22 MAY 1852, page 12

Le Collier De _perks, A Comedy By M. Mazeres, Produced

at the Gym- nase about a year ago, has been the most important novelty brought out at the St. James's during Mademoiselle Rose Cheri's engagement. The story is simplicity......

The Italian Opera Seems Now-a-days To Have Its Name—" Lucus

i non lucendo "—from its not being Italian opera. Speaking generally of its pre- sent condition, we may say that it has neither Italian poetry, Italian music, nor Italian......

Topics Of The Day.

THE DISSOLUTION IN JUNE. PARLIAMENT, said Lord John Russell on Wednesday, is to be dis- solved in June ; and he was not contradicted. It is a curious fact, that all these......

Oatrto Ttn Vttotr.

Every now and then a problem starts up in the practical theatrical world. A want is felt, which no one exactly knows how to express, but yet it is clearly perceived that an item......

The Fifth Philharmonic Concert, On Monday Last, Was...

for the performance of the IValpurgis Right which occupied the second part of the concert. This choral cantata, one of the most charac- teristic and striking of Mendelssohn's......

As Mr. Lumley's Scheme Of His Season Must Necessarily Have

been totally deranged by the defalcation of Mademoiselle Wagner, on whom he had reckoned as his central point, it is not surprising that the proceed- ings of his theatre are not......

Dying Hard.

ErrniusrAsm, if often amusing, always has something respe ct about it ; and Lord Londonderry is one of those enthusiastic and in- genuous persons who not only commands the good......