... ,ST. JAMES'S THEATREP Saturday closed the season of what is Ordinaricj, Frencl Plays, with a third representation of a Pti tragedy, Mr. MITCHELL having, with his usualrdou j' suit of variety, again appended a seriea o performances to the Gallic ones. We fear h ' that the former representations were h ' tractive as those of the first season of the e man plays ; nnny people were then drawi t ...

... FRENCH PLA VS. - y: I:CtELL' sith characteristio energy, has altered the ceooesnr of his season by adding to them a lengthened sr of M, RAVEL and Mdlle. LAMBERTS performances. hogO rvass no donabt prompted by the great attraction , that most olexibleof comedians-with his excessively , sitle pieces-has been found continuously to possess. r.~0tfriglottindeed, the Palais Royal artist alone has ...

... ST. JAMES'S THBEA TRE. GERMAN PLAYS. Tile evcr-rrlefatiaible 11r. MITCisELL, who never during all his active life his allowed one single, solitary blade of grass to grow below either of his feet, has published the pro- grammne or a Gerrnsr dramatie senson, to commnence on the 1st of July, after the conclusion of Mdllc. RACnEL'S engage- ment ard the French Plays. The announcement is in all ...

... ANCIENT BOHEMIAN POEMS.+ The ancient Bohemian poems of Mr. Wratislaw's volume consist chiefly of the contents of a manu- script discovered in 1817 by M. Hauka at Krllov6 dvur or Koiniginhof (Queen's Court), a small town in the circle of Kdniggritz, in Bohemia. They are, chiefly warlike ballads of the usual kind, referring to the wars of the Bohemians with the Tartars of Kublai Khan and other ...

... PRINCESS'S THEA TE. SABDANAPALUS. We have seen many spectacle dramas of more or less splendour and of more or less pretensions to correctness in scenery and costume, but we have never seen, and we be- lieve there never has been seen, in this or any other country, in any theatre or any opera, a spectacle play of sunh deep and perfectly novel historic interest, and presenting so gor. geous and ...

... DR UR Y-LANE 7HEA TRE. I :. _ Mr. Bnooxa's performances occupied each evening during the past week; he appeared twice as OtheUo, and also played Shylock and Jiadr Walter. His second night showed that he has the good sense to accept a hint given in good feeling-he subdued much of his accustomed violence, and gave a version of Shyock which, if not great, was credit- able to his care and study, ...

... Here we have a series of Mont Blanc climbing views, the production of the climber, and certainly the best thing of the kind that we have ever seen. Mr. Browne pretends to nothing higher than amateurism in art, but his know. ledge of figure drawing, and his power of arranging pie- turesque groups, are superior to those of many a professed draughtsman. In general appearance the delineations re- ...

... LFROM OUR SPLCIAL CORRESPONDENT.1 FitiDAY MoiRNIG. The one great essential to the perfect success of a public ceremonial-finee weather-was fortunately not wanting yesterday, and a warm, bright morn- ing reminded the London visitors to Dublin of the memorable 1st of May, 1861. The influx of strangers continued up to the last moment; steam- ers, special and regular, were crowded ; and, despite ...

... ,SOCIETY OF ARIS. Yesterday the delegates from the various literary, scien- tific, and mechanics' institutes ill union with the Society of Arts visited the CryotalPalace at:ydenhans, pursuant to an invitation offered by the directors of the Crystal Palace (om- pany. A special train was provided for theoccasioni and upwards of 400 gentlemen availed themselves of a privilege which enabled them ...

... Don CaarJos was given last night by the German Company, for the first time this season, in a manner which did credit to every individual member of the company. DEvRtENT as Posa, STOLTW as the Queen, FUHR as .Eoli, and GA- BILLUOCN as Carlos, performed their respective parts with a vigour and talent which resulted in a perfect triumph. SCU.LLER'S Don caries is one of his best pro- ductions. It ...

... NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED 5 TATjiS EXPLORING EXPEDITION.* This narrative by the commander of the American exploring expedition embraces a large amount of scenic description and natural history. With most of the places we are already familiar ; but the in- formation is here compressed and categorically arranged, with a clearness of style and precisi6n of detail calculated to make the book serve ...

... THE' MUSICAL UNION. Mr. ELLA had provided for the second meeting for the aeason-which took place yesterday-a programme of so tempting a nature that we were not surprised to find the King street Bormrs crowded to the door. The selection per. formed included HAYDN'S noble quartet in B flat, Op. 71, which was the work with which the first meeting of the Musical Union was inaugurated; a duo for ...