... BIRMINGHAM HORSE SHOW, EXHIBITION AT BINGLEY HALL The exhibition of horses, ponies, carriages, &c., which is held under the auspices of the Birmingham Agricultural Exhibition Society, was opened yesterday, at Bingley Hall, and will be continued until Friday. A horse show is byno means a new departure in the history of the Bir- mingham Agricultural Society. There was a time when an exhibition ...

... @uT Utrartip;:ablc. MAGAiZINES FOR JULY. I SECOND NOTICE.] The NWincteenth Centurevy for thepresentmonthopens with an erudite' article by m 'Gladstone ?? Elizabethan Settlement of Religion, in which the great statesman reverts to a subject that has always absorbed his elosest study and attention, As we have already largely quoted from the paper, it is unneces. sary to enlarge upon it, except ...

... Wit noticed with surprise and regret the lines about 'Tottie at the theatre which had been allowed to remain in the second act of Ran TVild, and which were spoken by Mr Eversfield at the Strand on Saturday might in the character of Dick parker. The fact that one house in London may have been noted for dis- ereditable stage-door assignations is no excuse for an allusion of this sort, and one ...

... FASHION AND FABIEZIES. Mrs John Locke has left Kingstown forl England. The for. Judge Ricbards has left. Kings- town for England. Samuel Reddy, 4th Regiment, has left Kingstown for England. Surgeon P B Tuthill, Medical Staff, has left Kingstown for England. The BHon Mrs Farrell arrived at Kings- town yesterday from England. Colonel J fl Graham arrived at. Kingstown yesterday from England. ...

... BIIRMINGHAM MUbIOAL FESTIVAL. The complete list of leading vocalists now includes Madame Albani, Miss Ambler, and Miss Anna Williams, soprani; Madams Patsy and Madame Trebelli, contralti; Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mr. Piercy, and Mr. Banks, tenors; Mr. Santley, Mr. Brerston, and Signor Foli, basses. The only instrumental soloist this time is Miss Fanny Davies, the pianist, though the part of the organ ...

... pool City Council, the question of the inspection of the theatres was raised in connection with a proposal that 100 guineas be granted to Mr Shelmerdine, the Corpora- tion surveyor, and sixty guineas to Mr Dunscombe, city engineer, for their services in connection with the inspection of the theatres. Sir James Picton said the subject of the safety of our theatres, and the protection of the ...

... RvOSSINIS GUILLAUME TELL. Rossini's serious masterpiece, G uillauoe Tell, was revived at theb Royal Italian Opera on Thursday, partly, no doubt, for tho sake of M. Lassalle, who won in Paris so high a reputation for his dramatic rendering of the oharacter of the groat (or, as some now pretend, the mythical) Swiss patriot; partly in order to employ the special chorus in the celebrated ...

... Manny changes are now taking place in the metro- politan programmes. The LYCEUMI and TOOLE'S will close this evening (Saturday). Madame Bernhardt is, however, to appear at the former theatre on Monday, in La Tosca; anti at the other Mr Lionel Brough opens in The Paperchase. The last nights are announced of Ben-ip?/-Chree at the PrINCcESS'S. Taming of the Shrew at the GAIETY is only to be ...

... KAGAZINES 103 TIHU MONTH1. The NationalReview,-The Countess of Jorsey, who is a frequent contributor to this Magazine, describes the past and present of the mines of Saurimu, the load and silver mines of Attica, In tlhese ni ies for 800 yoers I5,000 slavos worked in fetters; many of thum wore their chaiis even in death, as is proved by the fettered skeletons found by the free labourers wiho ...

... THE ROYAL COUNTIES' AGRICULTURAL I-SHOW. - This show was held ut Bournemouth on Tuesday, Vedncsday, and Thursday in last %veek, when, not- withstanding the rather unpropitious state of the veather, it was fairly successful. The place of hotnour in the catalogue was given to the sheep classes on this occasion. These, as a rule, were large and well filled, involving iiuch discrimina. tion on the ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEM&NTS. ROYAL ITALIAN OPBERA Another important addition to the list of grand operas marking Mr. Augustus Harris's first season at Covent Garden theatre was made on Monday by the production of I? Flaeto .faqico. The opera written in the last year of Mozart's life by which, with Don Giovanni and Le 2Vozze di Figaro, his genius is represented on the stage of this country, requiresa ...

... BIREIINGIAM HORSE SHOWV The Horse Show at Bingley Hall was opened for the third day yesterday. The attendance in the reserv ed seats was smaller than on either of the previous days, but in the lower-priced parts of the building the number of people present was larger than on either Tuoseday or Wednesday. The judges cleared off the few remaining classes on the old catalogue, and disposed of two ...