... 3 The interest excited by this entertainrment was very general, and the attendance at the St. James's Hall on Monday evening one of the largest of the season, the orchestra, galleries, and body of the hall being completely filled. Beethoven's Posthumous Qnartett in F, No. 17, commenced the concert, finely executed by Messrs. Sainton, Ries, Doyle, and Piatti. The vocalists were the bene. ...

... In our last we briefly alluded to the arrangement made by Mr. Gye for the ensuing season, which commences on Tuesday next. The season of 1860 promises to be as brilliant as any of its predecessors. The following outline of the arrangements will show the indefatigable industry of the manager to produce novelty. The established favourites in the operatic department engaged are Madame Grisi, who ...

... EXHIBITION OF THE NEW SOCIETY OF Painters in Water Co(lours. We must consider it very injudicious on the part of the executive of this society, as long as they consider the courtesy of a private inspection of the pictures to the representatives of the press a beneficial privilege, that they should commit the error of issuing such a host of tickets to artists' friends and friends' friends, that ...

... HER MIjEBJSTY'S THEATS.R The lessee and director of this great establishment, Mr. E. T. Smith, has issued his prospectus for the coming season, announcing the opening of the theatre for Tuesday, April 10, and the most brilliant results may be anticipated. First, we are to have, as p?'inlzO and secundo donnas, Mdlle. Piceolomini (her farewell nights previous to her final retirement from the ...

... I AUSTRALEA E TaEATaOa&LS. MELBOURNE, FnB. 18. Txgamoaa RoYAL.-Mr Farqobarson took hie benefit so Saturday, the ecterbcalment provirded being of a very varied deecription. First there wae XI Trorotare, in which the Bianclhi appeared, end sehib, werbe ehardly yay wee= mregnifctly played, but thle ecetacl, of the audienca wae of very ehort dertu , The progreinee had been framed 0cc the novel ...

... I NEW YORK, MEAcH 29. Lavs31 IXsSEv's, - A new comedy adapted from the Frescb, by Boareicault, called Vaai'y .air, was produced here last week. As a dramatic work, the pieee is cleverly conitrdeted and smartly written, thougb it Canuot lay claim to any high order of merit, either as respects dialogue or the subtle elaboration of character. Mr Bourcicault plays the part of Edgar Lambert, and ...

... That the love of amusement is still a predominant cha- racteristic of the London public, and that the increased energy with which it is sought after is not incompatible with the extension of those resources which tend to the enlivennment of the home circle, will be best proved by prefacing our record of the entertainments of the holiday period with a statement of a very significant fact. On ...

... PROVINCIAL THEA TRICAL$ I (3ROM OUR OWN CORRBSPONDENTS.) 0 ABBRDEEN. MUSIC HALL BuoLDINGS.-It ia not often that prophete have bonour in their own country, bat this does not hold true in so far as the concert given in these buildings on the evening of the 18th instant is concerned. The singers and porformers on the occasion were the smembers of the Choral Union of thie place, unasoisted by ...

... CEIURCTES IN THEATRES. With a persistency that assumes the features of an infatuation, the pious enthusiasm that insists on converting theatres into churches goes steadily on, and though rebuffed and almost beaten from its ground in the metropolis, the movement draws in its horns in the capital only to throw out its anteanee ien the provinces, and, like a blind insect, having explored the ...

... The recurrence of the period when this admirable insti- tation holds its annual gathering, when the excellence of the cause it sustains is so earnestly and eloquently pleaded by those who have gained their well-earned cele- brity in the pursuit of histrionic honours, is always looked forward to with interest, not only by those for whose benefit it has been established, but by a large number of ...

... L IT E R A T U R E. |TI NKsw QuArTErLY RVIEW. No. XXXIII, April, 1860 London: It, Hardwicke, 12, Piccadilly. This light and pleasant companion appears as usual with its Retrospect of the Literature of the Quarter, including notices of French to well as English works, brief, but giving a good idea of the numerous piublicatious spoken of. More elaborate reviews follow of Lord Macauelay's ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COV.E1j Garden. The second performance of Fidelio took place on Saturday. to house was crowded, and a large assemblage of the aristocracyt tl, ...