... (From Lse Iblet, Journal do Grand Monde.) The show rooms of the leading firms are now deco- rated with all the rich and tasteful novelties for the aping and summer seasons. We give our fair readers the benefit of the usual tour of inspection. The pardessus occupies considerable attention at the present moment. We must speak of several, the productions of one of our first houses, varying from ...

... ADELPHI THEATRE| Mr. Plauclh6, on an idea derived, we believe, from the French, has written an amusing two act comedy for the ADELPHIL It should have bean a farce, bet we must take it and speak of it as we find it. It is entitled, An ON Offender. Dr. Goggles (9r. Selby) is an amiable and weak old gentleman, who is bring- sag up a most desirable young niece, Artemisia (miss H. Simms). Mr. Toole ...

... THE DRAXA, KUSIC, ETC. DRTUR LAxz -The opera revived on Thursday night- II Gluramrento, by Mercadaote-contains much music that is pleasing. Mdfle. Guarducci and Mdme. Weiker took the two princtpal female parts, and acquitted themselves admirably-the former lady executing some rather difficult mueic in the beginning of the second act with the consum- mate skill for which she is so remarkable. ...

... PROVINCIAL THEA rRICALS, BBIGHiTON~. TitnAvsX RoY~AL-(Leossee, Mr H. Nye Chart.)-Madame Celeste took her bonelit on Friday, the 16th meat., and had a capital house. The opening piece was Tire Last Rope, when she wee as euccessful in Marie as ahe had been in all her previous performaances. Mr Charles Verner's Pierro wast a careful piece of acting. in fact, far enpecror to anything else that he ...

... Ceylon: an Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical, with Notices of its Natural History, Antiquities, and Productions, by Sir James Emerson Tennent, ?? ?? &c. Illustrated by Maps, Plans, and Drawings. Two vols. Longman and Co. In its own department of literature this is the book of the year, and one of the most notable works of our time. Supplemented by the same author's ...

... 7wackeray's Soldier'es Manua of RiP Firing. London: Longman and Co. i Rift le, and How to Use It. By HaNs BusK. London: Routledge and Co. If any doubt existed as to the hold which the rifle volunteer movement had taken of British sus- ceptibilities, that doubt would be set at rest by contemplating the number of rifle manuals lately issued for one or other reason to the public. In naking use of ...

... THE? PORTLAND .GALLERY. The private view of this exhibition took place on Saturday. These who remember what the Institution of the Fine Arts was five years ago, or even two years ago, will have reason to be satisfied with the present result of the labours of no inconsiderable portion of British artists, who have at last raised it to be one of the most interesting among the many pictorial ...

... U RIGHT OR WRONG. FiJAjt or ion0g. By GERLD=N E. JEWaBulT. London: Hurst and Blackett. It is not ofton'that writers of fiction in the present day can hit upon any class of society'which has not already been worn threadbare. Miss Jewsbury, however, has hit upon such a class. She has taken her hero from one of the unenclosed orders of monks who were bound by certain vows, but were nevertheless ...

... LI TRA TURE. ''9VPJ-4 0 e rt Houdiftl) mbasas$lor, Author, anci' Croflju'Ot' Written by Himself. TWO vols, I Lonirou C Ghapman and Hall. A priori, we should expect a clever beries of uernoirs from a presdigateur. He ins3t be, from the very nature of his business, 'atot merely cunning at his fingers, but glib and ratttling at his tongute. A conjuror without what is vulgarly called the gift of ...

... I .. _ - . PRINCESS'S THEATRE. (SECOND NOTICE ) Perhaps the most noteworthy thing in the revival of King- Benry the Fifth is the perfect training of everybody concerned in the representation; there are no supernume- raries, each man or woman, though the mere component part of a crowd, is en artist, carefully elaborating his or her little share towards the perfecting of the grand whole. This ...

... - PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Last night witnessed the last and grandest of those Shakesperean revivals which will for ever be associated with the name of Mr. Charles Rean, and with his manage- ment of the Princess's Theatre. In a few weeks the end of Mr. Kean's farewell season Will have arrived, and an era in the annals of the drama-such as, from all outward seeming, is never likely to be again ...

... BOGJRTY OF 41TS. - - - I Last evening the 105th arnniversary of the Society for the Encrouragemnent of Arts,' Manufactures, and Commerce was celebriated, ras usual, by a dinner, which on this occasion was givwn at. St. James's-hiall.. Lord NAPIERO presided, and amongst the company were- General Sir C. Pasley, Sir T. Phillips, Mr. H. G. Hubbard, M.P, M. HnuesyMi?, M. SirlngM.P., Mr. 3. P. ...