Summary Of News For April.

MISCELLANEOUS . The Quarters Revenue , ending March 31 , showed a total income of £ 15 , 021 , 276 , being an increase of £ 4 , 384 , 308 over the corresponding quarter of last year . The total revenue for the year was £ 59 , 496 , 154 , and the net increase , £ 6 , 312 , 624 , principally due to the doubled income tax . A new Law Reform Association has been started , under the title of the Juridical Society . Damages of 1 , 000 / . have been given against Cardinal Wiseman , in an action for libel on the Rev . Mr . Boyle , a Roman Catholic priest .

AMUSEMENTS FOR THE MONTH .

Wm . Gran , having been charged with obtaining money from the Earl of Essex , by false representations , proposed to the magistrate , that instead of being sent to prison , he might be more usefully employed as a detective officer , to bring begging letter impostors to justice .. Mr . Broderip , however , not approving of the proposition , sent him to prison for three months . A Mr . Fitzroy , who gained a somewhat unenviable notoriety in October last , for riotous conduct at St . Paul ' s Church , Knightsbridge , has been convicted at Chichester

of uttering forged cheques , and sentenced to four months imprisonment . Mr . Fitzroy does not obtain his majority until June next , when he comes into 24 , 000 / . The Pope had a narrow escape from loss of life or injury at Turin , on the 12 th . His Holiness , accompanied by several persons , was in the hall of the Convent of St . Agnes , near Rome , the floor fell in . Cardinal Antonelli and the French General Montreal received some slight contusions . Mr , Gye , though somewhat tardily , has reopened the Royal Italian Opera , and has

promised that in the course of the season he will produce at least two novelties , L' Etoile du Nord , of Meyerbeer , ancl the Trovatore , of Verdi , both possessing a great continental reputation , which , from what we have heard , appears to be fully deserved . The house opened on the 13 th with Rossini ' s II Comte Org , the principal characters in which were personated by Madame Angiolina Bosio , Madlle . Marai , Madlle . Nantier Didiee , Signor Gardoni , Signor Zelger , and Signor Tagliafico ; and the pretty little ballet entitled , line Etoile , in which Mesdames Battalini , Esper , and Leblond , Mr . W . II . Payne , and M . Desplacos appeared . Madame Bosio fully

sustained the reputation she has already won . Signor Gardoni , who made his first appearance at this theatre , was warmly welcomed as an old favourite , and the whole of the performance went off with great eclat . On the 19 th , on occasion of the visit of the Queen and her Imperial visitors , FideKo was produced ancl Madlle . Ney made her first appearance before a British audience in the character of Leonora , in which she achieved a complete success , which has been strengthened by subsequent performances . Madlle . Cerito has also appeared in a new ballet called Eva , ancl received fresh

proofs of the public favour which she used to enjoy in the Haymarket . At Drury Lane , notwithstanding former discouragements , a third season of the Royal Opera at moderate prices has been commenced , and if talent will command it , with every prospect of success . The opening opera on the 16 th April , was La Sonnambula , in which Mdme . Gassier , a soprano of much talent , made a very successful debut as Amina , and was well supported by her husband ancl Signor Bettini , The same artistes have since appeared in the Barber of Seville , and been equally , if not successfulBoth the

more . band , ancl the chorus are very creditable to the establishment , and a slight ballet divertissement agreeably winds up the evenings amusements . A French drama of Les Cosaques , which has run for 200 nights at La Gaite , has been produced on alternate nights with the opera , the whole of the French troupe who have been so long engaged in it , having visited England for the purpose . It is an excellent spectacle , and well deserves a visit . The enthusiasm of John Bull has shown no bounds in the applause which has been bestowed on this French " Patriotic drama . "