... BASTE,; HOLTDAY AMUSEUENTS, If dates have any claim to be considered the Pillars of Eisbtory, anniversary feasts may fairly be regarded as its monuments. While the former in their salutary stubborn. ness against the false teaching of the most planslfe theories and traditions not unfrequently surpass even those two messy pillaw 'Which Miltou'a Sampson bowed with horrible convulsion to and ...

... LECTURE ON POETRY AT THE MIDL&ND I I ITITUT& ' ?? At the Mid'and Institute, lest eveuinga the -1v. T. t& Claughtorn, Vicar of Kidderminster, and formely Pro. fessor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, delivered, to a large audience, a highly interesting lecture on Poetry. The poet, said the rev. gentleman, was a mnker. What materils he used, with what toois he forked, and what he made of ...

... LITERARY, ARTISTIC, AND SCENTIFM SCRAPS. A new expedition to the Nile is being organised by the Venetian, Miani. A monument Is to perpetuate the visit of the King of Spain to Napoleon IIL The St. James's Theatre has been taken on lease by a limited liability company. A volume of hitherto unpublished letters of Alfieri has appeared at Florence. The score of Gluck'sI Elena e Paride, which had ...

... J UNE. The passing pageant of the year A richer show has none Than June, the lord of lusty cheer At crowning of the sun;. When from the first faint Eastern gleam Till full of. twilight gray, By hill and forest fiel and stremam AlU things hold liolidfy. One revel throu the iong.drawn day, slow, aSl, and golden bright; Tbex dreaming slumbers wear away The brief, dim,!tranqull ?? O full and high ...

... P~rULAR CONCERT AT THE TOWN - POPULAR CONCERT. AT TEEE TOWN HAIL When Mr. Hamilton issues the net edltion of his musical terms, we would suggest that it be supplemented with an appendix comprising correct definitions of the vailous titles which modern musical caterers are In the habit of bestowing upon their entertiamencts. At present there appears to be a olight discrepancy friot to say a ...

... MR. TOOLE AT TEE THEATRE ROYAL, Mr. J. L. Toole appears at the Theatre Royal to.hnght. in company with Mr. Paul Bedford. As we ourselves bave already said what we had to say In antIcIpation, we need scarcely do more than quote from the Liverp5o0 Mernsy of Saturday, an account of the manner In which, at his farewell benefit, Mr. Toole was received by the Liverpool public:-- The farewell benefit ...

... Benefits, In the theatrical sense of the word, may Eezve equally to welcome the coming, or speed the parting guest. Last week, an interesting ceremonial of this description was employed to hoonnr the departure, after twenty-seven years' public service, of the manager of our oldest local theatre, and last night the same device was put In requisition to consolidate the position of the ...

... IBIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FkSTIVAL. SECONrD DA ?? THE MORNING PERFORMANCE. The fine ?? of the preceding evening were not destined to be realised yesterday. The nan got up In an l temper, and refused to show himself, and the clouds took a dirty advantage of the absence of the King of Day, and joined isue In the construction of one of those cold vapour baths-euphemistloally designated Scotch mists- ...

... Some ray that ever 'gainst that seaon coples, Wherein oar laviofur' birth is celebirate, The bird ol dafning singeth au night long; And then, they say, no spirit ca walk abroad- The nights re wholesome, then no planeta' trike No fairy takes, nor witch bath power to charm; Be hallowed and so gracious is the time' It Is the fashlon'to speak of Fadrle and Neoromancy as things of the remote 'past ...

... PUBLIC AMVSEMRNTS, &c., THIS DAY. prince of Wales Theatre.- Paul's Return, sand the ilatravsganua R Numpelstltakin.1 3tyal Aorphitheatre- Neow Brighton Sands, The Loot 'iAll, and 1 The Tivelve Lnbourm of ?? New Adelphi Theatre.-i am Here, and Tom Crirglo and the Little Middy. Royal Colosseum Theatre.-.Belphegor the Mounte. bauk, the Tremont Minstrels, and Hunger, Uyoers's ...

... ___ The annual ball in aid of the funds of the West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution took place last night at the Town Hall under the patronage of tie Countess of Zetland, Lady Skelmersdale, Lady Arabella Hesketh, the Hon. Mrs. Wellington Cotton, his Worship the Mayor of Liverpool, the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland, the Grand Master of the order, the Right Hon. Earl de Grey and ...

... 'UBUIo AMUSEMENTS, &c.,THIS DAY. ltsince of Wales Theatre. - The Chimney Corner, and Lady Belle Belle. '1`t1,atre.Royal.-John Dobbs, and the PantomitGi Harlequin and the House that Jack Built. IRoynl Colosseum Theatre.- The Stricken Oak, and ?? True Blue and Pretty BinebelL Royul Amphitheatre. _ Miriam, Crime.1 andl the }autoinime Harleguin and the Child of Halo. New Adelphi ...