... 1. , .11 R I :inceo the Droduetioik 6 Mauw'e Peril at this . house, thr author, A F. Watts hi]iips, has made several h alteratiosainutbe or, Na,,idWthse alterations were tried Llast nig'ht, wve beliew tor the firsttime, with encouraging * Success.; Mr. Phillips, wve thin . has very judiciously strengtbened thesecond act, which wasrather weak near l its closes, by making the returned convict, ...

... (oROM OUR SPECIAL coRREspoNnDENT. The dinner offered by the Foreign Commissioners to the Imperial Commissioners was given on Satur-' day last at the Louvre Hotel, under the graceful chairmanship of Lord Granville. The record of it will remain as a memorial of the amiability of the foreign exhibition representatives. You will have received an account of the speech-making-and who among ...

... titevrltUtc' l Tw vrfile Tributaerics of Abyssinia and the #Sword ti .I-Toruters oftie Heamram Arabs. By Sir SAMUEL r. W. BAKER, M.A., ?? &A, Author of Si the Albert XNyaza Great Basin of the Nile, o &c. London: M~Iacmillan and Co. 1867. C Sir Samuel Baker has not only associated his ii own natme with the greatest geographical discovery t of the present century, but has given that discovery ...

... I lorama. DRUBY LANIE. Under the title of The Doge of Venice, a new po romantic play in four acts, adapted, to use the words be of the advertisement, by Mr. Bayle Bernard from Lord th Byron's tragedy of Alarino loaliecr, with additions from tri the play of Nariaio, by Casimir Delavigne, and musically w illustrated by selections from the operas of Marino by pa Donizetti, and the Duc Foscari ...

... Tjutlle HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The long talked-of and highly-extolled American singer, Mdlle. Clara Louise Kellogg, made her first co appearance in Europe at this theatre on Saturday of night, with a success as decided as it was deserved. That B musical executive art and public appreciation of it in tl America have been rapidly progressing dusing recent years ill has been manifested in various ...

... titeratu're. I ,77w Coreel r nt of Enqgland; its Struct re and its Development. Biy WILLIAM EDWARD HEARN, LL.D., Professor of History and Political Economy in the University of Melbourne. London: Longnmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. Melbourne: George Robertson. It is rather an unusual experience for a reviewer to receive a book from Australia, unless it be a work of purely local interest. Here, ...

... I fl -U0 e i HPER MAJESTY'S THEA;TREI Md]1e. Kellogg, whose successfal ?? in Fa-mt we recorded on Monday, made her serond $peataucerL ere last night as Violetta in La Vsid't!iqa,. the -performasa'ie of which was postponed from Tuesfdaynight in -consequence of Mdlle. Kellogg's temporary indisposition. The success gained by this accomplished artist on her first appearance was fully confirmed and ...

... of Thory. y. Ross BROWN, author of Yusef,' Crusoe's Island, An American Family in Germany, &c. London: Sampsoll Low, Son, and Marston. Mr. Browne is a native of America, and a writer on the newspaper press of that country. His settled place of abode appears to be at Oakland, California, but, acting in the capacity of foreign correspondent of one of the Californian papers, he has visited ...

... 7i iI I pvuRY-LAXE. The popular cosnedietta of lhe Ladies Battle, supported by Miss Shirley, Miss Hardeur, Miss Grattan, Miss Hudepeth, &c., and Mr. J. Rlouse, Mr. Harcourt, and Mr. Barrett, is now the afterpiece at this theatre, the Doge of Venice being played first. Mr. Bayle Bernard has strengthened the termination of his play by transposing the Doge's fine prophetic soliloquy (written by ...

... AIuMl. MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS. | The tenth season of these interesting ontertain- mnets was commnenced last night, being the two hundred and sixty-eighth concert that has beeu given since their first establishment. The influence exercised by these weekly performances of the highest class of chamber mnusic has been, and cannot but continue tobe, most advantageous in cultivating a popular taste ...

... I.. It !text, ?? 12,1? , ., 3 0*11i'mI W. . -t I ,!, EEH ThITTONS. ,4tDepudI ,ey;G a llery'i~ w exhibited a con- , side'ralile ale6 i of cbifnat6 'pIctures in oil, under the managemnent jhe committee of artists and amateurs who started and have for some three seasons arranged the ex. hibition called the General Exhibition -of Water-colQur Drawings. The committee state, however, that this ...

... 11,ittraturt. -4 NEW BOOKS. Lord Houghton has published a new edition, in one volume, of his Life a(nd Letters of John Kcats XMIn and Co.) The original edition of this delightful work was issued in 1S48, and ever since then it has maintained a high reputation as an excellent biography of one of the most interesting of modern poets. A poet himself, and a patron of poets, Lord Houghton was ...