... THE WHITSUNTIDE FAIRS - THE RIVER AND THE RAILWAYS. There was a general turn-out of the workeing population el of the metropolis yesterday some on their way to the rail- Wi roads, others hastening to theo wharfs to embark, and many ju taking advantsae of other conveyances for the purpose of an reaching the subturban, faire at Greenwich, Stepney, and WI Wandsworth. In spite of the Lord Mayor's ...

... LITERA'T'UREJ ol'0/a Maorch1 th rositq St-ioh' awlet A fl~i hvi.tas ia, Irthf 7 t' rotp-p tO '?c Mt, Cotsstotd If 'Oentral Sir I1?'. Noltl 1:, ti t, 7. N. A Li ,I. A. [J lintlitard ant Si~ti. (t fe !),- 'tuks to v Itich thle ieries of aliflkry operationti iii .Af-t trni-dot, t:.'t -' birth, th is is, not tho eflist inteorest- lo I tunanc 'Vro itt11 Utdy al lion-c wit] told the m~olntti t aor ...

... DRtJRY-LANE THEATRE. Lst night SHA1cePEA tW's play of King Richtird Ill. wafs performed at thie theatre, an event which the manager (aware of the novelty of the experiment) announced to the public in the following form, which we copy ast a eurloelty In Its way:-The public ie respectfully Informed, that with a view of offording everv possible voaricty to thts entertain- ments of this ...

... HA YMA RKET THEATRE. -4. A most laughable one-ecu farce was produced at this tbeatre on Saturday evening, entitled The Mlliners' lie- liday. The plot, which Is the rae plvo ultra of extrava- gence, will hardly bear detaillug, and the incidents, which are abundant, and of the broadest kind of fun, muet be seen to be appreciated. Suffice It to say, that they kept the audienee In a roar of ...

... NATIONVAL MUSIC. POLYTECIHNIC INSTITUTION. Yesterday tho theatre of this institution was filled with a very fshioinable audience to hear the first of a series of lectures on the music of ditte-ent nations, delivered by Mr. C. E. florn. The rapid increase of entertainments illustrative of various forms rind sygteme of misic is a gratifying evidenre of the ex- telnion of' a refined aud improving ...

... F,1'JJpJ?. TUIr E. w BurAe'as Cor'respondence. Edited bv Pan pf s, NVILLIAU, and Lieutenant-General Sr Trc * r BOURK K.C.B. [pi v i o Four volumes of the correspondence rof ;i Barke will he received with avidity liv everrt who takes the least interest in the political hi'st' of England, or the study of individual char*et, Tile publication will not disappoint the t L. created by its ...

... T;HE OPERA AT ST. PETERSBURG. [PROAE OALIGNANI'8 MrSSE2i(J1g.] The first beason of the Itahens in the Russian capital has closed, having been attended with a degres of success aod ercoaragement towards the principal artistea whieh pro- inses to make St. Petersburg and the Russian8 become what London and the Eogliab have beenuolong-thegolden dreaun ol every artiste of eminunce. In reading of ...

... Foraon Quarterly Revilew, No. 65.-We have observed with pleasure the progress of thie porlodical, now under able and every way competent direction, since its accession to the ranks of the Liberal party. We are happy to bear testimony that Its pages, under the present management, display a varied ability, rauge of information, and sound scholarship which were formerly seldom to be found in them ...

... DRURY-LANE 7'THEATRE. 11AtnP11'S opera Continues still to ble an attraction at this hU'st nOttivtlietatiii~tg the luug run it haNs ilreadv hiad. T1e pillormancae last night consisted of Tie Bl~oz,'tmiln G'W, ard the Christmas pantomime; anti, but for tit'! 'ccurrenrt of a little interiude itt the enmmencemeott of the enltertainments, we should htiveno particularcomment to make on the ...

... INSTITUTE OF THlE FINE ARTS. - Or, Saturdayevenintg the nrnmbire of this institute held a general re-union at Willie's Roonts, *nd invited their friends to a sonversszioneo, W hich Wvvn tixc Ilently attemdnd. The works of art, both ancient and modern, exhibited throughout the Itarzs ball-roorm, Includsti soma of the H iest speoimens. Long ha e the modern artiste required eorno means of mieting ...

... FASHIION'S 1FOIR MA R CH. [FRtOU THEl WORLD1 0OF PAP.1TION.] FnolztIare.-For toiltettvs tie vfi!., Fttothtig 't be Pr..tfier than hoecelegnt hunet of reen tidee for b lue iofr repinow motrimain-d with isetpenek cr ,ori foh- t101 theebi rimttsied with at white or lpur ; thes tire e. santeii colour lis tile lining; whilst titeinrtit ti. tire 'iscoratei- Wit~' aigretrtee, oifedu i poaie. u ...

... A New Spirit of tie Agfe, edited by R. H. HORNE. l London, Smith and Elder. There is an easy candour about Mr. Horne which ought to encourage all persons to deal with him with similar sincerity. He appears to us to be generous, honest, in the main good humoured (for in the only instance in which his spleen is shown in the two volumes of the New Spirit of the Age, it is pardonable, on ...