... The production of a new oratorio by an English, or, perhaps, we ought, in common justice to the Principality, to say Welsh, composer is an event not to be lightly passed over. There are but few of our modern musicians possessing the learning and skill requisite for the composition of an oratorio. while there are fewer still who will take the pains and run the risk involved in a work of such ...

... AT RI CA TA . PU,,fl~ - l W! (0RR1SONI)ENT,-.) (F'ROM OUB OWN uw7g;s9t ?? ,, ABEBREEINl'. act A.ESTXI STHEATRE.-Lessee and Manageress, Mliss Anni *dS (rs Rlaisbeck lobilisait) ; Acting-dManager, Mr I. Itiin: ?? WIilliflin Sidney and his company remain G.re lthisweek. On Monday and Toesldiy Messrs Conquest ned Lettits dirama Quecit's Evidence was performed to good nacs,' J the .lewr was played ...

... ; on Saturiny v, October 9tih, all Adaptation, by tire fon. Lewis Wi n1laeli, of Schiller's Play, il Fivie Acts, entitled 11 MARY STUART. RoirertDudley, Earl of Leicester.. ATr JOHN CLAYTON GecrgeTalbot,EaclfoSlbrewsbn ry Mr J. D BEvncslsr William Cecil, Lord Brleiih ..i . Ml EOWAaR PRICE Sir Amiss Palet . r CLIFFORD COOPER Sir Edwatrd Mortimer . Mr J. R. CRAU5FORD Sir ...

... r= - LO- THE111 LONDON THESATRES. Withii this verek thle OLrI'si ics lea'ldtv to the list of Theatres now1 Open. At HER MIAJESTY'S 1IRaxvriy's Minstrels now close aI successful season of egtwes n heuulwne on paign will begin on Mjon~day nex~t with Italian Openst at cheap prices. Le1yasenlibisigeS continue to attend tlee Promenadellt Conicerts, COVE'ITcNTOR D11015Y'l.ANE finds in The World ...

... A morning performance of Oekello was given at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, on Wednesday, by the members of the Irving Dramatic Club. The representation was said to be by special desire of Mr Irving. Of course we must not cavil at the desire of the accomplished Lessee of the Lyceum. If he had a special desire that Othello should be played by amateurs at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, there ...

... TI 11 E AT 'L I C A T G () S S I P. AllSt BERNARD BRT) E wjil lav'l to s angli lie part at the Adolphi after Friday next, having ljeen slpcially engaged by MIr Barrett to 1pay the past ?? the P inscefs ill Adricene Lccesserrss at the c'ourt Theatre, ill place of BlicS Aily Ioesijle, who goes to the Prince of r1agles' to sustain her original character inc the adaptation of P. Giacomnetti's La ...

... TIHE HAVERLY VlESTllEL~. After a provincial tour, the Haverly Mastodon Minstrels returned to London, and again appeared on Boxing Night at Her Majesty's Theatre, where the company gave two perform- ances, the earlier taking place at two o'clock in the day, and the second at eight. The Haverly Minstrels (o not make such a feature of the vocal portion of ,the entertainment as we are accustomed ...

... On New Year's Eve, as the new and the old years met, the curtain at the Prince of Wales's, Birmingham, ascended, and for once during the year for a performance to empty benches. At the invitation of Mr James Rodgers the men from the flies, from the cellars, from the wings, and from all these other regions known only to those familiar with the intricacies of Pantomime, assembled upon the stage, ...

... DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL CHRONOLOGY FOR 1S80. JANUARY. 1. Professor Henry Morley, of University College, London, delivered, at the London Institution, a lecture on The Future of the Enrglish Stage., Mr WV. Paul, Proprietor of thle Concert Hall of Varieties, Leicester, gave his annual dinner to 130 peer people. 3. The first new piece of the year was produced at the Imperial Theatre, entitled The ...

... [The follolviiJI'J aplrveanr, in our TOWN Ll)ITJION Qf LJtlt )Jieff.j GLOBE 12f1ATRJ ?? -.1 Al-- I On Saturday, O(ctober) th, aii ly Naes, and tit Oe, a LEN,1~ Mu(j~ltiUVTAIE'AiS.' Narcisso Itrissac ?? Air F. 1i. CiLtI GOsIultr de SOSlaMtes ?? Ar 11. BEACY Tile Abbel BridLine ?? Or naRRY 'Aiyt.rON Thc Comite de i'O11tcOurl) ?? . MAl. \Vl IAN R1ig-obert AIr EUGENe STEPAN Pslparil Mr I CeAS, ...

... TE DR AMA IN PAR IS%. (t'ItO~i 0151 OW ()\N ?? .N ~.ln I. L PAl'IS, Tiluu~auAY.SE.FOIttli DsA~tAi~i20Ii5.iAi OjfieVc~ttf, whichIS ?? than the ordjinary r11i Of such pieces, hlas beeni brougt out a;t this Iso(s, slitler tise title of Lee Posspnes (le l'In1fante. Its libretto is by AM. Henri ?? ?? Liorat, and its score by Di. Charles (Grisart. The story, rather tiresometly toll iI three acts and ...

... THrEATRpICAL GOSSIP. MnDa BeCICAULT'a reception on Boston has, in its cnthunsiasm, been un1preCedented. After eppeariug in soef the Now Esgiand tos, te eminent otor-ath proposes to play in Now York for two weeks, and in Brooklyn for one week. His rooms on board the Arizona, sailing May 10th, for Liverpool, are already engaged, and he hopes to be among his Eraglish admirers again about May 20th ...