The Era from London, Greater London, England • 13

July 28, 1867. THE A. 13 SBiW' entertainment is under the patronage of Royal mSsio att Light Horse also Captain Goodwin, opens at tto Hall or01'2'3 Speetrescopic Entertainment" to lee snmfw ed for their usual annual training we hope panvl rShfvte audlees during the ensuing week, for they (the com-P ZL0uy deser. a larSe "mount of patronage and sunnort. CHESS.

East msiant. dav evening miscellaneous entertainment took place here on Tues tltearltstes being Miss Alice French nf Mr Hall rennl.P. nnr PmfnaD 1 I voncert Maeiciani. Man). The band Ball, of this j.

iiitmtiEuuieui. oi luessrs. jiayior ana eltv. eoSpaiy is the besi "wo TT51 estabMnent still remains here, and the nings Mr8 Sandford seen under canvas. Mrs.

Julia Jen- a Twell known Hrrtham'. Fy. Weston, Sandford, mention of their namfs h.ea;rical Profession, therefore the mere and talent of the company Suarantee as to the respectability tookDplaefaUheS "J1 of toe Wolverhampton Unity aFl'tS-lHS WREXHAM. mr. Woodin's Entertainment.

The favourite ariM annough the hall was by no means crowded. YORK. To Correspondents. All communications to be directed to The Eea, 3, Catherine-street, Strand, London. A Young Plater.

The best defence to the Evans' Gambit for one not perfect master of ail the intricacies of that snbtle opening, and perhaps even to one who has thoroughly studied them, is to play the counter Gambit of to Q's 4th, on the fourth move. Anos. The number of competing Problems for the prizes offered by the Committee of the International Chess Congress is very great. We hear, however, that the award will be made immediately. Jekome.

Numerically, the Westminster is the strongest Chess Club in England. Your proper course, if you desire to join that, or any other Club, and do not know any of its members, is to apply to the Secretary. T. C. F.

Mr. Morphy, it must be remembered, has not had any hard practice in Chess for some years, and whether if he had entered for the Emperor's Prize he would have won it is problematical In his best play we have not a doubt he would have beaten any player in the list, Joun W. Drakon Rabey is a transposition of Konrad- Bayer, and is frequently adopted by that distinguished master as a signature to his less important Problems. Derby. Cleverly arranged, but we cannot admit your claim for originalit y.

The germ of the position is a Problem by Ponziani, which forms the frontispiece to Bingham's translation of what he mistakenly supposed to bo a Treatise on Chess by Ercole del Rio, but which was written by Ponziani. C. H. You are right. The selection of games played by Philidor and contemporaries, first published by Mr.

George Walker, is a most valuable contribution to Chess literature, and well deserves reprinting. We seen a ePy 'or yearB' but have a vivid recollection of the excellence of many of the games. Problem Wo. 25, by C. Clerok.

One of the Prize Problems in the Leipsic Tourney, j.niiATRE itoYAL. Closed. BLACK. Sandhill Concert Hall. (Proprietor, Mr Herhert Miss Carlo (serio-comic), Mr.

M'Dowell (patter), Mr.T nTvW rtei" dMrfv Dixon (Negro vocalists) comprise ihl Tcompany here Hart Music Hall. (Mr. Joseph Goltress, andeSenotchfBr-J-im gr7Cn' St Watt J. Spiers (lS ana scotch), and Miss Beatsou (characteristic). Provincial Music HaUa, ThlIrtXT2WC" Hotel Music Mr.

W. crowded nightly to hear the following com-p Annio Jasper (characteristic), Mis Emily Dixon fsenti-SSto om cf WiEff tballad)' Di (NiggerAfss TacEe Mr' Chaa Seward (conue), and fin7h (Manager, Mr. little Hall is still doing TIlss Mackenzie (the sentimental and serio-comic) is a reMived juvenile serio-comic and dancer) is also well (Po'teries). People's Concert Hall. (Proprietor, Mr.

T. fh pVT- crowded houses nightly here are a sufficient guarantee that avL. "etora. spirited catering for his patrons is appreciated. Miss Angus, a pleasing Scotch and ballad vocalist, is a favourite.

