... VARIETIE S. 1. a POPULAR IGNORANOE.-The popular ignorance of this tie enlightened age is ?? astounding. Onythe In other day a customer of an eminent silvoersmyitb, 29. admiring sorne exquisite piece of silver chasery, re- 25- marked, How this would have delighted Cellinil ace We shall be happy to shlow it to Cellini any day he he Will look in, wag the polite observation in reply. at ...

... I PROVINCIAL THEA rRICALa. (IRaX OUR OWN COREHSPONDANT8.) ftpuiave ?? .Messrs. Hayes and Phillips, with their performing tedogs Shv be r~ ttractions here for some time past. The training of in whchrthe lyrelet great credit on their proprietors, for the manner it!whchtheanmas g troghthe ?? parts assigned tothem i trule seldomhng, brs.uaye and Phillips are very fair actors-wes havell sedo se ...

... AMERICAN THEATRICALFS. I I NEW YORK, JAE, 16. ~NIBLO`5.-Mr. Forrest opened the week with a repetition of Spai'daru8, but gave us Damon for his benefit, -on Wednesday. His acting throngh- out the play is suc as to win entire approbation from these who have bosn lealt disposed to confess hsis merits, whilst It gives his admirers now reason for their ardour. Speaking of hiascene with his wvife, ...

... TEEEATRICALS IN AUSTRALIA. (osno3 oUR oWN CoRRESPONDsET.) ADELAIDE, S.A, DEC. 26, 1860. The dearth of amusement in Adelaide, which has been for some months past a subject of complaint, seems likely to give place to an extensive supply of entertainment. Already, the advent of more than one equestrian troupe has been announced. A visit is promised from some operatic performers-all of whom are ...

... The cotcert on Saturday-the seventh of the 'Winter Con- certs, resumed after an interval of soume weeks-although of undoubted excellence, presents few points for special oriti- clam. The programme was almost irreproachable, and the artists, if not of the first class, were far from nameless. The band, under the direction of Mr. Augustus Meanns, keeps up to its old point of efficiency, and on ...

... Tax WASMMONS, .Fromn Le FoU.) 7 Theetreize ieverity of the wnter has caused fur-to g, muoh In request,and there is In this ?? in au other thlbp,' a fashion. This season, bstan iS mct !i 'vogue. We fndd fair used not only aS a trintmirmg for ImnntIe4, W6-alab for dressmes The Zouave vests % mhore and more indispensable for in-door dress-for tfhe'imor simple sG well 'as for the richer tollettes. ...

... EXHIBITIONOF +Tii I ROYAL zSCOTTLSH' !;pi ' ,'i, iAOADflMV. l ''-a ,The thirty-fifth nsfinarhib1{ dfothegoyaP'1 Scottish Academy, to be opened this morning, will I not, we believe, he found to differ much in its gene- I vol character from that of last season. It has be- 1 cdnie eftetIary t3 ' p' ik of one Exhibition as I -being more attractive than another; bat judging from the number of ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOORS. l' The Island of the Saints. A Pllgrimage through Ire- d, By Julius Rodenberg, author of An Autumn in ?? is, we believe, the first record of a tour in ,and givfn to us by a German ...

... 1ita-tull 'autitts. Z! (il) FIT TO IRE A D'ciuss ; with other Stories of Cour- age acid Principle. By Mrs GILLESPIR SMITI. Illustrated by E). HL Corbould and J. Absoloi. Loicdon : James Hlogg and Somis. are disposed to (o anol;e justice to the talented authoress of this volhune, but we must not overlook her ghariig faults of style and com- position. Her ssntedees are occasionally so in- ...

... KUNM-OBOUs GAi R1g Grnek'rra nIXGTNG.SX-AL,, -1t- is not often thatfwev find so delicioqs an exaumple of the pride thmt apes' humility, as was the, other day..aiforded, by the mayor and corporation, of -the, town of Cambr1ge,#_before tbe& ceremony of matriculation ofthe Prlne.ofWalesi -Tile Vice-Chancollor, attended mre are told, by the esquire eedells (beadledour- should know that there ...

... Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale). Edited with Notes and an Intro- ductory Account of her Life and Writings, by A. Hayward, Esq., Q.O. In Two volumes. Longman and Co. Mr Salusbury, who possesses the record entitled ' Thra- liana,' in which the experience of thirty-three years of Mrs Piozzi's life (from 1776 to 1809) were faithfully chro- nicled by herself, ...

... PBINCEMSS- THEATJBE. r . The popular drama of Don Caesar dae Karas so familiar to f |She ?? audience, not only in its original dramatic form, but in Mr. Wallace's operatic version of ariteana, has been reproduced at this theatre, after some years' absence from thi stage, the principal prt being performed by Mr. Feohter. The drama, as now represented, ise different in arrange- ment from that in ...