... FASBIONS FOR MARCH. (From Le Follet, JournaZ ?? Monde:)' Throughout the season gold and silver gauze has been very fashionable for ball dresses. Tarlatare, with flounces embroidered with coloured spots of vel- vet or of gold-spotted all over with gold, silver, cerise, &c.-are all in favour. We have also remarked an organdi, with white stripes, wrhich makes a simple but very charming dress, ...

... LITERATURB TEE ASTRIONOMICAL EXPEDITION TO SPAIN. The dull literary season hge set in with its usual 8everity. Promises we have, in plenty, bat books SCnow ready,' or in afew days, are rare. Guide books by the dozen issue from the press, to catch the flitting traveller; but these are no more literary per. formancesthanare Letts' Diaries Practical Time Tables and Guides, and Tourists' ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, HER M&1ESTY'S THEATRE. mings end operas appear never to die. On TUes. day last HER M rAJEsTY TnaAT'E finished its season, and on Thursday it was working away as hard as ever, and no more feeling the fatigue than would a steam- engine. The explanation is that the now season, com. menced on Thursday, is to be a series of extra nights at reduced prices, for the especial ...

... PUBLIC AMtT$BY-ENTS, 'TOYAL LYCEUJAO THEATRE. The second season of the LYCEUM THMATRE, under the management of Madame Celeste, commenced on Monday last. A variety of new features claims our attention. The performancee are new, or new to this house; ard the list of artists Las beon ?? re- cruited from home and abroad. Mr. Charles Dance's graceful little drnma, Delicate Gtround-, lte of the ...

... The Art-Journal. No. 68. J. S. Virtue. This cheap monthly issue of good engravings from choice pictures and statues, and of pleasantlY communicated in- formation upon all matters of art, should be one of the most popular issues of the day. Careful engravings of Rubens's portrait of his wife, of Turner's Rain, Steam, and Speed, and of another work, with a profuse supply of woodcuts, illustrate ...

... At the ADELPHI and the PRINCESS'S Theatres dramatic versions of Mr Dickens's Christmas Carol and of his Cricket on the Hearth have been revived with great success as Christmas entertainments. At the LYCEUM the Tale of Two Cities is in preparation. Mr Tom Taylor is the author of the adaptation, which will be produced with the author's sanction, ada not wholly without aid from his counsel. The ...

... Dr Major's Elemnentary Praxis of Greek C(omnpositiol (1) is especially designed as a companion to Bishop Wordsworth's excellent Greek Grammar, but may of course be used in association with whatever other grammar teachers may prefer. The little book is a graduated series of questions and exercises, testing and practising most thoroughly the knowledge of the learner, and insuring, as far as an ...

... I [2hefogjja2,iq Gppeare, in ouir yown Edition of loag wok_,l I IW B. WOODILess NEW ENTERTAINMEJNT ~ .1, The Cabinet of Curiosities, After an absence from the metropolis of some time, during which Mr. W. S, Woodin has been extending his fame as an entertainer' through the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, this modern Proteus has returned to his old quarters at the Polygraphic Hall, King ...

... I PROVINCIAL THEA RICALS. I FRXOUR OWNt COBREfPOEDENTS.) ABBEDMRK.. TuimiawE ROYAL.'-As intimated in the paragraph of laot week. Mr3 Pollock. the lessee of this establiobment took her benefit on Friday even, jathe 2d mast, when the attendance of a numerous and respectable sudience testifiod as to the-estimation in whichl she is held, and sohwed that her efforts to keep alive an interest in the ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF rTIER BRA. Theatre, Port St. Martin, Paris, Sept. 10. My dear Sir,-Perhaps at the present moment, when all are so enthusiastic in the cause of the Rifle Movement in England, you would like to hear some account of the secret expedition undertaken by the Royal Princess's Rifle Corps to show the French nation a specimen of their abilities and discipline. We started on Sunday, ...

... 3 The interest excited by this entertainrment was very general, and the attendance at the St. James's Hall on Monday evening one of the largest of the season, the orchestra, galleries, and body of the hall being completely filled. Beethoven's Posthumous Qnartett in F, No. 17, commenced the concert, finely executed by Messrs. Sainton, Ries, Doyle, and Piatti. The vocalists were the bene. ...

... In our last we briefly alluded to the arrangement made by Mr. Gye for the ensuing season, which commences on Tuesday next. The season of 1860 promises to be as brilliant as any of its predecessors. The following outline of the arrangements will show the indefatigable industry of the manager to produce novelty. The established favourites in the operatic department engaged are Madame Grisi, who ...