... DRURY-LASE TEdATRLE Iast night ai now dranma from the pen of Mr. II. Hall Was put upon the boerds of his thsholtre with decided sucess, It is called T/lc Forest -Yerpe,, from the circumstanco that the f hero of the pioec, at the eommnen cement of the i('ti.n of theI play, hiods that ol dco in one of the former royal denicos2se of Franco, but Which hod then passed under the lordship and' rule ...

... A GALLERY OF ART FOR MANCHESTER0 THE very Interesting suggestion which Mr. THos. FAIRBAIRN, of Manchester, has made for the for- mation of a permanent gallery of art in this city, will, we trust, meet with the attention it deserves from all classes of the community. By Mr. FAIrBsAIRN's proposition, he aims at establish- Ing, permanently, an exhibition of a character slmilarto that held at Old ...

... THEATRES, &oo Drury-lane-On Monday night Mr. Charles Dillon com. menced an engagement at this theatre, appearing as William Tell in a compressed form of that well-known play by Mr. Sheridan Knowles, which was originally brought out on these boards thirty. four years ago. In the interval that has elapsed since Mr. Macready first gave the playgoing public his famous impersonation of the pos's ...

... PIIIMOIIS8'S. Mr. Hoil, for many years a favourite aotor at the Haymarket, il the author of a three gct comedy, which Waun produceds lat aight at the Printeoal with perfeet success, It is o6led OMt in a 2land written ia blan Tre which, while ontaining no partioularly poetio thoughts, or any spjll novelty of Imagery, yet fows eaily ean ples. auntly, and i devoid of those aparmodlo rzpsodisa ...

... .411A i wrigillat V!ottrg+-, NELSON'S TARS, TO HOPE'S.. (ATrTn THE FIGHT AT THE PEIRO.) Brothers.1 your hand I Hail! noble hearts of oak! We know that master-stroke I Through the thick battle-smoke i Your hand! , Brothers I your haid! Who fight so-and yet fail- Although false tongues should rail- Shall in the end prevail ! Your hand I Brothers! your hand I Stern work-at the beginning! Next ...

... (From Le aollet.) At this season of the year we are sure that a lengthened description of dresses suitable for ball and evening toilette will be useful to our readers. Some of them, from the lightness of the material and the combination of flowers, tulle, &c., may almost be called fairy like, One we will describe. It was com- posed of white tulle bouillonnee. At the lower part vf the e .4 -t r ...

... IM. OLIPHANT IN OHINA.' Every traveller who can help us to a wise under. standing of the Chinese, does good service to his country. We are not in questof learneddisquisitions about Brahmnin and Budhiat. We want to come face to face with the Celestiale, and to know them in all their social relations. This knowledge acquired, we shall be better able tian we have been, to hold on- mercial and ...

... I IYTERVA TIO.NAL ED IBITIOK OF 182. At the Council meeting of the Society of Arts, on Thurs- day, the guarantee deed for raising a sum of not less than i £25,000, on behalf of the Exhibition of 1882 was approved, and the following named as the trustees of the fund -The Earl Granville, K.G., the Lord President of the Council; the Marquis of Chand.is, Chairman of the London and Novth-Western ...

... Iih iorn kI u ,I First Elegant Creature A -don't you danea Charles?-Second ditto, ditto: - A-no-not at pwo- sent I I always let the girls look, and long for me first 1 LATE PROM TRHE NtunSERY.-Governess: Now, Frani, you must put your drum down if you are going to say your prayers.-Frank: Oh, do let me wear it, please 5'l pomise not to think about it. A PLEASANTRY POR THE POPE.-A ...

... TUosE orators who give us much noise and t4iany Words, but little argument and less wit, and who are most loud when they are the least lucid, shoedd take alesson frou the great volume of nature: she often gives us the lightnig without the thunder, but never the thunder without thg lightning. BeiTisse BENEVOLENCE is equally inexhaustible and cosmopolitan. There is scarcely a division of the ...

... P O E T R Y. -4-a -4a UPON SEEING A SNOWDROP IN THE WINDOW OF A FRIEND'S HOUSE. Oh, pale cold wintiy sunshine! Thy trembling radiance give, Break through the threat'lling storm-cloud, And let my sensv-drop live, No early sunbeams shed their light Upon its tiny bed; In the dreary snow-clad city It raised its dreoping head. It looks out from my window, And talls to the passing throng, That far ...

... LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM-NOW-A-DAYS. O&! tell me not that distant seas Roll wido betweea me and my lover: For he, Pin sure, is at his ease- . And I'm in clover. And don't tell me that foreign parts Will ever make me, d(a1, forget himii; Nor will le take to breaking hearts, Uniless I let hhnt. Ile wvrites to me by every post, And every post takes back moy answer; lie writes of muffins, sleighs, and ...