... 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 ...

... LITERITURE. HI'NTS oN ADvocAcy.-ThO title of this work, which has been recently published by Messrs. Waterlow Bros. and Layton, the enterprising law stationers of Birobin lane, is sufficient in itself to obtain for it an extenaive reading. We doubt not a that the book will be eagerly conned by the multi- i tudinous bevy ot young men whom the badness of trade and agriculture-or the difficulty ...

... noer iean_ * MASOMC FESTIVAL A CARWT7F. 'Ia The anrun: feedvai of the G ?? - 5:, SII No. 3,;, wai belt at Cif on Taraei-ty 4 o Masonic hal Bo I. Ti;, ?? ;. U is. ?? B.O. John W.aF 23 o :az WM , :: or the ez minz year. Brc. Do-minic STan-oz. woo _ai a. helde ?? dozing 'leput yer, reoi:n. .L ie following ?? were the inretod y e ansi' >i'WM. :_Br Dominic M. Watson, T,,,I n un Harry Cousin, S.W.; ...

... 115LV LZE TS. TfnE NEow PA;'rOB1MFNT. - LICSSee. CaSes1l, ;ht Petr aopn nd Co, -re the publishaer of & I woirk entitlod- 5The Ncw Parliament, 18810, by7 log Wili*r. Sonirauthor of 40 Across the LIght 04 ki~nd LAwo and their Resultes h.,~ 5WV er-i'eod by the -ierrepondants of the Central -Ne c The authlor ices endeavonrrd to trace Hly the C=ne of the greet end ?? change wiheo bee ...

... ME RTlli; DOG, VOULTRY, P:GION, AND CAT SHOW. Tc ery (Wedneedon) the entries for this comtug Ctlocyinnt gatberiig close. The prizes are, as ve bave already bed ccesion to point oat, not ocly veW rvntercae, czesene heing provided for alruoat every breed or description of dogs, polItry, piceore, or eat, 'but eiso of amoants vailih vil bear comparieon withhoaawarded at far ttcro prettrtitma ehlws ...

... 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 ...