... The Thirteenth Anniversary of the dinner of the Royal General Theatrical Fund, which took place on Monday evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, gave cheering demonstration of the increased and increasing prosperity of an institution, the establishment of which has reflected no little credit upon the profession to which it especially belongs, inasmuch as a firm and abidiung root could not have ...

... It would be a difficult matter at the present moment to define what novelty really is, or give what might even remotely approxi- mate to the true interpretation of the word. Whatever it was once considered to mean, it is very evident that its signification now is most materially modified, and old characters in new dresses, familiar features under fresh auspices, and draped in new smiles, are ...

... I PROVINCIAL THEATRICAL~S (FBROM OURe OWN CORBESPONDEFTS.) ABBRDBEN2. COUsNT ROOMS.-9^ Wisg Wilson'a concert took place on Thursday evening under the patronage of the Lord Provost. There wae a large and fashion- able audience, and the concert went off successfully, the applause being warm and the encoresfrequent. Miis Wilson sang very well. She was assisted by Mr. Frederick Collins, an ...

... RETuRN OF THlE COURT To BuCRiNGHAL PALACE.-Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort lest Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace at four o'clock on Monday afternoon. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness wereaccompanied by Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princesses Alice, Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, and wereattended by Lady Churchill, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Lucy ...

... NEW YORK, MiAnm 27. BaTxOw's Naw TI&TRI.-The Mormojnus his proved an attrattive card,j the theatre being nightly well filed, and the piece received with great satisfaction by the audience. A new piece called WantedA, Happy lEraily, was produced on Monday evening, butit echieved only a moderate success, everybody seeming glad when the last scene was ended. LopunA IfxssEE'S.-On Monday Fitzball's ...

... By 'Baptiste. Nmow the season has open'd, the weather has settled; And the horses are all in prime order, high nettled; And with Easter alone begins life in the Ring, That true sport only dates from Newmarket First Spring. Some light on the Derby now thrown we shall see, And the race that precedes it on Chester's Roodee. For the glorious Two Thousand will now be derided Ere our next week's ...

... LITER AT U R E. TEE OLD PALAC. By JuLA TILT, Anthor of May Ha- milton ; Laura Talbot, &c. Two Vols. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. We are not unacquainted with the merits of Miss Julia Tilt's previous works, but we must give a decided preference to this new production of her very able and agreeable pen. As a general rule, it is no treat: to us in our critical capacity to find a ...

... The second exhibition of this society of lady artists of England presents a very fair array of pictures as regards numbers, over 400, and a most creditable collection as respects talent. There is here, as there must be in all general assemblages of works of art, a large proportion of inferior efforts, crude emanations of a genius not yet educated to understand, not the rules of art-for these ...

... i C - -OR = I COUaRT AND FASH3IONI. WINDSOR, MONDAYr.-'he Queen and Prince Consort walked il the Home Park this morning. The Princess Alice and younger Royal children took their accustomed exercise. TUESDAY.-Thle Qsecn anti Prince Consort rode out on horse- back yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Princess Alice. The Qiseen rode out on horseback this morning, attended ...

... GALLERY OF FRENCH PAINTING8, I 120, Pall-Mall.-Fifth Year. No one, not the most illiterate visitor, can enter the exhibition of works of French artists and not be instantly struck, and in all probability fascinated, with the first or second object that meets his eye. In our own collections of pictorial art the visitor, according to his taste, may wander through one or two rooms before meeting ...

... THEATRES3 &c. (Lhefoleolnog appeured ll a r Tolw Edition of last weekJ PRINCESS'S THEATIRE. KING LEAR. One of those magnificent Shailsperian revivals, by which Mr. C. Keen annually makes his season memorable, was brought forward on Saturday night with all that care and expenditure that have ren- dered these successive representations of the works of our national dramatist a series of vivid ...

... I The thirty-fourth anniversary dinner of the Royal Shaksperian Club was held at Stratford-upon-Avon, the birth and resting-place of the immortal Bard of Avon, on Friday last, and was attended, as usual, by a numerous bevy of admirers of the genius of the great World's Poet. Previous to the banquet the Rev. Julian Charles Young, son of the late distinguished tragedian, gave a Shaksperian ...