... PUBLJIV AMUSEMENTS, &o., THIS DAY. _ _ Pree Pub~a Mneum, William Brown street-lablio Dayes Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdayi, and katurdays, rona Ten am. til dusk. On loeadays and Flidays the Museum is closed (exoept to students) for )leaning, arrangizg, &o. Daring Easter, W~hltemn and Christmas weeks the Museum i' oene dily, except o~n Christmas Day. Free Public Library, Wliaxm Brown-tMtreet ...

... beitrs. EARLY RISING. TnltorrH my wide window streams the BUD, For lo I the morning hath begun; With his rays, me, prone, caressing, Calls me to be up and dressing: Sluggard I see how I am WOkng WNV here the fresh night-dew is laurking, Raising vapour for the showers; Givin colour to the flowers; Unfo&ldig buds into green leaves; Peepingt under the homestead eaves; Warming all her children ...

... *r 'AN APPEAL TO ART OLEGrORS.. -rum - ?? By .. tnoinn kh. Blnig TAOP WUt teI! [We ha pleasure in iserting the following letter mud' ow paragraph from tbe MJanchedtr Gusiqdan, with refero'ce to ies. contribntions of Engravings and Paintings to the Royal In- Ti mloe med firmaiy In that oity. Our object in doing ao in to euggest n onl that the same idea might be made use of in regard to the, D ...

... Signor Ronconi's state of health is such as to prevent his coming to London this year. Halvy is said to have left behind him an opera in readiness for immediate representation. Her Majesty's Commissioners intend to invite foreign visitors. to an evening party at the South Kensington Museum on Friday next., The new rooms containing the Special Exhibition of Works. of Art will be lighted for the ...

... T HE SHILLING DAyD AT THE EXHIBIrNO. On Monday, the first of the shilling days, tbe atten- dance was by no means equal to what had been expected. The admissions were, by season tickets 3,875, on pay- mernt 22,115-total 25,990. The anticipations with regard to the effect of the crowding were modified by this day's experience. The visitors came to see their chilling's worth, and, not finding any ...

... LITERBARY NOTICES. TFASEW'S IAL.AZIcE,.-Tle two stories which have run throughl severail sueossive numbers- Tlodatta and Barren I ioneur-nro brought to n close; and the latter will, we thini, be found most in favour with the geoeral reader,-the talo being skilfully planned, vigo- oiisly told, and poilnted with all excellent moral. hie ivoll-known signature of A. K. H 1;, appeais at the ...

... POEE TRY. . . . - 0 THEt SUMMER WOODS. re Go gatheir sumbeamas wcre they lie Oil ON-ery lull-side sleeping. And put them where they will not die, te Within your young heart's keepling. NY Thefrrnt ithlrgt~wth ovig hndthe bloessom when ites at owingin The tue he iro o e-cr lndan blsswhereonr they fall; A Kee eer da, ik Sioicrga, fr elowAutumn'e glow- R Forhapyheatehae einuo ay, ndsushine over ...

... NOTES ON THE EXHIBITlON, TV. w v o - s UTIvO*N (From Our Occasional Corresponderat.) The Exhibition varies in Its complexion, As the sn warms It, the domes, so splendid from the inteior, teauro ire, down too much light Into the building, and we, the ktbrw the eyed children of a misty island, seek the shade to whd w D are moest accustomed. Strange that all men avold thesu- *lon from the ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GABDEN. La Traviata, about the lmost indifferent of Verdi's works, and one of the most objectionable, whether in plot or detail, ever written by any author, was produced on: Monday night for the purpose of presenting Madlle. Patti! to a London audience, for the first time this season, in the character of Violetta Valery. In this character Madile. Piccolomini made ...

... On Saturday evening, an event of a rather unusual character took plaee at the People's School, Briarley-street, being the performance of a eacrea Drama, entitled Yaboeh's Vineyard, written by DMr Wililam Moore, Stcsk'e. lane, Stalybridge. The Drama is founded ?? the 2Ist chapter of the let Book of Kings It is divided into Five Acts, and opnes with a Scene res presenting Naboth (John Stephenson ...

... LITE RAT U RE. it, al Eec &'r ON SOIENeTIF10 AND OTHXR SUBMITS: CONTRIUITED -b~ aver TO THU EDIUBUBGR AND QUARTSBLY RtEvrawiL By Sir lu Iff. Hollaod, Bart., M.D., F.R B., ?? Oxon, &co, Fi Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Physioltai In mod Ordinary to the Queen. London : Lougaman, Green, Long. eube man Ic Roberts, 1862. stool Tns last twenty years have worked a revolution In thle ' ...

... LTI'ERA RY EX'I'RACTS. NATURAL MUSIC-f`owV deeply sounds and vibrations lie at the root of every thing I In many instances this is evident enough ; and, perhaps, if we could only detect it by tests sulficieotly delicate, it inight be shown that all sensation, and even the verv life of the earth and all its parasites, depend upon vibrations. WVhy else should it revolve, and partake of the ?? ...