... DRURY LANE THEATRE. The Brussels Operatic Company, who so delighted the lovers of music last year, have commenced a series of performances at Drury lane Theatre. They opened with the Iluguensots on Wednesday, and did full justice to the merits of that very fine opera. That charming singer, Madame Laborde, sus- tained the part of Jfcwrqeret, and left nothing to be desired in the execution of ...

... PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS. Eiglhth Cosnctert, 3M0onday, June 27. PART 1. Sinfonia in F1 Flat (No. 8). . (In. Arie. Liebe ist die zarte Bftithe, Al. Pisebek. (l~~rwrxr! * * * * * ...

... FINE AR1VS, The Town and Castle of lfeidelherq. Engraved by T. A. Prior, from a Picture by J. M. W. Turner, Esq. R.A. Published by the Engraver. A true landscape painter could live and die in Heidelberg. Everysubjectforihis artis combined (and in perfection) in the environs; from the nook hid- den in the mountains, to that wide expanse of the Palatinate where the eye loves to lose itself amid ...

... The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times. By R. R. Madden, M.D. Third Series. Three vols. Dublin: Duffy. This is not a good book. It is scarcely matter for regret that it is not. The subject neither deserves nor would admit of one. Accident has given greater notoriety to the designation- bsited Ir'shmnen-than those who bore it were entitled to. The real United Irishmen, the men who had a ...

... LITERIATURE AND MEN OF LETTERS IN ENGLAND. At the opening of a retreat for decayed booksellers in connection with the Booksellers' Provident Insti- tution, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, who presided at a breakfast given on the occasion, adverted in the course of his address to the position and prospects of authors in society. The subjectis an important one, and, as will appear from the subjoined ...

... The Age of Pitt and Fox. By the Author of' Ire- land aud its Rulers.' In Three Vols. Vol. I. Newby. This volume has sufficient merit to make us de- sire to see its successors. The author, of whose works on Ireland we have heretofore had occasion to speak, is an incorrect and over-excited writer, fond of what are called points, and too much given to making them; but he is also very ...

... I aT MuuESTY'S THEATREn Air Lumley having astonished the town last year with a pas (le quwtre which lives to this day in the print-shop)s, has made a similar effort this year in the shape of a 7afS de -. We are not clear about the number, so we will give the title, a yeas dee deesses. Taglioni, Cerito, and Grahn represent the three god- desses, on whose conflicting claims Paris has to decide ; ...

... I Divers Moro's of Early JMasters in Christian Decora- tion. Two v'ols. folio. John Weale. This work is at once magnificent and intrinsically valuable. As the nucleus of the collection, the stained glass Wvindows of St Jacques' Church at Liege, and those of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist at Gouda, hold the chief and most emi- nent place. Tile former belong to the Albert Darer school of ...