ith ?? honour to Lindley Murray, be it said, that no gra mar. of the English language ever written laid ...

... I On U1onday evening last, chiefly1 through the interested kindness of Mrr- Alderman Wells, of Mona House, there wasgiven at BSuttou an amateur concert of a high class. The eutertainmeut was in aid of the funds of the parish sohools, and was well patronised by a crowded and fashion- able audience. The programme consisted of a sacred and a secular part, and the following -were the ladies and ...

... i THE I0CAB I: GOA TIhad about oixksi a . of~- ~ uuw. elgur miles to go-i was the 221nd o lat December, close uponten o'clock at2 night; wheniu opened the ifrot door, the fgi stle, slowly into theriall in lazy u gayyelndo scarfs.. It did not look pleasant or promis'ing.I glanced across the street, And could dimply meake out the ground..and ?? windows' of the houses opposite. 'Theupper ...

... ' THE WORLD. -- . ., w Mr. Clement Scott.the editor ofi Tcf ehbe nmagazine, writes the following notice o World in his September number:- eP This is a very extraordinary and jtl S5 te' ful play. It could only have been wvrtte Ot bey experienced in stage-craft. who have, o to SoPd watched every game on the boards, who frod t - experience and practical test have recore d Vbt° pressious made ...