... The annual exhibition of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, ei' and agricultural implements, in connection with toi nei *ty took place on Wednesday and Thursday last t0hinpci~~Norton, in a most suitable field on the turford2read belonging to Alderman Guy. The Society as ortunately favoured with fine weather, and there 3a laie and influential company on the ground on the jyas flot deay. The number of ...

... Time was when the first Tuesday in May was a very important day in Ipswich, agriculturists, graziers, and dealers from various parts of the Eastern Counties, and indeed of the country, making a point of putting In an appearance and doing busineses at St. George's Fair, where there were more thousands of sheep and lambs than there have been lundreds of late years. Eversince the change of the ...

... . ART AT THE7 ROYAL ACADEMY. I - . The addition of two new galleries to the' familiar numberat Burlington house seems to have aroused great expectations in the minde alike of the artists and the public. No less than 11,000 pictures were, it is said, sent in for approval; and a notion bad got I abroad that this portentous total presaged an unusually creditable display. This is not explicable on ...

... I THE ROYAL ACADEMY EX- i . HIBITION. -- i r AGL NCE AT THE PIC=ES. (FROM A COREESPONDE:NT.) Londow Saturday. The visitor to the Burlington House galleries on Monday will find ample material for the ex. ercise of his critical faculties. Singular ineptitude is in many instances displayed in the choice of i situations by the hanging committee. It is only t fair, nevertheless, to bear in mind the ...

... IOPEING OF THE INVENTIONS I i EXHIBITION. . ?? The International Inventions Exhi ?? was ?? yesterday opened in the exact terms of the pro- MO( gramme previously arranged. The doors were COn not open till after 10 o'clock, but within a short Hie space 'of time large crowds had poured in of 1 through the various entrances, and at noon enn there wero probably twelve thousand persons in ?? the ...

... TRE THEATtM1'. IRVING,,, 1'FAPPE.UtNC&' Legal autborities nssure us that An hgliqh theatrical ntuager is absolute Ionarch in his owln house; but practically the nsauggerial fwvmy in pit ?? gallery ?? not extesA far bevord a Mild suneerainty. This truth vts acknowlodged by the late Mr. JVehoster after a resolute atteumpt to intadunee pit and gallry stalls.' whih lrtoke ?? partly be- 'eaust the ...

... .mus'o. THE BICET;ER CONQERTS. These excellent performancess are mn6re than half-way towards the completion of the eleventh season. The fifth concert contained no novellf, but was interesting on account of the variety of the pro- graume, which offerod impurtant examples of differeut periods of German music. First came Brams6's Acs.demio Festival Overture, a work that was earliest played in ...

... I THE INvEnIONS EXEHIITION. As n ;ie a visitor walking from South, af Ketusington Station: yeterday aud through the D . Horticultutd &ycie's grounds must have bean quite unable to believe that the xmbibitioa :mbereidX by Monday next. otbte usual d es~t; i; probf not lbe compete, but in m suoh zatters it genera3ly happens that at the ,t last Ilbur when te prospect seems to be most hopeless, ...

... BER MABJESTY'S THEATRE. Urnder the management of Messrs. Baracohi f and Corti, from the theatre of La Sca in Mau, this house reopened last evening with a spectacular ballet f eutertainment given by a specially imported Italian company. The ballet which is here presented for the c firttinseiscalled Excelsior and under this title I has been played with success not only in Milan, where it was ...

... IBU INUWJTIONS EXEIBITION. 'J'ho opeticg of the Interntilonal InveniloneErbibl. lion at noon on ?? next Is not to be a State aldarl ' lie Prince and Prth:uess of Wales, the Dake of edin. imurh, the Dub.e if Oamobldge,. acd probably other nembers of tbo Ro,, al family will, however, be present, and will InspeCt the galleries on their way to and from the Coneerseory, where the addrenean and ...

... - -- - ?? - - 1', , I. ?? .. 1 . ? I ?? ?? . . .. ! i EP : - ?.Ry u I ROVAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WVATER COLOURS SINCF. the last exhibition at th, Gallery in Pall Mall East, two artists, Mr. H-eywood Hardy and Mr. C. Robertson, have been elected Associates Of the Society; but their contributions to the present collection dlo not materially add to its attractiveness. IMlr. Ilardy's only ...

... MR. NORWOOD AND THE CENTRAL it] DIVISION. Be The usual monthly meeting of the Park Ward Con ps servative Association was held on Tuesday night in the in Caie.street School.room. Mr C. S. Eccles presided.- Y( Letters of apology for non-attendance ware read from ve Mr T. Farrell (president), Mr G. H, Garbutt, and Mr w F. Blackburn.-Mr F. B. Grotrian, J.P., and Alder- me ax man H. S. Atkinson, J ...