... 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 ...

... Castle Avon. By the Author of ' Emilia Wyndham,' &c. In three vols. Colburn and Co. A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. Being the ex- tra Christmas Number of Household W ords. Con- ducted by Charles Dickens. Wellington street. Homes of American Authors; coml-prising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descril)tive Sketches. By various Writers. Sampson Low. The Lady of the Lake. By Sir Walter ...

... DAYS OF C'HUfDPOOD S'cenes *ofchilehoed, ele2 ad bright, I-love voul gentle rlys, That sill refhect ttceir heavenly light T7po:! Macturc days, * .w young heart WAS vwild and free, l:: . earoe; -. . * 'vfll ul d:tc.be ; ;x' s oft. ..' S . Yi e..as. tox a If Uialz ...

... HOW HIS HIGHINESS OF GUZERAT CAME TO THINK OF BRIBING THIE GOVERNMENT, Those who have had the industry and patience to make their waythrough the two voluminous Blue Books,ron- taining 1,515 pages, entitled ' Colonel Outram, and lately laid before parliament, will have found that the subject to which they refer naturally ranges itself under two distinct heads:-1. The acts of the Bombay ...

... We have never grown the thousandth part of an inch out of Robinson Crusoe. He fits us just as well, and in exactly the same way, as when we were among the small- est of the small. We havo never grown out of his parrot, or his dog, or his fowling-piece, or the horrible old staring goat lie came upon in the cave, or his rusty money, or his cap, or umbrella. There has been no change in the manu- ...

... FINE _ARTS. DIORAMA OF THE WELLINGTON CAMPAIGNS.- (GALLERY Or ILLUSTRATION.)-This popular and de servedly successful series of dioramic views has received an addition of three pictures, consisting of representations of the funeral obsequies of the Duke-viz., the Lying-in- State at Chelsea Hospital, the Procession passing at Charing Cross, and the Interior of St. Paul's at the moment of the ...

... L I T ER A TU R E. THE GAME (iF BRA t ; ORt, TtE BATTrRASVAY RloyS. A Comic Novel. fly D). OIWEN M!ADDYN, N.Sq., Author of Wvyneille; or, Clubs and Coteriee,` &c. *2 vol.. Skeet, King Willianm-treret. We bad occasion to ,peak well of the former prlduotioa of this author (mentioned above), and we finlil that in hlia preqent work he has contrived to improve upon iii, fir't efftrt, succecsful as ...

... [E1101H THE F315-c50.] For evening dress the two folowing are of anew Style. The 4rst i6 in yellow t, Oknet, the body made rather ehort at the waist ad roaud, with a sash; the front has wide loose folds that join in small gathers retained at the bottom of the waist. The body is trimmed round by a black lase bertha, retained infront by a bunch Of besrtsasse. The sleeves are in the ?? style, ...

... 1igttr t itr The Dublin university 2M1agazine. No. CCXL.-WIm. S, Orr and Co., Amen-corner, Paternoster-row, London. The present number of the Dublin. completing the fortieth volume of that esteemed publication, presents its readers with the usual quantum of entertaining and instructive matter. It sppropriately opens with a page or two in honour of the Bright Spirit of Christmas, whose ...

... Jiasbion antb Farictit. THE COURT. O3sORNoE, TUESDAY.-Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Leiningen, and the Royal children, were out in the grounds yesterday. The Court will leave Osborne to-morrow for Windsor Castle. CHiRISTMAS REVELS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.-The Christ- mas revels of the olden time will be again held at Windsor this year, and with a novelty which recalls the time of the ...

... partru. WHERE IS HOTME. EoMB?-Where is home? go, ask the gladsome child, He'll point to yon wood-circled mansion, where The light of heaven on his young eyes first smil'd, And, gaily answering, say, kMy home is there! But when a few brief years their work have wrought, And Death, and Death's companion, Change, have come, And his sad heart the bitter truth is taught, That boyhood's play-place ...

... ?? - -- Tags.. MA. The ghost of pantomiee-for where now is pantomime- in the flesh, having been painted into a shade by pano-is ramas F-the ghost is about to re-appear; sad in the SC meanwhile there is but little novelty, and that of then meekest in character. A Phenomenon in a Smock- a frock-(why'riot A Category in a Check-shirt t) has been ri played at the LYCEUM. The Smock-frock, like Pompa ...