... LIT ERATURE. John Maneity, the Liverpool MBerchant, By the late WILLIAM MAGINN, LL.D. With illustrations by . GoRGH CRUIKSHIANK, 2 vole. [Mortimer, 1844. This work being posthlumous, will excite a mournful late- restwinitbe admirers, and theyare many, of its accomplished author. It is certainly not one of Dr. Magin's best, altbougb, especially at the commencement, it bears marks of the same ...

... iNAGtJURATION of the STATSUE of' i/ic DUKE: of lWliLLINGTON at GLISGOIV. [PSOiM T~ro GLA800r CONSTITUTIONAL.] Early yesterday morning (Tuesday, the 8th of October), and, indeed, during the whole course of the night previous, preparationls wore going busily forward, fixing the has reliefs, barricading portions of the etreets in the vicinity for the accommodation Of ladies, the committee, cand ...

... pRINCESS'S 7LUEATRE. , ztianiz ji Algreri is one of ROSSINI's earlieSt pro- and doer. not bold a higbrplaco among his worl8e; , beol hb, ,irdeed,nS ahe quality of the mueic would en leitt. itt waaiwritten, we believe, immediately ater 1 e 7 48ftr~~itt Si ali',f anld has muoh of the lightness, vrnrt, ow gaiety of that ctia-:ing opora. Its comparative u of eucces aero te from the nature of the ...

... DRAWINGS FROM THE PRIZE CARTOONS. We yesterday had the pleasure of viewing, at Messrs. Leggett and Neville's, in Cornhill, the drawings, made by the Messrs. Linnsll, from the eleven cartoons to which prizes were awarded by the Fins Arts Commissioners pre- vious to the exhibition last year at Westmainster Hal, These drawings have been executed under the anuspices of Messrs Longman and Co., with ...

... Riobcrts's Illustratfons tf the Yloly Laml), parts 11 and 12 (Moon), lully eijual any of the previous oaes in the in- terest of' the subjects, and the magnificence of their exe- cution. The larger lieces are Juida, a noble architectural panoraira ; ('aiplias looking towards. Mount Carmel, with it soW osea-chore, fuilof the poetry of main and onicta- riness; St. Joan li'Aero, the peninsulnr ...

... FAHIlrONS FOR JANUARY. [FPROM T10f WrORLtD OF FASH10s.1 Furas.-Furs are now being used both for tirnimmings and linincs; the most favourite furs being sable, kolinski, aid sibiline. For neglige, wO see round pelerinis are most in fOsour, asid also tho.si with long ends foiliog In the front, somewhat similar to bhe ends of a scarf. Ctns.-The slight changes which is observable in the form of tis ...

... On Tuesday last a deputation from the general body of artists bad the honour of an interview with Sir Robort Peel, at Dowvring-btreet, on the subject of art-unions. The deputation, eonsisting of Messrs. Rothwell, Moore, Ste- hanoff, A~llo, G. E. Ward, A. Clint, Fahey, Pyne, Buss, EUTIMtone, Pinden, Goodall, and Warren, weto iatroduced by Thonwas Wyse, Eisq., M.P. Mr. Fahey stated that the ...

... INSTITUTE OF THlE FINE ARTS. I A meeting of the fartInta of London was field onu Sturday evninilg, litt Wiliit8 Rooins, to Conaider themufetoeI ra dopte~d by the g~overnment fir the trupprem'4ott ot the Art UuIOII. T. Wyssi, E~fi., M.1., and V.P. of the hIestitute', WOO VRIIlid to the. chair. VTheCHAIRMAN deld they were already, he believed, Ruffitfiient ly a ware of thIe ceoai Whicih hod ...

... ROYAL ACADEMY 01F MUSIC. The second of the Academy's concerts took place in tihe Hanover-square Rooms on Saturday morning. We are enabled, on this occasion, to speak with unmingled satis- faction, both of the plan of the concert and the performance of the music. It oponed with a manuecript overture, composed by Miss K LODEP, a young lady who, ever shlce ebe entered the ,cademy, hasf ...

... RE, IE' IN I YD-PeiRK. The let Life Guar'ds, stationed at Regent's-park bar- racke, the 2ad Lite Guards, at llvdeirrk birracks, the 2ad bratteiolo of the Grenaedier Guards, at St. George's lierracks, thes 3-d battalion of the Grenradier Guarrie, at St. JTohn'r' Wood barracks, the lht batfid ion of' tho (Cold. streamn Gaurrds, at Plortman-et,-reot barracks, and the 2nd battalion of the Col ...

... HAYMARKET THEA7 E. SRI Moworvro's play, Secrete Worik Knoweing, was revived at gel this theatre on Saturday evening, with a vary effilotlve of' cast, Xirqrsla8 B .beoigilrapergonatotd by Alr. FA tRRMNWi SRi' Rsoatrum by CHARLES M2ATHEWS; Apr~il, by Mr. Il: STRICKLAND ; Plethora, by 31r. BucKSToNix; sad PAs Sail?, Dcownright, by Mrs. GLOVER ; nor lot ns emit to lidt to mention that noive end ...

... IGRAND BALZET POllTIQUE.-1N PRea PARA TION at HER MA.TB8TY'S THBA TRB. I ~~~~-.4- [PROM PUNFcH.] We shall soon have to congratulate Mr. Lumuley on one of the most signal triumphs of a titiampbut seaeon. The grand ballet now in preparation wIll be the occasion of the dWt of a young and bighly promising artiste, Signor D'Iraeli, a dancer of the pure Cuesasiian bchool, who comes to her Majesty's ...