... (mROM OUR S&PECL CORsFSPONDENT.) Our official reporters continue to point out departments in which either the entire Exhibition is a failure, or in which we have failed. Unfor- tunately these unpleasant statements seldom admit of refutation, and most certainly when, after pointing out the splendid and complete exhibits in civil engineering and public works, which the French have on the Champ ...

... lrama. THE NEW EFFINGHAM THEATRE. NOw theatres are now the order of the day, and however stagvalit all other branches of trading enterprise May be, the providers of public amusements show no ,yptoms of fatigne and faintheartedness. Whitechapel has long boasted of one large and elegant theatre-the pavilion-and it nose has another, the Effinghain. known for soeme years as a saloon, and for ...

... Sillf Alto. THE WINTER EXHIBITIONS. hant0 The first exhibition of the winter fine art, seaco, I . which has noew become so completely accepted as a most sea agreeable antidote to the fogs of November, is now open the at the French Gallery in Pall-mall, where Mr. Wali Mr has transferred his interests from the Suffolkastreeot of gallcry. Mr. Wallis deserved well of his public When hie ma. ...

... I| - I Comic ballet seems to be a permanent institution at the Alhambra A new entertainment of this kind, called Quicksilver Dick, was given, for the first time, on Monday night. Messrs. F. Evans, Towers, and Vincent, with Miss Amy Rosalind, and the pick of the Alhambra corps de ballet, took part therein, and it may be safely predicted Quicksilrer Dick will keep its place in the Alhambra pro- ...

... REVIEWS OF BOOKs. Saxx rN FRENCH MONASTzittiE By A. TAYDoR. Skeet.-Thie amusing volume affords the reader art In- sight to French monastic life, the: author and hb iiffO baving resided for Various periods of timo at somo Of the most famous monasteries of France. At all, they were cordially welcomed, hospitably entertained, and treated with the utmost kindnoss and consideration- The recluses ...

... (WarTTN EuXPEYSLY iOR IT,, tPA.W) The opening of Mr. Coleman's new Theatre, which bas been fully described in these columins, was an event thet was looked forward to in Leeds with the utmost interest, and from an early hour on Monday last an eager and expectant crowd beslegod tlie doors, and SOOI after they were opened a dense mass filled every part of the Theatre, and when the superb centre ...

... TELL WITH A VENGEANCE.' WHETHER the public has or not begun to weary of burlesques may perhaps be open to question, but there can be little doubt that the pro- viders of such entertainments are showing unmistakable signs of fatigue and exhaustion. Mr. Byron's latest production at the Strand Theatre is founded on the story of William Tell, although the Strand had been already furnished with a ...

... ALERICAN THEATRICALS. NEW YORK, SEPTEMsiR 30. The French Opera Troupe, brought to this country by Mr. If. L. Bateman, from Paris miade their debut at the FuENcH THEATIRE last Tuesday evening, in Offenbach's opera, in three acts, of The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein. Long before the curtain rose every seat in the house was occupied, and standing room was at a pre- mium. The opera is one of the ...

... |MLR. 3lAYLIS'S NEW THEATRE AT GLASGOW. (cIR021 OUR GLASGOW CORnsaEPOxNDEXT.) Only a few wesico have passed since we presentod to our readers a description of the new Prince of Wales Thentre, Glasgow, opened lately by dii. Alfred DMais, and thus erly wve ame again salied upon to fulfil a similar duty regarding the building presently being erected by Mir. Baylis in ties senit licighbourhood. Sn ...

... PARTISAN LIFE WITH MOSBY.` IT is significant that, while modern civilization in Europe has long been crying out against guerilla warfare, and against the kindred system of privateering, guerilla warfare was regularly and formally established in the late civil war in America. At a comparatively early stage of the conflict a law was passed by the Confederate Congress authorizing the ...

... MRS. SIDDOS F N HERn FrIST Ac4'NG Or, LADY MACBETH. -To Miss Edgeworth Mrs. Siddons relates an incident of her career which it was worth goingsa long way to hear from her own lips:- She gave un the history of her first acting of Lady Macbeth, and of her resolving, in the sleep scene, to lay down the candlestick, contrary to the precedent of Mrs. Prit: chard and all the traditions, before she ...

... * SPECULATIVE psychologists who hold that the works of every genuine artist are a reflection of his personal character will find in this fresh collec- tion of musicians' letters a certain amount of confirmation of their favourite theory. From Gluck's letters, it is true, not much is to be gleaned as to the special type of his mind, except that he was unquestionably a man of considerable force ...