... BENTEzY'S MISCELLANY.-We pursue our extracts from the facetious pages of Bentley for the present month, and certainly after reading over our extracts, no one who opened them on the first oftbe month witha hope of entertainment, will have to cons- plain of being made an April fool. However, proof is better than assertion, so we dive at once into the fun of Peter Pop- 3C M. l{HI, a young ...

... FOREIGN' I CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. We have already made mention of (he monument cons crated, to the glory of Moliere. The edifice will sooll be terill. nated. It is fonmed entirely of free stone, and reaches a fotrlh storv in heijlht. In the interior a space is left s0,$. ciently lerge for the person charged with its superiutendeice to lodge itl. The statue of ?? is to ...

... FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL I INTELLIGENCE. From letters lately received from Paris, it appears certain that Fanny Elssler, instead of passing a sear at New York, as was- reported, has resolved on returning to France, to set aside, in the Court of Appeal, the judgment pronounced against her in favor of the direction of the Opera House. The sister of this- celebrated dancer, Mdlle. ...

... (lRO3t OUR OWN COKU1Z$O;nENTS.} BitbGHTON.-On Thursday, Mr. Hooper re-opened the doers of this theatre, and commenced bis vinier campaign. A comic pantomime was the attraotion, and was put upon the stage rt- gardless of expense. Tue housc was crowded, and evervthing went ofl well. BIRxsINGOHAm&-Mr. Simpson re-commenced business at the Theatre Royal on boxing evening. A comic pantomime has the ...

... IF- HAYMARRET.-This theatre has given the public another Version of the far-femed curtain lectures, and although we may Bay with truth that the Haymarket one yields in nothing to its compeers, and have every wish to do justice to the talented representatives of domestic harmony, yet here our laudatory office ends, for, however we may be inclined to laugh at the wit of Douglas Jerroll in the ...

... MISCELLANEOUS POErs. By ELIZABETHI PIsDOCKE RO- sFiLrs. (Darton and Clarlk.)-It is seldom, in these matter- of fact days, that any one is bold enough to publish a volume of poems. This is not a poetical age, nor do we believe that a nes Shalispere or Milton could make it so. Sir W. Scott and Byron, for a time, revived a love of poetry, which was a rage while it lasted ; but it was extinguished ...

... The great master of fun and metaphysics, Puneh, who can of a verity read sermons in stones, and extract a smile from the flegellations of his scnurg, recently tried his hand at the following adaptations ol ' Old Saws to Modern anstances. What. though the American Talms, the Forrester, not of Bow-street, but of Broad-srreet, be occupied with his new readings of Shakspere, why should the ...

... - A COQURT AN FASHION. On Friday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed walk in the grounds ladjoining the Castle. Their Royal Higlhnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice 'were taken a carriage airing and a walk for soene time in the forenoon in Frogmore Gardens. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken for an airing in the Castle precincts. On ...

... I ?? 0 FOREIGN -CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. (EXCLUSIVE FOR THIE ERA.) PARIS.-ITALIAN OPERA.-This theatre has at length made good its promise, and the reprise of La Beatrice has effectively taken place. The' reprise,' exclaims a Parisian critic, indignantly,` it is time that the manager should afford a new pourpointt.- How~ever just in truth way be (he reclama. tions of ...

... Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the exhibition of the Royal Academy on Monday. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desart, Lady Caroline Cocks, Bon. Miss Devereux, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness, the Vice.Chamberlain, the Master of the Hoousehold, ron. Colonel BerkeleyDrommond, Colonel Arbutbnot, and Lieutenant-Colonel ...

... ; MtJSICAL MEIS. - xt sI , A-L- - GRAND CONCERTS AT HER MAJESTY's TREATREl It is intended to present a select series of Grand Concerts at Her Majesty's Theatre, supported by all the combined talent of that magnificent establishment. The first of these Concerts, which is fixed for Monday, the 17th 01 April, will be of a peculiarly interesting character-an Historical Concert-illustrating the ...

... Thomas Lowe, Robert Redaway, Sarah King, James Butler, William Smith, Charles Warren, Elizabeth War- ren his wife; George Hardy, a boy thirteen years of age; George Manning, Isaac King, Sarah Wright, and Benja- min Morris, were, on Wednesday, placed at the bar of Clerkenwell police-court, before Mr. Combe, charged with having been found in a booth, used as an unlicensed theatre for stage plays ...