... ('hefollolvirg appearedr ins our TomN EDITION O Last IVeeI.% Air George Meredith4 in the last number of the Yew Quiarter it M~agazine, hag published a very excellent lecture he delivered on the Istl of February at the London Institution. Mt Meredith entitled his lecture On the idesl ?? and of the uses Cf, the Comic Spirit. We purpose to deal with that portion Which- relates to Intellectual ...

... THEATIRICAL IPROSECUTION AT HANLE . On ridy tre 4 nst attueMaley Borough Police- cruitithe MIagistraites had before them en iota tseicm woo for contrafionati of the Act of Paslunelat for Ret, cstl Thares.d aconsiderable interest was manifested in ther case the court being crowded durinn the a(ho heari nc-sve thm twooers, Prsopnetosofthe f ople's Music Hall, lassnstreetdHanley, was summoned oil ...

... POINTER V. BANCROFT. Another contribution to the inevitable blue-book, which will sooner or later be issued by the Copyright Commissioners, was sadle on Thursday, when Mir Lake Russell, the learned Judge of the Bloomsbuty County Court, had before him the most important and interesting case that has ever been tried upon this vexed question. It was an action brought in the name of Miss Poilnter, ...

... A crowded audience assembled on the reopening of this house oil the evening of Monday last, the principal attraction being The Aboonstone, a dramatic story in four acts, altered from his own novel for performance on the stage by the author, Air Wilkie Collins, who also personally superintended the produc- tion. The action of the drama is supposed to be confined within twenty-four hours, and ...

... AMUSEMEN TS IN AIJSTR)XLIA. (FROMi OUR OWN CORREsrONDENTr.) MELBOURNE, SEPTEMBPR 4, 1877.-THEATRE ROYAL.- Miss Ada Ward's engagement at this Theatre terminated on August 17th. She produced Frou-Pron, Th7e School for Scandal, Pygmalion and Galatea, The New Mogdaleen, Macbeth, and JMarie Antoinette, and her impersonation of the heroine in each of these dramas was marked by considerable ability. ...

... only slight changes have taken place in the playbills of the Loedoli Theatres during the week. As recorded in our later edition of last week, Antmy Robsatrt has taken the place. of Id at DRURY-LANE, and Ciprico, the new American tra- aEdian, has apeared at the SURREY, in the Californian drama of pates and Furies. At the HAYMARKET the eccentric comedy ef Encaged is drawing fair houses. After ...

... MR CITARLES HEAD proposes to reopen the Philharmonic Theatre early next month. Mr D'Oyly Carte will be intrusted with the management, and we are promised as the opening attraction a revival of the successful Genevieve de Brabant, under the direction of Mr Charles Harris. MR. J. L. ToOLE, after a long absence from London, makes his reappearance at the Globe Theatre on Monday. His numerous ...

... PROVI NCIAL THEATRICALS. (Pnom oflR OWN CORREISPONDF-NTS.) AB1E1RDEEN HER MAJESTY'S, TieArisE. -Lessee, Mr William GOmerSal.-Ool thle firet three evenings of tile week Jessie Brown; or, The Relief of Luc~orsw, wos played to fair houses. Additional icetereot was givoT, to the dramia by the appearance of veritable kilted soldiers from thle barraeks. blise Junio played tho part of tho heroine ...

... P.V I N O1AL 'TIHEATR.JC.AL. IFROM OUIR oWN C kb 1051 01' OWN CORUESPONnSENTS.) ABERDEEF HER BIAJR3STY's TiutATRE.-The Pantomime of Robinsoia (Cru soefwas presented on Saturday, to a fair audience, for the first time, The special engagements are Miss Lizzie Baldwin Miss Emma Victor, Miss Laura Hfyde, and Mr Louis Lindsay. The Sisters Revere (two) are competent and attractive pre- mineree ...

... THsE proceeds of the pianoforte recital given by Anton Rubir- stein, at St. James's Hall, last Saturday afternoon, realised the extraordinary sum of 2617. Such an amount, resulting from the efforts of a single artiste, is altogether without pre- eedent ; yet, notwithstanding the fact that Rubinstein's piano- forte playing increases rather than diminishes in attraction, the artiste declares his ...

... THE ALEXANDRA PALACE H-IORSE SHOW. Noticing could be more favourable then the weather on Tesday last for tleI Horse S1ow lat the Alsxaune d a loc1.:te III most out-of door entertailsoents wve are fain to seek the shelter of a friendly room, but on this occasionl it was 'lot shelter, but shade, that was required. Nothing Was wanting to the suiccess of the show on1 Tuesday. There was a brilliant ...

... THE CAMBRIDGE, MR FRED. ALBERT's BENEFIT.-There are not among the artistes who appear at Music Halls any who are more popular than Mr Fred. Albert. We do not know another performer who has sung more songs written and composed by himself than this gentleman has done, nor are there to our thinking any whose business is more commendable. He has the happiness to find his verses on passing events, ...