... 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 ...

... GREAT SALE OF'WORKS OF ART BY MESSRS. SOUTHGATE AZD BARRETT. The most extensive sale of lithographic drawings which has taken place since the sale of Roberts's Holy Land, is announced to take place at Messrs. Southgate and Bar. rett's, on the 15th of December and five following days. The sale includes the whole of the remaining copies of the mug-. nificent views published by Messrs. ...

... - - TESDRA, MUSIC, ETA. t'rrwy-f La.sxir-The last-w.ek~l'tttb Italian operatic ] pextrvmancss hasindeedbeena brilliant one. -On-Tuesday, -b Beethioven's magnificerit opera ?? FideIio -as played with T a cast of almost unprecedented, power.,, N eadame Ruder3-, e dorf', as the heroine, achieved in i.itnense triumph-ber A s9inging and acting both being admirable, We have seldom -r wit tewsed ...

... I QUEEN ELIZAnETHSE CoiRTs ?? courtahip of this monarch wase like everything eae she did in I* life;-there'was in it an eye to business. The account of her tenrnets is, nevertheless, ourious. It is related by a FrenhO contemporary,-a sort of French Peepy. The Duke of Alenhon was the favoured per_ son on whom she bestowed her-broth! The duke crossed the sea, arrived in London, and lodged the ...

... £I1VB ARTS. LORD WARD'S COLLECTION. (S1COND NoTICS.) The early schroo of Giotto comprised a large num- ber of pupils, who generally remained faithful to the old traditional subjects arranged by their master. They preserved many of the characteristic features of Giotto in their forms and attitudes, an well as in their compositions, and as a natural result gave a sort of family resemblance to ...

... ART FOR THE MILLION.-No. 11. THE PHOTO-GALVANO-GRAPHIC PROCESS. There is no art which has made more rapid progress and aroused a greater interest in the public mind than Photography. There is something poetical in the very enunciatiou of the principles of the art. Ovid thought that the mere request of Phaeton to drive his father's chariot for a day was the very extremity of audacity; but what ...

... MUSIC AND THE DRAMA IN THEI United States. (FROM: A S1FECrAL CORREBPOEmT.) NEW YORK, MONDAY, NovTLnnat 17. Our anticipations are gladsomnely realized, and opera once more reigns triumphant in the balls of the Academy of Musics to the delight of all the influentials of our city. The doors of that well- known establishment were thrown open on Monday, and not a vacaut'seat could be perceived in ...

... Mr Birket Foster supplies rural scenes, Mr Absolon sketches of rustic people, Mr Harrison Weir and Mr Ansdell supply the tame fowl and the game known at our barn-doors and in our open country, Mr Frederic Tayler shows old English sportsmen racing to the music of the huntsman's horn, while Mr Dodgson, Mr Edward Duncan, Mr Walter Goodal, and Mr F. W. Hulme-some sketch- ing home country scenes, ...

... LYCEUJ THEATRE. Since Mr. Charles Dillon's debut before a west-end au- dience his efforts have been confined to melo-drama, but the success which he obtained in that class of characters rendered hies appearance as Othello last night, for his be- nefit, a subject of interest with all who have seen in him the rise of an actor of considerable promise. Many who watched Mr. Dillon's occidental ...

... LIFE OF WELLINGTON. Ilistoire du Duc de Wellingto. Par A. BalAk MONT. Tome L Charles Tanera, Quai des Au- gustins, Paris; et Guyot et Stapliaux, Brussels. It has been long a subject of comment that no life of the Dnke of Wellington, of adequate length or impartial spirit, existed in the French language. The only work we are acquainted with which a Frenchman could heretofore look to for any ...

... I AMTERICAN THEATRICALBh (o'noa oun owN coetu~sroNnnrN.) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NovrmEMBE 221. OpNsoNneeor LAujuA KEREE's THRATRE.-ThO great event of the week has been~ths opening of Miss Latara Keene's new htl.i establishment. This took place on Tuesday last., arid wve must our of the fair maanageresso that a mlore brilliant. inauguration coulld tnet possibly bewitnessel. Thebuouse wascrowded, ...

... hOLIDAY AMUSEMB?iTS. Of a| h PRINCESS'S THEATRE. restl O allthetales vwhich help to make up the large store Va of fairy and romantic literature there is certainly none the more popular with youth than. the wondrous story of 3tnhe |Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamop-one which, in conse- aeen quence, must he considered as less adapted than almost ma- any other fcr novelty at Christmnas. Mir. Kean, ...