... f- ~4 Tmr-:- V.E MAR. AN) AIRS. FLORENCE, American performers, who have, we believe, not been in England since 1856, when they performed at l)ruy Lane Iheatre in The Yankee Houseketer, made their first appearance at the GAIETY on Monday last in a comedy called, after \\ashington Irving's famous phrase, Thle lig,,hty Dollar. This piece, which is of purely American origin, aims at satirising ...

... b - I.: A MIR. Tom TAYLOR'S Still ?? Run DeeCp has not been seen on the London stage since the decease of the late Mr. Alfred Wigan- the original representative of the effective part of John Mild may when this comedy was produced at the Olympic Theatre in 1855. During the lifetime of that gentleman, indeed, a well-understood principle of etiquette, not to speak of the risk of unfavourable com- ...

... I III I I / e) V-1 w P-7- THE ROYAL ACADEMY II. - MR, MILLAIS sends no important figure composition, and no landscape, but as a portrait painter he is seen to the greatest advan- tage in the present Exhibition. Besides being full of individuality, and painted with masterly, but well-restrained power, his six pictures display great variety of style, the treatment in each being exactly suited to ...

... .1 IFO1 - TuE long-announced series of French performances for thepresent season commenced at the GAIETY Theatre on Monday evening, when Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt appeared once more upon the stage where last year she received so enthusiastic a welcome. Careful observers of the indications of public feeling have declared that the friendly manifestations of the audience exhibited less warmth than ...

... At the third ordinary meeting of the sessions, in the rooms of the Institute, Conduit-street, last night, Mr. J. Whichcord, F.S.A., president, occupied the chair, and a paper was read by Mr. William Simpson ou Buddhist Architecture in Jellalabad Valley. Standing out prominently among the points arrived at was the fact of a Greek influence having filtered through the Bactriaa provinces to the ...

... John Wingfield, So, a chaff-cuttor, 8, Parkmewsj Kiibuni, was brought before Mr. Rutzep, the Marvlebone Police-courtyesterday, on the ohargeof murdering bis wile in Denmark-road, the ult. The prisoner had been originally charged with attempted murder only, but. since he was remanded tbe woman had died. The coroner for Central Middlesex has opened inquiry, which stands adjourned. The prisoner ...

... (Fp.om Lloyd's. Mat 10. SPEAKINGS Mary I.i/.zie, arrived at St. John's, F., April 23, from Cardiff, reports 14lli inst., iu l.it. -16 N. W., saw a schooner apparently distress ; boie down u).d found her be the Sterling, schooner, Brixliaiu, froia Lmdon for St. John's, days out, had heavy weather; was much damaged l short provisions. succeeded getting a boat out and !»r witli provisions. The ...

... GUILDHALL. Poh-rt Phort, who r. ins address, was before Alderman Stone with attempting to pocket No. VV'aiisoy-street, Wal worth road.—Clement ueo weil, foreman porter l.uduatehtll the London, liatham, and Dover Railway, said about'.) o'clock the previous saw the prisoner on the platform, aim at' bed him for about half hour. Several trains came uu, and pretended to try and net into aud then ...

... to murder hi* wife and four children *arly on Sunday morning last. Cowans is a middle-aged man, and has resided in Haswell about nine years. Five years ago, whilst labouring under a fit of insanity, out his throat so badly that his life was for a considerable time despaired of. He has now family of four children, the eldest of whom, a girl, about eight years of age, and the youngest, boy, is ...

... THE CORSICAN BROTHERS AT THE LYCEUM. Once more melodrama reigns supreme at the Lyceum, and Dumas, adapted by Boucicault, succeeds Shakespeare. The Corsican Brothers has so long been a stock piece that most people have forgotten its origin and history. The story of Les Fr&res Corses was written by the late Alexandre Dumas, turned into a play by two French authors, and produced at the ...

... telegraphs, under date April 19 —Expect navigation open ie about twelve days. ...

... the ordinary prolamine mil be carried out, be missed by flic afternoon visitors the Egyptian Hal!, the hardwork entailed the carrying out of .vo performances day having length told upon Mr. constitution. the advice of lies physicians lias now relinquished bis twelve weekly appearances, and until recovered from his present indisposition, live performances v.ill undertaken by *11 err Adalbert ...