... The advent of Ash Wednesday, and some recent police- court prosecutions, have once more directed attention to the injustice and inequality of the laws which regulate the music halls of this mighty metropolis. Our old friend the intelligent foreigner, had he been in town on Wednesday last, would have lifted his hands in great horror, and shrugged his shoulders with ill-concealed disgust, on ...

... CLAUDIAN.-31R. WILSON BARRETT. The production of a play which is wholly English, which is sound, vigorous, and elevating in sentiment and dramatic pur- pose, and which, moreover, is written in a vein of poetic diction worthy to rank as literature, is a very considerable event in the life of the English stage. Such a play is Claudian. It is usually assumed that a debased stage means a corrupt ...

... It is a pleasant task for us to chronicle so complete a success as the fourteenth private performance of the above society, which took place on Tuesday last at Myddelton Hall, Islington. The usual farce was omitted, and the whole evening was occupied with a representation of the popular drama The Ticket of Leave Afar, which proved sufficiently attractive to retain the majority of the large ...

... With this week has terminated the run of the DRURY-LANE pantomime of Sinndbad, which had outlived all the other holi- day entertainments, and would have had a career further pro- longed had not the stage been required by Xr Carl Rosa for the rehearsals of his forthcoming operas. At the ADELPHI Mr Charles Reade's drama of Dora and Love and Money have been, also withdrawn this week to allow ...

... 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 ...

... T 1, ,ssect and admiration which Mr Chippendale has I:JOYl fol so many years vill, we are sure, be now supple- by friendly and heartfelt pity among all those who batc wateheti the actor s career during a more or less extensive 'ert of his professioal life. Mr Chippendale, who is in his 1't srd year. has recently shown considerable restlessness eighlt, bttt, although such a weakness naturally ...

... \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 ...

... PROVINCIAL TH}JAC _ ARCoRRtTpoD Al0 A HER ?? Tnn ATR2 Ea ;t)VEX, Manager, Mr Hodgss.-Nve hav.Se . r i Solscnm company this week, ?? eneral Bore, and Misses Amy Forresth C a' tdrin alish b - furl MFnRAND'S MU'SIC HALL..Th an Lst5 lo M leading names crco~' er s cn leading names embrac~~ing the Tri, (iri ,r irgo oftbill herh PRINCE's THEATRE.-PoprictrI l I Ontoct have FUZZe on, thee Bricstol, o~ ...

... AMATEUJRS AT BOAW. The Byron Dramatic Club inaugurated their season by a private subscription dramatic performance on Monday evening last at the large hall of the Bow and Bromley Institute. There as a very large audience, who seemed highly pleased with the performance of the comedy-drama chosen, Mr Wybert Reeve's Parted, an English love story in four acts, long enough in all conscience, in ...

... THE DRAMA IN AMEPICA. NEW YORK, JULY 13, 1S83.-Apart from Prince MIfel i salens, that perished at the Cosmopolitan in less than a wreek, and was then revived at the Casino under ?? Arousoe's management, there is absolutely nothing of note at this moment. Interest fastens rather upon the prospects of the regular season that begins with September, and which throws open three new theatres in New ...