... THE DRAMA INT AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, JUN;E 5.-This has been a week of benefits. Mr W. R. Floyd, the able and courteous gentleman who has for many years occupied the position of Stage Director at Wallack's, was the recipient of a most enthusiastic testimonial at the above-named Theatre. The house was packed to the doors, the aisles even being filled, so that it was ...

... ?? MR. LAWFORD HUXTABLE'S CONCERT I AT CLIFTON. w Ig Last evening, Mr. Lawford Huxtable gave, at thd Victoria-rooms, Clifton, his second ballad and instra. n mental concert at prices specially calculated to attract a ir popular audience. We are now at the very end of . the season when out-door pleasures and evening walks are so attractive as to materially interfere with in-door amneements. Mr. ...

... THE HEREFORD AGRIOULTURAL SHOW. Whether the ?? ecilibitions of this society will prove as financiilly siucesisful as the shows which were foruerly fixed to take piece annually in Hereford Isperihaps d ...

... One of tho most important Birmingham industries will be admirably represented at the International lfxlhibition which opens at Mlelbourne in October next ...

... TIIEATIRL ROYASL-' TIg GILLS, 5 ITenl first performuances of tr, E. J. I'yron's com~edy, Thce Girls, proved so successful in tins tomeI SOme3 ?? ago it is tot surprising, thatt tafter so short at lapse of tine w~e sleoukli be favoulred wnhl at second visit cf the play with a .cast ahlmost entirely nowv. Lest evening the cont- f panly opened tbluer presenlt enga.gemuent at the the~atre, ...

... I _. ma -o AL - T - I_ _ - I A Guide to the LNi: forq general use, by a Barrister. (London: Stevens and Sons, 119, Chancery-laue.) The above work is certainly the best epitome of the law for non-professional readers we know of, and strikingevidence of its utility is afforded by the fact that the present edition is the twenty-third. Arranged under alphabetical heads, the law in reference to all ...

... C CLIPPINGS, -FRO-M THE WEEKLY JQRALS.. PICKINGS FROM PUNCH. LABOUB AND ItST.-Ex-Head Gardener (retired from business): Well, William, yer don't seem to be makin' much progress-do yer 1-New Head Gardener: Why, no, Benjamin; you left the place in such a precious mess I 1 THE TWO GARDENERS. Ben (aside). Pheugh I Ain't he a pegging away (puff/ puff!) Now I call this pertikler good fun. ...

... The sYietcensf1 Cent-e, -pope -with an article on England and Russia in Asia, from the pen of Professor A. Vambery, who blandly ocalla himself & foreign Jingo. If his observati ...

... CA -.I, . -A.'itgati-ty. - MAGAZINES FOR JUNE. * mt [SECOND NOTICE.] ccL 74'- U i~rerp shy Xatgazine. Noe. DLXX. June.' Lon- ?? (tlol: HURST anid IJLACKItTT, 13, Great Marlborough- 71 street.I Infallibility and Darwinism, by a Student of Natural Hlistory, deals with somne of the moat illogical of Darwint's 7' deduictions in a mas-terly manlier. The writer says:i- 7 lii precaetee ?? (lie ...

... Theie are certain plays which appear never to tire all EDglish audience, and Thc livrals is one of these. Under ansy eircuinstanrces it proves attractive, and under such favourable coenlitions as last Saturday afternoon especially so, a large radience being present, adl tice grecting of the various popular ?? who took part in the representation being extremely cordial. Upon DMiss Littocn the ...

... 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 . - . - The fortygsixth exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours is a fair one, perhaps better than that of last year, but the recently-elected members, as a rule, are the strongest. Naturally this would be the case, as men of ability would be anxious to justify the choice of the Society. We are not surprised to find that one of the finest, as well as one of the largest, ...