... NOTES FROM THE EXCHANGE. All is not Gold that Glitters. Dear Sir, Capel Court, Feb. 2. 1805. Discounts nave been firmer and short money has commanded about per cent., but a good bit of the stiffening in rates has been caused by the banks preparing for the usual monthly returns and the proposed American bond issue. At the Bank of England gold is still flowing back from the provinces, and in ...

... . Srn, I shall feel obliged if yon would announce the 1 fact to your readers that Mr. Rutland, solicitor to my 1 association, is standing for Central Finsbury (Clerk cnwell), and svonld suggest that any person having votes in several districts might give his district the preference.--Yours faithfully, J. L. GRAYDON, Hon. Sec., Proprietors of Entertainments Association, St. James's Hall, ...

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... Sin, My attention has been drawn to an adver tisement in The Stage advertising for sale twenty manuscripts, amongst others The Silver King. Nc one but myself has any right to deal with MS. of this play.--Yours truly, A. H. PEARPOINT. 30, Craven street, Strand, W.C. February 1, 1895. ...

... . ON TOUR. Sir,--Has not the time come when those who send out companies on tour should be compelled to take some interest in the welfare of their people beyond a pecuniary one? Living at home, and sending out companies, they cannot be expected to realise the vindictiveness to which some of their actors are subjected. A member of a company has a difference with someone in authority on tour, of ...

... . ON TOUR. SIR,-- Under the above heading your correspondent S. does indeed write bitterly, and as circumstances we can easily understand preclude his giving details of his own case, it is difficult to decide, I nope he will forgive me for eayingso, whether ho is one of tho vast army of non-energetic habitual grumblers, or one who has really Buffered from that course of systematic petty ...

... . 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 Hews.] Dear Sir, Perhaps you will permit me as a regular reader of your excellent Notes, to nialco a few remarks. You are perfectly right in saying that in England one ought to engage Englishmen to conduct the orchestral societies, but still you reduce the list of foreign conductors to such a very small number and have forgotten a ...

... . PROFESSIONALS VISITING THEATRES. A New Idea. Sir, Might I suggest to the London managers to make it a rule that members of the profession who visit tho theatres should sign their names on entering in a book kept for that purpose only. I think it would be beneficial to both manager and actor. You will, no doubt, ask why beneficial 1 I will try and explain. The manager, by looking noxt day ...

... 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 ...

... . Miss Olive Owen, a promising young skirt and serpentine dancer, whose work we have before had occasion to praise, gave a performance at this hall on Saturday evening in association with the Aveton Giffard dramatic com pany. The programme started with the farcical comedietta now entitled Will He Come Again? which we remember as having been played else where under another name. Miss Olive ...

... . Sir, In December last, in reply to an advertise ment in Thh Staue, I wrote and enclosed a photo, and stamp for its return. As it was uot returned, I wrote courteously asking that it might be sent to me, but got no reply. I wrote three letters and two post cards, still without success, and it was uot until I had threatened legal proceedings for its detention that I got it back, and then with ...