... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... PI OVINCIAL THE A11r I AL S. (FROI OnUR OWN OORtSESPON'DENTS.) ABERDEEN. HER MAJESTY'S OPERA HOUSE-Lessee and Manageer, Mr William Gomersal.-.-r George Leitch entered on a six nights' eolgigemeant on .Monday with Sfthoe's to Grcicd, and as Joe Stammers made a favourable impression. FTee ?? n reeamroe was the ntterpiece. M'FARtLAND'S 151 SIC HALL.-Tile eovelty introduced bore ?? week is an ...

... r1AIT NIGHT'S AMUSEMNTS. FOLLY THEATRE. Last night Byron's well-known comedy, Sir Simon Simple, replaced the drama which has lately been running at this house; and, consequently, Mr. H. T. Byron himself, as Sir Simon, took Mr. Toole's position as the chief actor in the evening's cast. Sir Simon Simple has been too long before the public to need criticism, and with After Long Years and ...

... The winter exhibition of the Society of British Artists opened on Monday. the lst inst., at the old rooms of the Society, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, the private view taking place on the 29th ult., when a large number of members and their friends were present. Since the removal of the Society from Conduit-street to the handsome galleries, where for so long a period the exhibitions were ...

... T-HE CAMBRIDGE. Mr IWill Riley is now fairly and firmly installed here, and there are many signs that his proprietorship will be attended by gratifying results, and that under his sway the high repute attained by the establishment under his predecessor-the esteemed Mr Nugent-will ill no way be allowed to diminish. The fifteenth anniversary of the opening of the I-fall was cele- brated on ...

... THEATRE ROYAL, MANCHESTER. The authors, Messrs X. P. Burnett and R. J. Alartin,4are to be congratulated on Midge. Without sounding the heights or depths of human nature, it is a bright little play, with a simple and interest- log plot, in which there is a perfect unity of motive, and enlivened by dialogue which is always lively and now and then brilliant. Midge is a very amiable little ...