... - The bright days of early 8pring which we arenwejyn create a demand for somecthing hetween the frtimdbr none of the winter and the light nmantelet of summer; conge. qnentiY, we have noticed in one of our fdret housee several patter~na Of Mantles, closed In front and high t h het mn., *h- - . o th throat Among them we may recommend the mantelet tulipe and the mantelet a medallions ; these, as ...

... ST. JAMBES'S HAlL. I SPRING EX llBITION OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The first of the spring meetings of the Horticultural Society was held yesterday in the new St. Jamnes's Hall, Piccadilly, her Majesty and the Prince Consort honouring the exhibition with their presence, this being the first ocansion on which the Prince Consort has attended the meetings of the society in the capacity of ...

... LITERA TUBE. I Ch~risti unity in China, Tartary, and Thibet. By M. L'AnutE Ruc. Vol. 111. London: Long. mans. -r This volume of the French Abb6's researches will ?p qual in irterest any ot'its predecessors. It carries 1858 thehistory of the Roman Catholic missions in China at tE from the establishment of the Mantchoo Tartar nect, dynasty to the commencement of the 18th centu ry. I an We derive ...

... fisf al w)bll 6 faridics. THE COURT. Loxnoo, SATURDAY.-Her Mijesty the Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buelcingham Palace. Marshal the Duke of MalakofF had his first audience of' the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty his cre- dontials as Ambassador from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French. His Excellency was in- troduced by the Earl of Maltuesbury, the Qaeen's Principal ...

... I I .I. On Wednesday morning, says the Notling Re- P view, Mr Coroner Hitchens was called upon; to in- h vestigate a very melancholy ease of suicide. The 0I inquiry was touching the death of a young girl ri named Fanny Coxon, a domestic in the service of 0 Mr Joseph Brocklebank, of Carlton-le-Moorlaud, who d on the previous Monday night %ad destroyed her- tc self in a pond in the farmyard of' ...

... LITEJRA TURE. - I Recollections of the Last Four Popes, and of Rome vv in their Tines. By H.E. Cardinal WISEM1AN. v London: Hurst and Blaekett. Fame plays sad tricks with human affairs. Justice i is painted blind, but the deities who decree as to n whose memories shall live after their decease are n really so. There were brave men before Agamem- v non, but we know them not. Menander's hundred ...

... FINE AB7S. I ~ IF EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS. (SECOND AND CONCLUDING NOTICE.) The landscapes in this exhibition are chiefly re- markable for the small degree in which the influence of pho. t graphy can be traced. We can point to no class of land- scape artists equally numerous in which this is so per- ceptible. The veteran Mr. David Cox contributes an unusual num- ...

... The Thirteenth Anniversary of the dinner of the Royal General Theatrical Fund, which took place on Monday evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, gave cheering demonstration of the increased and increasing prosperity of an institution, the establishment of which has reflected no little credit upon the profession to which it especially belongs, inasmuch as a firm and abidiung root could not have ...

... DBAMA. Id OLYMPIC. at A very pretty drawing-roorm, elegantly furnished, Bt two ladies and two gentlemen, refined and well-bred, and inspeaking sparkling modem conversational dialogue-a very ds light, but well-woven plot of intrigue-what more can be A wanted to ensure erfect success to levre du rieau at the 1 0 Olypic Theatre le Mr. Jobn Oxenford's comedietta, A Doubiful Victory )a produced ...

... LITERA TURE. I ?? Memoirs to Illustrate the History of my Timc. By of F. GUIZOT. London: Richard Bentley. m That we love to hear the actor describe scenes di and dangers in which he performed a part is a truism certainly, if we are to believe the geologists, ul not as old as the hills, but nearly so. Not a village s' alehouse exists in which a mob will not collect to th listen to a Chelsea ...

... THE DRAXA, EUSIO, ETC. E&STER ENTE~RTANKENT&. What were known to our foretathers, as, indeed, t the 7niddle-aged of our own timesae ' Easter efrteaitmentse have had their day,. and fifzhbd with great-cost, stage- coaches, watchmen, prize fights, Coriuthianisoi, and obie lories of the past. Greeawzcli air, put down by ithe stern Land of parochial despotism, Chalk Farm built over and asquared ...

... I ?? a. -~4 THE ST. JAMES-' HALL. Betwien Piccdilly and'the`4adrnt t'vast build. ing has lately Tipen,, under the wand of Owen Jones Last week we were invited within its wzlls. We passed an evening in ta hall of whith even the most. determin ed opium-dreamer can have no conception Blas e gleam from the splendid roof; M~ontiFs figures decorate the windows8 the Ahambra. is ashamed of ?? caught a ...