... f the Royal have this week V'een closed, and ~se been compelled to seek other sources of The interregnum will, however, be amply the production next week of. Betsy; a ,rink Dominoes type, and which hails place of the latter enjoyable trifle, vide- Ion The company which is to present the first time to the local playgoers is an gng one, andl in the person of Mr. H, Reeves *11 recognise a ...

... CLIPPINGS .FROM THE,- :, WEEKLY JOR N ?? - - I t4: , N PICKINGS FROIt PUNCH. X X Are Welsh rabbits included in 'Ground Game 7 PRILHELLENES.-The Lord'Mayor and aldermen who filled the King of the Hellenes and his suite, when they nresented him with an ad&ess, and gave them all a lunch, the other day, at Guildhal). LIVE WHILE YOu MAY.-Timid Passenger (as the gale fresbenel) : Is there any ...

... LITERARY AND ART GOSSI P. The Royal Academy conversazione is fixed to take place on Wednesday, June 30th. M. Naville is engaged in completing his new copy of the Egyptian Ritual, which will be ready next year. Mr. Luke lildes, ?? has, according to the Pea, just completed the first portrait he has painted-that of a medical man. A new story in verse by Col. Colomb, called The Cardinal ...

... This Nt'tterinig-plaeo waqL yIesteidayX largely visited, thel, I) wcactlito being, thu ?? uncle of a In w Iffelietit, and time fhlid ?? %nianal et,'ibitsrion of thle S'ibtb'rnb ?? and District I Pieral and I'fertictLIltur'l siociety Thie bear seas hbuilt bydi INtessi's. Wou'lfe endl Non, of Sliadwell, Liontioi, soil P g ossest-es thte lulsual piroperti i-i of the Naiii ciil Insti tut ion~s b b ...

... I 'A . o-At. ?? .NI-- . -. ?? ?? 1- - - - _ £_ - _ _ This show, which onened on Thlrsday, chiefly for dog; was continuedt yesterday, when there was large collec- tion of horses, implements, and other exhibits, in additioq to what atppeared oa Thursday.. Happily the weather. whichl began to improve on hursday, yesterdav showed a still further improveinent, being very fine on the whole till the ...

... VAL OF TODMORDuE AGRIC ULTTJRAL SOCIETY. l The eleventh annual ehow of this society was hold on b Saturday, in the fields at Sanddholmen Todimorden. The b day was fine, and there was a large attendance. The u entries were about 1,100, which is pretty nearly the same C as os.uprevinus occasions. in cattle and horses there was ir an increase of nearly 50 entries, And the quality of the E stock ...

... YOR~KSHIIRE AR'T EXHTBITIONz ' THE OIL PAiNTINGI-S-IM i Localart isreprcsentedby otasyw orks, but inadequattly t Irom another point of view. Few cxa iples of great I utehieveament are here, and such familiar names as Waller, Grinmshaw, and Lowcock aro absent. The txbittition is, indeedl, singularly dolicient in portrni- tLre. It niust be adiititte that too frcquenatly siclh wvorks have no ...

... OPENING UEREMONY. (Front f/ic Sot/sh Auastefalisas Adrerftisc'.) M1 MaELsoURNa;Es October 1st. - The iirst Interuational Is IExhibition held in the largest capital of the Australian b colonies miany be colnsidered ats marking cl ia l portaist 'l eioch in thun history of those rapidly rising Britisfh coin- 0 ninlities. It is doubtless a great venture fur so youig¢ a tl colony, but whether the ...

... A selection from Mr. J. G. Whittier's poems as ljust been rendered into Portuguese by the Emperor of Brazil. Mr. Do Soyro's edition of Pascal's ' Provincial Letters, mentioned some time ago, will be published shortly by Messrs. Dcighton, Bell, and Co. Mr. W. E. GCrilis, author of The Mikado's Empire, is about to publish a work entitled Tho Japanese Fairy World, witll eleven illustrations ...

... I c s The Bishop of Derry promises, through Mr. Murray, a 5 life of St. John a Dr. J. II. Gladstone, ?? has presented £100 to the o Research Fund of the Chemical Society. Dr. Smiles is writing, under the title of Duty, a coin- pfanion volume to 1 Self-Help and other popular works a of Isis of the same class. a Prof. John Rhys, of Jesus College, Oxford, has under- 1 t taken to write the ...

... DESTRUCTIWN OF HUDDEP.SFIELD THEATRE ROYAL. About half-past three o'clock yesterday morning, the Theatre Royal, Rfamsden-street, Huddersfield, was dis- covered to be on fire. Informnation was at once sent to the fire-station not far distant. Supt. Holt, with the brigade, immediately attended, and was followed by Mr. Ward, the Chief Constable. The fire had at the time got |rell hold of the ...

... THE FIRST OF THE FOX. An Unpromising day for hunting, eh'? The snow yet lies on the bill-top yonder; And when a man's sixties are Ni ell on their way, Hle's apt to grow of his fireside fonder. But I've watched them coming an hour or more Along the road that winds through the valley, Of grooms snd their charges at least a score And the farmers in force are sure to rally Around the Earl. No man ...