... NA VAL AND MILITAB Y. TROOP SHIPS ARRIVED AT CALCUTTA. Nov. 11. Barham, withRifleBrigade, 13. Nub4 with Royal Engineers. 14. II.M.S. Melville, with det4s& ments of the 23rd, 82nd, and 93rd Regiments; John i (es), with 38th Regiment; Victoria (Es), with 82nd Reg. ment. 16. Alawick Castle, with 19th Regiment; Adre. ture, evith detachments of the 19th and 12nd, and 6l, Rifles; Octavia, with ...

... music. ly HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. le All that we have got to say about last might's It performance of the nwacata is, that the house was crammed th ,r from the orchestra stalls to the cailing with an audience, a 39 large portion of whom probably saw for the first time the e. It great stars of the evening, Piccolomini and Giuglini, and 5 It were accordingly most vehement in their demonstrations ...

... L17 A TUBE. I Cambridge Essays ; contributed by M3embers of the University. Parker and Sons. 1857. This number is bareful, meritorious, and pains- taking, but withal a little heavy. People catering for the tastes of even the most select public should remember that solidity may be overdone. The gen- tleman who rushed into an hotel and ordered a dinner of six courses, three of boiled beef and ...

... THE lEBTITH jM. | When shall we launceh our Leviathan ? Frota day to day, and from week to week, we live in an atmosphtls of abortive attempts and false alarms on this most interesm t subject. Theevent, wemusthope, will resemble Mr.1 acre4d positively last appearance, a thing often announced, and often put off, but which actually did take place at last, irhol everybody had given over the idea ...

... LIHERATURE. I ?? * ~th T7he Wfestminster Review. No. XXV. Jan., 188,58 of Chapman. ar The table of contents of the new lfestminster tes- inl tifies to its bc~ing- in a thoroughly wide-awake mood be this time. The number begins with Dr. Livingstone, 1I of course, and goes on to a subject'which occupies til much more of the mind of our people than the press is at all willing to represent- ...

... I . This exhibition, which will be open -to the public to-day, was last night inaugurated by a convesiazione, which was nunerously attended by the members of the profession land their 'friends. The drawings, though lot ho numerous as last year, constitute a very splendid collection, and indicate a visible progress in the skill and dexterity of the designers. This was to be expected, because ...

... LIERBATURE. - _ _ _, The Bntifal in -A-aere, Art, and Life. By A. 3. SYsr- I.1cr)ox. 2 vols. London: Lougmans and Co. n There are unfortunately some authors who have na ci not the remotest idea of what constitutes a book. It is not true that A book's a book, although there's nothing in it. q A fine critic and subtle thinker of our times says, Speak- ing of books generally we may call them ...

... L12ERA TUBE. I The Sepoy .Revolt: its Causes and its Cionsequetces. I t] By HENRY MEAD. Murray. a Mr. Mead is the representative of Anglo-Calcutta it -the Apostle of the Detch. He is a clever man, r. without scruples. His book,'half a history, half a r pamphlet, is exceedingly readable. India has no need to blush for the ability of her journalists, if 9 the writing in this volume is to be ...

... Is ScifS FOR THE CHILDREN OF I LITERARY MYM l To TOS ZiMi!i Woa TEA I.x'5, Sm ,It certainly seems at first sight a most ri ma rable' fadt thht persoks eiegaed directly or in. t directly,paittallyorwholly,in theeainq:orprofessijn ni of literature, should be unable to orgaise any really ea effective, philanthropic, or prqvident scheme for tie ash benefit of themselves, their.wives, and their ...

... ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. A concert was given last night by the Royal Surrey Gardens Choral Society, under the direction of Mr. Land, by whom that society was founded. It was a genuine English concert, both in respect to the ustic and the per- formers. The first part was selected entirely from the works of Bishop; the second part was miscellaneous. In the first part, among other things, we had the ...

... L12ER.A TUBE. I Missionarv Travels and Researehes in South Africa, 4 C. By DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D., ?? &c. London: John Murray. When 25,000 copies of a work have been sold off, there can be but little necessity to bring it before the reading public. The book which secures such a circulation as this must either be one of great interest in itself, or its author must have gained great notoriety. ...

... LITERA2'UBB. I i I ?? . iAgfd!H LIIZ rMATU.U ?? bi ;: , .; *~ ; . Il . M. (kanietde Cassagnac opens his new weekly journal, piibshed at Paris, with an estimate of e prevalent literate idad' Ma'of France. Re does not take a very. cederfuliee of afbiirs, as will be seeni from ?? extrzacts fromr his firsta's'rtiole: _116 i ; li- We era by instinct two thigs-a military nation and a literary ...