... MASTERMAN READY; OR, THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC. By Captain MARRYAT. (Longman.)-The superiority of the present race of children in point of knowledge to those of the last generation, is scarcely to be wondered at when we compare the present style of books for young people with those which we remember in our early days. When we ourselves were boys, Newbury's, at the corner of St- Paul's Chiurch ...

... THE: FRENCH STAGE AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE, AS IL- LUSTRATED IN THE MEMtrOIRS OF Md. FL.EuRY. Edited by T. HooK, Esq. (Colburn.)-At a period when illustrations of the history of our own stage have been attempted by Colman, Reynolds, Bunn, Peake, and. so many others, nothing could be more judicious than such a publication as the ont before us, illustrating the French stage at a period when it ...

... Her MajeeiY and Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, Prince and Princess Leiningen, the Duchess of Kent, and Royat suites, in six carriages, left Buckingham Palace on Saturd afternoon for Windsor, escorted by a party of the 14th Lgbt Dragoons. Her Majesty was is excellent health, and Prio., Albert, who has been for some time indisposed, appeared Some. what improved. The Rovalparty arrived atthe ...

... Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, arrived in town at twenty minuites before six o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, from Claremont. Colonels Wemyss and Wylde and Dr. Prmctorius followed in another open carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and her attendants occupied ...

... I HER MAJESTYS TH ATIRE.-(ITALlAN OPERA.)-On Satur- day night last there were two operas of Bellini, and two poems of Romani, the Norma, and the Sonnambula. The poems of Romani are not duly appreciated. We observe that in the printed books at the Queen's Theatre they never condescend to name the author of the libretto. The librettos of Romani are dramas; they are always complete. Bellini ...

... I E AC . | THE POACHER. BY CAPTAIN MAItITli U. VOL. 111.-CHAP. XI. IN WH5ICH5 MARY MAKES A DISCOVERY OF WHAT HAS BEEEN LONG KNOWN TO THE READER. It was hardly ten o'clock on the ensuing morning when: Mary arrived at Exeter, and proceeded to the gaol. Her eyes were directed to the outside of the massive building, and her cheeks blanched when she viewed the chains and fetters over the ...

... i ?? ESR MAIJESTYs TnlrATRE.-The Somnambula' was the first opera performe(l last Saturday. It is the most perfect and agreeable prodnction of Bellini, and has all the merits that a piece of this description can combine. It is deserving of the vogue and Popularity it has enjoyed, and it still possessesgreat attractions. This opera has been translated into the languages of the whole mucical ...

... ?? NOTICE-We be, leave to inform our publishing friends, that Alexander's Indsa Magazine, the Pol.ytechnic Journal, and the Druid's, arrived too late for notice this week. For the sake of the Magazines we have also been obligedI to defer our literary notice of Ants-Pofperv-The History of Duelling-Comic Tales and Sketches -The b artying Man-with several other publications which lie on our table ...

... FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL _INTELLIGENCE. Madame Rossi Caccia, after an equivocal debfit at the Scala, at -Miian, has returned to Paris, where she has been playing an La Dame Blanche to crowded houses. A letter from Bologna informs us that Rossini has just been applying in his native city a sum of 600,000 francs for the en- dowment of a receptacle for old and infirmn musicians; he has ...

... FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL I INTELLIGENCE. I The new theatre at Dresden is completed; the whole is beautiful, the decorations are splendid and in good taste. ThQ old theatre was very shabby. The inauguration is to take place with a tragedy of Sehiller. The season of the Italian Opera immediately follows; Ungher, the tenor Moriani, and some of the brilliant stars of which Italy is so ...

... HRI MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-On Saturday last the opera of the Matrimonio Segreso was repeated. Notwithstanding their beauties, things will become tiresome by repetition; it was but coldly received. The duo of the second act between La. blacbe and Tamburini, that principal feature in the opera, was heard almost in silence. The coldness which the same air met with on the Thursday preceding abated ...

... THE HISTORY OF DUELLING. By J. G. MILLINGeNo, M.D. F.R.S.-Dr. Millingen is fortunate in his choice of subjects that are likely to interest a great portion of the reading world; and he has thle art of dressing them up in such a popular man- ner that they become attractive to almost every class of readers. While the excitement prodaced by the duel and trial of the Earl of Cardigan has scarcely ...