... THIE LON\DON MUSIC HALLS. THEE OXFORD There is no better conducted hall in the metropolis than 'the Oxford,' just as there is none more conveniently situated and none more popular. AU the year round it boasts a liberal programme, and the outcome of good catering is liberal patronage. This pleasant state of affairs, as we have repeatedly pointed out, is due in no small measure to the energy ...

... BY HENRY IRVINt;. I have been asked to write a paper for The Spirit of the Timses, descriptive of the actual work of preparing a play. To how great a pitch of elaboratioll moders enterprise in this field les been carried American readers do not need to be told. They have had the advanltege of seeing Julb's Crsa)e; as it was produced by Edwvin Blooth in New York. But it is possible that cven ...

... \Ve presume the London Literary Society was responsible for the arrangements at the Egyptian Hall on Monday after- noon, and if so the London Literary Society cannot be complimented on the result. It seems to us that nothing would have been easier than to have ascertained the number of visitors the hall was capable of accommodating, but it appcars that, without lany consideration as to ...

... PrtOvI.NCIjAL THEATRICALS. F1OM01 OUR OWN COIORRSFONIJJ;U A4LDERSHOT. VCOYTII;A1'tEO. LOe,,e Mr Steele-T'he pantomilme season is test (Irriwing llto a dose, 1't this 't aind the benefits have comn- nested. The clow, (Mos Lotis thoare) took his on the 12th inst., ?? N little lied r3iding ; h 1 (hissNelllie ...

... ANOMALIES DRA.MATIC CLUB. The members of the above amateur dramatic club have been devoting such histrionic talent as Heaven hath blessed them with to the entertainment of the nurses of Guy's Hospital. In the governor's court-room-a very handsome apartment in connection with the treasurer's house-which, by the way, was kindly thrown open for the convenience of the players and the guests-a ...

... THEAT RICAL CT OSSIP. OUIt readers rill he interested in learning that Miss Mary Dick-es, eldest gravidchild of the late Charles Dickens, the irmmiortal novelist, and elaeste daughter of the present Mr Charles Dickens, is ahout to join the theatrical profession. .qiss iDickens, who bis seen nineteen summers, will make her first ayppacaritcU on the stage on the evening of Thiursilay next atithe ...

... MR. RAIETMOND'S RECITALS. Some interesting recitals blended with vocal and instrumental music were given on Tuesday evening at Brixton Hall, Acre- lane, Erixton, by Mr 0$. Esiemond, who was also assisted by the eminent tragedian Mr T. Swinbourne. Mr Swinbourne chose for his recitation some scenes from Shakespeare's comedy A4s You Like.1. He commenced with the first scene between Jaques and the ...

... The Huddersfield Borough Bench, at its sitting on Wled- nesday, the 20th ult., was applied to by Mlr Walter Armitage, solicitor, on behalf of Mr William Pinder, of 45, Fitzwilliam-strcet, the pro- prietor of the circus in Northumberland-street, for a theatrical licence for the circus. Mr Armitage stated that the proprietor had no inten- tion of turning the circus into a theatre in the proper ...

... In aid of the new out-patient wing of the Victoria Hospital for Children, a number of amateurs-more or less competent- gave an entertainment on the evening of Tuesday last in the above-named private theatre, kindly placed at their disposal by Sir Percy and Lady Shelley. The attendance was not large, buot, as the charge for admission was half a guinea, we think ire are justified in expresiog ...

... TO.MLINSON'S CAT. BlsaeARo-'T1s hero HOiRATrIo-'Tis here ! MAaARCELxUs-'Tis gone? Hamlet, Act 1, So. 1. Many people will remember Tomlinson when he was first old man and character actor at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. His versatile talents had procured for him a foremost place in the esteem of the playgoers of modern Athens, and I am sure those who knew him then will agree with me that his ...

... During last week Mr John Coleman and his company were acting in Oxford. On Friday and Saturday the theatre was crowded with the lower class of the undergraduates, who, as usual, distinguished themselves by unseemly and riotous conduct. On Satm'day night matters reached their culminating point. So long as Mr Coleman was himself on the stage he appeared to have some control over these youths, ...

... TIHEATRICAL GOSSIP. MR HENRY HOWE, the well-known and greatly esteemed actor so long associated With the Haymarket Theatre, and at present a member of the Lyceum company, on Friday, we regret to say, met with a serious accident. He attended the customary treasury at one o'clock, and while descending some stairs in the theatre slipped and fell, breaking the sinews of the leg joint. A surgeon ...