... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... Her IYfajesty's.-The new Ballet, Flevor des Champjas, pro- duced on Saturday, consists of two tableaux, the centre figure of each being Mdlle. I`occhini. The scene, to quote the words of the oflicial handbill is laid in the sunny south of France, at the time when mortals rejoice in the festivities of the harvest, and the (Goddess of Plenty herself appears in person to sympathise with thcir ...

... I (1FRO1 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS,) M ELBO URN E. Iove's ,Sclsricr, Lovell's well-kneown play, was performed at the. Theatre ]Royal, onl the 18th of Nosveuabor, Air. Brooks playsmg Matthew Elurore, and Mrs. Poole Malrgaret. The lrst nieetillei actress has been engaged in consequence of the temporary retire. incut of Mrs. lleir. Old stock Dieces lhave been played oip to the latest date. Tnsg ...

... THEATRES, &co Eler Majesty's.-The nets ballet la Befitse des6 Sesges, constyucted for the r'entcrd of Marie Taghloi, is a pretty thing of its khid, and, aided by bright dresses and efflgent scenery, Will piobolly last throughout tle season. The story, like most other palltomnimic stories, is difficult to divine, and were it not that a light is thttwv upon it by the clroregraphic littersatenr ...

... PROFESSOR WaIoSo& S WORKS. Vol. Xr. Tales. W. Blacklwood 'nd Sons, Edinburgh and London. As some may think this is the rmost valuable of the volumes of ?? series, althoueh we maintain that the Noctes is the work on which Prolessor Wilson's tmne as an author rests. Tee volume before us includes some twenty-four national sketches, familiarly aud favourably known to the public under the title ...