... TENNYSON'S NEW POE11. Macmillan's Magazine for this month contains the pro- misedpoem by the Poet Laureate, called Sea Dreams- an Idyll. The scene and the subject of the dreams are suggested in the opening passage:- A city clerk, but gently born and bred; Big wife an unknown artist's orphan child- One babe was theirs, a Margaret, three years old': They, thinking that her clear germander ...

... THE COURT. WINDSOR CASTLE, TUESDYY.-IHer Majesty~s dinner- party yesterday included their Royal Highnesses the Prinee of Wales and Princess Alice, Lady Carolinc Bar'ington, Major-General thu Hon. R. and Airs. Bruce, Colonel Parker, commanding officer 1st Life Guards; Colonel Bradford, commandine officer 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards; Captain Grey, and tht Earl and Countess of Sheibourne, who ...

... 7 I, 4Ah',I go;l . L | MR;f. 31IN VUC$tARDiSi CONCBI T; j This keg, place at St. J=a )~ ?? nigh, wa i t wI drc-metasees A chtiq pi fail to create a etiton In the musical world. The de - Rtounutdia the siae of Mr. Richards, was- preratory for an extenilve tour in the provinces arranged by Mr. Willert Beale, and embracing a groat arbount of vowa and fnsten- mental talent. For this tour, to ...

... [From Punch.] SHORT AND (NOT) SwEnaT.-John Arthur Dogtear'em Roebuck, Esq., once a Bath Chap, and now a Sheffield Blade not always of the best temper. CHRISTMAS WAITS. Europe this Christmas waits to see What's to be done with Italy: Whether the despots mean to free her, Or sornewhat farther first to see her. The Pope, too, wailts, with visage grim, To learn what's to become of him ; Whether ...

... LITNBATURE. Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. A Bliography. t By JAMES CsR IGIE ROBiEIRTSON, M.A., Canon of 1 Canterbury. Murray. I The arrogant pretensions of a sacerdotal caste to I be exempt from civil jurisdiction and allegiance, were represented in the twelfth century of English history by Thomas a; Becket. Unfortunately, in the nit-eteenth century we have seen them still raunpant, in ...

... TJ STDMONIAZ IT HZI ART TREASNUMB I I ..XRJ.TJO COMJITRR Yesterday afternoon a mteeting was held, in. the Mayor's parlour, at the Manchester Town-hall, for. the pre- oestation. of a piece of plats to each of the seven membes of the executive committee of the late Art Treasures Exhibition. The chair wea taken by Mr. J. C. HARTERL. The seven testimoniale (which have already been described In the ...

... LYCEUM. Of the pantomime at this theatre we spoke last week on hearsay evidence; we now bear our own witness to its character. The author of the introduction is Mr F. Talfourd, who is the writer also of this season's burlesque at the Strand. Mr Talfourd is the best of the stage punsters, and he has p~t into the story of King Thrush- beard much pleasant jesting, with a little-perhaps too much ...

... j G'R'AND 'EVEN'ING 'O NC, E :Ri.L I MVMinXa AfHEM1E HAYES. i' The cone&rit n'iuc$ by ?? Merijon Kyle, music publisher ,with Madame OCathirine Hayes 'as the leading' E, attr5 ?? ?? in the City Hall last night, the at- Y' 'tefndanca being 'omewhat 'mege; considering that lidy's .world wade 'iiutation as a vocaist, and the not uareason* t able OhargeYadmsion. Madame Hayea's iin excellent - voice ...

... I ,. ?? -- - . . JOHN BULL GUARDS HIS PUDDING. John Bult he bas houses, John Bull he has lands, ID He has beef, he has mutton-bhee pudding and pelf; He no doubt feels It hard, as he stands upon guard, Both to pay his police rates and watch for himself. id But them sneaks,1 says the cook, 1before one can look, to They whips down the area, all of a sodding. to so. to keep what be's got from ...

... LITERA TURS. y princs a, i/edgey. By Alr;FD Tzywrsoy, it ?? Poet Laureate; with twenty-six illus- ni tratiouS, engraved on wood by Dalziel, Green, al ,Ibols, and E. Williams, from drawings by le D1niel 31acliSe, R.A. London: Edward Moxon gid Co. yl I've poet dwells in a land where ideas reign, and ti ts are more or less ignored. Of all things that t sees he looks only to the beautiful; of all ...

... TIHE GRAND SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT. Notwiihstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather, the first of the four Grand Sub- scription CIoncerts given last night was most triumphant. The house was crowded in every part, and the enthusiasm reigned from basement to ceiling. We have sat out many concerts in Edinburgh ; never before, however, have we been led by the magic of sweet melody to feel ...

... W-INTrERI ALI( AT NOON. Thle nigh't Was, Niiuter in his ?? Ilood ;o 'T le -riltiilg shiarp aiid clear. Bult HOW at noon t'pon thle SOouthern side of' tc lan hilitlfls, Andt wier'e tile woods I'mice Otr thle northe~rn blast, T1hc season smilles, resignhue aill its rage, ,And hals thle warmjiti of May'. T1'li vault is blue Without at cloud, and white without at speck The dalzzling 5lplendtomV ...