... IDAWING OF THE LIVERPOOL I AOADEMY AHT MON.!. The meeting for the drawing'of prly., was 1Id yesterlday, at the roomn Poatoffiee plaee. It was moved by Aldermasn Bennett, and eeaoniuA by Mr. W. J. Bishop, that the ,ident of VhW socety, Mr. Thomas Avison, ?? e etabk. hr. AvcSOt en taieng the ohlAt, ?? epeo the proceedings, and er Beshop ex ed s he of drawing, whlch Is the saha e ar hat c deph i ...

... PUBLIC AmUsnlsf U., DiAY I ?? 310Tore ~~sys: Mo~h.Th-guY. MR.edyad rs. from Ten alm. till dusk, OnTfuesday for (ec ostudents) for vleftmu& arrar1ging &c. .Dul ued daily, excpt n CrismasDay. Brow.street.,Open daily, frm en a~li ?? P.m .,excceptonSaturday, %vhen it is cloE at Tep.m or clea'0iae ?? daily )IayerS Egyptian Iduseum, CColquitt (irst and third Monday in the mon~lth of iret. the a~sl ...

... BOORS OF THE WEEK. IISTORY.-'A Literal Extension of the Latin Text, and an Euglislh Translation of Domesday Book in relation to the County of Surrey.' To Accompany the Fee Simile Copy Photo-Zincographed under the Direction of CGo]. Sir H. James, R.E., ?? at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. (Imperial 4to, pp. 60.) Vacber and Sons; Longnarcs. LITERATURE.-' The Art of Conversation and ...

... BRITxsit F.IR PLAiy.-The British boast of fair play was exemplified after a somewhat curious fashion I ` ?? A lT.Tll nn f Thursdav night at the Beneficial Society's Hall on Thursday nigul all week. A foreigner, if one happened to be present, of would come away with a rather mystified and hazy l) notion of the real character of English liberty, and di might be inclined to fancy that what he saw ...

... CHRISTM kS FESTIVITIES, BOUNTIES, &c. Asllomas Rochester, Esq., Whalton, has sent 10 to be distributed among the poor people of Morpeth and 5 to the Vicar of Stamfordlham, to be distributed among the poor of that parish. The usual offertory in St. Thomas's Church, on Christmas Day, on behalf of the necessitous poor in the district attached to that church, amounted to the sum of 12 14s. Id. A ...

... :: ARtaUR HENRY HIALA* It was Arthl&iallam who inspired Tennysos c I :Iemoriam: series of grief-poems, that hare made many a reader long to know that kind of man he was who inspired a friendship so tender and ele- vated. We have now whiat remains a gifted and affectionate father could collect, through his tears, as an conriest that his dead boy deservcd the laureate's love. ?? are happy to ...

... $EMENT FOR TWE WEEK. | PasNon OF WALRS THEAiTR, -The burlesque of Ivanhoe in accordance with the spirit of the imes continues as attractive as ever' The alterations made in the scenery, &c., from time to time since the piece was first presented are decided improvements, whilst the little additions made in the business of the performers who have to sustain the lighter parts contribute greatly ...

... LTA ERCI TS :: LITEPRV~'EX72ACTiS.. -~ ;: ,1 - * M- ow LADIs.-It is rare to find dah indiffbrent waltzer among theladiesof esico. They'asre generally -easy andlithe in their motions, ilir5g 'through th dance with a rather stately, though animated raein;d but without the slightest'approach tos o.IPretty--han&ds'and arms are too common to be regarded ' pirtieblar marks of elgainoe ?? but ...

... ,PC]= ANTUSIMNT54 I . T . ?- - ?? .. ?,7- ' THE THEATRES. gy~ptc5 of a few chasges at otb:or two of our chief theatres are beginning to- show themsselves, although the pecitomime and burlesque 'season- i-yet young. The *fthwdii* 'o'f Goldenhair the Good, the ChrOitmas piec at-Cth5 St. James's, ass left a gap in the bills which is hot altogether filled up by a succeesful dra us, The Dark ...

... EXTRACTS FRO-M PUNCH. THE PREMIER (REENY. Air- The Ivy (ireen. Oh. a wonderful man is our Premier gree-n, Forall Debrctt doth say, That nine-and-seventy years have seen Him travel his jaunty wNy. From Broadlands he'll steam up to town. As blithe as a hey of ten. A Cabinet Council hold, and down To Broadlands bowl again: And of all the guests that at Broadlands dine, And joke their jokles and ...

... I MALE OF PICTUREs. It AL VV rlU5LAI~ The second annual exhibition of painthes, under the aus- pices of the Institute of the Fine Arts, will close on Mois- day, after a most successful career. The distress caused by the cotton famine, the dullness of trade, and the urgency of the calls made upon the public for behoof of the unemployed, have caused in some towns the cessation of art exhibitions ...

... Re.openibg of the Plymouth Theatre. I . , J : : - .. , . ;! ?? jn.Poii OUB j?LYO'U COU 313PoNDINT.) - i No person.who visited the theatre at noonono Wednesday, the th iost., cbuld piossibly have imagined that it 'would have been teadv to re-open on tbe foll6seihg' Monday. On or partwe thought it almo'st ar, impoesibility, hut wheri we visited it' day after day, add saw'what'had beeri done 'in ...