... Xiss NARY FISHER'S Soiree Musicale. bliss Mary Fisher gave her first soiree musicale at the Camden Athensaum on Thursday evening last, when we were glad to see a large and appreciative audience. The young lady's abilities are of no ordinary character, and her selection of music was of itself a proof of refined and cultivated taste, and not a little wholesome ambition. Beethoven's lovely ...

... ALS, (FP.O.M OURi OWN IJctitSpoNDRNTrs.) ABERDEEN. TInEATiiE RoYAL.-(Lossec, Mir Edward Price.)-Oii Monday last Miss Mlarriott cemmenced a sisnights' engagemnent at this Theatre by appear- lag as the heroine In the sensatioanl Scottish drama .Jeanie Deansa. Thu lost time Miss Marriott was engaged to appear here the playgoing public svere disappointed at not seeing Miss Marriott, as en the ...

... There are a certain f'ew operas which above all others serve the purposes of scenic display and stage effect, generally speaking. Whatever our taste may be in musical matters, we yield to no other European capital as regards putting operas on the stage. Meyerbeer's works, especially, demand liberal treatment in this respect, They are all inore or less apectacular, and large bodies of ...

... OPERA COXIQUE. This handsome edifice was again opened last Saturday evening, for the benefit of Miss Caroline Dnverr ay, who had secured the assistance of several ladies and gentlemen of eminence in the theatrical world. The entertainment was originally announced to take place on the 22d ult., but for some reason known best to those immediately concerned, was postponed, Postponements as a rule ...

... pirst Surrey Bifles Dramatic Club. The history ot the amateur performances given by the members of this Club reveals an almost unbroken chain of successes. Drill is evidently as good in things dramatic as in things military, and the 1st Surrey Amateurs are undoubtedly the best disciplined of any whose acquaintance we have made. Tedious waits are not tolerated by themn, and punctuality ...

... Dr. Charles Mathews's Farewell Benefit in New YorkI* On Saturday evening, the 1st of June, Wallack's Theatre vwas crowded by a fashionable audience, assembled to mark their appreciation of Mr. Mathews's great talents. The piece selectedfor presentation was Byron's comedy Not Soc/c a Fool as He Looks. The reception accorded to Mr. Mathews was remarkably cordial, and at the close of the ...

... ROYAL VISIT TO BETHNAL-UREEN. Monday was indeed a gala day at the East-end of London, for on that day their Royal Highuosses the Prince and Princess of Wales formally opened the new Bethral-green Branch of the South Ken- sington Museum of Science and Art. The inhabitants of the East are not often favoured by a visit from Royalty, and on this occasion they determined to make the best of it, and ...

... Dir. J. L. TOOLE in Edinburgh. The Edinbt urgh Daily Resieu, December 3d, 1S72, says:- Last night this famous comedian commenced a six Fights' engagement at the Theatre Royal, appearing to a crowded house In Paul Pry and the new serio-comic drama Off the Line. Paul Pry is a comedy of the old school, which keeps the stage, despite a very involved and uninteresting plot, through the excellence ...

... CURIOJS EPITAPHS.-No. II. (Ro'o A CORRZSPONDbENT.) 1. In St Dunstan's Churchyard, Stepney, Lon- don- Here lies the body of Daniel Satl, Spittaiflelds Weaver-and that's all. 2. In Chester Cathedral Grafeyard, on a woman named Catherine Gray, who had kept a potter's shop in the town- Beneath this stone Iles the old Catherine Gray, Changed from a busy life to lifeless clay By earth and clay she ...

... PRINCE'S THBATR. The Lake-road Theatre, the name of which has been changed from The Royal Albert to The Prinee's, was re-opened on Saturday evening. Since the theatre has been closed thewvhole of the interior has been remodelled and well decorated, the building work having been executed by Mr. H. Lawrence, of Commnercirl-road, and the decorations by r. G. B. Wilson, the scenic artist from ...

... Mr. Ja.cs 1;uasell, of tite High-street, gaivoe - grand concert in the Corti Exchange on Monday evening last, on which oce iion the following distinguished performers took part in it .- ?? S&Ldtloy, Mladarne Florence Lanci4, Diss .Cnfferatnl, Mi- Eluriquez, Mr. Edward Lloyd, Mtr. MLay- -brick, M. Sceinton, and Mr. Lindsay Sloper. The pro- graname was as follows:- PAIl 1. Trio, .xEcrlsiar. ?? ...

... THE FRENCH PLA YS. M. RAPHAEL FELIX, the manager of the French plays at the St. James's' Theatre, laudably anxious to vary his entertainments as much as possible,. lest perchance his patrons should suffer from a surfeit of comedies andc vaudevilles, has now produced Les Pauvres de Paris, the lengthy and,. elaborate melodrama in seven acts, written by MIM. Edouard Brisebarre: and Eugene Nus, ...