... REVIEWS OF BOORS. SAUNTRqINGS IN AND ABOUT LoDoNo. By' MAX CGHLESINGEr. Cooke, Straned. -Perhaps no one is more suited to write a descriptive work on London and its inhabitants than an inquiring, impartial, axd edu- cated foreigner. He will ferret out peculiarities in our -wstoms and manners which we ourselves do not notice; hr, will visit places that, although containing curious and ...

... 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 ...

... BIRMINGHAM POULT1iY EXHIBITION. The exhibition of the many kinds of Domestic Poultry, in H connection with the Birmingham Cattle and Poultry Show, H noticed in last week's Mercury, is stated decidedly to have been altoge ther unrivalled, and the largest spectacle Of itst kind ever yet witnessed in any, portion of the world. We at take the following account from the Midland C'oaatieasHerald wit ...

... PoTRTE. - - a D1ULCE DOItAM. P (CosirOUtE ) O} Ar4 hornelessr Ubt o gbet all Bad 1a1di low, b. l1 & Vfoice that telteth Of want and woe'. el 0h , D ole, Julce Domaum! f So dth many a maiden gay, tF As her fingers light o'er ner hau 5rt)'trg play; BFt her glad eoes speak to the intetnia g throng, m And Say, she hath Fyet to learn her song, b. 0 1 Duke. Dnuke DOMUxn! 111 So slth many a ...

... POFTRY. THE ROSE AND THE DAISY. (coN?TaEs.) A crinmsm rose of odour rare In jl ly's bower bloomed; A 1'i~v h-, t o endI TF, !iv? 'I'getl recee . oi was er innedI , r-e, o fade on ldyv's breast, &-as torn from ;rolli~sel bower The modest daisy 'neath the hedge Enjoyed its tranquil hour. NIGHT. Mysterious night! when our first Darent knew Thee, from report Divine, taid heard thy nsme. Did he ...

... 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 ...