... THEATRES% &cB RIsoyalEnglish o pera, Covent-garden. - FIRST REPESETAIONOFMR. W. VINCENO, WALLACE'S NEW OPERA o0 LuRrcLiE.-ThursdaY evening was one Of those exciting occasions that only occur cOnS Or twice in two or three years. The engagement of a composer, by Miss L. Pyns Find Mi'. Harriason, of such eminence as Mr. W. V. Wallace, to produce and writs an opera, was sormething interesting ...

... PC) Rccviw of the ('r'bueun ilor to the Wintcr of 1854-5. fc By LieuteUiaut-ColOnel JolN ADrZ, C.B., late A. A, G., R.A. London : Hurst and Blackett. eil |SZCO1D NOTICF.K i1i At daybreak on October 25, 1854, Genieral Li- jE prandi, with 2( 0,00 lue)n and 40 gulls, nude a, detel'- G 1 wilned attack on thle British flank, by ?? 'fl the Turkish redoulbt on Canrobert-hll. After a 1 semnblanco of ...

... SOOIE'TY OF PEJIALEf ART'LSPS. The fourth exhiluition of this society was opened to prisate view on Wednesday, at the gallery of the Now Society of Painters in Water-colours, D3, Pall-mall, The works are 319 in number, of which about sixty are copies from the old mausters-a line of practice to %which a consideralde number of rising female artists apparently devote themselves with considerable ...

... ANECDOTE OF Louis XIV.-When Rudyerd's Eddy. stone was building, Louis XIV. was at war with England, and a French privateer took the men at work upon the rock, and carried them to a French prison. When that monarch heard of it, he immediately ordered them to be released, and the captors to be put in their place; de- claring that, though at enmity with England, he was not at war with mankind. ...

... ON TEE DEATH OF LORD MACAULAY. Thy race is run, thy sun is set, Enchanter of the storied page! Thy country grieves-another ago .1hall better reckon up her debt. jtntimoly fate! Thy work, so dear, Half done. 0 may thy mantle fall Ou worthy shoulders: would that all The mragic strains we loved to hear blight wake their echoes through the land And bring new harvests from the field NVWercin thou ...

... N Mr. and MrS ObCharles ]Kean's Provincial Tour.| (From the Edinburgh Daily Couraent, Feb. lst.) QUESN's THsRATRl.-MR. KRAN'S HAMLET.-Abotst twenty- five years ago Mr. Charles Kean was fulfilling au engagement in our own city, and, it must be owned, without having obtained any recognition of a tangible description of his talent as an actor. It was only, indeed, during that engagement, and when ...

... Lpbt night, 'r Charled .Kean appeaiied ia the qlaracter of Lois'XI. in the anel]drast'a of the sanme'tar. The. audiesce. was. nuieras i all parti of the 'theatre, the boxes especially being completelg filied by a brilliant assem- 1blage. The play itself is one which hls long been, and in good. liavtdsintust always e, af ov urite with the pubfic ofthis city. Thecharacter of wouis, ...

... WgLLIAMS, YSW., FRONWNION, DOLGELLAU, Yu 7ad mwy union-na Williams ei welir yn Meirion: Iddo boed ilwydd a byd IIon Ar wen annedd Bronwnion. Ei gallach yn Nolgollau-o swyddog Nid oes heddyw 'n ddial;- Bronwnion yw 'n bri ninnau, Mawr yw clod y Cymro clan. Arianog *r 0'i wenau-ydyw ef, A doeth iawn rbwng pleidiau; Hwn a'i hil fydd yn mwynhau ?? uwch bri Nannan ! E. IONAWR Jons. aEYD-GYPIXITHUD ...

... HA YMARET 'I'T1EA T1RE. Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the nerits I of Mr. Tomn Taylor as a dramatic writer, this much is cer- tain, that in the quality of productiveness he fir surpasses all his competitors. It may be that all the pieces to which he stands before the world in the relation of parent, do not owe their original conception to him; but that is not a matter we are ...

... PROVINCIAL THEA TRICALB, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) BRIG~HTON. TirEATRIE ROYAL,.-(Lessee, Mr H. Nye Chart.) - A new drama called Quciksands aad Whir-lpools was produced here on Monday evening. It is a dramatised version, by Mr Robert dootar, of Mr Percy B. St.-John's well- known tale, and it is therefore unnecessary !that we shoold give the plot. Bristling with good situations, and ...

... - ?? POETRY\'. THE VOLUNTEERS OF ENGLAND. tl A NATIONAL SONG, BESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO TIIE SIATIONAL k RIFLE BRIGADE.N . The Volumteers of England, A mighty host are they; w IFor fatherland and beauty III They rise in dread array. a Honour warms their loyal hearts, ti Valour fires the eager eye; Patriotic love imparts Courage vh hich shall never die. Firmly they stand, A noble band As e'er ...

... L I T E R A Y U R E. GATHERED TOGETHER. Poems. By WILLIAM WILSON. Longmans Green, and Co., London. Mr. Wilson is unquestionably possessed of high poetic feeling, a free and fearless mode of thought, and he moulds his fancies into elegant verse, which, nevertheless, varies ii ite quality. Sometimes, when he feels most strong, his expressions are weakest; and we would, without offence, recommend ...