... 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 ...

... MUSEUM 02 1JRSH DWUBT.RY.. The annual distribution of prizes to the students of the department of science andart in connexion with the above institution in Dublin toek place on Thursday evening in the presence of a numerousaud inflaential assembly. Sir Robert Kane delivered an address, in which he gave an ac- count of the establishment's progresa, nd present state of the institution. The Lord ...

... THIE THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL EXAMINER. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Any increase of the popularity of Meyerbeer's Dinorah can only benefit the public taste and the treasury of any theatre or any manager by whom that opera shall be now or hereafter represented. We are glad, therefore, that Miss Pyne and Mr Harrison are profiting by the efficient representation of it in an English version ...

... The winter season of the London Theatres may be said to have begun this week. Next Monday evening Mr Har- rison and Miss Pyne re-open the English Opera at COVENT GARDEN. Even the ST JAMES'S Theatre is forced into life again, and under the management of Mr. F. B. Chatterton attempts fortune, with new decorations, and new pieces, and new prices. At the Haymarket and the Strand Theatre the doors ...

... FINE AR7S. I ?? I~. EXHIBITION OF THE ART-U\ION' OF GL The paintings selected for the prizes rn tb Union of Glasgow will be visible to the public to da. exhibition takes place in a room of the igybt.an , cadilly, called the Victoria Crues Gallery, fromlib, stance of recently ?? the pictures by Mr. De.' illustrative of the acts of valour which > ave Won the Cross-pictures we reviewed not long ...

... FINE SA5S. THE NORTHWICK COLLECTION. Our readers are aware that the sale of the late Lord Northwick's pictures was compulsory, his lordship having died intestate. It is reported, however, that many of the pictures were bought in, that is to say, purchased on behalf of the present owner of Thurstoree-house. From the ClW1te0NhaEcNzuminer we learn ?? has purchased about sixty pictures, ...

... LITERA TUBR. I 27we Missing Link: or BAUls women in the Homes of the London Poor. By L. N. R., Author of the Book and its Story. Niabets. The connexion between the material and the moral and spiritual improvement of mankind is one of those truths which society is perpetually losing and redis- covering. Just now there is, as the reports of the recent congress at Bradford have shown us, a ...

... ArMISRICAIr THEATRICALS. I (Fon) PForter's Spirit of tie Timzes, October 15.) Tar operatic season wiil te resumed nest week, commencing on Mlonday evening with Traviata, for the debut of the new sriota donna, Signora Speranza. l3uring the week Ferri, the baritone; Cresciusano, another young ps-iota donna ; and the tenors Testa and Steghelli will appear; while the contralto Cruvelli is reserved ...

... 49TIE Y'S TBEA'TRE. We attended at this theatre last evening to witness the first representation of an original historical draina, in four acts, by Tom Taylor, Esq., with great equestrian effects, entitled Gari.fd, antd founded on the autobiography of that distinguished Italian general. It appears to us, at starting, judging from our proviuus experience of Mr. Taylor's dramcaticl ...

... | [She followi'g appeared in our Town Edition of last teel.] OPENING OF THE ROYAL PRINCEO~s8| I - . heatre.{ Mr. Augustus Harris, the new lessee of this theatre, commenced his campaign on Saturday evening in a manner that augurs auspiciously of the future. Very wisely abstaining from any attempt to continue the illustrated revivals of Shakspere, which would involve an outlay too considerable ...

... THE- AGAZIATEs FOR OCTOBER. ;BENTLESy :- d Opens as usual with a retrospect of the. past D month. With the rapid pace at which events and ' rumours succeed one another nowadays,' it is a :C misfortune necessary and innate to such r63usniA to a be found discussing subjects which long prior to f the appearance of the article have been ascertained a tobeidle canards. Thus, in the present instance ...

... PROVINCIAL THEA rRICALB, | (isoat OUR OWN CORRAUOPONDEITS) BRIGHTON. TmxkaRAT Roy~rt.-(Lessees, Mr H. N~ye Chartt,)-Efekrd the Third. On Saturday night, brought to a close Mr James Bennett's six rights' en- gagement, and we have now Mr Ira Aldridge starring for a week. On Monday he appeared in Othello, with Mr Veruer as a careful lgoe; MIS Calvert good as Emilia; Mr Dewar much improved as ...