... . To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Dear Sir, In your criticism of the new opera at the Savoy, you attribute a great part of the success obtained to Mr. Clarlcson and the Costumiers. I am not in the habit of impor tuning the newspapers for advertisement of my name when I have executed work for a theatre, but, if the newspapers are good rnoogli to occupy themselves ...

... . Bononon of Worthing Health Department. 19 W. April., 1894. Sri:, As considerable attention was called to Worthing last year, will yon allow the enclosed to appear in your columns We may mention that we are now supplied with water from new tube wells a mile north of the town, and the water is excellent. It has been examined and certified to be of an exceptionally pure character by Dr. Klein. ...

... . To the Editor of the1' Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir We are once more on the eve of Hospital Sunday in London, aud for the twenty-second year in succession, the courtesy of your assistance is asked to enable me, in my capacity as treasurer of the fund, to make a very urgent appeal to the charitable public to support this annual effort in aid of the hospitals, dispensaries, and ...

... [To the Editor op the Illustrated Sportixg and Dramatic News.) Sir, The owner of a prize donkey near Shrewsbury lias in vented a collar for it which is a great improvement on the common one. The collar and harness are in one piece, and the collar opens 011 a hinge at the bottom where the hames usually open, so that, instead of slipping it over the animal's head, it is put on its neck, as the ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. MR. HENRY LESLIE'S COPY OF THE ILLUS TRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS. To the Editor of the Sporting and Dramatic News. Sir, The counterfeit presentment of your valuable paper published in this city, was started on cheek, carried on in fraud, and will end its shameful existence in ignominy. And that time is not far distant. Already the grand proprietor is unable to pay ...

... . {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I have read with great interest B. W.'s article on Cricket Reform in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of September 13, but am surprised not to find any allusion to the numerous extraordinary specimens of bowling analysis, curiosities in which appear to me to have been remark ably frequent in recent first-class ...

... . (To the Editor of Tite Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sin, Would you allow me, through the medium of your ■widely-circulated journal, to call attention to the boating acci dents on the Thames, now of almost daily occurrence, and to point out that most of the accidents are dtre to the wash of the large saloon steamers which voyage up the river above Ham mersmith. When out boating a ...

... . (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, Your correspondent, A Gentleman Jockey, must be a very clever man, although his spelling is somewhat indifferent. He is also a peculiar man, for he likes capped hocks. Clean legs, too, arc objectionable to him. He is, moreover, a terrible man, for he threatens to drop his subscription. When the Gentleman Jockey's ...

... . {To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News., Sir, While speaking of Bazin, it may not be uninteresting to know that the following eminent musicians are mentioned, amongst others, as candidates for his vacant place at the Academie des Beaux Aris Massenet, Saint Saens Guiraud, Delibes, JonciJres, Ernest Boulanger, and Membree. Bazin's last work was sung at the festival of the ...

... . (To the Editor of The Illustrated Spoetino and Dramatic News.) Deab Sib, As at once a dramatist, and a member of the company at the W. M. T. House performance of Thackeray's only play, permit me to assure you that, all question of the acting altogether apart, it succeeded very well indeed, as it deserved, so well as to show anybody with eyes to see that the scarcity of British plays is due ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. LADIES ON HORSEBACK. To the Editor of Tun. Illustrated Spouting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I cannot but feel flattered that my Ladies on Horse back papers should have called forth so large a correspon dence. I read every letter most carefully, and on perusing that of Hersilie, which appeared in last week's issue, it struck me, from two of her observations, that persons might ...

... Sib, In your issue of the 4th December, Farmer writes that his horses are fed upon oats which have been soaked in cold water, and that he has the com thus prepared because he could not easily manage to have a steaming apparatus for cook ing the food in the way that is recommended by Mr. Edward Mayhew, M.R.C.V.S., in his Illustrated Horte Manage ment. The plan that I have adopted during the ...