18 MARCH 1848, page 16

At The Princess's, We Have Mrs. Barrett, A First-rate...

actress, playing " la haute comddie " about as well as it would be acted by most young ladies who make themselves generally useful in various departments of the drama: When Mr.......

If We Set Aside The New Opera, The Past Week

will not furnish an im- portant chapter in dramatic history. At the St. James's we have had a comedie vaudeville, called La Fiche aux Beaux-pares partly serious, partly comic,......

Sacred Harmonic Society.

Mendelssohn's St. Paul was performed at Exeter Hall on Wednesday evening. In the performance there was nothing remarkable. The band and chorus are now pretty well acquainted......

The Philharmonic Concerts.

The first Philharmonic Concert of this year took place on Monday even- ing. It was of fair average character; but something more remarkable might have been expected for the......

William Thom.

WILLIAM Taos, the humble poet of Inverury, * has fallen among the thousand sacrifices to the total want of provision in our social scheme for men of his class. Thom was a......

Theatres And Music.

VERDI is not merely the principal but the sole Italian composer of the day. His operas have exclusive possession of every theatre from Turin to Palermo, and are consequently......

Curiosities Of The Patent Office.

THE Patent Journal uncovers a curious abuse in that museum of legal monsters the Court of Chancery. The abuse in question is not very gigantic, but, like the devil lizard of......