... AMUSEMENTS IN MA2NCHESTER. (FROMc OUR OWNr CORRESPONDENT.) TAcTas Royex,-We have had nothing but Italian and Geramar. operas this week, for the melo-drama of Me-e pIeejseaa, which leas been for some weeks in preparation, was not, it seems, on WedaesdaT night, in a position to 1see company. It was, however, to be per- duced without fail last (Saturday) night. On 'Monday, Weber's Da- ...

... PROVINCIAL THEATRIQALS. (not 015 OwEr COBBEsP00DE1T.) BnADnOmD.-Colosseemm.-The departure of the American Brothers has furnished an opening for the engagement, fropm last Monday, for twelve nights, of Herr Chantrill and his Son, in their classical acrobatic drawingrooom entertainment. Mr. Pedley, sentimental vocalist anl concertina player, is. an excel lent member of the company, and,, along ...

... | FTeanh PlaYs.-Mdlle. Rachel commenced an engage- ment here last Wednesday, when was presented, for the first time since 1851,. Racine's tragedy of Thedro. Rachel's im- personation of Phedre is so generallywell known, and has already been so thoroughly criticised, as to render detailed cons- ment superfluous on this occasion Thle eminent traqedienie displayed all her usual powers of ...

... I , 'COIUjtrE fD 0FASHION. ; COURT A~~Th . St -- TursrDi.-The Queen and Prince Albert, accompaniedby the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, and attended bythe Viscountess Jocelyn, Col. the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut;- Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, left Buckiingham Palace at ten minutes past three o'clock on Tuesday'afternoon fot Claremini (travelling by the London and South Western Railway), ...

... .:PRO.ViNC'IAL, TI4EtA:hICALS.' ?? uring the past wek a eep crowded to Oe~e inconsequence, of th tratv p ?? of Mladame Celeaste'and Mr. Webster, ho ae a idsbe eggdfor the fair nights.. of this theatre, :hag eogege, Mlie Cisat as~b ~intd umiber of nighits, comnmencing ~ qnda st ?? * Banrbi.rEyalZGdososemrn-r(Maae.r;Hiula) -The company forming.the anuinstg resouceftisetbih ment continue their ...

... WT1H FASIIONS. Cr.om THE FRIONCOL] Lent has been closed by the old and absurd Puppet show ealled Lengciampe. This fashion is evidently declining; ftr after all that was anticipated as to the grand displays of fashions to take piaee at the above exhibitisn, it turned out to be ths moet miserable failure that ean be conceived. Owing to the intense cold, the few ladies who were to be seen at this ...

... THE DRAMA, USIG &ao. DaRurY Lu -On Menday Drary Lane Theatre opened foci short season; ballet being the principal feature of i2 entertaInments. A new ave.actn play, byigr. Wilkins, the author of Civilikationr,. was prbdueod. The Idgubrieacf character of the prior portion of the performances wss cer- tainly a striking contrast to the ligrt, agreeable, and .thoroaghly French stile, provided for ...

... JounRNLFY EOUND THE[Wo'RLD. By F. G~iII5TArcKmB. Huerst aned Blackett, Zeskhoroe~~tethsi most :etertainiug land well-told narrativeof avoyage round-the world' by anadventurous Germnan. The do- kariptions are _graphic, the anegdotes amlnsing,' and, on the whole, it may be considered as one of the most attractive books of travel that has fora long time issued from tho press. Five years was the ...

... THE DRAIA. SUSIE. &e. DRUaY LANZ.-On Wednesday, Mrs. Mowatt's somaewhat mawkish five-aot play of Armand; or, the Peer and the Peasant, was revived at this house. The subjeot of the plot turns on Louis XIV's amorous propensities; his attempted seduction of Blanche,jdaughter to the profligate Duke of Riehi. lieu; her rescue by Armand, a peasant, whose courage has raised him to high military ...

... The Brsitish Quartorey, dealing with the questions of the day, and ever bringing scholarship and thought to bear upon the practical and the actual state of things, comes always welcome, never more so than this month. The article of the number which will be read with the greatest pleasure for its wit, and with the greatest profit for its reasoning-is on R. W. Mackay's Religious Development in ...

... STRAND THEA TRE. An ill-written and extravagant burlesque of Sardanapalus has been produced at this theatre, under the meaningless title of Sambo Dampahlum, with an equally meaningless Elis- tortion of the characters of the tragedy ; Salamenes, for example, being transformed into Sally, or Sairey fen es, (being the Timbuctoo for Gamp), and made an old woman of by Mr. HoawcAsTLE; while ...

... DRURIY-LANE THEAITRE, We should dismiss, in a couple of sentences, the mass of undramatic and unpoetic verbiage which, ?? the ilroe of a five-act play, occupied three hours last night, bat far the circumstance that at the fall of the curtain the ?? sof the galleries applauded with much vehemence, the drop rose! and, after that, the two p'incipal actors in yhe Betrothal were called on, the ...