In aid of The Actor's Benevolent Fund, the Irving Amateur Dramatic Club are going to give a performance of _Henry IV. (Part I.)_, at the Lyceum Theatre, Saturday afternoon, March 29, when in consequence of H.R.H. The Princess of WALES having accorded her gracious patronage, the Welsh song will be sung by Miss ELEANOR REES on the stage, as _Lady Mortimer_, which will be a melodious illustration of rhyme and REES-on. The Amateurs appearing for the Actors is as it should be. The President of the Club is HENRY, not the Fourth, but the First, yclept HENRY IRVING, and the Vice, with numberless virtues, is Mr. JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M.P., whom if it be JUSTIN Pater (not JUSTIN MARTYR), we should like to have seen in spectacles in the Tavern Scene, as _Francis_ the Drawer,--a drawer would have been an immense attraction. If JUSTIN Junior could play the other Drawer, the attraction would be doubled. "Sure such a pair!" But we must not jest in too Shakspearian a manner. We hope the Actors' Benevolent will benefit largely by the acting of the Benevolent Amateurs. Let the Benevolent Public too go and see _Henry IV. (Part 1st)_, and let them "part first." * * * * * NOTE (_by One who doesn't pretend to know French_). The Tirard Cabinet couldn't go on, because it was too Tirard!! * * * * * [Illustration: ARTISTIC POSTPRANDIALISM. _Painter._ "I HOPE I SHALL HAVE THE PLEASURE OF HEARING YOU PLAY TO-NIGHT!" _Musician._ "ACH, NO! AFTER TINNER, MUSIC IS TISCOSTING! LET US CO ROUND AND LOOK AT ZE PUTIFUL BICTURES TOGEZZER--JA?" _Painter._ "WHAT! _PICTURES!_ AFTER _DINNER_! THE VERY IDEA MAKES ME SICK!" [_Exeunt, to play Poker._]] * * * * * THE NEW AMAZON. Ride-a-cock horse To Banbury Cross, To see a young Lady A-straddle, o'course. If the new notion Very far goes, What she'll do next Nobody knows. * * * * * SPECTACULAR.--How is it that among the guests at the Livery Dinner--(ugh! horrid expression! Yet I dare say the dinner wasn't more livery than any other City banquet)--of the Spectacle Makers' Company, were not to be found AUGUSTUS DRURIOLANUS, quite the best spectacle maker in London, and that from among the list of toasts as reported, Art, Literature, and the Drama were omitted? Through what spectacles do the Spectacle Makers see? * * * * * REFLECTION ON THE RECENT VALUABLE DISCOVERY AT CANTERBURY.--If cremation had been the practice in 1228 there would have been no remains of STEPHEN LANGTON to-day. Without the remains of the Archbishop, is it likely that the treasures, historically so valuable, would have been permitted to come down to us? * * * * * MR. C. M. WOODFORD has just brought out a book entitled _A Naturalist among the Head Hunters_. Ahem! It doesn't sound nice. Is it procurable at every hairdresser's?