13 MAY 1865, page 2

The Music-halls Have Beaten The Theatres. The Magistrate...

that a ballet was a stage play, Mr. Strange, lessee of the Alhambra, appealed to the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, and the Assistant-Judge and thirteen magistrates of the county......

The Emperor Of The French Has Issued A Singular Proclamation

to the Desert tribes of Algeria. He declares that France landed thirty-five years ago to relieve Algiers from oppression, but admires the military honour which induced the Arabs......

The Czar Has Declared His Second Son, Alexander, Heir To

the throne of Russia. It is stated in Continental papers that the late Cesarewitch requested the second one to carry out his engagement with the Princess Dagmar.......

Owing To Sherman's Political Blunder Or Crime,—which Is...

to English ears Lord Derby has taught us to doubt, —one of the most guiltyof the original Confederate conspirators has, it seems, escaped. Howell Cobb, the Secretary to the......

Mr. Edwin James, Formerly Of The English Bar, Has Become

an actor, and at the Winter Garden Theatre, liew York, is said to be now impersonating Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet. He can scateely seem born for his part. Friar Lawrence......

A Very Able Letter By The Head Master Of Rugby,

the Rev. F. Temple, in Thursday's Times expresses what half the world is thinking on the subject of Reform. He reminds Mr. Lowe that to exclude the millions from all political......

Wilkes Booth, The Assassin Of President Lincoln, Has Been...

and Harrold, who attempted to murder Mr. Seward, has been ar- rested, as well as an accomplice whose name is said to be Ashteroth. They had fled, it appears, on horseback into......

Lord Derby Has Pardoned The Lord Chancellor. Yesterday...

late for our last impression, he made a speech in the House expressing the Tory belief that the Lord Chancellor had no bad motive in his leniency to Mr. Edmunds. He did not......

The Duke Of Argyll Is To Preside At A Meeting

of the British Freedmen's Aid Association at the Westminster Palace Hotel on Wednesday afternoon next, at four o'clock, when Dr. H. M. Storrs, of Cincinnati, will give a......

The International Exhibition At Dublin Was Opened By The...

of Wales on the 10th inst., amidst an imposing cere- monial. The Exhibition promises to be a success, the building being really magnificent, half stone, half glass and iron, and......