... . Queries and letters for publication must be tuthenticated tcith names and addresses of tenders. Those correspondents i rho write to urrect any errors that appear in our columns elativs to names or parts are informed that a all cases programmes or bills must bs en- losed for our guidance.) Fra JTCK9 Hakd.-- (1) From Cliarles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities. (2) The lat* John Clayton played the ...

... . PAST PRIMK DONNE. SIR,--Your contributor, The Lounger, in his very interesting paper, under the above heading, mentioned Madame Haigh Corri. He had evidently inadvertently mingled the names of Madame Haigh Dyer and Madamo Ida Gillies Corri, as his description applies faithfully to the latter lady. The former lady, who, as the wife? of Henry Haigh, tho celebrated operatic tenor, commenced ...

... SCOTCH DRAMA. Sir,--And, thank goodness, Mr. Bret Harte, the Californian writer, lias ax plod id once, and we trust for ever, tho obstinate and untenable theory that the English public will not stand what it is supposed not to understand, are tho words of tho Daily Telegraph while reviewing tho production of Sue in its columns of Juno 11. Welcome wordB, say I, for no one ooulil have en- ...

... . IR May I, through the medium of your columns, make an appeal on l>elialf of an old actor, James Cumberland? The modern school, probably, does not know him, but surely he has numbers of acquaint ances still living who do. He is in most distressing circumstances. He has had thirty-five years on tho stage, and has played with most of the best people of his day. His wife has been a helpless ...

... CHRISTMAS AND THE POOR. Sir, The Corporation has again granted the use of the Guildhall for the annual ban quet of the Ragged School children of London, and the Prince of Wales has once more ont me a donation to, if 1 may quote tho words of His Royal Highness, the excellent fund which you are again kindly raising for providing dinners and hampers for tho poor and crippled children of tho ...

... . Wo have received the following letter from Mr. Charles Lyall, the late treasurer of tho Covent Garden Fund: To the Editor of Tht; Stagh. Sir, It is most surprising to read in your pnppr that the chief parties concerned in the attack upon our Thrift Society (which ca'.;sr>d the. c-onflfcn l ion of our pronerty with out trli> i) have nothing to do with, or any knowledge of, the di vision of ...

... Since this date, however, several papers in America, Australia, on tho Contineut, and in tho English provinces have lent their support to tho utterly unfounded rumour that tho novel Quo Vad s was responsible for the idea of the play The Sign of the Cross. To sot tho matter at rest once and for all, I communicated with M. Jasicnski, of Warsaw, in Russian Poland, anel from him I learned that M. ...

... BUSINESS IN THE PROVINCES. SIR,--Mr. Ben Greet assumes that in the provinces no bad actors, but only bad plays, exist. Casen, however, occur almost daily in which the cffcct of a continual thinning of provincial audiences is found to bo duo not to the quality of the play itseif, but to the quality of the acting of those engaged in it. The reason for this is not far. to seek. A proprietor oi ...

... . THE SHOEMAKER TO HIS LAST. SIR,--I write to you in the interests ol my own cherished convictions. I had perused Mr. Hall Caine's work, The Christian, with a certain amount of enjoyment, mingled witli a modicum of criticism which, so ambitious an effort in bound to arouse, and had found a special corner in my heart for his heroine. What ever blemishes there may bo in the 3tor> judging Glory ...

... 11 THE BELLE OP NEW YORK. Sir, Your Elephant critic takes excep tion to the Yankee twangs of my Belle of New York Company. Would it surprise him to know that they are as correot as United Staters can make them When he next honours us with a few more minutes of his suburban rounds we'll endeavour to lay on a little Bishopsgate foi his especial benefit. But, seriously, he is out in his ...

... A SUICIDAL POLICY. Sir, --With regard to your editorial com ments--strictures, 1 suppose, would be mor descriptive-- on my letter concerning the management of suburban theatres, may I say that I received my information on such excellent and reliable authority that I can not but reiterate my faith in it. Free trado in amusements, as yon are always contend ing, is such an essential oondition of ...

... FRESH PANTOMIMES WANTED. SIR,--I have been very much interested in the correspondence which has recently appeared in your valuable paper anent the above important subject. It seems to me that pantomime--like the stage itself, and, in fact, everything, is passing through a process of evolution towards a higher and beter state. But, as in other matters which at times bring despair to the ...