... DftURY-LANB THEATRE. Drury-lane Theeatre opened for the season on Saturday evenlng. The greatest of the English theatres has become, to all intents and purposes, a regular Opera-house; tra- gedy and comedy are excluded, and the place they once held is wholly occupied by music and dancing. We are rnot incined to reg-ret that this is the case. The errors in I the conduct of our theatres has been ...

... BXECUTJONA GATENOA Went to thle miole, wishing to see What prep,.A 'n been made for the execution, but wos refrsl er1. thle gates, I then took, a boat aud w o11ttlu. atEnrll~ps, art lnglish schooner, lyinig a(-u,'th od ti;' of it short di'stanei front the grillowys. Abort Iio15 tS crimtinals, arrived on foot, escorted by a Proeyi) a'jirstice, monks, and Others, with a brujin CI a- Tire ...

... [F1eO5 THE WOmRaD OP PASHsO.N. CAPS.-Those most in faivour are composed of eroibr. dered muslin; the front part being entirely eonc3aled br four rows of lace. put on quite plain, turniw' at ihe lower part of the ears, and forming a kind of rond shell, and at- tached vith a naeud of green and pink ribbon with long ends; others have the fronts trimmeod with three rows of lace, each divided by ...

... I TZII WBSTMINSTER REVI'EW.-No. 86A SEPTEMBER, 1845. [London: Samuel Clark. Tiis is an excellent number of the Westminster.' Poetry, painting, history, science, and art, fatnish mate- r ials for able, variel, and interesting articles. Sliaksperiau criticism ; Schlosser's History of the Eighteenth Century; Fresco Painting and the new Houses of Parliament; Disraeli's Sybil (which is rated ...

... &iw Songqs, nwitr Ger,'mon anen Fnjis1' iords. The music composed by P. B. CZAVElne; the English version by ThOMAS OLIPr'HANT, Esq. [Addison and Hodson. Mr. Oliphant, the accomplished honorary secretary of the Madrigal Society, who has done so much in diffusing among us a knowledge, not only of the old vocal harmony of England, but of the melody and song' of modern Ger- many, has added, by the ...

... I BOOKSBLLERHS' PROVIDEIT IRETREAT. Avery numerously and fashionably attended dijcdnei d ?? took place yesterday, at Abbot's Langley, on the occasion of laying the first stone of a building in- tended to be devoted to the purpose of forming a comfort- able asylum for annuitants of the Booksellers' Provident Institution. This institution was established in 1837, and recently its prosperity has ...

... THE? NORJWICH IUSrC.4L FLAS7IVAL. LFR- OnUR CORRESPONDENT.] NORWICH, WEDNESDAY NIoa'r.-The perform- ances, both of this morning and this evening, have been so iully attended as to insure, I ?? th ink, the success of the festival. In the morning the weather was very unpropitious. It had rained all night, and, as the rain continued during the early part of the day, the streets had not the gay ...

... MUSIC OF T1l R lilVE. |Thle ?? ?? of a letter, friom a Laallt ,iil of the highest eminenee, will be jutemesting to ou1r tl readers - ' Baden,-BIladen, S~pt., I In continuation of your musical iutelligenee froru 13B ,, I send you a few lines ill tell you what thle musical world o Baden-lBaden is doing. It is a fact that the really nli,.,a part of the assembled company is very seainty; ld ftl, ...

... L!TBRATURR. Memsoir3s of the Pretenldes wnd theer Adherents. By JOHN HPNEAaE JEssv. 2vols. [Bentley. MfeMoirs of Prince Charles Stvart, connmonly called tiw Youu, Prctender; with Yotice,, Elf the Rebellion in 174.5. By Ci.ijityS Lov ts KLOSe, Esq. volis. (Colburn. In the world of books, memoirs and 1 reminiscences have of late become proverbial for plenitude and platitude; the plenitudeis ...

... .131tclao'oe contninls, amongst its usual quota of good things, a clever but ,moot didactic paper oil if Ilistovical Ilomatice. Tlhe fashi!onable novels, which lalid the scenef of ei earthly feeling in Mayfair, aire roughly handiled; and to evince thle most inudoubted. inlpartiality, the Jack Sheppard school do not eseaple a lash, the writer thlinking' that both extremes of' life tire too art ...

... f TUBE. *r-jR Cornsetpondence ?? 'sthe ReigMof James I. and S } E8teL&4SbrANES ORCHARD HALLINWELL, F - '[Bentley. We ca ?? that very needless pains have been expended in disturbing this manuscript from its dusty resting place amidst the Harleian collections, and bestow- ing on it the honours of publicity. It consists of little besides a tedious record of private transactions, strung together ...

... THEB MAr-AZINES. A,'e Wen 21loyst-r comrtrrrels W w th veryinim.utrttg a paper 1)y Si' E Iward Buiwer' Lyttot,. onl the cold-writer cure-lbs t P-ilyir' po'pular at ~uer within tire last few years aman2rt-s nti kje,:!ir vi- wlo -hove fi It hle tedills,r vtvo'hirtre in terll Jbrrt~e' which it lorge tacttlir arid uto Urddl iu lire so well cnl~u jleted, to produce. Thvr,'' c:fln he Ilo doubt of ...