... Were the audience at our theatre on last evening to be taken as an evidenice-of thekstaits and condition of our peo- ple-if the glitter of the box dress circle, with its array of beauty, and the ,cinquant and crimson of garrison cavaliers- if the pit, with its critics and its crowded but decorous and a polite assemblage, and the galleries, with their throng of happy faces-if all were to be ...

... i HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE. The Queen held a Levee, on Wednesday, in St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived from Buckinghaem Palace, attended by the royal suite, and were re- ceived by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. The royal suite consisted of the Duchess of Sutheland, Mistress of the Robes; the Marchioness of Douro. Lady in Waiting; the ...

... THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE ! (Dublin: M'Glashan.) The number of the Dublin University Magazine for tbe present month is one of more than average merit, and is well calculated to sustain the high reputation which our national magazine has won for itself amongst the periodical literature of the empire. The matter which it contains is varied and well selected, combining entertainment with ...

... i ?? TriEATRE ROYAL. As we arnticaipated, Charles Keen's benefit, on batuird&V night,: was nu~merously and fathionably attended. The au- dience was, ummistakreably, a good one. The dress circle, ou particularly, was brilliant in the extreme,,with its front rank lit of liaties in full dresi, and their attendant corps of cavaliers co in the rere, with a goodly sprinkling of military officers, ...

... I _ Mr. and Mrs. Charles ':Kean appeared again in The a. Wi~fii'~ecreton last evening; and whether it was that a rs large section of our play-going public had not previously *e witnessed the presentation of this deeply interesting drama, or that, having once sean it performed, many desired to re- g peat the gratification, a fashionable and tolerably tniderous Y box audience, together with a ...

... I THE STATE BALL. The Queen gave a state ball on Monday evening, at Buckingham Palace, to a party of sixteen hundred, com. pricing the royal family-foreign princes in that country-the whole of the diplomatic corps and their ladies-the ministers and members of the administration-the ladies and gentlemen of the household of the Queen and Prinee Albert, the Queen Dowager and the rest of the ...

... LITERA TURE. MR. BUTT'S PAMPHLET- THE R4.3E IN AID. A LETTEE TO THE RIGHT RON. TRY, EARL OF RODEtN, IH.P., BY ISAAC BUrr, ESQ, FORMERLY PROFOSSOR OF POLI- TICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBILIN; ONE OF HER IAJESTY'S COUNSEL. (Dublin: James M'Glashan.) To acquaint the public that Mr. Butt has been expressing his views on the present crisis of affairs in Ireland, is at once to arrest their ...

... (Fromn the ?? Oaf orsnwsq Visiting Costume.-A robe redingote of poult de sore, rose de F; Mai; the skirt opening up each side, edged with a white passe. ay menterie, confined at regular distances with white silk lozenge se buttons; these openings show the under skirt of white cambric, th trimmed at the bottom with three rows of worked inlet; high m close-fitting corsage, opening the whole way ...

... LITFJRA TURE. MR. BUTT ON THE RATE IN AID. A LETTER TO THE 5IlsF HON. TtE EARL OF RODEN, K.P., BY ISAAC BUrT, ESQ., FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF POLI- TlICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN; ONE OF iIER HAJESfTYS COUNSEL. (Dublin: James M'Glashan.) SECOND NOTICE. In our previous notice we endeavoured to give some idea of the tone and spirit in which Mr. Butt addresses himself to the great ...

... I The second of the series of these concerts was held last evening at the residence of Mrs. Allen, Gardiner's-row. Consideiable interest had been created in these performances amongst numerous families of otfi citidenz of high musical taste, and known for the resources they possess amongst themselves in the cultivation of music in their domestic circles, thus securing by the simple re-union ...

... COURT CuRCuLAtR.-The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Royal Academy in Trafalgar-gquare with a visit on Thursday. Her Majesty and his royal highness arrived at three o'clock, accompanied by their Royal H1ighnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice. The officers of the Royal Academy received the Queen and Prince Albert, and conducted her Majesty and his royal ...