... HARRILY THIE EIGIITII AND HARlEY TIME NINTHI. When Harry the Eighth claim'd supremacy, 1zz From the old Church of Rome he set England free; it, Xote, wvhen old Pio Nino with Itome dares no cope; We find Harry the Nbinth, dares act England's Pope I an But whilst striving all powers in himself to combine, pe HIe is only playing a Pantomime ! ! ! jot April 12, 1850. AN AGEo PRSOTESTANT. Its . tin ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENITS.) ASnTON-UsnDEs-LYNx.-Notwitbstanding the talented and respectable corps dramatique of this theatre, the season is progressing very unfavourably. Mr. Watkins Burroughs took his benefit on Monday last, and his exertions were badly remunerated. Miss Goddard com- menced a short engagement on Tuesday last. On Wed nesday Othello was performed, and gave great satis ...

... LI.TERA TUBE. Geasrnl KlD~apa's ~emtoirs of! the Wlar Ins rngyasry. 2 vol.. Gilpin. 1850, This is the work of a genuine soldier, and bears the frank, the rude, and simple stamp of one. As General Xlapka was in the counsels and command of f the Hungarian insurrection, none so fitted as he to depict the double mnarvel of its asnexpeoted success and its as unaccountable defeat. The volumes of M~r ...

... LITERA TUBE. Life of Malsonet and of his Successors. By WASUING. TON IUVINO. Murray. 18050. There are two or three ways af writing such a life as that of Mahomet. It might be undertaken with a philoeophic view, or in a merely critical and his- torical one. Or again, with merely the research requisite to render it Accurate, the story might be told iD a lucid, striking, and picturesque manner, ...

... LITERAItY NOTICES. . 1, 11 .1 i A IC I L C T I U L S . .Yinereh.-We hear that additional information respecting the 3 interesting country to which the researches of Mr. Layard have of late directed so much attention, wviTI shortly be laid before the - public in tile shape of two volumes of travels, by the Rev. J. P. t Fletcher, who resided some year; at Mosul, during his inquiries into the ...

... THEATRE ROYAL-THE FRENCH OPERA COMIQUE. Now that we have witnesed the coup dressai of Mr. Mitchell's bighly praised corps of vocal artistes, we feel obliged to confess, wbilst we own to our delight in the cleverneses, finish, and grace of their performance, that we have failed to recognise anything in the shape of vocal or histrionictmerit which mnay not at least be equalled by pro- fessors ...

... I FASHIONABLE, INTELLIGENCF. I WINDSOR, WErNmsDAY.-The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual morning walk. The royal family took walking and pony exercise in the Slopes and Windsor Park. Lord Elphinstone has relieved the Earl of Morley in hid duties as Lord in Waiting to the Queen; and Colonel Berkeley Drummond has relieved Mr. R. Ormsby Gore in his duties as Groom in Waiting to her ...

... P PHILHARMONIC SiCIETY'S CONCERT, We have ever regarded this society in unison (to wesa concert phrase) eith its Anltient compeer, as the represn. tative of the mticel taste and geniuas of our city. eV have had frequent and delightful opportunities of formirng an opi nion as to its merits as a musical society, and it has been anr pride frequently before now to offer the tribute of ...

... LITERATURPL. a; t t - - s r b Il I > BEItISENTATIVE MENo.-(LrbdonI Bolhn).-The disciples of Mr. Emerson-and we believe they are not very numerous in this country, not even as hunuerous as his readcrs-will rejoice to find his works about to challenge popularity by making their appearancei in a convenient arid very cheap form. Of M\r. E'oaison's philolsophy we camllot pretend to speak, for in ...

... THE INDUSIRIAL ENtIBITION OF 1S51. 1j3R7ING OP THE WOrKiNG CLASSrS. | Qn 1% aepuet., p ve rse mechan icsand artizans of tbe citv, callerl by the Lord 1 roro~t, a 46d: th in ?? Bell s Scinol, Niddry Street, to afford hisa odsbip an opportunity of comaiunicaitrg lrith the workingcif;ses regardinrr thearrange- ments which were being tnice for tire grear Ex'hibition of 1351, and of cgro uporin ...

... MUSICAL lWEMORAwDA ?? ,5__ . ok ITALIAN OPERA, ST. PETERSBURGU._The per- formance of the ti'guenots at this theatre bas been One of the most successful events in the musical world that has taken place for some time. From its first appearance this season the public were so charmed with it that it con tinued to be performed up to the close of the season. At its last representation, Madame Grisi ...

... TIIi9ATIRR ROYAL-MISS HELEN FAUCIT'S II BENEFIT. FUI~ 7 On Saturday evening this accomplished and bighlygif10, aetresq tookl her benclit, and concluded an engagement re. n earkable for the varied excellence of its dramatic attraction 3 but not less so, we regret to say, for the extraordinary apathy r on the part of our public, and the Unaccountable abtenco Of t popltr support evinced ...