... BURNT CORK ARTISTS There is to be a revival of the *‘ blackfaced ” minstrel at Christmas. The days when * Moore and Burgess ”’ and o éhristy Minstrels '’ were a portion of London’s life are almost forgosten by our younger generations. St. James’s Hall ...

... THE FIRST STAGE BANJO. In the early '3o’s there was a black minstrel in London who was out of a job and sorely in need of money. There ;is nothing peculiar in that, but this particular nigger had among his few possessions a certain musical instrument ...

... Ig‘UCIS. %0“6 as the minstrels discoursed, would have Street, facing Forest Lane. brought pain to even the patrons of our modern By order bacrel-organs. But the music was admittedly ___ : of but very secondary importance; the minstrel ! but came tofitell ...

... Goodwood some nigger minstrels played “ Bedelia,” and the Queen applauded the perforinance gently, while the King smiled. 8o far. so good; we are not much wiser as to what the King thought. Then they played and sang some American comic air, at which the ...

... Savannah 11. (6 to I agst) 1, Tiston (4 to 1 agst) 2, Marcolass (10 to 1 agst) 3. Also ran: Kentucky, Andy White, The Last, Minstrel Park. CHEQUERS H'CAP CHASE. Captain Farrell (6 to 4 agst) 1, Palermo 11. (7 to 1 agst) 2. GORSE HANDICAP HURDLE. Blind Hookey ...

... money at 4} to 4i. Discounts, 5 7-8. Foreign, steady- Russians better. Home Rails, irregular. Americans, extremely buoyant. Canadians, strong. A nigger minstrel has been charged with stealing a pacXlge containing 2 fur neckiet. The whole affair is very ...

... Vedanta, which sank off the Brayes some weeks ago, was picked up at Grandes Rocques on Mondav. Mr. Brian L. Rundell, the American cattle dealer, who has been the guest of Mr. A. Le Patourel, of La Ramée, during the past few weeks, left this morning for ...

... the Victim. “WHATZHAPPENED TO JONES.” Last night St. Julhan’s Hall was acked for the performance of Mr. G. H. %roadhurst’s American farce-comedy *“What happened to Jones,” by Mr. Charles Colrd(te’s talented Company, preceded by a must amusing comedietta ...

... on the successive nights, for those who bave heard the Pierrots will certainly go again, and when the fame ot this sever minstrel troupe has spread many more will seize the opportunity of seeing and hearing them. Mr, Cliftord Essex's company of Pierrots ...

... treatment, the composer remaining himself through it all. The oul{ American com rso far of any real distinctien, &o::rd MacDowell, has given us two excellent illustrations of American wit, in his piano pieces, “Uncle Remus’” and “Brer Rabbit.” ‘Tbe latter ...

... Antagonist, 340 tons register, sunk off the coast of Curacoa and raised by the Americans and converted into a three-master sch. br. As far as 1 know trading on the American coast. Undaunted, Island Belle, Shealtiel, ss. Commerce, the well-known Plymouth ...

... just missed an American and was over-excited. He told it above thirty years ago, but it is alive yet; alive, and very healthy and hearty, and likely to outlive any fact in history. Carlyle was truthful when calm: but give him Americans enough and bricks ...