... ME JOSEPH JEFFVERSON, as all playgoers will be delighted to hear, has made up his mind to renmain in England for another year, and, encouraged by his success the other day, will appear in several important characters in light and eccentric comedy. Mr Jefferson, who, as it is well known, is enamoured of the art of painting, is hard at work on several pictures, which he will submit to the ...

... The twenty-fourth annual exhibition of pictures by conti- nental artists opened on Monday, at the Gallery, 120, Pall-mall, and, although Mr Wallis exhibits less than two hundred works, we can assure our artistic realers that they will find in a visit to the French gallery sources of enjoyment which are some- times soughlt for in vain in galleries where pictures ore hung by the thousaud. The ...

... AMATEURS AT TEE OPERA COMIQUBI. There must be set down among those peculiar mysteries which, in the words of the famous Lord Dandreary, No fellah can understand, the reason why a number of young, able-bodied, and presumably sane men should take advantage of the Saturday half-holiday movement, in bright, genial sum- mer weather, to air their vanity by strutting behind the foot- lights of a ...

... * TURLTUTU AT THE BRITANNIA. The success which has attended this year's Pantomime at Mrs Lane's huge and popular house at Ho-bton is, as Dominic Sampson would have remarked, Prodigioir ! the vast audi- torium being nightly filled to overflow by pleasure-seekers, who laugh and applaud by turns in the most enthusiastic fashion. DIr Frederick Mlarchant, whose name is nssociated with the ...

... FI R ES IN T h1 E ATR ES, The Select Committee appointedt hiquib's into tie ces Music Halls, and other places of public etlt',rtainlte I1 ?? M\letropolis, resumed their investigatioll on Mjonday rctq Sir HL SEI.wVIN InarETSON Under-secretary r flip Department, in the chairt'. ...

... Mlnay letters, for which, unfortunately, space cannot be found, says the Staundard, continue to rench us on the subject of Theatrical Managers and playwrights whose worlcs have not yet been submitted to the world. In these letters, however there seems to be a general forgetfulness of that sage truth which Dr. Johnson so neatly summed up in a couple of linez-- 4, The Drama's laevs the Dniarna's ...

... D E e R Y D R I S a O I. L. (FRON OUR LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENT.) Derry Driscoll; 01', tIC SPec0Sntsoan's Peast, the first of four pieces onl which Liverpudlians were asked to pronounce an opinion on Monday last, when it was produced at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, differs materially from the usual run of Irish dramas, inasmuch as the conventional flourish of the shillelagh, the ...

... AN ITITATOR OF VANCE. At the Assembly Rooms, Clomel, onl Monday night last, theie was ail extriordinary scene not likely to be readily forgotteu by those who witniessed it. Announce- i1euts had been scatteted througlhout the townv that the Great Vaace and his Concert Party would appear, and the popularity and fame of the eminent entertainer sufficed to fill the house to overflow. The ...

... One feature of the English Stage, which is perhalps more prominent than any other, is, not the negative quality of all absence of viciousness in its tendency, but its actual and active instillation by precept and example of those virtues that go to make a, good man and a worthy citizen. We are aware that a few plays of recent date may be quoted in dispute of our' dogma, but these productions, ...

... THE DRAMA ^IN PAPRIs. (nROn OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ) PARIS, THURSDAY. - OPERA. - Thle revivajl of I! Reine de C/typre, which had been postponed from, tee 00>' during the past two months, is the all importatnt oo week. It has been placed 00 the now stage Nitit leveto cence to which Ml. Hallancioirhas accustomied us, anl 510 tion if not Per-fect is sufficiently satisfactory. The' though it has ...

... MISS HELEIN BARRY. Last week wve briefly sketched the professional carecr of tre talented and popular actress, hiss 1ielell Larry, whom we have hblt the rare treat of secing at the Margate Theatre during the past veek in some of her ablest impersonatiOns a career wshich is speciativ remarkable for the extraordinary success which has accompanied it,n31i for the exceptionally short period which ...

... A series of performances of the legitimate dramna bas been given this week at the Victoria Theatre, commencing Ol Monday last with Othellu, in which Don Edgardo Colona dis- played great ability. Onl Taesday Jave Shore was the play, and ol nWednesday Zairga, in which it was stated Don Edgardo Colona appeared for the first time. We were present, and can congratulate the tragedian upon the ...