... rrs YSBRnD0oN ANUNa' gan Iorie,'tlb Glan AIed. I It There are four or five points which should never be l slost sight of in estimating the merits of any poetical a scompo ition. As poetry is a very powerful moral 1. agent, exercising great influence for good or for evil, t h and forming, as it generally does, an index to the , n moral condition of society, it is of the first importance tnto ...

... LUMIEBY V. GYE. QUEEN'S BENCH-JuexE 3. This was an action brought by the former lessee of her Majesty's Theatre, agaiust the proprietor of the Covent-garden Opera, to recover damages for having caused Mademoiselle Wagner to break an agreement which she had entered into with the plaintiff to sing at his theatre. The defendant demurred to the plaintiff's declaration, on the ground that aol ...

... FROM ABERDEEN to STONEHAVEN (and Intermediate Stations), DRUMLITHIE, FORDOUN, LAURENCEKIRK, MONTROSE, AND BRECHIN— By the 12.15, p.m., Train from ABERDEEN to all the abovenamed places; and. By the 3, p.m.. Excursion Train to STONEHAVEN and Intensudiate Stations. FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY Third Class. First Class. Aberdeen to Montrose or Brechin, 2s 6d 4s Od ~ to Laurencekirk, Fordoun, or ...

... LITERA TUBE. Sam Slicik's Jise Saws a'rd Modewn Instances. Hurst and Blackett. The author of 4Sam Slick isa writer who has kept up his popularity as well as any of his contem- poraries. We are used now-a-days to the exhaustion of good notions; so many men first give genuinely the very best of their creative and inventive abun- dance, and then, finding that attractive, dilute it, and give ...

... ~FINART8 I' r~ d ' TkE- -iW SELl' COLL:BCTION ?? : Thi. iswidg ?? w'eek some2.noficeablaitcolle iod 1g, of pict.tZ Ahtve'.been put iup to the hammer. re collaetidtr -pidtuies, carvings, autographbi. ai A objects oi-viAti`; deseribed as othe Fuseli collection, re has nothetigto d`o withithe painter roach butis rII 'describe~part of-tbecoletitn-tirtthOPro' r, perty of the Counts , P - of Fuseli ...

... 2. ADELPEI. E The legitimate drama, transplanted here from the y Haymarket by Mr. Webster, has of late almost superseded s- that class of piec s for which the Adelphi has so long been x- specially renowned. That the old spitit of the place, how- !, ever, is not quite extinct, was proved last night by the pro- Y duction of a new melodrama, ?? with real Adelphi effects a (to quote the play ...

... I BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND .: . AGRIOULTURAL ASSOCIATION. The second exbibition of tbisassociatiop, which e this (Wednesday) afternoon at Pennycomequick, a sio'G. distance from Plymouth, promises to be, both in extent and importance, one which cannot fail to be of great interest to those engaged in agricultural pursuits. The number of implements which have arrived is large, and comprises many ...

... RXOYAL LENTE1RTAINMgENT AT GLOU- I(ESTER ROUSE. Ili: Xlolyil Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave a !i; i :iuiit o1 Saturday laqt to their Majesties the i!CI0 AQiueei of Hanover, her Royal Highness thc Duchess °~ 1SuAl l ihc S' revie Highness tile Princess Adelaide of If ?? liihi Rl)al Highness tile Duke of Cambridge, tfii r 1 I 11 cersss the Duchess of Cambridge and the l yand tbebi Royal ...

... Syaslitoa aub naricticS. TiHE COURT. THE QUEEiN'S STATE BALL,. 'Itnr Queen gave, on Wednesday evening, at Bucking- hlain Pa lace, a state ball, whicih was very tliotserously :1ndi brilliaitly atteinded, tihe ?? aitountittg to ahout l1,900, a Hid coalplrising teie Royal family and loral isirci'sI the clinol of die diplomatic corps, and ceiginers ozt (listiilctionl staying, ill this cOtlitliW, ...

... 7 The Harmonic union, Exeter-hall. Iridolin, adapted from Schiller's ballad, ier, Gangsch demn Eissnhialfliir, by Paigrave Simpson, lisbenarct to music by Mr. Frank Mori, and- onl Thlsurday the HamI i Unlion performed it, we beliets, for the first time at Elxeter- ball1. 13y an Oversight with reference to the hour of commenee' insit a great portion of Iridolire Was over by the time we found ...

... CENUINE COSSIP. I BY AN OLD AOMhIESS. CHAPTER XIV-CURIOUS CHARACTERS. 11r. Meggett was the leading tragedian in Mrs. Baker's cotn- pany. He was an actor of considerable dramatic power and effect. Cumberland, who lived at Tunbridge Wells, frequently witnessed his performances, and pronounced him to be equal in ability to John Kemble. Meggett obtained an engagement at the Haymarket Theatre, ...

... I PUBLIC ANEUSEMlBD7TS in MANCHESTER. (aROM.-OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) As a proof that the public taste for the Shakaperian drama has not altogether decayed among us, it may be mentioned that it has been illiustrated on our boards upon four different occa- sions this week. On Monday we had Romeo and Jlliet, with Miss Faucit as the heroine, in which character she fully sus- tained the reputation ...