13 APRIL 1861, page 16

Short Time.

T HE passion for leisure seems to increase among us. For nearly two hundred years, ever since the Puritan uprising gave the death blow to public holidays„the tendency . of......

Omit.

Tzz delay in the opening. of Her Majesty's Theatre, at which people, as we said last week, were beginning to wonder, has been ex- plained by the lessee himself. He has announced......

The Monday Popular Concerts, Interrupted By The Easter...

been resumed. On Monday evening last St. James's Hall was crowded to - the doors, as usual ; though the programme presented nothing which a few years ago would have been thought......

Fin .51rto.

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. SxcoND Noxicz. TEE first picture which calls for remark in the smith-west room, is a pre-Raphaelite specimen by Mr. J. Lee (413), "Sailors taking......