... N~ ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.--There is not much to say about Mr. Gye's opening night. The opera selected was Rossini's Cuillanme Tell, the characters in which were sustained, with no exception of any moment, by the same artists to whom they were assigned on a similar occasion last season. M. Maurel, as the Sowiss patriot, exhibited marked improvement. His hand- some person and dignified bearing fit ...

... THE OERA LINDA BOOK * Is it more difficult to believe, asks Mr. Sandbach with some triumph;. that a clever woman became a lawgiver at Athens than that a goddess. sprang, full grown and armed, from the head of Jupiter? One is a little astounded by such a question as this. It would seem: to imply that Mr. Sandbach has been in the habit of meeting. people who believe in Jupiter, and who ...

... MfR. RYDER and MISS HEATECOTE IN LEICESTER AND HANLEY. The experienced and accomplished tragedian Mr J. Ryder anti Miss Heathcote, a young lady of promise, are this week fulfillirsg a six sights engagement at our Theatre. On Monday evening they appeared in Maacbefh, Mr Ryder taking the title-character and Miss Heatlhcote that of Lady Macbeth. Ir iyder gave an intelligent and well-studied ...

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... LIT ERARY AND ART GOSSIP. Messrs. Hurst and Blaekett will shortly publish a novel, Ia entitled Linked Lives, from the pen of Lady Gertrude an Douglas. 1P The National Exhibition announced to be held this year a at Naples is postponed, and will not take place until May t' let, 1877. i it The annual dinner, in aid of the Artists' General Beore- a volent Institution, will take place on ...

... I - VARI E' I ES. w; It AnvicC To AsPIRANTS.-If von go in for a Spelling Bee, T and are brought down at the first shot, mind not to be e' ?? s d le Nrw Foitm OF FoOT-AND-MIOUTHr DIsEAsE.-Skating d Rinks and Spelling Bees.-Jandy. r. Sr. PATREIC's D.,Y.-Cardinal Manning addressed a letter to his dock with reference to keeping the festival of d St. Patrick's Day, which stated that an indulgence ...

... YAbBION AND VABIETIES. THE COURT. Marlborough House, Saturday. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, accom- panied by the Royal children, left Marlborough House i todday for Sandriugham. In attendance were Mies Knollys, General the Right Non Sir W Knollys, Ur Hoisan, and Mr Dalton. Sandringham, Saturday. HerRoyal Highnesn the Princess of Wales, with Princes AlbortVictor and George and the ...

... . MUSICAL DICTIONARY. * DR. STAINER and Mr. Barrett, in a well-considered preface, point out some of the difficulties which must of necessity attend the compilation of a musical dictionary. There is a danger on the one hand of incom- pleteness; on the other, if everything relating to music be included in the volume, of positive unwieldiness. Everything is connected with every- thing else; and ...

... THE performances at the Royal Italian Opera follow without resembling one another. So extensive is the repertory, so numerous the company, that each night for the first ten or twelve weeks of the season might have its own particular representation allotted to it without the same work being given more than once. Doubtless the forty-six or forty-eight operas, more or less ready for presentation, ...

... a, The annual stallion show in connection with n I the Durham County Agricnltural Society wvasts A heal yesterday, in the Oveanl Staud Euclosure of tb e the Durham Race Course. There was a numerous by attendance. The sum of £25 was offered by the ag d Society for the best thorough-bred and cart th e stallion. There were thoet entries for the thorough-breds, and nine for the cart stallions. E ...

... 0 REMEMBER MEli Translated from ALFRED DE MUSrET'S Raffelle-toe. 1. Remember me, when opas the tlmid dawn Her glorious palace to the golden sun: Remember me, when pensive night has drawn Her silver veil of dreamy beauty on. At pleaeare's call whon palpitates thy breast, At ight, when shadewov woo thee with their rest, List I how the silent glades This murmuring phrese pervades- Remember ...

... - THE THEA TIRES. THE ROYAL-~AFTER D K. one r- Mr Boucicault is seen 7)at his beti irms dina like 1The Shaughraurn. He. is ounch 'less disq in happy in pieces like Aftet Dark; a Tale of& le 5f London Life,1 which was produced on nwia Dr Monday, rind Was repeated last night with a fair amount of success. The mathrial of the tr g, work is' 'common, and for the rniost part commion- 'deal ar ...