... NEW YORK; MARCE 8. ACADR5Y o0 MUsiC. - The past week, in brilliancy, compares favourably with any previous week of the season. On Monday, the revival of Flotow's Martha drew a full house. The desire to see Patti in this vole, which she has selected for her debut in London, created a great interest in musical circles. She won a complete snecess by her charming, careful, passionate singing. ...

... ?? Pusch.j A GRCtND TRANSFORMsATION ScENE.-At Christmas time, every theatre has its grand transformation scene. This year they have been grander, more beautiful, than usual. But, without excapltion, the most startling, if not precisely the grandest transformation scene this year has -been that of turning the theatres into churches and chapels! The beadle's staff has achieved a greater wonder ...

... . 1 : EXHIRITIOx OF Tim JNSTTITON OF FME ARTS, PORTLAND GALL]IY, REGENTSTREET. The present exhibition at the Portland Galley (which opens to the public to-day) is, speaking generally, one of the leost interesting which it has been our duty to examine. There is seaely asingle workof first-rate merit. I As for choice of subjeci, them re, wita w ngtable ex. *eltions, nothing bt hekneyed ...

... XLIITARY BOOKS. Six closely printed columns of the Times were occupied on Thursday with the names of peaceful gentlemen and men of business who attended her Majesty's Levee as newly-created officers of Volunteers. The determination to be at once forewarned and forearmed against the chance of war appears as distinctly in our current literature as in the incidents of daily life. There is a ...

... TRzn 01Ncm WAo ES A PasSONER. Considerable amusement has been afforded at Oxford through the eccentric conduct of a knight of the' plough, named Hedges, known under the sossb-iqsaet of Lord Chief Justice Burns. It appears his Royal Highness the Prince Of W~ales, in company with Colonel Keppel, equerry in waiting, Mr. Herbert Fisher, private tutor to his Royal Highaess; Earl Brawnlow, Sir ...

... LITERATVRE. Undoubtedly the great literary fact of the week d is the publication of the opinions of a gentleman ,t great in the world of science upon the theories of Mr. Darwin, pnt forward in his Originof Species, r at the request of and in answer to an inquiry male of him by, the Archbishop of Dublin. These opinions will be found at length in the .Spectator of r the 24'h inSt., to which ...

... LITJAA TVRE. Th-e Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated. I By the Rev. JAuEs M'Cosu, LL.D. London : pro John Murray. t If ever the study of mind be destined to lead to am positive demonstrations, comparable with those eul which have resulted from the inductive treatment dre of physical phenomena, it seemus reasonable to ma assume that, by inductive reasoning applied to n physical ...

... PROVINCIAL THEA rRiOALS. (PROx OUR OWN COORESPONDENTS.) ABERDEEN. THEITATI ROYA.L&-In order to find a comeparison to the audiences that have nightly been attracted to this place from the 7th to the 120h inet, to wi~noOO the performances of Mr and Mfrs Charles Kean we must carry our memoricesbeck upwaedeof a acor ofryears. At that timne-the hey-day of his father's PDpulakrity-Mr Charles Keen ...

... I All that can be urged against the profanation of religion in re- sorting to theatres for the offices and propagation of faith, with the iocongruity of ideas and feelings engendered in the mind by such practices, with what the upholders of religious expediency advance in maintaining the employment of airy place ande any ?? for the good work, has been already said and tediously repeated; we ...

... I IAAdI2 Trarels in reru and MeoitV. By S. S. HUa Longman. The merits and defects in this book are pretty equally balanced; but at least it may be said for the author that he belongs to a school unfortunately on the decline; or he may be more strictly, though negatively described as being free from the peculia- rities of a school which is rapidly on the increase. There are very few of those ...

... £I2'EJtA TURE. Ilon or, eke Romance of Monte Beni. Li , nolts.iTw'iOim, author of 1The ~ tr Londtton Smith and Elder, I hoar ccqutainted with Mr. liaw-i ?? must be anxious to hear teew onle which hag recently been ts t the sarne timie, the pectuliar charm j L ~ ?? writings consists so little either I 1t u~nidenit, or Iincharacter, that it i,3 diffi- i~ A ?? n wods ay a-curate implresision of ...

... LITBRA TURE. I Hunting Songs and Nfiscellaneotis Ferses. By I.E. EGEBR'ON WARBURTON. Longman. This book is full to the covers of verse which is indisputably good. It is good as verse, and its spirit is of that sound, hearty character that nobody can mistake, std that very few will object to. The author's hope, expressed in a preface, that the songs may be the mneans of encouraging, in some ...