... ?? 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, ...

... c I fMTTrrt. r -rmr Snr -wam eln THE QUEEN CITY OF THE WEST. (By Charles Mackay, in the Illustrated London News.) Cincinnati, Jan. 27, 1858. Cincinnati is as yet the greatest city of the Great West. How long it will ,remain so depends on the progress of po. pulation in Missouri, and the city of St. Louis on the Missis- sippi. But a few years ago it was the U'ltima-Thule of civil- isation, ...

... ?? Aat HISTORY OF FREDERICK THE. I ' ' ,--GREAT.* (Fiore thebiterary.Gazettc - - The actual publication of 'these voluLnes, the first half of Mr. Garlyle's long-promised and long-expected Life of t Frederick the Great, sets at rest the question, mooted more than once during the last few years,-wv.hether the work ...

... THE JOLLY -MARINER. A BALLAD. IT was a jolly mariner As ever hove a log; He wore his trousers wide and free, And always ate his prog, And blessed his eyes in sailor-wise, And never shirked his grog. Up spoke this jolly mariner, Whilst walking up and down:- The briny sea has pickled me, And done me very brown; But here I goes, in these here clo'.es, A-cruising in the town ! The first of all ...

... THIE DYING CHILD. WHAT does the wind say, Mother, As it moans thro' the chesnut tree ? It tells of the coming winter, love, When the frost upon the lea Will chill the flow'rets' tender forms, And the busy busy bee W'ill leave his haunts of the summer time, And asray from the garden flee. I feel as thle' tle wind, Mother, That speaks of the frost to you, Spoke moro to inc of the honey-beo, And ...

... T, AT AA 0 lubut, la, LLINELLAU COFFADWRIAETHOL Am Mr. Peter Roberts, Vale T'iew, Bih7yl yr AMw a ftt farw t I leg o Yonawr. S58, yn 25 ralwp dd oed. TVyr ydoedd i'r diweeddar Bareh. Peter Roberts, LlDensanman. TRALLODUS wyf gan glwyf roed im' Gan gleddyf Ilym yr angeu; Fy unig frawd sydd yn y bedd Yn mel ei wedd yn ddiau. Blodeuyn iprydferth, tyner iawn, Oedd Peter pan yn faban; Oynnyddu ...

... 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 ...

... FINE ARTS, THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. (SECOND AND CONCLUDING NOTICE). We resume our observations upon the more re- markable figure subjects which remain to be noticed by com. mencing do cape, as a musician would say, with No. 1, A A Yarn, by Mr. F. Stone. The expression of the false hypo- critical old bald-pate, spinning the yarn to the credulous younker, is capitally given, though the old ...