... At the Wlest-end dramatic establishments managers are receiving satisfactory proofs that the London season is bringing wvith it tile usnal recognition of fashionable patroiiags, and theatrical bisiness may be generally considered equal to the average of former years during a month notable for May meet- ings and eveonin parties. The ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent- garden, has offered an inviting ...

... IFASRiON AYD 4.RrETIES. I1 lat . ?? TB COURT. l Vindsor Castle, Thursday. aid Last Tuesday the Queen and Princess Beatrice and Princess Elizabeth of Hesse drove to the Miausoleum at tz- the Rosenhohe, New Darmstadt. to Princess Charles df Hesse took leave of the Queen, as | did also Prince Atetander 'of Iese, Princess Batten- La- burg and the Princess of Bulgaria- ith Her Majesty drove out in ...

... FRENCH NE WS, INTENDED O1VEFPATiONS AGAINST RADAGAI){JAI TlE' M 1SSONIER EXHIBITION. fCaozR ?? 00 O81'0fhDiFN -. PARIS. Taunsary N iUT. War begets war. Now we hir that the Psarliieumitaly Committee on the Madagascar Credits is disposed to anguent rataer than dimilnish them. As soon as the battalion of malines now leaving HEiphong arrives at Y Madagascar active operations are to be com- meuced ...

... To the minds of most people a medihval castle is merely a beautiful and romantic ruin, peopled in imagination by an immense number of shadowy chivalrous forms (in polished armour or silk doublets), and devoted mainly to jousts, tournaments, and other early English substitutes for lawn-tennis or fashionable garden parties. But to a conscientioug ' Medi.:val Military Architecture in England. ...

... TH E STrORY OF GENERAL GORDON'S MIISSION,-No. I. AS TOLD IN THE OFFICIAL DESPATCHIES. inviews of tie proposed Vote of Censure, of wvhich notice has been given by i(ilb r l -1)cs.eachi, it mray be of public interest to extract from the chaotic Si ma~s of printed atter pitchforked upon the world by the compiler of Egyptian enlI lnlue-books a consecutiveC narrative of the Gordon mission. We shall ...

... GROSVENOR GALLERY.-SU ILI E LXEIIILMTION. The SUMIMER EXHIBITION of the GROSVENOR GALLElRY is NO OPEN fromn Nine to Seven.-Admissiol, is.; Seast ?? KOEKKCROEK'S GALLERY.-\1. MUiJNK4L(.SnY S ce~b-aleb Iianro, CON- I)EANIOD TO DEATH. Alao I. JAZ;,iS -ok-linca IIA 'LI'-PIECES, EnOlEds two *rea-st viocs, WVAT'i ''II T ALUAIZ. NOW UN V [EN at KUIJkKOUE'KS GALLERY, 72, PCCALILIY, Lo:1LoN, W. ...

... LS. (FRO~l OuM OWN CoRREsFONDENTS.) ABERDEEN. ?? ArAJESTY'S TnEcATRa-Lessee, Hr W. MIFarland ; General Manager, Air Hodges.-Opera comniqus is in favour here at present. Last ireek we had AIr Crookshank with Olieefe, doing lail spring business. Now Patience pays a return visit and retailns much of its former popularity. The principals in Mr D Oyly Cartess cellepanY are Aliss Josephine Findlay, ...

... PilE 2'IIFAL'RLS. L Tast evening Mlr ?? B. Cuss per'e c : : enteredl upon ad ngC1 e'mmn-~let atV tize i ?? .- Thieatre. ''i'here are su uln~nits c'iti1 .-X. abzout nowv-a-davs thaft vi a:ea a-t ti i0se Cm'!l J C of them,. Io,u uniless wec are rais't~ik,, tr ,i a .c ,irst tun2e th~e C',aut'ir cooti:na~ti;;n blar -'ti : Gliasgow. If so a genii start was ttiade.C s evening, thle thteatre uingi ...

... AMUSEMENTS IN PORKSAOTTH. y ITHE LAST PERFORMANCE IN THE OLD Hi t. ?? ROYAL. ea vi We could have wished that-a little more fuss had as ,kbeen made on Monidaymnight, when the beards of the iba w ir old Theatre Royal were oreupiad for the last time. r d, 1Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest, is a ar re- motto of wide and almost indefinite application, of ir We do net, or at least ought ...

... LITERARY. NOTICES. X THE NATIONAL REVIEW, for May. London: w . Allen and Co.-Amongst the ten able and varied otributions to the current number of the National coni~fX are three or four which will attract general :ttention, and which are worthy of careful perusal. r F. J. Goldsmid writes forcibly, and political standpoints, upon the relations et~ween Great Britain and Portugal with regard to ...

... LITERARY NO?TIOES. -.The fourth , number.' of: the Ruth/inl. Soehoolt HaLgaziine lias 'JuiSt 'md'itsl appeariance.' ' t 'is nicelyt plinped iby Mtr Ctharles .Aldrich, Uppor C1'wyvd-stleest, Ruthinhm,' ds a ac7,bi' Jo'urdal' Ifluistre' de aines (Office ,Bedford streeb ?? is an additiol ,to. the list of fashion ,blools.;,i~b i9s. copiously. illastrated, gives ,several..patt6Prns, '&ndj. in ...

... PUBLIC AUSEMNTS. OPIIBA COlIIQUE. A tolerably free adaptation, not altogether free-from 'lugarisms, of a broad conne vaudeville, written by WM. Meilbac and Millaud, succeeding a dramatized version of one of the late Charles Diekens's..most de- lightful works1 is an example with a Yengeans of extremes meetin. Yet the company who -so much helped towards the Success of the play of The Old ...