... J.YAiL ZNGLISH OPF1A. BALFEMS I' ATANELLA-SECOND NOTICE. was Meyerb.er, who In reply to the communication from a friend that the latter bad only the night pre- *iouely beardths/'Huguenots for the first time at the Grand Opera in Paris, quietly replied, I shall sen d you. admissions for the next fortnight, to hear my new opera, and after nix represesnttioas come to breakfast with me,, and ...

... COURT AND .FASHION. WINDSOR, MosNDY.-Her Majesty the Queen of Spain having conferred the Order of the Golden Fleece on his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Prince has been invested at Windsor Castle, by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, a Knight of the Order, on behalf of her Most Catholic Majesty, in the presence of M. Ist riz, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from ...

... LITERA T URE. I Kllfdred Norman, the Nazarene. By a Working I Man. Longmans. The dedication of this book to the Earl of Shaftes- bury, a nobleman who devotes so much of his valu- able time to the interests 'of his poorer fellow- countrymen, gives on the title-page ar. intelligible indication of the class of literature to which it be- longs. It professes to be, in fact, a glimpse of the inner ...

... LITERAT REU 1 T13 LITFE OF DotTGLABS 3RROMD. The following is the conclution of the criticism on iel Life of Doualas Jerrold, from the XAthatum, for which we could Dct spare room last week. How Jerrold gets the tourists out of these quarters rmsy be teld in the words addressed to the same Soung gentlemall of ix:- * Sick with sUlphav, Mngs full of 0te5m, and poisoned with sour food, we escaped ...

... I PROVINCIAL THEATRICAL&S (FROM OUR1 OWN CORRBSPONDENTS.) AB1FRDEgy THEATRE ROYAc.-(Lesgee, Mrs. Polloeie.)-.The Pantomime of Conrad and Medora at tbis establishment is, without exception, Ithe mostbearstiful prailuction ever placed on the stage of this theatre. The dialogue, written by Mr. William Birough, is of coarse witty in the extreme, andi some additions to it, of a local character ty a ...

... POPULAR CONCERTS, ST. JAMES'S HALL. The concert of last evening was of the same character as that of last week-hardly so good-and re- sembled it also in the disappointment caused by the absence of Mr. Sims Reeves, whose name had been announced as the principalattraction. This time, however, every pains had been taken to prepare the audience for this disappointment. Mr. Reeves's ...

... A QUEER -TOR? FROM WALEmS. An amusing, but not a vejy pleasant, incident has oc- curred'to a respectable young man in Manchester, He had appointepi one evening to meet some friends in Liver- pool1 who were bent on pleasure, but, baing in trust in one of tle branchbanking etablishnents here, determined to go round by way of Manchester, and 'convey a large amount.of-pecie, of whichke had charge ...

... Last night a concert was given at the Beethoven Rooms by Mdlle. Anna Kull, a young perforrneron the violoncello, assisted by some vocal and instrumental artihts-lIdile. Ma- thilde Rudersdorff, Miss Emily Gresham, Herr Mengis, Herr Kleine, and Herr Wilhelm Ganz. The following is the programme:- PAUT L. Trio in F. piano, violon et violoncelle ?? A. Festa. Herr Wilhelm Ganz, Herr Pollitzer, and ...

... LITERA TUBE. 1 Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics. By the late Rev. FREDERICK W. RO- BERTSON, M.A. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. I To the many who knew the author of these ad- I dresses, their publication will be welcomed with joy. l The Rev. Mr. Robertson, of Brighton, was no corm- mon man. He was a clergyman who had steadfastly resolved to learn Christianity from Christ, ...

... LITERATURE ?? OF FRE;NCH HISTORY DURING.- ffg: Co?StL-sTTE AND THE FIRBT of fremll IIistory durifng fA Cosodate ti e ?? Efpire, By Miss PARDON, acthor n71 o Life of Marie de Medicis, &c. Lon- ° ifrst and Blackett. ceslliar species of narrative commonlyknown The P.~t L suited to French history in foreign: rl DIV *i, hands. The enorsuous number of si, s s narso teristic a feature in ; ...

... * - iITERATURE. WINTER EVENINGS. £aeuemin2ss By LIcss HRITCHJEC. In 2 Dt1tP London : Hurst and Blackett. 3rRitclie has already, by his stories of The 1lns e The Maagcian, and in many 1;Irary n poci s; f obtained the reputation Atl able and agreeable writer, and the and contributions which have appeared t o t im e from his pe n in. Chambers witliwhichche has been for some years ;?rr ctd ...

... EXHIBITION OX 1]861. The following letter has been addressed by the Society of Arts to its town and country membors:- Society of Arts, Manufactureb, and Coimmerce, Adelphi, London ?? Dec. 30, 1858. Sir-The Counscil of the Society of Arts, in censider- ing the best means of setting on foot another Exhibition in she year 1861, must reqne it the co-operation of the whole of the gentlemen who, ...