... ADELPH EA’ RE. Mz following up the liberality and enterprise that enabled him lately to bring Miss Louisa Pyne and an operatic company befor: the public, has now induced Mr Sims Reeves to grace his boards. This distioguished vocalist, perhaps the leading English tenor of the day, mate his first appearance on Friday evening, as Henry Bertram, in the national opera of “Guy Maonering,” Mrs Sims ...

... ——— EXUIBITION OF THE ROY AL , SCOTTISH “(Secoxp Noticr } In traversing the large room of the Exhibition, a few morn- ings ago, we were startled out of our equilibrium by perceiving one of the most auestionabie productioas in the whole series of paintin gs, labelled, “ Sold* to the Association.’ We at once perceived that the intimation was both redundant and insufficient. The in fact, of the ...

... THEATRE-R TA One of the finest dramatic spectacles it has ever been our | lot to witness in a provincial theatre, was produced last night at this establishment, under the title of the Jewess, or The Council of Constance. The numbers engaged in the perfor- mance—the quantity of valuable armour employed, in order the more completely to transport the spectator to the stirring period which forms ...

... a very remote age—an age when learning was totally unknown, save to and to them but in a limited degree. The Sovereign and other possessors of lands being unable to com- plete grants by signature, adopted a device, an impression «f which apon wax, appended to documents, gave them validity. To the present day this is still the custom in cases of grants from the Crown, which do not bear the ...

... lately purchased in the Irish Encumbered tates Court. Mr Hudson is largely engaged in mining *pecu- lations in different parts of Ircland, and is at present working she Glengols lead mines in the neighbourhood of OughterarJ. The Merlin Park marble quarries are supposed not to be sur- material, and Mr Hudson is about to work them on such an passed in Ireland, as regards the supply and quality ...

... The thirtieth report of the Commissioners of Her Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues—being their first report under the Act 14 and 15 Vict., c. 42—has just been issued. By tho act of 1851, the management of the hereditary posses- sions of the Crown was separated from that of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, the First Commissioner of the Joint Board taking the latter department, and the ...

... LITERATURE HOUSEHOLD WORDS, Tae claims of this journal to the first place in the front rank of our serial literature keeps pace with its growing popularity. The present part is an excellent specimen of the tact and ability with which it has always been conducted. It is to difficult matter often to discover the gifted pen of its distin- guished author, and, with such an attraction, we need not ...

... EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. The exhibition for the year 1853 of the Royal Scottish | Academy, which was opened on Saturday, if less attractive in some respects than some of its more recent mani- fests animprovement on the partofseveral of our artists, which isin th hizhe-t degree satisfactory and encuarag og. Tasrs are few paintings that stan! out in isolated granieur, of trans- cendant ...

... sell a mixture of coffee and chicory, provided it be described upon the wrapper as “ Coffee Mixture.”—Mark Lane Express, Fiona correspondent of the Jarerness Courier, in contradicting a statement in that Paper, that there was only one of Flora descendants living at the present time—(Miss Macleod, Stein, Skye), says, there were four others living, but within the last few days death bas removed ...