... A IouSe packed to the ceiling with one of the largest and most brilliant itudienuoi yet assembled in the Theatre Royal greeted the first production here lest night of ?? '-Fidelio. In thu crowded state of ourcolumns to-dlay we can deal but briefly with a performance which will be memorable in the history of local musical art; but, as we gave Rsme slight anticipatory account of the work itself ...

... 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'. ...

... 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 ...

... HER MAJESTN'S THEATRE. Once more the original home of Italian opera in Englaud will be applied to its ?? utses. The echoes of Ales.r. bloody and Sankey's hymns, gratifying as they undoubtedly were to four or five thousand persons at a time, could not be accepted as a perfectly satisfactory substitute for Italian opern It was impossible not to recall the days when Grisi, Alario Rubini, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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... vottrD.- UNTIL THE DAY BREAK. Sleep, my beloved, no more storms shall frigbt thee Nov Ho has whispered peace, Into the realms of joy His love shall light thee, Where Time s fierce tempests cease. No more the tossing and the whirlwind Never the anguish out at sea, But in the quiet of the haven ever Thy peaceful home shall be. His arms enfold thee, In His love eternal Thou shalt for ever rest, ...

... I ,rHfrr-nous WIrTH SOE ENGLISH AnQUiTIES. BY VLEWMLshy JZWrLT. [Hardwicko and Bogue, Piccadilly.] 'This work, which claims to be little else than a mere handbook, may certainly be ranked as a fvaluable introduction to the study of those antiquities of which our soil boasts, The clear ,and always interesting description of Celtio,. Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and British remains is greatly aided by ...

... THE ROMASNCE OF THE STAGE THERE was a time, even within our own remembrance, and we are still some way off sexagenarism, when a wonderful halo of romance surrounded actors and actresses, when youth found it almost impossible to believe that lovely Juliet, passionate Romeo, brilliant Mercutio, and those sylph-like beings with twinkling feet which indeed seemed to be the fairies they ...

... : MAZINS FOBAR.IL.I Picturesque Europe, part 14 tCassell, Petter, aad Galpin, London), deals with the lovely scenery of the Irish coast, and there-is a fine illnstration of the George Inn, Glastioubury, anda a peep through the old gateway atS Chepstow Castle. The work, as a whole, wrell sstaina fits charaeter. The Giobe ncyclopodia, part 16 and 17 (Thomas Jack, Edinburgh), brings us to the ...

... TIIEATRE ROYAL. MR. CARL ROSA'S OPERA COMPANY. Last nii'ht vallace's delightful opera Mlalitfna, the lyric version of that mnost romantic of drannis Don CUwsar de Bazan, wias given with all that excellence of .,esem6le and detail wlbich is the distinguishing character- itic of Mr. Carl Rosa's productions. Ind.ividual assumption toero nay, perchance, be better than ?? of those wit- nessed ...