Public Amusements.

Monday evening another proof of the readiness with which these well-known partners in the long-established farce-manufacting firm can supply to order the latest novelties , cut after the newest pattern , and made out of the scantiest materials . Although fashioned out of a slender fabric , to which a garment of gossamer would

appear to possess by comparison a most substantial texture , the durability of wear is astonishing , and can only be explained by the circumstance that fanciful productions of this kind are never subjected to very rough handling . In the present instance the system which Mr . Banting recommends those to adopt who arc desirous

of avoiding the undue development of adipose tissue , is touched upon with respectful reverence to the gentleman whose name is associated with it , whilst the subject is treated with the utmost levity . An itinerant lecturer , who passes himself off as Professor Pankey , announces to the inhabitants of a provincial town that he is a disciple

-of Mr . Bantiiig , and about to give a lecture at the Town Hall , on the mode of reducing corpulence . Alderman Podge , a retired tallow chandler of obese proportions , being desirous of becoming slim and genteel , invites tho " professor" to try a course of experiments on himself

and household . Struck by the assorted alteration the lecturer has undergone , in figure , which now approximates to the living skeleton rather than to the type of a Daniel Lambert , the alderman reposes implicit faith in the directions of his guest , and offers his daughter Patty as tho reward of success . The supposed professor

¦ absorbs the supper of the whole family as his first lesson in dietetics , and leaves tho -unsatisfied alderman and his sister to roam about the house at midnight in search of fragments of comestibles deposited in drawing-room cupboards . His detection as a charlatan soon follows , and the young lady becomes , instead the bride of Dr . Lavender ,

a youthful surgeon , whose remembrance of tho impostor as a druggist ' s errand-boy in Clerkonwell confirms the suspicions that have previously been aroused . Mr . J . Clarke amusingly embodies the hungry and attenuated Panlcey , and introduces a song illustrative of the credulity ¦ of society . Mrs . H . Lewis , Mr . Stephensonand Mr . E .

, Homer are tho representatives of the other personages presented ; and the trifle went off with sufficient briskness to bring Mr . J . Clarke and the joint authors before tho footlights , in response to tho applause bestowed by the audience .

Notes On Music And The Drama.

NOTES ON MUSIC AND THE DRAMA .

Mermet receives 20 , 000 f ., with a per centage on tho ¦ copies sold , for his successful opera "Eoland a Honcevaux" from the publisher Choudens . This work will very shortly appear arranged for the pianoforte . —Orchestra . On Thursday next "Macbeth" will be produced at Drury-lane Theatre . Mr . Phelps will sustain the part

-of Macbeth , Mr . Crcswick Macduff , and Miss Helen Faucit Lady Macbeth . The receipts of the theatres , concert rooms , and other places of public amusement in Paris during September amounted to 1 , 4-09 , 789 francs , being 469 , 399 francs more than the preceding month .

Notes On Music And The Drama.

At Eome the other day , in the Teatro Argentina , at the representation of the ballet " Odalisca , " a perfect storm of hisses assailed one of the ballet-dancers—a storm so general and so vehement as to be only intelligible on the ground of some very strong personal and political feeling respecting its object . To his theatrical

avocations of the evening the mime was known to unite those . of a regular recruiting agent of the brigand bands , and to harbour under his roof the saguinary accomplices of the La Galas . Donato , the one-legged Spanish dancer , who has obtained so extraordinary a success at Berlin , is engaged ,

and will shortly appear at Brussels . On AVednesday next , the Theatre Eoyal Olympic , will be opened under the management of Mr . Horace Wigan . The opera at Hanover has a subsidy of 110 , 000 thalers ( £ 16 , 500 ) from the King ' s privy purse . '

"Mr . and Mrs . Clarence Holt have left Melbourne for England by the Great Britain , and expect to reach Liverpool the first week in November . W . H . C . Nation , Esq ., has most generously presented his first donation of £ 50 to the Eoyal General Theatrical Fund .

Poetry.

Poetry .

THE EASIEST THING IST LIFE . BV WlLMAII BlUDJTEIjI .. * Every present want supplied ; Not a single wish denied , — Aching head , nor throbbing heart—Ease , in quiet , plays its part ;

In a room that ' s passing fair , Seated in an easy chair ; Satisfied the inward man With a feast that others plan ; Soaring up a spiral wreath With-an oriental breath ; Handy , the accustomed cup , With its contents foaming up ;

Here a shade , and there a glow;—"Shut tlie door please , gently—sol ; . ' " Should it then aspire to teach What is wrong and right for each , Oh ! how easy 'tis to preach !

Affluence beyond to-day , Smooth the tenor of the way , ^ - Not a cloud to intervene The present and to come , between : Balance iu the banker ' s hands ; Tenements a few , and lands ; Shares in that and shares in this

( Each a fair investment is ) ; Int'rest of undoubted worth ; Holding , too , a splendid berth—Not a sinecure , 'tis true , But without too much to do ; Expectations here and there ; Well off—every way and where ; All to get and not beseech : What is wrong and right for each Yes , 'tis easy then to preach .