... (rROlS OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY.-NO novelty, no semblance of a novelty to be noted; we are in the period of summer stagnation, and most houses in the agony of dissolution ; several have already given up the ghost, as you will see further on. The great topic of the week has been M. Coquelin's resignation at the Comedie Franiaise. For two or three days it occupied more attention ...

... I r. . ADAME PUZZI'S CONCERT, Aladamlle Puzzi's concert, given at St. George's Hell, Oil Monday afternoon, in the presence of an overflowing audience, may fairly be set down as one of the moat successful concerts of the season. Madame Pazzi is generally fortunate in her artisles, who scarcely ever disappoint ler, and she is equally fortunate in her audience, for the Hall on such occasions is ...

... [ Bellini's ?? is one ot his weakest operas, andl yet it has an attraction for many, since it supplies the tenor and soprano with showy and graceful lunsie. When such01 a soprano as Il'adame Albani underts Ices the character of Elhira the feeble- ness of the Putritni is forgotten, as audiences knowl they will halve the pleasure of hearing some brilliant solos ; such, for example, as the pretty ...

... SOUTH LONDON PALACE. Mn. CHARLES POOLE'S IBENEFIT.-The vast lall in the Lon- don-road was, on Tuesday cvening last, crowded to the doors the occasion being the fifth annual benefit of Mr Charles Poole, the Acting-Manager, whose invariable courtesy has gained for him a host of friends asnd well-wishlers. The stage was placed under the experienced direction of Messrs A. Maynard and T. Holmes, ...

... t. and Manager, Mr. Wilson Barrett. Tins Evening, 8, HEARTSEASE. Me?ars. A. Dacre, Price, Hohnan, l)arley, Douglas, Phipps, and G. \V. Anson; Emery, Varre, Giffam, and R. G. Le Tlii^re. ...

... PUBIJC AMUSEXENTS. DUTCH PLAYS AT THE IMPERIA. We have seldom felt more interested in any dramatic ?? tha Vwith that wewitnessed on Mouday night At the Imperial, under except.oral and not altogether xdvantageous circumstances. There was a small, but what in fashionable phraseology is termed a select, iudience present, composed of the upper crust of the Diutch residents in England, and a ...

... ± J.%U IV DLEn XVW ,Yv The annual show of the Leeds Horticultural Society was opened yesterday afternoon by tha Mayor (-Ald. Tatham), under the depressing influence of unfavourable weather. lain. fell heavily at the hour fixed for the cere- mony, and thinned the attendance. Nevertheless, a few ladies braved the stormn of rain, but their attire was less brilliant than it would have been under ...

... CATTLE SRO W& NE'W MVONlILAND. Yesterday the aunoal abow of frrm strok and dai27 prc- duce, under the auspices of the Neew Monkland Agricultural Society, was held ou the Racecourse at Airdrie, under the most favourable circlustalcsan TtiL parish show is of con. siderable importance, several o1 the Class being opeu, and, besides ,uips and medals awarded bYvais, aa Putcons. ouchi s t Sir Edward ...

... LITERA.RY AID A!UT GOSSIP. Dr. J, P. Ricle itin lit' Or, as 'hu Litur *ry Worlo- of T ?? di ai Ji~c b;I.in, II -rota ~I. II ltS rr ...

... THlEATRICAL MEMS, . . _ . . . _ .- The Our Boys Company will have a five weevks' vacation from Saturday next.-Mr. J. L. Tojle an. nounoes two provincial companies with Upper drust, -Mr. Walter H. Fisher is playing at Belfast his original part in Madame Favart, The popularity of ibis opera in the metropolis is unabated, notwithstanding the 400 representations which have been given, and ...

... IT is not a pleasant task to criticise the inferior work of a man who has once given promise of good things; but truth compels us to state that Songs of the Spring-tide, by A ...

... I __ STRANGE BURIAL9.-ALttIB, the Hun, died A.D. 453. He was buried in a wide plain in a coffin enclosed, in one of golo, Another of silver, and a third of iron. With his bd~~Y~5 nteredanimmense amount of booty, and that tiij'epot might he for ever un1knowin, all those who were probdut at the burial were deprived of life. The Goths noted nearly in a similar manner on the death of Alauic in 41 ...