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The amusements in the transept, under the dire Clem of a Mr. Nelson Lee, opener or 1 o'clock with the perform%nces by Orville Parker, the " negro vocalist," They were fol lowed by a comic entertainment, or pantomime, in which harlequin, harlequin junior, and a third performer, repre senting a tortoiseshell cat, performed a number of sur prising summersaults with stilts on. A dance by the D'Aubans was much applauded, but a more startling enter tainment succeeded—that of " les Quatres Pierrots"—four French clowns, each with a fiddle, who went through all the evolutions of acrobats without ceasing to play and keep RINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated 01 , 1 IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It h Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded 'Rinahan's LL Whisky." PR1CE........ Ad. STAMPED ....sd. THE SUN, LONDON, TUEDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1864. STEAM from LONDON to NEW YORK. The British and American Steam Navigation Company (Limited) will DESPATCH one of the undermentioned Splendid Fast Screw Steamers TWICE EACH MONTH for New York:— No. 22,389. THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING DINNER, consieting tf Soup, Fish, M a de Di m ,sh Joint, Sweet, d,•c., is served daily from 3 to 9 p. an Sundays from 5 to 8.30 p.m, Private Rooms for large or small parties. By ordor, JOHN CATES, Manager. The Wellington, St. James's-street. Entrance, 160, but the forerunner to a aeries of demonstrations of scarcely less uproarious character. Tons. Horse Power. LONDON 2,500 suo Capt. GLOVER. WESTMINSTER 2,500 .. 500 ..... Capt. Couctx. DUBLIN 2,500 501 NEW YORK 2,500 500 ..... ( apt. HARRIS. These magnificent vessels are unsurpassed by any ocean going steamer, and have accommodation for passengers re plete witn every comfort. The Line will commence at an early date ; the exact day to be fixed in a latter announce ment. To load in the Victoria Docks. Por freight or passage apply to the Company's Agents, Alfred Laming and C.). 70, Cornhill. TO TILE BONDHOLDERS OF THE ATLANTIC AND GEEATWESTERN RAILWAY. ISSUE OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS. PAYABLE IN LONDON. 8(001 0 dollars (.£180,0.20) New Yor , : Division—Due in 1881 . 3,000,0 A dollars 42?5,030) Pennsylvania Division—Due in 18 Secured by a Registered Mortgage, consituting a lien on the chises, plant and pronerty of the Pennsylvania and New York division s 'visions of the Railway _ The Bonds are redeem . able in New York or in Lon d on at y. 6d. p er d ollar, and are tran.ferable v ithout stamp or en in' ser nent ; 4 per cent. of the ',rose amount will t3e drawn early i n _ July, commencing in 1865, to be pa'd off at par in "don ; Interest Coupons are attached to the'Bonds, pay 1131e semi-ann ally, at the Consolidated ; ank in London, at the fixed ree of 4s. to the dollar. The Bonds will be issued at 70. v;z. : Bonds of 100 dola. at £ 5155., with interest from April, 1,1861. ~ 503 ~ £78155., ,1 ,1 /1 „:. 1,000 „ £157105., „ 'the Coupons represent £l4 per annum on each bond of 100 0 dollars (f 225), or nearly 9 per cent. The privilege of subscribing will remain open until the 6th of April for the' ? resent bondholders, either directly or through their brok ers. _The terms of issue are '7s follows : 5 10 per cent. on application, being £ll 5 0 per Bond of 1,0" 0 dol 15 ~ al otment „ 22 0 0 11 f t 20 ~ 2d May 11 3315 0 I t ~ 16th May „ 4 5 0 0 ~ ._ _ _ 29 Ist June 45 0 0 •• 4157 lo o • SUbscribers have the option of paying the , nsta'ments in, advan e. and will be allowed a discount of 6 per cent. per an hum oi such pre-payments. Alt,er allot meat Scrip Certifi ates will be issu^d to " bearer." "These Certificat , s wig be exchanged for Bond , to " bearer" on payment of the final in s t.ilment. The early completion of the works rf this great Railway lustifies the Company in making this additional , ssue of Bends, following the financial policy a 'opted at the outset, 01 issuing securities to the public only after the actual pro gress of the Railway ha secured the necessary income for providing the interest. There will remain only the Second Tortgage of the Ohio division, to be disposed of hereafter. when the total of the Bonded Debt will be only £6,000 per Forme of appleation may be obtained of the Bankers ; or at the Offices of the Company. Offices of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, 2, Old Broad-street, London, B.C. March 23, 1861. THE ALBION BANK (Limited). Capital £1,(0V00, in 20,000 shares of £5O each. First issue, 10,1)00 shares. Deposit £1 per share on application, and Li per share on allotment. It is not intended to call up more than £l5 per s hare. No call will be made for three months alter allot ment. Three months' interval at least will elapse between two calls, and no call will ex eed £5 per share. I ncorporated under the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1.802, Whereby each shareholder's, liability is limited to the amount of his shares. Thomas DIRECTORS. , -- oinas Cave, Esq, Sheriff of London and Midd'esex. J• T. Pritchett, Esq. (firm of J. T. Pritchett and Sons), 131, ,nyenchurch-street. P Masters, Esq. (firm of W. F. Masters and Sons), „newgate-market. l'en.lamin Baugh, Eeq., Bradford-street, and Balsall-heath, B rmingham. Thomas A 27,5, Esq. (firm of Thomas Aggs and Co.), 155, ~enchurch-street. E.C. P. Potter, Esq. (firm of R. F. Potter and Co.), 23, Newgate street. The With power to add to their number. Provisional arrangement for merging the old-established private bank of Messrs. Challis and Son with the Albion Bank (Limited) has been confirmed, find the active partner Will be the general manager of the Sank. GENERAL MANAGER Thomas M. Chal is, Esq. BANKERS. Meg, rs. Challis and Son, 16, West Smithfield. •nk of London, Threadneedle-street. ,ha I London and Northern Bank, 2, Bank-buildings, London ; Sect Newcastle, Leeds, and Huddersfield. BROKER. James Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mar'. SOLICITOR. G. W. Cuming Dean, Esq., 27, New Broad-street. AUDITORS. William Cooper, Esq, rubli3 Accountant, 13, George-street, ~,,111ansl..m . n ' • Andrew H s, Esq ouse , Manager United Kingdom Electric Tele graph C ompany. SECRETARY. PRO TEM. Mr. H. L. Price. Temp ;nay Offices-2, Bank -building?. PROSPECTUS. Although the system of joint-stock baniting has been esta blished to meet the ',quire 'tents of most degartme its of trade, it has r of been 'nt reduced for the business of the agri cultural and cltile markets of the metropolis ; and , hough the population has doubled within the list 25 years, and, con l'equ ntly, the necessary quantity of suppl es, yet the whole [liminess, amounting to t 5 to 2 , millions per annum, is lett in the hands of a few private firms. The Albion Bank is introduce d t o prod. 'e increased facili ties for this tr , de by establishing an office in the City, as well as at Smithfield and the Metropolitan Cattle Market ; and subsequently, should it be found desrab:e, by opening branches In the agricultural districts. _ . 