... | -4--I THE STAGE, BOTH BEFORE AND BEHIND THE CURTAIN; FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN, ON THE SPOT. By ALFRED BUNN. (Bentley.) This long-promised book of Mlr: Bunn's has at length made its appearance, and a most extraordfnary book it is, displaying some of the most extraordinary details of dramatic life that lsdve ever been given to the public, and better calculated to open the eyes of the public to ...

... No. II.-SECOND SERIES. Of all the davs that's in the week, Oh I like best but one day ; And that's the day that comes between The Saturday ?? SONG. The less fortunate portion of the world may perhaps look with an evil eye upon the enjoyments of the rich and great; they may envy them their rolling equipages, their nightly assemblies, their continual round of gaity (query pleasure), and all the ...

... MONDAY.--Her Majesty bad a concert at Buchingharn Palace. The company began to arrive shortly before ten o'clock, and were ushered into the state-rooms, which were all opened, and were brilliantly illuminated. At balf-past ten o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Royal Family, entered the grand saloon, followed by the com- pany, when the concert commenced. After the ...

... i _ _ . THE PRINCE's.-The performance of Iphigenia by tho German Opera cbmpany on Friday night was honoured by the presence of her Majesty and Prince Albert, who were accom- panied by the Duke and Duchess of Nemours. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also occupied a box, with her suite. Colonel Cowper, General Upton, and Colonel Cavena dish, were in attendance upon the Royal party. The ...

... No. 13.-SECOND SERIES. Seeking the bubble reputation at the Cannon's mouth. Ssesa' the Army and the Navy of England are amrnng.the toasts atf ael'1 given at public dinners,-and it is osaly upon vthee5 tcosie that, in later years, they seem to be remembered i Clot spirit which their consequence deso-rves in such a theor heave England, for, the wars being finished in wyhich l*; rary b ad made ...

... SnNDAY.-Tbe Queen and Prince Albert attended divine service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. ?? Queen gave a state-ball at Buckingham Palace, which weas numerously attended. The Queen's guard of the Coldstream Guards was on duty by the grand portico, waith the band of that regiment, and the band of the Grenadier Guavds attended in the grand hall. Both bands received the Royal Family on their ...

... LITERATURE- I Mr. G. A. Hansard, in his In Book of Arokery, gives many I interesting anecdotes of skill with the bow, ;h cb, however, improbable some of them may. appear, are still well authenti- cated. We select a 'few extracts from his very interesting volume:- 1Whilst Shah Abbas remained encamped at Casbin, he held a&grand review of cavalry, which lasted nearly a fortnight. Every day the ...

... HEB M,:JESTY'S.-On Thursday the spirited lessee, A . La- porte, took his benefit at this theatre. and indulged the public with Cinmarosa s inimitable opera of II Matrimonio Segreto. This is one of those operas which, like the plays of our inm- mortal bard, are for 'all time, and will live when Rossini is perhaps forgotten, or recurred to by some future composer, as he has been by his ...

... . CURIOSITIES OF SPORTING . The polished poems of Oppian, on the Chase and on the Angle, had proved, ages before the Doctor took up his pedantic pen, that it was practicable to combine the characters of a sportsman and a man of letters ; and the Cynegeticus of Gratius of Faliscus, though an imperfect poem, is not unwerthy, even as a fragment, of the finest minds which the fostering ...

... No. 14.-SECOND SuENS. --a blushing shame-faced spirit, That mutinies in a man's bosom and fills Him full of obstacles. ScaKsPsER. Blush sir, I blush sir, to think sir, that vou sir, Should think sir, that I should think of blushing. SECRETS WORTH KwowyiNo. There are none but those who have experienced it who know the pain, we might almost say the agony, which is ex. perienced by that ...

... HER MAI4JEsv's.-Although the post-horses are beginning to feel, by the constant occupation, that town is beginning to thin, a circumstance which has the same effect upon these poor beasts as it has upon the town; the lessee and the book- sellers have not yet felt its effects upon the Italian Opera. The boxes and stalls are still let and the pit still filled, tant bien que mal, as the French ...

... THE. BEER-SHOP. | ?? They cast it in the City, A haunt for reckless men! The idler by its portal! The robber in its den! Dark watchers for the devil, Go there to bide the time; When Night sends forth in shadow Its prowlers after crime! II. They cast it where the poor man Goes never in unmesh'd; Nor ever stays uninjured, Nor ever leaves refreshd. Where licence mars around him The beauty of ...