Teddy Sam Burkes (baritone), Mr. present compknyn'e er' CoIoIouS'h alld Mr- C. Howarth form the Concert Hall. The recent additions are Mr. and Mrs.

who have darins the week Produced some well-written pieces in an able manner. Music This place of amusement Marno m- Jieal' I0ll0wlnS Artistes, at the benefit of Teddy Yn h7 -IBS. (coloared lady), W. A. Thompson (comic), n' Teddy Grane, and Brothers Morton.

iTHnitf change Music Mr. Charles S'sters Clara and Emma Robie, the former a serio-comic singer and dancer and the latter a sentimental vocalist, are well received. mi. and Mrs. Fred Lee still continue to please with their duets.

Miss iS? 7 (enn.raeteristic singer and danseuse) and Mr. A. Hartley (baritone) still remain. VnBAVEI'1" Anierican Brothers, Messrs. Hubert Watson, a rd Wat Portley gave a Concert in the Club room of the rmce of Wales Inn, on Monday, to a crowded audience.

here on Fridnv anTsT sers Grand Hippodrome and Circus opens on inoay and Saturday, the 2d and 3d of August. Old S0UTH SHIELDS. By good the Management of Mr. and Mrs. iseS-SUPP0-rted by efficient company, this place of eventa? tl, if CtmS wltWn its fu audiences.

On Monday Macbeth whlchn commenced with Shakespeare's play of lSnL ir. SpIaCed "Pen the stage in an excellent manner. The DA vfra I nri, ro sustained by Mr. Fred Cooke (Macbeth), and euthed wa A ia0betP- Tne lorce with which these roles are distin-performeTs hnd and elicited considerable applause. Both fSrt thm excellent conception of their respective parts, and Dlveri 1 tsatisfletion.

Not only Mr. Cooke but also Miss Personators of character, and are possessed of ind thPn MU ased5' The Malcolm of Mr. Sandfordwas well rendered; dallv Su'L'lvas and, at the latter part of the play espe-hi Z'Ji Mr. Walters was capital as the First Witch, of Pf," good. Mr.

Chapman performed the part cre4'ably, and in the scene after the murder fulailed if nia part. Mr. E. W. Burton made a capital Duncan.

The characters were ty Miss M. Walters (Donalbain), Mr. Ay0Sse)' -Hi James (Lenox), Mr. John Burton (Seyton), Mr. Kunon (Hecate), Mr.

Cole (Physician), Miss Burton (Fleanee), Mr. Lean (Second Wrtch), Mrs. E. W. Burton (Third Witch), Mrs.

Jones Kf. At the conclusion of the play there was a comic song tZmiLi -1 a by Mr. M'Lean. The entertainments tS an ausinfffare. On Tuesday evening was presented wnS 11 drama of The Rose of Ettrick Yale.

On Wednesday, was oJ Catherine foward. We may state that on 7as Presented The Dumb Man of Manchester, that cha-hTttlt hy Mr- Thornton, and seldom have we seen it 5, 'i5t comPany arc becoming very popular iu South Shields, f0r 30016 STAMFORD. Mr' A- Oiarke.1-On the second race night Ko.r, itf' 0use, has not boen so crowded since the time Edmund Si hil I ttese boards' forty-three years ago, every part of the 50me undine on the stage. The performances vtn hf Patronaee of the Duke of Newcastle and Henry Chaplin, the 0n Monday there was another good house, it being the Members for the borough (Lord Camborne and Sir J. fifi, Tne Pieces Put uPn the stage this week have uLafh ost Tm Tories, At Home and, Abroad, Kathleen Maioumeen, Lottery Ticket, East Lynne, Sx.

SUNDERLAND. (Manager, Mr. Stuart H. Bell.) The 5as already extended over eleven months, closes on and. w'th it the Lesseeship of Mr.

Bell, who will, we uuder-rt m', "tnie his efforts to cater for our playgoers to the Theatre Royal, on Monday The Courier of Lyons was presented. We cannot say that it Performed, as we remarked frequent pauses and strange We. cxempt from censure Mr. Fred. Hastings, who Sp'nt and lfc'meut.

