... One feature of the English Stage, which is perhalps more prominent than any other, is, not the negative quality of all absence of viciousness in its tendency, but its actual and active instillation by precept and example of those virtues that go to make a, good man and a worthy citizen. We are aware that a few plays of recent date may be quoted in dispute of our' dogma, but these productions, ...

... (Poat 01715 OWN CORRlESPONDENTS.) ABERDEEIN. HER51 MAJESTY'S OP'ERA Ilousos.-Lessce, Mr Uim. Goniersal.-A secoisd edition of the Pantomime of Sinbred the Salter lisneencl given this week, with thle popular Lessee as the Calico Bfelle. New songs and local allusions have given a new term of success to the pro- duction. Miss Temple cosstisstss to be thle spirit of the piece, aiid is livelier ...

... TOPICS OF TIHE WEEK. WVTee.a hey ! ho ! the wind and the rain, for the rain it raineth every (day. This crust be ?? burthen of many a Clown's song this weary January, when the streets are liquid with slush and the Theatre- goers arrive at their destination with difficulty. Bad weather must, more, or less, have a deleterious effect upon the Theatres, although the most popular entertainments ...

... THEATRICAL, MUSICAL, AND EQUESTRIAN OBITU3ARY FOR 18'76. Addison, Colonel Henry Robert, dramatic author, aged 71, June 24. Aiken, Peter, comic vocalist, January 31. Allen, Harry, equestrian, April-. Allen, Henry R., vocalist and composer, aged 67, Nov 27. Arnbros, Dr A. WT., German musical historian, aged 60, June 23. Anderson, Alfred, piauist, agoed 28, Melbourne, MIarch 22. Anderson, ...

... We have repeatedly found occasion to give Mr Clarnance Molt great credit for his successful endeavours to raise the tone of Music flall entertainments, and to furnish the pleasure-seeking public with something like intellectual enjoyment. His impersonations of the characters suade immortal by Shalkes- peare and Dickens we have frequently commended, and now at the South London Palace he once ...

... MISS PIIILLIS GLOVER IN THE PROVINCES. LADY CLANCARTYTheatre Royal, Glasgo,.v December 2d, S75. THIEATII to l-OAL.- Mr Tom Taylor's celebrated drampa CZnaicrtsr was plesculted last nlight, at thle Theatre Royal, before a vcry eltilusiastic, if not a vry larg-e audience. Upon the whole, the piece Me;S very fahirly perfoneed. The Lady Clamcartv of the cast wasv Aliss Phillis Glover, wvo seelmled ...

... THE LONDON MUSIC ITATLLS. THE CAMBRIDGE. The frst soohring performance at the Cambridge Music Hall oil Tuesday resulted in such an overflowing attendance that, whell we leached the doors, we fourel them closed, the rush beinig so great that it was impossible to get into the Hall. After battling for half an hour with the crowd we at length l11nlaaead to get a glimpse into the Hall, and the ...

... (FtOM OUR OWN CURRESFPONDENT.) 1rIENNA, JANUARY 13,1S77.-Thie two great events of the present season are the engagement of Madame Christine Nilason at the Imperial Opera and the production of a new operettab, by Strauss, at the Carl Theatre. Madame Nilsson has appeared until noW orly in three parts, viz., ais Ophelia, Marguerite, and Valentine. Her greatest triumph she achieved as ...

... [The folowinwj appeare2 iA our Tows ED1TIOx Of Last Welk.] | Just a year ago there was produced it the Oddon, Paris, a play entitled Les Danischeff, by M. Pierre Newsky, the husband of Mldlle. Stella Colas, a lady whose talent is pleasantly remembered on the English stage. The play was in four acts, and the theme was an incident in Russian life, the first title being Schasec a Shava. But the ...

... THEo DRAMA IN AMERICA, (FPRO OUR OWN COIRiRESRONnDeNr.) NEWr- YoE1, JANIlAl1r 1, 1877.-Seldoon has a New Year oucelled more cinausepiciously for American Managers than does ti s year of our Lord 1877. The stagnjation in theatrical ..si.ssi not alone confillee to Newv Yorkc city, for the sme gre155fle story comes fromt till parts of the country. Several elements are contributing to this ...

... PeROVINCIAL TIIEATRIOAISa. (tstomI 0111 OWVN C10TIlTISPONDENTS .) ABREJDEENs. HEcR MIAaElsTY'S VEscAc Houssc.-Lesseeo'l, Mr \V,uGica.Sclrc the, Sailor draws large audiences nightly, and the Ilarlequinade wvhich is now added proves anl extra attraletioii. Mr Watniore makes at good Clown, and the Pantasloon of Mr Munroe is quite satisfactory. Thie excellent dancing of Miss Dunwoodie as ...

... ELihe following appeared iAL our TOWN EDITION of Last WIrcki.I LYCETUM THEATRE. Last Saturday, by request of ucun1erous families unable to attend the evening performiaiuce, a morning represetitation was given of Dean uilmani's play eazio, which was acted for the first time at the Lyceum Theatre, the chief attraction of the revival being found, of conrse, in the impersonation of Bianca by ...