... SHAXSPEARE'S MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. TO TIE EDITOR OP THr DAILY SNEWS [In comnmonl fairness we feel ourselves bound to X give a place to this letter. It appears to us, however, 'we must confess, to strengthen our ease. Mr. Phelps's Bottom Dwas the main attraction.] t Sit,-In a notice contained in your impression of Tue6- -day last, of a reading of the above play by Mrs. Fanny Koemble ...

... I THE PARIS UNTrSAL EXHIBItION, (FPON OUR SrPcTAL coaazsromni,.) PARIS, Fnb. 16. The commercial spirit of the French CrystalPalace Company appears to develop itself space, in ipite of the serious opposition of Parisian art-manufacturers. This week it has been publicly announced that the directors have appointed then, photographers. I presume that this appointment is in the apirit 6f that which ...

... ?? r H e~ IT JQ'. (rnovar mtAQL COREU5PONDUNT).t ?? -> .~pe PARIS, FOB. 9. I hasten to announce to your readers the fact that WI the great Paris houses affected by the sale of the | 1 exclusive right to engrave the Palas de L'Indostrie, ap have combined- to oppose' thi most arbitrary, and, W7 they assert, unlawful proceeding. This' protest is la signedlby such men as Susse, &c., and is, ...

... SONNE'FS FOR-THE TIMES. TO THE NATION. Beware of mere delusive eloquence,- Your back'.ey'd clever talkers, who can male Evil seem good for place and party sake, Well skill'd in dialectic thrust and fence; Let common honesty and common sense Come to thy council board; no longer take For statesmen some few scornful consulars The scions of great families,-for such Less love the People's ...

... p !g, ?? ?? ?? ?? I ~w_1. I i',M Th MADRIGAL QET} ?? *s~ciety, doubtless tho oidt: ;Ausl ...

... BRITISE SECTION OF THE PARIS UNIVERSAL iSRI I 'I SB XHIBITION OF 15o. L The following circular, stating the arrangements r for shipping goods for the French Exhibition, has been I issued from the Science and Art Department of the Board U of Trade, at Marlborough -house. t Meesrs. Lightly and Simon, of 123, Fenchurch.street, are appointed 1 agents to receive goode for shipment to Paris, at the ...

... As a genial, intelligent, high-spirited companion over a country full of the picturesque, bristling with danger, and abounding in novelty, commend us to MPn. FPRANnj MARXA~TT. His M~fountsains and Mole- hills, or Recollections of a nt Journal (Longmau) may serve as a model of that style of travel-writing which is instructive without being formally didactic, and amusing without being ...

... '¢R. I{. a LO~S' PICTURE OF TzNalivU-' :R4JioNz't OF :THB GRUAT El BIlok OF 1 1861.', ' i r a : - - _ .One of;two O.nracters, the ?? the prbsaio, will necessarnly reveal itself in every il tteiolis;,whatever the nature of the subject illustrated or that of the illus- trating medium may be. Each of these very distinct and oppositeviews of the subject has its votaries. We, who feel that the ...

... MuSIC. NEW PHILRAUMONIC SOCIETY. o This society has commenced its fourth season. The first concert look place last exening, at Exeter-hall, w thesociety having returned thither from St. Martin'>s-- hall, where the concerts of last season were held. The experiment appears to have been deemed unsatis- Pi factory, we do Dot understand why; for we conceive W that, of the two localities, St. ...

... DRURY-LANE. A new farce, of anonymous origin, was produced here last night, under the title of Writing on the Shutters; and, although almost too trivial for description, it met with a very good reception. It turns entirely on the elope- ment of Miss Fanny Bung (Miss Love) daughter of Mr. Peter Bang, host of the Fly and Flower Pot (Mr. Glindon). The hostelry is situated near a country railway ...

... LJI'BIRATUBE. -- ,. A Conversion (Une Converso01n) By Count DE R AOUSSN sed BOULBOX. Paris: LVbrsirioNOuvel. UP We have before us a charming story. It is written vh in a stvle almost new to the French people. It is livi relieved and supported by a liberal Spirit; and, at is i every point, with a cheerful manly view of life. It Sne includes no ingeniously explained departure from the da! honest ...

... DBAM.A. inog ADELPEI. cha Last night was produced what the bills entitled, put A grand new and original drama in three acts, preceded ue] by a prologue in two parts-in other words, a five act mn- by lodrama called Janet Pride. The piece is of that class for tars which this establishment (the English Porte St. Martin) was tarl heretofore renowned; but which under the present ma- ads nagement ...