His changes of dress, voice, and good as Lesurgues and Dubosc. Mr. Finch was made a most impressive Jerome Lesurgues. As Chop-K-'iiTft was quaintly humorous, without being grotesque. VS! A- Creamer was free from exaggeration, and at the the Hght-hearted dandy.

Mr. Lester was very i Miss Annie Willmott was a fair representative of 1 't 1S no' one of her best characters. The drama of Susan IJoptey brought the performance to a close. On Wednesday Mrs. II.

toher friends, the pieces being Jane Shore, Handy Andy, rliJK 6 Br'ie with Messrs- Hastings, Joues, Finch, R. A. Creamer, ri "nders, Egerton, Morrison, Miss A. Willmott, Mrs. So MVllfe and Mr- Shiel-Barry (for this night only) formed establishment Ciarance Holt will be the new Manager of this TUNBRIDGE WELLS.

Mrmri and Manager, Mr. W. 7f heatre opened for the season, when the drama of The Six fflJnZf', Was we" 00 tlle staSe- X1'e company is large and Wff impression they have made has been most tavourable. All the old favourites were received witli enthusiasm, and the new candidates with great favour. Miss Ellen Stewart looked and ffi taInted way, and was applauded, while the Manager, Mr.

Montague, received quite an ovation. Mr. W. C. Temple warn5 reception.

Singing and dancing have followed each Mr. and Miss Clifford and Miss C. Mitchel, and Mischief Slaking and other farces have nerved to please every one. WAKEFIELD. Alhamdra Music Hall.

(Proprietor, Mr. Nathan Webster.) This place of amusement was open on Friday and Saturday lust with an cmcicntcompany, comprisingMiss Letitia Saunders (serio-comic), Mr. Tom Winter (comic), Mr. K. Thornton (Irish comedian), Mr.

Fred Howard (comic), and the Brothers Ridley (gymnasts). The last-named performances are the best of the description we have ever witnessed. The houses were good, and the company reopen again for the same evenings this week, on their return from Castleford, where they are performing the first four nights. The energetic Proprietor, Mr. Webster, is preparing for commencing his winter season by introducing several improvements in the exterior of the building, comprising new and elegant windows, lamps, which will make the place very attractive.

There is also to be a short dramatic season. WALSALL. Alkxakbra. Mdsio Hall. (Proprietor, Mr.

C. Crooke.) The Tneaker family are still attraetinir larp-o at Hell Monday Mr. W. Newton (comique), Messrs. Churchill and Crabtree (Nigger artistes).

Mr. W. Thompson, the genial chairman, is announced to take his farewell benefit on Thursday, when a bumper house will be sure to do honour to the most humorous of local singers. NORWICH. East of England Mrjsic Hall.

(Proprietor, Mr. Albert D. Lane.) The spirited and talented Proprietor continues to provide a first-class bill of fair to the lovers of harmony, and the large audiences nightly show by hearty applause their appreciation of his endeavours to give satisfaction to all Mr. R. Hales put in an appearance on Monday week, and met with a perfect ovation, being an old favourite Norwich.

Miss Janet Kichards unexpectedly appeared last week, and proved a vast acquisition, her singing being far above the average of Provincial Music Hall singers, and every evening she is received with great applause. Mr. Harry Doles took a benefit yesterday (Friday). Miss iv. F.

M'Donald, a Scotch giantess, nearly seven feet high, left on Saturdav last, and during her stay won the esteem of the audience, and the host and hostess. Miss Jasper, a scrio-comicand danseuse, terminates her engagement this day. Mr. S. Brewer, accompanist, and Miss Guiness musical directress and pianist, are still here, and give great satisfaction.

NOTTINGHAM. Theatre (Lessee, Mrs. J. F. Saville.) Lost in London and the burlesque of Fans kept possession of the boards during the Race week, and every night all parts of the house (except the dress circle) were well filled.

