... 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 ...

... 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 The great concert I %U iln this town (unrivalled in Europe) is not likely to be superseded by any other building, and we have reason to believe that the prcjectcrs cf the new ball have bad no such object in view; their purpose ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 31tmoir-s of Frederick Perthes; or Literary, Religious, and Political Life its Germany, fromn 17T9 to 1843. From the German of Clement Theodore Perthes, Pro- fessor of Law in the University of Bonn. Q vols. Constable and Co. Seen from an English point of view, this hook is a de- lightful study of the German mind. The energetic book- seller of Hamburg, Frederick Perthes, whose life is here told ...

... NEW lA.GAZINES. The Train. No. I. Groombridge and Sons. The Idler. No. I. Robert Hardwiclhe. The Trait starts very full of pleasant talkers. It is a new shilling monthly, freely illnstraied with good woodcuts, and supported by the writing of sonme of the most successful young ?? of the day. It is light literature, but free from the extreme debility under which light literature usually suffers. ...

... HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mile Piccolomini's Figlia del Beggimento exhilarates the audience, and leads to such a burst of applause after the falling of the curtain as is not heard often in an English theatre. Last Thursday night we believe there was not one person in the crowded pit and 8talls wvhjo did not rise to cheer the actress-sinaer. No doubt a great many who so applauded thought it was ...

... True-hearted lady soldiers are now coming back from the East, after hard battling in the hospitals against sorrow and sickness, and have no doubt many a tale to tell. A work doing honour to their sex and to humanity, just published, and entitled Eastern Hospitals anmd English Nurses (1), is the first comer of a class which will be altogether new in literature. It details simply, and therefore ...

... Memoirs of Mrs Fitzherbert; wtith an, Account of her Marriage with H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, after- wards King George the Fourth. By the Hon. Charles Langdale. Bentley. . , This is a singular book, as being rather a memoirmn qu4 or apology for not writing a memoir-owing to the obstinacy, which some may think not ill-advised, of those who have the custody of Mrs Fitzherbert's confidential ...

... I AXl~lUSEMENTS IN EDINBURGH. I (FROMe OUR1 OWN COBB SrONDnENT.) T3rATP-9 ROYAL.-The success which continues to attend the produc- tion of the new Pantomime of Jack and the Bean Stalk, performed last night for the fifteenth time, is altogether unprecedented. Every evening the theatre is crowded in all parts, and on several occasions many hundreds have been turned from the doors, and this too ...

... THEATRES. &a. Adelphi-When Frankenstein manufactured his monster, the anatomical, mechanical, and physiological secrets that were em- plowed to make up the living mockery 'of humanity might have moade an interesting catalogue, had Mrs. Shelley thought it deaiiable to publish her process for the benefit of those curious in such experi. ?? generally. The mode of manufacturing a stage Irishman, ...