... * ?? ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-Auber's always fresh and radiant Era Diavolo, which seems to grow younger and younger as it advances in years-especially since the composer himself remodelled and enlarged it, for the Italian version at Covent Garden, with accompanied recitative in lieu of dialogue-is never unwelcome. There is not a single number in this opera that wvears the impress of time. It might ...

... r---11- TIIEAT~E ALTHOUGH Easter Monday has, like Boxing Night, lost some- thing of its importance in the theatrical calendar, Easter is still a time of exceptional effort among managers, and it happens that this Easter has been more than usually productive of new pieces. The great dramatic event of the last few days is, of course, the first performance of Mr. Tennyson's Queen Afamy, which ...

... IFASHION AND VARIETIBS. THE COURT. Duke of Edinburgh Palace, Cobirg, April 19. Yesterday afternoon hlis Imperial Majesty til l'iaps- ror of Gerftany, with his Imperial and lti yall ilighuesf the Crown Prince, visited her MaSjesty. The Queen re. relved his Imperial MAjesty at the entranee ?? The Emperor, the Crown Prince and Princess rJ 0, rmalny, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, Prner ...

... II Tsz isburn ?? Show Society held their second annu cshow on Thursday, in the Grairaket, Uis- bun The weather, though at times somewhat threatening, Wa very favourable, and the show during the day was visited by large numbers. The arrangementstconsidering the ground at the dis- psl of the committee, were all that could be desired. There were in all about two hundred entries-a alight falling ...

... In ;Pottrp. -- LAYS O THE MONTHS. APRIL . WELCOME, April ! radiant smiler, Hope infuser, care beguiler Well thus burting fromn the South, Likesuddeu smnile round Beauty's n;outb, Well thyself thou bLazonest, Looking as becomes thee best. Sense of the surpassing fair Is about uS everywhere: At our feet in carpet new, Overhead in seas of blue; At our side in hedges seen, Coloured with the tender ...

... -arbbcni -E-i Derbynlw4d Pefillion D1ai Amo4l Bat o6aath plant y' POh- DG. WiWiz, Taisarnau.; '-lllzabeth Aue a g an Alata Eegiynion i'r BrialhYai .1s W.; Babsne Eaban Wliaes,. gao 2'. Wadroaa.2vf*; Oat am RandeT Jde *'azi Iconz Din- Gag 'ozilant y greadigactb, ga 4nthrorna;,. P~riod.- gerdd gab Ih-r-n; Yr Haurl,' gia 11, 17homas (GIan Wylta). --., IMSON Y DUWIOLYPRYDIG. Diayn i kawr ...

... LITERA TURE. ;rueri'ntand ta e l oarding-ow bf Pauper, I' ~~~Children.. c vwi on thie subject of paurperism which I- ,em the pen of an intelligent writer, who it hi special study, must command I ;.i ieatt3 In this case our interest is not D, -'crc sen by the fact that Mr Skelton 'ii eiu 5Tht office of Secretary to the Peeor la Board. The present work is -lere o. bat it derives anditional ...

... Fosra AND VERSZ e Francls Armstrong, M.A., Pro- o flr . stovry and Enuglish Literature in the p ?i coEtllege, C~ork, Queen's Urniversity in I,5g; hC~ s ?? poeticgift, of the sub- .ps;hare gold, wfhich he uses iD ian mdc'e bt ,eoflann~er He has thoughts of his C ieflt~ a 3 style 'of his own, which | ?? herd of imitators untoI foriginality. These me, s art !I ?? published volumes, Poems, -bl ...

... SIGNOR ROSSI AT DRURY LNE. Mr. H. C. Lewes lately administered a severe rebuke to all hasty critics of great performances when he excused himself from expressing an opinion about Signor Salvini's acting be- cause he had seen him only some ten or twelve times, and another reason for remarking on Signor ?? Hamlet with reserve is to be found in the fact that, as was announced at the end of the ...

... CONCERNING Mr. Tennyson's new play, a correspondent writes thus:- The reports of the first night of Queen ifai y at the Lyceum will convey to the world a fair impression of the kind of success which was achieved. Whether it was, in Mr. Irving's words, a 'confirmed success,' will be shown in subsequent Iepresenta- tions. A literary audience received it well, partly in honour of the illustrious ...

... ?? ..E IN the two handsome folios entitled Three Hundred French Poitraits by Clouet at Castle Howard (S. Low and Co., London ; Iachette antd Co., Paris), Lord Ronald Gower, to shlom we oere indebted the other day for the fac-similes of the Lenoir Gallery, gives us now, reproduced by the same auto- lithographic process of Messrs. Maclure and Macdonald, one of the most interesting ...

... The Marquis sand Marchioneas of Salisbury and family have left London for Hatfield, for the re- mainder of the holidays. The Earl of Wilton's friends will be glad to learn that his lordship is fast regaining strength. The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough and famil are shortly expected in London from Swith- land U , Mount Sorrel, for the season. The Earl of Wicklow has arrived at Shelton ...