... ? ; Iic g0v?itanbtr -S; acd /11.-CAITAIN CU'ILE 3;; J. ASIIBY'STERRY Wt used thorough fares in I on don always pulled . and hy d. the contractors, or whoever are ul pleaoval, take such a lon-g while ...

... TEE IRVING THEATRE, SEACOMBE. The greatest interest is being shown in the erection and prospective opening of the new theatre at Sea- combe, Cheshire, on the shores of the Mersey, nearly opposite the great seaport of Liverpool. Energy and enterprise have been orought to bear on the erection of a new dramatic centre which is sure to secure the cordial patronage of a large residential population ...

... ? I 1 ?? L : t ; ?? .il? :lj?i , :4 1 SATURDAY, SEPT. 16, 1899. WAGNERIAN PROPERTIES. Travellers tell us that in India there is a certain class of conjurors who perform-or, rather, appear to perform-the most marvellous feats by the aid of mesmerism or hypnotism. They will that the spectators shall see a decapitated boy restored to life, or a man ascend into the air and disappear at the end ...

... The management of this popular house of entertain- ment has provided for this week a bill of more than usual attractiveness; in fact, such a brilliant array of talent in nearly every branch of legitimate variety busi- ness has seldom been brought together in Nottingham. The performance of the Bandurria Troupe created much enthusiasm. They are probably as artistic exponents of the mandoline and ...

... fBY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.) Mr Sleath, though not greatly familiar to the London public, has had several years experience in the theatri- cal profession both in town and the country, and in undertaking the management of the Adelphi Theatre he began with his eyes open to the enormous responsi- bility before him; for the Adelphi is no easy house to control. It has, perhaps, the most ...

... Down to yesterday 75 fires had oc- curred in the metropolis during the pre- VioUs seaen days (including 9 on Satur- day), against 76 in the precedienr week, and 74 in the correspondlng Yveek of 1398. SuConan (14).-The smokehole in a shed, Mft. by 8ft., ill ti-e rear of 1, Cuamberland- place,Brixton-road, afishsmonger's, was burnt down at two in the afternoon as a eanse- qucuce of r;vcrhcLati.n ...

... 1 FALL DOWNSXAIRS. Y'esterday, at St. Fartholomve's has- Dital. M\:r. h' S. l~anehaml hold an inquest cooching heo deatth of Mary Ann Hills, 47, the Vf £f Jannes Hlills. an hydrrulio enginzeer, residing at Joim-etreoc, CDom- mercial-roadl. On Sunday night deeoased fell downstairs. The stairs were steep and dark. She complained of being hurt, and a doctor attended, who expressed tbe osinion ...

... PARDONED ON TUESDAY. -4- EXHIBITION BOYCOTT. M. ZOLA'S INDICTMENT. The news fromn Paris oen Friday was that a. pardon fir ?? will be Signed at the Cabinet Council niext Tuesday. As an alter- native to t pardorl it is snggested that tbe Millistry may hold tilat t]hl period of /ima yprisonmilent, se-rved bY Dreyfitsa i, equivalent to tine sentenceu of thic Couxrt tand order his im- mediateii ...

... 1FiOVLOGNE BULL FI GHT. SPiEcC'TATORS CLAMOUR FOR BLOOD. 'I ho Ilust of the hail~l-filubte at Idowlogue for this season, as:'il Asi elid td11 Sttllaly ?? at the Place do t'apeiltae rCitf. took at alilereat form from tho3e which hblt proeeil' it. the greater portion of the perfortiatnce collatitiig ot teaitt of agility by ohs bull-fighter. iht y o mtll-s lare killed instead of the etastoinary ...

... -BY LADY JEPHSON. Ischl lies remote from the vulgarity of nineteenth-cen-u-:, ?? r- mountain spur high up among the hills of Upper Austria. ..a of mountains surrounds the dwellers at Ischl as much as ever c ; of the Coliseum encompass the gladiators. Ycu see the with rosy brush the moultain-tops, and the setting sun! leaves mew e--: purple against a flamingi sky. Mist lies over the va liev= in ...

... IRELAND AGAIN.-LANDLORDS' CLAIMS. 7o the EDITOR of the PALL MALL GAZETTE. DEAR SIR,-When in 1881 Mr. Gladstone urged his Land Bill upon the House of Commons he argued that his bill would improve the Irish landlords' property. He used some phrases of great significance, on which we will here argue. The great Parliamentary hand declared that in this great measure the tenant-right is limited, ...

... WILL VERDI ACCEPT THE COLLAR? FEROwI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 ROME, Tuesday.-On October 10, Giuseppe Verdi, considered the, greatest living glory of Italy, will celebrate his eighty-sixth birthday, and Professor Baccelli, Minister of Public Instruction, will propose to King Humbert to confer ipon him the highest Italian decoration, the Collar oi the Annunziata. Verdi will be the first, outside ...