... THEATRES, &ac. Royal Italian Opera.-The Don Fasqsuale of Donizetti was performed on Thursday night, for the first time this season. There was just this particular interest attached to the cast-the per- formers were precisely those who enacted the opera in Paris prior to its production here in 184-3; Grisi, Mario, Tamburini, and Liablache consequently filled the characters especially written ...

... LI TE RAT U RE. ScoTTIc1sMIS CORRECTED. London: John F. Shaw. ToIS publication (a part of a series, entitled, Never too late to Learn), begins by defining a Scotticism in tvo wsays. The first definition, that of Dr. Beattie, the well-known poet of the last century wepresume, is, a Scotticism is an idiom or peculiar expression of the natives of Scotland. The second definition is stated to ...

... THE SHADOW ON TIlE WALL. Was the Shadow kissed by child or maiden? Infantine caressing! By pale dreamer, liro's full sun forbidden? Twilight of half-blessing! Or by votaries' lips a saintly image pressing? M1enl like fiends who Ieap o'er dead and dying Still new heaps to pile, Tossing a fierce laugh to Death's defying, Wild with wrath erewhile- Now like children lie and wait the nurso's smile. ...

... THE NEW UNIVERSITY MIUSEU,1. n. . . - n.- - P . . _ - To tte Eiditor of the Oaferd Joiriaei SuRe-Nowv that the competition for the Oxford Univer- sity Museum has been brought to a close, and the Building contracted for, I may perhaps be allowed, wvithout dak -of misconception, to direct your attention (andi, throlughl you, that of the University and the public at large), to certain points in ...

... LI ERA rURB. TuE PioTOntAL BIDLEI, PARTS 1, @, 8.-By Dr. XiUO.t; (W. and R. Chambers, E.dinburgls; J. Af Gelashan, luhtia.)-L This is a reissue of Kitto's celebrated bible, one of the mosta instructive and interesting works that ever issued from the British pres. The present reissue is published in weetlj numbers at aixpence, and in monthly parts two shilling price which will bring it within ...

... NAVAN.-The second fair for 18lo, held on Monday, would, no doubt, have been a great one, but for the inclemency of the weather. The supply of cattle, however, was large, as rasa also that of pigs; but horses and sheep were particularly scarce, and the quality, especially of the former, inferior. Prime beef sold at fally 60s per cwt; springers, of which there were but a few, brought as much as ...

... .ANTIENT CoNCEORvT ROOMs-M. GRArTAN KELLY'S FASE- WELL CoNSCET.-This concert last evening was attended by an influential circle of the patrons and friends of our talented young townsman, Mr. Grattan Kelly; but we regretted to observe that the audience generally was not by any means so numeroues as we would have wished or expected. The character o£ tpe musio was all that might be imagined from ...

... I - BORs E, JULY 15.-Princeas Louisa aud prince Avthur have been attacked with scarlatia. Their royal lhighne5ses are going on ve y favourably. The same dfisease bag declared Itself in Prince Leopold, who was left at Buckingharn Palace in consequence of a slight acoldent.- Prince Albert, accompanied by the King ot the Belgians and the Count of Flanders, embarked in the royal y5cht Victoria ...

... JTHE PARIS EXHIBMION OF MANUFACTURES, X BErL FouxDiNG rrf DumarN.-We have frequently had occasion, during the past btn Or twelve years, to advert to the distinction achieved by our countrymen in a branch of the metallurgic art which peculiarly requires the exercise of judgment, skill, aud care in its operations, so as to ensure a ?? notalonesa regards the beautiful and delicate manifestations ...

... If.o-k;A, . I 0/1hd Jhab to 0W:F&*t, of fheir Fatherss. By Onoi of asl a 2fw~iOssru-(hvl~ ;Xa'7 Dt6j).-Whlie the special ob- t ject Of the interestlflg volume now before as Is to,.supply a record of the missions preached in this countr~v by the I Fathers of the Order of Charity during the last six or aeven I ye~ars, the rev, author is necessarily led into a great many collateral and valuable ...

... I I Her Majesty held a court on Friday at Bucking- ham Palace- The Count Persigny, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from his Imperial Majeety the Emperor of the French, had his first adlence of the Qveen, and delivered his credentialsato her Majesty-. The RightEHolat' Sir Richard Pakenbam, her MaJestYs Envoy Extraordinary and MtInister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Lsbons was ...

... I FASRIONABLE INTELLIGENLCE. .,I IERHGALS C OURT.Ldri3 d'lfb o the Ldrd Lieuteunnt eutertained te follwing ?? at dbene on Tburadsy evenifgI at the iiceregal odjge :-Ird Talbot de NIaliatde, 1Me Btepfieneo'n, DrTPhelan, Dr'south, Sir Edward *Jf'DdlineI, tA'derinaan½Ieyaolds, ?? G'Ro, M~r Methesbfl, htr Balli M~ Blandi Sir Phlip Crr.mploLith1Pr0voet,, the Recorddr. Mry Rynd, the Attorney ...