... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I THE SCBA-P;eBOOK COLU]XW. CHALMElRs ON AuTOGIARn BEGGING.-In the last volume of Doctor Chalmemrs COrrespondence, there is a letter ia which the dector condemns the practice of beg. ging and giving autographs. He writes:- Your second letter of May 6th, I placed among the letters to which I might reply; because I felt a wish At the time to let you know the grounds of my antipathy to a ...

... ITHEATRICAL AND MUSICAL EXAMINER, The ADELPHI THEATRE has wisely returned to that class of drama for which its resources are best adapted, and to which the liberal additions lately made to those resources by Mr Webster may help to give a higher and more legitimate character. The boundaries between legitimate and ille. gitimate drama, indeed, are in these days very difficult to distinguish. The ...

... 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, ...

... THEE FASHIONS. [rROX TEK FRESSoN.] Bfsoques continue in great vogue for fill dress or untreos : light or heavy materials are all made with basques. For insturce :-A dress of embroidered muslins, the skirt trimmed with three filuncem, on, which is a runuing deRian, corm po-ed of spr~gs or the bend-wveed. The body is mace quite fiut. so as to show the enmbroidery shat surrounds it, the tasqaes ...

... I PRINCE ALBERT'S FXMIBITION FOR 1853- We consider great blame attaches to the military authorities for having ordained the eneamnpmueut of several thousands of men upon one of the most ULI- healthy Bpoti that could be found in the vicinity of London. The Ciobham morass will be fruitful of agae rheumatisim, aud those rmany other afflcive and dan- gerous diseases originated by exposure in a ...

... EVlWS - l01 'O I- OK : S1 3XEVIA- Or ?? LoBrENZO BnONI :oio, ..PASSAd;S cx TM'E LI AN ITAI.IAT. Co ?? -This lsn-artobio.. grap),ic work, written by a Piedmontese citizen, and edited by a friend. It commences, with the authorts; earliest remembiances, and manny,:of *the. eharacter figuring ?? in the narrative are the school- fellow acqnaintancts he formed when a student at the Royal iiit~d'zof ...

... DRAMJA. 1FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mademoiselle Rachel had her benefit last night, when M. Lego&ivd's play, Louis de Lignarolles, was per- formed for the first time in this country. This piece was produced at the TheAtre Franqais fifteen years ago, and, with the fine performance of Mdlle. Mars in the part of the heroine (though that great actress was then near the end of her long and ...

... -: ape, ROYAL, ITALIAN OPERA. its bhiast -BENVENUTO CELLINI. -. ,uld M. Berlioz's opera, Benvenuto Cellini, was pro- I l as duced on Saturday evening. The charactei of the 3 as piece, as well as the manner of its reception, con- the firmed the opinion we had formed from other works the previously performed it this country, -that Berlioz,- Ige, though possessed of,'great qualities, is 'not ...

... ILITERARY MISCELLANEA; ?? ft - ?? OATAsIA.-Catanlais alargetowu,contaliingapopulationt of fifty thousand, may fine buildinge, many soldiers, many churches. and some of the fiaest convents in Sicily. The monastery of San Beneditto Is the most extensive establish- ment of the kid 1[ have yet seen. Hlere the monks, who are chiefly of noble families, live In royal style. If I had money enough, ...

... PUBLIC AlWUSEXENTS AT LIVERPOOL. (FonR OURT OWN CORRtfsPOrw rar.) THEATRE RoyA.-The tncheste'r Literary 'and Dramatic Society gave their promised amnibeut ptfot'auce on Sataeday, before faimited and 'diser-iein'atirng audience of fifty or sixty persons. A very brief soqoaintance with these talented amateurs proved that we Were most grievously mistaken in supposeng them to be the sames who hid ...