... eithter On the 30th ult., according to an American paper, Itte there was a performance ol the stage of the Opera ents, House, Utica, which was not dowin onl t'.c hills. The vI be Cragg faintly of acrobats, father, five -Dlls. aoll I lughter, -the ?? ra Hot-e. Tnedlauhter, eight who appears iii male attire, is sixteeo ytari oil, anld the could youngett sot), Arthur, but tw -Ie. Tnt-y give ail ...

... A short time ago an action was raised in the Greenock Sheriff Court, at the instance of Harry Tempest Batty, operatic and dramatic entrepreneur, 2, Charing-cross, Glasgow, against Alexander Wright, lessee and manager of the Theatre Royal, Greenock. The court was asked to call upon defender to produce a full account of his intromissions with sums of money drawn by him at his theatre from Aug. ...

... [ As briefly mentioned last week the summonses in what is known as the Manchester Folly Theatre case were heard in a crowded court, and before a large number of magistrates, at the Manchester City Police-court, on the 23d ult. It having been decided by the prosecution that it was not desirable to lay an information under the local or licensing Acts, they were issued under the common law, all ...

... THE TEWW MAGDALEN. In the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, before Mr Justice Kekewich, on the 12th inst., came up the action Schlesinger v. Turner. This was an action by the trustees and executors of the will of the late Mr Wilkie Collins to restrain the defendant, a clerk to the Machineryand Hardware Company, 147, Queen Victoria- street, from performing a play called The New ...

... A special session of the City Justices of Liverpool was held on Monday, at the City Police-court, to hear applications for music, singing, and dancing licences. There were on the Bench Messrs E. Browne (in the chair), Isaac Morris, T. Matheson. and Admiral Gough. Thomas Reymond, licensee of the York Hotel, Williamson-square, applied for a licence for singing and music for his establishment. Mr ...

... AN OPERA SINGER AND HISI PUPIL. In the Bloomsbury County Court, on Thursday, the case of Edwards v. Ciampi came on for hearing before his Honour Judge Bacon, and was an action by the plaintiff to recover the sum of 28, alleged to be due from the defendant on a promissory note. Mr Paul Taylor was counsel for the defendant, and said he was quite prepared to admit the signature to the note, ...

... On Saturday, 18th, before Mr Justice Cave and a special jury, the hearing of the action brought by Miss Gladys Evelyn, or Gertrude Ellis, to recover damages for breach of promise of marriage from Mr W. E[. Hurlbert, was continued, this being the sixth day of the trial. Mr Justice Cave, in summing up, pointed out to the jury .that the fact of the defendant being a married man at the time of the ...

... In the Court of Appeal, on Monday, before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Lindley, and Lord Justice Lopes, came-up the action, The Musical Comedy Com- pany z Lowenfeld. On the 7th inst. the plaintiff comr pany applied to Mr Justice North for. an injunction to restrain the defendant, Mr Henry. Lowenfeld; from shutting the former out of the Shaftesbury--Theatre; where they were engaged in ...

... ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.' it it At the Guildhall, on the 23d ult., Arthur Moore, as 8. employee of the Princess's Theatre, was summoned for 5e driving a coach through the City for advertising purposes not sanctioned by the Commissioner. Con- ig stable Barton, 30J9, stated that on Oct. 23 1 he saw oh defendant driving a four-horse coach in Newgate-street. a- There were boards on each side, upon ...

... IftSS SANTLEY'S _ -1 A - *- In the Chancery Divisio. on Tuesday b i Justice Byrne, was beard the case of Santf' bfore Ui This was an action by Miss Kate Santley v. Wild, known actress, against Mr S. J. Wilde, ey the Well in respect of certain mortgage trans50i005feinreijof with the Royalty Theatre. The ato legal questions of importance, including aisea s of the equitable rule against cloggin ...

... At the Southwark County Court, on Monday, before his Honour Judge Holroyd, Hugh J. Didcott, theatrical agent, of York-road, Waterloo-road, brought an action against Gilbeit Joseph Fleetwood, known in the profession as Bert Gilbert, to recover 216 commission on engagements secured between April, 1892, and February, 1893. Mr Mackintyre, barrister, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Mallinson, ...

... At the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Tuesday, Ur James Drake Digby, the general manager of the 'National Skating Palace, Argyll-street, NV., appeared to an adjourned summons taken out under the 9th section of the Metropolitan Streets Act, charging him with aiding one Henry Savigan to commit a certain offence, namely, on Jan. 24th last, to unlawfully carry in Regent-street a certain board ...