... {a .PUBLIC AM9USEMENTS, &0a. 'va'lnandnS eave.-lt.llan Opera ulnot.. 1'uiaer of Wales Theat-e'nfe ,Points of the Law, ?? The ATU4 1Dodge., Theatre RoyaL- :,The a -aried e ad .The RendszvOU%. 3oAJ AmPh~thOSAi15:Th6 Spectre Brdegroom, and The Gireat Cip., eye 3 o- sum ?? in the Pirate's Lair, 'The lron Casket. and other lEntertenmentL , Sew Btal Xusc flal. v-Cozilcrt, Avolo, ...

... PRINCE OF WALES TUBATRE. 1TEME AND TinE. M One of the inevitablo drawbiast Of a great dramatic be success, such an VMr. Bouclooalt's Flying Scud1 han ~ lately achieved here, is the shficunlty of providing a worthy pri succenssr, and guarding -e~aint a fatal attioltusacx whent to the time for withdrawin~g the succesfu pise'. han arrived, W5J AB it would have been bopeloan to look for a new ...

... (noM OUR SPECIAL CORRSPODwsNT.) The new lease of life which the Emperor has given to the Exhibition will be, it is to be hoped, turned to account by British excursionists: not, however, on the plan of the Lancashire man given last week in the Athennurn. This provident gatherer of useful knowledge has misapplied his energy. I'm looking out, he said, all the strategic points of the place. You ...

... tteratute. Lan guaje and the Study of Lalujuage. Tqivelve Lee- thres on the Principles of Lingluistic Science. By WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY, Professor of San- skrit and Instructor in Modern Languages in Yale College. London: Trubner and Cto. Professor Whitney tells us that he first developed the main argument of the present work in the form i of six lectures Oin the Principles of Linguistic I ...

... (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. ...

... 7 - sTERATUrRE. Osoaslc La.Nkforf.-By 4gir'4 Dolcrly, M.D, Trubnw dcd o ,atensfer.The present volume is. the s~cohd 'ri df a verbrpyfound work. The firs tvOluua, published in L8BE, treated of man's true place in nature. The second treats of the outlines of ontology, or eternal forces, laws, and prin. ciples. To know naan's true place in naturo we must firstknow something of what man is, and in ...

... 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 ...

... PO ETRY. M Y DREA-M. A SLENDER form, a girlish face, Bluo eyes aDd golden hair; Sweet lips, dear lips I and sunny smiles, A vision angol fair I Oh, gentle eyes I oh, cruol eyes I Why will you haunt me sol Filled with the old sweet tsndernoss The love of long geg. A merry laugh, a pleasant voice, Sweet chimes, like silver bells; Old music, unforgotten still, Around me rings and swells. Oh, ...

... P A S H I O N. ag TnE Lancet has a paper on the follies of fashion. We have 1 e jaut now a lucid interval. It happens that men and women e who attire themselves according to the dictates of fashion, is and fall down and worship the images that tailors and i Lr milliners set up, wear clothes which may pass even the e stern censorship of the physiologist. Men have for a long s 'y time been ...