... TEE LONDON PAVILION. Mr EdAwin Villiers offers to the patrons of this popular music hall, who are not to be numbered by any ordinary standard, a programme which it would be difficult to excel ; and he is to be warmly congratulated upon the entertainment pre- aented here, which affords most ample testimony of his enter- prise as a speculator and his tact as a manager. To include in the ...

... INNOCENTS ABROAD. (FROAM OUR LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENT.) The names of blr J. F. M'Ardle, a popular author in connec- tion with all that is lively and entertaining, and ir WV. R. Jude, a musical composer with more than local fame, were suf- ficent to stir an amount of interest in the first performance of the new operetta entitled Innocents Abroad; or, Going Over to Rome, which has not been ...

... TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The second cycle of the Nibelungen Ring concludled on TueF- day last at Her Majesty's Theatre with the expected result that the audiences were smaller than at the first series. The prices charged were, in fact, very high, when it is remembered that the performnance could only be regarded as an experiment. There are other works of Wagner which have been already accepted ...

... BAR TOLOZZI. L Iv the ultimate rank of. books were to be decided according to the merit of their bindins, Mr. Tuer might cherish a reasonable hope that not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes would outlive his, powerful quartos. 'They are massive volumes, solidly bound in white vellum, with a sparing use of gold on back and sides; in the bevel the catgut' cords are exposed, and this is ...

... A meeting was held at the Lyceum Theatre yesterday afternoon, having for its object the establishment of a school of dramatic art. In the unavoidable absence of Lord Lytton, the chair was taken by Lord Wharncliffe, wvho was supported on either side by the Countess of Wharicliffe, Lord Rowton, Mr. Bancroft, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Dickens, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Kendal, Mr. Dion Boucicault, Sir Baldwyn ...

... PUBLIC AM[USEMENTS. AD'ELPHI THEATRE. If many more such -adaptations of Frencb works are given as those of Odette, at the Haymarket, and of Serge Panics, which, under the title of Love's Anguish, was played on Wednesday aftesnoon at the Adelphi, the well-known proverb that> Providence sends us food and the devil sends us cooks will be superseded by Providence sends us French ...

... THBE DRAMAM IN AMERICA. (iROoM uR OWN CORREOPUNDI~'. NEW YORK, MAY 13, 18p2.e-The last two weeks have been filled with openings and revivals for the sumner season, very few of which, however, have proved to possess any interest or value. Last week (Monday) Miss EugeniLerand, the young lady who is announced here as Mrs Kvrle-Bellew, appeared at the Union-square Theatre, which she had hired for ...

... In the Chancery Court on Saturday last, before MIr Justice Ford North, was heard the action Chappell v. Boosey. This was ademurrerof the plaintiff to the statement of defence by the defendant, and the question was one as to the copyright of a popular song entitled the Bellringer. The action. was at the instance of Chappell and Company, musical publishers, and the defendant was Mr John Boosey ...

... THE TUEAThF2. The representation of Far frm he Mad- I mgn Crow d at the Globe Theatre on Satrdy Gr sveng leaves little to be added to the accoun t Sivenl of lMessrse. }Hardy and Comnyzis Can's pihy Ace >the ocason of its production in Liverpool. for wo mnonths ago. Every impartial spoctator in mnust recognse t~he essential identity of thiepc .wery 'witih~at of The Squire ; but the treat- ...

... CUTJuL2TNT LITER.ATURE. ?? O. i M\r. treunan's labours have rendered the c r;c4t Cpoch Cf Lila Norman Conquest almost as ?? :r in ti e coanpletenCSS and acguracv of its as t e iv oi our owL t2tnes. The two n ?? ?? to tho reign of AVilliam Ilulas a tl ti2 ?? of ?? I. evince the s. e p:i'.ent rcretcritical judgment, and 1,ovc i of br.g befuvo thell mind's eye the rent.s of ite tiea i dueG ...

... GERMAN OPERA, DRURY LANE TBEATIR& We yesterday, and on previous occasa0114 drew special attention to the important series of pe: formarnces which began last night, and are to exti. throsgh this month and June. The opening perfn i. ance consisted of Wagner's Lohnmrins. The work wai first heard in this country in May, 1875, when al Italian version was produced at the Royal ltreks Opera, a ...

... THE VIENNA THEATBE DISASTER. On the resumption of the proceedings on the 4th inst. in the Ring Theatre fire inquiry the witnesses examined were almost exclusively policemen. The manner in which members of the force have hitherto given their evidence has been so unsatis- factory that the Crown prosecuting counsel proposed that no further witnesses of this class should be sworn. One of ...