26 JUNE 1847, page 13

The Theatres.

One is often tempted to wish that the word " comedy " were banished from the existing dramatic vocabulary, and that we only heard of our forefathers acting comedies, just as we......

M. Bouffd, After Delighting His Audience By His Splendid...

of avaricious despair as old Grandet in La Fills de l'Avare, and his admirable portraiture of a gay old French nobleman in an amusing but not very moral little piece called La......

Topics Of The Day.

FRENCH CORRUPTION AND ENGLISH PURITY. AT the first blush, the state of things disclosed by the Girardin affair in the French Chambers is monatroua and degrading to the nation.......

The Britisi - I Council Of Ten.

THE case of Mr. Langalow, related by a correspondent of the Times, is one that ought to be impossible : unhappily for England, the metropolitan state of so many important......

Verdi's Opera, I Due Foscari, Which Was Produced At Her

Majesty's Theatre in the beginning of the season, has this week been brought out at Covent Garden. We have already had occasion to express our opinion of the musical merits or......

There Seems To Be Now No Doubt That Mr. And

Mrs. Charles Mathews will open the Lyceum in the autumn. Meanwhile, they have commenced an.engagement at the Princess's, where they are playing in some of their favourite......

The Pictures In Westminster Hall.

We attended the private view of the pictures in Westminster Hall today. The collection, on the whole, surpassed our expectations. In awarding the prizes, the judges have......

Panorama Of The Bimalayah Mountains.

By ascending the steeps of Mr. Burford's "upper circle," in Leicester Square, the -visiter finds himself amid the heights of the Himalayahs. The scene is one of the finest that......