... TIHE IANDEL FESTIVAL. The isle is Lill -of noises-sounids !and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Let us, therefore, abaudon for a space the wrangling halls of polities, and forget for awhile the perplexing' intrioacies -of thei Tichberne case, in a few minuteW' contem- plation of thosenpurer pleasures Which many thousands of 'our fellow conutrymen are enjoying among the flowers and ...

... PUBLIC AMUSE1ENTS, &c. :1 Prinue of Wales Theatre-Used Up; the Green Busles; Smokc. Beneeltof r. and Mrs. iiillington. Royal Alexandra Theatre.-Afternooss. ThePretty lorse- breaker; Bardell v. Plakwtek, &G. 13vening: Dot; Bardell v. Pickwick. .o. Royal Amphitheatre.-Cool as a acunmber; Charles * O'Malley. Royal Colosseum Theatrc.-Oaptain Mortimer; Sweeney Todd. Concert Hall, Lord Welson-strdet ...

... FACTS FROX PARLIAMENTARY BLUE I _~BOORS. I Parliamientary Blue Books except tothe man of facts, cannot be said to be 'a popular class of literature. They have a repellent look, a reputation. for dulness, and yet they often ,contain much curious matter, full of instruction after it is winnowed and sifted. In this column we purpose to givesomeextactsfro a geatmassof matter of this kin jut ...

... BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.-AUTUMN EXHIBITION. [TuissP NOTIcE.] Whatever his merits or defects of execution, Mr. C. J. Lewis may always claim the' credit due to high artistic aim and feeling. His landscapos are never the mere transcripts of external nature, to which avorage artists limit their ambition; but in design, at least, veritablo ex- positions of the temper and mood of the ...

... TIlE THEA TRES TUE VAUDEVILLE Theatre reopened on Saturday last with a Mew comedy from the pen of Mr. Albery, author of Yie Tewo 1'oses. This gentleman having achieved one great and well-de- servcd success as an original writer for the stage, some interest attaches to the announcement of a new play from his pen; but it must be confessed that his recent productions have grt atly lisappointed ...

... mUSIC Ii jifel'inizio &gscreto, the masterpiece of Domenico Cimarosa, was produced at the Lyceum on Tuesday wvith diistiiiguishled success. The opera had not previously been heard in London for many years (its character unfittingC it for representation at our great houses), and the performance was anticipated with much interest by those familiar with the music. No work was ever ushered into ...

... MR. B3R0 WAiVIG'S A7EW POETR* ALL lovers of true art and of genuine inspiration in poetry will welcome with delight Mr. Browning's new poem Balaustion's Adventure, in which he sings an old song, but with a freshness, a sweetness, and a grandeur of con. ception altogether new. Mr. Browning has gone back across the space of more than twenty centuries to the most tragic and the most tender of ...

... THE THEA TRES A COMPRESSED version of Congreve's Love for Love, once a famous stock piece of the stage, was produced at the GALETY theatre on Saturday evening last. Mr. Hollingshead, who some time since undertook a similar task in preparing Sir John Van- brugh's Iyal of QuIality for performance, is also the adapter in this instance. He has reduced the five acts of the original into three, a ...

... WIIAT shall we wear to travel in ? and What shall we take with us? are two oft-repeated and very important questions at this season, and we think that a few hints to our inexperienced, readers will not be out of place in our Fashions for September. Two sisters with their brother started off last week for a month's tour in Italy and Switzerland; their arrangements for travelling were so ...

... One Martin Gerene, a oitizen of France, is recorded to have left his wife sad family upwards of 300 years ago, in 1539, and to have bean absent eight years. In due time a man appeared from the wars in Flanderzand. announced himself as Martin Guerre. II was accepted by the wife without apparent scruple or doubt, and lived with her up- wards of three years, during whihc time she bore him two ...

... LitemtUTr?'.. ? I THE FIGHT IN THI DARK. of all crotcety notions that ee'r have occurred De Ballot to me seems supremely absurd; one ertain result Iimay safely remarkc It~ ~ ~ ?? mk eey lci fgt in the dark . Sing down, down, &c. Wa namu mtp age is this there we never can know, 1jal te orojas inr teirogie, ouaind froe mioer forte; The w're huddll ed togetherdlike beasts in thebark, 3yet ...

... THSEOUTrCAsTs OF POKER F!L.AT*. ?? take the following from The Luck of Roaring Camp and other Sketches, by Beet Harte. 'Ibis 'work, which has gained an amactug popularity on the other side of the Atlantic, conslats of a series of papers descriptive of Call. fornian life in its earlier stages, and is nierked by humour, V athos, and graphic vlgour to an extent ?? fully noceunts or the ...