... I (EXCLUSIVE.) FOREIGNx LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC.-Three weeks' confinement to a sick chamber will, I am sure, be received as a sufficient apology for my three weeks silence. The malady having at last received its congde, I shall, I trust, be enabled to send you my usual budget of continental chit chat about plays and players, lyrics and librettos,ballets and ballerines, managers and melodramas, ...

... i The Royal family have talken their usual exercise during the week, when the state of the weather per. mitted their so doing. The Royal dinner parties have been attended by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the lady in waiting of the Duchess of Ken', the lady in wait. ing of the Duchess of Gloucester, the Baroness de Speth, Viscount ...

... I I [FROeM OUR owrN CORRESPONDENTS.j 3SiGrTOX.N.Mr. Hooper has afforded the theatrical going t41e a rich treat by the engagement, for three nigats, of ic eestris, Mr. C. Matthews, and Mr. John Parry. They ^itneed en Wednesday evening, when the house was td to suffocation. That admirable and entertaining piece ti t8relup'f opened the performances, and it is almost need- iii add, that Mr. C. ...

... 5i011ONISM.-A SAD TALE A few yeats ego a retired tradesman of this city, then scarcely entered upon middle life, was living comfortably upon a nice little estate of his own, a few miles from town, in a charming rural country. He married a respectable young woman,wi 'l whom he received an accession to his property, and we can scarcely fancy a position in life bid. ding fairer for stability than ...

... (EXCLUSIVE.) FOEREIGN.-Rossini's new opera, it is expected, will be produced in three weeks. The two first acts have been rehearse4, and the third act is nearly perfect. The departure of Mdlie. Faveo, for Drury-Lane, has been retarded by a slight indisposition. Carlotta Grisi will leave Paris on the 1st of January, to fulfil an engagement at Rome, previously to herjoining the troupe at Her ...

... I LIT ERAT U RE, A POET'S BAZAAR. From the Danish of HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. By CHARLES BECK. WITH, Esq. Three vols. Bentley. The general reader is apt to suppose that the British world of modern literature comprehends all that is learned, imaginative, scientific, and intel- lectual; at least he (is likely to forget that our republic of letters is but one among many, some of which, like stars ...

... PROVINCIAL THEATRICALs. [Fsrtoel OUR OWN CORRESPON5DENTS.] i ?? season has just been brought to a close, tone illuminated by a succession of stars from its cli'h ~,v, oa name Flora Fabbli, the Ethiopians (rather , planets) Miss Faucit, Madame Vestris, Mrs. Fitz- ,9., sac. Yet, notwithstanding all these attractions, ithby a stock ctoany seldom met with in the provinces, be CI' g Messrs. ...

... A ruiarl Amazon, rejoicing in the name of Anne Fitz- patrick, was summoned to the Queen's County Quaiter Sesgii'ns for assaulting a rustic Lothario, called Mr. John Keegan. Aliss Flitzpairick, being called on to plead, declared she didn't assault the jintleino at aell. Ii r. Fingleton; Do you wish to take your trial I Mliss Fizpatrick: Whatever lie likes. I won't be dis. agrl-eable. Jidhn ...

... (EXCLUSIVE.) FOREIGN.-It is nOW settled that Rossini's new opera, Robert Bruce,' will be produced on the 20th instant. Such is the present intention of the director, and, as he very seldom breaks promise, unless some unfortunate accidents intervene, its appearance at the date mentioned may be relied upon. You can have no idea in England of the amount of excitement existing in Paris on this ...

... LITERATUP.B, READY REMEDIES. By JAMES JouNxsoN I, Gilbert, Paternoster-row C Dr. James Johnson has just writtes a small volu which deserves to be in the hands of all per.n. le, the perspicuity of its style, and the value of itO ,gestions. s ug. The talented writer points out the ready reoieoi to be applied in cases of poisoning, or other accid, es where medical assistance is not immediately ...

... mu S I C. FANTAsiE GrnAcmEusnS. Par S. TEALEEItG. Cramer, Beale, and Co. B This fantasia is founded on subjects from the operas of Hellii. The opening motivo is from an aria in D, from Norma. It has anovcl efect,fron being accompanied by chromatic harmonies to each note of the melody. IL is full of the usual arpeegio passages, with the cantabile in the middle. Tbe andante, in F, is very ...

... LIT E R A T A E. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Nick ssons' Regent-street. W e have a sparkling numb' r ?? this month; t a better number of this popul r periodical ve do not remember to have seen. The following reckoning up of MIr. Roebuck, is an es ract from Contempo- rary Orators,'- a series of pap' rs which have excited a great deal of interest, imiast ruch as they tell us of public men who, for ...