... PANT OM I ME. Daring the time we are writing these few lines, some hundreds of hammers are sending home their nails, brushes of as many artistes, who are displaying their skill to appear before the public on Thurs. day next. Several hundreds of women, Phildren, and supernu- meraries undergoing a course of drill, Ballet innumerable, and expenses enormous, to produce the best Pantomime, which ...

... ?? Wasn't Built in a Day. BY NALSD:s LEE TrHE YoUNGEi , While thousands are pressing around, Keep your eye on the goal at the end; Of flattery heed not the sound, Bat humility take for your friend, Look up to the top of the hill, And never mind what others say, Suatain you the old saying will: Rome wasn't built in a day. Breast boldly the current and strive To press manfully on in the race ...

... | AMElRICAN THEIATKICALS. (PRnOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, Dsc. 7. We have had a thanksgiving day here, but for what I aen rather at a lose to understand. It was a fine day for the Theatres, how- ever, which were all filled to overflowing. At the Winter Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams have been carrying all before them. They have been playing there since the 18th of November, in a ...

... I A[E;tXCAN THEATUICALS. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. WIETER GAHDSEr.-Mise Julia Daly has just made bar debut at this house, in the character of Pamelia, in Outr Bemale .American Couesina. She is an easy and graceful actress, and well suited to the part sbe plays, although that part is neither strictly true to nature, uor very original. She makes a good Yankee Gal, and gives a shrill sharp intonation of ...

... L I T E R A T U RJE. THE TESTIMsONY OF SCEPTICS TO Tie TRUT OF CHBISTIANIiTY. By the Author of Heroines of our Time. London: Darton and Co., 58, Holborn-hill. A book, written with the best intentions, but we have doubts as to whether it will answer its professed purpose, necessarily both from its size and aim a very small work; it deals with its subject so imperfectly that we fear there may ...

... BY CELINE. Writer of The Christmas Fairy, The Good Samaritan, Who is Ready, A Cheer for the Actors of England, &a., &c. I'll tell you a story, if you please to attend.-Limbo, by G. KNIGIET. Love Is a flower that in tbe human heart SpontaneouEly springs. Culture, we fiad, Can seldomo rear ?? Play. Yes, old as Adam, yet young as to-day, ?? sprin, with every hour, and scorn and ...

... , | _ (iFuoM orR owN Co~ta~snpoj3R~qTs) ARBBOATH. TuAU ROYALn, TE36a' HnAL.-(Leasee, Mr Gsa. Duokenfield.)- ,floe -lenetits are drawing to a close here, as well as the Theatrical Season %r T. P. Seamnor, our respected leading man, took his Benefit on Saturdeay' jl rchiclur tv's Dramas nevereaoted here before, viz,, Cormilhasu; ori yt lekof a Handred Years, ini which Air Seauoor an Carmoilson, ...

... AXI[ERICAN THEATRICALS. _ - _ _ (FIRom OUR Owl CORtESPONIfElxT.) NEW YORK, DRO. 14. All Theatres have been doing good business of late, spite of the war in actual operation, and of rumours of wars that are approach. ing. I still adhere to the belief that there will be no war with England, and such seems to be the opinion of most of onr Theatrical Managers here, for they are making extensive ...

... FULL AND ORIGINAL ACCOUNT CIM ALL THR CIHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS . In pursuance of that plan which we have been so often called upon to developer we this week proceed to give our readers the benefit of those exclusive advantages we pos- sess, in placing before them a complete record of the titles and plots of the new Entertainments which this Christmas will see ushered into existence, to enjoy, ...

... (From the Western iforneisg Nesws, December 10.) THE Tuz&TuH.-Last night Mr. Kean essayed the part which made his father celebrated, and which did more to support his reputation than any other he attempted. It is not for us to venture on comparison, for that would open up a field which we could not traverse in the limits we can devote to this subject, and would, moreover, serve no particular ...

... The Winter Exhibition of Poultry, &c., attracted a large number to the Crystal Palace on Wednesday last, when the Show opened, the number of poultry pens in use being upwards of nine hundred. The better part of these were devoted to Spanish, Dorking, Cechiu China, Hamburg, and game fowl, for which the greatest number of prizes were offered, and some very fine specimens of each breed were set ...

... FpORIGN DRAMIATIC INTELLIGEJNCE. (WRIsTTEN EsXPREsSLy pOR T HiE ERA. Every one knows the name of the immortal author of Don Quixote, but numbers will be, no doubt, surprised to learn that he spent the greater part of his life in writing for the Stage, and that be produced at least a hundred recognised pieces, great and small, ?? his Interludes; the renowned Romance by which he is noxw ...