... THEATRES, &&- -r- drama, in three acts, called Vie Casket of Jewels, and announced in the bills as Slew, was produced here on Monday eveniong with equivocal success. The recom- mendations of the piece were indeed so slight that it was inm- possible to imagine why it should have beep drawn forth from the obscurity in which it has long been buried. The drama, it seems, is the production of ...

... CURIOUS THEATRIC 4 I -in~nnlo^ uiorresponuence. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-The following curious correspondence, which was passed when a league was once proposed betaee, the theatrical potentates at the Lan an t Garden, which I have met with in an oldp r, perhaps, amuse your theatrical readers: m ay, Drury-lane, November g Dear Wild,-Pray lend me a couple of conspirat0 for to-night. ...

... AT= EXHIBON SURPLUS lie secon'd report ot lileucommissio0015 of 1i51 beet isstied, by which it appears the ctOliS. i ave Ire p urchrjyed 1110 Groe 9l5u1s estate, at H1-Ide Palk, containing twenty !Keuncs and a hallt for which they have given ii Thd 1'ltoV have also passed a resolution au- ;tl outlay of a suml tot exceeding 150,000 I the iurplus in the purchase of laud, on the condi- that ...

... 7J53O AND TIRE DEAEVXA awT Mtanchester.| (lt'r.At OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) '1tt ATl, R1OYAL.-This establishment being cloned rtbe (halia until the beginning of September, Mr. lruadin, the celebrated magician, hats taken tbe ' atle let a few nights, and gave the first of his magic on Thursday last, aid if we may judge Ii l ytlucess of his previous visit to Manchester, his lobeldlrary ...

... On Wednesday evening the second meeting for the present season was held at the society's house, Adelphi Mr. Thomas Hoblym, F.R.S.,presided. Mr. SrTANnuaw proceeded to give the announced lecture on the subject of auriferous ores and Mr. Berdan's recent inventions for erashing them. The leeturer devoted the earlierportion of his lecture to the history of gold discovery, from the gold, fields of ...

... AXUMSEHNT ISTE. (sBOm OUR OWN COxBPQSSPNxBeT.) TwuarnT ROYAL.-The favourable reception accorded to the operatic company, consieting of Mdlte. Carado'i IlerrpFormei, Herr Reiehardt, Mdllc. Zimmerman, &c., some weeks ago, on the occasion of their visit to Mauchcotcr, induced them to improve the intercourse with our ?? g citicece by cntering into another short engagement which commenced on Monday ...

... 1U C A D T E DR.AIA AT Blanchester. (FROs oUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL.-Miss Glyn's engagement is proving Successful, much to the unnoyance of her detractors, of whick the lady has undeservedly many, We should com- it an act of injustice if we were to omit to mention, in terms of commendations the Tobias of Mr. W. S. Foote, in The Stranger, on Saturday. It had many affecting touches ...

... (,rOR ?? oua cOWNasa'OMow0DET.) THEATRE RtOYAL.-MatCs 2'empesta, the new drama, has continued to be the otaple amusement of our play-going public since our last. Our manager strikes when the iron is hot, but the moment the metal gives indication of a falling temperature, or rather, in anticipa- tion of any such declension, hie changes his hand and forges soms other weapon wherewith to attack ...

... THEATRICALS A-ND AMUSEXENTS IN Sheffield. (Bose onv? OVn? CoRELSPONDENT). ThElTrE BOv)M..-(Lcssee, Mir. Thomas Youdan.)-On Monday evening last our townsman, Mr. Youdan, opened thlis estalblishment for the summer season, and produced, as a holiday treat, a new comic pantomime, entitled Cinderaella qf ti/e Crystal Slipfer; or, Karleqsuius and the Tei of thes ist, which has been put upon the ...

... TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE EBRA. Sir,-I cannot but admire the policy adopted by MR. ALBERT SxITH at his popular and most successful entertainment of an- nihilating all those gross impositions which assail the visitor to a theatre at every turning he may take in the building. I can call it by no milder name than imposition, and one, too, which has nothing to hack it but the most stupid of reasns-old ...

... THE LATE ROYAL OPERRA,' AND Arzest of Madame Caradori. 23enjamin Sloman, surrendered 'on Thursday, at the Central Criminal Court, to take his trial upon an indictment which charged him with the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury.. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry were counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for. the defendant, Mr. Ballantine, in opening the case to the jury, said ...

... CE N IN E CO S SIP. -BY AN OLD ACTRESS. CHAPTER XXIIL-DISCURSIvE 3My connexion with Stanton's company led to my introduc- tion to poor Charles Baker. He was then a young, fresh-coloured, curly-headed fellow, and greatly admired by the ladies. He was an effective elocutionist, and, indeed, in later years, the cor- rectness of his speaking was the distinguishing characteristic of his ...