... 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 ...

... Among the characters which Mr Macready has performed during the past week, for the last time, have been Iago and Benedict. Speaking of the latter performance the Times critic re- marks: 11 Were it not that the priority of rank assigned to tragic acting is a constant temptation to a histrionic artist to cultivate theserious rather than the comicnmuse, one might almost wonder that Mr Macready ...

... LIYERARY ZISCELLAHna. GENTEEL EDUCATION.-HoW Many of feelings of human nature have been repressed anda 6earaitd the coldness of those outward forms which by great a proportion of our education! 'Ye nttts15 t world with buoyant feelings, fresh and ?? tse enthusiastic anticipationt-with hearts end hands fltie; smlpressiou and impnlsed of love, friendship, a ts ke and with a multitude of ...

... I TBRATCBE-- TnaS BRIDAL ANDO TijS ORDE r,utHslyO Trip in the East, in 1850 BeailkpNey Bulngot ?? authot of Th Viridalan remarkable m in hs wy, and havsrgpescehisl ofaife equaly as hremarkable as h to signaiathe efanyt' risadpiaionthfhs whaddved likbyeoineo circaeumstanceddr~ O~ut trpofsi the mm Paeme4of vepend-, that were sure to besolutionwaa c tp~b G eowintries~th ough throuareosnie, to ...

... LjZIRATuR. Eiotoire des Moras iuuejares e des Mor-isqu; on desI Arabes ?? sotala demsratiosn des CArdtiens. P P Par le Comtc ALBERT DE CIRcOURT. 3 Wines. Paris, Though the first edition of this book appeared four yeaifs ago, the reputation of historical works travels p so slowly, that we dare say the fact of its existence o will be new to most of our readers; and in that case n they will thank ...

... * The writer of this work misappreciates, if he at does not misunderstand, the age. He confessedly n-undervalues its greatness and importance. While :d, conceding that Sir Robert Peel was its leading man, ho he would deprive him of the glory of being a great tz, man in a great age. Mr. Johnston has read the li history of the past and the present to little purpose; be and hispower of contrast ...

... 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 ...

... ?? AND I3ll DILAWA AT g anchester. (W&OM OuP OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE THiEATRE ROYAL.-The pretty and domestic drama of Broken Toys still reigns in the dramatic hemi sphere, and the actors are well mellowed in their re- spective parts. An uphill character, one Mr. .Colddrawn (the name will explain the part), was well played by Mr. Peter Rae, one of the most painstaking actors on the stage, and ...

... | TBEATHI&LtS AT WINDSOR CAVTLE Her Majesty the Queen gave a dramatic representation at Windsor Castle on Friday evening, the performance ?? place in the temporary theatre, which was fitted uip the same as on former occasiOns. About eight o'clock her Majesty the Queen, and his Royal. Highness the Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, ...

... REVIEWS OF BOOMS. DEALIrOS ITITH THE INQUISItTION. DR. Actarae. Virtu~e, Paternseronc-row.-The imprisonment of Dr. Achilli, a convert from Rome to the doctrines of Protestantic-i, alter the taking of that city by the French troops, and the cease- queet restoraciore of Papal domdinion, created great sensation amongst the higher classes in this counatry., - . Dr. Achilli was originally a ...

... ll-?- ?? T314-UPPL T ?? PA M-: P-1 KI-QX- j L On Tuesday, P11rince Albert, accompanied by Celonej1 trey and LieuaL-cdl`8 .e`u, visted te bbilding of the I1hibition The 4aFWl~ds~oiri after eleven o'clock, and, having ?? tbie progress of the wqylxi, hxrssdimself high'I grifi reseed hadof been 4 eds >'ili h Ie very ytkpid ,ess which bad ce a royal highness, among other majters, evinced ...

... - - ratI w.. - (FmOhI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) BRISTOL.-Royal Albert Rooms.-Mr. David Roberts's rmagnificent picture of The Destruction of Jerusalem has lately left these rooms, where it has been exhibited for a fortnight, and so great has been the excitement that many were compelled to leave without seeing it Mr. Duncan Macmillan, the celebrated ventriloquist, we hear, has been since giving ...