Both pieces are put upon the stage in a highly creditable manner, but the principal attraction has been the burlesque, which is rattled through nightly with such spirit and gusto as to evoke enthusiastic demonstrations of delight. The balloon ascent of Paris (Miss Julia Lovelace) and Venus (Miss Bertha Adams) from Mount Ida is one of the most novel as well as pleasimr scenes ever witnessed in Nottingham; while the musical selections include airs from L'Afrkaine and Faust, varied by snatches of the popular street ditties, Pretty Little Sarah." and When Johnny comes marching home In the quartette "I'd like to be a Swell," Miss Lucille Grath struts and sings with a bewitching air, nightly eliciting rapturous applause, which is continued until she steps forward to 'do "it again. The gentleman who plays the part of Pollux does not improve the burlesque by the local hits he tries to maKe. Hamlet's advice to the players would be suitable reading for him. Yerbum sat.

On two evenings this week Paris has been precedes by the historical drama of Catherine Howard, with Mrs. Coleman as the heroine, and Mr. Coleman as Ethelwold, a ciiaracter which he has sustained on previous visits to Nottingham with much success. Lost in London was repeated on Wednesday and Thursday, followed by Byron's burlesque of Cinderella. Mr.

Coleman announced The Duke's Motto for his benefit on Friday, and last night (Saturday) was to be the last of the company's stay in Nottingham. Aiuahbka Music Hall. (Lessee and Manager, Mr. G. Allen.) The summer season here terminated on Saturday, tile 20th, and the Hall is now closed.

During the recess some internal improvements are to be effected. PORTSMOUTH. St. Geokge's Hall. (Proprietor, Mr.

G. H. Atkins.) Mr. J. L.

Toole, the eminent low comedian, opened here for one night on Monday' 22d hist. The pieces selected for the occasion of his first appearance in Portsmouth were The Spitalfields Weavers, The Steeple Chase, and Ici on Varle Francois, portraying in each his favourite characters of Simmons, Mr. Titttuns, and Mr. Spriggins. His reception was immense.

He was very ably supported by members of the Theatre Royal, Kyde (by the kind permission of Mr. Charles Harcourt), consisting of Mr. J. EUred (who is specially engaged to accompany Mr. Toole on his Provincial tour), Miss Mary Henderson, Miss Fanny North, Miss Minnie Wood, Mr.

Four-ncss Kolfe, Mr. J. Davis, Mr. F. J.

Smith, and others. The Hall was crowded with a most brilliant and aristocratic audience, and it must be very pleasing to Mr. Atkins to see his efforts appreciated as a caterer for the public in introducing one of the best comic actors of the day. South of Englaxd Music Hall. (Proprietor, Mr.

W. Brown.) AmoiiR the fresh arrivals here tins week are Miss Fanny Garthwaite and Miss Kathleen Irwin, comic duettists. Mr. J. G.

Forde is still delighting his audiences with his funny sayings. The remainder of the company the same as last week. The Great Lingard is underlined for six nights, and is usually a great favourite here. ROCHESTER. Lyceum Theatre.

This Theatre has been occupied during the last mouth by a comedy and burlesque company of more than ordiuary efficiency. The following are the names of the corps drurnatique in question, viz. Miss Louise Laidiaw, Miss Nellie M'Ewen, Mdlle. R. Duvalli, Miss Julia C.

Seymour, Mdlle. H. Duvalli, and Miss Marie lltiodes; Mr. H. Crouch, Mr.

T. A. Palmer, Mr. H. Andrews, Mr.

Wood-ville, Mr. W. Herbert, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Charles Seymour.

Of these tlie most successful are Miss Laidiaw, Miss Rhodes, Mr. H. Crouch Mr. Andrews, and Mr. Seymour, their efforts being nightly received with applause.

The pieces presented have been The Porter's Knot, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, Tlx Mother's Dying Child, Daddy Hardacre, Perfection (in which Miss Marie Rhodes has displayed her agreeable soprano voice to advantage), Meg's Diversion, witli the burlesques of Ixion, Aladdin, and La Sonnambula; The Clockmaker's Hat, Ici on Parle Framaise, doing duty in the farce department. The attendance has not been of an encouraging description, owing, no doubt, to the wretched weather which has prevailed lately. RIPLEY (Derbyshire). Lecture Hall. On the 17th hist, a concert was given in this Hall to a scant but approving audience.

