... I THE i S.)ITHFIELT) CLUB CATTLE SHOW. With the atuiosphere as clear as one can expect I it to be in London at this time of the year, and with every indication of a thaw, those whnom busi- n!css or inclination toook to the Agricultural wall vesterday irorxibg arrived there in better spirits 1 than they woull have done twenty-four or forty- J eight hours previously; and there is every reason to ...

... TiE CHILDRiEN'S PINAFORiE.` A full diess rehearsal was given on Friday afternoonl of YTh Chi/drchs's Pesir,^nie, which, as we have already autoiusced, is a roprescltatiolt of Mlessrs Gilbert ?? Sullivaa's remarkably attractive comic opera f1.L1S.. Pinafiore ctirely perforsued cby children for children. But we shall be very much mistaken if children only are the patrons of this juvcnile opera ...

... AMATEUR THEATiRICALS. A SINGULAB APPLICATIION. At the Heywood Police-coueu, on Wednesdcy mniulug, Mrs Clegg, Proprietress of the Royal Theatre, Hleywood, applied to the Magistrates for advice under the following circumstances - She had a wooden building on the market ground which she used as a Theatre, but she found that nearly every school in the town was having amateur theatrical ...

... L I T E R A T UR It MR. FARJEON'S CHRISTMAS STORY. Every year the reputation of Mr Farjeon as a writer of Christmas stories is increasing, and Messrs Tinsley's Annual is looked for with eagerness by thousands of readers. Instead of the old-fashioned Annual, made up of a series of short tales, essays, and sketches, Mr Farjeon has for several years given his admirers a complete story, and so ...

... APPLICATION FOR A THEATRICAL LICENCE AT GLASGOW, A Special Session of the Peace for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire was held in the Justices' Hall, on Monday, to consider an application by Mr Edward Lee Knapp for a dramatic licence for the Royalty Theatre, Saucbiehall-street Mr Alex. Miller presided, and there was a large attendance of .Tusticeqs. The Chairman asked Mr Knapp if lie had anything ...

... (The followizg appearce in our Tow EDTTION of Last Weekr. A number of gentlemen performing under the above title, which, however, did not very accurately describe them, gave an entertainment last Saturday, at St. George's Hall Langham-plsce, to a fashionable. if not very large, audience, in aid of the funds of Bethlehem Hospital. The first item on the programme was Messrs Sullivan and ...

... A KEY to The Magic Flute, as its most devoted admirers understand the work in the present day, would be a boon to playgoers. M. Blaze de Bury attempted something of the kind several years ago in the Revue des .Deux Mondes, but his explanation was quite as unintelligible as the matter he sought to explain. Mozart himself, without being struck by any mystical significance in the libretto, ...

... T'&e foilo1lvikL aP wared h11 our Towx EDITION of Last ?? In consequence of the continued indisposition of MIr J. L. Toole-all indisposition that is generally regretted-the bill at the morning performance here on the 0th inst. aladl to undergo nlteration, Pauli Pey and Tr'yinr a Ma.fgistrate, for which Mir Tools's presence was, of course, indispensable, being omitted, and A Fool canl his ...

... t X~al. TM.EATPkES_ AN interesting little play, brought out at the FOLLY Theatre on Saturday afternoon last with the title of After Long Years, is an adaptation from the French by Mr. Sydney Grundy, whose obliga- tions-are stated, as all such obligations ought to be, in-the play-bill. The original, we believe, is a vaudeville of Scribe, entitled Le ZNfauvais Stjet. Like most of Scribe's ...

... ' BOOKS OF THIE SEASON. It is mot often that %R examtination of the children's buoks of tbo holiday season brings to li'rht so original and fascinating a volume as the Ine Mr. Charles Marshails Careless Kyts and OtburStories kCassellletter, andGalpin). Here wL have thirty-six tales-not exactly of fairyland, but doaling rith a world which the writer's quaint treatinent and ?? imagination ...

... CfSTMNS BOOKS. F. Andrew Lasng's Oxford, with the aenom- Ftclaitexrs a'-1 Vigrite'. Lv 31. Brunet- b str. kven 'thflo'. al csni . Tousgainut s~t&ey Jn6^rcn. n x;. i;A~i;:htY, is one of theb moat ag .nb>' cfit'.^ tosniy art book.is whieh have as 8 ?? :.o lattfl. to.: in tihe:r literary 1 sal artistic ier.!: .ii o- iha o5ts of our eon- tmiorar. ro ?? .-Mr. 'lAn disclaims So his s.'rrs of rh.' ...

... FOLLY. Dr. Henry J. Byron's eccentric comedy, Sil Simon Simplec; or, not suesh a Fool as he looks, was revived here last siight, and judging by the laughter and spplhlse with which it was re- ceived, it may obtaill a further share of public favour. The part ot Sir Simon Simple, Bart., hns nlready been performed by Mr. Byron nearly 800 times, and his resumption of this character lacked noue of ...