... 0u1 e. - l HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. R Flauto Mosico was produced for the first time this season on Thursday last, and repeated on Saturday. On both nights the houses were good, and we observed among the audience many persons distinguished as must cians, or amateurs of music. To such persons this opera will always be among the greatest treats that can be presented to them. It is a feast of melody ...

... L I T E R A T U R E. BLACKWOODS MAGAZINE IV. Blackwlood and Sons, Pater- ?? June part of this venerable and popular favourite opens with a dreary poem in blank verse, extending over thirtii payes and heaven only knows how many thousand lines, called C7oeercl di ieena. Those who can appreciate domestic stories told in this dead kind of measure, may lind enjoyment and perhaps interest in the ...

... By command of the Queen, a Drawing-room was held on Saturday, at St. James's Palace, by her P,,ya Highness the Princess of Wales, on behalf of her Aljesty, Presentations at this Court are, by the Queen's pleasure considered as equivalent to presentations to her Majesty. The Prince and Prinecis of Wales, attended by their Ladies and Gentlemen inWaiting, and escorted bya detach. ment of the Life ...

... I PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS, (FROM OUR OjVN CORRESPONDENTm.) ABERDARE. CAMSBIAN TnEATRE.-(Proprietor, Mr. J. Mord.)-We have had daring the latter portion of loot work some dramoo of great merit per- formed on this stage by this company, amongst which woa The flake's Meoto, a drama which possesses a large nomberof inoidentals, and passed off ii itlo great success. On Tuesdaty was performed The ...

... Barnarm Ahead of the British Dha~eum. Brother Jonathan owns nLO relationship to thu, LSeven Sleepeis.' lie is ever ready to watch his opportunity, and to take advastage oi' it. Whatever his shortcomings mnay lge, be is zealously careful to be alvays on the alert, and always piepared to seize his chance when occasion offers. Thoughj lhe has chosen the eagle for his national emblem it is ...

... ~ i OTI.Et halew'rcetwddTHE FAVOURIT OF 4f~a ally Moore BMos C sl.MI lfs seocoib, amoiS, a Vafl ?? Groat seebo eitmt oey FF1-MORROW addrn i.we taqatrps ilt T.THE RIVA& ?? lllayton, Rolfe, H rvDaX.5 atr ?? rn matthewo, B.fa.a'easadMp ?? y seo ?? Me~c.M. VeoNco. Kospostvely the Iset twelve ?? Hr- sd Mm. CharilRem~an O.MOt~tW ad eeryevenngto ommncewith a come- Rean.To cnclue wiho ?? Lrek, evn G ...

... FF!ti:lE FASHIONS FOB (Abiludgedfom ooa Jtn wadtS Grand Mon.? We mentioned l monh th bsque n cture a being ono .of the'-greatest noveltes, nd we mu again refer to it,- as there is fno doubt itis afashion thabt Wil be very much adopted as the warm weather 3ets in. The newest style of cutting these basques is in iimitation of the Greek tunic-not the basque of lsat summer,. *wich was simply out ...

... THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF| I ' L 'LIVING ARTISTS. [FIRST ARTICLE.] Two incidents which gave rise to some comment marked the opening of the French Salon this year-one, the suicide of a young painter because his works had been rejected by the jury appointed to examine the pictures sent in for exhibition the other, a controversy in the newspapers originated by that enemy of all that is ...

... RFlPA1 E,At TgE OlLimpic. C Au OP-racotttravsgs. t with the abiv title, and em- ;W~ylng much Of Offeabacht snusic, set to the same their ,! las been presented at. thea Olympic in ai most' attractive .ga r, The autorof the lbrsetMr. Behlughai, has 1u but own the prsery tale overboard; and our old friend. rd La scarcely recognisable in the -sew version of . ,htry. 'n this. B.'ue Beerd :is ...

... RIGHTS of DUAMATISING WORKS of FICTON. I_ The following is the short Bill introduced this week into the House of Lords by Lord LYTTELTON, and read a first time, for Amending the Law relating to Copyright in Works of Fiction, and for Securing the Full Benefit of such Works to the Authors:- Whereas by law, as now established, the Authors of Novels and other Works of Fiction have no power to ...

... [SECOND ARTICLE.] No picture in the present Salon has been more talked about than M. (&ronle's Cleopatra and Caesar, not so much on account of its mnerits, as because the lady who commissioned it refused to take it at the price demanded by the artist, and because some wealthy Englishman stepped in andl secured it by paying the 40,000 francs: which fact naturally whetted public Curiosity. M. ...

... FIVE novels with a purpose, the purpose of each being very nearly the same as that of its predecessor, must surely be exhausting even to the most fertile writer. And so we are prepared to find the Abbe ' : I now and then repeating himself in the argumentative chapters which, after his manner, he brings in by way of chorus between the different acts of his plot. His grand principle that, as a ...