3 JUNE 1854, page 13

Topics Of The Day.

WAR, REFORM, AND THE MINISTRY. IT was not " Thersites " of the Opposition, but Lord John Rus- sell himself, who raised the most important question as to the position of the......

Parisian Theatricals.

A new ballet by M. Theophile Gautier was brought out on Wednesday last at the Academic, with Mademoiselle Cerito (now called Cerrito, with two rrs) in the principal part. The......

It Is Just Twenty Years Since Grisi First Appeared Among

us; and never surely, as Burke said of Marie - Antoinette, was there a more delightful vision. Her debitt in the Puritani — how it turned everybody's head— how young and old......

Music Of The Crystal Palace.

Music occupies a prominent place in the arrangements for the in- auguration of the Palace at Sydenham on this day week. There is to be a tuneful host, no less than a thousand......