... bIASES AND FACES is to be repeated at Wednesday matiness at the flaymarket. The demand for seats on Wednesday last was greater than could be satisfied, and hundreds of applicants were turned away from the doors. The piece to follow in the matinee list is The Me7ry Wives of Windsor. Mr Tree will, of course, rely mainly on the strength of the cast in this pro- duction; but every care will be ...

... On Wednesday, in the Westminster County Court, the action B~anstead v. Harris came on for hearing before re Judge Bayley. The plaintiff claimed of the defendant, it' Mr Augustus Harris, the sumn of PI as damages for not it' being allowed to take his seat in the amnphitheatre stalls of of Covent-garden Theatre. Plaintiff conducted his own it case, and Mr Longstaff, barrister, appeared for the ...

... FRENCH PLAYS AT THE ROYALTY, On Wednesday, Dec. 26th, the Comedy, in Five Acts, by MAI. M1eilhac and Hlaidvy, TttICOCiHE ET CACOLET. Tricoche ?? A. Scumy Cacolet ?? ?? M. DIDIcR Le Duc Emile ?? 2. DALBERT Van der Pouf ?? M- PERouMONT Oscar Pacha ?? 1 CHAacRTON Breloqtie ?? . Reicees Des Escopettes ?? V M. DOLYNAY Hippolyte ?? DUIEARSA Justin ?? ?? a LAGRANGE Un Domestique ?? M. AnARcisarsT ...

... At the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Monday, William Harrow, aged twenty-one, of Chapel-row, Islington- and Alfred Deacon, aged twenty-three, of Lanes-court, Clerkenwell, were charged with being concerned together in assaulting William Broughton, a comedian, and also two police-officers, at Mount-pleasant, Clerkenwell, and further with assaulting James Baxter in Farzingdon- road. The prisoner ...

... MANHOOD AT BURNMLEY. A New Sensational Domestic Drama, by James J. Hewson, Produced at the Gaiety Theatre, Burnley, on Thursday, Sept. 20th, 1888. George Ashford ?? Mr J. B. AsHLEY Derrick Murkley . ?? Mr W. H. CscIL PIERPOINT Captain Sidney Stansfield ?? Mr ARmORuc WALteR Dennis Rafferty ?? Mr FaED. tYcDON Blue Peter ?? Mr JOHN BarrrAnv Sandy Sugnall ?? M ir ERNEST CARPENTER Tyke ?? ?? Mir ...

... 0 L Y MP IA. A change of programme is always conducive to the continuous success of an equestrian entertainment, and M. Houcke was well advised in taking the opportunity created by the departure of the Arabs to introduce no les, than eight new acts amongst the fifteen items ?? , -. stitute the Olympia programme. As we have already deucribed in detail and praised in elteuso the attractions ...

... AMUSEMENTS IN NOTTINGHAEJ. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOND NIX.) THIEATRE ROYAL.-Manager. Mr Thomas W. Charles.-Tt is so long a time since Lights o' London was played in Nottingham that its reproduction during the present week is wonderfully walcome, and, judgicig fromi the oscadiny, night, is likely to be as wonderfully attractive. The house wa., crammed, and hundreds were turned from the doors. ...

... CAPTAIN SIT A New and Orirrinal [hlv, in ?? 1A.- , C. 1Haddon Chttnribrs, prodn, 'i r.t ,r ITaymnarket Theatre. cu, %tedmit dr 1l*''1 3Mr ?? r 3Ii JT MrSeabrook ?? T1s' Harry Sealbrook . ?? F Mr Cardiner ?? Marshall ?? Ilichatl ?? r Bates ?? r ir r Mrs Seabrook ?? Lady ?? ?? 1 MNab~el ?? Stella ?? Mr, T Weishall riot be very far ,vroeg, p' I i tile remark, without the slighle~t iit itj ?? ...

... With the reopening of DRutrY-LANE in September has always been associated the commencement of the metropolitan dramatic season. The Armada is a sub ject naturally appealing to national sympathies, and lending itself to picturesque treatment. The general business continues to be satisfactory, and few changes of programme have to be recorded. At the GLOBE Booties Babqn was withdrawn on Thursday ...

... The tenth orchestral concert was given at the West- minster Town Hall on the 6th in'st., and attracted a large audience, as usual. Mr Charles Stewart Macpber- son, ?? has done wonders with the orchestra, and in the choice of music he is entitled to high praise indeed, for in these concerts compositions of the most elaborate kind are performed, and if we do not expect the entire finish and ...

... r s d .1 ~ ~ ~ The Earl of Strafford rose on Monday, in the House of Lords, to call attention to recent proposals for the better inspection of theatres and other places of amuse- ment in the metropolis, and said that as there were fifty theatres, 473 music balls, and thirty-fivn concert and other halls in London, in which a capital of £4,000,000 was invested, he thought that all would agree ...

... THE DRAMA IN AMERIaA, f, - v . .. tFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUG. 13.-With the pro- duction, to-morrow night, at the Madison-square Theatre, of Mr William Gillette's new comedy-drama, A Legal Wreck, and the revival of The Queen's MTale at the Broadway Theatre this evening the fall season will have been fairly opened. The cast of The Queen's ilate will be slightly altered, ...