... On Wednesday evening the second meeting for the present season was held at the society's house, Adelphi Mr. Thomas Hoblym, F.R.S.,presided. Mr. SrTANnuaw proceeded to give the announced lecture on the subject of auriferous ores and Mr. Berdan's recent inventions for erashing them. The leeturer devoted the earlierportion of his lecture to the history of gold discovery, from the gold, fields of ...

... AXUMSEHNT ISTE. (sBOm OUR OWN COxBPQSSPNxBeT.) TwuarnT ROYAL.-The favourable reception accorded to the operatic company, consieting of Mdlte. Carado'i IlerrpFormei, Herr Reiehardt, Mdllc. Zimmerman, &c., some weeks ago, on the occasion of their visit to Mauchcotcr, induced them to improve the intercourse with our ?? g citicece by cntering into another short engagement which commenced on Monday ...

... . | (FsOM OVER Owiv COUESPONMDENT.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 12.-On Monday last Jullien prodaced hie American Quadrille, and great as have been the plaudits: with which the prodactions of Jullien have been greeted in the old vorld, vething more hearty or more heartfelt ever greeted him than-it did ?? this occasion. The production islike all that Jullien doesi it.is a composite affair-a variety of ...

... THEATRICALS A-ND AMUSEXENTS IN Sheffield. (Bose onv? OVn? CoRELSPONDENT). ThElTrE BOv)M..-(Lcssee, Mir. Thomas Youdan.)-On Monday evening last our townsman, Mr. Youdan, opened thlis estalblishment for the summer season, and produced, as a holiday treat, a new comic pantomime, entitled Cinderaella qf ti/e Crystal Slipfer; or, Karleqsuius and the Tei of thes ist, which has been put upon the ...

... THEATRES, &&- -r- drama, in three acts, called Vie Casket of Jewels, and announced in the bills as Slew, was produced here on Monday eveniong with equivocal success. The recom- mendations of the piece were indeed so slight that it was inm- possible to imagine why it should have beep drawn forth from the obscurity in which it has long been buried. The drama, it seems, is the production of ...

... AMENICAN 'THEATRICALS. (Prom Peabody's American Chronicle of January 1st.) BROADWAY THEATRE.-The dehu46f Madame Alboni in Ceaerentola, at the Broadway Theatre on Monday evening, was a triumph. A crowded house anxiously awaited the appearance of the debutante, and when the curtain rose, exhibiting the great artist to the audience, the theatre from pit to dome echoed with the deafening applause. ...

... LIT ERA TU RE. -R_ ArrrXTURES OF SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B, RAJAH OF SARAWAK. By GEORGE FOaGO, Secretary to the National Monuments' Society. EfGingham Wilson, 1853. Mr. Foggo declares in the opening of this nubication that the appointment of a Royal Comuission to inquire into the repeated charges brought by Mr. Hume against Sir James Brooke is an event of great importance to the caouse of ...

... gPORTZNG ITERA~tU . I nt g5 W vol Fee RumtY.-This agreeable periodleal, ce ti n of the article by Craven. entitled The P4,hio. e~e jhi ?? less than a farrago of affected ,o t, wbich' is 0tii ,rdlY ?? the printer's Ink or compositor's time, a fair quantity of entertaining matter. The New yrox is pleasingly narrated by Colonel Napier, and ay ' ip end Areesureas will be read with interest. in his ...

... LUMIEBY V. GYE. QUEEN'S BENCH-JuexE 3. This was an action brought by the former lessee of her Majesty's Theatre, agaiust the proprietor of the Covent-garden Opera, to recover damages for having caused Mademoiselle Wagner to break an agreement which she had entered into with the plaintiff to sing at his theatre. The defendant demurred to the plaintiff's declaration, on the ground that aol ...

... CE N IN E CO S SIP. -BY AN OLD ACTRESS. CHAPTER XXIIL-DISCURSIvE 3My connexion with Stanton's company led to my introduc- tion to poor Charles Baker. He was then a young, fresh-coloured, curly-headed fellow, and greatly admired by the ladies. He was an effective elocutionist, and, indeed, in later years, the cor- rectness of his speaking was the distinguishing characteristic of his ...

... THEATRES, Ace DrurY-lane.--Novelty is the order, of the day with r. R. T. Smith, the lessee The latestandmostinterestig leertis else enoagelnent of Herr Heogler, the renowned rop-e lancer, whose inmimitable and most artistic evolutions on the e-ds! de tension nightly excite the admiration and delight of ioowded audiences. At the morning performance on Wednes- lay, the juvenile audience who ...

... (,rOR ?? oua cOWNasa'OMow0DET.) THEATRE RtOYAL.-MatCs 2'empesta, the new drama, has continued to be the otaple amusement of our play-going public since our last. Our manager strikes when the iron is hot, but the moment the metal gives indication of a falling temperature, or rather, in anticipa- tion of any such declension, hie changes his hand and forges soms other weapon wherewith to attack ...