... C1 I'M- OF MUSIO . Dox .. CL, AeD ?? onN PioofaWales, a meeN iag was held at St. JTaes's Palt yesterday moning,I to solicit public support in nid do the proposed Royal .Colle of Magos movemeat in whi*e th ?? tie Ts f y takhe gathering Sk iie Baeovkbi i=w which Vwas filled to its mscaet. Aaon~ 61 w Hi Duke ot ldinburgb, Palace Leopold (Duke of hihany), ?? A~eh~O faterb, the Prems, tat ik ...

... CuJRBEN-T L1TflRATUBE. Recent publioamione on the subject of India have been more than ordinarily numerous and important. Mr. Hunter's great Gazetteer, to- getber with his Indian Empire, founded upon ?? former lebours, will at once occur to readers who feel an interest in our Eastern possessions; lnor will they be likely to over- look Sir John Strwhey's book on Indian finance and public ...

... CURRENT LITERA.IViRE. Tn ; The Great Diamonds of he World (G. f 13ell and Sonls), Mr. Edwin W. Streeter. who 'L'i ite5 Nvith the authority of an expert, has eorn- piled a volume of a highly entertaining kind, If and one whllich conveys a great deal of useful 4 informalttion. The umss of ?? embodied in it his seventy chapters has been collected from t of'ic2d, priv ate, ?? other sources, the ...

... THE 'DANCE OF THIE LILIES. Our Naples Correspondent vwites: b I had often heard of the Feast of San Paolino b the patron Saint of Nola, and this year deter- b ,oined to be present. Leaving Naples at half- ti past four pam. on Saturday, the eve of the feast, 0 .1 roached Nola in about an hour by rail. tlrough e: co-ntry green -with vine, golden with ripe coln, aind fragrant with scented herbs ...

... ma: T~fan:: Aft~er 1;he wuegd sgsshio d hate of late been fmished of die a 1 Ot modern English drimatists in'the imporst t u of consnotion, it s tifyin 5 ihdege to meet with a ea ?? s sldlfully developed as Mr. Godrey's comedy, A The 1}arvenu; produced on Saturda evening v at the Court Theatre. h ate en featres I the theme of this piece is doubtless notvelgy strikingly original. It is the ...

... CHRISTMAS ENTEIRTAINMTS.i OLPIC T The Lady of Lyons was rdvve& on SatUrday evening at the Olympic Theatre, in substitution for Mr. Hermanis version of Adrissne Lemouereur, with which the present season at this house was hegun a short lime since. Miss Marie de Grey follows up her impersona- tion oi the great tragedy-queen of the Thfetro Frazisais by a performance of Bulwer Lytton's heroine, ...

... MUSIC, I MSONDAY POPUrLAR CONCERTS Nfot. fhis week s evening concert brought forwzardi the -for the tims ue here-a peianoforte qluartetbyvr ,Anton Dvorak.' A sestet and a quartet-both for yest .stringed instrumnents-by The samne Bohemian corn- a m !poser had previoulsly been introduced at the Popular of I .Concetrts, and somae of his orchestral works have beene-- sheard at the Crystal Palaeo ...

... Mm 'E T.fEATRES. The forthcoming sale of the Queen's Theatre, Dublin, in the, Lana Judes' Court in that. city, brings to Bight the f that this well-knowM house is carried on under the sanction of a Royal patents granted ?? 'eleven years ago, whereby for a space o0 twentyone years the owners, lessees, and tauars were ezempted from ?? customary-oblgatioz to apply to the Dlagis- trates for awn - ...

... THETHSATS At nrehearsed scene enacted on the stage of fiec the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday evening, just for before the rising of the curtain upon the fourth Co, aet of Mr. WiVkie Collins's new drains, entitled Tb' BRank and Riches, afforded a notable illus- abl tration of the improved temper of modern fro sudiences. For a considerable time before the for close of the previous act signs of ...

... fi - :Iwx D : SdCS 0 *Y.y1 jp*tr:of S*#rW p .fta- noon mea~ I&aSzakly iohol* g- ifs4e-aitbw performne herig -bee. 'giv. Las S Iatirday's pbony founded on a oketch left by Bchubtrt Which has been SWd Ip by Mlr. J. P. Brnett. The mir=6useript3 of the great cmposern, whos ish a pho nd the~twoompleted movfts of b tbl i I n have on tines t ,; b . RSi 5.5 vlmaalc3*works,' j*atfiatd ig Ot, O1821, ...

... 1'r INT-MNATIONAL ART I E~XlHllo1i AT AiUMUl I . ~ O. 19WAo~ OUR, SPZIAcLs C t: ~ ?? l-1tXLH St~hz.ijr The Intermatoual Art Bshibidon was upwuel toaday with eli the pouP custcxuary U'.,io eaah oasiou& A elevesn oclck Prince Luipo4ld the XMIglF unale follosret b the Cart; iu! fifteen splendid blue-aad-siver each, deawn by Eour horsets, raved in front the OrYstel Paace, situated. in the ...

... ECOENT NOVELS lt was cm American who raised the ireof follow-novelists by dclariu that all the s stories were told, and it is the American a novelists who prove bow well the storiesoan be Di made to bear re-telling. It anty be the weak- NX s nesssge h hr yo~hb bt it is certainly a ti, ,pleasnt chuan to turt afro the0 iotion, or a ai s large pert of t e fictioo, of te Old World to U the fresh ...