... ANTiENT C6RCERTS, 't-A -u As _A , , - - 10no Society of Autient Concerts gave their final enter- tainment for the season on last night, and, as is the practice with the society on such occasions, the selection of music t was of a light and varied description. We can say without hesitation that last night's concert was a most pleasing en- tertainment. The selection of the music was admirable, ...

... Vestiges of Civilization; or the Etiology of History, Religious, Esthetical, Political, and Philosophical. Baillihre. The author of this book (an American) tells us that his mind is three-cornered; and it certainly presents sharp angles of which his readers will not seldom feel the points very disagreeably. He is a man with a robust mind, producing constantly a vigour of expression which ...

... A History of the Romans under the Empire. By Charles Merivale, B.D., late Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Vol. 3. Longman and Co. This third volume of Mr Merivale's excellent work carries the History in ten chapters from what our neighbours would call the coup d'etat of the death of Julius Caesar, through the succeeding crisis, to the period when young Octavius had absorbed within ...

... L I T ER A T U RE- BENTLES S MISCELLANY. Bentaey appropriately enough begins the new year with an article on the observances which, in various ages, have been peculiar to the annual festival of the first of January; and G though the writer is greatly at a loss to tell us much new on L the subject, the reader will find in it many interesting facts B well strung together. The Curiosities of ...

... WRIIT-MlONDAY AND THlE EXHIBITION. (Rorm thie Morni Chronicle.) There is something eminently practical in the palpable aspect of a British holiday. London has but two or three thorough days of respite from daily toil in the year; and when the great urban mind does relax on Easter- Monday and on Whit-Monday, it evinces, we must say, a sufficiently dignified sense of the importance of these rare ...

... 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 ...

... THE -CRErXIp The ?? rwe attendailceS at 1tue l sLheh.~'i'W4~ ,and Thursday Vpiantgil e 4sge ude to bring down the 'numerof visitors, and ihe censequebt eceipts, to acin erable extent; rid Monday tee w , v rs, of vhhom 616,767 722 paid; on Wed neadml 50,m99 V witlra - w m 45'78 paid; atd orn tbirsday, 45>48 Sparkiespreselqt lhe tinrnber'pflyieig beling 44,721. 0 kFriday' and yesier.: day, tbb 2 ...

... AGnICULTURAL DEiZONST.RATIOq I at Drury-lane Theatre. We have declared all alcing that if those living by, and connected with Agriculture only unite for a special purpose, and exercise the power belonging to them, all the rest of the community will not succeed in effectually opposing such a movement Those to whom we allude, the great majority of the population, have never been beaten but ...

... I THE THEATRE IN AN UPROAR. ' .1 - - On Thursday week the handbill of the performances at e theatre, in Chester, announced that the entertain- merits would commence with a most uproqrious affair, entitled The Theatre in an Uproar, and before they finished, tle joke was more than realized, for the per- formances assumed every appearance of a comic beginning having a tragic termination. The ...

... I The Society of British Artists have opened the above Gallery for their twenty-eighth annual exhibition. One would think that, from the vast number of persons who profess a fondness for pictures, the rooms in which new works are displayed would have been literally besieged, more particularly by those who talk much about en- couragement to native talent. This coolness, however, on the part of ...

... MUSIC 'AD WHE DRAMA AT .; v: :, - . ,Ma anchester. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ToIATRE ROYAL.-011 Saturday (Oct. 4th), this noble tleatre opened with Italian Opera, the vocalists engaged being Madame Novello, Mliss Rebecca Isscs, Miss Susan Kenneth, Mr. Sims Reeves, Herr Stigelli, Mr. Whit- worth, Si-nor Paltoni. and a good company of chorus singers. In the opera- of La Sonnambula, 2dr. ...

... THE GREAT . EXHIBITION. The cheap trains and :the fine weather are already beginning to show their effect .on the receipts at the Crystal Palace, which have been larger this week than on any previous week of the shilling days. On Monday the number of persons who paid, for admission were 57,099; on Tuesday, 63-822;' oriWednesday,57,947;' aod on Thursdays 59,923-in addition to 7,000 or 8,000 ...