... 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 ...

... PRINCESS'S THEA TRE. The art of getting up nobly, picturesquely, and oor- rectly, a work of dramatic genius-of enshrining the per- sonages of the poet as they would probably have appeared in the country and the age in which the scene is laid-this art and the practice of it are of very recent origin upon our stage, certainly Rot dating back, at the furthest, more than a score of years. ...

... OL YMPIC THEA TRE. Australian subjects seem likely to become a fertile source of dramatic representations; and really, considering the extent and freshness of the field opened up by the Diggings, we have a right to look for something novel, exciting, and cha. racteristic at the hands of our theatrical writers. There ic no doubt but that the strange jumble of society congregated at the gold ...

... DRAM- . i ZFRENCHI P'LAS.-ST. ~YJ~llES89 T8EAR.) The entertatimenits at this theatre I sitted of no less than 'foui 'piedea-regufnir P.Wals, 9y forces. Two ofther- ivierpj Rdegner, andu York; on, une R ; thq otiher two wrvr nqw. ,5Tbey. wete by ,;dassnsaptily: chosen; neiei thoe one noar, thu otberssesg y r erebles forthe rotesquebuffqonery ef Moneeurita l, whitb, lsughable' cs it is, has ...

... LITEBA TUBE. ,The Tell- ale; or, Sketches of Domestic Life it the United Stotds. By H. TiWusrA and GRACE GRzEENwOOD. TKe Cabin and Parlov: or, Slaves and Masters. By, J. THORNToN RANDOLPH. The Wide, Wide World. By Miss W ixtERMLL. Clarke, Beeton, and Co. Three imnpbrtations from America, all in various degrees showing the extraordinary progress which the writers of fiction iin that country ...

... T psNNY THEATRES AGAIN. I . ay . AV-z__ -C^ I~ ?? Cornelius Glover, of York-street, Westminster, eared to receive judgment upon a Summons chargiog ,pp *db knowingly letting a certain tenement for the >oset of being used as an unlicensed theatre. The d was convicted at this court a short time ago in a accoe of 201 for keeping an unlicensed theatre in York- peSS Ybst upon an appeal to the ...

... OtIjsC. AND THEX DhcA .3. AT Manohester. . . (FPOS OUR OWN CORRESPONDNNT.) J TONATEE ROYAL.-There has been no change in the ?? from our notice of last week, Uncle Tom's cabtn and the pantomime of Whifimdegon and Ais Cat being continued. On Thursday night the PantOmime btas prforued for the forty-fourth time, and at present there is no indication of its withdrawal. We-have much Plesuire in ...

... I THE AMllERICAN DRAMA, &c. (From Peabody's American Chronicle of January 15th.) NBaLo's.-This theatre on Monday evening last was thronged to witness the debut of Sontag as La Figlia del Reggimento. The greatest curiosity was felt to see Sontag as the Daughter of the Regiment, as the same character had been sustained during the previous week by Albonj at the rival establishment. Sontag is ...

... MUSIC AND THE, DRAMA AT Manchester. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL. - Uncle Tom's Cabin, adapted expressly for this establishment, from Mrs. Beecher Stowe's popular work of the same name, was produced for the first time on Saturday, the 29th ultimo, with the following cast*-Mr. Shelby, Mr. W. J. Evans; George Shelby, Master F. Payne (and in the third act Mr J. G. Shore); Simon ...

... n sCOURT ANDb 3ASOH RETtrkl OF THEZ COURT vo BUCKINGHAM IrALArE -Her Ma.Qesty and his Royal HighConeii Prince Albert, t'ith their Royal Highnesaio the P wri e f ssteO Princess Royal, Prince Alfrtd, tie princesses Alice, Helena, and, Louisa, and, Prince Arthur, left Windsor Castle a jew, minutes before one o'clocki on Monday atter- noon, for tbe station of %he Great Western Railway in Windsor. ...

... IIAYMARKET THEATRE. The production on the public stage of Sir E. B. Lytton's comedy, written for the Guild of Literature and Art, was regarded with some apprehension, not arising from distrust of the sterling qualities by which it is enriched, but from that subordination of the female interest to the development of character which its immediate purpose had required, and from the circumstance ...

... The Brsitish Quartorey, dealing with the questions of the day, and ever bringing scholarship and thought to bear upon the practical and the actual state of things, comes always welcome, never more so than this month. The article of the number which will be read with the greatest pleasure for its wit, and with the greatest profit for its reasoning-is on R. W. Mackay's Religious Development in ...