'I he value of t'e rapidly-increasing commission business to be transacted by the Albion Bank can be readily appre ciated by a knowledge that the method in which dealings are C Tried on at the Cattle Market consti utes the Bank the depositary of all the moneys patssieg f, om the buyer to the produ. er. The Metropolitan Meat or Poultry Market in in Smithfield, how in course of erection, is destined, by the terns of the Act of Parliament, to combine and supersede all othee mar kets for meat in the metro ohs. To this market will be con centrated all transactions for the supply of butchers' meat, poultry, and other produce to the inhabitants of the metro polis and a circle of i 4 miles round it. The Directors having confirmed the provisional agreement for the purchase of the lucrative busines of Messrs. Challis and Son, the advantage of commencing upon an established connection, under competent and experienced • antat,rement, will be secured to shareholders from the commenem , nt of lousiness, by whic't the direl ors are warranted in , xpecting thatthey will be enabled to declare a dividend during the ”, , t the number of joint-stock banks may be advan "4eously increased (more particularly under special cir cumstance such as have led to the formation of the Albion Bank), is demonstrated by the fact that, so late 'i six years ago, when the number of joint-stock banks in London was not more than six, their total deposits cud not exceed £2?,000,000 ; wlrle, now that the number of these banks has been doubled, the joint deposits are l lr 'adY more than trebled, amountlag to a total of £ 71,792,300 . The dividends of the older banks range from 15 to 30 per cent., in accordance with the da es of their establishment : and the premiums on their shares are from 200 to 300 p -r cent. in a precisely similar ratio. The deposits and dividends of the joint-stoca banks recently formed show a rapid pro gress towards identical results. . Should no allotment take place, the deposits will be re turned in full. Should a less number of shares be allotted tman are applied for, the deposit will be made available to wards the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the a• plicant. Anplication for shares may be addressed to the sec bankers. prok er s, or directors of the Company, and to thesecretary at the offices of the Company. THE ALB I O N BANK (Limited ) . The Directors have to announce that the PROVI SIONAL AGREEMENT for the PURCHASE of the Old esialAshed BANKING BUSINESS of Messrs. CHALLIS and SON, together with their Bank Premises, No. 16, West S mithfield, find Bank Buildings, M etropolit an Cat tie M ric et, has been CONFIRMED; and that Mr. Thoma 4 M. Challis, the active partner in the firm, will be the General Manager of the Albion Bank (Limited). THE ALB I O N BANK (Limited) NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this Ban!t will be RECEIVED after TUESDAY, the sth rti ,l l - "ERSONS SEEKING LANDED ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER VIES GENERALLY — To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY KEGISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing IO Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Rep,isier affords, by sending the partictears of their properties to the Estate Offices, e 7, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible charm ter, thereby avoid ing the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon veniences. Tunitn is co CHARGE incurrel, unless a tenant or pur maser is introduced through Messrs. Dimley's Agency, aid then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. VURNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FRET; to any house in the kingdom, regardless or amount or distance. First. class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select rom, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted I,GYM.EN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illastrated by4lo adm -able emfraving*4 of every description of Furniture and .eosteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gi atis and post-tree on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised cale : A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto - - • Together with a trice List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valuable informationto all requiring household furniture, ^srpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentltmen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton. Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, 'A tatles, Dorking, St. Aban's. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great lira CO BBETT and CO.. General House Furnishers. Deptford bridge, London, S.E, G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE • COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.,M.P. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq. ( harles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Thomson Ffankey, Esq., M.P Abraham J. ltobarts, Esq. •Tohn G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. William Steven, Esq. Fredk. H. Janson, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. Aim: Lewis Loyd, Esq. ) Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq. Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Sami. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPA ItTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In ,urers EIGHTY PER CENT. Of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Use Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description of property at home and abroad at mode rate rates. No expense is incurred in effecting a new Insurance be yond the paymsnt of the Annual Premium and Duty, when the Premium amounts to ss. Claims liberally and promptly settled. _ _ . - - - NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies which expire at Lady Day must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's — street, corner of Pall-Mall ; or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void. Application for Prospectuses and Agencies to be made to the ,Secretary. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY, 'and BACFIELOR'S BOX. an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, C,aring-cross, EVERY EVENINO, at eicht (except Saturday) ; Saturday Morniturs at three.— Stalls, and box sta Is, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre. ls. A Plan of the Stalls may ba seen, and Seats secured at the Hall rom e even to five. Next Morning . Performance, Saturday, April 2, at three. TIT E OXFORD, ft, oxFoil n STREE 'P, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and success ful Opera, by M. Guonod, FAH embracing the entire company of this establishment, with augmented baud and chorus ; and other Musical Entertainments, supported by the following talented artistes : —Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry Tyrrell, W Amsley ; Messrs. Morley, Tivoli, Green, &c. Director, Mr. F. Joncr,hmans. UNSWORTII and EUGENE will make their re-appear ance This Evening. Comedy, by Mr. T. Macl ;:ran, W. Randall, G. Hutchenson, G. W. Jester, Miss Kelly Power (the juvenil.: comedienne), &e., &a. Will shortly be produce I, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOII, by Otto Nicolai ; an! TIIE TWO GENTLE MEN OF VERONA, by Sir Henry Bishop. Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balmy, Ss. ; private bjxes, 10s. Gd. CANTERBURY HALL. The Fairy Entertainment, entitled PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS! Is written expressly for this establishment by IV. F. Vander veil, author of the celebrated " Enchanted Hash," and en ables Mr. Morton, with the aid of Professor Pepper's Optical Illusion (Icanwn as the Ghost), to produce effects never before contemplated, and which have all teen duly registered by him and Mr. J. H. Weston under the title of The Ghost in the Magic Fountains." By this new arrangement, that which is in reality nothing but a shadow, becomes to all ap pearance endowed with life, and when "Fame" takes her flight through the burning Cataracts, and the Naiads seek their beds in the Crystal Waters, form a coup d'cell of beauty unparalleled even in fairy romance. Prince Blossom (with the Song of all Nations), Miss Townley. The Marvellous Illusion will take place every Evening at half-past Nine o'c'ock. All the wonderful entertainment of the establishment, as usual, in addition to the above. Admission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. Open every Evening. ROYAL ALHAMBRA.- TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS of the NEW CIRQUE, acknowledged to be the best ever produced in England. ROYAL ALHAMBRA.- The greatest Fern , le Rider of the Age, the wondrous Mdlle. LOUISE LOISSET. ItOYAL ALHAMBRA.- Brilliant Equestrian Scene, "THE RIDE FOR THE RIBBON." ROYAL ALHAMBRA. MORNING PERFORMANCE on Monday, Wednes. day, and Sat urday, at Two. Every Evening at Half-pas Seven o'clock. I'UrADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL LYIL GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. RECENT ADDlTlONS.—President Lincoln and Presi dent Davis; Ancient Effigies of Henry IV. and his Queen Joan. in magnificent costumes of the period (1390; and in the Chamber of Physiognomy is a full-length model of (leo. "Victor Townley. _ . Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night. Admittance, Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street, Piccadilly, IS OPEN EVERY EVENING. During the evening an unparalleled repertoire of Dance Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele brated Argyll Band, forty in number. Doors Open at Half-past 8, oommedoe at O. Admission ls. Manager, M. GRENET. 44A, MADDOX-STREET. REGENT-STREET, W. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM Open daily from 10 till 10. 'Where may be seen the Astees ; Bushman and Wife ; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shanu, the Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Preparations, kc. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One Shilling ttor Gentlemen only). OL DR ID GE'S BALM of COLUMBIA, established upward• of 40 years. is Acknowledged to be the only certa n remedy ever discovered for preserving', strengthening, beautify►n2, or restoring the Hair, Whiskers, or Moustaches, and preventing them turning grey. Price 3s. 6d., 6s , and 1 and A. Oldridge's, 22, ‘‘ ellington street, Strand, W.C. ; and all sh( mists and perfumers. For Children's Hair it is most efficacious and unrivalled. TEETH. —Mr. ESKELL'S INVENTION in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following artvantages :—A set or teeth, of excellent work manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours; without pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, .Ca., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens and consultations I ree.-B,Grosvenor street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. T.AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN le EFFECTUAL PIEMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption tr , effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepares only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-WAliam-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and three quantities in one, 2'. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The IMMO and address u. eDgraved oh the stamp. THE ORIGINAL ROYAL BUCKINGHAM SAUM, for Roast Meat, Hashes, Gravies, Stews, Steaks, Soulas, Fish, Game, dre. Prepared only by the proprietors, Taos. Bum and Co., 10, Bath-place, Dalston, London, N.E. IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Tecir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. ~nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by poet for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lincoln. MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the Westminster Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber- Well-park. Address—Borr and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine tores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. THE NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL BUST. 11 tFELIX M. MILLER, Professor of Sculpture , Govern the School uf Art, published under the special s•inction of National Shakespeare and Stratford-on -Avon Tercente narY Committees, by HOWELL, JAMES, and CO. __CoPies will be issued, in the order of registration, to sub scribers only, and are executed in— rreengwch dood Ce 1 ramic Statuary, 12 in. high, price One nGuinea Guinea. Bronze g I . l ronze 8 , 91 Three Guineas Subse , ra „_ . ribers names received by the agents in Lo don and "`",e l Provincial towns (where copies of the Bust may be seen), O r °Y the publishers, 1 3 „ HOWELL JAMES, and Co., Goldsmiths , &c. , -, appointment to the Queen and rrince and Princess of Wales, 5. 7, and 9, RE,IENT-STREET, LONDON. Ph otographs and pr3i-pectuses forwarde 1 post free on ap - P.ucation. RIZE MEDAL _INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. 'ILINCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &0., &0., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) . The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, In 1862. t estifies to exc e llence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' I nanuf acture. distinguished Di(4nitarv, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : Whichhave found them fully equal to the recommendation " [ doh You gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I con:I -t:lend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with tatted Wicks, patented.. rs. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality Od. per lb. EGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mi xture of Wax. Best V quality Is. sd. per lb. Second q ua li ty • • • • • • .. ls. 3d. per lb. Third quali f y •• • .• ls. id. per lb. Carriage paid in • London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.. :8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Th e ,___ et Kensington (Established 17 30 ). large Establishment in England for the Manufacture WAX Candies or the use of tiie Altar. