... LITERARY A VRRAVALS. It is in Literature as in Tinanoo-muoh Paper and touch Poverty may caxist. Mr. Cook's HANiBooK To T= NATIONAL GAL.EAny is, i in every senoe of the word, a thoroughly satisfaotory achievement; indeed, Mr. Ruskin himself has not hesi- tated to say that never before has there been compiled for the illustration of any collection of paintings whatever, a series of notes at ...

... [RescTs Tl'eg7am.] SP-A, September 29.-The jarors of the Beauty Show have given their awards. They have assigned the first prize of 5,000f. to 3Mdlle. Bertho Soucaret, aged 18, of (4uadeloupe: and the second of 2,00Q. to Mldlle. Angele del Rosa, aged 16, of Ostend. it is thought, says the Dail?, m'cwz correspondent, that some of the gay young jurors (Belgian barons and French vieomtes) are ...

... BALLYMENA. -This fair was held, _.rday, and was largely attended by both buyera and sellers, embracing a number of Belfastmou. Theprincipal show was in the colt section, first quality of this class selling at from £25 to ;£40, and second do. fromu £15 to £24. There was a fair show of agri- calturals, which sold pretty freely from £14 to £26. Ride-and-drive horses were but poorly re- presented. ...

... M-SC AND TE DRAMAa MUSITC AND T E DRAMAA~, 101 js, .(rasFR OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ,g S \ ~ - London, Sunday Night. 3 Several London playgoers and critics went , down to Manchester on Friday for the produc- :s tion by Mr and Mrs Kendal of Mr Pinero's new comedy-drama, The Weaker r Sex. I learn that the play deals with W the subject (so difficult to treat) of the -love of mother and daughter ...

... ATEMETIOS AND CYCLING AT THE IIXEEITIOf. Though the attendance round the enclosure and on the cicada on Saturday waa not so large as on the previous week, there could not be fewer than from ten to twelve thousand spectators present. The sports are said to be the last of the series to be held in the Exibition grounds, and judging from the meagre list of cntrants for some of the events, the ...

... THE ROYAL 'ACADEMY OF MUSIC. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES BY BRA. LC. di. . ?? --MACKENZI. w Th cesrtiicalts awarded to the pupils at the a local examinationas in connection with the Royal sl Academy of Music were presented ?? by ie Dr A. 0. Mackeezie, the Principal, in the Fine. n Arts Institute, Sauchieball Street. Sir John Neilson Cutbbertsoo, chairman of the Glasgow ONSchool Board, prosided ...

... PUBLIC AMUSE3IENTS, &a. audra Theatre.-Saved from the Streets. ?? yxal Court Tloatre.-Tflo Queen's Shilling. bakespeare Tueatie.-Neiw Men and Old Ares. Wince of Wales Theatre.-Kleptomaflia lotunda Theatre.-l1umf-l Natnri. it. James's Hall.-Bamilton's Paustereoraiin- rle Star Mlusic Ial1.-Miscetlaneou3s Entertainment. ?? d Theaitre.-Vorie~y Perforoxasuce. Weynolds's Exhibition.-The Mystic Lady. ...

... THE ITALIA EXHIBITION. On Saturday Mr. J. R. Wbitley, the initiattor nddetraenerrsl ci the Italian Exhibition, n Colonel North, the president of the reception corn-I mijttee, were entertained at a banquet at the NOte M46tropole', given by the Itaslian colony in Lonelon and the exhibitors at the Exhibition. Over 200 gentlemen tat down to dinner, and Amona-st the ?? 'were Davalier L. Boniacina ...

... GLASGOW INTERNATIONAt EXBIBITION. The attendance at the International ErbibL tion on Saturday reached the satisfactory toti of 55,577. Of these there paid for admissio3 21,750 adalts and 4277 children, and the receipt for the day amounted to £12.32 Gs 6d. Speciti trains rua by the different railway coflpanie, brought down a large number of English visitrt to swelR the ranks of excursionists ...

... , (l $~eftors Meitkni of Ltthingunt. Mith the second volume, issued to-day by Blackwood, Mr Skelton completes his| jefeate of Secretary Maitland, so far as any l biographly of that statesman can be Pec' ern The book virtually closes with the C5~tsrgy's death at Leith, not without suspicion - after irkaldy had surrendered ~burgh Castle to Regent Morton, backed by ?? force under Drury, Marshal ...

... I j. -g ,. , & Her Fxeeney thse derry-d seait a-b lady Alice FfiiEi am{= VxtzwiLIam bave- a dved land, Captain Wood has Captain N Mawell has =are&t_=Lins Zowr m EnglA d. ' The O'Grady has arrived a it t i Dr Torney has returned to, hres-dence,. .-l Blchall atet. Ldv Clsand Hamilton has left K-gstwn foruegAs. Rizht Rev the Bishop of Meath has;left- Kingstbenfor Bnglagd. T D SulIvaa, M P has ?? ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGUSITUS HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) EVERY EVENING, at 7.10, A New Grand Spectacular Drama, entitled THE ARMADA: A Romance of zS38. By HENRY HAN11.LTON and AUGUSTU3 HARRIS; MORNING PERFOIRMANCE SA'URDAY, Octooct LYCEUM THEATRE. (Sole Lessee, Mr. HENRY IRVING.) TO-NIGHT at 8.45, SATURDAY at 2. Mr RICHARD MANSFIELD as THE BARON CHEVRIAL, in ...