... THEATRICALS AT WOBUtN ABBEYI The Duke and Dachess of Bedford's hospitality, which has extended over the last five weeks,at thae ancient decal seat in Bedfordshire, may now be considered over. It was arranged that there should be another grand gathering at the Woburn Abbey Theatre, to close the season, ?? week was the night fixed ; but owing tD the sudden illness of Mr. Odo Russell, the Duke of ...

... AMUSEMENTS ZN BMINGHA1L I (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE TREATRE ROYAL,-Last night was the thirteenth night of the Christmas pantomime, Queen Mab. which has proved a great attraction among the holiday makers since the first night of its introduction. It is preceded nightly by a good standard play, and thus agood evening's amusement is guaranteed. The plays enacted during the past week have ...

... THEIGREAT WE11h2ON, PROGIESS- oF .TXD WILDING. This great *oik, wfhezein tie cioi' st indstrial pro- ducts of the world will shortly be most beeomingly en- shrined, has novr been so far ?? towards comple- 4 tion tehat-itrmay almost be regarded as finished. It was, according to the terms of the original contract, to have been handed ever on Tuesday to the commission- ers, the last day of the ...

... THER l-REAT EXHIBITION. r THE CUSTOMS IN THE EXHIBITION. p CUSToMs DEPARLTMENT AT THLE CRYSTAL Pa.iuoa.-The di Board of Customs have by minute appointed the following 01 gentlemen for special duty in Hyde Park during the ensuing Grand Industrial Exhiibition :-Mr. Rolls,of the Laniding Surveyor's office, as chief;l Mr. T. Fairman, searcher, comp- ya troller of accounts; and Mr. M. D. Cresbie, ...

... FN AR T S. MR MACLISE'S PAINTING OF MR MACREADY IN WERNER. There is now on view at Mr Hogarth's Gallery in the Haymarket a painting by Mr Maclise of which the subject is taken from Lord Byron's tragedy, and the principal figure is a most masterly full-length portrait of Mr Macready. A line-engraving of this picture is in preparation; and a finer or more fitting memorial of the great actor now ...

... After the very satisfactory replies given by Mr. Fox to the interrogations put to him at the Society I of Arts on Wednesday last, with respect to some of the principal objections which have been from time to time urged against the strength of the building for the Exhibition in Hyde Park, we apprehend there are very few who now entertain a doubt upon s that point; To such persons it may he ...

... LITERATUBE. Foreign temiinisecnccs. By HENnY RICHARD LORD HOLLAND; Edited by his Son, H. EDWARD LOUD I HOLLAND. Longemtan. 1850. o This is a volume that every one will snatch up aad dive into. The noble author was one of the best informrd-men in Europe-; -had-travelled; -hadt-known- and been able-to form a ,personal judgment of every celebrated radn. And hefe ase those judgments re- cordA -fHi ...

... THE DRAMA, MUSIC, &e. SuRREY.- Belphegor has been produced at this theatre in a manner highly creditable to the enterprising lessees. Di.. vested of the unconnected and outrageous buffooneries which Mr. Webster thought fit to graft on his adaption of the French original at the Adelphi, we here have the piece placed upon the stage in a manner assimilating to the orthodox Parisian text and ...

... , - -- 4 f , - ? - w? .1 DxAzNE' ILLvSTRATED ALMANAC`KI For the Year of Our.Lord,.1861. London,' George and John Deane, Opening to the Monument, London Bridge, - .This is I the seventb annual 0f0feng of the highly respectable firm whose well-:known names,'are qbove. attached, and the fact off its, having Ron la Ileasea',o favour in public ?? is, W8 fbl4; sufficient groun for the proprietors ...

... (IrROMX OUR OWN CORRESPONDEN1TS) BaiSTOL. -W . Cooife's Circus.-Delighted and lcrowded houses still coiitinue at this trell-conducd and talented establishment. A grand day and evsninf performance' took place on Friday, the 10th, under the lpattouage of the Dayor, when taeadmired spectacle of' Mezeppa and the Pantondme of Punch and Joda were,' as usual, satisfactorily represented. Feats of ...

... LITEA ETURE. The Bards of tse Bible. By GEORGE GILFILLAN. ain- burgh: James Hogg. The idea of this work is peculiarly infelicitous; the execution is still more so. It is one thing to study the language of Moses, Job, the Prophets, nay, of Christ himself, and compare it with that ot Homer, Dante, or Milton, in order to discover-the-oommon qualities of each, for purposes of critical ...

... THEATRES, &o. DapTyy-LANE.-Tie new comedy, entitled The Old! love and the New, bids fair to brighten the hitherto somewhat gloomy prospects of our national theatre, for a marked improvement has taken place in the houses since its production. This is as it should be; and if Mr. Anderson can but manage to follow up his present success with more novelties of an equally important mature, we may ...