In the Hunchback, MISS TERRY, appears to much greater advantage than in Much Ado about Nothing-in fact, we consider Julia one of the lady's best parts. Putting certain mannerisms of action out of the question, it is a fine performance, and we agree with MISS TERRY'S idolators that no actress on the London boards could play the character better. The younger MISS TERRY is a delicious Helen-a coquette with a heart, and a romp without an atom of coarseness. Her front scenes with Modus, bring the house down with a run. Mr. STUART, is a long-winded and guttural Master Walter; and Mr. NEVILLE plays Clifford respectably. In the fourth act he should make the pride of Sir Thomas more dignified and less sullen; he looks a little too ferocious and vindictive. Stage management as usual; wedding guests gorgeous in apparel and unembarrassed in attitude-scenery full of

humour.

The Covent Garden Concerts go swimmingly. STRAUSS is the hero of the evening.-"like CERBERUS, three gentlemen in one"-composer, conductor and leader. Mr. J. M. WEHLI is a pianist of the pyrotechnic school; one of those players who tear a pianoforte to rags-to very tatters-to split the ears of the groundlings in the Promenade. As regards execution, Mr. WEHLI's playing is remarkable; he has great power in the left hand, and is peculiarly dexterous at octaves. A selection from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet is admirably played by SIGNOR BOTTESINI's orchestra, and gives us a meaner opinion of the composer's talent than ever. The music is dancy and showy, and that's all. A blatant fanfare leads us in one part to a scrap of diddle-dum, that is hardly worth remembering. There is a mild infusion of MEYERBEER in this music which is not unpleasant; but we prefer taking our MEYERBEER neat. The Ragoczy March, arranged by BERLIOZ, and performed by the band, is a feature in the programme. Mr. LEVEY, who has been called PAGANINI redivivus-plays a dull solo on the violin. PAGANINI appears to have got out of his coffin in such a hurry as to have left his brains behind him. Mddle SAROLTA and

A PRACTICAL LOVER.

'Tis well to praise our English maids,
For eyes and bright expression,
For hair arranged in dainty braids,
For feet-this is digression.
For merry voices, winning ways,
Clear faces, ringing laughter;-
Your perfect beauty seldom pays,
For how about hereafter?

I have a maiden in my eye

My mind's eye-don't mistake meFor whose affection I shall try,

Unless weak tremors shake me,

Come, drink her health! Wilt take a pull ?

A bottle? come and crack it! For, oh! she looks so beautiful When cutting out a jacket!

CONSOLATION.

THE Course of events may be trusted,
Howe'er it may happen to run;
And I'm not altogether disgusted
With anything under the sun.
It is folly to be a regretter

That Fate seems a little perverse,

When I fancy things might have been better, I know that they might have been worse.

Let the luck of a life be collected;

You'll find, if you reason it out,

That if one thing is worse than expected,
The next will be better, no doubt.

So let me suggest to the fretter,

Who thinks Disappointment a curse,

That if many things might have been better, They certainly might have been worse.

The Write Way to Do It.

AN Irish paper states that MR. WHALLEY is so popular among the peasantry that he is inundated with letters asking for his autograph, and feels obliged to keep three clerks always at work to supply the required article.

Mddle. ERACLEO are the vocalists; the latter, who is very pretty, has one of those extraordinary Spanish voices which never will keep in tune, and the former has that Italian style which never will keep in time.

Reason and Rhyme.

REALLY our provincial contemporaries should be more careful of our common language-by which we don't mean vulgar language, for that our friends deal in. Here's an extract from the Scarborough Mercury:

"The usual loyal and complimentary toasts were given by the chairman; Mr. William Hodgson; Mr. Auburn, Hunmanby; Dr. Cross, Scarborough; and Mr. Smart, Aberford; which was briefly responded to by Messrs. Staveley, Kilham, Atkinson, and Smart. The Scarborough Volunteer Artillery Band was in attendance during the day, and whose lively strains DONE much to enhance the pleasure of the scene."

It would be useless to reason with the S. M., so we'll rhyme :

Such grammar as Scarborough's Really is barbarous !

From the Colonies.

RABBITS have increased so plentifully in Victoria, that the buildings of the Legislative Assembly will have to be promptly enlarged to accommodate the representatives of the numerous burrows that have "English hares have also shown themselves," says sprung up there. Three were discovered on the right cheek of a young gentleman of a colonial journal, "in places where they were not expected to be." sixteen, who has devoted half his life to the cultivation of whiskers. The Acclimatisation Society is reported to be greatly delighted at this result of the importation of Macassar.

WHY WERE THE DAUGHTERS OF MOSES VERY "SWEET GIRLS"?Because they were Mo' lasses.

