TtreatnicAt, Gosste.—The French company had a crowded benefit at the
King's Theatre on Thursday night. The Italian company, the Elephant, and the French company, furnished each a taste of its quality on the occasion.
The French company are to perform at Mr. Morris's Theatre, in the Ilaymarket. A meeting of the friends of the English Opera-house is to be held on Wednesday, for the purpose of concerting measures for rebuilding the theatre.
Kean was announced on Monday night in the part of Henry the Fifth-- for the first time. One of his periodical illnesses, however, prevented him from appearing ; and the galleries, by way of compensation, pelted Mr. Wal- lack with oranges. It might have been as well to reserve them for the real offender. Romeo and Juliet was substituted—and for the most part mur- dered. We must except Friar Lawrence, which was played admirably by Mr. Aitken.
Miss Fanny Kemble appeared in her fourth character—Mrs. Beverly—on Thursday. the audience liked her as well in this as in her former parts, and shouted for her in the same fashion after the curtain fell. Charles Kemble played Beverly for the first time • and for the first time appeared as his daughter's lover—or, to speak by dm card, her husband.
LADIES' FASHIONS.—We learn from the Lady's Magazine, that in the midst of the present severe weather, it is not very easy for brides to display in their attire the lightness of colour and material that custom has rendered indispensable." Further—short sleeves are stilt made a la berret ; flowers
are worn in the hair higher than ever ; silver ornaments are still universal ; many tortoiseshell combs are now worn in the hair, as many as five, of a great height ; and on the 20th of February some crowns of plumes were observed. "There is little material alteration in the walking costume this month. The pelisses are worn more open at the throat, to show a chemisette and cravat of Various kinds of figured plush."
Lady Paget (the lady of Sir Charles Paget,- at present Admiral on the Cork station) and her daughters have been converted to the Roman Catholic
Church. The ceremony took place at the parish chapel, in Cove, within the last few days, and was attended by an immense concourse of people.— Limerick Evening Post. The copyright of Lord Byron's minor poems was sold last week by auction. Mr. Murray purchased it for 3,700 guineas. The Leeds Mercury states that a beautiful cotton russet cloth, and yarn for stockings, have been manufactured in that neighbourhood from the wool of the moss crop plant.
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