... I PROVINOiAL THEA rRIGALB (3Fia att oul WS coulEtEBlOSD~ffT.) BRIG~HTON. TERAT~Ra ROYin.-fMeaaee, Mr Hl. Nye Chart.)-The Dow company, having Piayed togetber now for a fortnight, are getting into good warking order, and are on the whole equal to last year's corps. Mr Nye Chart ap- peare to have been partleelarly fortunate in his selection of ladies, and etthongh we mniso Mr W. Cooper, the ...

... ?? - THB ILLUSTRATED HORSE-DDOTORi2 Mr. Edward Mayhew has lo0g enjoyed a b;gh re. ,utation as a veterinary surgeon. As the editor of Blair's Veterinary Art, and as the author of The Horse's Mouth, and Dogs: their Management, hi name has long been pleasantly familiar to all who interest themselves in dogs and horses. A close and shrewd observer, a methodical compiler of the results of ...

... 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 ...

... -w I A&' x hor , 'I :. . : : 4 R- _ I I r I II . The exhibition of picture and statuary select 14ipirchase by the winneos o p rizes in the Art sliion lot- tey this yenwar opened on Satnrds ~ mornhl at the (GAblry of the Society of ?? Artists, in Snffoeicstreet, Pill-malL There are a hundred and fourteen oil paintings, Adkhl have been chosen out of the rimqipal exhibitions of the pas season ...

... BOULOGtNE FETES. (PROM AN OLD CORRESPONDENT.) T'raiment Le Bon .Dieu est en cslbre avec nolss, has been the exclamcation of the good people of Boulogne for the last eight months, but, luckily, a change for the better took placa on Assumption DAy, and a bright sun shed its influence over the fltes of that event. I shall not trouble you with a lengthy account thereof, as I did last year, for ...

... I OSBORNE, SATURDAY, JULY 28.-Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort gave their annual dinner and fete yesterday to the seamen and marines of the Royal yachts, the deleta1hmoent Of infantry stationed at L',,ist CoWes, the labourers and workmnen. employed on the Osborne estate, and the Coast Guard and Trinity -hotase ena. Dinner was prepared for about 560 persons, and was laid in ...

... We read in the Bfirminthum Post :-A practicaV, joke, of a character quite amusing, and somewhatex. cusable, has just bsen perpetrated at the expense of a, local paper. During the assizes at Warwick last.: week, the representative of the paper in question, as it is his habit so to do, annoyed the other reporters considerably by the way in which he was perpetually poking his head oiver their ...

... I PAMPHLETS ON BELlGIOUS QUESTIONS, L Occasional Refections on Men and Things. By a COUNTRY CLERGYMAN (Thickbroom and Staple- P ton). There is a great deal in a names and we muss contesi tmat tie title or ; 1'Csnal iTelec- c tions is not an attractive one. As a general rule, i people are content with their own reflections. But, X in the present instance, the name is the only fault we have to ...

... PROVINCIAL THEA rRIOAL6S (VEaK OUR OWN CORtfESPONDINTS.) TIAuLTER loy&e.-(Leame. Mr H. Nye Chart).-The burlesque on Sir ,Welter Scott's Ivanhoe continues to run, and goes well and smartly now tbs cemansy tare au fait at their business. On Monday the lion. Edmnond ~bfP~' trasitirt E ennac Hert's lyric drama, .King Bene's Daughter, ,vae produced for the first time here. It had been cempreeced ...

... Bunting in the Himalaya. With Notices of Customs and Countries from the Elepjhant Haunts of the Dehra Doon, to the Bunchowr Tracks in Eternal Snow. By R. H. W. Dunlop, C.B., ?? F.R.G.S. Illni Irated by J. Wolf. Bentley. A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas, with Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere. Edited by Mountaineer. Hurst and Blackett. Narrative of a Residence at the Court of Meer ...

... MUSIC, CONCERTS, &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPIIBRA, COVENT Garden. On Monday Mozart's csef ?? oere, II Don Giovanni, was per- formed for the last time this season, Mario playing the gallant Don. The cast of tbe opera was one of unusual excellence and attraction, while the almost irreproachable correctness of the chorus and orchestra, matters of the highest importance in Mozart's operas, more than ...

... 1 Meworials of Thomas Hood. CoUected, Arranged, and Edited by his DAuoHTER. With a Preface and Notes by his SoN. 2 vols. Moxon and Co. It is generally sid that the biographies of men of letters are uninteresting, because their lives are uneventful. We admit the fact, but demur to the reason assigned for it. The few splendid excep- tions to the rule suggest a different explanation. To take only ...