... LITE RA TUBE. 1.¼c 0,hies tf the ilea-se~ of flapshcrg aogicictt its oct01 I ILinie Surrecs, By F. W. -NinILK~AV 'Chapmnal. Mr. Newacan, wvhile acktiowlcdginlg that iallt 1-c-at cmpires have been born in crime,2 and grant- ong~ 'hat thle Housec of Bourbon preceded the House of Ileupsburg in personal wickedness; that the House of Boiioparto seems anxious not to ho behind it that tlce 1-ouse ...

... MUSiC. !nt CONCERT FOR THE ITALIAN REFUGEES. to The concert in aid of the Italian Relief Fund took W place at St. Martin's-hall last evening. It was a a well got up and agreeable entertainment; and, from .er the appearance of the roomn, which was quite fall, it must have been satisfactory in its result. -A number Me of eminent performers gave their assistance. Signor uBottesini, we understand, ...

... THE PICTURES SELECTED BY THE PRIZEHOLDERS-OF THE A RT- USION FOR 1853. This exhibition-the last of the year-was opened to private view on SLturday, iu the Suffolk-street Gallery. The number of works in oil exhibited is 140. The water-colour room contains thirty-eight specimens. There are besides, placed in the prin- cipal room, several engravings and statuettes, the subscribers' plate being ...

... You all know me, all Europe knows me, [we quote from the last number of Aspen Court by Shirley Brooks] all the world knows the name of Maximilien St. Croix d'Or; therefore, I would Rot lie to you. Attend. With this modest logic, M. Maximilien took a chair in the centre of the admiring circle. You all know, he said, that grand and glorified opera of the heavenly Carl Maria Von Weber, I ...

... MECHAPNICS AND MECHANIS.,V.* This little treatise on an important subject, mechanics and mechanism, is one of a very useful class of books published in considerable abundance in the present day, evidently on the diffusion of useful knowledge principle, for, commencing as it does with the most elementary rules or axioms in mechanics, it advances step. by step to some of the most important and ...

... PROVINCIAL THEATRIQALS. (not 015 OwEr COBBEsP00DE1T.) BnADnOmD.-Colosseemm.-The departure of the American Brothers has furnished an opening for the engagement, fropm last Monday, for twelve nights, of Herr Chantrill and his Son, in their classical acrobatic drawingrooom entertainment. Mr. Pedley, sentimental vocalist anl concertina player, is. an excel lent member of the company, and,, along ...

... MEivTAL POR2R4Irs.* Some endeavour is made in this work to reduce sharacter to a law-to merge, in short, all its dif- ferences in a point of indifference. Human nature is, we are told, in all its varieties still the same. These varieties are here exhibited in biographi- oal essays having real men and one woman (Jenny Lind) for their objects. The members of the sterner sex are sixteen in ?? ...

... LrIMMATUDY. Here isea work, alike 'etreaintg anu honour uopn the age that receives, as upon the a whoe bestows it. The gifi of a thing of beauty that is ajoy for ever. We shell not attempt to enter upon a econsderaftiom of the archit- tectnucal theory of Msr. Rulsyin; ore leave that to the ar- chitects; and with it no light task if earnestly and nonieotly self-imposed. qr, sole inenion is to ...

... AXUSEXE;NTS IN DUBLIN. (EBOar 0p7 OWNr OaaCESPONsrna ). TarEXIBE ROYAL, -Hlwarmrs S-OrBE .-(tXLr. Jno. Harris, Lessee:) -Thie theatre presente nightly an array of llasbioiiable and delighted auditory. What we have hitherto noticed in our columo ie still equall attractive, and the actors, amonget whom are prominent Meeeors. I, C. King, Granby, Vining, Haigh, Durant, and itellair; Mieodamee H. ...

... a O THE RIVAL REAPING T19 NMACHISES. -4- rbably but few among the visitors to the Ia Titers Dr o who do not distinctly remember seeing tl Gr eapn m.,achines in that extensive aud thinly occc fa° of the Crystal Palace, whicih was conspicuous pied rnoitced States, and the solitudes of which repose leitered te glories of a colossal eagle and the shades bcscrthlah,,hod banner.' A class more ...

... | - (FROM OU . OWNE CO7RPEE8SON7DENTS.) ?? -On Monday evening, August 15, Mr. G. Owen made ns first appearance to an excellent house as Othello, and was well .re- ceived, as also Mr. Kent's rendering of lago. At the conclusion of the play Mr. Owen was summoned before the curtain to receive the enthusiastic applause of his auditors. He has since appeared as the Stranger, Richard the Third, ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Monday is not. usually an opera night, but the de- parture of Grisi and Mario for Italy to-day rendered it necessary that their farewell appearance should take place last evening. The piece selected for this purpose was Lverczia Boryga, and a better choice could not have been made, for there is no opera which contains two characters so completely suited to the powers of ...