... 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 ...

... TE: AME RIPAN DRAXTA I (From Peahedy's jA er a Chronceq of February 19.) WALLACS's THEATRE.-With the exception of a single performance of Old Heads and Young Hearts, the bill has remained the same at this house as it was in our last issue. On Tuesday evening The .La% of , ors was represented for the thhteenth time. The caste w sas, of course, the same as before. Wilst we admit that pr r. ...

... SlENlING Tl-RRATENIING LETTEDRJ to Pknede AIlbeft. At Ilow-street, oa Friday, Edw Batei's of ii6, Wtlbeibk-sfrt tt Cavendish-sqdere, wia charged with senin a tahe aoeting letter ta his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The prisoner, who has been frequently at the Mansion-house and Bow-etreet on simnilar charges, underwent. a years imprisonment in 1850-51, for sending four lette'rs to the Pfinee, ...

... LITBE1A TUBB. r Vse IstAmus Of Daritn in 1852. JoarnaioftheEzpediioan of Ingyiry br the Junction of the Atlantic and Facdijc I Ocean.. ly LIoNri GisnousN. London: Saundess I end Stanford. Mr. Gisborne, the civil engineer, having been com- missioned by Messrs. Fox and Henderson to inquire into the practicability of- making a large ship canal .through the Isthmus of Darien, has here given the ...

... PROPOSED NATIONA LLIBRARY AND I JUMBEUM OF INVENTIONS. The following correspondence has lately taken place on the above-named subject TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. The humble address of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce. Showeth-That your memorialists have heard with sincere gratification, that your Royal Highness has added another proof to the many already existing of your warm ...

... DRUR Y-LANE THEATRE. The manager of onr national theatre-in name-took his benefit last night, before an audience which completely filled the house, and witnessed a gymnastie juggle and a gymnastic feat, with a new dramai, the utter 'inanity of wbich could only be equalldd'by the dreirihndss of the hew ballet. The School for Kisg8'was one bf those melancholy pro- ductions which sometimes pass ...

... TV D61JS. TEGaaS IMPRovxn PrioxouTh PaEcETon. By JAmcs HASKINS. Tegg and Co., Queen-street, Cheapside.-There is scarcely any instrument that presents such complex forms of study as the piano, or that demands such car=efl patient, and judicious practice. Unflagging exercise ise absohtely necessary at the commencement, not iberely for the sake of acquiring digital dexterity, but for equalising ...

... UgoLU ToM.-Among the thousand and one illustrations of Mrs. Beecher Stowes extraordinarily popular romance, the plate before us is the only work of importance or preten- sion which has come under our notice. The subject is not named ; but no one who sees the upturned negro face, working with mingled religious aspirations and mundane woes, and notes the well-used Bible in the swarthy hand, can ...

... XtySIC and the DllRAMA t0 XACHST:ER| (FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) TaJrSTRE Rons.-On Wednesday the performances were for the benefit of Harlequin and Columbine; on Thursday iti B3/os awas played; and on Friday the Brothers Hayes. The rautomnila is ~to be played for the last time on Wednesday next, 0t a very successful run. Mr. Chambers, the treasurer, makes isU appeal to the public on Monday ...

... IPROVINCIAL THATRICALS. (FiOm OUR OWN COREESPONDRNTS.) AERR3DEgN.-Theatre Boyal.-The season here has been pacesssul. The company is a good one aid work well together, The members of the company comprise-Messrs. Paumier, Pollock, Elliott. Clilford, Brindal, Merchant, Burton Osborne, &c., and Mesdames Pollock, Clifford, Merchant, Burton, and Miss E. Ryder, and the sisters R. and S. Balcarri. The ...

... PUBLIC AB[USEMENTS AT LIVERPOOL. (ROME OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). T1HEATRE ROYAv.-Belhni's opera La Sonaemsabila was produced on Monday evening ifi a style of completeness that we halve never seen equalled out of London. Miss Louisa Pyne as Amino was the very personification of excelletce, and both as aegards acting and singing, quite ans faet. Her beautiful rendering of the favourite music ...