... LEGENDA ARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS. Or all the auxiliaries, more or less ornamental, of ethnology, certainly none is more interesting than the study of comparative folk-lore. If, as M. Pouchet and the polygenists tell us, the man in the moon cannot speak a language more radically distinct from the Aryan tongues than the Chinese do, how is it that all the world over the same stories crop ...

... I FOREIGN fDRAXVATIC INT.ELLIGENCB. (W7rrT(3 EXCLUSIVm LY FOUR THE luAu') Letters from Mlulhouse state that a lion tamer entered the cage of a panther belonging to some menagerie that was exhibiting on the occasion of the fair, when he was seized by the ferocious animal and most fearfully lacerated about the neck and arms, so much so that his recovery is a question of much doubt. After a ...

... TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THEI STANDARD THEATRB BY FIRE (WRmmuN EXChawSIVELY FOR THE ERA.) The ravages of fire, although necessarily destructive, rarely pre- sent the despatch and completeness which are evinced in the case of the catastrophe that has befallen the Standard Theatre during the past week. After a run of twelve years, ?? as spirited and enterprising as, perhaps, was ever known ...

... - PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &o. NeW prlnao of Wales Thpatre.-ita'ian Opera Company* . .fllnsseOtr.. nl151 AmphitheatrI-Ms'. 'Barly SuliYn: Hamlet,' ?? Xolung V.tan. lowr.Adolhi Thearve.- Thle Groat lancashre Strike,' * tsd ~ene+ortlo~seli oX l~lssrssy. Soyi Coloamslm Theatre.-I Tho Old 0orporal, aiul ,R ?? Chantrell Troupe, &o. 1D ~ JXus'S ?? L The Weavers,' and .* FaI Jare. * .iQ. ...

... Sylkes's Local Records.-(Newcastle: Thomns Fordyce, g0, Dean Street.)-The XIITth num- her of this new edition of Sykes's valuable work is now ready. It brings local events in clronolozicnl succession down to 1832, Gift Books.-To those persons who may be considering the kind of presents they will make to their young friends at Christmas, we may commend to notice two handsomely-bound vo- himes ...

... LIUREMICK MUNSTER FAIR. I (ROse OUI o 001RRSPONDENT.) LImcIC, TnUBnSA.Y-The great ?? fair opened this morning at an. earlr hour, and were. it not for the attendance of a respectable lot of buyers from Dublin prices would have ranged low. Thcy were early at work, and did not heesitate to give adlo- quate remuneration to holders of Boravicks, according to class, and it may be agaiurecorded as a ...

... LIT E RAT U RBE BELGRLAVI. Wo rwelecjme Miss Brsddon's new margazfne: not so much for the literary banquet whidh the first number provides, as for the promise of future excel' lonco which It yields. We hope to be long familiar with the brows and green cover. This firs; number bes ?? marks of haste, in' the illsftiatious epoa . Halliday is Reproached, In the frontispieco and so, Vwith rfeot ...

... outr fibLwarZlJIabte. WiIAT lii A 1j ?ily 'Py . M. Mdackie. London : Simp- kin, Marshall, an Co. The ALnthor if this little book is Master of Chippilig Hill School, Withiami, ?? an we notice it for tho PurP(i';( Of eanietlSY rue ?? it to te'acelirs and to &l ?? Wh nafve anlythinjg Lo doi With o's''Mir. Blackio I -fil1v0t5n to have 4iilidit1 tl ivic naiture( csrefllv and lie i1 equtally ati ...

... I VIRGINIA. (CO. CAVAN) FAIR, VIRGINlA, TUESDAy, Ocr. 23.-Our ancient Mi- chaelnas fair was held yesterday, and presented a pretty considerable show of stock. The attendance of pe -chasers w as also on a very satisfactory scale in each departent of the fair, and there was tolerably brisk buying during the day. There were, however, scarcely any fat cattle, but such as were in any sort of ...

... M. DENNERY, tile prolific French dramatist, chiefly known in this country as the author, conjointly with M. Dumanoir, of Don CUsar de Bazan, has just succeeded in presenting the patrons of the Ambigu Comique with the picture of a gentleman so wicked that even some of the Parisian critics are shocked at his utter badness. The piece in which Jacques de Rinnepont, as this illustrious person is ...

... THE OXFORD.-A ballet, equal to anything of the kind at present before the London public, and infinitely superior to the generality of divertissements, is now going on here. The title is Les Aemones au Ckraeepayne. It is chiefly a collection of national dances, Italy, Spain, and England being particularly complimented, but these dances are performed with a spirit and grace something remarkable ...

... I FNSHION AND VARIETIES. His Li xcellency the Marquis of Abercora has been pleased to appoint A. Ledwidge, No. It William- street, to be vlctualler to his Excc31ency. The Earl of Erno and suitearrived at Kings- t town on Saturday, from London. S TheRight Hon. the Lord Chief Justice and aI Mrs. Whiteside and suite have arrived at tho, Breslnl, Hed, a Bray. t The Hon. Major and Mrs. Boyle and ...