3 FEBRUARY 1849, page 11

Faults In Poor-law Administration Accounted For.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 25th January 1849. Sin—Among the several useful remarks contained in the article in your last number called " The Confusion of the Poor-law," you......

Theatres And Music.

Mr. Mitchell is keeping his promise to the public, that he would produce the best pieces of the repertoire of the Opera Comique. Such a piece, cer- tainly, is La Dame Blanche,......

Balfe Has Been A Lucky Man, In Having Been Employed

as the musical assistant of one by whom obligations and services are so generously ac- knowledged and so richly rewarded. Jenny Lind, at the end of the Opera season, gave a......

King John, Fairly Acted And Creditably Got Up, Is The

last Shaksperian re- vival at Sadler's Wells. At the Olympic, the Duke Aranza, in The Honeymoon, has been re- spectably played by a young actor, of good stage figure, yclept......

The Production Of Mr. Jerrold's Housekeeper At The...

its present excellent cast, awakens a regret for a very pleasant period of the modern drama, when there was less of the cant of five acts than there is now, and the best writers......

Money Market.

STOCK Exegeses, FAWAT AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has experienced some heavy fluctuations; Consols on two occasions having fallen suddenly 1 per cent. The first was on......