... SYNO0PSIS. I THE British Museum closed on Monday afternoon for the purpose of cleansing &c., and will be reopened to the public on Wednesday, the 9th inst. The total number of visitors to the Museum, from Wednesday week until Monday inclusive, was 41,947. LONGEVITY AT THE ISLE OF -MAN. - An aunt, an uncle, and a niece dined together in Athol-street, Douglas, on Christmas.day, and their united ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-I take the liberty of addressing you relative to an accusation in your paper of last Sunday, wherein I am stated as wishing to blacken the character of another man, or the purpose of polishin t my own. I feel somewhat chagrined that such an article should have emanated from the editorial We, as it savours (in my opinion) of an illiberality which does not ...

... SANITARY REFoam NEEDED. Three tailors, named Patrick Reenhan, Patrick Lemon, and James Crimmnen, inhabitants of one of the tenements in Gun-square, near Sevenstep.alley, Bishops-ate, a locality frequently denounced by the City of London officer of health daring the late cholera plague, were brought before Alderman Humphery, at the mansion- house, on Friday, upon the charge of having assaulted ...

... 1 (From last Friday night's Gazette.) - WHITEHALL, JAN. 3. The Qaeen has been pleased to issue the following Commission for the Promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, to be holden in the year 1B51, videlicet:-. VItCosLA, R. Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith; to our most dearly beloved ...

... AN AASWER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL'S LETTER TO HIS TENAENTRY. We extract the following passages from a letter which has been published by a gentleman signing himself ' M. D., in answer to Sir ROBERT PEEL S Address to his Tenantry, and showing what they say in his neighbourhood in reference to that precious document, which we described last week as being precisely like the man who penned it. ...

... I MRS. CLOVER AND DRURY-LANE THEATRE.I TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRA. Sir,-Tbe new lessee of the Drury-lane Theatre having announced in his playbills that I have broken my engage- ment with him in consequence of not being allowed the exclusive use of a dressing-room, which be termed an impossibility (although I am given to understand that a much younger lady of his company enjoys that privilege), ...

... ?? ~ - ~- ?? THE 6VERLAND NAM- An Extraordinary Express has put us in possession of news from Bombay of the 3d ult., and from Calcutta of the 23d Nov., in anticipation of the Overland Mail. The intelligence supplied by this arrival does not possess much importance. The Governor-General had caused a draft act to be prepared, opening up tbe coasting trade of India to the ships of all nations, ...

... HER MAJESTY, ETC. WINDSOR, FRIDAY..-.The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. The Royal Family took walking and. pony exercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, accompanied by the Duke de Nemours, and attended by Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel F. H. Sey Mour. The Royal dinner party this evening ...

... A notion exists in the green-room that the decadence of the stage may be traced in a great measure to a falling off in the literature of the drama. We protest against this judgment. There is abundant evidence of dramatic talent afloat in other forms to prove that it is founded in error. The fact is that the difficulties of access to the stage, the unavoidable delays, and the unetrtainty of the ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THlE ERA. Sir,-I can assure you it is with much reluctance that I find myself driven to allude once more to the matter in dispute between Mr. Shepherd and myself; but, as that gentleman persists, with the aid of a cleverly-perverted extract, in asserting that I took from Les Mousguetaires of M. Dumas the notion which he appropriated, I find I have no other course to pursue ...

... _ I Will anything be done for the daughter of the immortal NELSON, after all that has been said of late to remind the nation of what it owes her? How many more years are to elapse before the claim she has upon the country is to be properly recognised and honourably settled? Is HORATIA to die. that a tablet recording British Ingratitude may be erected to her memory, and the disgrace cling to ...

... DIARY OF EVEA s FOR THE YEAR I89 JANUARY. 1. The Earl of Auckland, ?? First Lord of the Admiralty, and formerly Governor-General of India, died, agzed sixty-four. -. The Regent-road Bridge, at Manchester, thrown open to foot-passengers free of toll. 2. The Legislative Assembly of the Portuguese Cortes opened, at Lisbon, by the Queen in person. 3. TecyofMatntomdadaenbtlit! British forces in ...