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., SECOND EDITION of BARBARA'S HISTORY. By AMELIA B. EDWARDS. From the Times, March 28. —"lt is not often that we light upon a new novel of so much merit and interest as Barbara's History.' It is a work conspicuous beyond the average for taste and literary culture, and felicitous in its delineation of some very delicate and refined shades of character. It is a very graceful and charming book, with a well mana,:ed story, clearly cut characters, and sentiments express.d with an ex quisit,-? elocution. The dialogues especially spa kle with re partee. It is a book wh!sit the world will like, and which those alto commence it will care to finish This is high praise of a work of art, and so we intend it." Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street Now ready, in post 5v0., with 21 Illustrations, 10s. 6d„ LEGENDS OF ICELAND. Translated by GEORGE E. J. rowEr.r. and EIRIKUR MAGNUSSON. 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Wholesale by Prices Patent Caudle Company (LimiteclN London. EASTER AMUSEMENTS. A.NE. Whatever may be the style of the performances at Stratford-upon - Avon on the celebration of the Shakspere Tercentenary, they will not for certain exceed in magnificence Messrs. Falconer and Chattertows revival of the first part of Henry IV., which was performed last evening in presence of one of the largest audiences that ever assembled within the walls of Drury-lane Theatre. During the management career of Macready at Covent-gar den many years ago, he astonished the metropolis by the production, in a style of unsurpassed splendour, the exciting play of" Henry V.," but since that time nothing of the kind has been attempted at either of the national establishments until last evening, when with the combined abilities of Mr. Phelps, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Walter Lacy, and Mr. R. Roxby as the principal actors; Mr. W. Beverley, the celebrated scenic artist, and Mr. Keene, as designer, the Managers of Drury-lane Theatre made their Easter offering at the ahriue of Shakspere. The reception of Mr. Phelps, 'who sus tained the part of Sir - John Falstaff, was enthnsi astic, and on his rising to acknowledge the compli• ment the cheering seemed to increase in intensity When the fat knight stood erect we had an opportu. pity of admiring the artistic manner in which Mr. Phelp's dressed the part. The make-up of the head and face was a masterstroke of art, while the other peculiarities of the portraiture were brought out with the utmost skill. Who but Mr. Phelps now a-days could be found to represent Sir Jahn, the boon companion of " Madcap Hal," and most cer tainly he never appeared to enter so heartily into the character as last evening. From the first line of the part, "Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?" down to the closing speech in the fifth act, " I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, Heaven reward him I If I do grow great, I'll grow less ; for I'll purge and leave sack and live cleanly, as a nobleman should," he was in the best of humours, and chuckled with the highest relish over his sins and follies. Perhaps the culminating point in the performance was the relation of the part he had taken in the robbery of the carriers on the road by Gadshill. The audience fairly gave vent to the heartiest laughter during the recital, but on the discovery of the mountain of falsehoods, the exclamation by Falstaff of the well-known words— " By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye," the mirth of the audienee burst all limit, and for some moments the action of the play was stopped by the tremendous applause that followed. Mr. Walter Montgomery, 'as the firy and impetuous Hot=pur, won great applause by his acting, and Mr. Ryder supported the part of King Henry with becoming dignity. Although Mr. Walter Lacy played the part of Prince Henry with much care, it was by no means th 3 best thing we have seen him do. However, he did his best, which, we are bound to say, pleased the audience; but, notwith standing, we must honestly confess, we should have wished to have seen a more juvenile actor sustain the character. Mr. Robert Rosby's Poins was a capital performance, and Mr. Edmund Phelps, as Sir Richard Vernon, acquitted himself with much ability. The first scene in the third act, in which the dies pute arose between Hotspur and Owen Glendower, has been restored, and with it the Welsh song, by Lady Mortimer, which was prettily sung by Miss Edith Wynn. Lady Percy was well sustained by Miss Rose Leclercq, and the part of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess of the ta'orn in Eastcheap, was given with great point by Airs. Edmund Falconer. new, was of the mostTh The p s l c e e n n d e i ry, ddewshorici description, as ti w on, aenndtioreftlyen as we have had we never did so t w o it c h o rampolri more en t ll pleasurer . W th . an ß t o v n e r t l e h y e , present occasion, f or certainly a more remarkable production has never been contributed to the stage than his moon light view "On the Itoad. to Gadshill." The battle field of Shrewsbury is, however, the great scenic effort of the play, and, it will long be remembered by those who witnesso it. The devastation and contusion ofa r e svd -1 knights, i svid represented, and what h m waving pennons, bands of bowmen, smoke , and c onfusion, a sensation scene is w with armoured r produced that excels e verything that has yet been °vi attem pted on any stage. The snzcess of the revival was d ec i s i ve an d un mistakeable, and we cordially congratulate Messrs. Falconer and Chattert —on on the triumph that has cro wned their production of " Henry IV." --_. HAY MARKET. The novelty which Mr. Buckstone has provided for his Easter patrons is a mythological extravaganza from the pen of Xr • - ie , • C. Burnand, entitled " Venus and Adonis.' The _ playwright's treatment of his theme is certainly very free, and on the whole is very successful. The Olympian divinities are brought upon the stage i n o si a d t in- the drollest guise, and made to speak and act in otri N va e l u r y y rme 6 Spirits of the nether world also mingle in the scene, and seem to carry upper powers as to whieh on a keen rivalry with the ii extravagantly. But that is which exists between Moore) neglects her i s a h s a b l i :::carr T y h o e n ll: spouse Vulcan ill-favoured (Mr. Compton) to cultivate the favours of the handsome Adonis notthem. th e only Venus en s u p s e c (Missies (Miss Louise Keeley), but her penchant for the youthful mortal is shared by Proserpine (Miss Lind ley), and the two goddesses contend, as goddesses only can, for the exclusive possession of his affection. This is, as it were, the pivot of the piece on which all the other characters and incidents are made to turn. It is not, indeed, always easy to trace the thread of connexion between the different parts of the action ; but that is of the less consequence, inas much as the mere story is but a very subordinate affair in all such works of art. Their chief interest is derived from the music and dancing, the gorgeous or grotesque costumes, the grand scenic effects, the rattling action and dialogue, and the lively play of wit. In all these ess ential respects it is but fair to say that a high pitch of excellence is