The NORFOLK AND NORWICH MUSEUM is in St. Andrew’s Broad Street. It is a handsome building, with commanding exterior, erected in 1839. Its contents are varied, extensive, and complete. The birds especially are very numerous, a large portion of them being foreign. The mammalia include many valuable specimens; and one of the largest provincial collections of animals from Australia is to be found within these walls. Amongst the fossils are some rare specimens of animals long since extinct. The shells and minerals are deserving attention, as is also the entomological department. The antiquities exhibit many remarkable articles; the coins and seals are particularly worthy the attention of the curious. There is also a valuable botanical collection, which contains the Herbarium of the eminent botanist, Sir James E. Smith. The Museum is open free every Monday, and on other days visitors are admitted on the production of an order from one of its members. The LITERARY INSTITUTION. This society occupies several rooms in the same building as the Museum. It contains an excellent and rapidly increasing Library of about 15,000 volumes. Adjacent to the Museum is the FREE LIBRARY, a spacious and convenient building, erected in 1856, upon a part of the site of the ancient palace of the Dukes of Norfolk. The BAZAAR is a handsome structure, in St. Andrew’s Broad Street, erected in 1831, by a company of shareholders, and now let for various purposes. One portion of the building is occupied by the Government School of Design, in which instruction is given in drawing, painting, modelling, and designing. The ASSEMBLY ROOMS are at the south end of an open plain, in the parish of St. Stephen, and were erected in 1754 upon the site of the College of St. Mary in the Fields. Public meetings are occasionally held here, and the proprietors of the leading exhibitions of the kingdom, during their stay in this city, generally fix their paraphernalia in one or other of the convenient compartments of this spacious building. The THEATRE ROYAL is situated at a short distance from the Assembly Rooms. It is a well-built though somewhat plain-looking edifice, erected in 1826, adjoining the site of the old theatre, which was built in 1757. The interior is upon the model of Drury Lane, the embellishments are both chaste and handsome, and the arrangements are well suited to public convenience, being upon the same plan as those of the metropolitan theatres. The building is but rarely used for other than dramatic entertainments. The BETHEL HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS stands in the street of the same name, upon the site of the old City Committee House. The building is well adapted for the purpose for which it was designed. There is a handsome committee room containing several portraits, one of which is that of the worthy foundress, painted in 1724.