... programme with which the new Management intends to court the favour of the public will consist of high-class plays, dramas, burlesques, and ballets, and every care and attention is promised with regard to costumes and 05ise-en-scense. A new drop scene, painted ...

... THE LONDON TREATRES. The week before Christmas, which is usually unmarked by the production of any novelty, win be this year specially distinguished by the production of the new poetical play of Cromwell, by Colonel Alfred Bate Richards, at the QUEEN'S ...

... happy father of a family romping with hia children at Christmas time stumbles and sprains his toot; if a jolly old unc zle tointlesel f a ladder er chair when ha is hanging up the mistletoe; if a Christmas glutton is carried off by swallowing an unorthodox ...

... the piece is to be rendered still further attractive by the addition of new songs by Bir Planch6, new music by Herve, F. Clay and J. Riviere, a new ballet, new appointments, and new costumes. A noticeable auxiliary to the company is promised ...

... with excellent taste. Portler illustrations from Henry the Fourth, Much Ado About Nothifng. and Midsumsmer Night's Dreuzm brought the lecturer to later days, and a comparison sod contrast between The Tamieng of't e S/new and Tobin's Hloney- moon gave ...

... reinforcements. DESTRUCTION OF PLANTATIONS. NEW Yomc, APRIL 12.-Advices from Havana announce that fifteen large sugar cane plantations iD the Union district of Cuba have been burned down. THE GASMEN'S STRIKE IN NEW YORK{. NnrW Yonx., APRIL 12.-The strike ...

... SAMUEL BAKER on Monday night in the Theatre of the London University. Sir SAMUEL read a deeply interest- ing paper referring to his journey and explorations of the ipper Nile, and his various illustrations, anecdotes, and descriptions were listened to with ...

... to the life, and the presence on the stage of the young and fast living buck, proficient in the new school of breeling-a striking illustration of his own theory that nobody now-as-days is ashamed of anything, regard- ing convenience as a much more ...

... Alfred Theatre may be remembered, has returned to England, bringing with her a new drama entitled Lady Cheetwynd's Spectre, which she expects shortly to produce in London. MaIR ARsHuR MATTHISON AND MR ALFRED PLctnPTON lhave- as librettist and compose ...

... KNIGHTSBRIDGEJ VARIETIES. WC have this Christmas witnessed transformations issnume- rable ; sudden changes from the dim and dusky Caverns of the Demon Demolishemall to the Realms of Perpetual Bliss ; from the gloomy, cobwebbed dungeons of the Giant G ...

... original notion it would be to drink afternoon tea out on the lawn on Christmas Day at BEon- church or Niton I And, to tell the truth, it is almost as easy to get to the island at Christmas time as itis to run down to Brighton. The Prince and Princess of ...

... Drury-laue Coitdc Christmas amnual. In tie treat- mielt of a familiar theme it vill be fousid that the author has maost reverently adhered to history, ancd forthe first timen in Pantomimic :sumnls the legened will be faithfuily illustrated oi1 the sta-e with ...