... Rtbifts? -- - ?? SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. Lon- don: Simmonds and Ward, Barge Yard, Buck. lersbury. It is now some time since we noticed this very useful and well-conducted magazine. The numbers for January, February, and March are before us, and contain an almost inexhaustible mass of information and entertainment of the first importance to all in- terested in our cclonial empire. The ...

... I TNEATRE ROYAL. . . -- I We hesitated to pronounce a decided opinion on Mrs. Batler's position In the scale of dramatic merit, on seeing her in the character of Julia.- We have seen Sheridan Knowles's and Balwer's meladra- matlo creations not only well, bat excellently enacted by many performers: we never yet till last night saw one of Sbakspeare's tragic characters filled to our satisfaction ...

... - LITERATURk0 SELECT WRITINGS OF ROBnnT, CHAXB SAYS, FAMILIAR AND HUMOROUS. O S.5: E* This is a volume of papers written aftrand and diction of Leigh Hunt. They are 5tylg quite the author's own. The readers of Journal (who is not, more or les acquamt d that valuable and widely circulated, but eriodical?) thill recognise, in te conte At took, a hand that has for many years cotris their ...

... ,- e (By the Author ,f The Botanical Looher out.') i Ccne, SpriU25, lam tired of Winter's roar, d Oh, come and enliven the sky once more; 1 am tired of fog, I am tired of sleet, I am tired of mud in the road and the street; n Oh, come, Spring, come ! e I am tired of Winter's rabble rout, O Of gloomy clouds ever rolling about, Now gcatter'd in snow or falling in rain, O Spring, in thy verdure ...

... hnbitation to *rtivg. Haste. gentlo Fairy in tho mantil green! And o'er our isaind scone, Spread the bright promise of thy geninl birth Haste, and with magic wand, And flower scattering hand. Thaw the cold bosom of the frozas earth, Haste from Ausonion bowers, And, crown'd with virgin flowers. Unlock the treasures of the sleeping y0ar; And with dow- dropping latiqtd- FIrge lMI sliroang ironl ...

... 30; During the drama of the Battle of Sedgemeor rt of the Adelphi Theatre,Glasgow, a few evenings ago, we an occurrence took place which far outdoes all such a the dramatic fictions as The Wife of Two Husbands, at a ?? Fatal Marriage, or those numerous misad-. 3 Le- ventures and mishaps in connection with love, mar- olish riage, and triumphant virtue, which are put upon ed to the stage ...

... =oetrp. THE PATRIOT PENSIOINERS. I' Think of the sufferlngs and feebleness of these vall. gat old veterans in the cause of freedom-Smart, Preston, lnd Old Daddy;-be determined to subscribe ene penny a month to keep them alive their full time. Appeal in their beaol ffron the Veterants', Ophaen,' and 1ieltims' Vosnsitte. t Well, Arnott, I again repeat I am forced to submit to the Devil's law, ...

... The Prevention and Treatment of Disease in 'the Poato and other Crops. By John Parkin, M.D. Wood, 39, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden-Tbe title of this pamphlet is sufficient to ensure attention to the many able observations and judicious remarks it contains. We recommend the work as .alculated to be practically useful, and the poorer class of potato growers will find it adapted to their wants ...

... i Madame Anna Bishop achieved another triumph on I Thursday eyvning, in Balfe's opera The Maid of Artois, in which she personated Isoline. It was in this opera that this lady appeared in Drury Lane in October last, and in which she was at once bailed as the prima donna ossoluas of this country. Madamne Bishop's voice is a pure soprano, having a compass of about two octaves-from F on the ...

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... LYC.EUM THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF TE ERA. SiR,-I perceivebyyourpaper that the Lyceum Theatre is about to pass from the hands of thepresentflessees because they do not feel disposed to pay an increase of rent to Mr. Arnold. As an original renter of the -house in question, I think I am justified in calling the attention of -the public. and others to ite past history, .present state, and future ...

... As we with just confidence look up to the Ancient Concerts as the conservators of that music on which all that is really good in the art, and likely to endure, is based - the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; so we have been taught, by the experience of thirty-four years, to consider this society as the guardian and promoter of that instrumental music which has been carried to ...