... l.Iraoeui ; its Seenecy21, Chartscrer, ' .l r t S. C. HIALL. 3 vots, royal Svo. [flow and p Tite most popul ar work tin thle beaut;,-' . ir of Ireland, as a whole, which has cparir has bee-n brought to a close. For itsilcrdt0 sr fultinees the two editors have been mr-t~ rmeuled hy persons of every party ar h guishing features which masked Ith eay been preserved to the very close. et e from the ...

... TIHE MAGAZINES FOR DECE MBER. lBlackweood has no political article this month. The nearest approach to anything of the kind is a paper en- titled Notes on a Tour of the Disturbed Districts in Wales, which gives a graphic account of some of the dark scenes of outrage recently enacted there. To the Fine Arts two articles are devoted-one, ably written, on Fuseli's Lectures at the Royal Academy ...

... PUBLJC AUJSEMENTS. a~~~~~~~~~~~~~ rASTER HfOLIDAYS.-POLYTrEcHNIC IN- aSTITUTION.-A conipleos arrangemcent of COT'fON SPINNING MAOCHINERY,consistiig of aCarding, Plovifg, and Spinntng Frame. May's niew Mlicrosicope, magnifying 74,000,I0it tinies, A asow Series of Diss iving Views. The Science of Electricity demonstrated by t the Colossal Electrical Macisine at a Quarter to Three daily, and B st ...

... COVENT G(AIRDEN THEATRE. Last night a mo-t novel succesasin of entertanmenti wI performed at this theatre, in w iibl it would be hard t) say whether the actors or the uv~dience bore the lahgest rili, Certain it is tbat between them 8urh an uTi-btertap¢td cenie of conjuluion was produced, ats we are confident ha4 mot been witimessed within a metropolitain theatre iince tbe Iae of the fimous 0 P ...

... THE CORPORATION OF LONDON AND I THE IVESTXAUNSTEPR RBVfBIV. | I'he following totters teire read by Mr. Travers, at ftlsa meeting of Monday last, which some of our contemporaries5 shave incorrectly described as an 1 oratorical contest be- tween Mr. Charles Pearson and Mr. W. E. Hickson. The lattier gentlemaln, ft will be seen, intends to take no part whatever In the proceedings, which It Is ...

... LUITERA1TU1RE. -4- Gabrielle; or, Pidetures of 'a Rtgm. A 1i2storiWol Novel. By LoUISA STUART COSTBLLI. IU :J vtel. The state of French society and manners in the age of Louis XIV. ofters a tempting subject for delineation. Few periods of modern history are so full of interest and so preg-- nant with instruction. It was the most brilliant period of tha monarchy. The national power nnd ...

... li- ol),YAL AD)ELAID1E GALLERY, Luwthl(- iirciniv, Strtitti-1Thit spitotid Exhijbliioli, Olwei daily fronit Etivoil ILu Pi it-, ittd fruatit Scu to 'lueveit it, Ih Priitiit'in, comptlrises upwvitrtlu of 4,00l mtodel.,, sruilpiureq, puil tiings, cuiriosiiiiou,&c~'. thul Rurhkji Hrittiitl- cult, Aiotu-Drtumatic Dissoulving Viewst, (tit 1Mi1oroscujpc,13urnit g Li-it, &I-, I comtic ...

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... On Saturday, the 0th instant, being the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts, a general assembly of the Academicians was held at their apartments, in Trafalgar-8quare, when the following distribution of premiums took place, viz.:- To Mr. Edward Bowring Stephens, for the best compo- sition in sculpture, the Gold Medal, and the Discourses of the Presidents ...

... -4 l)IORIAMA, Regenit's-]tink.-JUSTI OPEN El), AV it1l It NEW EXHIBITiION, representinlg the CATiHEDRAL tillO NOiTRE D~[AMLE, at i'lrlrs, w ith uffects of sunset and 11011 sligiht, I painoted by 3LI. Rurwux, and TllE BAIto!LICA O1l Si'. PAtIM, nwro Itoine, befre anii after its desetriiction by lire, planted by M. liouto o. opwiw from i 'len till Itoe COLOSSEUM, Regent'si ark-.*Openi ever5 clay ...

... THE ITALIA N OPERA. D011 P08eqeale, the youngest born of DoNIZL'TTI'S numerout progeny, appeared laet night tit her Majesty'si 1 Theatre, ytith Eas much success as at the Theatre Italieni a( From the Eltair d' Ateiore we formed the opinion that tj DONtIZBTTI'S Vein is the light and comtiorsitber tbha the wv serious hard impassioned;- and this opera confirms it, a, The dramia, like the Ees ir- ...

... LITERAT7JVtE, George Sr17y/n and hifs Contmcrporarcs,, with Aftetnofrs and ex .Vetce. By JOHN HUNEA0B1 JESE. , (Londeu: Bentley, 2 vole., Svo., pp. W2. VC The nne of George Selwyn is well known to the gt readers ot Joe Miller. His somewhat pointless jests fo .have lorg- hnd currency in society, and found admission Into be every collection of witticims. Who is unacquainted with wi hli puun ...