... . Health Depart m knt. April 10W, 1894. Gentlemen. During the quarter ending March 31st, 1894, seventy-seven births and fifty-live deaths were registered in the Borough of Worthing. There was 110 death from fever, nor, indeed, from any notifiable disease. The Health of the district was in a most satisfactory condition. The death-rate was equal to an annual rate of 13'U per 1,000, In England ...

... COEEESPONDENCE. IN SUSPENSE. To the Editor of The Illustbated Sporting and Dbamatic News. SIR,-- Accidents in the hunting-field have been too numerous this season not to have attracted .public attention, and the number of ladies who have suffered from the zeal with which they followed the sport has also been above the yearly average. The state of the country during the first half of the winter ...

... . To the Editor of The Illdsteated Spoetino and Deamatio News. Sie, Accidents in the hunting-field have been too numerous this 'season not to have attracted .public attention, and the number of ladies who have suffered from the zeal with which they followed the sport has also been above the yearly average. The state of the country during the first half of the winter, and the openness of the ...

... . [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir,-- Mr. Chatterton is not an astute man if he were, he would have edited Richard III. before producing a revival of that tragedy at Drury-lane. Had he done so, he might have gracefully responded in person to the call of author, after the modest manner of Mr. Tom Taylor. It is well known how that gentle man bowed his ...

... AN IRISHMAN'S OPINION OF THE OUEEN OF CONNAUGITT. Sir, No answer appeared to that foolish leper by the author of the Queen of Connaught in the Daily Telegraph for the simple reason that it was not published. I am not the only Irishman who deeply resented the libel thrown upon the whole nation by this startlingly original play. The more so, as being somewhat behind the scenes, so to speak, ...

... MR. BARNES'S JOSEPH SURFACE, AND MPs.. BANCROFT. {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, In answer to a paragraph in your paper of this date, with reference to a letter I am stated to have written to Mr. Barnes, concerning his performance of Joseph Surface, at the Gaiety Theatre, will you allow me space in your next issue to say that I have never addressed a ...

... Sir, May I ask your permission to transfer from Mr. Weatherly to myself your censure on the two ungrammatical lines in fhp ahnvp inn cr. T renret to sav that I alone am resnonsible for :he mistake, having with Mr. Weatherly's permission, and at the ast moment, altered part of the third verse in order to meet, as it seemed to me. an exigency in the music. Apologising for tres passing on your ...

... . Sir, Having seen an article in your paper of the 7th of this month, under the head of Turfiana, in reference to the action of M'Corkill v. Corscaden, in which the facts are not fairly ot truly stated in justice to myself I have been forced to take up my pen to give you and your readers a correct account of the affair. It is not my intention to go through the whole history ol this .case, ...

... . {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sportino and Dramatic News.) Sir, I noted with considerable satisfaction your comment upon the flippant ignorance with which a special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph described the Servian National Drama. His sneering reference to. the heroic patriot Karageorge (Black George) as a pig-driver, was specially amusing. But similar ignorance, real or assumed ...

... SIIAKSPEAREAN REVIVALS. (To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, I have been anticipating a great treat for the ensuing few weeks in seeing Shakspeare well played and well mounted my disappointment was severe on learning that we are to have Colley Gibber's improvements on Shakspeare at Drury Lane, and is increased by the dread thought suggested by the advertise ments ...

... . {To the Editor op the Illustrated Sportino and Dramatic News.) Sir, One with eyes thinks the Wig Maker might have given Jt Irs. Rousby ears, or a place for where they are or ought to be. I feel so deeply grieved that such an omission is in your fascinating paper. An Admirer. ...

... {To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.) Sir, In your issue of the gth ultimo, I find an article, entitled Mrs. Rousby as the Missing Gainsborough. I thought I knew something of Mrs. Rousby and her relations, therefore I have to respectfully ask you, who is Mr. Meredith Thomson, the sculptor I know two of her uncles, John Evan Thomas, a sculptor, and his brother, William ...