... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... A N IIA GINARY CONVERSATION DETWEEN MR. Cfl-B-N AND THE MARQUIS OF H-T- X IN Devonshire House yesterday, where the Liberal Unionists gathered to discuss the position of their party, many things were said which were nut reported. To make up for this omission a reporner, grieved at the slight thus cast upon his craft, sends us the following report of a col. versation which he imagines must have ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE, (Lessee and Manager, AUc;USTruS 1ARtIS.. TO-DAY, at .30 and 7,30, AUGUSTUS HTARRIS'S NINTH ANNUAL, pN-oliT, PUSS IN BOOTS- MNISdarLIlej Wc'nAinicr., Leity Lind. Atari, Vi'nirs, Jorion Lawson ;- Sartis; esrs 3-arry- Nicltoll~s, Horlnrt CaihlCharles I aari, Jun, Vicsto LO vslcus I Nne, Charles Dunlop, rifftlis iir .hrs, Harry Payne (Clown). I ...

... .TUMIC AKUSENENT& STRAND THEATRE' The applause which greeted Mr. Willie Edouin and Miss Alice Atherton on their appearance the other night on their taking possession of this house was of the most hearty description, and to their popularity and acting Emust be assigned the success w. hich attended the per- formance of an exceedingly weak three-act domestic farce, adapted from-or, to be in the ...

... 'TABII 'T.LJEATRES. rfe the at-i aaellicouecements for the present arr nexptionally niumorous. To-yight; ?? ;r ill aeppsir at the ?? Thoatre 31- r t tise iu &'Chatcillac, at counerly by ?? E jir rodtuced ait the TUeAtree Ill, OiVc 3bolut two vears ago. To-inorrow Frflfdt5 e oinmedy, adapted fromt MIs. 5jtteree° vi' ^ A Tangled Skein, Nvith the Psat} 'd peit j~sionl, by Mjiss Henrietta ...

... I DaRs AT THE ORAWLN ROOM Saturday's Drawing Room ws excessively skimpy, to use an expressive Anernismie. M y h conspired to make the attendance smal, The ladies who bad ed l trains for the ocoasion wh had to be post poneduon account of the fb illess the Emperor William, were naturally unwillig to incur the extra ?? Jattending a, Drawing Room held during the period of Cut mourning. The ...

... THE THEAThRU. Seven iniportant theatres-the Haymrkiet, Thl the St. Jnmes's, Drury li, the' Oper Out iomique, the Lyceum, Toole's, nnd the Globo- pte have closed their doors in recogitices of P m- i eion Week. Saturday evening next, hower.. ?? will witnest a partal reopening in antieton of thrEsdastoroldys. It iS on that night, as we hbuy already annotmoed, that Mr. Beerbobm Te pposes to prode ...