... Where to go is the firest question asked by thousands on Easter Monday, and the response of their friends was in a, great many cases the Crystal Palace for in addition to the I adwtages of a popular resort where wet or dry a host of 'Visitors may find accommodation. It is worth while to compare the results of different years to show how it hag gradually dawned upon the popular mind that ...

... A most disastrous conflagration broke out on Tuesday even- ing at the Thdttre-des-Arts, Rouen, half an hour before the time fxed for the representation of Al. Aiubroise Thomas's opera hlamnlet, and just as the doors were being opened to the public. The calamity was caused by one of the footlights setting lire to the curtain. along which the flames rapidly communicated to theinflaimable ...

... -0a CONCERT AT THE ROYAL AQUARIUM. The weekly concerts at the above institution have hitherto afforded little opportunity for critical comment. It istruethat the list of works performed at them comprises many important orchestral compositions, but these were generally mixed up with other works of such doubtful standing as to somewhat lower the artistic character of the concerts themselves. We ...

... . Social Science and National Economy. By Robert Ellis Thompson, : M.A., Professor of Social Science in the University of Pennsylvania. (Sampson Low and Co.) Professor Thompson says that he has in the publication of the present work a twofold object in view. He desires, first, to furnish a readable * discussion of the subject of which it treats for the use of those who wish to get some ...

... ?? PARLEY MAGNA, by Edward Whitaker, author of Lucy Fitzadam (2 Vols.: Smith and Elder).-In construction 'Parley Magna shows a decided advance upon Lucy Fitzadam, though, perhaps, it hardly ...

... EGYPTIANS. In the Old Testament we're told, With accurate description, How Moses in the days of old Knocked down one fierce Egyptian. But Dizzy, the great modern Jew, Has fairly done him ' brown; He set Egyptians up, it's true, But he knocked Egyptians down. This moral learn, it is not wise Such men as these to follow; For Jews are very prone to lies, And Caves are always hollow! ...

... jCOSTUM EXBITION 4T THE AXX I .I AtMND1 VALLAN!. This exhibition, whiic, as mentioned in the nailV Nta of yesterday, will be open to the pubito thin norwing, and which ia to last for a week, han il point of genetail interest the advantago of being the firet of the kind in this country. Tho Concoct Room h1s boon Eat apart for it, and the cootumos are dloplayd 'on a series of stages or ...

... PROBATE, DIVORCE, AND ADMHIRALTY DI'lISION.-.Aritt 127. (Before the Right Hon. thle PRESIDENT and a Special Jury.) VIANESI v. HENDERSON, OTHERWVISE VIANESL-Sir H. Jacacs, Q.C., the Honi. A. Thesjeer, Q.C., and Mr Pritchard appeared for the petitioner; Mr Sergeant Parry and Air G. Francis for the respondent.. In February, 1848, the respondent, whose father was aL fish hialesmnan at Billingsgate ...

... It is certainly a welcome sign of the times when an actor is openly invited to take part in a discussion started under religious auspices for the furtherance of at philanthropic scheme. The day when Henry Irving was asked to go down o the Shoreditch Town Hall to read a paper before a meeting of clergymen, doctors, barristers, and philanthropists, collected together for the purpose of talking ...

... ?? -- -? HER MAJESTY'S Ot'ERA.--Mr. Mapleson has at length issued his programme for the season, which begins on Satur- day, the 29th inst.-with what entertainment is left to con- jecture. For reasons ...

... ]YERDI'S OPERA ' AID* _~ ~ I The f iht performance in Paris of yerc's gr(nd A perailida tnolo place on Saturday night at- te ille Veutadotur. One of our Paris Correspoen- I fiuts thus 'writes respeocting the ?? a Piusio is al exotic on the banks of 'the s0aRO b uid it requires to be splendidly housed-or it i will not flourish ; sc that it shoulq surprise o nobody to hbar that M. Lion ...

... PUBLIC AXUSEXENTS. At the 'Haymarket, Shakspere's comedy of Measure la Meassure, 'which has not been played in London for 'twenty-five years, is reproduced. Many passages of :rmther too suggestive a nature have been excised, and in vtherways the piece has been curtailed. It is, on the whole, :hirl' acted, but, for all that, we eannot think it win obtain much favour. Miss Neilson looks the ...