... 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, ...

... THIE DRAMA IN AUSTRALIA. ,~- m_.- - ^. .. (PROM OUR OWNYN CORRESPONDENT.) MELBOURNE, APRIL 17, 1577.--TnrEATRr , ROYAL.-Lazar's Italian opera company finished here on the 31st ilt. In addition to the operas named in my last they produced Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammonermoor, Un Ballo in M11aschera, and Normna; but the season, as a whole, notwithstanding a con- siderable reduction in the prices ...

... Tm'. PRINCE oF 1VAres' S THEATRE will be reopened on Saturday next with a highly enticing bill, embracing An Unequal iJatch and To Parents and Guardians. A most cor- dial welcome is in store for Mr and MrIsBancroft and the eminent artists by whom they will be surrounded. The com- pany will again include Mr and Mrs Kendal, Mr Arthur Cecil, Mr Sugden, and other favourites of last season; while ...

... Before itarning our attention to the performaances given last Saturday at the Folly Theatre onl the first night of the comedy- bouffe season we imust record our hinhwressioin that the new decorations of the Theatre will be anivesally adadired for their elegance of style and for the refined tone they impart to the auditorium. The times have long gone- by when audiences were content to sit inl a ...

... (FROM OURB OWN CORRESFONDENT.) PARIS TffcT3RSDAY.-LYRrQuE,.-Al. Vizentiniisdtrne Crtisutaincss relstation for energy. Hef( has given thle mnusical crtcsIlerit to do0 this week, having produced three new works, comprising six acs I wish it were Possible for me to say that thle, quality of the novelties is eqa tothirquntty hut feel nlo other alternative left than to decIlare two of theta heavy ...

... MIUSICAL FESTIVALS. It seems hardly possible that twenty years have elapsed since the first Handel Festival, yet it was really in 1857 that the first of these remarkable performances took place, and caused at the time a great sensation in musical circles, since nothing on a similar scale hod, taken place since the great commemoration in Westminster Abbey. How much music in England owes to H ...

... TESTIMONIAL TO MB, G. ?? SPEEDY. On. Tisred~ay last there was a very pleasant gathering at the Holborn Restaurant, for the purpose of presenting to Mr G. P, Speedy a testimonial in recognition of his merits as a caterer for the public amusement and as a token of the esteem with which be is regarded by a very large circle of friends. The testimonial tooni the form of a handsome and costly ...

... N1W AV U S I e. rstple Aoi C ' Remember M e ). Duff and Stewart.-This clever version of a well-known poem by the famous French poet Alfred De Musset, is worthy of more than ordinary-praise. M. P. de Fayc has caught the spirit of the words, and has set them to very elegant music-. Tue opening phrases of the song arefull of expression, and a singer ot taste ought to be able to make much of a ...

... =L PROVINCIAL THEATRICA.LS. (FROM OtiR OWN CORRESPONDENTS%) ABERDEEN. HER MAJEsTY's THEATRE,- Lessee, Mrf William Gomnersal. -The kttactosiof heweek has been the legendary drama Of Faust and Marguerite, which has been well prese'nted by the membesfte excellent company that the Lessee has secured. The laughable after- piece has been Aladdin, the Wonderful Samep, in which Mr G imersal as the ...

... Mr. and Mrs. GERB MAN REED'S ENTERTAINMENT Ai large audience wvas present at St. George's falal oil 11sn1,i5, evening, when a n1ew first part was Produced for the f~ time the title of which was Ther Tvwo Fadesr iiroele,& Mr1 Gilberil a'Beckett is responsible for the libretto. and( the niviie ies posed by Dir Alfred C'elier, lsehi lve on apr,,T Sn/tour of Macloa, FtC., wve have Conimended inl ...

... I I PROFESSION. Taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the fact that the future government of Dulwich College and the proper dis- tribution of its funds are just now receiving consideration at the hands of the Charity Commissioners, the following memorial has been prepared by gentlemen having a thorough knowledge of the subject, and will, with the signatures of the members of the ...

... METCALP AND VIFE V. HO1IRACE VIGAN.-This was an action brought by Mr Thomas Edmund Metcalf and Hester Annie, his wife, against Mr Horace Wigan, the well-known The.atrical Manager, for libel and slander. The case was appointed to be tried before Mr Justice Mlanisty and a Jury in the Qaeen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice on the 26th nlit., when the court was well besieged by a ...