... THE I TALIAIV OJPRRA. -0 Tire death io Murladlrme (masts'stsitr hiaving p revellted r r,-p-irntrc least night, LAiAcHi h'S benetit was Postponleil, and tie pertormiaruces clihaged to Lucia (i Lanereermoor, La ?? dut'a Opera Seria, andi a bri et called Le Lac des | oes, tiroighit out for the first time. ()f I ucia li Lammursueratoor it is Snhricint to s5y that the sieging of P~l'usANo and ...

... MISCELLAYEA. REPUBLICANISM AND MONARCaY-A republic might do verv well for a people so truly enlightened that they wanted no go- verning at all-butwhere can the demagogues who advocate this form of government point out such apeopleI There is nothing in the history of mankind to justify the belief that such a people have ever existed. or will ever be found. Of this fact it is cu- rious that ...

... 'I'waa on a bright unclouded summer noon, I wsander'd lone, amidst a gay parterre; Eolus slept, embosomed in a rose, Resting firoif noontide toil, and all the sweets He'd gather'd in his j6ufigy from the south Were scattering p'drfdifie rounid this hillo*'d spot; Even the industrious busy hum of bees Was hushed; the gilded roving butterfly No longer sptftted wanton in the air, But slept upon ...

... ROYAL VISIT TO ASTLEY'S AMPI'I- THEA TRE. Yesterday the Queen and Prirnce Albert attended a private eqnestrian perforimance at Astley'd Amipblitheatre, prepared by command, ucder the superintendeuce of Mr. Duarvw. Mopday wta the day o i.lwdly fixed for the royal vidt; but on the rmorning of that day Mr. Duero v received an in- timation, through Colonel Cavendisl, that her IllMiesty would not ...

... PUBLIC AMUSRMBNTS. EXHIBITION of' the SOCIETY of BRITISH ARTISTS, Sssliolk-streeit, Paoll-moall East. is Raw OPEN dolly from ani. till dlusk.-Adtmissior, 15. H. E. DAWR. Seecretitry. Antinial SulbtcriberC of El 15, have the rlgist of introdueitur a friend daily, ond a 1sertioooi aslnsisioso too the Cosnvertsszione anid all Lectsres, TilESIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION Of the NEW SOCIETY of PAINTERIS ...

... HAWawooD; a Romance. (Saunders and Otley.) -Slir john Hawkwood, from whom the title of this romance is de- rived, was the son of a tanner, and Was in early youth appren. ticed to a tailor, in London. Impressed by Edward the Third into the service of his French wars, he soon distinguished him- self by his valour, and was, maugre his poverty and the, low- ness of his extraction, honoured by his ...

... T1IH STONE-BREAKER. Ia Still breaking stones, old mall What dost thou here, In the scourging hail and age.insulting frost? Art not past labour ?-Sir! the overseer Feeds me, and wills not that my toil be lost. I am the thrall of Fortune, overgone In the battle I for three score years did wage- Earning this ?? is therenone To ransom thee, and care for thy worn age? The Pauper cowez'd beside a ...

... PUBLIC AM-- h .- - - PUBLIC AJUUS1lllNT'S. ThieTH [R'VY-SIXTTI ANNUALEXHIBITION of the SOCIETY of PAINTRUS in WATER COl.OUltS, at thir uialIcry, Pall-miall East, IS NO WV OPEN. Op>l eici du jrns i l ti} drsi .-dlannu e.15.Catalog11e,13vE. It. H ILLS, Seerettar). THE SIXTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION Of t1he NEW SOCIETY of PAINTENiS IN WATER COLOURS i9 IO0W OPEN, 0 ttlir Uallery.53 1kIl-titall West, ?? ...

... Heads of the People. (New Seriee). No- V1 w This is an exceedingly pleasant number of a w work which is, or ought to be, extremely popular. ci The four heads, with which it is embelished are pi those of the Dowager Peeress, the Solicitorp -and 0 the Fashionable and Humble Artists, the dandy w painter of prettinesses for the Water Colour Gal. g lery and the albums of the female aristoOraCy, ...

... ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE..-(To thie Editor of the Bra).- As an attempt has-been made to represent that the performers forming part of thie tapd of the Promenade Concerts could not attend at their engagements, I think it my duty to declare that there is a band of sixty performers regularly engaged at the English Opera Hosase ,.iiciuding Signor Negri, Messrs; G. Cooke, Richardson, Lazarus, Laurent, ...

... LBAN'S DESCRIPTION OF JACOB'S CHIILDREN. I Ii Hi1, U12rLJ4IMP. a14 ind (Versified from the Talmud.) T er- More gentle than a sarnmer's morn, a Is Reuben's soul-thine eldest born; Ite Like wax beneath the torrid ray, b Eacb good impression melts away. His, heart is good, but goodness still, tr Unstalned by firmonis, bends to Hi. rt Id, Simeon Is creel, firm and proud, na no His wrath is swift, ...

... TIlt oDD PtLLOW'8 RVWIThR. oiro,,s of inakint thi *n tmxtenive collottoj of tie *Are t, lnd Tragic ReCBtatie0h in tiie E%,plts h eeg * ?? r friends te franltrhit Sliclk aw ttey tnay delsa nf Rnoertifrl-] THE IRISH DRUMMER. *,Idier, so at lenst the 'torv goe?, 9t5 in Ireland, I belietie, -Pon his back wras serntene'd to receive e :bendred gentle ?? hio*s slel a nitirv Iser providing, hacl ...