... ,.BHE EDOBASTON RLAY. The sec?4 annual drauiatiC representation by the pupils 'of ~tle Bbsston Proprietary School, took place ?? the school building, Hagley Road, last nightT in the preene of a large, fashionable, and onthusiastlc audience. The general arrangements were not inferior to those of the previous year, while the programme and the youthful CO7P dramatique, were in nearly every ...

... V The Mayor's request that employers would close their is places of business on Monday in order to give their 5' epo a holiday, was very generally complied with ; and h the closed slhops gave the streets a Suridaylah appearance e which, the gay and pleasure-seekdng crwsth dta versed them strangely belled. Skaters were able to e'njoy their elegant exeroise. on varlous poole, though a mild thaw ...

... One Martin Gerene, a oitizen of France, is recorded to have left his wife sad family upwards of 300 years ago, in 1539, and to have bean absent eight years. In due time a man appeared from the wars in Flanderzand. announced himself as Martin Guerre. II was accepted by the wife without apparent scruple or doubt, and lived with her up- wards of three years, during whihc time she bore him two ...

... ROYAL AGRITCULTURAL SHOW AT ASTON. Saturday was tho first of the shilling days, and, as was anticipated, there vas an. immense attendance of visitors, who for the most part belonged to the working classes. The weather wvas again. beautifully fine, and everything wits in favour of one of the largest returns on the popular dlay wldich the society has ever experienced. From an early hour in the ...

... BIRMING-HAMNT SOCIETY OF ARTISTS. I 1 ant A. Wv. rTUNT'wmm171Y. IAmongst thle many pictures which aire now gathered toaetivnr in the roomsq of the Sfociety of Artists there are two which challenge the attention of nil visitors. They aire the work of Mr. Alfred limint, and represent at part of the town of Whithv and its harbour. The subject of the onle picture is that part of the harbour ...

... PRINCIP.LES OF ORNAMENTAL ART.,, I While every ago and every country has had its! natiural growth of what is known as art, it is only in our own days, when the necessity for such en- quirios has become more urgent, that any great attempts have beon made tofind out the principles oni which all art has been and must be based. In nearly every age up to our own, althoughs solme original genius has ...

... A MASONIC PILGRIMAGE TO STRATFORD-ON-AVOXN. A pilgrimage of a novel character started from Padding- ton Station, oh Thursday morning, when a body of gentle- men, amongst whom literature, science, and aft were largely represented, took the train for Stratford-on-Avon, the purpose of the journey being to offer, on the part of the Masonic brotherhood, a tribute to the memory of England's greatest ...

... GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL AND FUTURE MEETINGS OF THE THREE CH1OIRS. On Saturday last, a meeting of the stewards of the Musical Festival recently held at Gloucester took place at Gloucester, under the presidency of MIr. C. J. Monk, ALP.; the Hon. B. E. Plunkett, Al P., W. K. WVait, Esq, ALP., W. Price, jun., Esq., N.P., and Sir W. V. Guise, Bart., being among those ?? Secretary (Mr F. WV. ...

... A IouSe packed to the ceiling with one of the largest and most brilliant itudienuoi yet assembled in the Theatre Royal greeted the first production here lest night of ?? '-Fidelio. In thu crowded state of ourcolumns to-dlay we can deal but briefly with a performance which will be memorable in the history of local musical art; but, as we gave Rsme slight anticipatory account of the work itself ...

... Offenhach's Behe Ifoldide, the finit arnd greatest of his sliccesses in his own particular line of opfr (otuvj wits producedl hers last night, in presence ot ojie of the largest rnd ?? demionstrative, audiences which have fallen to the lot of dMr. Soitli's comiipany. Adl it is therirc~t lioipoilr no it is ?? itiert exacting (if (fildlbaichl'3 works:, dltmllldin, o 'p lt i lo ie idiot ...

... (From ?? Tinmes.) To Liberia belongs the honour of being first in the field at the Great Exhibition, for on Saturday her consignment of goods was delivered at the building uand stowed away prno tern. in the French court. It was a modest beginning of the future glories of the great show, inasmuch as this first portion of it bnly consisted of certain greasy boxes filled with palm and other ...

... PRINCE NAPOLEON'S PAIPilHP HLET, Thko fxpecctrenl oiuphlet entitled Le Gottcic'ccnment ?? u la I aes, ,711i1 j 1sti' la Dipliatic Frcicnccisai,' ?? tU;f. hib ?? chl i a Il . It if' by Id. I'clcaieC, 1the Pi irez tu`!ctii I 1c c!f N i lwo Napolieon, al1rd is it iliojection Orf Sb vnco'rc itscitiving to sic te ilospr.al pa -ner (if the racIMC3 . 'ATlbe (I'jc . i(f ?? lkl]icatiioi, ey-c thzea ...