attained in the new Easter piece, w hich alternately dazzled and convulsed the audience. Perhaps the most exquisite scene of all was " The Forest Primaeval," in which Venus is seen reclining on a flowery bank, near a beautiful cascade. The view of a fashionable water ing place at Paphos, whither Venus and Vulcan is repair to spend their h o ney moon, greatly enlivened by the terpsichorean feats of the sea -nymphs. Here the corps de ballet i s introduced with great effect, the wools scene being strikingly picturesque and animated. The gardens of Adonis, in which the action of the play culminates, are a perfect blaze of spectacular art. The piece is of course, like all its class, thickly sown with puns and hits at the follies of the day. These are considerably above the average in quality; Although certainly that is not saying a great deal. The acting was throughout spirited and effective, Miss Louise Keeley as Adonis and Miss Nelly Moore as Venus (her first appear ance at this house), both acquitting themselves with especial credit. Th e curtain fell amid loud and reiterated applause, and Mr. Burnand was called'to receive the tribute due to his undoubted success. The extravaganza was preceded by " Our American Cousin," in which Mr. Sothern appeared for the 455th time as Lord Dandreary with as much apparent freshness as if the part of the half-witted lord were new to him. PRINCESS'S. Mr. Watts Phillips' new play, " Paul's Return," and the drolleries of the Brothers Webb in the Comedy of Errors,'' oontinue:to 4*A:A such lair audiences at this theatre that the management has not found it necessary to produce any important novelties for the Easter holidays. But, by way simply of complying with custom, a new farce, by Mr. J. M. Morton, was last night played fox the first time, " Drawing Rooms, Second Floors, and Attics" is the title, and it treats of the adventures chiefly of Mr. Triptolemus Brown, a chymist's assistant, who is brought up from Cambridge by an uncle, Mr. Cockletop, to 'be married offhand—after the manner of uncles and nephews in farces—ti Miss Bunny, the daughter of an old friend. Pursued by an in furiated rival, he makes his way up a chimney to an attic, where he meets the real lady of his affections, Phoebe Fur below, a laundress. Thence he is forced to take another flight down the chimney, which lands him in the second floor, inhabited by Miss Hardaport, a fascinating milliner, with 38 male cousins, and finally, precipitated through the win dow of the second floor to a balcony below, te makes his appearance battered, *and tattered, and grimy— unrecognisable even by his uncle—in the greatest confusion among the inmates and amusement to the audience. The piece is written in Mr. Morton's usual sparkling style, and the part of the luckless lover—who is at last made happy—is exactly suited for the versatile and energetic Mr. David Fisher. Nothing could be more unreserved than the verdict of approval which rewarded both author and actor. STRAND. The Christmas burlesque of " Orpheus and Eury dice" continues to be so attractive that it retains its place in the Easter play bills. A new comedietta, by Mr. J. P. Wooler, was, however, produced for holyday visitors, entitled " A Hunt for a Husband." Mr. Poppleto❑ (Mr. H. J. Turner), a retired furrier and susceptible old bachelor, has proposed to a fair widow, Mrs. Courthope (Miss K. Carson), who consents to accept a husband as soon as her young niece, Sophy (Miss L. Weston). is married. That capricious young lady, however, rejects all the swains whom the indefatigable Poppleton brings to . her feet. An anonymous letter at length ap prises him that she is privately married. The widow now seems to be his own, for he has only to tell her of the match, as he thinks, to win her. But Sophy is not the only young married female in the house who is believed to be a spinster. Mr. Poppleton's servant Mary Ann (Miss F. Hughes) is secretly married to Jack Sharp (Mr. A. Wood), groom to Mr. Arthur Stanley (Mr. D. James), the favoured lover of Mrs. Courthope. Jack. Sharp comes to visit his Mary Ann, and is hid in the bedroom of Miss Poppleton, Mr. P.'s ancient and romantic sister. When detection seems inevitable he reappears in feminine guise, having arrayed himself in Miss P.'s " front" and other garments. Jack Sharp is the real hero of the piece, but another comic personage presents himself in Chicory (a young grocer), who writes love-letters to Sophy, which are picked up by Miss Poppleton. Jack Sharp finds one of these letters in his Mary Ann's apron, and, becoming jealous of the grocer, bastes him fzeely with a culi nary ladle, and is admirably seconded by Mr. Pop pleton, who, having a spite against young Chicory, wears out several pairs of boots in kicking him about the house as often as he sees him. Jack Sharp, in his female habiliments, is successively claimed by Miss Poppleton and Sophy as their dis.. guised lover, but he is taken possession of at last by his lawful spouse Mary Ann. Arthur Stanley appears at the right moment to claim the widow's hand, and Mr. Poppleton having remembered that, although Mrs. Courthope promised to marry when her niece took a husband, she omitted to say " whom," is persuaded to live on terms of amity and friend ship with Everybody, and to consent to the lathes being happy in their own way. Mr. A.WoDa played Jack Sharp in petticoats with great humour and drollery; and, in a character admitting of great exaggeration and presenting some temptation to coarseness, had the good taste to tone down the part, and to divest it of everything objectionable. The piece, although light in structure, was amusing and successful. The curtain then rose upon "Orpheus and Eurydice," in which Miss Marie Wii• ton, Miss Ada S wanborougb, Miss M. Simpsoa,Mr.G. Honey, Mr. A. Wood, and the other characters in this popular burlesque exerted themselves with more than their accustomed vigour. The scum of " Polly Perkins" created the usual furore. It appears to be the custom to encore this song five times every night ! The entertainments concluded with " Mar. gate Sands." The house was well attended. ASTLEY'S. The entertainment provided by Mr. E. T. Smith for his patrons last night was on a more than usually liberal scale. Two new pieces were pro duced, and both, with respect to scenery and ap pointments, inla style of splendour and completeness with which even a transpontine audience would have been more than satisfied. Of the first—" Ro salie ; or, The Chain of Crime"—we must be con tent to say at present that it introduced the clever Miss Furtado (from the Royalty Theatre) in the part of the heroine, brought for ward Miss Fanny Clifford in a character well suited to e xhibit her gracefe talent as an actress to much advantage. and comprised one of the most vivid, lifelike, and picturesque representations of a shipwreck ever exhibited on the London stage. The specially cha racteristic attraction of the evening was a fairy ex travaganza, written and constructed by Mr. T. H. Higgie, with music, both spirited and characteristic? by Mr. S. H. Tully. " The Trap of Gold" is a bona fide piece of the good old