... LYCEI .-dMADAMlE RISTORI'S BENEFIT. b they Byron, in one of his letters to Murray, says- Ihay Enclosed you will find, line for line, in third rhyme bt (eern a rimo), of which your British blackguard as yet ?? !ndertnrilsnothing, Fanny of Rimin.o Byron's verion ft is has had one effoc:: thousands who would never have I city k nown anything at all of the mist be betiful of a 'l Dante'. habi ...

... - This festival began on Tuesday morning, and its ac mmencement augurs a result so successful as to render Bradford the permanent seat of one of the greatest pyeo1 cial music meetings of England. Like those of Birmin- barn and Norwich it is to be triennial; and this year It emulates the maguitude and importance of the greatest of them all, the Birmingham Festival its-lf. The arrange. mants are ...

... we HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. owl The curiosityof the musical publio as to the far. her famed Johanna Wagner haa at length been gratified. She nev made har debut in England on Saturday evening in the lute character of Romeo, in the Capu~lett rd i Mosslecclel of real Bellairi. of, Mdlle. Wagner is younger than might have been sup- Bel lponed froma the lensgth of time that her name has becen known ...

... LYCEUM THEATRE.-MADAMetE RISTOUI. w At length we have had a representation of a tragedy of Alfieri. It is but right that the country which in the poet preferred to allother couatrieein the world, saving IT his own native Italy-the political institutions of which, he however, he despised-abould know something of his works; th and it is only by seeing them actually represented that we gel were ...

... ART TREASURES EXHIBITION, IS57. In our former notices of contributions to the Aft Treasures Exhibition we confined oureelves to the enumera tion and description ofpioturesof the ancient and modern schools which have been placed at the disposal of the com- mittee. We have now to mention secheme which has been settled for the classification of arient end madireval eat, in the collection of which ...

... DRMA PRiNCESS'S. Last night thia theatre closted itsl doo~rs for thet season. The entertainments consisted of T~e Win-. tor'sl Tale (performed fer the hundred and uecond time), with the little picoc Museic ath C~harmas9 wvhith has ls18 haid a eozrsiderable rum. Wher !lr. Roan's version of The Winter's Tale was produced, wec entered at some length into the question of ?? ranmatie ...

... FINE ABRTS. ENGRAVINGS. We are not affected by graphomania, and we do not prstend to the most erudite connoisseurship of incised lines and effects. We prefer the reproduction of mature in her gayest holiday attire, with the prismatic co'ours of the parnter, tb the undertaker's world of the engraver, and still more to the kind of next world borrors of the daguerreotyp- ist. But, guoi faire Our ...

... -4 iFlENCHI EXHIIBITION OF PlAiNTINGS. Up to the very moment of its c'ose, this gallery of paintings continued to receivre additions. The last arrival consisted of three picturcs of very great merit, by an ar ist namred Wild, a native of this country, but who exercises hit ert in France. He baa be-a decorated by the Emperor for bis talent. The three pictures havre macb in common: freedom of ...

... L TERA TURE The Caucasus arnd ies people. By Louis Moss&i Nutt. This is a very useful compilation, containing in a condenses' form the greater part of what is known with respect to the inhabitants, the history, and the geography of the Caucasus. The general reader knows usually much more regarding the two former divisions of the subject than the latter. All the world rings with the gallantry ...

... LYCEUM. The black fever, which has for some weeks boen running its virulent course through the minor theatres o both sides of the water, ha s at length caught the Lycesm , but in a mitigated form. Instead of ' D red and Ti lf and the dismal swamp, the manager and hiu adapter bays resu scitated the Black Doctor of Domes, and bahrng Tery skilfully remodelled the whole stiory, have p ut it ...

... 'THE SPLIT IN THEl SpTATES. (Prom '$PunCh.J ?? States, if our 6ood will Could bat comusnand its way, You wvould remnain united atill, 3For 6vreFand aday. Does England wrant to cee you split, United States i-the deuce a bit. 3 Your North and South diesevered, w~e With lees disgust should vievr Ooly thau England w e chould seee And Scotland eleft in twro. We wish your greet Republic wholes, ...

... mSsiC. Balfe has returned to London, after an absence of four years passed in Italy, Germany, and Russia. He his | everywhere been received with the d s inction due to his c( genius and Teputation, and has everyiber sustenjed tbe tb I musical honour of h s country. His chief works have been sc produced at the prirspal continental theatres; the Bohe- it mian Girl, in particular, gained a ...