... A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow from its Commencement to its Relief by Sir Colin Campbell. By L E. Ruutz Rees, one of the Surviving Defend- ers. With a Plan of Lucknow and the Residency, and a Portrait of Sir Henry Lawrence. Longman and Co. The Defence of Lucknow. A Diary recording the Daily Events during the Siege of the European Residency from 51st May to 25th September, 1857. ...

... THE OPERAS. The subscription season at HER MAJESTY'S Theatre closes to-night, and next week the house will be open to the universal public for the performance of operas at reduced prices without any abatement of the strength of the company. We assume this to be now an established custom of the house, and very heartily applaud it. COVENT GARDEN having opened later, will present more good work ...

... TsONDAY.-The Queen and Prince Consort, with the Queen of Portugal, the Prince ofHohenzollern, and Prince Leopold ot ?? zollern, went at ten o'clock this morning to the Royal Acadeny and were conducted through the Exhibition. After viewing the Exhibition of the Academy, the Royal party inspected the Natioral Gallery, and returned to Buckingham Palace soon after t'slca o'clock. Prince Alfred ...

... D ONE HUNDRED VOLcUXTARIES, PRELuDES, HYasN, and FUGUES. ByRIiNK, MOZART, BEETHOVEN, &c., for the Organ or Harmonium. Arranged by W. WILSON. Davidson, Doctors'- ?? cheertuilvandhonestly award the highest praise to Mr. Wilson for this useful collection of organ masic. It will give a musical stimulus to that numerous class in the country-parish organists-and be to them of great practical utility ...

... ST MAIRTIN S HALL, Mr John -IIalI re-opened ST MARTIN'S HALL last Wednesday evening with an excellent performance of Men- delssohn's oratorio, St Patutil, a work nor less remarkable than the ATlitjah fort poetical expression. A first hearing was given on the saine occasion to two or three new singers, and Mver Santley, who first obtained in these ?? his present high reputation, re-appeared as ...

... ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT 1 Garden. Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Harrison have fairly taken posses- sion of the Royal Italian Opera Honse, and commenced an under- taking which, we sincerely trust, will turn out prosperously both for themselves and the musical art of this country. Their former expe- riments, at the Lyceum and Drury-lane, have been duly chronicled in these columns, and such ...

... ?? Those of our readers who have retentive memories will recollect our report of a public meeting which was held at the Royal Prin- cess's Theatre, on the 21st of July last, to receive an offer of five acres of freehold land on which to build houses for aged and infirm members of the theatrical profession. Mr. Henry Dodd, by whom the land was offered, was then represented as a gentleman of ...

... THEATRES, &ce 101 Aft:1, ?? opera appointed for Saturday next, the 23l tat., wit-it the third Festival performance in honour of the ii ~istgiiomreisge ol the Prioress Royal will take place, is La 13 it n-tlt-. 'Tbis cissietning work will he produced under circum atose ciunprecedlented. interest. For the first time Millie. Piece- I minlii wsll sustain the ever-popular character of Awine, and ...

... L I T E R A T U R E. BLACKcWOOD. For July. A very well written, but unnecessary long article, on the social and sanitary state of The Soldier and the SurqPeon of the British Army, opens Blackwood's literary budget for July. The subjects are both important ones, but, beyond telling us what we already know, we are at a loss to conceive what good can result from an article that points out no ...

... jHER_ MAJESTY'S THEATRE.| The Fourth Festival Perfornmance. Ou Friday evening the fourth and final festival performance in honoulr of the Royal nuptials took place under circumastances that gave the eccasion on additional interest. Tue last time the audience assembled within the magnifiucent salle of Her majesty's Theatre, they had greeted the Princess royal only as a betrothed maiden; they ...

... The Wizard and his Detective, Professor Anderson, the Wizard of the North, during his recent performances at Melbourne, created an unexpected elect by the use to which he put interest taken in his conjurations. A writer for the Melbeornes Ecetxiner, adopting the signature of Chris- topher Sly, after having for some period furnished a series of sharp and shrewd notices of the Professor, ...

... I ~. . FINE ABT. E I PICTURES AND ETCHINGS AT THE FRENCH GALLERY. The room 'in Pal-mall lately oeopied by the French Exhibition i apgin, thanks to the enterpris i Mr. Gambarti well worth a visit The contents are calulated to afford the mean to the few unlucky prisoneral in London during tbis stsgnanl mouth of August of whiling away an hour very pleasantly. FPit and foremost, tse who ld not the ...