... THIE LONDON MUSIC HALLS. SOUTH LONDON PALACE-The enterprising Proprietors of this famous transpontine house continue to cater wits a liberal hand for the delectation of their many patrons, and certainly well merit the success which continues to attend their efforts. Novelty succeeds novelty, the place always boasts of a strong company, and ballet is invariably in the ascendant. Indeed, the ...

... 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 ...

... PUBLIC AXUSEMENTl COYVENT GARDEN. To sturs a continuance of publi ?? e ia ocnsta variety in the trogramme in provided-sch a variety as new pieces and new singers tend to bring about. In the val portion of the concert on Tuesday night Madame Fanny }nddart, B well known contralto singer, with Mr. Pearson, af young tenor, together with Maolle. Rafiellb Franichino, contributed an important share. ...

... REVIEWS Ot BODOK MAYFAIR. ?? and Hebron, Welback-8trmt-- We fail to perceive any special feature in this newly started shilling magazine calculated to establish it as a p1,,pular favourite. The atories urc milk-and-watet ?? the poetry may possibly tirikle the ears of a romantic school-girl, but, ?? as a whole, we fear the contents snust be p.ti'ounced,3 trasily, and below the atat rd of mosl, ...

... 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 ...

... PROMENADE CONCERTS, COVENT-GARtB Nearly every night there is a change of prograt e atI Promenlade Concerts. One eveneing is devoted to classical music, Mozart, Mfendelssohln, Haydn, and Beethoven are in the aece' cccl Then, &s variety is charming hi music as is everytlhinig else, the int ef lighter musical fare are amply supplied, and popular SOngS, lgo c sic, operatic selections, and ...

... [The following appeared in owu TowN EDmiON of La8t 'Week.) WVe sometimes hear sad complaints of the unfairness and unkindness of first-night criticism. The artists are so nervous, the effects miss fire, dresses are occasionally not ready, and unless the rehearsals are admirable few have opportunity to feel themselves in the characters they intend to portray. But then on the other hand there ...

... THE LEEDS MUSFAL rESTIVAL. c'BOIS OUR CaloswDsVl.) qu 'LEEDS, tsDeY. lai The weather was exceedingly unfavourable this T1 morning up to the time of the openilg of tbe deoors of the be Festival Hal, and it was conseqoently apprehended that la, the unreserved seats, upon whioh the committee depended be for an additional source of income, would yield but a dii small return. The sun, however, ...

... SOB$ FROM THE CONIO JOURNALS. rprom Puna~.] ANc ltowae ougs Orria-In the Mmcesfer s uar. dame we are apprised that : A clergyman vwants to borrow £50 or more for two years; no security, but high interest. Address, &a., &. ' He must be a hopeful mnn who advertises for a loan on th, se terms. Doesn't he wnsh he may get it P' Sach is the comment suggested by the above announcement. Are there ...

... HALLS BY TIIE SEA. Wheee the dismal intelligence arrives in London of the departure home of the last Mdargate boat; when it is bleak and cold upon the famous jetty and terribly gusty upon the Fort; when no one dreams of walking along the cliff towards Kings- gKate, or of venturing far from the hotel door, we may make up our minds that the summer is over and the seaside season at an end. But ...

... (PoiPO OUR OWN uoiueEaroNDlNT.) PARIS, TurrsDiY.-FiLLENCii Ol1?SRA.-Tre thcatriuir events of the week have been almost entirely devoid of interest, and we are still condemned to rematin without novelties. BMadlami Adelina Patti haS again appeared as Valelltille iln Thie Jcl1ynenOts, the little house being, of coursc, filled to repletion, but tre genoral verdict was only a ropetition of that ...

... IEVIEWS OF BOORS. SEN-rIMENTS ON GENTLEMANiLY MANNERS. By B. S. P1iILLIPPO. Patt, Ali pun-street.-MI' Phillippo's preface to this very ably written and truthful disquisitioa on gentlemen and gentle- manly manners opens thus-,s It is said that a man of honour, on hearing honesty attributed to his fashionable friend, expressed some degree of Surprise and displeasure at the panegyric, and de- ...