... 4 DR&MA. ~ ,- I thttt ?? for the benetit- of . 1, lese. in Wi 'io tothe d Mw 4i .4 mto , conductor,~ afe wct igsstpe ieecte0.Stm ~ s~sti~i|=w : ?? . 1i]g, FM NW -I id IW I1ih n UomgsIezrb e ebes hery myself lefos , ;= X ?? puli generall Ua~no brt pmed oacco mel onioctsea. .Ve'wib- the Pos t ton eeof'aj ely ii ; pFsitinereW btyst I yve act tr e didieneey th the jt a lps k or :h r tds y - ...

... musIc. IABTER EVE PERFORMANCE AT WINDSOR CASTLE4. On Saturday evening there was agreat performance of snored music, given by the Queen and his Royal H4iunews the Prince Consort to a large party of distinguished guests. Our readers will find elsewhere the details of this enter- tainment contained in the Court Circular; but its re- markable character, and'its importance in connexion with the ...

... oIMrTUAR. I 7hs Story of Neow Zeaand, Past and Prseut, SSavage and Q Ci;sed. By ARTIMI-S. THOMSON, M.D., Su eon Major 68th Regiment. In two volumes. Murray. Dr. Thomson is well qualified for the task of describing that picturesque and promising regions the New LZealand group of islands, which ip Interest- ing not only to the friends of the colonist, but to the student of physiology and to ...

... History of the Reign of Henry IV., King of France and Navarre. By MARTHA WALKER FRPYm. Part I. Henry IV. and the League. Hurst and Blackett. Miss Freer is steadily going on with the French history of the sixteenth century. After giving us, in her previous works, a tolerably full narrative of the lives of several notable monarchs and prin- cesses of the latter Valois reigns, she commences, in ...

... LITERA TURE. An Arctic Boat Jous'niwy in the Auttmn of 1854. hi By ISAAC J. HAYES, Surgeon of the Second tb Grinnel Expedition. Edited by Dr. NORTON SHAW, with an Introduction and Notes. Bentley. th Amongst the various expeditions into the Arctic as regions, of which thirty or more have been under- th taken since the final departure of Sir John Franklin bt in 1845, with a view either to ...

... ~ i --a) ?S ?? ,- - I o, . ?? - 4 ' ;: . ?? . : . ?? . : 01 I I .. I. 'T-I . Last night W. BW fe ioert (the firt of a fd %li~e)4 Ibm : i r The price of :dison -ft a shilling, I : as an immense aemblage; the music-hall being au densely erowded as it used to be when the Serr1' Oanlen were' sX nact in vogue it the dmy, dais of poor Juijien. The concer consited (withX one exceptiou}o pl~ece ...

... ROYAL ITALUN OPERA CONCERT. A grand morning concert was given yester- day, in the Floral Hall, adjoining Covent-garden Theatre. This beautiful appendage to the theatre, us aour musical readers are aware, has been for some time open as a pro. zaeiiade on opera nights, and is now begun to be used as a concert hall, to wbieh there is nothing comparable either it London or (we beliere) in any ...

... LITEBATURE. The Gordians Knot d. .48tor' of Good n f ri By SHIRLEY BROOKS. 'With illustrStions5 by John Tenniel. Riohard Bentley. Mr. Shirley Brooks is one ot the most realistio of our writers of fiction. In his writings we have no ideal, distant, or abstract world, no gentle re-touching of old traditions, or minute and careful elaboration of a few deep and simple elements of character; the ...

... LITERA TUBE. I Croeckford's Clerical Dtirectoryfor 1860. This is a biographical dictionary of the episcopal clergy of our day. It contains the names ot 17,500 deacons, priests, and biahopo, arranged in alpha- betical order, with a considerable body of information respecting each. For example, people were asking the other day for information about the position and antecedents of the Rev. James ...

... . DRURY-LANZ THEATI. The success of Mr. Watts Pbilhipl's last dramatic production, 2%e Dead Heart, wu so great and so honest as toplace its author in the first rank of tbe present-day Iwriters for the bstae, ad to Fause hi next essay to be Dlooked for with considerable interest. That essay has now been made, and if we cannot say that 27w S&ory of the ?? now playing at Drcry-lane, is na good ...

... ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, C0VENT-GARDAN. The season proper of the Pyne and Harrison company terminated on Saturday evening. The operetta of Romanee preceded the Lurline of Mr. Vincent Wallace. This latter work hai not only sufficed to fill the theatre each evening since its production, but has decided the manage- nent on giving nine additional representations. On Satur- day night the opera was ...

... -w I A&' x hor , 'I :. . : : 4 R- _ I I r I II . The exhibition of picture and statuary select 14ipirchase by the winneos o p rizes in the Art sliion lot- tey this yenwar opened on Satnrds ~ mornhl at the (GAblry of the Society of ?? Artists, in Snffoeicstreet, Pill-malL There are a hundred and fourteen oil paintings, Adkhl have been chosen out of the rimqipal exhibitions of the pas season ...