... PUBLIC AMUSBMHNTS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.- 1)AGUERRlEOTYPP and PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS wre taken daily, at the Royal Polylechnic Ilnstitution, Regent rtreet, by thesole n1atentee, Mr, HEAR!). By the cotubined operation of two patents, of which Mr. Beard haa possessed biiself, portraitS and other rvpre- pentstioss are produced mi a greater dogree of perfection that. ean be atttained by ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEHIENTIS. TH4EATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE-GRAND OPLIZA.-Thiirdl time of Linda of ChanseonlY. TllS EiVENING (Tuesday) har Msjesty's 5ervatlis vill jier- form Doniretti's opern, entitled LINDA OF C11AMOINY. The marquis of Itoisfictlri D. lMelis. Charles Viscount de Sirvil, Mr. Santiagoills feurti ipplarrnce on the English stagoe). t} X Igtii1 s L ?? Prefht, M~r. Grecgg(ilislthird ...

... MR. IERBRRV'S PICTURE OF TRB ACQUITTAL OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS. This picture, which commended a good deal of attention and commendation when exhibited at the Royaf Academy two or three years ago, having been purchased by Mr. Agnew of Manchester, has been for some time in the hands of Mr. S. W. Reynolds, the engraver, with a view to the publication of a print, which we understand is in a forward ...

... ROYAL ITALTAN OPERA-COVENT- GARDEN. 4 Last night the debut of Madame PAULINE VIARDOT GARCIA, which had been looked forward to with so much interest in the musical circles, took pla'e at the above theatre. It is, more properly speaking, this lady's second debut, as she made her first appearance before a British audience Eome eight or nine years ago at Her Majesty's Theatre, since which period ...

... NASOLOG Y.* From very early times the study of physiognomy has been a favourite subject, and Aristotle ap- pears to have been the first philosopher who at- tempted to reduce it to anything like science, and give it permanent and undeniable principles. His defiuition of it is extremely good. It is the science, he says, by which the dispositions of mankind are discoverable by the features ...

... THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRI- CULTURAL SOCIETY.9 To the well-directed energy and perseverance of the Royal Agricultural Society of England we are, in no small degree, indebted for the rapid progress which scientific agriculture has made in this coun- try during the last eight or ten years. The value, to the farmer, of a knowledge of natural science-which, at no very remote period, came in for ...

... -A 7z UEU T1IEA iTE. I 5t 1 ,, )ir. J lIiN IsREE , the sol, *f t Ie latO popkular 'ft ltt toine a111dei his first appal latiec at tlii ,l lill, /l~ce(ioce!si/;loll etitledln -51!,i IFf er D4 ,i A. l~thotil thi- lay lbe eolisidered his regular ho!; ' buos, it will be iit the recollection 'Ill, ?? h, mladel :a ,'tc'liitii ess:ay about a yelr s ear- vit, att, we tililli, the Surrey Theatre, ?? ...

... ?? 12' l'XIPI'ITION 01' 1N1JL;511 IoF -L ?? 'O S. r' MEE~TINGt IN LONDOtN. It niosivleehioiownltomii.st of oiur readers that a piroposal Not('1 fot olle tln ag y ?? Roylc~ Highness thue Prince Conlsort to htave in1 Coh~iltitionl of altst and toiatnifatoirco it1 Loindcio, to whiti-it the wohole wcorld sholo d be ad in itt ci aS t~xhit bit or- O1 Comptitottors, has beun for several m alonhets tr ...

... PRJYCEpSYS TIILI TLUl A new romantic opera, in two acts, eirtitlvI I.,oe ok 1 uproduaced at this theatre withi vompllete sueess. Iti, adaptation. of M. DEi FLiOTOWS Opera of L'Am 0ie It, which waits acue little time back- producud in I':tris, 'A hy cr. became very populair. Tue adaptation till trim prsii: casioit has been done very carefully, and geitertlic, fili mailier in which the opera ...

... HA YMARATET THEA TRE. La'.t evening Mr. WESTLAND MAnSTONaS tragedy of thle l'tiiic~im' Da ltyk (which had originally been acted, we lielieve, at Sadtler s Wells) was reproducedl at ?? theatre, with some additions an1d alterations by tise author ; the character of the heroine being performed by Miss LiURA ADDISONc. The play, upon thle whole, is not an agrecable one. As the hero states, in onc ...

... LITERAR Y ASSOCIATION OF THE FENDZEVS OkF' iOLAY D. lie r). Tule general annual meeting of the nterlbers of this a~soo go ciatioitwa holl vc'terdavy afternoon at thle 8ussex Chamibersi ed St. Jarues'i, Lord Dudlesy Stuart, MVY., the vice-president, eil occupying tite chair. ?? The followiwg is a condensed summnary of the report, which he wa. read by the honorary ~eeretarv, Mr. NY. L. Iiirkbock ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMBNTS. THE SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the NEW SOCIETY of PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS is DOW OPEN, at their Gallery., b PlI.l-nall West, dltsjoinitn tile British In- stitution, fromt Nine o clocil till ?? Is. Catalog,,l, oid. JAMES FAIIEY, llon. Secretory. The THIRTY_-SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION oftho SOCIETY of PAINTERS In WATER COLOURS, at their ?? Est. I1 NOW OPEN. talogue, Cd Open ...