19 APRIL 1856, page 11

Of The Non-lyrical Theatres This Week, There Is Nothing To

record be- yond the fact that the Haymarket company haa been increased by the engagement of Miss Talbot, one of the netabilities of the Lyceum during the reign of Mr. C.......

The First Concert Of The Philharmonic Societn, On Monday...

was excellent and successful ; though, as usual with these concerts, the se- lection, of music presented no novelty. The symphonies were Mendels- sohn's in C minor and......

Topics Of The Day.

POLITICAL PROSPECTS. THE present state of English polities must necessarily appear flat and uninteresting to men trained amidst the oonfficts of parties and the contrasts of......

Some Paragraphs, Apparently Of A Demi-effipialkincl, Have...

daily papers respecting the arrangements for Her Ifejesty's - Thavfre. We learn from them that the season is ` anticipated" to commence on "or about" the 6th of May; when Alboni......

%#tairts Knit 311usir.

On Tuesday evening, the Royal Italian Opera opened its doors far the season—not the doors of its splendid palace in Covent Garden, now, alas, no more but the doors of its......

Peanut; Dratraxet.ls.

Madame Georges Sand has lately been amusing herself by turning Shakspere's As you Like It into a French three-act play, with the title Comm ii vous plaira. She has been more......

Mr. Hullah Produced At St. - Martin's Hall, On Wedneaday...

a new oratorio, called .Tephthe and his Daughter, by Herr Reinthaler of Cologne, a young composer of rising reputation in Germany. The work was got up with Mr. Hullah's usual......