The artistes were Funny Bob Richardson (comic), his Son (the infant Mackney), Mr. and Mrs. Taylor (duettists), Master Taylor, Mr. W. Christie, and Herr Schenning, all of whom did their work welL RYDE (Isle op Wight).

Theatre Royal. (Lessee, Mr. C. Harcourt.) The business at this favourite place of amusement is progressing most favourably. On Thursday and Friday (18th and 19th) the house was crowded, the boxes presenting a brilliant array of rank and fashion.

Mr. J. L. Toole the celebrated comedian, appeared in the comedy of The Weaver, in which he enacted the part of Simmons in an exceedingly humorous wav, eliciting as a matter of course, repeated rounds of applause. He was well assisted by Mr.

Fourness Rolfe, in the ciiaracter of Brown, and by Miss North as Adcle. At the close of the piece there was an enthusiastic was tbe farce of Ici on Parle Francais, in which Mr. Toole was exceedingly rich. The exeited and jealous Major Rattan, by Mr Joseph Eldred was an excellent representation, and drew repeated plaudits. Miss Mary Henderson's Anna Maria was excellent.

On Tuesday the patronage of the officers of the Parkhurst Garrison secured a good house, the pieces produced being Mv Preserver, Faint Heart Never non Fair Lady, and the burlesque entitled Paris; or, Vive Lempriere. Hie Misses Morgan (four sisters), who are most accomplished anil fascinating dancers, appear nightly. They take their benefit on Saturday evening, when, no doubt, they will get what their talents so richlv deserve a good house. 1 good house. WHITE.

White, playing first, mates in two moves. Solution of Problem KTo. White. Black. White.

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to 6th (ch) takes 4. takes Kt PtoK B4th(best 5. Ktto Kt7th (ch) takes Any move Kt to 3d mates THE DOINGS AT BOULOGNE-SUK-MER. (fbom our own cobkesposdent.) Boulogne, uly 25. Another turn of the wheel of Time brings us agam before our readers to chronicle the events that help to fill up and form the season at this seaside town.

The preparations tor the reception of sojourners here have been made in evident anticipation ot a large influx of visitors. Nothing has been omitted by the owners and letters of houses and the hotel keepers to allure the holiday-maker, for they have scraped, and whitewashed, and painted their houses a manner both regardless of expense to themselves and of comfort to the wayfaring peripatetic: but, notwithstanding, the lodgings-funushed-to-let bills at the windows proclaim that many apartments are still vacant, and the elbow-room on the most frequented promenades and at the tables d'hote show that the season at present is anything but full." The Exhibition of Paris will, of course, absorb the attention of a great many, and the fetes that have been taking place in England will help to exhaust the purses ot others who are in the habit of passing some time by the sea. Regardless of these considerations, however, the rents demanded by the house agents are exorbitantly high. Houses of middle size are from 20 to 10 per month, and apartments with attendance are proportionately expensive. We mention this as a warning against extortion, and to give some idea of what may be expected.

In proffering our advice we would recommend hotels before lodgings for in the former one avoids a species of black mail that is levied Paris Chess Congress. The following is one of the games played in the Tourney for the Emperor prize. Itwasfought betweenMessrs.Neumannand Rousseau tuivans (jamDit). Black (Mr. powerful and so expert as his present UULUgUlUBUJ White (Mr.

Black (Mr. N). takes to Kt 6th to Kt 3d Kt to 4th to sq. ft takes Kt Kttakes takes 15. 16.

to Kt 3d 17. Kt to 2d 18. to sq 19. Kt to sq 20. to sq 21.

takes a 22. Kt takes Kt White (Mr. 1. PtoK 4th 2 Ktto KB 3d 3. BtoQB4th 4.

to Kt ith 5. to tj 3d G. Castles 7. to 4th 8. takes 9.

to 8d 10. tits (en pas sant) 11. to Kt 5th 12. RtoQsq. 13.

to 3d 14. to 3d 15. to 4th rtoK 4th Kt to 3d to 4th takes Kt to 4th KttoKB3d Kt takes Castles to 4th Kt takes to 2d to Kt 5th to 3d to ith 23. to so takes (Quite safe, thouerh it does not look so, and very neat.) 24. takes 2-5.

takes performances are of a very varied ciiaracter, and include a clever piece entitled The Soldier's Wire and Child." Mr. E. A. Hart in his delineation of Negro life, is eminently successful. WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.

