... LUMIEBY V. GYE. QUEEN'S BENCH-JuexE 3. This was an action brought by the former lessee of her Majesty's Theatre, agaiust the proprietor of the Covent-garden Opera, to recover damages for having caused Mademoiselle Wagner to break an agreement which she had entered into with the plaintiff to sing at his theatre. The defendant demurred to the plaintiff's declaration, on the ground that aol ...

... LITERA TUBE. Sam Slicik's Jise Saws a'rd Modewn Instances. Hurst and Blackett. The author of 4Sam Slick isa writer who has kept up his popularity as well as any of his contem- poraries. We are used now-a-days to the exhaustion of good notions; so many men first give genuinely the very best of their creative and inventive abun- dance, and then, finding that attractive, dilute it, and give ...

... ~FINART8 I' r~ d ' TkE- -iW SELl' COLL:BCTION ?? : Thi. iswidg ?? w'eek some2.noficeablaitcolle iod 1g, of pict.tZ Ahtve'.been put iup to the hammer. re collaetidtr -pidtuies, carvings, autographbi. ai A objects oi-viAti`; deseribed as othe Fuseli collection, re has nothetigto d`o withithe painter roach butis rII 'describe~part of-tbecoletitn-tirtthOPro' r, perty of the Counts , P - of Fuseli ...

... 2. ADELPEI. E The legitimate drama, transplanted here from the y Haymarket by Mr. Webster, has of late almost superseded s- that class of piec s for which the Adelphi has so long been x- specially renowned. That the old spitit of the place, how- !, ever, is not quite extinct, was proved last night by the pro- Y duction of a new melodrama, ?? with real Adelphi effects a (to quote the play ...

... RXOYAL LENTE1RTAINMgENT AT GLOU- I(ESTER ROUSE. Ili: Xlolyil Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave a !i; i :iuiit o1 Saturday laqt to their Majesties the i!CI0 AQiueei of Hanover, her Royal Highness thc Duchess °~ 1SuAl l ihc S' revie Highness tile Princess Adelaide of If ?? liihi Rl)al Highness tile Duke of Cambridge, tfii r 1 I 11 cersss the Duchess of Cambridge and the l yand tbebi Royal ...

... 7 The Harmonic union, Exeter-hall. Iridolin, adapted from Schiller's ballad, ier, Gangsch demn Eissnhialfliir, by Paigrave Simpson, lisbenarct to music by Mr. Frank Mori, and- onl Thlsurday the HamI i Unlion performed it, we beliets, for the first time at Elxeter- ball1. 13y an Oversight with reference to the hour of commenee' insit a great portion of Iridolire Was over by the time we found ...

... CENUINE COSSIP. I BY AN OLD AOMhIESS. CHAPTER XIV-CURIOUS CHARACTERS. 11r. Meggett was the leading tragedian in Mrs. Baker's cotn- pany. He was an actor of considerable dramatic power and effect. Cumberland, who lived at Tunbridge Wells, frequently witnessed his performances, and pronounced him to be equal in ability to John Kemble. Meggett obtained an engagement at the Haymarket Theatre, ...

... I PUBLIC ANEUSEMlBD7TS in MANCHESTER. (aROM.-OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) As a proof that the public taste for the Shakaperian drama has not altogether decayed among us, it may be mentioned that it has been illiustrated on our boards upon four different occa- sions this week. On Monday we had Romeo and Jlliet, with Miss Faucit as the heroine, in which character she fully sus- tained the reputation ...

... 7AsS ::rUS I '1 MOIC SOCIETY. . 'ETALIhe fth eoncert tookq pA ee it tngnseev admirabs- le sletiOnEX Coneert Ovr O. , .. i Ave verum, Herr Theodore Formes. Grand ChEralSymphony the 'olo 0 arts by Me, ' Bury, Min Ba e h Forms, r aed Mr. Weiess* Concertoi nminor, pianoforte, .MaatcrohnleXb - . ne ?? ?? M e Aria, , ozittre nicht (ZaabErdUte), Udlle. Bury - toarirn Overture (Jeasonda) ?? . ...

... THEATRICALS AN) AXUSEXENTS IN | Dublin. (FROM OUR OWN CoRRESPONDENOT.) THrEATRE RovAL.-(MIr. John Harris, Lessee).-Handel's delightful opera of Acis enan Galatea, and Marston's fine play, entitled Anne Blake, were produced on last Monday evening, and repeated during the week. The opera was performed in a truly gratifying manner, reflecting the greatest credit on the management, vocalists, ...

... I THE SCBA-P;eBOOK COLU]XW. CHALMElRs ON AuTOGIARn BEGGING.-In the last volume of Doctor Chalmemrs COrrespondence, there is a letter ia which the dector condemns the practice of beg. ging and giving autographs. He writes:- Your second letter of May 6th, I placed among the letters to which I might reply; because I felt a wish At the time to let you know the grounds of my antipathy to a ...

... Yesterday the annual conference between the representa- tives of the institutions in union and the council of the So- ciety of Arts was held at the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelpli ; Mr. H. Cole, chairman of the council, in the chair. A large number of representatives were present, and amongst them many gentlemen who have distinguishedthrem. selves by the interest they have taken in the ...