... Lawn Tennis. The St. Leonards lawn tennis gentlemen's championship medal was played for on Saturday at St. Leonards, in the presence of a fail- number of spectators. The contest was between Mr. Stuart Wilson, the champion, and Mr. Beasley, who had beaten all his other opponents. The result was that Mr. Wilson beat Mr. Beasley by three sets to one. Messes. Bickees and Son will shortly publish ...

... CO VENT GARDEN CONCERTS. DESPITE the formidable rival attractions presented elsewhere, and the continuance of weather favourable to outdoor rather than to indoor occupations, the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts continue to enjoy unbroken and remarkable prosperity. According to the official records, over 7,400 persons paid one shilling each for admission on Saturday last. Of course it would be ...

... NORWICH AL FESTIVAL.-- The London orchestral re nearsals for the Norwich Festival will be held at the Royal Academy of Music on October 8 and 9, when Mr. Mackenzie's new oratorio and Dr. Villiers ...

... THE COURT Theatre has reopened for the autumn season-- not with Mr. Bronson Howard's Young Mrs. Winthrop, which is post poned for a more favourable time of the year, but with a revival of Mean Men and ...

... NEW QUAY. CORNWALL. ACCORDING to the guide hooks, was once upon a time famous for pilchards and smugglers. But times change here, as elsewhere. All that now remains of the pilchard fishery are tho sheds in which erstwhile the finny-kin were packed and despatched to tho Mediterranean to he (on dit) thence re-shipped to England as sardines. Whether from very shame and contempt of such base ...

... . Sport in the Highlands and lowlands of Scotland with Rod and Gun. By Tiiojias Speedy. With illustrations. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. 1884. MR. Speedy has one great qualification for the task he has undertaken-- an intimate and extensive acquaintance with the sports of which he writes. From references and anecdotes broadcast in bis volume, it is clear that most of his ...

... k w.pV.JTTTTTk eKuSIC) r I v V0 FESTIVAL NOTES.-- --The orchestral rehearsals for the Three Choirs Festival to be held at Worcester next week began at St. Andrew's Hall, London, on Thursday morning, ...

... MESSRS. WOOD AND CO.-- Two pleasing ballads for the drawing-room are With the Tide, written and composed by G. Clifton Bingham and Arthur E. Dyer compass D below the lines to E, fourth space-- and ...

... . After his brief summer holiday Mr. WilEon Barrett haB re opened the PrinoeEs's Theatre with what muBt from all points of view be regarded as a decidedly heavy programme. This in cludes the tragic Chatterton as well as the profoundly melodrama tic Claudian, so that the actor has not only to suffer the pangs of death by tho direct wrath of heaven, but the slower torture produced by the action ...

... . A PEEP at the burlesque Little Lohengrin during its perform ance at the Gaiety, last Saturday afternoon, showed that the company headed by the Coote family was worthy of a happier fate than that which recently overtook it at the luckless Holborn Theatre. The burlesque itself, which is by a Mr. Fred. Bowyer, is poor stuff, dull in action, and stupid in dialogue-- a long way inferior in ...

... . AVERSION of Called Back, made without leave by Mr. John Chute, deserves notice only as an instance of the manner in which incompetent dramatisation may spoil an effective story. The circumstances of the case make it undesirable to discuss in detail the manner in which Mr. Conway's story and character, and even title, have here been appropriated and misapplied. It is, we cannot but think, a ...

... . Yet another holiday season has commenced at Toole s Theatre, previously to the return of Mr. Toole himself. The occupants of the stage this time are Mr. Lionel Brough and Mr. W. Edouin, -whose joint efforts in Bluebeard at this very house several years ago gave the best of promise for the new burlesque upon which they are now engaged. Capitally acted by a com pany which has had the advantage ...