... 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 ...

... ; ! 8,OI OF; BRrI ARTIST& qcity ohi''of Artistp lrtivo o peil t}tjr *6;bitioR in good time this season, and have got, on shale, every good set of pictur8es ;egter. ,Ter er 4.ro abs ,sntess-such as Mr. Anthony, who has eased to be:4q414, o of the society-wheee 1o0s is Roticeablo; . b utt the wls Sr.f1s44,4 and the t result is the iaveiag attractivesersi. TTI gsj4.0 of corporate purpose-of ...

... A THEN3-UM INSTITUTJ. A meeting of gentlemen connected with literature and journalism was held on Saturday afternoon, in the rooms of the Athenoaum Insurance Company, in Sackville-street, for the purpose of a eoniersational discussion on the features and the merits of the newly-started Athenanum Institute. From what fell from Mr.' Richmond, of the Athenaeum Insurance Com- pany, who took the ...

... EXHiBBINION OF THE NA 7IONAL IN STITUTION OF FIRE ARTS. The sixth season of this society of painters wras inaugurated upon Saturday by the usual private view at the Portland-rooms. There are as many as 337 works in oil suspended on the walls, with 63 water-colour drawings in the room appropriated to that department. As a whole, the collection can hardly be. deemed satisfactory. Like the ...

... REVIEWI OF ?? soolks. My Nov-a. By SIR E. BULWEI LYTTON. Black- wood, Edinburysg. This, the last and certainly not the best of Sir Lytton Bulwer'o productions, has already appeared in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine. It is Low issued to the public in the more orthodox style of a four-volume novel. Tile tale is so disjointed that it fails to rivet our attention, and the persons introduced ...

... LITERARY 71SOELLAmEmA. TnE A diore Co-PiRwv ONvals, o *'Ardiaes from AxmeTica report thkt ?? illternatioural treaty seciring the in- telleotual and literary rightb of the two countries from piracy has been signed. Sam, fe)rms are still wanting b complete this great act of justice; but these are almost matters of course, and it is believed that nothing can prevent the treaty from becoming law. ...

... F rASHIONS FOIL MARCH. [Abridged ifrom Le Yollet, Jausl die Grand Mionde.] Th6 Spanish s'tyle is the order of the day; and this is no evil,-for it has itgrace-peculiar to itself, and is an agreeable innovation. It is affirmed that much twste is bein diplayd i themanfactre f pssementeries, to laces will be mn great demand for trinmsiig mantelets. We have already seen at the opera some manti-les ...

... FINB ARTS. There has recently been on view in the show-rooms of Messrs. ColDaghi and Co. a noble work of art, Le Juge. ment de Marie Antoinette, by Paul Delaroche. The nabject, which is scarcely conveyed with accuracy by the Fganch title, is that of Marie Antoinette, after her trial and her sentence, being conducted back from the ferocious revolutionary tribunal to the Conoiargerie. From ...

... TAdm SCRAPBOOK COLUMN. Tim Lasxs o0 MiscEscans.-The toilettes of most of the great provincial towns of France are fir from being Parisian-they are generally too gaudy anid irap. panttheywanthai'monyandrepose. Thefinerylsoften worn with great grace and piquancy, but the very notion that it is finery spoils all. if a -woman's dress strikes before the woman, she is overdresed. If the eye in. ...

... The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford having advertised for verses to be recited at the installation of the Earl of Derby, the following have been sent in. Onnia vel medium flant mare. A statesman quitted his official house, Though he had never thought to quit it more, And stamped upon the lowest step, and said- Let all things be a deluge after ma- We all took office, Pakingtora, ...

... L1TNRATVRE ST. JOlKTNS INDIAN ACHIPiELAGO.* A large and growing interest has been renetliycreated in the a ofluirs of ?? Asia. Parliament and tie pres have both been ofteu called upon to express an opinion upon transactions which had taken place in that part of the world, which they were, however, little qualified to do for want of adequate information. Nor do we raention thitas a reproach. To ...

... 7778.1E2 )US 1Y R AL AVADEMY OF h The kint apoaert.of this ieason, for tit, eg tid of the sitdaptj ef RW Royal Academy, wsi4tven at tho Hatio ?? on Saturday smorulghp her cipl article of the programme was lare iete tlx frorn. on- Dr. Crothi 'Oratorio Palestine, *bleh occnpltd'neasly her the whole of the first part of the concert. This choie, we om think, wua not very judiclous. Palestine ...