... ttA department under ?? title, to hve the sper- :e intendence over the various schools of design, and to be econnected with other self-supporting institutions which e aim to advance education in art, has recently been organised d at the Board of Trade. The nature and objects of this It department are shown by the following circular which has t recently been addressed to the secretaries of the ...

... LITISRA TUBBE. arraiv'e of the 'opage if }.Af. S. Rattlesnake, commanded Iby the late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N. To wchich is t sided an Accont! of M. 13. B. Ikennedv's Expedition for E z~porction of the Cape York Pcsinsula. By JoHiN .j14GILLIVitAY, Naturalist to the Expedition. T. and WV. Boone. Some years have elapsed since we directed the ' attention of our readers to Mr. Jukes's narrative ...

... LIT.ERA TUBE. Lires of the Friends and LContempraries of Lord Chsan- cellor Ciarendon, illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery. By Lady TimitElisA LEw1is. Murray. The gallery of portraits collected by Clarendon -was far more fortunate than the collector could rea- sonably have anticipated. He, himself, lived long enough to perfect his plan of putting all his best friends, his most ...

... OPENING OF THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Vi The Royal Italian Opera has commenced the sixth th year of its eventful existence. Be the future what it may, C these past six years will be a memorable one in the history tri of the musical stage. Amid a series of grave errors, tre- mendous difficulties, and ruinous disasters, the establish- th ment maintained a struggle which often seemed desperate, IV ...

... MUSICAL INSTITUTE OF LONDON. On Saturday evening, at the wcekly meeting of this association, a paper was read byMr. Thomas Oliphant on the English dramatic music of the eevcn eenth centurV, and particularly the celebrated music in 'IMacbeth, generally ascribed to Matthew lock, whose claim to its authorship, till of lately held to be undoubted, has recently been called in question, and ...

... LATEST THEATRICALS, &o. 'p n-. - - THE OPERA SEASON.-ROTAL ITALIAN OP'ERA, COVENT- OARDEN.-The preliminary flourish which heralds the musical campaign of 1852 has been uttered by the impresario of the younger company, and is strong in promise. The list of operas which form the repertoire is well known to every habitue by ear, and to the outer world by reading and reputation. The announcement ...

... I T2EE BRITISH DRADIA. Taking, as it is our endeavour to do, a conspi. cuous place among those publications whose colurnus contain notices of, if not critiques on, every novelty that the Metropolitan Stage produces, a few waord- upon the general question, and such as we oecc. sionally employ upon the subject, may not be out of place, even at a time like the present, when in the public arena ...

... PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS, I (FROMe ou o WN CORRESPON NT) ANDOVER. - (Manager, Mr. Charles Ewer). - The company opened here oil Tlursday, the let ihSt., and ave muet with deserved success. On Tuesday evening was rdced The Lady ofLn. The cormpany con- sits ofthe following mnembers :-Messrs. Lovegrove, Thornton, J. Stanley,WAV Stanley, Johnson, EJer Stonles, Mathlewsa Clegg, and F. Clegg ; ...

... THE VOLKA fAN ENGLISH DANCE. 1ost worthy Sir,-.1 have a piece of in formation to communicate which must, I fear, deeply excite your disgust, as I feel perfectly certain that a person of your refined taste must entertain a proper horror of any and everything English.* It may well be, most enlightened, that you yourself, laying aside the awful and editorial Me, and assuming de ore amiable and ...

... TvHEATRICALS AND AMUSEMENTS in Dublin. (FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) QuEEN'S TrEATIE ROYAL.-Mr. J. C. Joseph, Pa- tentee and Manager.)-In order to give greater effect, and in accordance with the strenuous desires of the management, we had, since our last, a re-production of some of the pieces ranking amongst the higher walks of the drama, in conjunction with the Pantomime which continues its ...

... EIBITION. Tn th. ,n I . I . I joinse Ildweller of this large and dusty metropolis, far from the green fields, the fresh air, and all the genial in- fluences of the country, we know of few more innocent or more delightful amusements than a visit to the Royal Academy. To the opeiing day, therefore, do we always look forward with pleasure ; nor can we even now, after the experience of many ...

... II T E RA T U R E. I PROBABLE FATE OF SitU JOHN FRANKjLIN AND CREW; OR, THE SCIURVY IN THE ARCTIC SEAS, &e., &c. By Captain W. WHITE, late Hon. East India Company's Service. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-rowr. The author, in a pamphlet of some length, enters into a short history of the various unsuccessful voyages to the Arctic regions to discover a north-west passage. After ...