stamp, with a plot not very easy nor very necessary to unravel ; personages, natural and - supernatural, whose actions are fre quently rather fantastic than accountable, rather diverting than logical; costumes and scenery more calculated to puzzle the eye by their variety, and dazzle by their magnificence, than to conciliate the understanding by their propriety or fix the identity of time and place—an Easter pantomime, in short. The chief character—Roprecht Schampt, "student and libertine," a sort of cross between Faust and Don Giovanni —at the instigation of the Bhargeist, head of the tribe of Kobolds, enters into a compact, by force of which, in return for the privilege of be ing allowed to pursue his career of dissipation and profligacy under the guise and possessed of the attributes of one of those malignant sprites, he is, at the termination of a certain period, either to send a substitute, or go to perdition himself. In the end, after a series of adventures, during which he enjoys the power of becoming invisible at will, poetical justice is done ; and, at the critical juncture —when the pseudo-Kobold fancies he has caught a I deputy, by the sacrifice of whom he will be entitled to a new lease of immunity—he is entrapped him self through the unexpected failure of his own de vice. His intended victim, Pipelee (Miss Booth), a sprightly and handsome village maiden, is under the protection of a beneficent fairy, called Nixa (Miss Grace Eaton), an avowed enemy of the Bhar geist and frustrator of all his demoniacal plans. The personages grouped around these principal figures are sufficiently varied and consistently gro• teHple. M. Milano, who represents the character of Roprecht Schampt, besides exhibiting a ene ,i_ derable amount of humour, is a model of agility. co-operation in the progress of a His invisible Ddnish rustic dance (the scene takes pl ac e i n Schleswig, on the banks of the Eider) leads to endless diverting incid.ente ; while his " grand pas fantastique" with. Miss Fanny Brown (a dancer of more than ordinary skill) is in its way a master piece of ealtatory burlesque. The entire scenic business is admirably arranged ; and the last tableau "the Fairy Transformation and Fiery Denoue ment" —in which the supernaturally transformed libertine is caught in his own trap and Consigned to the nether regions, raised a storm of approbation. An audience more determined to be pleased has seldom assembled together on Easter, Monday ; and the transport of enthusiasm with which Mr. E. T. Smith was summoned after the wonderful exhibition of the shipwreck, in the first piece, vim SURREY. This theatre, in accordance with unvarying cue tom, presented its patrons with a novelty for their Pasebal entertainment, and in accordance also with their unvarying custom, the - patrons of the theatre assembled in overflowing strength to welcome the novelty. Tae ardour of Surrey audiences for the drama cannot be doubted, for none but the most devoted enthusiasts would undergo such bodily agonies, such physical pressure, as were endured last night fur nearly six hours by the occupants of the pit and gallery of this theatre. While it cannot truthfully be said that they endured their sufferings uncomplainingly or unresistingly, yet it marked an advanced step in civilisation to notice how much good humour and how little angry feeling was dis played among so vast a mass of persons. The novelty presented last evening bore the promising title of " The Soldier of Fortune, or the Devil's Death Tower," and was stated in the bills to be a translation from and adaptation of a French piece, by Mr. J. Anderson, one of the managers of the theatre. The story, as dramatised, although his torical as history, as represented in Dumas's novel is exciting, and to a sensitive mind startling, if not revolting. Marguerite of Burgundy, the Queen of Louis X., during her husband's absence from Paris, indulges her and her sisters' guilty passions by receiving lovers in the Death Tower, on the banks of the Seine, and, at the conclusion of each evening's revel, their unfortunate paramours are assassinated, and their bodies cast into the river by a band of ruffians under the orders of one Guido Malatesta, a creature of Marguerite's, and ostensible keeper of an auberge adjoining the Tower. At this auberge meet Leander do la Croix, an orphan, who has come to Paris to his twin brother Lionel, who is Captain of the Queen's Body Guard, and high in Marguerite's favour, and one Captain Ber trand, the soldier of fortune. The latter oppor tunely interferes to save Leander from a cowardly attack by an envious Paris mob—a noble action, which elicited the loudest applause of the Surrey audience, probably because their English notions favoured the man who ventured to fight one against nine, as was the case in this instance. The two be come intimate, and from their mutual confidences it appears that they have each received an assigna tion to meet an unknown lady that evening. Lionel, the captain, who appears, endeavours to dissuade his brother from keeping the appointment, bat in vain. In the next Beene, the circular room in the Devil's Tower, the Queen and her two sisters are seen masked and retiring from the tower ; but Lionel, after in vain essaying to obtain a glimpse of his fair companion's face, determines to insure re cognition by puncturing the cheek with a silver pin. This act alarms and enrages the masked Queen, and she revokes some exceptional orders which she had previously given for the safety of the young man, and accordingly ho and another victim are mur dered, and their bodies cast into the river. Ber trand is more fortunate, for although doomed to the same fate he finds in Jacques Sangnoir, the chief assistant of Malatesta, an old comrade, who per mits him to escape. In the second act Bertrand appears at the Queen's Court in the disguise of a Bohemian fortune-teller, and by his subtle hints so works upon Marguerite's fears that he extorts from her the promise to meet him at Malatesta's tavern. At the interview which there takes place Bertrand threatens to acquaint Lionel de la Croix with the fact that his brother had been assassinated by the Queen's order,to avert which disclosure Marguerite gives Bertrand a warrant appointing him chief minister of the realm, which she subsequently nul lifies by another warrant for his arrest, which imme• diately takes place. He is visited in his prison by the Queen, who comes to gloat over his suffer ings, and to taunt him with his prospective fate, but by a disclosure that he is her lover of past times, Bertrand de Longueville, the parent of the twin children and the murderer of her father, he invokes her fears anew, and to prevent certain cri minatory letters from reaching the hands of the King, she agrees to release Bertrand, and to carry out her former promise to make him chief minister. Notwithstanding this arrangement mutual distrust exists between the two principal characters, and a plan is laid whereby each plot the death of the other at the Devil's Tower. Lionel, drawn thither by his infatuation for the Queen, is murdered by her creatures, and Bertrand, who