... 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 (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, ...

... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... h (EXCLUSIVE.) FonmIxN.-When M. Habeneck made known his intention to produce some fragments from 1 La Vestale, on the occasion of his benefit, the entire company of the Opera, singers and dancers, resolved spontaneously to study that admirable work; and when M. Tulou presented himself, on the part of the illustrious d6nissionaire, to request the parties to assist him in his wishes to that ...

... RPOVINCEAL THEATIUCALS. I ?? Vandsnshoff has been with u5s the past week, and played to most excr'ient houses. His benedit (Hamlet) was a bumper; hundreds could not oblain admission. There is no lack of novelty. for now pieces and revivals, backed by the highly talented corps, continue to fill the Treasury. Oa Friday evenin thb Iashionable night. Love's Sacrifice was performed? MsU. ...

... THE COURT AND F'ASHION. ! a Tn' Queen has again, and for a brief period, retired to the comparative seclusion of private life. Osborne House is to Royally a place of refuge from the numerous 'calls which press upon Her Majesty in various shapes when she is more in public. The Court. such as it is at present constituted, is sojourning at the Isle of Wighl, where the Royal Family, one and all, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... (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 ...

... LITMR R E. ?? I CHIUISTfASIXTHE OLDENTImE. By O}ILLS Thi Esq. Hurst, King William.street IL, 8is i a little votive offering of the c bowl congenial with the season. It is fro the pe of a gentleman well known in the literar n the er. to the sporting portion of it especially, Tb Sead nice hearty earnestness about its style; a ?? Yule log warmth about it which is cheeritl 0; we must confess ...