... PRINCE OF WALES THIEATRE. | THE MHIKADO. Thle most piquant, melodious, and, fascinating of the s long series of mirth-provoking operettas webicit we owe to a the joint labours of Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan abrought together a crowded and enthusiastic audience at sthis house last night, Although The Mikado is . rot, absolutely new in Birmivglham, having been Ggiven here by the same ...

... R - -eYsSil LISZT'S ST. EuIZAnE1tt. -The splen(lid reception ?? to Dr. Franz Liszt at St. James's Hall on Tuesday gllh1t ?? llot lead us to exaggerate the merits, nor blind us to the defect. of lii music. Portions of his oratorio SL. Elizabeah (which w-as gicli on Tuesday for the first time in England in its complete fii)ii are among the best efforts of the imaster. Other parts, ?? lci t.le ...

... flER MIAJEST'S THEASEB, THEE CANDiDATE. I - To a fortnight of sensational and melo-drasnatic | entertainmenet succeeds a spell of modern comedy of' [ the sparkling, effervescent type associated with Mr Charles W~yodham and the London Criterion. The Candidate, when originally produced, proved an immense success, and had a prolonged run;* many a well-known names were freely mentioned as its f ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 28.-LYcEsiu THEATRE.- A very fair burlesque has held the boards at this place of amusement during the week. Mr W. H. Fuller is about the only native dramatic author Canada possesses; and, although his claims to celebrity rest principally on a political parody, H.M.S. Parliament, which, owing to its local hits, obtained considerable success ...

... I_ -1 OrAt . I The members of this society have reason to be proud of the patronage they can command. Of some of it, that is. When, on the evening of Thursday last, they undertook to entertain their friends, the said friends came ap in such tremendous force that there was hardly a seat vacant either in stalls, area, or balcony. We have qualified our first remark because there was one young ...

... 1A4SIION - -D. VARIZWIlL'. VICEREGAL COUr-T. IEer Ea,^cllency the Coantc-s of Aterrd.wc,. T c-- paniald y the lin Lady Ridleyalt awi ?? tended by Licutenazt FArb.n A i; A .. afterroon visited the SiFte s of Chlarity S, Lco. f izopestreet,1r Fsedlen y then oceeriel ta L hi : House, N.Ierriouni ;qare, aad was present at thi: delivered by Profe-sov Barrett, an-d afterw:rln is ;c the Buazaar held ...

... LITERA TURE. (1) Eaglish Dranatist's: TJDcmas Jfiddbfon. Fascinating, as tile study of the Elizabethan T dramatists has always been to those desirous of f I making themselves acquainted in a thorough I way with English literature, various influences II are now in ct)orationl, fitted, and inidleed de- r I sicgnedi, to enlarage very considerably the circle i of students. Hitherto, dramatic ...

... SIR LOWTVTHIIN 1ALL ON THE IRON TRADE.* ITS . HISTORY: toI ETS IMMEDIATE FUTURE. o CLEVELAND ECONOMY. oh( So OUR CARRYING TRADE. tha ski The Liberal party are accused of having pr tooked with disiavour on the Trade Commissioce. pvc They are inerinbers, of the Liberal party, how.%' Th ever, who have afforded to the Commissioners inf, the icost vahceiable and suggestive evidence it bas ski aso ...

... BALLADS ANI) OTH1.1t IC)EM1S. 'By G. HEDLEY. SCOtt, P. c,'esite-row.-A olunse of poetry eoutnissing rsuch that is ercellent, and very little indeed that does not soar above the level ef nicdincrity. Mr. Hedley's verse is fluent and- freslh, and y o- plefer him in the 1)a.tltie tjlatlhe those izi file lieroic vein. '-The BLhsiielasra Cliarge i's a fine. Specimlell of thle hltter, whilst A ...

... THrE ARTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.' IN France, a well-known connoisseur has said, every shopkeeper is a artist: in England, every artist is -a shopkeeper. True, 'in part, as thi somewhat cynical observation undoubtedly-is, the spirit of it, wer it applied to a comparison. between the artists of the Middle Age and those of the present day, instead of between the two riva nations, would be more ...

... LIST OF SIR JOHN :MILLAIS'S PICTURES. AT THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. ale of the late Mr. William Graham's pictures, which begins to-morrow, completes the remarkable collection of Sir John Millais's pictures, which the c liC is this week having its last opportunity of seeing. The two most - ?? pictures absent from the Grosvenor Gallery exhibitions-the Vale If f est, and Apple Blossoms -are now ...

... The rapid progress which is being made in all the departments of the work connected with the Liverpool International Exhibition is a matter of eatissaction to one and all. The ?? in itself is close upon completion-in fact, so nearly com- pleted that the foreign courts were a day or two back taken possession of by the cominisioners, with instructions that foreign exhibits might be received at ...