Mr. H. Dolmak gave his literary and elocutionary entertainment on Monday evening last, at the Clifton Hotel Assembly Rooms, to a numerous and fashionable audience. The readings were exceedingly well rendered, and among others may be conspicuously noticed Little Jem the Collier's Dying Son," the recital of which, infused with so much pathos by Mr. Dolman, succeeded in arousing the sympathies of his hearers, and gained for him well-merited applause.

His imitation of Mr. Sothern, in "Brother Sam's Letter," was highly successful, and elicited much laughter. WATERSIDE (Aykshike). The National Theatre (under the Management of Messrs. simnenn takes takes (ch to sq Qto4th(ch) KttoK4th to 3d to Kt 7th KtoB2d QtoKR8th(ch) 26.

to Kt 2d 27. to 3d 28. to 3d 29. to 5th 30. to 4th 31.

Kt to 4th 32. RtoKKt3d (Twenty years back, Mr. Rousseau was a player of some renown, and made an honourable stand in his match against Mr. Stanley, then the champion of America. Time, and, probably, want of practice, have, however, deprived hini of much of the vigour which his game then displayed, and he is evidently no ionger a match for an athlete so 33.

to 3d rtoK.K.tith(ch) SCARROROTTflH and White resigns; for if to 5th, the reply would be to (ch), which is mortal. Theatre Royal. (Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wybert Reeve This place of entertainment is now enjoying a large share of public patronage, biuce our last notice some good houses have witnessed with ThfCniw'l- ZLf Zomne and on Parle 'ancais, i Pt Slr harle? Jf gard, the Vice-Presidents, andCoin-mittee of the Scarborough, Hackness, and North and East Ridings of lorksmro Agricultural Society, at the close of the Annual Show, on upon tne smallest damage done to furniture, whose chronic state of dilapidation is proverbial, and one is free also from many other nuisances eqnally disagreeable and unpleasant. Turn we now to other topics, and, in reviewing the amusements that are offered to the visitor at Boulogne, all must give place to those at the Etablissement des Bains.

The programme is much the 3ame as that of preceding years, and consists of a soiree dansante on Monday, children's ball on Wednesday, and a full-dress ball on Friday, with concerts and band in the Kiosk of the gardens daily. As accessories, there are a reading-room, with all the principal French and English papers and magazines, shooting galleries, billiard-rooms, croquet lawns cum multis aliis rebus. In fact, all tastes can be suited in this building, from ihe enthusiast in natural history who can study the ways and instincts of the molnsca, articulata, and finny inhabitants in the aquarium to the votary of Terpsichore, who seeks no other pleasure but in tripping on the light, fantastic toe." We have had a change in the management (administration they call it here). M. Perducet has retired, and M.

Magnier reigns in his stead. We shall not comment upon the change, but will bid'adieu to our late Director by congratulating him upon the ability and success of his measures, upon the esteem and friendship he gained from those with whom he came in contact, and by assuring hirn that we could have better spared a better man." There exists a laxity that is not as it should be in the admission, on grand ball nights, of gentlemen who are not in evening dress. Either the N.B. at the bottom of the programme of the Etablissement that refers to the exaction of full dress as a necessary element of admission should be erased, and "the ditto," as well as "the magpie," allowed to enter, or, what would be better, the law should stand good and he rigidly enforced, as it is not pleasant for ladies at any time, much less in full evening toilet, to be jostled and to dance in quadrilles with men who reek of tobacco and who eschew gloves. The weather lately has been variable and unnleasant.

and has fi cm I "'Somar, The Artful Dodge, and a very vm i a77, wyoerc iteevc, entitled A nrnnt if were the pieces produced. During the lmd as a ereat attraction, on a scale of much splen- iw or Eurydice, with the flt nZ luliT1 al" a' "ot and deluding with A Kiss in iiicl wmi an immense reception. Tte J08 USIC, Hf L'-Mr' E. H. Hammond, Lessee.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA.

