... A DRAMlASTIC COLLEGEJ. TO THE EDITOR OF TRE ERA. Sir,-As a constant reader of your valuable journal, I have Perused with interest, from time to time, the eflusions of a Garrickson on the Decline and Fall of the English Drama. in Although I cannot agree with many of the opinions expressed in that gentleman's firat four articles on the above subject, his fifth and concloding one contains ...

... TO TIlM EDITOR OF THE REA. Sir,-Ilaving with great pleasure perused the letters of A Gar. rickson and W. A., respecting a Dramatic School, and agreeing with them that inestimable benefit would be derived from the formation of such an institution, allow me to follow in their foot. steps, and, to the best of my humble abilities, advance a few more words in its behalf. I know,. sir, I ...

... Wreck on the Irish Coast.-Gallant Lifeboat Services. BALBRIGGAN, WEDNrESDAY.-On Sunday night a large brig came to an anchor under Lambay Island, on the coast of the county of Dublin, during a heavy gale of wind from the east. Oa Monday mornin0, about eight o'clock she cut away her masts, as she was dragging her anchor, At two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day the lifeboat of the Royal ...

... Ml. THACKERAY AND MR. ]EDMUND Yates.-The Garriok Club. A case which promisese to be of considerable interest in literary and club circles, and which will raise anl important and novel point, is to be tried by one of the common law courts, at West. minster, probably during the sittings at Msieirs after the present term. It arises ant of the dispute between Mr. Thackeray and Mr. Edmund Yates, ...

... The Smithfield Club Cattle Show. Mr. B. T. Brandreth Gibbs, the hon. secretary, and comniittee of the Smithfield Club, attended at the Baker-street Bazaar for the purpose of making arrangements for the Metropolitan Cattle Shoic of 1858. The attention of Londoners is only once in each year forcibly drawn to agricultural matters through the instrumentality of the Smithfield Club Cattle Show; and ...

... The American equestrian troupe of Messrs. Howes and Coshing, which acquired such a vast amount of popular support on their first appearance within these walls, has now returned, and on Mon- day evening a new series of performances, distinguished by the addition of some novel features, as well as by a retention of the best ot those that gave to their establishment its original popularity, drew ...

... FORL LICENSED VICTUALLERS ** Tzhis page will always be found interesting to Licensed VieitoalZers, and the operations of the UNITED TOWNS' ASSOCIATION AND LICENSED VIC- TUALLEES' DEFENCE LEAGUE are published under their own superintendence. Licensed Victuallers' Ball. This customary yearly entertainment was celebrated at the (1luildhll on Thursday evening. Great exertions lad been made by the ...

... PUBLIC MORALS ANi D SWEETKMEATS. I The lives of two more children have. been sacrificed to the atrocious imposition carried on in the manufacture of lozenges, and the sweetmeats vended as wholesome and edible dainties to the public, by a string of unprincipled scoundrels, who, from the con- fectioner down to the market hawker, demands, at the hands of the people the heaviest castigation'that a ...

... FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF TE I Sufferers by the Mutiny in India, TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-Many inquiries having been made as to the operations and liabilities of this fund, may I request the favour of your publishing the accompanying statement ? I am, Sir, yours obediently, THOMAS Q. FINNIS, President. 27, Caunnon-street, Nov. 1. INDIAN MUTINY RELIEF FUND. The General Committee of this fund ...

... MEMOIR OP MIR. JAMIEBS HUDSON, The Celebrated Irish Comedian. I All the world is indeed a stage now in a sense that was never contemplated in the days of Shakspere, for actors are making engagements in every part of it, and if a new continent were to be discovered to-morrow, we be- lieve the theatre would rise as one of the earliest of the new structures wanted to meet the demand of the ...