... | THEITATRICAL ERA. ;I THE LOAN OF A WIFE, AT E 1LYCEUM..; * Mr. Wigan is said to be the author ofthe neiw burletta at this theatre, thodgfh, judgin'g from the ingenuity .displayed in the construction of the plots we should imagine the piece; to be of foreign extrac2 'tion, and 'that 'rIT. W. stood in the relation of -its dramatic godfathers rather than the absolute parent of the affair. He ...

... TEIE SHAEx'PEARE Cup.-The famous CUP known as the Stratford Jubilee Cup, presented by the mayor and corporation of that town to David Garrick, in 1769 and used by him at the Shakspeare Festival which he insti- tuted there in the same month, on Saturday last, found its way rgain into the market, at the sale of the effects of the late Mr. J. Juhsnson, of Upper Cbarlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. ...

... A FRAGMENT OF MODERN SONG. ScENE.-A romantic garden. A closed lattice in the back ground. . A disconsolate lover in the foreground. Tsims.-About a quarter of an inch after midnisht. Awake! the wind is sighing, love, In whispers soft and low, To tell you I am, dying, love, My future fate to know. The full moon glistens brightly, love, On flower, bloom, and bud; Whilst here I murmur nightly, ...

... The Queen and Prince Albert, the. Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, the infant Princess, and the Prince of Leiningen, at- tended by the 'Countess of Desart, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Colonel Bowles, Colonel Arbuthoot, and Lieut-Colonel Seymour, left Osborne House, Isle of Wight, at ten minutes before two o'clock, on Monday afternoon, crossed in the Fairy ...

... [ EXTRACTS PROM NEW BOOk.':a, ;| ._ . I. ?? I. . -. ?? . INCOMTE TAX IN THE REIGN oF HENRY Vtoi, Wh-tn Wtdlsey required SOO,000 from the Commons, lfor the tire of lis toaster. they deciared their inability to grant the demand, as it exceeded the amount of the current cosa, of the realm. After a long debate of many days it was determined that part of the sum should be granted. Woisey, greatly ...

... THEATRICAL IRA. TAGLIOXZ AT HEB MAJESTY'S THEATRE. On Thursday night, II Barbiere gave us Grisi, Mlario, 1Fornasaii, and Lablache; La Sonnambula, Castellan; and three different choregraphic perform- ances, with the first danseeses in Europe, filled upi brimful the measure of the entertainment. Our plresent duty, however, is to join in the welcome of. the last series of performances ...

... THE LIETBRAPBY ERA. THE CotiIC ?? eF ENGLAND. By GILBERT ABBOTT A'I3BECI:TT. Illustrated by LEECH. (No. 1.) 1'unch Office. This is an attempt to render Hume humorous, and to raise a smile at Smollett. Unfortunately, however, the laugh is 'lot wvith, but against the author. We have a great respect for the genius of Mr. iBeckett. He is, to us, one of the most original humorists of this, and ...

... [ 'THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS, AT THE ITALIAN OPERA- M. Perrot produced a new divertissement for his benefit at Hcr Majesty's Theatre, on Thursday evening last. The subject was the Judgment of Paris, and the terpsichorean edition of the fable, was eminently successfuland to those learned in keigleskez eminently ludicrous. The myth upon which the piece is founded, though known to every skimmer of ...

... I EXTRACTS FROM lI EW BOOKS. ?? . HUGH PUGH. Itwas the famous olden timb whenfighting wasinvogue, And he who could not fight was thought no better than -arogue; I onwr creyte The jollie rows of Town and Gown werescarcely then a joke, - For manie a pint of blood they shed, and manie a head they broke. It was a lustie Welshman came out of his wild countrie, And gallantlie he fought midst ...

... BOROUGH POLITICS, AT THE HAYMARKET. The author of the new piece at the little theatre has not been fairly treated by the critics. From the opinions of the diurnal dilettanti, we dreaded a dreary, ientimental infliction. We were, however (despite of the said dilettanti, we confess it), most agreeably disappointed: Borough Politics is the best, be- cause it is the most artistic, the most ...

... -EX T ROM OiEW BOOKS. THE SENsT5MENTS OF ITES PAGAN WORLD REGARDING sLAVES. Aristotle, the great patron of slavery, advising Alexander Ito deal with the Greeks as a general, but with the Barbarians as a master,' forcibly explains his meaning by adding, ' and to regard the former as friends and domestics, 'but to treat the latter as brutes and plants.' I According to the strict principle of ...

... THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL I I.1 GOSSIPFo. A NEW oamic sketch, from the pen of Captain Addison was successfully produced at the Adelphi on Monday evening.atteAepionM dy of th WETEE notifies his benefit as the 554th nighit pf h preseut managelment, Wednesday Julk 29th. We wish him a bumper.- ON dit that ( Lady Brtottbbv) Mrs. Nisbert is about to5 return to the stage. W~o cannot vouch for ute is uth ...