Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

AL, DRAM ATIC, TATTT•'.TI \B'\ AND ARTISTIC
NEWS AND. GOSSIP.
";,.,-land from Rome his coloured

M tra,:_

• •..,
.
Mr: Gihgcsh is gendlig'to lb',
statue of Venus. .
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles 'N.atlieWs apPearea4 at -.Tn0.,,....H
market on Monday.
Music at the Crystal Palace continues attracting conuois-,
sienrs to the Saturday concerts.
. . Mr. Alexander Dumas has arrived at Marseilles, return-
ing from his long travels in Russia and the East.
A new farce, by Mr. A. C. Troughton, is in preparation
at the Strand Theatre, to be called " Vandyke Brourr."
These eccentric comedians, the Christy Minstrels, con-
tinue their performances in Paris with increasing success.
Rossini, departing from his determinatiott to compose no
more music, has coup. used an Ave Maria for the Empress

At the Grecian Theatre, the drama of " Tit's
Late to Mend" has bees-reproduced, and contisue

Never tom

large audiences

'The Critic reiterate

to attract

" The Vestig,es of

I)ai

,ts assertion as to the Enthorship of
mien," despite the denial of the

Smith

. Mapieson and Co., the agents of Mr. E. T.
forms us that Signor Graziani has signml an en-

gagement for Drury-lane
We are sorry to hear that Miss Swanborough, the clever
and attractive manageress of the now prosperous Strand
Theatre, has been suffering from the effects of an ac.3icTent.
At the Princess's Theatre the "last ShakesPetian Re—
vival" will be produced on Monday, the 28th inst., for the
benefit of Mr. and. Mrs. Charles Kean. "He'

•e, to commence i

i the play selected. •
At the Lyceum, Mr. Stirling Cayne has a new drama
accepted for Mr. and Mrs. Barney Willi
Edmund Falcnner has a new-play reutly for
Mrs.. 'Charle"

.n -Mr

Preparatior

are being made for the performar

Ci Hey
rheatre. Tst

it a ma

been played at Sadler's

.ffeent- seule at

last few years has this niece

\17:6-1Is; and

h • time with

In the event of a vacancy occurring in the representa-
tion of Cambridge Uni‘ersity, C. .T. Selwyn, Esq., a: as
of Trinity College, the Chancery barrister, brother of the
BiShop of New Zealand and of Professor Selwyn,. will he-s-
-candidate.
Mr. Sala's admirers will be.glad to learn the title of• his

one--". Gas Lio.ht and Da;
London Scenes
14tessrs. Chapman and Hall, says the i• •
to be the publiShers.

next work

L' ht, with s

It is sa

it a commission is about to- be appointed to
revise the regulations of the Theatre Francais established
by the Imperial decree of Moscow.; particularly in what
rel

s to the money coming to authors f..)r- the' represe—;

tation of their pieces

For the Hertz Collection of anti
Mr. Hertz twelve thousand poi=
c-olrec

thousand pi

Kr. -Mayer has, con

nr. Mayer gave

thousand •
Mr.. IV,

; by thp trpisaction,
we obsenre, has

:ent sale of the

," b 5• a distin

lied. writer

says, realised tem
equently, lost two

s of an. anti-Trac

ed his intention,
ress "A Tale of

m" and

a novel- an anti-

dote to " Amy Herbert," and that sort of thing.
A paper has been extensirely circulated amongst the
nobility and gentry during the past week, stating that the
house of Colnaghi and Co, propose to pu
portrait of a lady of high, rank WE

fish a caricature
quested to state,
The

that the contents of 'thi& paper are wholly false
eminent firm referred to, would not lend themselves to such