has learned too late the identity of the two La Croix with the off spring of himself and Marguerite, arrives only to acquaint her with the dreadful fact that she has been the murderer of both her children. She in despair stabs herself, and Bertrand, re sisting a Royal order for his arrest, is mortally wounded. The piece thus terminates, if not pleasantly, at least intelligibly, as none of the prin cipal characters remain to invite speculation as to their future earthly career. The drama, full of in cident and of horrors as it was, seemed to afford satisfaction to the large audience, who warmly ap plauded the most striking passages, and with a slight curtailment it will probably be found attrac tive for some time to come. Mr. J. Anderson as Bertrand, and Miss Pauncefort as the Queen, were sufficiently vigorous in the delineations of their respective characters, and were honoured with spe cial notice at the close of the piece. The perform ances concluded with the nautical drama of " Ashore and Afloat," itself se full of sensations and striking situations as to fairly entitle it to stand alone as an Easter attraction. ST. JAMES'S. Mr. Planche's burlesque, the "Golden Fleece," revived at the Haymarket last autumn, when Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews reappeared after their return from Paris, is brought out at the St. James's with the same excellent artists in the principal characters. time, although in attitudes which seemed to render such operations absolutely impossible. The performance was well worthy of the favourable reception it met. Various other entertainments followed, among which the most re markable WiS perhaps that of the infant Polandus, specially intended for the young, Lut amusing to every one. One of the most interesting objects exhibited yesterday in the Palace was a model of the house at Stratford-on-A von in which Shakspere was born. Occupying a conspicuous place in the great transept it was during' the day constantl v sur rounded by a group of visitors. It appears that Mr 3.. T. Parris has been engaged for some months in constructing, in wood, plaster, and canvas, a copy of the house of the exact size of the original. On the 23d of next month, the day of the great fete, it will be placed in that part of the great transept yesterday occupied by the small model. Several parts of the largo copy were to be seen yesterday cn the basement. These gave amp!e evidence of the care and fidelity with which the monument will be represextted. Very judiciously Mr. Parris has imitated, without the slightest deviation, the house as it now appears. The building has been restored or rebuilt without any attempt being made to give the newer patchwork the tints of age, and the appearance so produced has beenfa,ithfully repeated in the great model. The cracks and furrows and blisters, which the beams exhibit, have been carefully imitated with the chisel and paint-brush. The small size of the building will surprise many of those who are familiar with the wood cuts representing it, It is 60ft. long, but the whole height is 25ft. from the ground to the rcof of the red brick roof, and it will form but a small object when placed under the lofty roof of the transept. The more interesting part of the interior of the house, including the room in which it is said the poet was born, has also been reproduced, even the cracks. in the old-fashioned window panes, on which visitors have scratched their names, having been carefully imitated, as far as it is possible to do so by stucco moulds and photo graphs. The visitors to the Palace a few weeks hence will thus have it in their power to form quite as correct an idea of the appearance of Shakspere's house as they would have after ajourney into Warwickshire. As a guarantee of the correctness of the reproduction, a photograph of the house by Negretti and Z atnbra is to be presented to each visitor on 23d proximo. In the grounds yesterday there was little doing. This year, however, the booths of Edmonds' (late Womb well's) menagerie have been erected in the grand walk of the Palace gardens, and yesterday they were visited by immense crowds. It was amusing to see how gently the elephants pushed their way through the closely packed crowd, and how familiarly they were stroked and patted by the ladies and children, who would have rushed in terror from a (hove of bullocks cross , ing Blackfriars-bridge. The performance of an African, who enters the cage of full grown lions and leopards, and makes them perform tricks which would be surprising in dogs, were repeated yesterday every hour, and seemed to excite more interest and wonder than any other part of the day's entertainment. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS, REGENT'S- PARK. In spite of the gloomy aspect of the weather, which did not promise much enjoyment for those engaged in outdoor amusements, a large concourse of holyday makers resorted to these gardens yesterday morning, and continued to do so during the greater part of the day. The entrances up to the time of the closing of the gates amounted to 15,250, a large number, but less than those that have visited the gardens on several previous Easter Mondays, when that national holyday has fallen later in the year, and the weather has turned out more genial. It is satisfactory to be able to add that the behaviour of the pleasure-seekers, a large proportion of whom were young people, was most ex emplary, and that no injury was done to the socie4's valu able collection of living animals. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, GREAT GEOrtaE-STREET. This exhibition, which is not yet so generally known as it deserves to be, attracted 1,184 people in the course of the day ; last year there were 912 : in 1862, 670 ; in 1861, 279 ; and in 1860, 771. It is the property of the nation, as its name imports, and is exclusively devoted to the portraiture of eminent British worthies of all classes, by the first masters. It was opened a few years ago with about a score of rare portraits and busts, presented by private indi viduals as a beginning, which have now increased to 182. The collection is vested in a body of trustees com posed of noblemen and gentlemen, and is free to the public ordinarily on two days in tho week, and on Easter Mondays and Tuesdays. Among the latter additions to the gallery are portraits of Lord hiausfield,William Woodfall, the first Parliamentary reporter, Archbishop Laud, Lord Heathfield, and a bust of Dr Arnold. Tho whole collection is made up of contributions by about 40 donors, at the head of whom is the King of the Belgians. ADELPIII. Easter brings back Miss altellllll, and the celebrated American actress again comes forward as the persecuted OLYMPIC. As Christmas was powerless to remove the " Ticket of Leave Man" from the Olympic bills, so likewise is Easter. THE EXHIBITIONS. - _ The day being raw and cold throughout, the number of visitors to the various exhibitions was much less than usual, There was, nevertheless, a goodly company at all of them some of the more popular were crowded at intervals. POLYGRAPHIC HALL ENTERTAINMENT . Mr. Wo din had his full share of visitors last evening. His little hall was crowded to suffocation, and laughter and applause greeted him throughout his entire performance, GRACE EGERTON'S ENTERTAINMENT. The "Drawing Room to Let" drew a large gr atified at exertions the accomplished Grace Egerton made to please her many visitors. