... On Saturday afternoon (5th inst.) St. James's Hall was well ailed by an audience composed chiefly of young ladies, young men, and children, not to mention a considerable sprinkling of clergymen, who paid undeviating attention to, and seemed thoroughly to appreciate, the performance of Mr John Farmer's Oratorio Christ end His Soldiers. Being intended essen- tially for the young, it is naturally ...

... THE LONDON MUSIC -ALLS, T HE Ca AT _ER B U RY. We may learn from the prologue to Wordsworth's Peter Bell, if we are not already possessed of the information, that there's something in a flying horse. We oha t the slightest doubt that many thousand, tempted towards the Surrey Downs during the past week, and nothing for the time bein if not horsey, would be prepared to acknowledge the ...

... =-T- -TII -DRAA 7 =N = THE DRAMA& IN PARIS. ('hsObXs OUR OWN oORReSPONDENT.) PARI-S THuRSDAY.-ODEON.-Ir the closing days of 1876 M. Ernest ?? brought out at the Second Theatre Francais, as the spacious house in the Latin Quarter is grandiloquently styled, a little comedy in verse, entitled La Belle ,Sotas'e, which obtained a decided success. Its action was laid in Japan, and the curious ...

... TUE DRAMA IN PApISq IXDA .-T ABE A (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) - PARIS, THURSDAY.-OPER.A.-It is ?? the conditions of Bouh~y's engagement by Al. Hslcret ha sos1 he should be allowed an opportunity of (lefntianvery ?? tb0t his position on the lyric stage by appearing as the hero ofla Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet. The young artist ,siof return to the house where he made a very brief tote llsi five ...

... The first public concert of the National Training School for Music was given on Mlontlay evening at St. James's I-Hall, in the presence of an audience distinguished even more for its quality than its quantity, since the Prince and Princess of lVales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Prince and Princess Christian, and a host of otho Rioyal and titled visitors, came to do honour to the ...

... [The follouing appeared in our Town EDITION of Last Week.I *T&XSY 'Miss Neilson commenced here last Saturday a series of twelve Shakespearian performances, and there can be little doubt that a host of admirers of the accomplished and gifted actress will eagerly avail themselves of the opportunities thus afforded to pay tribute to her genius and to send her on her projected American tour firm ...

... A iIA.ILEQUIN'S LEAP. On Monday last Sheriff Murray heard evidence in a theatri cal action, in which the pursuer was William Kelly, profession- ally known as Harry Howard, ballet master and Harlequin, and the defender Charles Bernard, Proprietor and Lessee of the Gaiety Theatre, Glasgow. Pursuer seeks to recover the sums of 60 for wrongful dismissal and200 for slander. In December last pursuer ...

... Diet Jone HARE and MI ?? H. Kendal, it is now decided, are to be the Lessees of the newly-constructed St. James's Theatre. Here, indeed, is coed news for all those who wish well to Dramatic Art. What Dir Hare has done for the Stage both as actor and Manager, and how earnestly and con- scientiously Dir Kendal and his accomplished wife have worked to raise the tone of the Profession they adorn, ...

... EXTRAOIRDINARY OPPOSITION TO A DRAMATIC LICENCE. At Cardiff Police-court, on Monday, an application was made by Mr Vachell for a renewal of the dramatic licence of the Philharmonic Theatre in St. Mary-street. The Magistrates on the bench were the Mayor (fir R. 0. Jones), Alderman W. Taylor (ex-Mayor), Alderman W. Alexander, Alderman Thomas Evans, Mr Griffith Phillips, Mr M'Conilochie, Mr A. ...

... FOR A THEAILITTRICAL LICENCE On Monday a special Sessions was held at the TowifWU?,l -j. Giravesend1, for tho pur pose of hearing ain application from Mlr Thomas Eves, Proprietor of the Wrotham-road Nursery and Pavilion, for a licence to produce stage plays. Mr E. R1. Gram- slshw appeared for the applicant, and M1r Moseley, barrister, on behalf of Mrs Ituddell, ownerof the Theatre l3oyal, New ...

... MR. AND MRS. RENDAL AT BIRMINGHAM. On Wednesday evening Mr and Mr Kendal visited Birming- ham, in fulfilment of a promise made at the close af their engagement in Diplonac.cey at the Prince of Wales Theatre in last season, to give a reading in aid of the funis of the Queen's Hospital. The entertainmenlt took place in the Town Hall in the presence of a very large and fashionable audience. The ...

... AIMUSEMENTS TN LIVERPOOL. RoSYAL. ALEXANDRA TllRAavnm.-Lessee, Mlr E. Salcer.-Tbe eontiinuanlcc of the engagement of The Children's Pinafore company at the Alexandra Theatre on Mlonday evening proved *a great, source of attraction to the thousands of holiday people who vacated Liverpool on Whit, Mlonday, and old and yonng alike thoroughly enjoyed the novel and clever representation hy the ...