... ?? ad Arlisfi4. LSPHCIALLY CONTRIBUTED. I The late Mr. Hayward, it is said, sometimes wrote verse. n It ahiefly consisted of little love songs and rhymed quips oC and cranks, after the manner of Priled. When they grew _ in number he bad them printed in a little volume prepared ti for private circulation. This book, the Pall Nall Gazette ti says, was his usual wedding present to the bride, and ...

... I I .& I tter ?? iter THE FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION. tc r' in [SPECIAL PRELImiNARY NOTICE.] se Ios- The collection of pictures and objets d'art at the ?? Corporation Art Gallery, which the Mayor will formally bm All open at a conversazione given by him to-morrow 31 irch (Thursday) evening, has been admirably arranged by anthe new cnrator, Mr. Henry Allpass, who is to be con- b out eak. ...

... EAo A AT Tni -pRiW S AlTH3&TRH. I r~~r 'OUUD-AT.TIA -GORING. T40MAS'S E&ERL After the favouraiblt recepetion giivnto Mr. A. Gating Thomas's dantoi.C5ie -OPera. lu Bristol f11i s year. it wan only natural that Mr.' Carl R~oza should give ?? inhisprsent welek's Pxogresome, I And the sathusasll o ?? O it h&Pxaoiijf' Xt- j anst Ight wmasatibutesaliesto the genidsof theEnglish- comiposer end the ...

... ooq -Sthpilg 93414. MAGAZINBS FOR APRIL. In the cornhill Magazine Mr, James Eayn gives us sonte more of his IILiterary Rrcolleotion3i; hs decribea his life at Cambridge, and the article Is one of the ,n'se cbasracterietie and interesting tit tbo serles, foer he has the coursge of bis opinions, and does not subsorib to a fi.th he does not bold in the current superstitions regarding the ancient ...

... oull Slkaq &4 MAGAZ NES FoR MAROH. [esOoND NOTIOS0 I The Nineteenth C06tury maintains its raputation for keeping atep with the leading questions of the day. Mr. Edward Dicey contributes a redeable, though a rather One-sided, paper on the Egyptian question, in which he denounces what he terms the make shift policy of the British Government in the Nile Valley, and trote out the famillir ...

... a: - :: f I . 1 . , I i. :. 1 . t p I- MONDAY-POPULAW.O05ART, . . ?? inliant ?? ~a . * : iotidtd aidoiefc at okatoHaiS, lat ev firng- .despite the uxoepIonl'attriX tio ati the Pelnce's Tbeatr ,.;-Iclomed *iti'iemltake~abl jd*ariur th-e re'ippear' ar-cool -mv. Rnheek]y bhdlit it the first of thiattacltive aerie ot orche oooe~itaifloilhi presinta eason,. The welcome8 and. plolongied oseep, ...

... - - # I0 1JTEBRRY iaD tOTRERV Rotn Sw no ac ?? Ltbdl Tenud Toft The Athenmum nodegatinds that Lord Tennyson will I p5ubilsb a new poem In lbo course ot the Auttme, The Dean-of luindff bhs neaily reldy lot puhliation the I first four liplatlef of 'St. PIul's first imprisonment in Fosns- nfely, those to thS Philipplans, `Epbheqjaus 1 ColosaenBs, and to lbilemon2. The work consila of a ?? ...

... THlE OPENIN~G MAY. on get .!t In close upon twenty learn also. an ?? In Arl *my way approaching In oamprelhe~eiveneas the under' the in. ',takig opened by the Mu~yorat the ExhIbition buildings, an Qaeen's road, ~ esterday, was hold In Bristol. Though We ne lharS locally passed through scene periods of depression Btur 'there banbeen agreat advane ince lolthat perod. Those wi~t elho Remember the ...

... : TlE I)flMA IN AMERICA. ?? - nTVR OwN CORRESPONDENT.) m OM t 0 11 - ?? 5eFI'EiiTERB 4.-The change of temperature N~rjj l kt'+c~ has had an inspiriting effect upon actors, tin e 'I g ceneral public. Old Sol has again asserted z11111r3' ' such a relentless manner that the golden era, 1i ?? 0ll dawned anspiciously, is just now under a i Yelatcetly d, and the shekels are again rattling beiteig o ...

... On Thursday, May est, a New Play, in Four Acts, by Dion Boucicault, jun., entitled DEVOTION. Due de Ohevreuse ?? Mr JollN CLAYTON Comte de Chalais ?? Mr H. B. CONWAY Abb6 de Gondi ?? M Mr D. BOucecAuljr, Jin. Due de Isonbazon ?? Mr EDMUND MAURICE Aubry ?? GesecER. TREST De Flesque ?? . Mr G. F. BLAcKiBOURNE De Sluze ?? Mr F. M. PAGEr Balagnir.M r TREsAHAR Seuhise ?? ?? -Mr WASrER RUssELL ...

... TffH LONDON THEATRES. As usual at this period, several of the pantomimes are now closing their season. With this week ends the run of Lttle lied Briding Hood at HEn MAJESTY'S THEATRE, the final performance being given this evening for the benefit of Mr F. 0. Leader, when the Vokes family appear in their popular extravaganza The Belles of the Kitchen, with the original cast. On Thursday night ...

... THEATRIOAL GOSSIP. Tine Irving company left Boston at ten o'clock one morning, and did not arrive at their next stopping-place until one the next day-a journey that should have been mnade in about ten hours. They were snowed up between Jersey city and Phlla- dueljphi, and had sonic lively incidents of travel, which MIr Joseph Hlatton will no doubt relate in his department of the book of ...