... SCENE-the Shaftesbury Theatre, on Thursday, at the clerical matinde. In stalls papa parson, looking very severe, and as though considering that he was not doing quite the correct tiling. Behind him his two daughters, looking neither severe tor conscience-stricken. Sud- denly daughter number one hugs daughter number two, and, with eevtacy inl htr face and in her voice, whispers, This must be ...

... [ (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL.-Lessee and Manager, Mr Walter Hatton,-In securing TMr Augustus H3arris's Venu~s bur. legque company, Mr Hacton has been eminently fortu- nate this week. The excitement on Monday fairly rivalled the first night of a pantomime. Every seat in the theatre had been sold for the week before the doors opened, and thousands have been turned away nightly, ...

... MfUSIC AND MUJIOUNS. The Loudon rehearsals for tho Worcester up Festival will be held on Thursday next, and the Dr., I Festival itself will begin on the following Tues- al day. We have already announced the details of injsic th rormms ndathuhthe vocal score he 001 is nt yt redywe re ow nabld t gie ahe tri liretto, which is from the pen of Mr. Bennett, Tb deals only with a portion of thle ...

... m7usla M. PLANQUETTE'S ' CAPTAIN TNDUM* It may be taken for granted tlat M, Plean quette's Captain ThErise, as it will be Witnessed A week or so Ienee, will in maiy respects be a vastly superior work to that prested for the first time at tW Prince of VWale*' Theatre last night. Situations s44 songs which at present sin out the dfrst -two acts tW nearly eleven o'clock wil doubtless disappear ...

... HAVELOCK AND NELSOIV. rffrH latest volume of the Men of Action Series (Macmillan and Co.) is ?? of Havelock, by Mr. Archibald Forbes. In many ways it would be dificult to find a better man to describe Havelock's eventful career than the famous diarist of the Franco-German and Russo-Turkish wars. Mr. Forbes describes war as one who not only knows it, bmut loves it-who is experienced in its ...

... MR PAUL VALENTINE is to have a testimonial benefit given him by an influential section of the theatrical and music-hall professions. The benefitperformance will take place at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties on Sept, 17th. Mr Valentine has been for over twenty- five years connected with the variety stage, and has never had a benefit, though he has assisted in many, and, doubtless, many ...

... TE: CARL ROSIA OPRS . I Xll~,, -Ii *F A U S T FAUST. - Gonnod's Flaust was performed at the Gaiety lust night. The house was not nearly so fall as on the preceding evening, when there was the attraction of an opera, which had not been Performed here Ibfore. Novelty is always charmai- ing; and it evidently counted for something even as against the well-established merits'of Faust Therain ...

... Trli. SONG OF TH.E SEA. [BY -Arl1 WT 1T';EY.] Their mrlid NvRS a world of enchautment; A wvonder of luminous light Canre out with al fliring of carmine, Ti-rrn all the Weck Spaces of night- Tile iuim:i of lmorn ivxq as ?? ii Cheery as munsie could be ; ;t all tihough the dawn And thle daybrra'; I motrnud for ti3b son of the sea. 'J!ev slowyed re t'e ml-rvelous flovers 3ind fruiitS of their ...

... LYTHAPX, KIRKHAM, AND BLA.CKPOOL AGRICULTURAL SHOW, ce ?? annual agr'icultural alhow hield under thea ?? ,gOf tile above society, ionic pleas in splendid weather in di. the Royal. Palses Grrdens, Blaakpool, on.'ruciaday, and was a great success.- 'UpwaRds of 20,000 parsoins It is r stated visited the ground. hu~ined In a comsparativo at statoment of the number of entries for 10, Yerer past ...

... GLASGOW COUNCILLORS AT TU? ED1NBURW? EXHli3LTION. ?? Yesterday afternoon the Corporation of Glasgow hr tie paid no official visit to the Edinburgh Exhibition. chaos The Leaving the Central Station in two saloon car- abeut riages, the members of the Corporatien arrived at 'draw the Caledenisa Railway platfens in the groenris' wce at half-past three o'oleclc, and were received by Mr ?? Ti: r ...

... I The annual show of the Lytham, Kirkham, and Blackpool Agricultural Societyvas held on Tuesday at the Royal Palace Gardns, Blackpool. Fine weather prevailed, and, as the popular seaside resort is just I now more crowded with visitors than it has been at I almost any period during the season, the attendance ithin the show ground was of the most colossal proportions. Of the show itself it may ...

... TIHE DEMOCRATIC WORLD. lTh1I is some felocwm Who, havingt boesi prais'd for bluntntess, dothi afeob A eanoy rouglmress, anld constrain~s tire gxarb Ounitc f rom his naturre. Hle cannot fiatter, he ! ii honest mind and plala-he maut cpaok treith. An thoy will take it co; if not, lie's plrin. These kind of knaves I knov., which, in thir pianinsw Bl'ebsur ?? craft and more oorrupter ends Than ...