... MUSICAL MEMS, AT HOME AND ABROAD. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUS-CIAN5.-A general meeting of this valuable institution, which was foundedin 1738, for the support of aged and indigent musicians, their widows and orphans, was held on Friday week, when the sum of 53 was voted to be distributed among half a dozen aged widows and numerous applicants having no claim upon the societv's funds. The regular ...

... ' vub11c amusements fot the Meek.- Poyal Sadler's Wells Theatre. - UoenDE THE MANAEA MENT oF Ma. PHELPS. TO-MORROW, Tuesday, aud Wednesday, will be presented JOJN SAVILE OF HAYSTED. John Savile, Mr. Phelps; Duke of B lck- inglham, Mr. H. Marston; Ned Trivett, Mr. Hosks no; Felton, Mir. G. Bennett; Lilian. Miss Laura Addison.-Oa Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, AS YOU LIKE IT. Jacques, Mr. ...

... LFROX OUR OWN CORRESrONDENTS.] ABasnREN.-Theatre Royal.-The piece of the week-indeed, of the season-has been - Hamlet, produced on Monday to an excellent house. Of Mr. Paumier's finished and masterly per- formance of the Prince of Denmark we can hardly speak In terms sufficiently laudatory to express our admiration. We remember seeing this gentleman in the character some years ago, and from ...

... ?? TrdENTRWALS STO. ?? .Monday btlfig'loxlflg74By,, Applledj n iot usually does, 0bj'aeiitres of the metropolis 'with -lae~ of 'holidasy folks; aid, throughook-lhe, wk teadetlfes ?? houwse have testifed to the vary generart diuioiino hs -baemaswl eei tto .enjoay he ..ual foetivities or the season. Pantomime has held ites usual prominent place, and has not to compliin:of st5lty Auditors. 01 ...

... COURT AND FASFIION. CHRISTMAS-DAY AT WINDSOR. CASTLE. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.-Her Majesty gave a grand Christ. mas banquet Yesterday evening, covers being laid for 27, in itbe large dining-room. The Royal party included the following personages :-Her Royal Higbness the Duchess of I Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Fanny Howard, Viscount and Viscountess Can. Ding, Sir George and ...

... MORE THEATRICAL MISERY IN I THE PROVINCES. . Under the above head, we, in our paper of the 19th ult., published some remarks which have drawn a line of explanation from an individual whose name was mentioned in them. We said that a provincial manager was accused by his company (six of whom signed a declaration which they forwarded to us), of having abandoned them under circumstances which, so ...

... PHYSIOLOGY Or MUFFS. By W. GASPEY. Willoughby. -Coxcombs, have at ye all i That will noedoubt relieve our fair readers from all apprehension of a crusade against those soft, furry envelopes into which they love to deposit their pretty white han de, and which serve as jporfeuilles for their cambrics and purses. Against a class of far softer mdaseriel than your winter, friends, says Mr. Gaspey ...

... I LAYS OF THE THOUGHTFUL ANfD THE SOLITARY. By Mrs. CHARLES TINSLEY. Longman. We rejoice to see the scattered lays of Mrs. Tinsley, which have adorned the pages of the Morning Chro- nicle, and many of our most popular periodicals, col- lected. They are intended, as they profess to be, for the thoughtful, for serious thoughts pervade them all, and the serious alone will rejoice in them. To ...

... EEMQOVAL OF ThlE THEANTRE AND SEIAKuSPEARE SQU-ARE The unsightly appearance of the ground occupied by the |t -Thesitt. by the road leading to the stair which d~escenlds to the hib oae f the North; Bridge. and by the dead wall Opposite the !>,eetii Bridg~e buildings, has long been an eye-sore in the most at central and crowaded part of the city. A number of years ag:o SC the Orphan H~ospital ...

... tI ?? IFPISHONABLP ?? - | WINDSOR, DlC. '3.-Her ?? 'will give a grand banquet at 'the castle to-morrow eveniug, to a large and distin- guiehedgparty, At the conclusion of the banquet the tragedy of ANrTIoGN, from the Greekaif Sophoeles;. will be read before her Mejesty and her royal and illustrious guests by Mr. Bartley, In the graud reception-room, which has been most tastefully arranged for ...

... PUBYIC. AMUSRMEMNTS. 'T'l EATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE-GRAND 01 tiL.Seal ight (i tue Maid of ]torour.-SovenettsNight of Uiy so-n Pantosissime.- Las Juvenile .NIght.-First N gut of Llrsdu dil4otiintuuni. I'is ~LEVBNIN(o (Mpodsay) tsar tlojety'a surrvattuseill perform itit- tuna opera, entitled T 1S R )I A I OF HONOURI. Tito iltireittu by MrI. Fitahall; ithe ansde by Air. Bitale; ?? orchestra ...

... LIBRBATURB. A Ziaeoy of Athe Royal Navy, from the Earliegt Times tothe ?? of the Pretwh Revolution. By SIR NICHO- LAS JUAnUS SN1coixAs, G.C.M.G. Vols. I. and 11. To follow, as an historian, in the wake of Southey; in a somewhat perilous experiment. That distin guished writer had a judgment so acute, r, method so precise, a mastery over hiS mater~ials .sc -erfect, and above all, the command of ...