... A THEN3-UM INSTITUTJ. A meeting of gentlemen connected with literature and journalism was held on Saturday afternoon, in the rooms of the Athenoaum Insurance Company, in Sackville-street, for the purpose of a eoniersational discussion on the features and the merits of the newly-started Athenanum Institute. From what fell from Mr.' Richmond, of the Athenaeum Insurance Com- pany, who took the ...

... L YCEUM THEA TZE. An extravaganza of a mnost extravagant clats, bnt at the same time keepirg the house in a roar of laughter from first to last, andcalled TY. 1, Roeund the Corner, was produced ?? evening at this :theatre. The gist of the farce consists in the alternate stealing, and then pawning at No. 1, Round the Corner, of a coat and a pair of boots by Mr. Flipper (Mr. C. Mathews) and Mr. ...

... PRINCESS'S THEA TRE. The art of getting up nobly, picturesquely, and oor- rectly, a work of dramatic genius-of enshrining the per- sonages of the poet as they would probably have appeared in the country and the age in which the scene is laid-this art and the practice of it are of very recent origin upon our stage, certainly Rot dating back, at the furthest, more than a score of years. ...

... I ASTLE AVON.* The idea of Wordsworth's Shepherd Lord is among the most beautiful in modern poetry, and was illustrated by the bard of Rydal Mount with all the force of his wonderfal genius for creating the soul of poetry in the form of the familiar and the common. The pastoral and the noble were associated in the exquisite verses which he devoted to this favourite theme. The author of ...

... T'HERE AND BACK AGAIV.* What is it that constitutes a good book of travels ? What is it which makes the narrative of one mau seem like the fresh picture of things rendered familiar to us in spite of their novelty, and the want of which makes the pages of another imitate the barren duliess of a handbook or the twaddle of a tea party ? In a few rare instances the subject of the travels is so new ...

... HITERATURE. I ANTI-SLAVERY RECOLLECTIONS. f Anti-Slveroy Recollections. By Sir Gxonau STE- PHEN. London: Hatchard. e This volume contains a series of letters addressed o by the author to Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe, in com- e pliance with a request made by that lady when she n ivisited England, with a vievr to their publica- etion in America. They are not offered to the public as a history of negro ...

... ABC1EsACON WILBERFORCES' CHARGE, 1852.* A publicrttioU by Archdeacon Wilberforce is hulportaflt, but the circumstances under h iis Charge for the present year was de- d render it of more than usual interest-in- > lieneit indeed, with that character of an iu s ocubnt which arohidiaconal charges do Acl ODDW exhibit. The subject is an Appeal lo Cv, ctin, made at the eve of a general to ' vwhen ...

... DEPARTIVENT OF PRACTICAL ART. Ameeting of the students of the Department of Practical Art was held, at eight o'clock yesterday evenidg, at Marl- borough House, for the purpose of receiving the medals awarded to them at the exhibition, ill May last, of the works sat from the various schools of ornamental art. A large number of the friends of the pupils were present, and much interest was ...

... Thef hll-length portrait of Lord Palmerston, some time ago presented to Lady Palmerston by a body of the noble lord's political friends and admirers, as a testimonial oftheir sense of his abilities, his courtesy, and his honesty, has been well and carefully engraved by Mr. Samuel Cousins, and pub- lishedhby the Messrs. Colnaghi. The artist was Mr. Part- ridge, and he has produced a ...

... EXHiBBINION OF THE NA 7IONAL IN STITUTION OF FIRE ARTS. The sixth season of this society of painters wras inaugurated upon Saturday by the usual private view at the Portland-rooms. There are as many as 337 works in oil suspended on the walls, with 63 water-colour drawings in the room appropriated to that department. As a whole, the collection can hardly be. deemed satisfactory. Like the ...

... .,A lJIITEC7 URAL MUEUXM. The midsummer session of this institution commenced on Monday evening, at the rooms of the museum, Canton-row, WVestntinster, on which occasion a lecture was delivered by Mr. 13. W. Cooke, ?? on the use of natural productions as the basis of ornament. Mr. CoorEw commenced by stating that lie was sot about to advance any uew dogmas ira the science or practice of ...

... Due. ?? Wilson, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The paper read was On the Growth and Expansion of our *Fereign and Colonial Trade in Iron, and the Fismal Obstruc- tions to its Extension, by Mr. Harry Scrivener, of Liver- pool. The author first gave a connected sketch of the pro- gresc of the manufacture from the time of the ancient Bri- tons, and the various fscatl obstructions which had been ...