... A WILD WEST COWBOY. Oa Friday afternoon, at the Middlesex Sessions, before Air Fletcher, Bichard Johnson, a cowboy, in the employ of Colonel Cody at the American Exhibi- tion, was charged with having unlawfully assaulted William John Payne and Police-constable Botley. Mlr Marshall Hall prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended by AMr Geoghegan. The prosecutor Payne was in a public-house in ...

... ' HER MAJESTY'S as well as COvENT-OARDEN is now opened nightly foi promenade concerts, and both houses are well attend~ed. Few alterations have been made in theatrical programmes. The last appearances in England of Mr.s James Brown-Potter are announced at the GAIETY, and the play of Loeal Lore will be withdrawn at the end of next week. The drama of Devil Carcsfoot has bess transferred to the ...

... EAST LYNNE. Lnst night Miss Louise Moodie and a company slecially organized by Mr J. Pitt Hardacre's company commenced a six nights' engagement at the Theatre Royal, and appeared in the drama of East Lynne, founded on the late Mrs Henry Wood's novel of that name, The piece has long been a favourite with the play loving public, and its production never fails to draw gcod houses, and the ...

... i T CARMEN. Carmen was perined at the Gaiety Theatre last night. A crowded house proved what an amount of fascination the opera still has for the public. The sensational story culminating in murder, thecharacteristic themes, the strangedis- cords out of which the genius of the composer wrings such beautiful effects, the elegant and original orchestration, and the passages of pae- siorate ...

... I FASRIOly AND VARIETIES. I FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE. (By Freeman Special Wire.) London, Tuesday. A large and fashionable congregation assembled this afternoon at St Andrew's, Wells-street, Oxford-street, to witness the mat'raage of Lord William Cecil, second son of the Marquis of Salisbury, to Lady Florence Wilbrahans, second daughter of the Earl of Lathom. Among those present were the Margais ...

... VOETRY. COMP'ENSATION. CrtaStd alnd dwarfed the tree oust stay, Nor lift its groon head to the day, till useless .erowth, are lopped awa y. AdLi thla- doth human nature do Till it litth careful prunlilng, too, It callaot glow up straight and true. For, but for ?? severe, Xo soul could ever tell how near ;il comC3. to ?? eud lovoth hore. witliont life'o ills, Wee Could not feel Tile lgleased ...

... ,;SREY (G ?? VuYts). By VlrTon HuGo, In two vols. [London: George Routledge hnd Sons.] ,itiloegh theso posthumous writings of the great French an(I novelist nre not without the obr aiteristics whch re scado him ?? to the English publio--attitudini;- *, andl affcotationltlhey are by no means so strongly * arked bore as in the majority of the books published rillnc his lifetimo, and they have on ...

... B1RIDGEND lIORTICULTU[A.&L SOCIsEY. -- - 1ff ANNUAL EXIB.ITION. :e The annual exhihbtiori in connection with the RH :h above society was held on Wednesday, in a field in Hi is front :si the Brewery House, which was kindly lent inbv Mrs. Stiles. The wealther was ravourlibla, and .r. thleattelndance was verylarge. The exhibits were v.displayed with much taste in larg- enarocees. TIime fe io band ...

... I The occasion of holdingthe yearly exhibition of the Petersfield Horticultural Society on Thurs. -19 day afternoon, in a meadow near the Heath pond, was the cause of an almost general observance of a half holiday in Petersfield, the tradesmen -25 closing their shops at two o'clock, thus setting themselves and their assistants at liberty to enjoy a view of one of the best gatherings of its -7 ...

... DR. GARNETT'S CARL YL.E.t * - Tuis is an admirable little book, Indeed, if the thing had to be done at -if Carllyts life and writings, that is to say, had to be compressed into ?? small pages, it could not have been better done. Such few faults as there are in the book are the faults of the undertaking. Its many virtues are in virtue of Dr. Garnett's combination of literary erudition and ...

... IZTBAP.Y AND T:GOSSIP. r EX~ Jb Stiasis = ls Cusr en~l~ d a' nPW'pers,' Qne-osfi6vina mr de bym4d 'A ti for Lohis.=XV. has c - jiist'beert~dd dtg'E h'a-Peitrfor'7(DO. The Clarendon Press'. v.il publish shortly a catalogue of the Mohammedan coins in the Bodleian library, compiled _ byldr. stanley Lane-Poole, -i t he L Messrs. Macmillan have in the press a volume ontan-j 'he ing four Plays of ...

... LAST NIGHT'S THEATRICALS, STZRAND. Devil Caresfoot, an adaptation, by Messrs. C. Hlad. S den Chambers and Stanley Little, of Mr. Rider D Haggard's novel ?? Dawn, with which this house last night reopened, has some scenes of strong X human interest that would be theatrically more effec- f tive were they developed in a manner less crude and t abrupt. A young lady (who, on being assured of e the ...