... (FROM OUR OWN CORlRESPONDENTS,) ACCRINGTON. PRincE's TnEATRa.-ProprietOr, Ur J. B. Ormerod, Business Manager, Mr J. Ormerod.-Mr John Wainwright and company have presented the late Charles Reade's drama Drink in an admirable manner during the wveek. Mr Wainwright assumes the part of Coupeau, and gi\ es a capital rendition of the same being ably supported by Mr Bernard Dale, Mr N. Watts, Mr H. ...

... On Wednesday afternoon the new Jubilee Ode, written by Mr Joseph Bennett and composed by Mr A. C. Mackenzie, was performed for the first time at the Crystal Palace with brilliant success, although the day chosen for the performance could hardly be regarded as the most fortunate one for attracting a large audience. On the previous day all London-all the world we may say-had taken part in the ...

... msSIc. 1ROTAL COLLEGE OF The students of the Royal college of Mu t ic who last yer gave an admirable stage performance Ofey Cherubini' Les Doux Jouru6es, followed it up yes- terday afternoon by an almost equally excellent re.ps' I sentation at the Savoy Theatre of -Der Freisobutz. tha r 4Lea inux journies, and it would be surprising if the unduly exacting critic were t not able to point ...

... TIHE FINE ART EXHIBITION AT VENICE. A, .7 I I VENICE, May 27. TimT Fine Art Exhibition here is really very interesting and beautiful. The exhibits of Italian artists are restricted to works produced within the decade. So far as I have seen, all their canvases bearing dates are of the current yEear. All works already exhibited- alle Mostre Nazionali od Inter- nazionali Italiane-are thereby ...

... THE CAM AND CAMBRIDGE ROwIIG,* WHEN the haughty Oxonian begins to draw comparisons between the Thames and the Cam, the jealous Cantab is obliged to own that his adopted river is the narrower of the two, but he generally goes on to add (and with reason), You have nothing at Oxford to compare with our Backs' river, and as to the 'Freshman's' it is as lovely a stream as anything the Cherwell ...

... IE NX USICAL KANl'vIGHTS. CoNcuwiN~ i Uthe new batch of musical knights-Messrs. Cusins, director of the QUeen's band; Stainer, organist of St. Paul's; Bridges, ditto of W estmrinster Abbey; Stanford, organist of Trinity College, Cambridge; arnmby, tihe able conductor-it is harder to say why they should not be than why they should be knighted-some persons in these days swoit' to knighthood with ...

... 0 ?? Tima Queen is expected to leave Balmoral on Tuesday next. Meanwhile Her Majesty has been taking her usual drives. On Sunday the Queen and Royal Family attended Divine Service in the Castle, the Rev. Dr. Donald Macleod, D.D., officiated, and in the evening dined with tier Majesty. On Monday, in misty and drizzling weather, the Queen, with Princess Beatrice and Princess Frederica, drove ...

... LITERATU 1E. MIAQAZINFS AND SERIALS FOR JUNE. The impress of the Jubilee month will be found upon the great majority of m3gazines, and many and various are the forms of retro- spect indulged in by different writers. Save for a couple of articles on current polities, the Fortnsghf ~o is given up to sketches of the past 50 years ; Professor Douden dealing withliterature. Mr. Grant Allen with ...

... On Tuesday, June 14th, 1887, at the Strand Theatre, for the First Time in London, the New and Original Romantic Drama, in a Prologue and Four Acts, by James A. Meade, entitled I THE OATH. Stephen Dyng ?? Mr JAMEs A. MEADE Father M'Grath ?? Mr WILLIAM RIGNOLD Earl Glenville ?? ?? Mr ARTMUR LYLE Major ISeacroft ?? Mr JAMES NELSON Lil M'Grath ?? Mr FULLER MIELISI Larry Doolahan ?? Mr HENRY ...

... THB DRAMA IN PARIS. LE MAN&EUR DE FER. Drama, in five acts, by the late Edouard Plouvier, revived at the Th6atre de Paris, June 4th, 18S7. phdnfix Porlon ?? - . TAIL.ADs Itech ?? .. M. ALEXASDRt EnsiarItlel de lidral ?? . E. BARES Duc Blamon No0ailles ?? M. H. LUGUET Mlarquis Octave de Blamon.. M. CaRISTIAN Chevalier Saint-Sauveur ?? M. DANXOU LBger.. -. . Pamu; Deche-be Blamoe Novailles.. ...

... SOUTH LONDON PALACE. The visitor to the South London will notice many improvements in the auditorium that must have cost the amiable proprietress much anxious care, trouble, and expense. With music ball audiences, however, the programme's the thing, and it is in this particular that the South Londoners have specially benefited by the recent alteration in the proprietary. It was Mrs Poole's ...

... (FRtOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MELBOURNE, MAY 12.-The cold weather is upon us now, fires are in demand, and theatrical business has been pretty brisk all the month. Called Back was revived at the Theatre Royal on March 26th. with Mr. George Rignold and Mliss Kate Bishop as the hero and heroine. It did not attract much attention, and gave way on April 9th to A Rsun of Luck, which still holds ...