... PUBICJ AMUSEMENTS, The week has been a complete blank in the thea- trical world, but the autumn season will commence on Saturday next, when the Lyceum re-opens with The 0orsican Brothers, and a new opera is to be pro- duced at theStrand. Notwithltanding the continue of summer weather, the houses that have remained open have done good business. The Prince and Princess of Wales. accompanied by ...

... PuBLIC AMUSEMENTS, MAIRYLEBOINEi THEATIUE. Mr. Albert West's popularity was Once mtorel i proved ou the occasion of his benefit on Wed' n v ' se'nnight, when the krouse was filled is every t? The performance commnenced with the P I'1; drama of Th lre ts,, l Orphans, the production S t trc- had been personally superintenroed by - Henry Neville. Misses Lizzie R1ow e nd A. Goward acted capitally ...

... (From our Special Sunday edition of last week.) At the Alexandra palace on Saturday a rose show of unparalleled extent tooni place. Amongst the many novel ideas which have been carried out by Mr. Willing, aided by his spirited manager, Mr. W. H. Jones, none have been so daring as the notion to hold a rose show for an entire week. Many horticulturists declared it was not possible to have such a ...

... EASTER AMUSEMENTS, THE BANK HOLIDAY, hi Tbh fine weather on Monday led to an increase of gr visitors at most places of out-door resort, About gr 56,000 passengers were carried by the Great Eastern ns railway, the largest number alighting in the neigh- do bourhood of Epping forest. The South-Eastern TI took twice as many people to Gravesend as they did wi on Whit-MondaY last year. Other ...

... I I O-F-- OLYMPIC THEATRE. An old French vaudeville has furnrished Mr. Reece with the foundation of a lively farcical comedy called My Enemiy, the dramatic effect of which is in a great measure deneudent upon snudry familiar state expedients, but proves, nevertheless, very amdsing. My Enemy is the terum applied to au individual known only by name to Mesenimus Omen, but whose existence has ...

... PUBLIC AIMUSEMENTS, THE THEATRES. Although the excitem6elt over the elections has somewhat affected the ?? of the theatres, the majority of the houses have been doing fairly with their Easter programsoes. The ifercehanl of Venice reached its 150th light at the Lyceum on Friday, and shows no sign of having exhausted its high popularity. At the Royalty the farcical comedy of T'enulis and the ...

... HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS - BENJAMIN'S BREAKING UP. Still! nigb unto death, was Stephen's Hall, A dozen scholars scarce in call, when on the listless ear did fall The fell word-Dissolution. I It was as though a thunder-roll From Jupiter had thrilled the soul, Or knell of Time commenced to toll- That weird word- DissolutiOn I Swift as an arrow on the wing Confusion seized on everything, And ...

... PUBLIC Messrs. James and Thorne 4 pedient to withdraw the ?? Se d it e , crebe, and pending thestru te they have revived the late M tr °1 ...

... M A T U R E. s5P1521,BhL' MAGAZINES. 'The silly snol has not yet opened upon the ;t~i liers ofthe couintry - the September 5 p~1taenally good. Curiously c~qicgi. e nd rea slcclitityof ubect in the ~ ~5~odicam Forinstace, i Oemnhil there an atice en' Te Semy ide f ttters ; in ?? hanaccun ?? a j~sdrd ~er5 Ao;' hileDr. ichardson's plcle~P'Y f Fstng,u th fivfsn0'o, is SPPM' ,U e hmaazntw fn es ...

... .,o -T I :,FBISr~~t' A-;fJ, 4oRT yeas. 1' o'l&day -m30el ri-i . rave ?? t11 eactej'rcY for1e 5I0! .-nu cc-. it the; c -'i'par c4-. Weaia ?? te e ottds force the pct'-. of the d ?? so d at thi - ec hta tnubers iv t-t' ,arne Vhaeb ii vc sitrll One ft-%~risc- ~E. ~eat Qv- ao coig 0'at ?? tilh, to oem oarwi_ - the ?? c' llv Nvel1 joftIniEJoiC'V ' ?? p'),nl *w yre ei-- 6005.1' sA -iolie Bitt. ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, - - -- -- ALEXANDRA PALACE. Another party of American entertainers, known as the Salsbury Troubadours, has appeared here in a merry little sketch, entitled The BPicas/. The fun is of the old-fashioned practical order, but as the five performers enter into the humours of a picnic with what may be truly called rollicking spirit, their efforts afford considerable amusement. It ...

... WIERATURE. pRECENT teJuTION. richrd Ds~ii~~ld vole. Tinsley Brothers, st~icrb IiiestN-iset i d gives apeevidence that ,rall ,wr5 ?? b3 no means sWaling. Hisi hisl reI1 * oss~ In!mres as ever, and j~~ecaism 5'O~lieSwhit less attractive. The si e before us consist of a number of mre o les shrt storses, collected nuder one aisaethoroughily distinctive, and e~s~. l~s2Q s agemin its way. The first ...