LINES TO CUPID.

(OLD STYLE-VERY CURIOUS-NEARLY EXTINCT.)

WHAT, CUPID! at your thefts again!
Too bad, by half, you little traitor.
But here your efforts will be vain;
Cantabit vacuus viator.

Yes; point the arrow-bend the bow-
At which your mother made you clever.
My heart's at home, Love; but I know
There's nothing in it whatsoever.

You stole-but I forgive the theft-
All that was ever worth your stealing,
You gave it CHLOE, and you left

No scrap of sentiment or feeling.
I weigh the joy against the grief,

And pardon you my fret and fever:

For I consider Love-the thief

No worse than CHLOE-the receiver !

THE LAY OF THE THREE CLERKS.

SAUNTERING down the shady hollow,
Strolling o'er the sunny sands,

Letting fancy idly follow

Steamers bound for distant lands;

Watching through the distance hazy
Vessels standing out to sea,

Aren't we lazy-awful lazy;

Lazier chaps there couldn't be.

Down to see the tide out-running,
Back to watch the tide come in,
This we think enjoyment stunning,
Hands on stick supporting chin.
Meditations always mazy,

Not a thought among the three
Aren't we lazy-awful lazy;

Lazier chaps there couldn't be.

What's the use of always thinking?
Don't we over-tax the brain?

After eating, after drinking,
Comes the time for both again.
Pitching stone and plucking daisy

Tire our fingers out, you see.

Aren't we lazy-awful lazy;

Lazier chaps there couldn't be!

Not Worth so many Pins !

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A YOUNG man committed suicide in Paris the other day by running fifty pins into his bosom; stating in a letter that he did so because his life had been a series of disappointments, and adding, that he flattered himself his mode of suicide was quite original. At all events, if his life was disappointments, in his method of quitting it he carried his point-and fifty pins' points besides.

Answers to Correspondents.

[We cannot return rejected MSS. or sketches unless they are accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope.]

FITZADAM.-Send your address and we will return the letter to you. You must excuse our declining to have anything to do with the matter." TOURIST.-Need not have gone so far to fetch a joke that was imported long ago.

PLATO.-Not a dish to our liking.

A., who apologises for wasting our time, has, we fear, wasted his own. H. J. T. (Tavistock.)-We'll try to lick that into shape.

A CORRESPONDENT, who assumes the name of "Tom Brown," and sends We observe us copy, wishes us to state here" if there is anything in it." several mis-spellings in it-but that is all.

TULLUS-Rhymes with dullus, which isn't Latin, but might be English

if we were not particular as to rhyme.

F. A. (Barnsbury.)-Under consideration.

B. C. (Paddington.)-We'll see what we can make of it.
ARISTOPHANES.-Good, but it is not one of the birds we can aim at.

A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER (Herne Hill).-Can't you be satisfied with the portrait which appeared in our last?

LIONEL.-We are considering.

ZANY.-We don't see that there's (z)any point in it..

GINGER. You need not be an astrologer to look at the stars. If you're only an astronomer you'll do.

Declined with thanks:-F. A, Reading; "Bethnal Green;" J. R.; Egamorbeg; Fenian; W. C. T.; Billy Barlow, Edinburgh; F. P.; A. T. L., Liverpool; A Subscriber; Electra; D. M. N., Liverpool; Hearty; J. C., Islington; G. B., Portland-place; B. F. H., Manchester; J. B. C., Liverpool; Tom, Miss B., Sheffield; Sophroniscus; J. M., Frederick-crescent; W. C., Liverpool; A Funster; A Wiper, Sheerness; H. B. B.; E. O., Maida Vale; J. W.; X. P., Brighton; J. McJ., Glasgow; W. L. F., Yeovil; W. W. R., Dublin; Oxonian, Spalding; H.; Reader.

I have only seen two magazines as yet. Tinsley's second number is a decided improvement on the first. "Dr. Brady" is admirable, and there is a pleasant article on "Taking the Air"-in a balloon. There is more verse this month than last, but hardly as neat and finished, though "St. Ambrose" is clever enough. "The Rock Ahead" goes on well. "Aunt Anastatia" is rather a bore, and-strange to say"The Fashions" is a smart and amusing article. In Cassell's Magazine the most interesting article is a paper on ALEXANDER SMITH, by HANNAY. There are also a chatty essay on "Front Seats" by ĎUTTON Cook, some sound articles on "Old Clothes," "Hair Markets," and topics of that sort, and some very pleasant verses by ARTHUR LOCKER, brother of the author of "London Poems." The illustrations, with the exception of WATSON's frontispiece, might be better, I think; but it is hardly fair to pass judgment on them, they are, as a rule, so very badly printed. But you can't have everything for sixpence, I suppose!

