... THEATRICALS AT WOBUtN ABBEYI The Duke and Dachess of Bedford's hospitality, which has extended over the last five weeks,at thae ancient decal seat in Bedfordshire, may now be considered over. It was arranged that there should be another grand gathering at the Woburn Abbey Theatre, to close the season, ?? week was the night fixed ; but owing tD the sudden illness of Mr. Odo Russell, the Duke of ...

... AMUSEMENTS ZN BMINGHA1L I (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE TREATRE ROYAL,-Last night was the thirteenth night of the Christmas pantomime, Queen Mab. which has proved a great attraction among the holiday makers since the first night of its introduction. It is preceded nightly by a good standard play, and thus agood evening's amusement is guaranteed. The plays enacted during the past week have ...

... THEATRES, &o. DapTyy-LANE.-Tie new comedy, entitled The Old! love and the New, bids fair to brighten the hitherto somewhat gloomy prospects of our national theatre, for a marked improvement has taken place in the houses since its production. This is as it should be; and if Mr. Anderson can but manage to follow up his present success with more novelties of an equally important mature, we may ...

... (FROM OUR OWN Co03EsPoNDO S.) AsnTON-uiDmi-LTNa. - Britanntia.-Bnsines here has been on the increase Pizarro, Macbeth, &c., drew very fair houses. Mr. ?? C. Wood, as Rolla and Macbeth, acquitted himself very creditably. His per- sonation of -tese ardboiss'cbaracters, was marked with- powerful energy, and' has stamped him an actor of con- siderable talent in the higher valks of the drama. Mr. ...

... , - -- 4 f , - ? - w? .1 DxAzNE' ILLvSTRATED ALMANAC`KI For the Year of Our.Lord,.1861. London,' George and John Deane, Opening to the Monument, London Bridge, - .This is I the seventb annual 0f0feng of the highly respectable firm whose well-:known names,'are qbove. attached, and the fact off its, having Ron la Ileasea',o favour in public ?? is, W8 fbl4; sufficient groun for the proprietors ...

... (IrROMX OUR OWN CORRESPONDEN1TS) BaiSTOL. -W . Cooife's Circus.-Delighted and lcrowded houses still coiitinue at this trell-conducd and talented establishment. A grand day and evsninf performance' took place on Friday, the 10th, under the lpattouage of the Dayor, when taeadmired spectacle of' Mezeppa and the Pantondme of Punch and Joda were,' as usual, satisfactorily represented. Feats of ...

... ?? AND I3ll DILAWA AT g anchester. (W&OM OuP OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE THiEATRE ROYAL.-The pretty and domestic drama of Broken Toys still reigns in the dramatic hemi sphere, and the actors are well mellowed in their re- spective parts. An uphill character, one Mr. .Colddrawn (the name will explain the part), was well played by Mr. Peter Rae, one of the most painstaking actors on the stage, and ...

... | TBEATHI&LtS AT WINDSOR CAVTLE Her Majesty the Queen gave a dramatic representation at Windsor Castle on Friday evening, the performance ?? place in the temporary theatre, which was fitted uip the same as on former occasiOns. About eight o'clock her Majesty the Queen, and his Royal. Highness the Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, ...

... ITALIAN OPERA XN PARIS. A theatre glittering with rank and fashion, and crowded to the ceiling, on Saturday night welcomed the return of Don Paspale, which has been happily termed Donizetti's drawing room opera-a character which it never merited so completely as we have it now repre- sented with Madame Sontag at the interpreter of Noripa. Of her singing we can only repeat the'eulogies ...

... WeY RAVE TD S A I? I Managers, at all times, have had recourse to sraiige, out-ofothe-way expedients' to excite the flagging zeal of the public, and draw the Million to the theatre. 'Hence the introduction of horses, elephants, lions, dogs, and even monkeys. But it is not fair to lay the whole blame of this on the ill-starred speculator who must'pay his salaries on Saturday, and whose natural ...

... VUSIC aAZI D OH3E 3DRAMA A.Tr Manchester. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) We have no novelty to announce, scarcely a change to record, so we shall merely make akind of running com- mentary until something occurs to call forth our critical pen. Giralda and the Pantomime continue to be played at the Theatre Royal,'tbe latter with increased success. Mr. J. Marshall and Miss Fawcett, a's Harlequin ...

... - - ratI w.. - (FmOhI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) BRISTOL.-Royal Albert Rooms.-Mr. David Roberts's rmagnificent picture of The Destruction of Jerusalem has lately left these rooms, where it has been exhibited for a fortnight, and so great has been the excitement that many were compelled to leave without seeing it Mr. Duncan Macmillan, the celebrated ventriloquist, we hear, has been since giving ...