... The principal English Theatres have reopened for their winter campaign. The PariNCEs's has produced an attractive English version of Mozart's masterpiece, and the LYcEuM returns to its pleasant and well presented vaudevilles, and water-colour sketches of the stage. The HAYnaARKET, on the other hand, flies at higher game; and has commenced a season which will hereafter be memorable in dramatic ...

... FN AR T S. MR MACLISE'S PAINTING OF MR MACREADY IN WERNER. There is now on view at Mr Hogarth's Gallery in the Haymarket a painting by Mr Maclise of which the subject is taken from Lord Byron's tragedy, and the principal figure is a most masterly full-length portrait of Mr Macready. A line-engraving of this picture is in preparation; and a finer or more fitting memorial of the great actor now ...

... PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS. First Concert, Monday, March 15. PART I. Grand Symphony, No. 12. ?? ?? .. ?? Haydn. Recit. and Aria, Land of my sire, Mr Sims Reeves (Joseph) ?? ?? Mehul. Concerto, No. 2, Pianoforte, M. HalId ?? Mendlelssohn-Bartholdy. Recit. and Aria, Ho spavento, Mdme Castellan (Atalia) Weber. Overture, ZraubsrJldte. Mozart. PART II. Sinfonria Eroica ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? Beetboven. ...

... This annual show of fat stock and poultry displays again a con- siderable advance upon the progress of former years. The most characteristic excellence of the Birmingham show is, unquestionably, the poultry, in which it has taken, and probably will long maintain, the lead. Last year's exhibition contained 1,300 pens of this de- cription of farm produce, a number which was then quite unap- ...

... I EASTER EuTERThNhmENTS. Whether comedy or tragedy be just now in the worst plight must be left to those to determine who can bring themselves to assist at such performances of Sheridan and Shakes. peare as the HAYMAREKET and PnINCESS'S theatres present to their Easter audiences. But comedy and tragedy have passed out of vogue as entertainments. Spectacle, farce, and bur- lesque have ...

... 31tmoir-s of Frederick Perthes; or Literary, Religious, and Political Life its Germany, fromn 17T9 to 1843. From the German of Clement Theodore Perthes, Pro- fessor of Law in the University of Bonn. Q vols. Constable and Co. Seen from an English point of view, this hook is a de- lightful study of the German mind. The energetic book- seller of Hamburg, Frederick Perthes, whose life is here told ...

... NEW lA.GAZINES. The Train. No. I. Groombridge and Sons. The Idler. No. I. Robert Hardwiclhe. The Trait starts very full of pleasant talkers. It is a new shilling monthly, freely illnstraied with good woodcuts, and supported by the writing of sonme of the most successful young ?? of the day. It is light literature, but free from the extreme debility under which light literature usually suffers. ...

... HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mile Piccolomini's Figlia del Beggimento exhilarates the audience, and leads to such a burst of applause after the falling of the curtain as is not heard often in an English theatre. Last Thursday night we believe there was not one person in the crowded pit and 8talls wvhjo did not rise to cheer the actress-sinaer. No doubt a great many who so applauded thought it was ...

... True-hearted lady soldiers are now coming back from the East, after hard battling in the hospitals against sorrow and sickness, and have no doubt many a tale to tell. A work doing honour to their sex and to humanity, just published, and entitled Eastern Hospitals anmd English Nurses (1), is the first comer of a class which will be altogether new in literature. It details simply, and therefore ...

... Tiger-Shootivg in India; Being an Account of Iuntinq Experiences on Foot in Rojpootana during the Hot Seasons, from 1850 to 1854. By William Rice, Lieut. 25th Regiment Bombay N.I., and late Captain Turk- ish Contingent. With Twelve Plates in Chromolitho- graphy, from Sketches by the Author. Smith, Elder, and Co. Lieutenant Rice is a hunter of tigers who makes no use of the elephant, but ...

... THEITIRICAL \EXAMINER. N o% 7. TRE REV VAL OCF TaE CHANCES.-ELLTSTON'S VIOLENCE. T'rE NEWV OPERA OF NAIS OR LOVE IN TNHEOESERT. IT'S ORIGIN AND ERNORS.-kA HINT FOP3 THE COi- aSENTAT'S0ES ON CFNVANTES.-TKH NEW COMEDY BI MR. RTEYNOLDS.-IT S SURPRESIIN NEGATIVE QUA- LITIES. BEAUMONT ard FLrTCNER's COmedy Of tle Chances -was revived on Saturday week. T his play is almost an entire copy of thle ...

... FITNBE ARTS. A^ccount of the RtCiVatons given b-y tile SOCIETY FOR THE EsCOUR.a;EaucsT QpF AtTS, &C. &C. iO oar nest. _ Vor a Pevs weeks, Mr. WESTALL has ?? lli-s allery OF Oil Paintings and Drawigia. Two of the latter, his lo perfojralires, display all his pictorial poiwers, fiar srue ?? s other uorks, aund are a great acqyisition aill: io u)ar t i his ceuntry. The subjects are, (hrist ...