... . PLEASE HELP US I [To the Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.] Dear Sin, Can yon favour us with a small corner of your space in order that we may solicit your readers' generous assist ance in our work Long bofore Christmas wo made tho neees- saiy arrangements for giving breakfasts and dinners to some 30,000 children, and, of course, it will ho understood that it is ...

... . [To the, Editor of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Mctcs.} Dkaii Sir, Might I ask you again to mention the wants of my 10,000 very poor parishioners in your Christmas appeals? In past years what little Christmas cheer we have been able to give them has come entirely through the kind notices we have received from the press. We have nobody we can apply to. The parish is one dead level ...

... NOTES FROM TEE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, Feb. 23, 1895. ihis has been a week memorable for not only the mtroduction of Newr Yankees, but also because the Bank rate of 2 per cent, has remained unaltered for a whole year, a thing which has happened only once since Montague and William III. (of ever-blessed memory established the Old Lady of Threadneedle ...

... NOTES EEOM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Str, Capel Court, Dec. 29, 1894. Money continues to advance in value, day-to-day loans, which, were recently at the nominal figure of 1 per cent., being now quoted about 1 per cent., while the rate for discounting three months' bills, which hung so long at T per cent., has now also hardened to the same figure. This does not imply, ...

... . All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, June 15, 1895. There was some talk of the Bank lowering its rate of discount to 1-g- per cent, this week but the conservative tendencies of the Board prevailed, and this unheard-of course was not taken, What may happen in the future we do not know but unless the various approaching financial operations, in the shape of new loans, bring ...

... NOTES FROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, May 31, 1895. This has been quite a holiday week, for, if operators have not been away, they have been preparing for the Whitsun week, and refusing to commit themselves to any more fresh bargains than they can help. The result has been general dulness, while the African market is, for the time, quite out of joint, ...

... NOTES FROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, April C, 1895. Silver again began tbe week well, but has dropped back, carrying with it the stocks which depend for their value on this metal. With the distribution of something like six million in Government and other dividends yesterday, the market will be swamped with available loan capital, but there is 110 ...

... NOTES FKOM THE EXCHANGE. All it not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir,' Capel Court, July 13, 1895. The Stock Exchange settlement has gone off without the smallest trouble, while the Bank return shows only the natural expansion of internal circulation which might be expected at the time of a General Election. Again a very large business has been done in gilt-edged securities and African mines, ...

... NOTES EROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, Sept. 21, 1895. The fact that, according to Jewish cosmogony, the world has entered on its 5656th year, is not of as much interest to the Parthians and Mcdes and Elamites and dwellers in Mesopotamia frequenting this Court and the adjacent thoroughfares, as the fact that Tishri 1, the first day of the Hebrew new ...

... To the Editor of The Stage. SIR,--It is a distressing fact that the theatrical profession is sadly overcrowded. The supply, not of stalled artists, but of people calling themselves so, is largely in excess of the demand. And I think it the duty of every right-minded member of our profession as far as possible --with, of course, the co-operation of THE STAGE, representing, as it always does, ...

... Srn, I can sympathise with your correspondents on the photograph question, having endured much myself. To save managers trouble and artists the loss of property, why should not actors have their photographs lithographed on their note-paper For a small sum they An have them beautifully done, almost equal in appearance to the original portrait.-- xours truly LEONARD EMBERSON. ...

... BATTLE THROUGH LIFE. Sir,-- No doubt Mr. Mitchell has every right to the above title, but, with all duo respect to that gentleman, wo beg to say that it was only after much trouble and research that we finally decided to call our drama The Battle of Life, which we then considered entirely original. We a re not aware that we have made any charges against anyone, but, thinking The Battle ...