... (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 ...

... | -4--I THE STAGE, BOTH BEFORE AND BEHIND THE CURTAIN; FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN, ON THE SPOT. By ALFRED BUNN. (Bentley.) This long-promised book of Mlr: Bunn's has at length made its appearance, and a most extraordfnary book it is, displaying some of the most extraordinary details of dramatic life that lsdve ever been given to the public, and better calculated to open the eyes of the public to ...

... THE ST. LECER PROPHECY. BY YATES. Haust: Epsotni manE repet.-RAwLrrNsoN. The draught to be repeated.-Aro-IsECAR IES ALL. Let fancy convey the quick thought to the course Where the leger, once race of all races, Was performed at all points with the grand tours de force, And ran at the pace of all paces. Let fancy alone, too, with tyres recall The splendor and turmnoil of old, When the ...

... I The Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clocL- oil rze'do afternoon at Windsor Castle. It was attended by his Rovai Riligness Prince Albert, the Duke of WvellingtonP tle i erd President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secrctarv sf for Foreign Affairs, the First Lerd of the AdmiraltV, the Pre. sident of the Board of Control, lhe Paymaster Generajl the Lord Steward, and the Master of the ...