22 JULY 1843, page 10

The Season Of The French Plays Terminated Last Night, With

the engage- ment of Monsieur BOIIEFE ; but there is to be an extra night on Monday, for the benefit of Monsieur LEVASSOR, who will perform in three of his favourite characters.......

M. Benedict Took A Benefit At Covent Garden On Monday

; when the theatre was crowded to suffocation in every part. The entertain- ments were chiefly musical ; consisting of some fragments of favourite operas, terminating at a late......

The Theatres.

THE Royal visit to the Italian Opera, on Thursday, was quite an event of the season as well as of the week : this being the first occasion of Queen VICTORIA honouring "her......

Topics Of The Day.

H OLD TORIES" AND " OLD WHIGS." MR. GEORGE SYDNEY SMYTHE, in his letter to the electors of Can- terbury, proclaims himself " an old Tory," attached to the princi- ples of " the......

Fresco. To The Editor Of The Spectator. Sir — Though Your...

note attached to the letter of your Constant Reader is sufficient reply to the suggestions therein contained, I may, perhaps, be able to furnish this gentleman and some other of......