... With the close of September, the dramatic season of the metropolis starts into full activity. DRURY-LANE has a spec+acular drama certain to command popular atten- tion. The NEW COURT THEATRE has been added to the list of places of popular entertainment, and on Thursday evening the OPERA COMeQUE was reopened for the season with a new comic operatic romance called Carina. With this week Mr ...

... - LEmAUR. A, . _. s -; - :OES *. ai ra M '3essrx SmitE,~ 131d~r; 8c -sr h Elder &,,io, oi s another voluiime n), of Mr Leslie Stphens Pz Dritionaryo ogrnphy. ,10S.> Virtue C ',Lemimed) -hare added a volume of the DoublfiiI lalys -in the re-issu1e- , of ;';Enight's PotoriaEtihon of Shakespeare.' tr: :M. T. Fishp e an ilin- * trated volume about the l Industrial Rivsrs of p the ' United ...

... CURRENT LITE RATURE. ' Letters from Doi-othy Osborno to Sir Wi- - i:,1a Tilnple. 1321-o'I.' ]t;d'ited by dw idvad I Mklbott Piarry. (Grifith, Parran, a1nld Co.)- Thib 13Tis mot dI (ltful collection Of letters, already ignals wlised with unerring glanc e i n Macaulay's reoview of a Life of Sir William Temple, is a veiitable bone to belated lovers of all that is most unlik e th h wavs a and ...

... CAXINqA,` the new opera by Messrs Cunningham cidgnsu and E. L. Blanchard and Miss Julia Woolf, which was produced last Thursday evening at the opera Comique Theatre, was received, at the descent of the curtain, with groans and hisses, which came, bewever, from only a limited section of the audience. W5e are surprised that the upper boxes and gallery should have shown such bad taste, for ...

... SOOK AND BUSKIN STORIES. I ase WI id No Shirt or No Play. thl I It was at solne Dublin sports thatan order. he ad seeker met with Mr. J. F. Warden, and, on the hi rs lightest acquaintance, dunned him for a free he .d pass for the theatre. Pretending not to have D ea, a crd, Mr. Warden wrote an order on the shirt. wk ae front of the victim, and told him to show it to hit dthe box-reeper and it ...

... ! i'IDMI4TNE ART ALLERJ.. I J. The8,?pepof Leeds will, on Wednesday, be placed in possessim of their Fine Art Gallery. Thus will have beanvobtained an insitution which has been long spoken 4f, and which will doubtless be appreciated the more becaus it All s ng ithh eld . While the move- ruentthad beiihmool ie usly, it really assumed form in acnetion with the ,ijlelrtion of the Queen's Jubilee, ...

... TIHE CORSICAN- PIOTII I'ES.' I A .+ A ?? 1. IAX; ?? . ?? I__ ?? ?? . b.A Libretto by Charles Bradberry, Music by l: or_*e Fox. 'E First performed at the Crystal Palace, sv}-t. 25th, 18S. r- Fabien dei Franchi . . Mr GEORGE FOX lo Louis dei Franebi ?? Chateau Rtenaud ?? Mr BERNARD LANE fn Martelli . ?? AI CARLTO'N NUNN 1- Montgiron ?? r DOUGLAS Cox E Meynard ?? MrJ.,i[N PxACLIEY E Orlando ?? ?? ...

... AKGRIOULTURAL IWSE AT IRKEBY i I STEPHEN . ) ?? ?? __ __ ok ?? I he forty-fouth anriual meeting of tile Appleby and Kirltby Stephe Agrinliltural Society took place yesterday on tile nrcustnmledi site at Kirkby Stepihen, before a large githmertig of visitors, the fairer part of wvhon, *. is nsual in l the West cuuntrV, b iing sdlllited, te a garlant yeomall observed, for the sale of ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGUSTUS HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) EVERY EVENING, at 7.30, A New Grated Se :tazular Dramua, entitled THE ARMADA: A Romance of L58S. F-v TIF.NRY HAMfILT N And AUG(STUS HARRISs L'Oi'NING PERFORMANCE SA'URDAY, October 6. LYCEUM THEATRE. (Sole Lessee, Mr. IHENRY IRVING.) HIIS Al'1ER'iON at 3, and TO-NIGHTatg, MIr RlI'CHARD MANSFIELD. LASI' ...

... HORT1OTLTURAL SEEOW AT - GARRWBN. The fourth untaibto the Public f11, i Gaerwsan, t ilae District Flo wer, Garden, ana EVarmj Produe 8tioiety took place on Saturdayand proved nimost aooeueful. This yenr the president of the soowty was Sir Chandos Reade, Bart. Mr J. Mfssey 3 Williatas, Garneddgooh, was the ohairman of the . Executive Committee, the vice-ohairtman being Mr J P . Lewis Jones, ...

... ROYAL JUBILEE EXHIBITION, RNCNOREPEP II I LETTER FROM TRE QUEEN. CoDies of the report ?? Committee of the Exhibition have been spesially pre, pared for submission to her Majesty the Qreen and his Royal Higbnessthe Princeof Wales. Thefollowing letter accompanied the copy which was forsilded to Balmoral:- hCManchester, 13th September, 1683. General Sir Henry F. Ponsonby, K.C.B. Sir,-I have the ...

... NO VELISTS OF THE DAY ON another page will be found a group of novelists who may be re- garded as typically, though not exhaustively, representative of English iction at the presentday. Some portraits ...