... MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Verdi's Forza del Destino was revived here Saturday. The opera was promised in Mr. Mapleson's prospectus of his oil-season in November and December last, but the success of other performances then given caused the postponement of the revival until now. The work was first brought out at St. Petersburg iu 1862, and was produced by Mr. Maplesonin June, 1867, at Her Majesty's ...

... I LITERARY SELECTION&. I - ;~scA. BLUZlEa5.-WO may live and learn. -I remember, fifty years since, or more at one of the Lincoln elections, hearing a man in the crowd say to another, speaking of 'the preceding night, We got drunk as Blaizers.1 I never could make out what he meant. Yesterday I was reading Sir Thomas Wyse's lImpression8 ',of Greece, and, speaking of the reverence for St. ...

... Mr. G. J. Ilolycake :— Brantwocd, Conis on, Lancashire, April 12.—Dear Mr. Hotyoake, I am very glad that you arc safe back in England, and am not little grateful for your kind reference m i while in America, and for your letter about Sheffield Museum. But let pray for another interpretation former letter than mere Utopiauism. The one calrraity which I pcrceive or dread for an Englishman is ...

... |TH HANTS AND BERE4 AGRICULTURAL I. SHrOW.I * The incessant and heavy downpouirs of rain within the a past three days have proved somewhat inconvenient in l, receiving agricultural implements and exhibits of various i descriptions at the vast range of tenting erected on South- BeaConmmonforthcShowwhicb will be opcn to the general pnblio on Tuesday morning, and continne on the three , ...

... MARIEOLtOUGH AGRICULTURAL SHOW.| _- . . .. , ?? . . - .. . . . I Yesterday, the Marlborough and Pewsey Vale Agri. cultural Association held its annual show and dinner at Marlborough, Wills, on the extended basis upon which it Was remodelled some two years ago. For upwards o. ia quarter of a century the society, under the title of the c 1Marlborough District Association, carried on its work in ...

... THE THEA TRES. Tml second and last fortnight of Mdlle. Bernhardt's engagement was rot distinguished by the production of any important novelty. Coppee's l'ttty little one-act, Le Passant (i869), was announced, but was not al)(, and during the whole of the week before last Mdlle. Bernhardt IIOPlITcrd in but one new part, the Th&rhse of Andre Theuriet's Jean- Marie (IS,7) Last Wednesday, ...

... HANDEL'S OPERA SONGS.I IT has been suggested elsewhere that the revival of one of Handel's operas, in spite of practical difficulties attending it, would be an experiment worth making. The publication of a volume of selected songs from these now forgotten works may enable many persons to form a better idea than at present exists of the amount of fine vocal music which they contain, and - ...

... UNDER Ad SURFAIr OR, A '40o I ANDra FAOI.; , I ~~A A I X. , a , a~, . - I 3siy as well make a clean breest of it. When Mrs. Jack. Sprall caieinup-staiz:to. me thAt:-morning, with. hez dfinger qi that VragrW Awhiach ?? Ryderhadl aeilt ,'kegiWngd1ltter- to 'the Lord 3*or asking us to porter out a few pence to help 'on the relations of the -por fellowa-who wet-tdewn- in- the-Atalanst,, I ...

... MADAME SARAH BEiNEIARDrS BENEFIT. Wednesday Afternoon, June 16th, 1880, 'JEAN-MARIE, in One Act. By M. Andre Theurict. Joel ?? M. TALBOT Jean-Marie ?? .. M. BsERro Therdse ?? SARAH BDENHARD, ROME VAINCUE (Fourth Act). Fabius . . M. VIALIDY Lucius . .. M. CHAMRROY E.es.M.. M. FAL'RE Festus .. . . M PIRON M. MICuss, ?? LAVERNE Prdtres ?? ?? LuDomsc M. PELTIER KM. MERLIN Posthumia .Madame ...

... - LITERARY -OTICEB. ?? I fZ114 uJ'L4?Z i May ,arr a ]Litdn#. By Mercy Grogan. tonuon: Casset Petter, Galpin, \nd-Co.' At a tine when the industrial employment of women is inaressi~lgiy and most properly Angaging public attention, this unpretending but realy serviceab'e little volume deserves a uarm ealcole. It is brimful of information, *conveyed in the shortest possible compass, and is ...

... 1I R. GANZ'S ORCHESTRAL CONCEPTS. On Saturday afternoon last another of the interesting concerts given by Mr Ganz attracted a large audience to St. James's Hall, and, besides the various instrumental feature5 of the concert, introducing, as they did, examples of all the chief forms of composition by some of the greatest composers it cannot be doubted that a number of visitors came to ear, the ...

... bUhNJ, 1C, I rLN i& TIIE Dublin Freeman, under the heading Politic9 in a Theatre, publishes the following :- Or, Satur- day night in the Grafton Theatre, shortly after the, performance commenced, a male singer Camne ont and sang a song the connludiag etaunas of whiob praised Mr. Gladstone and eensured Lord Beacons- field. When the song erded a perfect storm of cheers and hisses arose from ...