... Yesterday, at t-he-Drill-hall;: the Bristol Chryean. e8 themum 'and Spring Show Society opened an r exhibition which, if *not quite so large as Bristolians . have bad the opportunity of seeing in previous l yeare, will, as-to the-excellent'qualityof the exhibits, a bear comparison withanysj'ring show which has been 1' promotediby thesociety. Thereare-verygood reasons e why the exhibits are not ...

... 'p 0 p s Y. A Comedietta, by Dr. G. H. R. Dabbs, Produced at the Institute, Shanklin, IIe of Wight, on Friday, April 13th, 1388. Colonel Mauleverer . o ?? Mr H. BROOsE Solitary Jim ?? Mr SrAlNFonrT ?? aster H. SeeBy LowNDes Miss Virsinia Duck ?? iss a LICe NUNN Penny Wise ?? Miss COWPER COLcS Lorna ?? Mrs R. SErLY LoNDwss Popsy was written for a child actor. There is only one scene, ...

... On Saturday. March 31st, 1888, a New Romantic Play, in Four Acts, by W. H. Wills and Sydney Grundy, entitled THE POMPADOUR. Louis XV ?? Mr H. ASrLEY Due de Choiseul ?? M r ROYCE CARLETON Manpeau ?? Mr E. HARRIsoN Conmte Du Barri ?? M r F Rv.9FsLL Marquis De Silbouet ?? Mr GOReEc HONEY c Abbd ?? Mr F. JARRARD Eugene Lahbert ?? Mr FRED. TERRY voltairc ?? Mr CHARLEs BRooRFIELD t Grimm . ?? fr ...

... [ DRAWING-ROOM_ COMEDIES. The company formed by Messrs Poel and Berlyn to give dramatic performances in private houses, or in balls where only society may congregate, and where no common people could by any possibility be admitted, appeared on the afternoon of Wednesday last before a very fashionable audience at Willis's Rooms and submitted a programme that, in addition to the comedietta ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORtESPONDS;rr) BRUSSELS, APRIL 18.-Except GiOconda., which wa heard at Brussels for the first time out of Italy, the only new production of any importance this season by the Dupont-Lapissida management of the Reina'ie has been Jocelyn, an opera, like fllanon, between grand and comic, by Benjamin Godard, to the libretto of Arrnanl Silvestre and Victor Capoul, after Larnartine's ...

... TIHE :APJIL .MAGAZINES. I Jsl-' -- - COCC), DS OTI CF. obbi the most elnjoyable item in the VbS. ihis metonthl is apaper by that most -o esayis-5 Dr Augustus Jessepp. t ,. Ir once More ito Autuay, and shows F } ci eo t~lc, ple~asures of being snowed-up i t \.ext in poeit of readableness we vrould s i T \pthWV ^Arnold s contribution. Siri ; t;brow sonme ligh t upon the state of . 'jsi, ir ...

... Art ill vila~techmpol . Tfi latest ?? of thn Whitualinpul Art Exhibition is to bo till art sallool and guild for tho ellcourao nl;;t of tbe art of ?? nta1;ing beautiol thilngs. This will probably bc one of the beoneficial results of the present year's exhibition. 'I'ho school is ea-peeted to open early itl Mny. In the meantime distiig-lishoed artists nro doing their best for it by addresses ...

... THE CONINETNTAL GALLERY. At the Continental Gallery, 157,,New Bond- street, Mr. Dierken has arranged a collection, of about two hundred pictures, and, as on former occasions, the artists represented are of many schools-chiefly Nor- wogisn, Belgian, German, French, Italiaos. and Spanish. A new painting by M. Jan Van Beers, called The Rendezvous-Bois de Boulogne, is intended to be the pi~oe ...

... THE H(RSE SHOW IN PARI$ (rOm OUB COBRESPONDET.) . D ?? al Horoe Show in the Pas deoY I'astnn, yliip, ppseid~ L9 .gwtuoy, wa row in 51 sawwg. it IsJtt spg *rpii04 Qrdi-4 i yiutext this year,as the nuvaber o naimal i Ombitbo ii imubh larger than LaA bees t e cgW for mauy Tears, upwads of 560 ent0es. ?? tl been nadle ot cj a zi Vnd riii ?? H lI i pqf ' a e. hb g4eqtpr pt p e s5, liuwaver, art ...

... I , LTMRATUMr: r I ?? vim AND TUB, ENGLISH3 )ASTE1I3ES By FrncisAdn Gasquet. John nodges, Henrita street, Coie4 Garden, London. This is tbe first volumeaof a ecrie The aithor is a monk of the Order of St Benedict. He ww; for a tire Prior of the Monastery of St Gregory, Downside, BathI The work wus undertaken at the wisa of the present Pope. The preface to it is a modest one, represening the ...

... NEWCASTLE SPRING FLOWE% SHOW. On Wednesday the annual spring flower show of the Drr- ham, Ncrthumberland, and Nevraastls-on-Tyne Incorporated Botalical and Hofticultural Society was opened in the Cor Excbange and Town Hall, Newcastle, uud'r favourable .Fapices. Both in respect to the quantity and quality of the exbih.ts it is unanimously admitted that this show f :r exa do any of its ...

... SCEAPS PrOm VARiOUs Tro-rap ?? ?? - Uaz LFrorm Punch.] AN ADMIRALTT DITTY, (Re-written up to Date.) When Britain first at Heaven's comlmand Arose from omt the azurc main, No doubt sbe did lnot understaud She sooll might sing the Ead refrain- NVhat? Britasiniaj? Britanllna, rule thcslr Net wvhile lritous trust to fools ur kiuis vii Whbei, spite the sto-k-prepared rcplies In prilticoe -v-rythiig ...