... L I T E R A T U n E. I THE LONDON CATALO4,GUE OF BooES PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN, with their Sizes, Prices, and Publishers' Names, from 1816 to 1851. London: Thomas Hodgson, 13, Paternoster row. This work is one of the literary wondersof theage. In addition to its being an undertaking, of intense personal labour and great outlay, it is, without one single excep- tion, one of the most useful ...

... PrAY UP, FIDDLERS! The reader has heard this cry from the playhouse gallery. The English are not an impatient people; ad it is ten to one that when the shout to the tardy naosiians is uttered, there has been good and suffi- ,ient reason for its utterance. The good.nature, the forbearance of the people assembled has been tried to ts full limit, and at length popular impatience gives tougue ...

... (Abridged from Le Follet, Journal do Grand Monde.) We must commence our present month's description of novelties, by noticing the various bareges now so much in vogue. The first that presents itself for our inspection is the barege cristalloide, or double barbge that is to say, two distinct materials united by threads; for example, a white barege is covered with green, or black under groseille ...

... pUBLIC cAJUSEMENTS. ROYAL SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. UNDEIS THE MANAGEM3ENT OF MRL FiEletS. rlOMORROW (Mon1day). KING MENRY V. King Henry, Mr. j Phlps uke f Glo'ster', Miss Mandlebert; Duke of Meetr, M. MllonPisol, Mr. GI. Bennett; Boy, Miss Travers; IsaelMrs lirret;Quiekli, Ilrs., H. Marstois-To conchude wit 'BEMIISHROF FINANCE~-Onl Tuesday and Wed- neoay th t'egdyofHAMLET. Claudiuse, Mr. G. ...

... [NMON TEM FsNc.L] Sostevery ?? Of quite a new style of dispositionhave appeared These consist of plaid in various colours: the squares are formed of velvet stripes, more or less large, and in relieve. Amongst the materials that are made for evening dress, nothing is snore eiegant than the Helena velvet brocatelles. Another style is the BeMaenutO, having the body, the front of the dress, and ...

... LITERARY XISOELLANEA. GovEaRESSES.-What a strange and disgraceful anomaly iE it in Fnglish society, that the very step which ought to entitle a gentlewoman to additienal admiration and respect, on the eootrary, entails on her the loss of caste.. This is aa incontro. verltible fact, tkough one which is often reluctantly admitted. As a 0less, gevernesses may be cosesidered extremely estimable ...

... 1U C A D T E DR.AIA AT Blanchester. (FROs oUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL.-Miss Glyn's engagement is proving Successful, much to the unnoyance of her detractors, of whick the lady has undeservedly many, We should com- it an act of injustice if we were to omit to mention, in terms of commendations the Tobias of Mr. W. S. Foote, in The Stranger, on Saturday. It had many affecting touches ...

... BALMORAL, SUNDAY.-Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert drove yesterday to see the Burn of the Vat. Sir Edwin Landseer arrived at Balmoral yesterday, and remains on a visit to her Majesty. BALMORAL, MONDAY,.-Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert attended divine service, yester- day, in the parish church of Crathie. The service was performed by the Rev. A. Anderson. The ...

... AT= EXHIBON SURPLUS lie secon'd report ot lileucommissio0015 of 1i51 beet isstied, by which it appears the ctOliS. i ave Ire p urchrjyed 1110 Groe 9l5u1s estate, at H1-Ide Palk, containing twenty !Keuncs and a hallt for which they have given ii Thd 1'ltoV have also passed a resolution au- ;tl outlay of a suml tot exceeding 150,000 I the iurplus in the purchase of laud, on the condi- that ...

... CURIOUS THEATRIC 4 I -in~nnlo^ uiorresponuence. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-The following curious correspondence, which was passed when a league was once proposed betaee, the theatrical potentates at the Lan an t Garden, which I have met with in an oldp r, perhaps, amuse your theatrical readers: m ay, Drury-lane, November g Dear Wild,-Pray lend me a couple of conspirat0 for to-night. ...

... I I BrLrAST.-SAzakspere Concert Hlall.-This place of amusement is nightly crowded with respectable audiences to witness the performances of the Brothers French, also -Mr. and Mrs. Templeton, Miss Stanly, and Miss Scott are gre=t cards. Miss Clara Webster has just joined the company, and made a decided hit. BRIsToL..-,William Cooke's Cirrus.-The spirited manager, with a double company and ...

... PUBLIC AjaUrEIJB TS AT Liverpool. forgom O0R OWN CoRRESpoDNOTq) AMPHITHEATRE.-The opera Com-any terminated their successful engagement on Saturday evening to the great regret of many of their admirers, who had enter. tained hopes of a re-engagement. On Monday evening Mr. Henry Farren and Miss Louisa Howard, from the Olympic Theatre, London, commenced a brief starring engagement, and made ...