... DRAJMA. THE GERMAN PLAYS. The second season of the German Plays com- menced last evening with Egnsont. The unbroken atten- tion of a full audience to a rather dull play, which lasted four hours, must have proved to the most sceptical that the taste for German literature in the country is a great fact. There is too much declamation and too little action in Egmone to render it per se fery ...

... MULSIC. PHILHARNGIONIC SOCIETY. is An extra concert, by-fhe special commadla of her a Majesty, given last niight, cbcluddd the Philhar- monic Society.s season wiith great 6ldae. The follow- le ing was the programme of the performances: S P.ART 1, le Overture Song with Chorus, You spotted ,A Midsunimor e h Snalts, MisstouLoaPyneand iNigLt'sDream. }endelssohn Mdams ViaTdot., ?? rs Nottulna, ...

... Last night was produced-said to be from the pen of Mr. TALFoURD-one of those extraordinary jumbles of extra- vaganza, parody, and burlesque, for which the gentleman in question has obtained a species of reputation not at all on- merited, as Mr. TALPOURD appears to us to write the most and the worst jokes of any professional penman of the theatres. Not that these jokes are bad on any score ...

... THEATRN. ROYAL . ?? ?? ?? _ I . . . I .- I--- I- It is always a pleasing task to have to record the success of bonourable and well-intentioned effort in any branch of speculative enterprise, and surely not the less gratifying be- cause that success has been achieved in ministtring to the intellectual entertainment and delight of a discerningipublic. TIe decline of the drama, and the ...

... - THE, 6BEAT EXHIBITION. I. - -, ?? . The ?? of visitors from England and the provinces would now appear to have fairly set in, and we hope to sea it incieasing from day to day. The attendance yesterday was the largest and the most profitable that has yet taken place, amounting as it did to nearly ten thousand per- sons. Comparatively few of these were holders of season tickets, so that the ...

... LAYS OF THE TIMES.-No. IL - PROGUBS8S. When tbroujh the land ?? sped, ?? hlgfly from its vifid t.hink you then the evl Rod X To Liverpool. protected by dark Ignorance, B3ut trembling lest the bright advance Of freedom should at length entrance E'en Liverpool; To guard 'gainst such alarming thought, Some sapient beings vainly sought To check the progrela, freedom taught In Liverpool. Impelled ...

... 7LITERA TURE. Co21triblutions to tle Edinburgh evieieto. By FnANCIS J.xYFaEY. Complete in one Volume. Longmans. Wtith all its faults, the Bdinmlj y71 Revietv must always be looked upon as one of the moost important features of the literature of the nineteenth century. Ay e may have got beyond its teaching now; ?? mlay be able to point out other periodicals which are more on a Ic-vol with the ...

... OAALOW COLLEGE-ANNUAL EXHIBITIO,,Eh (Alridgecdfrosa fits 2;;erch Reporter).'I Academy day at Carlow College (last Thursd'ay), wag d brilliant in the extreme, and afforded another unquestionable | proof of the rapid progress of this 'famous establishmaent' in i public estimation, and displayed treasures, literary and 8Ci- entific, at the disposal of the pupils who are so fortunate as ( to ...

... ST. JAMES'S THEA TRE. - -W The ?? which last year attended the first appear- ance in London of a regularly constituted German dramatic company, and the generally expressed wish that the pleasure they afforded might be renewed, has induced the indefatigable Mr. MITCHELL, who has always the gratification of the public at heart, to throw open again the doors of his ele- gant theatre to ...

... DgATH OF LADY CAROLINE ADELAIDE QUIN.-It is our inful duty to announce the death of the Lady Caroline Adelaide, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Dan- ne, which took place at Adare Manor this morning, after 3 ?? but severe illness. This sad event brings deep afflic- tion into ber noble family, robbing it of one who already, at bse age of fifteen, had become its ornament and pride; ...

... IMl UUMULwU, flu U ?? -U-t. -. . .. . . X-l I . to (From Le Follet.) age i The adaptation of the fashion of past times to the coa- me 11 tume of the present day contributes to produce most aqi an charming models. Thus, the dress worn in the eighth rer M' century by Marguerite of Provence-the flat body encir- cOI to cling the hips-to which is added the sleeves of the time wil 'sof Raphael, the ...