... Mr. Sweasey's Benefit at the Royal Music HEal. The fourth anniversary of the commencement ofMr. J. S. Sweasey's proprietorship of this Hall was celebrated here on Thursday evening. There was a large attendance, the place being filled, although the prices of admission were high. From ten o'clock until the close of the entertainment the chair was occupied by Mr W. Holland, of the Canterbury Hall ...

... ?? THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THlE RongL GENERAL THEATRICAL YUND. (Mls-OtRTIeD ERX'IXL'5SlY FOil TuE ERA.) Under circunistances giving every reason for the warnnjest congratulatiun the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Icotival of this admirable Institution was celebrated on )lonl'y at thle St. James's Hall, Regent-street. 'On jcceding occasions we have had the pleasure of behold- il the Cairmlan a ...

... ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLE- E THE T. P. COOKE ANNIVNERAFLY. The Sixth Annual Banquet, given under the Vill of the late T. P. Cooke to the aged inmates of the Royal Dramatic College, at May- bury., took place, on Monday. last, under the presidency of Mr.. BENJA1155 WasIhiT, the Master. Saturday, the 23d Ap rl, was the day appointed, that day being the anniversary of the birthday of Shakespeare and of ...

... | Niss NEILSON as Julia, in The Hunchback, THE GAIETY THEATRE.-Julia, in The Hunchback, affords no common test of an actress's powers. It is not only that it runs through a whole gamut of conflicting emotions, but that it abounds in long speeches, requiring not only uncommon elocutionary skill to deliver them with effect, but unusual intelligence to speakthem with point, and tous to con- ...

... MIitifxlioira arrangements, ira which these delightful Gardens abound, th p mlst recreation of visitors, are now more fully matured than WI tr, we lhst noticed them. Few Theatres ever have produced so splen- dit a 1:0llet, wilh such a tasteful and elegant mise en scene, or better dlrilecll thian we have here in, the Theatre Royal; Giselle, indeed, If we 'AY Puge triom the way it has nightly ...

... INTERNATIONAL EXUIBITION OF 1871. We have received the official announcement of the first of a series of Annual International Exhibitions of Selected Works of Fine and Industrial Art and Scientific Inventions, which is to be opened next year, under the direction of her MAJTSTY'S Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. The Exhibition is to be open from the let of May to the 50th September ...

... ?? and the Drama. at St. George's Hall. It is pleasant to. witness such an illustration of the existence of amity between different Muses as was presented to view on Wed- nesday evening last at the fashionable place of assembly in Lang- ham-place, where Miss Edith Kingsley as the representative of Enterpe and Miss Marie Somerville who officiated for Thalia gave an entertainment which combined ...

... (FRO31 OUst OWN ColassrONDENT.) NEW YORK, AYr1n 30, 1870. \Vse have had many changes of programme and some refroslifng novelties during the week, and while no great sensations have bee-oni brought forward to dazzl the plic gaze, sil think the adjority 1.. el t c rlnglgfrtues t~garere rued l ?? and very of th le oify-goers are atisfie withn the imes of ve Properly. As I feared, Mr. Fcrhaer's ...

... Miss Rebecca Povwll's Dramatic Readings at the ]anover-square Rooms. Among the multitude of entertainments now-a-days seeking for public patronage that of Dramatic Readings seems to have taken a thoroughly recognised and firmly established position, and, per- haps, no greater compliment could be paid to the intellectual advancement of the age than the statement of the tact that in all ...

... PHILHAXONIC SOCIETY-St. 3ames's Hall. The fourth concert of the PhilharlnOnic Society, given on O on day, was the most important of the series, an the fourth and remaining concerts are always the mos ti the season. Monday's programewaco osdfwrk gvnb snee! desire,'' the concer being hhnoured b y the re oth Peinthe first paid to' the Pbilharmonlic during t~he present season. Te programme ...

... AKERICAN THEATRICALS. (nrain OUt ONYN CORRESPONDmENT) NEW YOIRK, MAY 7, 1870. Ore Monday evening the new drqms, by Alexandre Dumas, entitled Mosquito, was produced at NIBLo's GARDEN, with Miss Lydia Thompson as the heroin?, and a number of prominent actors and actresses in the lesser parts. As thle plot of the play is thoroughly worthy of the author, and as, I believe, the piece is now ...

... COURT -AND F A S H I O B. -i OSBORNE, SUNDAY.-Her Majesty, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service at Whippingham Church this morning. The Rev. J. Prothero preached the sermon. APRIL 25.-The Queen walked and drove this morning, accom- panied by Princess Louise. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. ...