... DIPLOMACY IN TH1E PROVINCES. MR R. LANGFORD AS BARON STEIN. Baron Stein, the cool old Russian, full of craftiness, and equally ready with polished compliments, found a truthful and accomplished exponent in Mr B. Langford.-Bath Journal. Mr R. Langford, as Baron Stein, who employs spies to ferret out secrets, and steal documents, and plans of fortifications, if necessary, gave an admirable ...

... FOOL 'f PARADI'SE. h Craven ober1o011, after at ilou I1i's vacation, sesunled is tour at West Hartlepool wvith a new piece, written for him by Messrs Paul Meritt and Alfred Maltby. Fool's lPara- dise, while being free from sensationalism, is of a decidedly melodramatic tendency, and forms a somewhat striking con- trast to the plays which. have hitherto been connected with the name of Mr ...

... Amateur actors are a sufficient trial to the patience of a critic, but when amateur dramatic authors are added the infliction becomes unbearable. The weary hours we spent at St. George's Hall on Thursday night gave us a fit of the Blue Devils, from which we have not yet recovered. St. George's Hall, too, where we have spent so many pleasant nights in company with Mrs German Reed, Mr Corney ...

... THE British troops have successfully continued their advance, and, according to the most recent accounts, they have entered Candahar, and report that everything has now settled down, and is going OD in a most satisfactory manner. The other important features of the news of the week have been another sad colliery explosion, concerning which her MAJESTY expressed her sincere sympathy for the ...

... SONG WRITERS AND SON!G Sf:2ALiERS. TO TilE EDITOR, O' 'FiL ERA. Sir,- If the complaining song writers wotald take the trouble of retaining copies of songs they send to votalists they do not know it would be a simple matter to trace and denounce the petty thieves who are guilty of robbing a poor mnan of his brains, and by consequence beer. After a fewl publie examples this mean, dirtymein, ...

... A meeting of the members of the Boards of Management of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum for the past and the present year was held on Wednesday at St. James's Hall, Regent- street, for the transfer of the keys of office, to receive sub- scriptions, and to devise the best means of supporting the Institution during the new financial year. The chair was taken at three o'clock by M\r WILLIAM ...

... CONSIDERING that the papers have been deplorably dull during the past week, the continued frost and bitter east wind having nipped the very life out of everybody; considering that we have been waiting for important news from the East and it has never comei; considering that it was vacation time and no celebrated cases to report ; considering, that some were recovering from Christmas ...

... rU THE EDITOR O1 THE EltA. Sir,-In your review of TTh& Dramatic Year , 1878, y ou say The dramatic autbors, like other workuiien, are out on strike, and until they can give better work for good wages they must clearly accept the consequences. This implies that good wagos, and indifferen t work, are thc rule. I deny the good wages int loto. A'n author, who may be ill a position to insist ...

... THE horses are eating their heads off in the stable,; hunting men, perfectlydisgusted with theirtediousirmprisonnrent, come up to London and lounge aimlessly about the Club; skating is merrily going on about the lakes, canals, and ponds of old Eng- land, but still, as Mr TOOLE says, We are not happy. For it is terribly, murderously cold. It is a cold that is felt in every bone, nerve, and ...

... FR'EEMASONRY. Lodge of Benevolence. The Lodge of Benevolence mlet on 'Wednesday evening at, Freemlason~s' ailo. firs Jouece S. CLAsoN, JOSietia lIgate, 5511 4A20115 Beeerr Oeespied the three presidents' chairs. Firs If. Bartlett. WV. ii. Perryenan, WV. S. SurIes, Si. Hawser, NV. Ilann, W. Maple, Thomas Ctuhiet, Win. Christian, Charles Atkins, If. Massey, Griffiths Smith, George Britten, G. ...

... Licensed Vichtallers' Protection Society. - L l mu . - a- I :_L- - The forty-eighth general meeting of the Licensed Vietuallers' Protection Society was hed on Wednesday at the Freemasons' Tavern, to receive a Report from the Committee on the transactions of the Society during the past year, to elect Committeemen and Auditors for the ensuing year, and to take into conlsiderasion a ...

... TrHE LION, THE WICAR, AND THE STAGE. On Monday Mr George Salger, with characteristic liberality, gave coal tickets to four hundred of the poor of Margate, each ticket authorising the delivery to the recipients of one hundred- weight of the black diamonds, just now so necesssary. In the evening Mr Sanger and several influential gentlemen lined together at the White Hart Hotel, the MAYOR ...