24 MARCH 1860, page 19

Bim) Musicians And Mechanics.

Our readers may remember that, on the first day of the year 1859, we drew their attention to an admirable Institution for enabling blind work- men and women to help themselves.......

Parisian Theatricals.

M. Theodore Barriere has favoured the Theitre Francais with a little one-act comedy,i entitled Le Feu au Couvent, which, in its general ten- dency, resembles la Joie de la......

Z4k 64tatrrs.

Once more have we been plunged into an Arcadia of the eighteenth century, by a new piece which was brought out at the Lyceum on Mon- day, and is called the Abbe raudreuil. A......

' 311usir.

The second concert of the Musical Society of London,—considering the lofty pretensions with which this large association commenced its career,—ought to have been the great......

• Mr. Coul - Er And Tile British Museum.

Sir Frederick Madden has addressed the following letter to the Times, dated British Museum, March 19. "I should feel much obliged by the insertion of the present letter, in case......

Literary News.

" The Posthumous Papers of John Hunter, on Natural History, Physiology, Generation, Psychology, Pala3ontology, and Comparative Anatomy, edited, with Notes, by Professor Owen,......