... theit Letters of John Calvin. Compiled from the original manu- exise scripts, and Edited, with Historical Notes, by Dr JULES thre BONNET. Vol I. Translated from the Latin and French was languages, by DAVeD CONeSTABLE. Edinhuigh : Themeas that m~oo Constable & Co. sine' THrs is the first bf a series of four volumes, which are to rans contain at least six hundred letters of Calvin, the greater ...

... follioll and !arictio. T fI E C OU T R T. Nit\oSsonl, i Y-.\Iaior-General the lion. Sir t:l ardl Cost airriveel at the Castle on a visit to the Quoeen veste (ray afternoon. lii thlo erening the dinner partv included the King of thle leigians, the Dachress of Kent, Lady Fanoy 11 . vard, rtironites do Spoth, the I-Ion. Sir Ed ward rtsot, Colonwl tho l-I.n. N. and Ladylv Mary Hood, Sir .1.fmes ...

... THE FALL OF KARS-WIHO IS TO BLAME? (Daily N~ews.) The papers relating to the defence and capitulation of Kars, presented to Parliament on Tuesday evening, weredelivered yesterday (Wl'ednesday) morning. They extend from the beginning of August 1854, to the middle of January 1856, and fill a Blue Book of 356 folio pages. To affect to pronounce an opinion on their contents, after the hurried ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... FIN GAZINES- ,UNI4TED SERVICE. CZBttl~tN'S Ephica~l notice of the late I ell writtenh in .hich the principal events -e j 'anw distinguished career are inrm~kable and .jstunticehis reir feld andin which equal justice is .i ctlerits'a'd his defects, is followed by III, the Royal Military Academy at ueer UJ'tls ecilative article upon the peace, 5iut in the Storm; a good account The l tillsellS ...

... HUhOBOU. m -- GATHELGS. GO ~onLRoo TF 8ea ;--nk A~greeing to Earl' Stanhope's proposal0 for the 'f1rnmationIof ?? Por- jtr;lG Uer ,lthe HEotihe Wf' Lsrds found it necessary to ater gthe t ei ! of She nob1 eiarrD: moton'aris. The reportitat&~th4 ;- The .resolutionwa thaetan agreed to, t~he words, 'sunch portrait' to cornsist aa falr &a poeelble, .of 3tbhe inost eoiinentpersos in lritish ...

... DESTRUCTION OF COVENT-GARD:E| Theatre.-Officiel Inquiry. On Tuesday, at three o'clock, Mr. Bedtord, coroner for the City of Westminster, assembled a jury at the Piazza Hotel, Covent' garden, for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of the late disastrous fire, by which the Royal Italian Opera-house was totally destroyed on the morning of Wednesday, March the 5th. The inquiry excited great ...

... xifeix nr t . CLARA, OR SLAVE LIFE IN EuROPE. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1856. Tens is an attempt, and an eminently successful one, to introduce to the British public a production of the great German novelist, M. Haklander. We know of no instance in which, perhaps, the foreign .novelist has been so felicitously rendered into the English tongue ;-certainly of no instance ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINEP, History of Greece. By George Grote, Esq. Vol, XII With Portrait, Maps, and Index. Murray, Mr Grote's History is now completed. Written throu11 out in high and noble sympathy with that union betae00 intellectual energy and refinement of which Someof the leading States of Ancient Greece were an exemplar to the world, a History like Mr Grote's must needs pause where it now ...

... MEETING OF THE MANCEIESrER EXECLTIYE COMMITTEE.a The Manchester and Salford district executive committee for the Paris Uttiversal Exhibition of 1855 met I ?? orciethe report prepared by the seecrettry, Mr J 0,Muniky.Several glass C55e5 On the table con tainednumertoos sabmples oif twist, &c._ of all counts. There were also.o te tale the grand medal. of honour, or large geld medal, awarded to ...

... ( O. n Tursday evening La Fanorita was performed-snd on fin p Frida y Lie Prophe. Of this last opera it is hardly possible to e fi speak too laudatorily. Its music, like that of Les Ilguenotia, el iis at once grand, beautiful, and appropriate-wiile the woi- Bde of the drama rise out of each other so naturally, that i a0il this respect, if for no other, it deserves to be especially noticed. ...