... Mr. Sweasey's Benefit at the Royal Music HEal. The fourth anniversary of the commencement ofMr. J. S. Sweasey's proprietorship of this Hall was celebrated here on Thursday evening. There was a large attendance, the place being filled, although the prices of admission were high. From ten o'clock until the close of the entertainment the chair was occupied by Mr W. Holland, of the Canterbury Hall ...

... I T E A T R E R O Y A L. or MR. BARRY SULLVAN. T MNlr Barry Sullivan took his benefit at the Tbeatre l 1oyal. Despite the extremely un- '3:ourab'O ature ui the evening, the house wa5 r.c;;ed to ov-oflowircg in every part. The bill of -ea(fS d of the Gamester and Don CT3car .e 1:. n,'in both of which Mr. Sullivan sua. t d the Icaciog parts with consummate ability a^ pwcr. Fe was well ...

... . CURBENT LITERATUBE. Few travellers have, we imagine, now-a-days t either the will or the power to clothe the records v of their journeys in the imposing, if somewhat . cumbrous, form of a quarto. Half a century ago, | however, this wag the recognised shape for books ] . of travel, and Mr. George Matheson has gone i back to the old custom, and gives us in Evylanwd t to Ielhi (Longmuans), a ...

... ?? THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THlE RongL GENERAL THEATRICAL YUND. (Mls-OtRTIeD ERX'IXL'5SlY FOil TuE ERA.) Under circunistances giving every reason for the warnnjest congratulatiun the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Icotival of this admirable Institution was celebrated on )lonl'y at thle St. James's Hall, Regent-street. 'On jcceding occasions we have had the pleasure of behold- il the Cairmlan a ...

... FROU-FROU' AT THE PRINCESS'S. I:N time we shall hear the last of Frou-Frou, and the name will be known only as that of a new kind of silk, which, though very much inferior to ordinary silk, looks like satin, and can be offered to the purchaser (vide advertisements) at the moderate figure of i6s. 6d. the entire dress. In the meanwhile we have to speak of another Frou-Frou -another ...

... DR. NEWbVTON'S PERFORHANCES. A CORRESPONDENT sends us an account of Dr. Newton's performances, at Cambridge Hall in Newman-street:- On the platform of Cambridge Hall has appeared a stout, well-made, decently dressed, ruddy-faced, white-haired, heavy-handed Apostle to, the Nations, who announces himself as a Doctor Newton, whose mission it is to cure all the ills that flesh is heir to by the ...

... PU 'LIC A*UsEMENl~,, NATIONAL SrANDARD iTR .TA . A capital evening a amurement is ov affo Irded at this theatre by Mr. Byron's. drama U Jlde Dick's Darling, and the ooera boutfe 6of Guy Pawkms. In rtbe st, Mr. .T J . Tole playi .Untee Dick. with the miniled drollery. and pathon. that have rendered his actingdsoopular,; Andis aightlys ,monedbeforetbhe .curtaii~attihe close of eaebaet. ...

... TOodni. - = = - - - -- - , - , SOME CALL THE WORLD A DitEARY PLACE. Sonie call the world a dreary plae, And tell long tales of sin and woe As it there were no blessed trace Of sunshine to be found below. They point, when autumn winds are sighing, To -alling leaves and withered flowers; But shall we only mourn them dying, And never note their brilliant hours? They mark the rainbow's fading ...

... MUSICAL AND EDUCATIONAL EISTEDDFOD AT MERTHY1R. 4105 ng A musical cud educational eisteiddiod was ]held at the he Teniparanro-hall, Mertlyr, yesterday. It coinienced at Ild bali-past te'i in tihe mofrninig, and continued throughout use She day with vary short interruptions for meals, and was ed not over until late in thle evening. The prsdna a h ?? Rear. Johns Griffithi, M.A., rector, of rhyr. ...

... I A THIV;ES' -TA, PARTY. On T~uesay d~vantage was taken of the visit of Ned Wright to convene .a. party of convicted thieves, afteF the modl of t~he Lndon thieve3' Euappere, which have recenitly excited soe~eattention. The place selected tor, the mneeting'wm .the Oater-atreet R.agged Sohoeolw, lc, it will be admited, was.a oentre welL alel ted o ineqt the convenience of the intended Ruests ...

... LITE TRAT TJRE. WHATP And the w~orld was so pear, so dull ! There were the roses, and there the snow; But the snow was ?? and the roses peale, And the bird's song had a note of wall- * Nothing was beautiful, QOsly a. year ago ! And to-day all earth seems full; The roses bloom with their ancient glow, And the snow beams lambent in the moon, And birds with melody tlsrill the room, And all is ...

... I TOGETHER. Lands, seas, and winds between us;-winds that race Across the breadth of such unbounded seas That wvreck may toss above the resting-place Of some doomed keel, unmarked for centuries;- a Deserts whereon the low sun never drew l The long stretched shadows of a wayworn crew. i Yea, more than deserts, more than lonely waves, t More than the trackless chambers of the light; . The tyrant ...