... COVENT GARDEN. The entertainment at Covent Garden is certainly of a novel kind, inasmuch as the principal performers are, in tho words of Mr. William Holland, tho organiser of tho pro- gramme, birds, beasts, and reptiles. Abundance of amusement is provided ...

... COVENT GARDEN. Undismayed by the formidable competition in another dace, the astute Mr. Augustus Harris and the enter- prising Mr. Freeman Thomas have resolved to uphold the iinphitheatrioal honour of England, and with that laudable lesigti produced ...

... COVENT GARDEN _ The conspicuous success which _-*■■■ ■ Dress Balls at Covent Garden Theatr. m«r ■ late Sir Augustus Harris ha*, nam-i. executors to continue ...

... COVENT GARDEN. The Yankee editor who recently published a list of the biggest things on earth, a surprising number of which were American, made a glaring and unaccountable omission ; he failed to mention the Grand International Circus at Co vent Garden ...

... COVENT GARDEN. Unprecedented changes are taking place in the world of amusement. Who would have dreamt a few years ago of Italiau Opera at Chris'mas, and in the morning, too? But Sir Augustus Harris boldly announced some of the most attractive operas ...

... COVENT GARDEN. The children will be very pleased with the pantomime at Covent Garden this year. It seems to have been got up on purpose for ?? delight. The story of Little 80-Peep is taken, and with this is interwoven the known events in the lives of ...

... COVENT GARDEN. In Mad Ha. Nita Palmyra, who made her first appearance her* on Satnrday evening, Mr. William Holland has found aa ingenious and intrepid a performer aa hae ever attempted the fanciful equestrianism of the arena. Whether on or off her horse ...

... COVENT GARDEN PROMENADE CONCERTS em The performance of an oratorio within tha walla of Covent Garden Theatre is a novelty in itself, inasmuch aa the house has not been employed for a like purpose within the existence of the present generation. It is a ...

... COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. The last of the Lenten Oratorios on Saturday night at Covent Garden Theatre was Handel's perennial Messiah. For some reason or another the attendance was anything but satisfactory. The performance on the whole was | ' , excellent ...

... COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. » A large audience assembled last evening to witness the performance of Orfeo, followed by '•Caval- leria Rusticana. The title rt.le in Cluck's master- piece was again undertaken by Madlle. Giulia Ravogli.whose rendering of the ...

... COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. The programme at this place of entertainment under- went a change on Saturday night, when a grand military spectacle, entitled The War in Zululand, was introduced into the bill for the first time. Within the coufined limits of ...

... COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. ! A second novelty was produced by the Royal English ' Opera Company on Saturday night. This time the work was by a riativo composer, Mr. Julian Edwards. There is no information beyond that which the opera itself conveys of the ...