... The principal English Theatres have reopened for their winter campaign. The PariNCEs's has produced an attractive English version of Mozart's masterpiece, and the LYcEuM returns to its pleasant and well presented vaudevilles, and water-colour sketches of the stage. The HAYnaARKET, on the other hand, flies at higher game; and has commenced a season which will hereafter be memorable in dramatic ...

... THEITIRICAL \EXAMINER. N o% 7. TRE REV VAL OCF TaE CHANCES.-ELLTSTON'S VIOLENCE. T'rE NEWV OPERA OF NAIS OR LOVE IN TNHEOESERT. IT'S ORIGIN AND ERNORS.-kA HINT FOP3 THE COi- aSENTAT'S0ES ON CFNVANTES.-TKH NEW COMEDY BI MR. RTEYNOLDS.-IT S SURPRESIIN NEGATIVE QUA- LITIES. BEAUMONT ard FLrTCNER's COmedy Of tle Chances -was revived on Saturday week. T his play is almost an entire copy of thle ...

... FITNBE ARTS. A^ccount of the RtCiVatons given b-y tile SOCIETY FOR THE EsCOUR.a;EaucsT QpF AtTS, &C. &C. iO oar nest. _ Vor a Pevs weeks, Mr. WESTALL has ?? lli-s allery OF Oil Paintings and Drawigia. Two of the latter, his lo perfojralires, display all his pictorial poiwers, fiar srue ?? s other uorks, aund are a great acqyisition aill: io u)ar t i his ceuntry. The subjects are, (hrist ...

... ~tHEAT --Rid-L EXAINEIt.. .. I..II , -l~ ?? 6 4 S 4 : ' : ' . -: No. ?? jTAING C'reerredl ?? for the expected, hrrd grala- tion of vrtnesving the tordi;4 Tlier -tr ?? IrA. B ?? I hurdiv - ?? the atteni obn .ifuS li'ke~lyo e~rf'i Pe W@todk th ?? oF a ee~r'ain ,5Jnrtin ci -uii spa~ce fror fflring,~and in Gno teoijee aOiTve, ,evlt (oo p 0rpicivtnt;y ?? attee~ori-tb ttedt~.rper- lornwianees of ild ...

... EXHIBITION AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. Ce hsve more than once alluded to the benefits conferred on Artby this Itutioe, more especially from its annual exhibitions of choice works by rq6d . asters, the repeated contemplation of which has not only raised increased the public taste, but at the same time has stimulated our eg artists to increased exertions, in order to produce works not ?? of ...

... Pericles, and Aspasia. By Walter Savage Landor, Esq. 2 Vols. Saunders and Ottley. In our last week's notice of this admirable book, we could only allude to-the fragments of fine verse that are scattered through it. One of these, in especial, we now venture to return to. It is a scene supposed to have passed in the shades between Agamemnon and his daughter., The conception is striking, and it ...

... Faustus, a Dramatic Mystery; The Bride of Corinth; The First Walpurgis Nig ht. Translated fromn the German of Goethe, and illustrated with Notes. By John Anster, LL.D., Barrister-at- Law. London: Longman and Co. 1835. Some extracts from this translation of Faustus were published in Blackwood's Magazine fifteen years ago, and to these Mr Hay- ward, in his admirable prose translation, assigned ...

... THE PLOT, OR ,'HOLIDAY TIME. Having nothing to do during holiday time, I am taking, by way of a frolic, to rhymes While I give an account of what others are doing, Of TSze Plot which our present Destrectietes are brewing. Holiday time, holiday time, All for themselves during holiday time; Lord John, in a pause from political strife, For a few days to Tunbridge elopes with his wife, ...

... A grand dinner was given on Wednesday evening, at Buckingham Palace, to the noble directors of the Con- cert of Ancicnt Music, Prince Albert being the director for the evening. At a quarter past eight the Queen left the Palace, to honour the performance of the concert with her presence at the Hanover-square Rooms. The general impression is that Norris Castle, East Cowes, the scene of her ...

... I I The Christmas Harlequinades have had formid- able rivals for this last week or two, but it is to be hoped the public will now quietly subside into the real thing. We are sorry that it is not a better thing ; but it is at any rate a comfort to see earnest, hardworking, zealous people, in the characters of Clown and Pantaloon. The Cricket is announced to chirp on the hearths of all the ...

... THE LITERAlRY EXAM2,INEi'R. T7/e Trsu )Seory of sy Ife r' Shctl. ?? :yHans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mary Ieouitt. Longman and Co. We have had much of this true story already told in Andersen's fictitious stories, and we doubt if the rest had not better have remained untold. The first eighty pages of the volume, comprising the author's childish struggle and aspiration, are charmingly ...

... CONCERTS OF ANCIENT MUSIC. Second Concert, ll1ednesdyqj, April 5. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE EARL HOWE FOR THE RING OF HANOVER, PART 1. Overture ?? . Reci t. 'Comfort . i (tessiak) . Handel. Air, Mr Lockley, 1Every valley (esa). .. adl Chorus, And the glory. ) Air, Miss Bassano, Holy, holy! (Redesaption). . Handel. Chorus, Sanctus ?? Quartet, Benedictus ?? Chorus, tfosanna ?? , , ...