... 4 THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE.-Pending the completion of the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera-which, report says, will be of a less fantastic character than some of its ?? Pirates of Penzance has been revived at the Savoy. There is no need to again describe at length the well-known plot and the always charming, though equally familiar, music. Audiences can now once more laugh at the humour of the ...

... XUSI DR. BRADFORD'S JUDITH.-Dr. Jacob Bradford's oratorio Yudith was essayed for the first time in London, at St. James's Hall, on Tuesday evening. It was intended as an 1 exercise for the com- poser's degree of Mus. Doc. at Oxford, and must accordingly not be judged from the ordinary point of view of oratorio. According to the regulations of the University the candidate is required to ...

... On Friday, March 2d, the Three-Act Comedy, by M. Alexandre Bisson, entitled LE DEPUTE DE BOMBIGNAU. De Chantelaur ?? i. COQUELIN De Morard .. ?? M. DUQUESNE Pinteau . ?? . M. JEAN CoqUEsLI Des Vergettes. . DBeov La Marquise de Cernais ?? Mdlie. PATRY Hdldnc . . Mdlle. LsmBRcIcs Rtene .Mdlle. HERewiCd Julie .Mdlle. JENNY ROSa When that friend-or enemy-of our youth, Publius Virgilius Maro, ...

... F AILLES of all varieties, especially pekins and pompadours, will, the Paris correspondent of ILe.MnA1oideeu?- de Inm Of ode tells us, hold a promi. V nent place throughout the Spring; but be careful. I ladies, not to make them full and puffed beyon6 E moderation as to the skirts. That abomination, - the tourmire, has died out. One or two small steele a at the back are alone %llowable below ...

... | I The Screever and His Mfonekurs. ' The knavish resources of the ' screevers, or writers of begging letters and petitions, are in- finite, a writer in the Daily Telegraph tells us. There are schools of 'lurkers, or inditers of g begging letteis, who, it is alleged, keep secre- A taries, paid sometimes by the piece and some.e times by commission for the fraudulent docu. ments which ...

... (Extrads from gtw gooks. THE SUFFRAGE IN CHILI.-Among the various claims of the Chilian Republic to be regarded with interest by the student of political progress, I must note the fact that it has for some time successfully adopted a system of suffrage which is supposed to be too complex for the people of our country. In political elections for representatives, the mode of voting is, I believe ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (Lessee and Manager, AUGUSTIUS HARRIS.) EVERY EVENING at 7.30. MORNING PERFORMANCES EVFrY 1 WEDNESDAY, and SATURDAY, at ?? AUGUSTUS HARRIS'S NIl N-P PANTOMlvIME, , PUSS IN BOOTS. MesdanaesWadman, ?? ,alrj. Wyill.Nf-iUk Dawson, Bettina De Sortis Messrs. Harry Nicholls, Herbert Camispbell, Charies L i 0 'j'5iny Stevens, Reuben Inch, Charles ...

... NFW AUD FORTHCO}ING PLAYS. We have had several new plays in London a during the past few weeks, and two or three of h tbem deserve to be chronicled in Liverpool, for f9 it is more than probable that they will be seen a here before very long. The new and impro- e bable comedy called Fascination will shortly a be withdrawn, after a run of little oe than a month. It has not been a ...

... PICTURES AT THE SOUTH- PORT EXHIBITION. The piteview of the works comprising ?? the tet Srng Exhibition, -held uinder theb nfll auspice ?? Corporation, took p lace on Saturday at the Atkinson Art Gallery. There was a large atten&dac of visitors, and L about 20 pictures were sold. The Hiangin andL. L Selecting Committee-._Cososm Alderman - Vincent, Councillor BoothjW. .Log ad T. Geenhkhend F. T ...

... ART_ ?? iTS Yc{Uowi the example of the rtsts of E the Continent, Mr. Robert Fowler vs aa p ao exhiion (by invitatio card) at -f h.s'1t important works 1 in w i of i n , whici _ -e been vier fsfew days prior to therbeing T divate.ed, toawe ontte pingip Metro t itan Te fret representa a soe. of- , genuine clao t-humour, vvz., Socrates being attacked by his wfe, tbe notoious termagant ?? I ao. ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINWI.rS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANNV (Lessee and Manager, Auscusi-rs II rsEP FcOERY EVENING at 7.;n. MORNING PROPrNr SATURDAYVNEEF at 1.30. AUGUSTIUS 3:AIRTH'S NINTHS SN',4 FUSS IN B0OOFS. Atendanros Wtadran, Jetty lard, Nine'\ . 'tl ?? ?? Sortis; Messrs. Hlarry Nicholls, -irirert Camrpb ell, hales '1 rra Rich, Charles Datb;'. Grifflths Brothers, Harry Payfie (Cluwnl). LAST SIX. ...

... FRlENCH VIEW OF ENGLISH PrlZE-FIG-,T'Nl'iG. La 'rwanse publishes an amusinlg chrnionie on the encou:'cr betiveen Sullivi an a d, Mitchell. 'The English people says the writir 'o are full of contrasts. They possess at one and the Camle 'irC ; a passionl for progress and the instinct of barbarism. The ne1 ?? e ,nv, ?? and appreciate the beauties of Sb-al-;.sr' 't bo ?? pond cockl-fi tang ...