... LITERA.RY AID A!UT GOSSIP. Dr. J, P. Ricle itin lit' Or, as 'hu Litur *ry Worlo- of T ?? di ai Ji~c b;I.in, II -rota ~I. II ltS rr ...

... THlEATRICAL MEMS, . . _ . . . _ .- The Our Boys Company will have a five weevks' vacation from Saturday next.-Mr. J. L. Tojle an. nounoes two provincial companies with Upper drust, -Mr. Walter H. Fisher is playing at Belfast his original part in Madame Favart, The popularity of ibis opera in the metropolis is unabated, notwithstanding the 400 representations which have been given, and ...

... T'Ir HANDEL FESTIVAL..--That the triennial assembly of amateurs and musicians in honour of the grand Saxon musician who (with brief intervals of absence) made England his country and London his reside ...

... r. M. Thiron. 2. Mdlie. C1ementine Jouassain. 3. M. Frederick Febvre. 4. Mdile. Sophie Cwoizette. 5. M. Joliet. KEY BLOCK TO THE COM9DIE FRANqAISE AT HOME 6. Mdlle. Bianca. 7. Mdlle. Sarah BMWd 8. M ...

... #O?trg, gi GRANDMOTHER GRAY. Faded and fair, in her old arn-ehair, H Sunset gilding her thin white hair, Silently knitting sits Grandmother Gray; h While I on my elbowva besfilo her lean, at And tell wbhat souiderful things I moan lo To have, and to d(, if I ean, some day: in Yon e(sin talk so t( Grandinsother Gray- She doesr-t laugh nor send you away. ' I see, as I look fromi the windlow-seat ...

... I - -ac A. - -I ?? WVIXOM OUR OWN conRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, MAY 22.-The Union-square Theatre was filled on Monday night with a large, critical, and fashionable audience, to witness the first performance here of Boccaeccio, given by Hahn's English opera company. This pleasing com- position was presented originally in Amenrca in German at the Thalia Theatre, and achieved great sucoess, adding ...

... Miss Eleanor Bufton (Mrs Arthur Swanborough) has been the victim of one of those outrages which occasionally occur in Liverpool and other large towns, and illustrate the perils of the streets. Miss Bufton is a prominent member of Mr Chas Wyndham's company, now playing at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, in the town named, and fills the role of Mrs Birkett, in Betsy. On Friday night, 4th inst., ...

... l HUMILITY. BY CHARLES DIACRAY. I will tell theo-I will toll thee Wheor my bosom friend shall bo; Not where bollyholks are flaunting, But where violets scent the len. Not where gaudy parrots chatter, But where larks and liunets sing; Not with dahlias of tho autumn, But tbo lilies of the spting. Ever birds of plainest plumage Soatter swectest DnusiC round- Ever flowers of rigeost odour Grow tho ...

... FASH-IONS EOE JUNi'E. d We bare oh -en in our plates of cos tumres all the changes I t, that are to iun phaee LE-erythiuig is becoming morn Iatly- 0 hIko, colours tand n'-sterials arc growing isoro harmonious, v. -with a boautitifl blcndii'g of colours. 'Ihe manufacturers s- are surpasssiic' everything- they have dune before: we0 'e hardly knusa ashich aeels -thle cotton, woollen, or silk n m ...

... JFAY-MARIE AT THE GAIETY. Although there are actors and actresses on the Englisn stage quite as good as if not better than the French comedians, concerning whom so much has been written, still there is a lesson to be learned from the visit of the foreigners to the Gaiety. But it is not a lesson in acting or in stage arrange- ments. We do not need to copy a system which gives such an ...

... A1ET, ECIENCE, AND LITERATURE. Ihe. ]British Museum bas received five boxes of antiquities from Babylon, the results of the excavations. Aimng st the recent airivals are some tablets containing the ?? Krzidallanm and Nabonateir, the Kiuneladanos and Nabonavtsr of the Canon of Ptolemy,, the last the celebrated monarch of the era dating froni.B.C, 747. A ?? Efrom the Civil Llit has just been ...

... i T'llE IEACONSF I ELID IPET-8CENE j IN A TBEA.'ATRE. [[SUJtECT O ILLUSTRAT'ION.]' Toif Dnl-lin Fireemali, under the hen ding Politics in iL Ti earle, pnblishes the following :- On Saturday nighi, in the Grdifon Theatre, shori ly after the per. floinmlue commenced, a male singer camon out nied s:tveg a song,, tile concluding ?? of which prmisedi I hir Cl ?? and censtired Lord Beaconsfield. ...