... Last night, Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia-one of the most popular compositions in the range of the Italian Opera-was performed at the Queen's Theatre. The house, though not crowded, was well filled, and the enthusiasm of the audience was intense. Madame Lorini, as Lucrezia, was in capital voice and spirit, and did ample justice to her part. Her Cor e hello quale incanto was given with ...

... Last night Rossini's favourite opera of 11 PI Barbiere di Siviglia was produced at the tc cc Queen's Theatre with all the success which a te thoroughly effective company and well disci- ar plined orchestra could secure. In all parts of gi the house there was a full audience, the dress rh circle especially being crowded to excess. The ti overture, which is replete with rich melody, was Ic ...

... ' (mrora LE FOLLUTT.) Throughout the season gold and silver gauze has been very fashionable for!bsell-dresses. Tar- latane, with flounces embroidered with coloured spots of velvet or of gold-spotted all over with gold, silver, white, cerise; &c.-are all in favour. We have also remarked an organdi, with white stripes, which makes a simple bat very charm- ing dress, with two skirts or a .tunic; ...

... kj~OTT)H ACADY 4EXEIBIsTIOS. e o ude~ ou'r aecount of the ?? Exli~i Vi ~CO len iby 0fevw flotes 6O6 'pictures towijich w' .. I1qY~ Slt. no v~t hjivnnedi to allade. bs1t 'which, -. either from their merits Pr demerits, appear to cell for some notice. 92. A .Storm on Loch Maohay, mith Ben..- 'wi Nevis inthe distance, by Macneil Moclcay, di#- . .pu4n soml,`reipects rmiiwb artistid skill; bb.i ...

... court? A? ,ftstiou ??i. 'oONmE, Marc n and Prince Con-.. sort wailked out this-inorning. The Queen and Princess 'Leiningen wvill arrive to- day on a visit to her Majesty. THE XDINBURGH, WEDNESDAY, MAIRCH 14, 1860. TO CORRElSPONIDEXTS. No notice can be taken of anonymous communications. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the Writer; eot ...

... p . -I;- -?7z ll? - . ,g arg lotitts. BIEOGRAPTHIS OF3 LORD MACAULLY, Contributed ._..to-.AtheD >Eneyclopwdi& Britannics,21.- With Notes of his Cunnecti9n. with Ediabnrgh, and? Extracts from bi, -Letters and Speeches Edinburgh: A. and C. Black. -WffATEYE the canse, the faet is indisputable that.the vo t distingnished authors run into extra circulation immediaetly on the Bhlso nee Pent of.the ...

... H~A¾~COTTIW SrdIETY sd) A TS. | ?? ~~ ?? 4 , f ?? . d it E I-Mr m e menson, C.E., President of the Society, in the ehair. : 'apronZii e xew Th oskb ;s~r~ewby'Msr 'RW Ow A?;TOoN, F.R.S.S.A. Mr Aytonn set i0t bUyWVr'ererring. to the admirable exposition on, thia.s ljet. reqeptIy. giy.gp, ?? by the Professor of A ricultare in the Uni- ! verity ..of-tdinargb, ic' said, must have left a general- ...

... THIRD NOTICE. We resume our notes on the more remarkable pictures:- 361. '0 Tibbie, I.ba'e seen the Davy, by ?? sel Et monitonsis~a shade too quiet in ex- tpress n 'The sgepherd's scorn sits very easily on htm-so easily that we might doubt whether he and Tibbie had ever been acquainted. Tib. bie herself ?? goes bye like stour. She looks simply a self-sufficient, fold-natiured comely queen. ...

... cXrt: and ?? Her Iajesty the Queen anda !hs Royal Highness tbe 'Prince -Consort, accompanied tby the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, Prince thMr, cesopo!W the Princesces Helena,-`6msa, n4t Beatie -e. Osborneat a quarter pasfi0 o'cle*cn- Wedes morning, embarked at Osborne-pier en'fhe Fairy, Royal steam-yacht, crossed to Pots AD otkyard and left by a special train on the Direct Portsmouth Eailwy, ...

... ROYAL . SCOTTISE SOCETY.0 ;OF ARTS. :; The .usnai 9zmeeting Of thii Society was held ?? ge Sftee,'t l, j ,r $trg oc- .a cupied the chair. , ?? , , , , t' Nr MG* ELH. Sjtidgo, of thfe firn of A. and ;G. ; 1Slight; engineers, Leith. alk, gave a de- scrjptionW -'ofiA machine for making loaf-bread n -do'ugh, -wyich they .had ,iqproved, and which h ittejyere extesivaly imabufactUring.; :The Ma-I ...

... 7?- I.S ? ?% loting. 1 EE ownqLR ]SUML. Principles of Articulation and Orthoepy, Art of Reading and Gesture, &c. By A. MELVmLLR BELL, .. 7Ft.S.A5t&e, P`feaso*- of. Elocruioa. and Vocal Physiology. Third Edition. London; Hamilton, Adams, and Coa.l Mr, BELT, is a]reldy well known to the public as the antor of The Principles of Speech, Popular Stenography, idn eiorks e are indebted to him, ...

... A private view of the chief prizes offered for 1860 by the Ait-Union ?? was given yes- terday in Mr Paton's Gallery, Princes Street, and afforded unqualified satisfaction. The principal prizes are already familiar to the friends of native art. The most valuable is Ansdell's Tod Hunter, which grows in favour the oftener it is seen, and the more closely it is studied. The animal painting is ...