... MR. NEWBOLD'S HISTORICAL FJCTUft of the International Contest between Sayers and Heenan. A great subject may be common-place by being badly treated and one of inferior interest may be elevated into one of national import. ance and dignity by the genius displayed in its arrangement and details. A practical illustration of the latter contingency has jds been afforded by M~r. Newbold's original ...

... ROYAL DRAXATIC REPRES3DITATIOlq at Windsor Castle. The fifth and last of the series of performances for te season took place on Tuesday evening, and proved one of the most successful representations yet given. It WO understood to be for the especial entertainment of the Prince of Orange, who hadjust arrived on a short visit to this country. The pieces selected were both of a drawin.. room ...

... THEATRES& ?? Royal English Opera,Co ?? the lsat two or three years the establishment of an English Opera upon a permanent footing was considered to be almost an impoesibility. manager after manager essayed the attempt and failed of success. The public at that time, from some cause or another, whilst they would flock to hear music set to Italian words, declined to patronise the same combined ...

... I SACRED HA.MW tNIC SOCIETY. The performance of Samsaons last evening drew one of thogreatest crowds we have ever been in Exeter Hall. This oratorio is one of the greatest of the oighly mastersa workis; written in the zenith of his powetH, and itmmediately after Thc ffessials, it is in many parts little interior even to that unparalleled masterpiece in grandeur and beauty, It nevertheless did ...

... I Stray Notes on Fi&4fiig Wid? 2atural IIIAfOilA By- CoRNWAt,L SxamiiioN. Cisnibricige Mlclial I andt CJo. 18110. Mr. Simneoni ii ti seems to haive takent very early inl life to thle gentle art here, rolates his experience ill a trcmtitorti~y~ atid pleasantt nlarrative. Piseator mayll learln of lo anly amlount of useful doldges, iacqillt I by jlong experience. The most lucvid description and ...

... 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 ...

... LITERA TURE. Vih Roman Question. By E. ABOUT. Translated from the French by H. C. CoAPE. Second edition. With a New Pteface by the Author. London. W. Jeffs.tb urpn A year ago the Roman Question was tbe Enropean question ot the day, and it is so more than ever now; and M. Edmond About's wittv and incisive boo is par excellesuce the book of The Roman Question. We are afraid to say how many ...

... 1ITrERA TURE.I A History of Englavd dssrisg tW B~e' of George the Third. ByandiM Son.P Ill. 1781-179& London: Preasd Son lw 18460. A decade of great events, and fertile in the seeds w-it of gret evets, s cornrised within the period the which this volume of Zr. Massey' Historyled m-ent01 braces. It commenced with the ackowedmet r of American. independence, and it concluded with for the outbreak ...

... L8ITERATURE. The Cotkgqe Of &h Alps: or, Life atW Man neri; inbakt &itzerliald. By a LADY. In Two Volumes. those ~ Sampson Low and Son. tion w The preface is at first sight rather puzzliug. it picture sets off with a commendatory memoir of Madame In Dora d'Istria, an ?? lady and duotor prnesof the Ghika family, to whom these weil-co vlmsare dedicated by the American lady their prospcM author. ...

... EXETER HALL, k. T]Ie ?? of The Messiah at the ?? Peo- ple's 1'hillutraiunsic Concert last night Iras, on the whole, bt praisewvorthy. The solo-singers wreic Ma;ldame Catherine tit Haves, Madame Laura Baxter, Madame Wilbert, Mr. Wil. ea bye Cooper, and Mr. Weiss; dil good rind competent pec- as fercers. Mr. Cooler delivered the openiug recitative, ot o('emfort Ye my people, with miruchl ...

... HER MAJESTY'S THrATRE. The re-appearance of Madame Alboni in the part which upon her first coming before a London audience at once established the high fame she has so well sustained, was an event that brought a crowd to the old opera-house on Tuesday night. Seiniramide had not been heard for many years. Its magnificent overture, its wild heathen choruses, its strains of delicious melody, its ...

... 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 ...