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY'S ENTERTAINMENT. Mr. Sketchley received his fall share of Easter holiday visitors, and we mistak e very much if those who went further afield for Easter amurement fared as well as those who passed the evening at the attractive entertainment in the Enptian Hall. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Yesterday a large crowd assembled, as is usual on Easter Monday, at the Crystal Palace. The day was cold and gloomy, more than once threatening rain, so that the visitors were less scattered over the grounds than is usual at this season. But the attractions within doors are at present so much greater than those without that the absence of sun shine was not neceesary to explain the preference shown for the interior of the building. It was delightful to leave the frost-n i ppe d lawns and leafless landscapes for the perpetual summer of the south nave and transept, in which the vege tation is now particularly brilliant. In the southern nave, before the band began to play, the chief attraction seemed to be the dazzling beds of tulips, hyacinths, dialetrias, deutsias, and cinerarias which have been formed round the crystal fountains. In the north transept, those who had not been at the Palace for some time noticed the increased size of the tree ferns and palm trees, many of which now exceed 30 feet in height. The orchideous plants, with their bright pink purple tipped flowers, at present give an additional THE POLYTECIINIC. This institution, which has flourished daring a period of 23 years, was re-opened yesterday with several fresh attrac tions, conspicuous among which were the interesting optical illusions and a new ghost entertainment by Professor Pep per, with a lecture. Many novel scientific improvement and arrangements have been introduced into the ghost illusion by the professor, and hundreds of people assembled yester day to witness the entertainment, which took place at 3 o'clock, hnd was repeated in the evening. The piping bull finch warbled at intervals during the day. There were also dioramas and dissolving views, most of them new; exhibi tions of glass working, and of the oxy-hydrogen microscope, experiments in magic, buffo songs, an i an entertainment in. ventriloquism, besides experiments with the diving bell. MADAME TUSSAUD'S. As usual on a great holiday, this popular place cf recrea tion attracted a crowd of visitors, especially in the evening. Although upwards of halt a century has elapsed since the exhibition was first opened, it is still as great a favourite with the public as ever, and being wholly unique in its kind it remains without a rival. Of late many new figures of dis tinguished and historical personages have been added to the collection which greatly enhance its interest. Among these are all the principal members . of the Royal family, in appro priate groups, the late King of Denmark, and other Royal personages ; while Presidents Lincoln and Davis, Messrs. Slidell and Mason, Count Cavour, Garibaldi, and Cardinal Antonelli are conspicuous among the political and histori cal celebrities. The part of the exhibition familiarly known as the Chamber of Horrors is now designated in the pro • gramme as the Chamber cf Physiognomy; and there, among the latter additions, is to be found a figure of the murderer Townley. THE EGYPTIAN HALL. Here there was a morning exhibition of the magnificent moving panorama, illustrative of the tour of the Prince of Wales in the Holy Land, Turkey, and Egypt, comprising 17 pictures painted by Telbin, with a lecture by Mr. Arthur Matthison, and at intervals a musical accompaniment by Mise Fosbroke. The exhibition, which is one of great inte rest, was repeated in the evening. THE OXFORD AND CANTERBURY HALLS. "'he Oxford and Canterbury are not, like the gentlemen of the Oxford and Cambridge, in competition, and we can at Easter time also put them under one head, both doing their best, although not in rivalry, to gain the suffrages of the public. We have very recently had occasion to speak most favourably of the way in which the grand selection from "Faust" has been presented at the former establish.. meat, and if we may judge from the applause bestowea upon the performance last night, the audience fully ratified the good opinion to which we lately gave expression. The more the selection is sung the more smoothly do the choruses go, whilst familiarity with the great solo airs for Faust, Mephistopheles, and Marguerite a dd s veay much to t k o f or ce and finish with which the morceaux are rendered. tpheerio Oxford x she fo rd has and beentheCanterbury, distinguished erbury:h Mi ss Russell, who has had many ro l es t o play during the Seldo: Ibeei4endebnenttaer suited fb i o t t e h a with music, or had more scope afforded for the display of her undoubted mu s i ca l talents. Th e c h oruses r e e l off without hitch, and. when the full vocal and instrumental strength of the company is called into requisition the effect upon the ear is equal to that produced by some of the finest representations of the opera itself we have yet had in this country. Still, speaking of the Oxford, here it is that , ns worth revels in those irresistible sallies of mock-oratory that have quite removed his name from the category of the mere Nigger Entertainer. In his way, Unsworth is a teacher, who contrives, under the rough exterior of a stump crator, invested with all dae absurdities of costume, and descending to every extravagance of gesture, to preach an amount of home-spun philosophy, and scatter au amount of good advice, seasoned with banter and oven denunciation against shams of every kind, that may often be looked fur in vain from speakers who tal.e ethics under their especial care, and aro more free in the distribution of the pains and penalties which attach to error. Here, too, Eugene by the beauty of his soprano voice, and the splendid apeing of the female manner,leaves half his audience in doubt as to hi s sex. INlnclag,an (whose, " Thttar Bee -har" song ought still further to spread the fame of Bass throughout the world), W. Randall, Jrster, and little Nelly Power bring up the rear of an amount of comic talent seldom equalled, e ven under Mr. Morton's management. Of the Canterburyllall we have also recently had to speak in terms of especial praise in a notice o f th e brilliant Ghost illusion, called "Prince Blossom; or, the Fairies of the Magic Fountain and the Forest of Shadows." Its present representation morethanconfirms the judgment we then passed, namely, that it is the most ex t ra ordinary and powerful representation to which the invention first produced Po l ytechnic a' the P o lytechnic has given r i se . It certainly ecli pses everything that has preced e d it in the way of scenic effect, Whilst the beautifta illusion of " Fame pass-