The theatres are most of them closed, or closing, or about to re-open. The Royalty still fills every night. The Strand opened on last Monday with MR. and MRS. HOWARD PAUL. I went to the Princess's to see MRS. VEZIN in "Masks and Faces," and was pleased-as I always am-with_her acting. MR. MACLEAN and MR. PRICE supported her ably, but I cannot say very much for the rest of the cast.

FANNY AND JENNY.

FANNY and JENNY in Paris did dwell,

MISS JANE was a dowdy, Miss FANNY a swell-
Each went for to dine at a quarter to four

At her own little favourite Restauratore-
FANNY of BERTRAM AND ROBERTS was fond
While JENNY she worshipped her SPIERS AND POND.

The Restaurateurs didn't seem for to care
For JENNY's soft ogle or FANNY's fond stare.
Said JENNY," Don't let us be taken aback,
Were probably on an erroneous tack,
And BERTRAM AND ROBERTS of me may be fond,
While you are beloved by SPIERS AND POND!""

"Oh, BERTRAM AND R., are you dying for me,
Or am I the chosen of SPIERS AND P.P

Oh, which is the angel and fostering star

Of SPIERS AND P., or of BERTRAM AND R.,

Which firm have I collared in VENUS's bond?

Say, BERTRAM AND ROBERTS-speak SPIERS AND POND!

Perhaps if you cannot completely agree

Which of you shall have FANNY and which shall have me,
And you wish for to go for to do what is right,

You will go to the Bois de Boulogne for to fight-
It's the mode that is popular in the beau monde,-
Will BERTRAM AND ROBERTS fight SPIERS AND POND?

But SPIERS AND POND are but perishing clay,

So they gasped and they gurgled and fainted away-
The burden of BERTRAM AND ROBERTS's song
Was "Goodness! how shocking! Oh, please go along!
With neither for worlds would we ever abscond!"
And "Ditto for us," exclaimed SPIERS AND POND.

Said FANNY, "How bold, and how dreadfully rude!"
"These men are too forward," said JENNY the prude.
"Such youth and such beauty as both of us own
Are safe in the walls of a convent alone,
We shall there be the coarse persecutions beyond
Of BERTRAM AND ROBERTS and SPIERS AND POND."

Bab

Bab

JANE lived in a modest and lady-like way: To SPIERS AND POND she went every day,

An Arch-or Viaduct-Remark. IN these days when so many comic papers are serious, and so many serious papers are intensely humorous, we are not quite sure whether our scientific contemporary Engineering is joking or not in the following paragraph, clipt from a recent number:

"FAILURE OF A RAILWAY VIADUCT IN INDIA.-The largest viaduct over the Chane Ghaut incline, 160 ft. high, have given way through faulty construction, and two trains thereby narrowly escaped construction."

The grammar is a little obscure, so we must guess what "the failure of the railway" means. In England lines don't fail until after they are made, and have raised all the money (and more) which Parliament permits. In India it would seem they "narrowly escape construction." They evidently want a "PETO AND BETTS" firm, over there: the lines would not escape construction then!

A Note of Admiration.-From the Columbian Press. THE Columbian, CAPTAIN BAKER, a new steamship belonging to the West India and Pacific Steamship Company, has made the run out to Colon in the extraordinary time of twenty-one days, including stoppages of four days. After this un-comma'nly quick passage it must have been found necessary to come to a full stop at Colon for coalin' purposes. Let us hope that the captains of all our ocean-going steamers will take a lesson in punctuation from CAPTAIN BAKER.

Purse-picuity!

HERE is a curious announcement:

FOUND, some time ago, a PURSE, containing money and the person who lost a

purse at T. A. P.'s shop, 56, C.-street, can have the same by giving a proper description, and paying cost of advertising.-Apply at 56, C.-street.

A purse containing, both money and the person who lost it-for so the sense or nonsense seems to run-would be a curiosity indeed! The advertiser must be an extraordinary purse-'un!

International Courtesies.

THE SULTAN and the VICEROY of Egypt will, no doubt, feel highly gratified on learning that many English gentlemen have declared that they will not fire a shot upon the Moors this year.

"Serious Explosion at the Mansion-House." We have been surprised to note that a paragraph under this heading has been going the round of the papers. Judging from the reports of the speeches delivered by some of the City magnates on festive occasions, we should imagine that explosions-of a side-splitting character-are by no means rare in that locality, making it a matter of surprise that the press should consider the circumstance worthy of notice.

THE REAL BRITISH STANDARD.-22 carat gold.