... THE EXHIBITIOk OF 1851. THE ADrissiON OF VISITORPS.-Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 have had under their consideration the regulations respecting the admission of visitors which it appears to them necessarv to adopt for the effectual accom- plishment of the purposes of the Exhibition. Their attention has been principally directed to the follow- ing points:- 1. The ...

... DUwURY-LIE. Se~rbe wa~ ,Auber'p new opera, ?? p:i~ digne~' ?? course at thc (1*41 Opera, as fuirnished th e mateials for the newr ast ?? Aseel the Prodigal, pr6;duiz at Druylane tlaist night. t Mr. Anderson has done -well to call it a spectacle, for. this. desigeatiwzD de~esnot mislead'tb^ puBlic; ae.s-sage .iitles v:ery pften do.: People did not, go: to see ?? pisy,'or'to hearF tlonusi: ...

... a reduction of about 400,0001. from the sum granted for the present year. The amount required will be about 5,700,0001. —Standard. A public dinner to Mr. Macready, the distinguished tragedian, on his retirement from the English stage, is announced to take place at the London Tavern ou the Ist of March. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart, will occupy the chair. New Mode of Milking Cows.—lndian ...

... A Yeer on the Punjaub Frontier, fin 1848-9. By Major Herbert B. Edwardes, C.B., H.E.ILO. Two Vole. Bentley. This hook very exactly answers to the public character of its author-and for this, and other reasons, is doubtless a, very genuine composition. With a little dash of display and bravado, but frank, fearless, and unnnisgiving, it re- counts that rapid and brilliant series of successes in ...

... T'lE GIZEAT Ex1HIBATION. it mjjay ble rem)embered ,!.1It Soein ih ~c h Ex.ecultive CulI'mit tee ?? opniga reistry for such persons as Inm-igt bic wilingto rovde suitable lodging anld acc(HIninoda- tinfor thle alutiiei0us artisan's who Might be ON- pect- d to arrive inl London during1, the period Of the AtIe Exhiibition. Those persons who might desire to lyl avail thems11elves of thle ...

... REEVIEWS. T¾; L ?? ftl F'e'iral'y. fi A plcasing~ 1101r11,l l~d l6[crary icl!n . ys zr ...

... A programme of the arrangements for the ensuing season of Hlla XI~srr's THEArEr has just appeared. The following are its most remarkable ?? theatre is to open early in March with an Italian version of Auber's opera of Gustavus, in which Madame Fio- rentini (who made so favourable an impression at the end of last sea- son), Madfle Feller, and Signor Calzolari will appear. Madlle Caro- line ...

... Great progress has been made within the last few 6i days in the arrangement of the space in the build- hr ing for the various classes of goods, and in the allo- cation of the space to be occupied by individual Sc exhibitors in the respective classes. The arrange- Inents for cotton machines to be shown in motion were finally completed yesterday. The space to be occupied by this very important ...

... DR UR Y-LA NE THEA TRE. The adaptation as an operatic spectacle of L'Esfanst Proelitsc attracted last night an overflowing audience to Drury Lane. No small degree of public interest and curio- sity had been previously excited, and the result of the expe- rinment was decidedly successful. The first act was perhaps most applauded. Tie second is the most dramatic and most gorgeously mouuted. III ...

... THEATRICALS ETC. The past week has ?? wholly unproductive in 'things theatrical. At DtaRY LAN, .QOthello, ' Hamlet, As You Like It, and the new comedy, The Old Love and the New. have been the pieces re- prerented. The Innkeeper's Daughter has been re-: fived, after a lapse of seventeen years. with mediocre ?? HATMARXET has been well attended during the week. Mr. Stirling Coyne's ...

... CONCERTS, iMUSIC, &c. M. BILLET'S CLASSICAL CONCERTS.-On Tuesday M. Alexandre Billet, the celebrated Russian pianist, commenced a series of classical performances at St. Martin's Hall, Long-acre. The programme comprised Beethoven's Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 78 ; a Prelude and Fugue in A flat, by Bach; two similar movements from Handel; which, with a Sonata by Woelfl, in C minor, made up the ...

... LITMEATUREL -X -- - - : THE imPO&TANCE ANDt VALUE OF THE BRITISH NOnmTH AsERIAn ARCOLODUE5.. By thelHono, .J:owe, Provincial Secretary t Nova. Scotia. Saunders, Charing. crej s.-aI January laste Mr. Howe delivered a very in- texesting lecture on the North British American colonies, to the inhabitants of Soutbaimpton, at the request of a number of the most influential tradesmen and merohants of ...