... 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 ...

... MVUSIAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. This society's fourth concert took place last Y evening atSt. James's-haii. It wae the last of the society's~ fourthseeasonk,which it brought to abrilliant close. The V. following was the programme of the performance:- Overture (Athalie) . I.. ATMendelssohn, it Air, Dies Btilducss ro oabrd oiic )lDlc Zauberttitte) Hlerr Wachtel (Irsia Vi. A enci) ?? it Concerto in ...

... :Eer 3VEajesty'8.-Although yesterday week the Trovatore was given for the third time, its attractivenees has not, apparently diminished, despite the regrettable absence of Signor Giapgliai, en absence, however, which is only temporary. Unfortonate, on one side, Mr. Mapleson may thank his lucky stars on the other, in providing him with a worthy substitute in the person of Signor Naudin, from ...

... 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 ...

... LiTrERARY EXTRACTS. l ?? FAnl;EaS .AND SPiRaRows- In St. Pierre's 'Studies of tt Nature,' we read of ann iucident that occurred in Prsia, or a s1 dir iSio:I f it. The farmers were much annoyed by sparrows, iV and sorght to eradicate them by a kind of poll-tax, the U authoritics allowiug part of the imposts to be paid in sparrows' neads. They succeeded; balt what was the consequence? In t twvo ...

... ,~HIS ,ENATIONAL : EXrnBLT'ION.: Anolkoni be added to the calendar ofred-etter, diys at t.xit1o,. 'As ea i:as elevebno'eloek 10 957 v*eistorshad entreze building; by the 0'oioA ti he number had risen-'to. 42,602; and when the retuns to five o'clock were re- ceivedi it was found that the total attendance amounted to 48,326; of whom 2,563 were admitted by seson tickets, wrilab 45,663 paid at ...

... 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 ...

... ins is The Dog Show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, on or Tuesday, drew together a very large and fashionable con- 'jef course of visitors, among w1hom we observed the Earl of be Westmoreland, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Suther- a land, Lord Sefton, the Duke of St. Atban's, Lord Ports- he mouth, Lord Chesterfield, and many other distinguished of members of the nobility. to 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 ...

... THE GRAND OLYMPIC I - FESTIVAL. iI Some Idea may be formed of the attractiveness of the great athletic fete to take place on Saturday next, on the Mount-vernon Parade Ground, by the perusal of the following LIST OF Wl&T1IRS, GRAND PROozSION OF COorpnORs, headed by 14 Band of 4th L. A.V., to platform, where the name 0 of the Prize Esgalet will be announced by the tV President, C. P. Melly, Esq. ...

... 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 ...

... L I rs, 's POSaT-oY5Cn GrIDE TO Loyrjoor 1tr THE YEAR 1862. Kelly and Co., Boswell-court, St. Clement's. The Messrs. Kelly, so long and favourably associated with the geat Metropolitan Post-Office Directory, have just issued in the above work a book that, in its use and information, is likely, if not to rival, to command as universal a satisfaction as the great mercantile end domestic work ...