... I T MEAT RES BY what process of reasoning Mr. Albery has arrived at the conclusion that the dissatisfaction expressed by the audience of the VAUDEVILLE Theatre on Saturday evening proceeded solely fro ...

... L j, i 1 t, r r 1* 1 r- T _A' W. CZERNY.-- A narrative song, written and composed by Frank L. Moir, which deserves a good place in a ballad concert programme, is The Lighthouse. Both words and musi ...

... . THE lady who makes of her beauty a sort of saleable com modity, whose husband thrives upon her good looks, and whose place in society depends upon her features, affords a fair subject for satire of the simple-minded and obvious order. Since satirical attack brings with it notoriety, if not fame for its object, the professional beauty will probably be well pleased that she has cut by Mrs. ...

... . ABOUT Mr. Albery's new comedy, foolishly entitled Jacks and Jills, the less that is said the better. It seems, indeed, by no means improbable that the unfortunate piece may be removed from the programme before this notice appears in print, unless the extent of the failure be relied upon by the management as a possible attraction to a curious public. Good taste is not generally a prevailing ...

... ROYAL ALIIAMBRA. A NEW ballet, entitled Fiona, was produced on Tuesday last at the Royal Alhambra Theatre, with original music expressly composed by Signor Fabio Campana. He has leng been renowned for fertility of melody, and while his reputation in this respect is sustained by the abundance of graceful and elegant melodies to be found in the score of Diona, he has also shown himself to be ...

... JyIusic) ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- Hackneyed as I Puritani must seem to old opera-goers, the melodies of Bellini retain almost their pristine charm, and while an Elvira like Madame Albani can be found to ...

... IN HER MAJESTY'S KEEPING, by the Honourable Lewis Wingfield (Bentley).-- Within the last few months we have been favoured with more than one book treating of Convict Life, and all its unsavoury conc ...

... . THE production of Frou-Frou, a comedy in which Mme. Sarah Bernhardt's first appearance would have been regarded with at least as much interest in Paris as it was in London on Monday last, is likely to be the great success of the present season of French plays at the Gaiety. Opinions may, and probably will, differ as to the precise suitability of the role so perfectly interpreted ten years ...

... . THE three recent additions to the repertory of the season at Covent Garden are Meyerbeer;s Dinorah and Les Huguenots, and Bellini's I Puritani. In the first-named opera Mme. Adelina Patti repeated her familiar successes in a part which is eminently calculated to display her remarkable histrionic and vocal abilities to advantage. Her success was. brilliant, and another success was made by M. ...

... . THE most important event of the current season at Her Majesty's Opera took place last Saturday, when Herr Richard Wagner's Lohengrin was produced, under the direction of the eminent conductor of the Imperial Opera, Vienna, Herr Hans Richter. It is needless to expatiate on the merits of this gentleman's conducting, to which we heartily testify, while venturing to doubt whether his eulogists ...

... . THE IRRATIONALS gave their second performance this season on Wednesday afternoon, the 2nd inst., at the Olympic Theatre, in aid of a charity, but what charity was not stated. The audience was a fairly good one, but, at the same time, a very undemonstrative one. The first piece was Mr. Gilbert's Sweet hearts, in the first act of which both the leading characters made a sad mistake in ...

... . THE seventeenth Metropolitan Horse Show was opened at Islington on Saturday, when, if the total of entries was slightly less than on some previous occasions, the quality of the exhibits, as a whole, was certainly above the average. The hunters' classes were particularly strong and numerous, no less than 100 animals had been entered for competition in this section alone; the park hacks, ...