... Education* ix Wales.—lt anticipated that the report of the Government Commissioners will be ready for presentation at the commencement of the ensuing setsion. The inquiry will extend to the hills and mining districts of Monmouthshire, where a large proportion of the miners and labourers speak only the Welsh language. J. C. Esq., commissioner for the midland and part the mineral districts, has ...

... Falmouth, Thursday Evening.—Her Majesty's steam-ship Gorgon, Capt. Croutch, put in here to-day for coals her voyage from Buenos Ayres for Portsmouth. She left Monte Video on Sept. 12th, Rio de Janeiro 22nd, and Bahia 30th. Of course the chief topic of inquiry on the landing of her mails related to the definite settlement or otherwise of the River Plate affairs. It is said that Mr. Hood the ...

... * Manchester, Not. 19 . A meeting of the liberal dec tore was held last nioi. mthe Free Trade Hall, to the nomination madeta*.' Reform Association of Mr. Bright, as a candidate representation of Manchester, and to hear from him .1 position of his sentiments. There was a verv la»r_ George Wilson, Esq., was called to chair* W Mr Absalom moved, that this nf*. liberal electors of the Wrough ...

... T.RFEATRICALS, &c. D- HAYMARKET,-A now comedy, in five acts, is, at all times, a subject of interest; but the production of a cosoedy which will last, is a matter of astonishment and public congratulation. The want of dramatic ability, in a tangible shape, is sometimes said to be the fault of themanagers, who refnsc to encouragethe legitimate drama, preferring rather to please the eye than to ...

... 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 ...

... the news from Portugal not being of a date more recent than those already received by the last steamer. Multitudes of contradictory rumours respecting the instability of the Spanish ministry continue to be in circulation. HlJEspanol, of the 4th, states, that the exile of a certain influential member of the royal family (meaning the Queen-Mother) was resolved on, and that her husband would be ...

... Goldsmlith used to regret tha^t the age in whichl he lived wasI tOO ?? for poetry. Mluchl depends on the idea we aittachl *o poetry. |HIomer seems to l ive been intiesstely acquahited witl4 every occulpationI Of h;8 day. The anatotmist is ?? at the minute kcnowvledge he possessed of the humanl frarne; anid a butchler and cook could not describe better than lhe lito a the rustle of killinig ...

... 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, ...

... THEATRhALS, &c. DRVRYtLA lN i t:era was produced 'nere on Mondag eroning, uneatr, the ,titlo of tear-cue, a Tale of SeVille. It is the romposition ?? Laveno, of the Royal Academy, the libretto is by bir. Bunn. The incidents upon which the librettist has constructed his opera, are to be found in lies Cent Nouvelims de Navarre, and possess no deep or stirring interest. The first scene is laid ...

... MUSICAL IJNTELLIGLNGE. PARIS.-[Privato Correspondence.]-Two novelties are now delightip ?? amislteurs the first is Pacili's opera La Fida'zacta ( .o(sea,' orighinally prodccdil at the Cuila, in Niples, in. 1843, and now imoported at the Tle 'atre teliCII here, and Clipipsson's opera of Gibb1 Ta Ine(nc- tee sr, representedl last Thursdey, for the fir~t t iee, ut the Roeyal Ope:ra Comiqne. The ...

... hare determined the king to continue, without any modification,, the Cabinet of the 29th of October. It hat been asserted that M. Guizot s not obtaining the Presidency of the Council arose from a species of veto exerciscd by the British government. The paper which stated this, the Constitutionnel, I believe, only knew half the truth. It comes to this that if the English Cabinet thought it ...

... The past week has been productive of little worthy of notice in things theatrical. At Da-URY-LANE, Mr. Lavenu sopera of Lorette, and the now ballet of The W~ags of Wapping, have succeeded in drawing good houses. Madame Sophie Fuoco is an astonishing daenseuse, anid has proved quite a hit.-II. Jullien's concerts are nightly clowdiog COVENT-GARDEN to excess. A nsey quadrille from Mrs. ...