... LI Y'ERA TUBE. Letters from ?? Quarlers; or the .Realtties of the War in Ile Cri'nea. By an OFFICEB on the STAFF. Muaray. The staff officer's letters and journals are valuable as a corroboration of the general accuracy of the reports from the seat of war furnished by the special correspondents ot the daily newspapers. It is true that the writer is very indignant at the audacity of civilians ...

... music. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. We have received from Mr. Lumley, who has j]ut arrived from Paris, the folio ving information respecting the ?? he hes made for the season. The ime donne engaged by him are Albeitini, Piccolo- mini, and Alboni, who re appears alter an absence of five years from London. Alboni vill open the sfason on the 6th of May. Piccolomini will arrive on the 10th, and will ...

... SONS OF TUB CLERGr. The annual festival of the Corporation of the S of the Clergy, which hbe been held every year dete a under the patronage of the highest authorities in the cdhn6 state, and city, took plece in the Merchant Ta-is.h Thedfternooa service in St. Pat's Catbkedral wu eetl i in due state by his Royal Highness the Duke of Camria the Archbishop of Canterbury, end severkl otherprea ?? ...

... Last evenlicg about 400 gentlemen assembled atI th ,Iys~ Fela., Sydenihem, to celebrate the V'2od anni- I Jey,,ry dinner ox IhIS society. Lord Asunnro cp ed e the chair, and ArOmogtta oor itncihdprs r-a I'ent Ir, tte DMa' of Her-ford, C.-nel Sibine, 'Mr. i Ewant, my.P, Sr Charles F,~x, CO~Ionel Sykes, Dr. Boith (ve (Chirroan of the Ccuncil of the Snoicty), Sir Jcteph ha The Health of her ...

... FINE AR TS. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS IN THE PORT- cal LAND GALLERY.al The second Exhibition of the season was opened to Pl1 private view on Saturday. The crowd of friends and otl amateurs attracted on the occasion was so great as to H render impossible that deliberate examination of any An picture which ought to precede criticism. We can op only speak as yet of the general impression produced ...

... LITE Aoge lTUR The Siuhotpffne Kingdom, or, Ezperiences and tudies lin the in Satoy, P-iedmont, and Genoa. BS BAYLE 6T. la JoaN. Chapman and HallI. Of thii MIr. S . Jobn'c wvork isa6 strfking proof of the tthe facul y some men have of talklnio by the hour, and won!o wiriting wvhole volumte3 on suhjects they knownv ?? mrse about. His ^Experieflce5, to judge from his ow lthem narrative', extend ...

... LITER A T URE. - Roe Jgfava; or, Itindoo Annals of tle Provittceof . Goozerat, in TWestern India. By ALEXANDERC XID;LOCa FORBES. Richardson Brothers. 1856.X Mr. Foxb-e holds an appointment in the East India Company's Civil Service, and has taken advantage of the facilities Efforded to him by his position to acquire k some valuable information with respect to a portion of Indian antiquities and ...

... FINE ABRTS. _-4* SIBERIAN AND CHINESE SCENERY.-WhO has not5 in looking at a mop r f Asia, experienced a feeling of intense curioeity mingled with wonder, and even a certain awe, on marking the enormous dimensions of the continent to the north of Persia, India, end China, bearing, as it does, only at intervals of about the length of Great Britain, a few un- couth names just to suggest the ...

... INAUGURATION OF THE NEW M1USIC HALL AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY EvIRNING. The formal opening of a new musio hall, just erected In this town, took place ti-lay. The great concert I %U iln this town (unrivalled in Europe) is not likely to be superseded by any other building, and we have reason to believe that the prcjectcrs cf the new ball have bad no such object in view; their purpose ...

... COVENT-GARDEN The rival managers of the two great theatres carrying on a ort of war of squibs agin each r. neither of them, we should think, with much good to b, self or much injury to big adversary; andcertainl w very little entertainment to the public. Druyoly Wt believ4 was the aggressor; Mr. Charles 3 ftbe0, h begun by personsting the Great Wizard of the Nirtb , 4 giving ridictlout ...

... NEW PUBLICATIONS. Pieces for the Pianoforte. By FEL1X GODUFROID:- Vieux tenouet, du 17 Siecle. Souvenirs d' ?? Ii L'Ange du Berceau, Chant du Soir. Plaisaes d'use Coptive. Let Ombres. Noc. dle Vidllge, Scene Champilre. La Garde passe, farche de Grerly. Pub- Ibhed by Cramer, Beale, and Co. 0 M. Godefroid is the most celebrated harpist of the F day, and is also distinguished as a composer, not ...

... XM2I9, BIBi. AND MADAME GOLDSCHMIDT'S CONCERTS. These cnt rtainmltnts go on 'Wth urdiccin slied success, Tte hirdmisiellan0eous concert. at the Hanover- squareliorms lkst ni~gh, wav aitrnded by as briliiaut acd enthusihino au audi ?? as either of the two preceding Perhhps, in respect ao the solectioa of music it was the best of tte. three. Madame Goidschmnidt herself t.ok a large share in 'Jig ...