... PUBLIC AMUSEMES. i ALEXAISDRA THEATRE. Mademoiselle Lange, the favourite in Lecooq's opera La Fille de Madame Angot, as not an attractive character. It has objectionable phases that make it repug ...

... -IE--I - - LITERARY AND Ar>T GOSSIP. .5 The Roval (gold) Medil of the Institute of British '3 L- Architects has been awarded to Mr. J. L. Pearson. mc Mr. Ohurton Collins is, we (A thenarisin) believe, engaged in preparing an edition of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's tra n poems. M-2. Henri Cohen, compnoser and theorist, author of rec 0 treatises on harmony and fugus, has lately (lied at Bry- th( a ...

... (|RZOM OUR oww- cormnldOcDENT.) j London, Thurssday Night- G It seems somewhat strange to attend a short- hi horn sho w with a number of Ayrshires and rc Jerseys thrown in almost on the eve of the great m Royal Agricultural Exhibition at Carlisle and the only little less great show of the Highland and Agricultural Society at helso. Yet here it is, and not a bad show. at all, considering its ...

... F'tFE-ART EXHIBITION AT LEEDS. Yesterday afternoon the first exhibition of the Yorkshire Fine-Art Society was opened in the Athenwiun Bnildiogs, Park Lane, Leeds. under most auspicious circumstances. Although there have from time to tiuse been such exhibitions in Leeds in aid of benevolent institutions, tliis is the fist which has been set on foot for the- pur. picse of encouraging artists, ...

... - THE LAST BARD OF. WALES TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN VIOTORIA ON HIER CORONATION DA*Y ALL hail I VictorIa, noble Queen, Accept a poet's lay, Who comsn to. greet your. Majesty. O On this auspicious day; 0 Who cornes to wish you happiness, 1. Not empires, kingdoms, wealthi, e EBut life mado bright and beautiful o By God's beat bleesing, health, But then the vulgar herd, I know, v Will think because I ...

... MR. RISELEY'S MNEFIT CONCERT. A t o - 7 ) -AA A.-t OVA XC- As A I Avi Ab. - Mr. Riseley's benefit concert last night, at the Colston. hall, drew such an immense audience that it was in itself a public demonstration and deserved tribute paid to the genius of the chef d'orchcsrc by whore enterprise, musiciasly skill, and energy the instrumental concerts given fortnightly in Bristol have been. ...

... FRA NCZS DEA K. * THERE is a certain propriety in the fact that the first formal biography that is something more than brochure, panegyric, or newspaper article of the Hurgarian statesman Francis Deak appears in England from an English pen. Various historical causes which have often been referred to have produced striking and real analogies between English and Hungarian constitutionalism ...

... THE GRASS-WORLD. (BY MAUY MAPE3 DODGE.) Ob, life is rife in the heart of the year When mid-summer suns sail high; And under the shadow of spike and sper, In the depth of the daisy sky I There's a life uninown to the careless glance And under the stillness-an airy prance, And slender, jointed things aslir, And gossamer a ings in a sunny wbir- And a world of work and dance. Soft in its throbbing ...

... JUNE MAGAZINES. SECOND NOTICE. Young England, the Sunday School Union's illustrated paper for boys and girls, appears to be making well-merited advances in popular favour. It contains the opening of two new serial tales, one called Steeple Jack, and the other A Scene from History. Partcular attention is given to all kinds of indoor and outdoor amusements, and prizes are offered for the ...

... ROYAL CORNWALL AGRICULTURAL EXRIBITION. The tenth annual exhibition of the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Aecociation was held at Lostwithiel on Wedneeday and Thursday last week. The show was an excellent one in all its departments, and the total of entries wae greatly in excess of last year. The Prince of Wales is the Patron of the Association, and Digby Collins, Esq., Trentham, Truro, is ...

... I BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SHOW. I' T+. 7-ETINGAT WORCESTER. I t always rains at the Bath and West, so people all say, and certainly the meetings of late years have been very unfortunate in respect of the weather. The rain was very discouraging both on Wednesday and Thursday, and the mud nmade locomotion difficult and unpleasant; nevertheless, it was not so bad as it was at Exeter, and ...

... 1f - F_.FAIOm, FOR JN. ?? _ 2S n._ __t . Lt Ilotf(el says ?? :Lae ?? ?? are the shades derived from ?? do Lorraine, so exquisitely rich in velvet or the best volvoteoens; heliotrope, Ophella mauve, and the fuller tint known as mauve parfait; many of the reds, ?? as Sultan, groasille, groltat, &o; yellow ini every shade, orange, ble, amber, primrose, dore, and a profusion of vieil, or tints; ...