... THE NE W PARIS OPERA HOUSE. THis sumptuous and ambitious house, which will be completed within a few weeks, may be presumed to embody the most approved principles of theatrical arrangement. Its designer, M. Gamier, has studied all the newest monuments of the kind in Europe, and by the aid of logical arrangement has contrived to satisfy the demands of a foreign audience. A great national ...

... SHIP AHOY. MR. FENN'S story of Ship Ahoy! has been arranged for representation by Mr. Roberts, and produced as an original nautical drama upon the stage of the Surrey Theatre, long famous for plays dealing with marine life and character. Ship Ahoy, however, is to be distinguished essentially from those entertainments of the past occupied chiefly with the glorifica- tion of the ...

... .PORTRAITS COATEMPORAZNS, B1. THkOPHILE GAUTIER used to say that he had written articles and tales enough to fill some. three hundred volumes, ce qui fait que tout le monde m'appelle paresseux et me demande d quoi je m'occupe. The boast was perhaps almost as much an exaggeration as that other saying about Gavarni, that he might have built a large house with the lithographic stones he had ...

... LJe Journal ?? states that the mixed commission which, since the conclusion of peace between France and Germany, has beea sitting at Strasburg for the purpose of settling the claims arising out of the cession of Alsace-Lorraine, has nearly completed its labours, It has decided the questions as to the caution-money which had been deposited with the French Government by persons holding office; ...

... LORD L YTTON'S SPEECHES.i TnE fecurdity and versatility of Lord Lytton's genius hindered daring his lifetime the acknowledgment of his powers in all but the one thing in which his success was incontestable because it was acclaimed by the unleamned and uncritical masses of the reading population in En-land and America. Yet the popular master of fiction would have been pained to think that he ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. THE FRENCH PERMANENT COXIMISSION. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) PARIS, Thursday, 11.30 A.M.-At the meeting of the Permanent Com- wission to-day, M. Alahy will demand the dismissal of the Prefect of Nice on the ground that he has favoured Separatist movements. The Right will put an interpellation to the Government respecting the recall of the OrCoiwqu. In II official circles no ...

... PORTRAITS CONfTEJIPORAINS. * AL THtOPHILE GAUTIER used to say that he had written articles and tales enough to fill some three hundred volumes, ce qui fait que tout le monde m'appelle paresseux et me demande d quoi je m'occupe. The boast was perhaps almost as much an exaggeration as that other saying about Gavarni, that he might have built a large house with the lithographic stones he ...

... THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. The October session of the Central Criminal Court was opened this morning. The calendar contains the names of seventy-one male and fourteen female prisoners for trial. There are two charges of wilful murder-one being the case of Thomas Smith for the murder of Captain Bird at Aldershot, the other is the Newport-maiket case. There are also several cases of ...

... CAEINET PICTURES IN OIL AT THE DUDLEY GALLER Y. THE individual excellence of any gallery of modern English paintings rrust be reckoned apart from a general progress noticeable of late years in the style and method of English painters. On all sides the meaning and uses of art have become better understood. The improvement is not to be loudly spoken of, for it is, in a large view of art, still ...

... .. ?? I -- _. __1 ?? . .E ?? _. __ _ __ _I Tl _ _1_ 1_ At the Highgate police-court this afternoon, Samuel Black, labourer, of Crouch-end, was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, and bail refused, for attempting to murder his wife by cutting her throat on the 3rd uL. The wife gave evidence for the first time. One of our Spanish correspondents writes :-The amount of indemnities ...

... THE ALLEGED FRAUD ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. This afternoon, for the fourth time, the hearing of the charge against Mr. Joseph Aspinall, Mr. Samuel Gurney Fry, Mr. George Parkyns Knocker, Mr. John Saunders Muir, and Mr. Charles Knocker, of having conspired together to defraud members of the Stock Exchange of a large sum of money, was resumed at the Mansion House. The Lord Mayor drew the attention ...

... CITY OFFICE, Change-alley, OoyrnhiX. Tuecsday, Half-past Tteelve. The markets on the Stock Exchange opened with renewed depression, but with little business. Some apprehension as to the probability of money becoming dearer and a want of support to the markets on the part of the public, are the prevailing causes of the depression. The English Rail- way Market is slightly firmer than at the ...