... THE EXHIBITION OF ISSL VISITING THE BmULDIN.-The Commissioners have de- aided, in order to prepare for the reception of foreign goods in the ensuing week, that the public must be altogether ex- eluded from visiting the building after the 3rd of February. AlDrMnsSOze PRICE To THE Exnmsnon.o-Mr. Paxton, the architect, has written a letter'to Lord John Russell, sug- gesting the propriety of ...

... THIE FASrIONS FOR FE:BRUARY. ysOU TiHE FRENCHi. The prettiest dresses for ball. that have appeared for the past week are the following:- - A plain white net, with five flounces, beginning from the waist; each flounce edged will a narrow wreath of hearts'-ease leaves, auede of green velvet shaded: the flounces are looped up on one side with five bouquets of white velvet hearts'-ease, encircled ...

... BENTLEY'S MISOELLANY.-R. Bentley, Butrlington- ?? Miscellany, for February, opens with a memoir of Robert Southey, prefaced with a very beautiful engraving of the late poet. A paper, from which we purpose extracting, entitled, Eccentric Biography,' 5: curious andi entertaining. Recollec- tions of Archangel, A Ti'ip to Fuentarabia, Saint Philomile, and several others are rather ...

... TER DRA[A. MOUSIC, &c. DRUlRY LASE.-The production of this grand operatic spectacle has been eagerly anticipated by metropolitan play- goers; and on Wednesday evenhieg a house crammed in every corner anxiously awaited the rising of the curtain which was to open upon the performance of Azael; or, the Prodigal Son. Many wise-acres confidently affirmed that the piece could net be mounted with ...

... LITERARY MISCELLANEA, FAIRIES.-The best days of the fairies seem to have passed away for ever. They have enjoyed their golden age; an age of muoonlight, revelry, and song, and are now almost for- gotten. We see strange circles in the meadows, like those our simple ancestors caled fairy rings, but in our wisdom attribute them to something very different, indeed, horm blithe, dancing fairies, ...

... REViEWs OF BOOKS. Tua SECOND SaIKse WAix. i. T. T3IA :YE3LL. 2flsttley, Burlingtoss-street.-The writer of this volume Ges an iede-de-canip to General Thacdit ell, an officer who distinguished himself in the Seoich campaiefn. Ge- r-eral Thackweil appeats to have differed nith Lord Gough. as to the expediency of that officerss tactics. We care little for such disputes; but wte cannot read, ...

... THE BUILLDiNG.-'SO far as the actual structure of the building for the Exhibition is concerned, comparatively little remains to be done. The whole of the glazing re- quired for the building was brought to a conclusion on Saturday week. The flooring upon the ground floor on the. south side is completed, as well as nearly the whole of that of .the galleries. It is not intended at present to ...

... REPEAL Or THE WINDOW TAX. ,VEt'IVlUN RATION AT DPURY-LAINE THEATRE. On Wednesday, a elemonstrationoftheinhabitantsofWest- mninster took place at Drury-lane Theatre, the object being to adopt measures to secure a total and unconditional repeal df the window-tax. Long before the hour for taking the chair (12 o'clock) had arrived, the spacious building was crowded from rit to gallery, the boxes ...

... REVIEWS fOF BOOKS. MADAM. DORnINGTON. W. HowiTT..- Colburn, .atnrlborough-stre6et-No author is so much at home in t;.x desbuiptions of country life as Mr. Howitt;- and in the work now before us we find the same freshness and Vagour of style as characterises his previous writings, c' iperihaps more incident. Mrs. Dorrington, the off- t ping of an ill-starred mnarrLage, is one of those bellevo- ...

... THEATRiQAL crxcrHAT. Auber's newopera, L'Enfant Prodigue (The Prodigal Son), is about to be produced in an English dress at Drury Lane. All the vast resources of the theatre will be put in requisition, so that the work of the great maesisa may be placed upon the stage with equal splendour in London as at Paris. It is understood the grand novelty of the season at Vans- hall, will be a ...

... THE DRAMA, IKUSIC, &c. DRURY LANEThe pasf has beenquite a Shakesperian week at Drury Lane, and the public has only itself to blame if the legitimate drama cannot find a place upon the English stage. Mr. Anderson is doing his best to sustain it, not ?? by pro- dacing Shakspere's plays, but likewise in the manner in whih they are cast. A journal, of paramount authority, aomefew days back ...

... FATHE.R GAVAZZrs ORAINoNS The infaux of auditors testifies to the growing interest of these Italian Sunday harangues in the Princess's Conc Rooms; and we noticed in the crowd several ?? members of the English bar, as well as many artists Of ee brity, whose attendance we are not surprised at, for, hts as a new and exquisitely classic model of oratorio delir or a perfect study of varied and ...