... . In Current Cash, which has for the last few nights occupied the stage of the Surrey, the management has presented a piece already stamped with provincial Buccess. Current Cash is by Mr. C. A. Clarke, who has invented a story with much in it that is stale and common place, but one point that is fresh and interesting. This latter concerns the hero, who, when supposed to be dead, disguises ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. WILD OATS. SOME day, no doubt, some competent writer will favour man kind with an exhaustive essay on the question Why do I go to the theatre? The subject is indeed far too recondite and complicated a one to be dealt with off-hand as might be fondly imagined. On the contrary, it might very well be divided into as many heads as a Scotch ser mon. There is a vague idea ...

... COYENT GARDEN CONCERTS. The classical concert given last week at Covent Garden was specially interesting, the programme being composed entirely of selections from the works of British composers. The list of con certed and solo pieces is worth preserving. It comprised:-- No. 1. The Naiads overture by Sterndale Bennett; No. 2. A new Rhapsodie Symphonique by Hamilton Clarke; No. 3. Air, Sad ...

... COYENT GARDEN CONCERTS. The programme of the Promenade Concert given last Satur day at Covent Garden was mainly composed of repetitions of orchestral works produced earlier in the season, hut included one novelty a new waltz for choir and orchestra, entitled Home, and composed by Mr. Crowe. It contains some melodious passages, and was well executed by the orchestra and Mr. Stcdmau's choir, ...

... . Carina, a new comic opera, libretto by E. L. Blanchard and Cunningham Bridgman, music by Mme. Julia Woolf, was produced last week at the Opera Comique Theatre, and met with a favourable reception, although its success was frequently imperilled by the exuberant zeal of a most energetic claque. The plot is founded on that of Damaniant's play, Guerre ouverte; ou, Ruse contre Ruse, which was ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE COURT THEATRE. THERE are some theatres which it is the fashion to look up to as very superior indeed. We approach them with reverence, we criticise them with awe. Now it is to the one actor or the one author there that we so humbly bend now it is the prestige of the site which overpowers us now we prostrate ourselves in dreadful adoration before the tremendous ...

... TI1E WOODLANDS HALL STUD. Oub engraving, illustrative of what we believe is theNorthern- most breeding stud in England, contains portraits of its sultans, as represented by Macgregor, Olaremont, and Argyle, all horses of some oharacter on the turf. We shall not readily forget Johnny Daley's coming with Macgregor out of the Abing don Mile bottom, on the Two Thousand Guineas day, when he made ...

... . We give pictures from this show, of which we gave par ticulars in our last. There was scarcely a class in which a worthy subject for illustration might not have been found. Our artist has been compelled to restrict himself to the following 1. Mr. W. J. Crip's Italian greyhound, Fly II. 2. Miss Violet Cameron's King Charles spaniel, Conrad; 3. Mrs. E. M. Monck's Yorkshire terrier, Silk 4. Dr. ...

... . IT is not very probable that Mr. Carton, in occupying the Folly Theatre during the absence of Mr. Toole, really expected to succeed in an undertaking which that well known and popu lar lessee had proved himself unwilling to attempt. Mr. Carton, that is to say, did not open the Folly for the month of August with money-making as his chief object. He was most likely anxious, and that most ...

... Billiard Match for £1,000 A match, 3,000 up. for £300 a -side, took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, between William Cook and William Mitchell, on one of Cox and Yeman's ordi nary tables. Mitchell, who was in fine form, was, on the con clusion of the first evening's play, at 1,300 to Cook's 770-- the game, according to the conditions, being suspended when the half total had been reached. At the ...

... . Pictures of this exhibition and full description will appear in our next. ...

... . THE concert given last Saturday at the Crystal Palace was specially attractive, the programme being entirely occupied by Mr. Mackenzie's dramatic oratorio The Rose of Sharon, performed under the direction of the composer. Long before the com mencement of the concert every seat in the spacious concert-room had been secured, and many hundreds of applicants were unableto obtain admission-- a ...