It is stated that the Oxford crew will leave for their head- quarters at Putney on Monday morning, and will make their debut on the Thames the same afternoon, simuleaneonsly -with the Cambridge gentlemen. The new boat launched on Thuns- day is on all hands admitted to be as near

Mr. Eullah's Musical Lecture. Mr Johis Hullalh read a: paper onl Mlondlay nighit, at the 3ect- lioven Rooms, which wvas of considerable interest to musicians. He chose for his themile tile tersus used by Eniglish musicianaS, and, in tile course of his lecture, threw coesides-able

BARRY SU3LLIVAN IN SCOTLAND. Nobody vill be surprised to hoar that Richard wos really himself ?? itst cli-ht. Ili thle hands of Mr Barry Sullivan ice could cost, indeed, be other Nuntb tile tragie figure which Shakespeare sends burning tliroergli tics play liko a baleful planlet.

THNEA'TREe ROYAL, DRURY-LANER- Last Five, Nights of thle Scison. orn coin t"!iir' tf A tuactimits. OnMoiqidar, Taisoday, Welielv htoiy ,Ald Fridfly, tile perfrit- noteS will eslunmesteo witis the GTrand Reonia Silt n ositilcal Drama, of REBECCA, by Andrewl Itallidtay, ?? Wnitit i

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THlE LONDON THEATRES. Theo lest niights of thle DRunv-Liaxn season are announcedM.1 andc on S~,aturday next the winter campaigni will be closed with M~r F. R Chttterton' ,annual beeft. 1/essrs anld Aladdin will thus ojily b old possession of the bill for five nights longer. lira

Miss Alice Rayner's Soiree Dranaatique. Mliss Alice Rayner, a member of Mr Charles Sleigh's School of Dramatic Art, gave a Soiife Droaoetique at Ripon Holise, Wobura-place, Russell-square, on the evening of the 17th inst., when a considerable number of the young lady's friends an

The insurrection in Herzegovina and the adjacent lo provinces still continues, and the insurgents seem to have had, even, some successes during the past week. 2 But unless the policy of the war party in Servia n"I prevails (and it is, we believe, gaining power every ar C' day) a

fiteratute. Lincoln, Stanton, and Grant. Historical Sketches. By Major EVAN RoWcLAND Jo.asE. London : FRlEDERIaCK WAntN and Co., Bedford-street, Strand. Major Jones served during the entire war with the army of the Potomac, and his sketches derive much of their vigour and intense

MARRIAGE OF FRANCIS ARRWKIGHT ESQ., M.P. Th. myr-I-A af thA Ran. Evelvn Adiinron. tihd xnnJYs~r.. The marriage of the Hon. Evelyn Addington, third I daughter of Viscount Sidmouth, with Mr. Francis Ark- ' wright, of Overton Hall, Ashover, Chesterfield (M.P. for c East Derby), took