... ?? MESSRS. WEEKES AND Co.--The clever young composer Louis N. Parker, ?? has taken a bold flight, and not without a due amount of success, in setting to music a poetical Idyl called Silvia, by Sewa ...

... PUBLIC A.MUSEMENTS. IMPERIAL ¶TIHEATRE. The enthusiastic Dutchman, who, in admiration of his native language, once wrote a book to endea- vour to prove that high Dutch was the language spoken by our first parents in the Garden of Eden, would have rejoiced at witnessing Monday's performance at the Imperial. A complete dramatic company had been transferred from Rotterdam, and appeared in a ...

... PUBIJC AMUSEXENTS. DUTCH PLAYS AT THE IMPERIA. We have seldom felt more interested in any dramatic ?? tha Vwith that wewitnessed on Mouday night At the Imperial, under except.oral and not altogether xdvantageous circumstances. There was a small, but what in fashionable phraseology is termed a select, iudience present, composed of the upper crust of the Diutch residents in England, and a ...

... Miss Eleanor Bufton (Mrs Arthur Swanborough) has been the victim of one of those outrages which occasionally occur in Liverpool and other large towns, and illustrate the perils of the streets. Miss Bufton is a prominent member of Mr Chas Wyndham's company, now playing at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, in the town named, and fills the role of Mrs Birkett, in Betsy. On Friday night, 4th inst., ...

... FRA NCZS DEA K. * THERE is a certain propriety in the fact that the first formal biography that is something more than brochure, panegyric, or newspaper article of the Hurgarian statesman Francis Deak appears in England from an English pen. Various historical causes which have often been referred to have produced striking and real analogies between English and Hungarian constitutionalism ...

... ?? ?? - 1 - - - - / I. As a periodical written for a class of readers who look for some- thing solid in its pages, the Fortnightly fully maintains its reputation for sound literature ; the well-known ...

... Fully aware that the rules and regulations laid down by both ?? and professionals for the proper guidance of their Itrosis are occasionally set at defiance, it was with no small lniiriit of trepidation we last Saturday attended the final per- finnarce of the season by the Strolling Plryers, at St. 1,.urge's Hall, for our card of admission bore in juxtaposition tie ?? Evening dress not ...

... Chamber Concert at Steinway HalL The Second Chamber Concert given by MM Musin and Saint-Sadns took place on Thursday afternoon, when the first item performed was a Trio in F for Pianoforte, Violin, and Violoncello, a composition of an effective and brilliant cha- racter. The trio is in four movements, and contains some original and novel passages, but it was the andante that appeared to afford ...

... (FROsI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) JUNE 3.-In order to give the Belgian drama its due place in the fetes that are being organised in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of national independence, the Minister of the Interior has appointed a Committee for choosing such Belgian plays, in the French language-to the exclusion of opera-as shall be most suitable for representation. The six ...

... HIGH CJOUIiT OP JUSTICE. - CHANCERY DIVISION.— 12. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) GREAT EASTERN OLACIARrtIJt COMPANY (LIMITED). This company was incorporated in October, 1877, for the purpose of acquiring licence from M. Pietet use his patent ice-making apparatus in tho Presidency of Bombay. The nominal capital of the company 15,000/., in 16,000 shares 1/. each. About 7,000 ■hares bad been ...

... pledge of good faith. oeg: leave to state that it impossible for to return rejected communications, and to this rulo can make exception. ...

... REVIEWS OF BDKS. TiE.m York-street. - The June number of this cleverly-conducted periodical is a remark- able one. We believe, for 'the first time in the memory of living man, the public is presented with likenesses of those mysterious but mighty personages who occupy the exalted' Position of editors on many of the daily and weekly papers. Amongst these worthies, who probably believed their ...