... MVUSIAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. This society's fourth concert took place last Y evening atSt. James's-haii. It wae the last of the society's~ fourthseeasonk,which it brought to abrilliant close. The V. following was the programme of the performance:- Overture (Athalie) . I.. ATMendelssohn, it Air, Dies Btilducss ro oabrd oiic )lDlc Zauberttitte) Hlerr Wachtel (Irsia Vi. A enci) ?? it Concerto in ...

... :Eer 3VEajesty'8.-Although yesterday week the Trovatore was given for the third time, its attractivenees has not, apparently diminished, despite the regrettable absence of Signor Giapgliai, en absence, however, which is only temporary. Unfortonate, on one side, Mr. Mapleson may thank his lucky stars on the other, in providing him with a worthy substitute in the person of Signor Naudin, from ...

... ,~HIS ,ENATIONAL : EXrnBLT'ION.: Anolkoni be added to the calendar ofred-etter, diys at t.xit1o,. 'As ea i:as elevebno'eloek 10 957 v*eistorshad entreze building; by the 0'oioA ti he number had risen-'to. 42,602; and when the retuns to five o'clock were re- ceivedi it was found that the total attendance amounted to 48,326; of whom 2,563 were admitted by seson tickets, wrilab 45,663 paid at ...

... L I rs, 's POSaT-oY5Cn GrIDE TO Loyrjoor 1tr THE YEAR 1862. Kelly and Co., Boswell-court, St. Clement's. The Messrs. Kelly, so long and favourably associated with the geat Metropolitan Post-Office Directory, have just issued in the above work a book that, in its use and information, is likely, if not to rival, to command as universal a satisfaction as the great mercantile end domestic work ...

... I The Exhibition has now got to that point of its B existence where it requires no aid from injudicious I friends. To a certain extent, it may now be left c to run alone. It is true that the figures of Wed. c nesday have not reached the figures of Tuesday, any d more than the figures of Tuesday, June 24, 1862, reached the numbers of the corresponding day in c 1851. Those who know what the ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER, Convent Life in Italy. By Algernon Taylor. Skeet. The form of this book, and something perhaps of the spirit in which itq is written, carry us back to medieval times, when the traveller found his warmest welcome at the ever-recurring monastery instead of at the infrequent inn. Hospitality was an essentially monastic principle, and to judge by the welcome which Mr ...

... M I - Too OXVORD MUsIC HALL.-Looking, in at this fb ou0 place of aemueeent the other evening, we found the Grand Hail filled to repletion, very many of those present evidently being fi country cousins, whilst others were equall y a ein foreigners, all of whom appeared to thoroughly enjoy the entertain. ments presented with uncommon zest. Full as tile Oxford alwey' is, we have rarely seen ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GABDEN. La Traviata, about the lmost indifferent of Verdi's works, and one of the most objectionable, whether in plot or detail, ever written by any author, was produced on: Monday night for the purpose of presenting Madlle. Patti! to a London audience, for the first time this season, in the character of Violetta Valery. In this character Madile. Piccolomini made ...

... On Saturday evening, an event of a rather unusual character took plaee at the People's School, Briarley-street, being the performance of a eacrea Drama, entitled Yaboeh's Vineyard, written by DMr Wililam Moore, Stcsk'e. lane, Stalybridge. The Drama is founded ?? the 2Ist chapter of the let Book of Kings It is divided into Five Acts, and opnes with a Scene res presenting Naboth (John Stephenson ...

... POLIO &UBE~ME e f the 'eSaustir Oq''Abble (the Ihte She jO w Thetheaneelsewher)abe real whlb, of V~cicae I nothing either novel or V artlina gurre°~ ~ ,,i ?? r byctrlid. hebit thea treis sssr allI byte xbibitlen; perhaps the Seor l058 pro it fl~d Prince9e%, more than any Or10rcbet, rod LsYerDb d D)undrelry is the great attrae- ;Y gr Shte ?? O' Day, which so completely °'?shfiret tt ?? after ...

... BALMORAL, MAY 30.-The Queen drove out yesterday on the Bslster read, accom~panied by Princess Beatrice. Lady Augusta Bruce was in attendance. MAY^ 31.-The Qaeen, drove and walked yesterday, accompanied by Prjrc5Ss Alice. JvH 1.-The Queen, with Princess Helena, attended by the DnclO555 of -Athole, drove aut yesterday. Return of the Court to Windsor Castle. WINDSOR CASTLE, Juir 3.-Her Majesty ...

... FOREIGN DRAMATIC INTELI..LIGENCE. (WRITTEN EXPRSSLa'Y Yous THR ERA.) Wallb, we are told, have ears, and so we may infer that the private boxes of Tteatres are not devoid of those useful appendages. Now ears are not, in general, very far removed from mouths, however long the former may be, and thus certain political conversations which passed in the Royal box of the Theatre of Como have found ...