bir, The great improvement manifest in the Chess Articles of The Era during the last four or five months is tending to make your paper a lead-a, ty on th0 Bame- T' 'S the more important, therefore, that you should be no party, even unknowingly, to an act of injustice. In your number for June 16th there is a Problem of wondrous beauty the authorship of which is attributed to the Russian composer, Schoumoff and which you, having found it in that gentleman's recently published collection, naturally supposed was really his. But the truth is that this charming stratagem is the invention of our deceased countryman, Mr John Brown, better known as J. of Bridport." No one would charge Mr. Schoumoff with intentional deception in the matter.

He appears to have been impressed with the iugenuity of the stratagem, to have copied it, and after some years, coming upon it among his papers, to have made the mistake of supposing it to be his own pro-duction. I hat no shadow of a doubt may rest upon his mind, or upon the mind of any one else, as to the true paternity of the Problem, I refer vou 01 August 8th, 1857, where, as "Chess Problem JNo. 216, it first appeared It has since been published in The Collection of by J. of Bridport (Trubner and Pateruoster-roiv), which Mr. Staunton, I believe, caused to be printed for the benefit ot the widow and family of Mr.

Brown, and will be found at page 23 of that delightful little volume. I will not apologise for troubling you with this explanation. You will be glad, I am sure, to rectify the wrong you have unconsciously committed, and to restore to poor Brown oue of the most elegant of his compositions. Very truly yours, Chelmsford, July 25th. WILLIAM S.

PAVETT ili.rint., "ffiffKwnos been running tiSfm rf 'J SUCCeS5' Mr' and MfS J0h.n duet- enme i meiwim a coruial wel-Petersoif n.3' Mr. and Smith) has been open here for a short time, and we have every reason to believe that a good harvest is to be reaped by them. Their performances are well attended. Although the company is but small, yet if we may judge by the favour in which they are held by the people of Waterside, we should say it must be a good one. Fresh arrivals are announced for the ensuing week.

WEM. Assembly Rooms. The Cremona Musical Union gave a Vocal and Instrumental Concert on Thursday, the 18th to a very good attend-ance; which they well deserved. We hope they will pay us another visit on a future occasion. WEST HARTLEPOOL.

On Tuesday Miss Georgina Robertson took her benefit, under the patronage of the Officers of the 4th Durham A.V.C., and the popularity of the fair artiste was amply demonstrated by the presence of an audience densely packed in every part of the house. The play was Belphegor the Mountebank, in which Miss Robertson portrayed the character of Madeline with a high discrimination, preserving throughout a pathos at once natural and charmiinr. Mr. W. H.

Pitt gave a broad and effective version of the Mountebank, which found great favour with the audience. It would be unfair to omit mention of little Miss Hunter, who, as Henri' displayed the quality uncommon in children of being sufficiently earnest without being obtrusive. The performances concluded with Black-Eyed Susan, Miss Robertson enacting William with the utmost spirit and sailor-Uke abandon. WEYMOUTH. The Allied Circus (Proprietors, Messrs.

A. Powell, Pootit, and Clarke), paid us a visit on Tuesday last, giving two performances in the park. The scenes in the circle were enlivened by funny Footit. The horse-riding also deserves favourable mention, and Mr, Testo is a very efficient ring master. There was a good attendance in the afternoon, and iu the evening upwards of 2,500 persons were present.

WHITBY. Theatre Royal. This plRce opened on Saturday last, under the Management of Mr. C. Harrison, when Hamlet and Ill-Treated II Trova-tore were put upon the boards, Mrs.

C. Harrison taking the part of Hamlet. Flowers of the Forest, Hunchback, have been produced during rK-in4 D. "r1 ijciiuiumig uugs, wnn Messrs. Bertrand the enterprising young trapezists), form a company 13 le met ivith in the Provinces.

Mr! prevented a perfect enjoyment of the natural amusements here. In the first place, the temperature has been more like early spring than midsummer, and many on this account have refrained from their salt dip. Instead of the beach being covered with the wheeled bathing-houses, drawn up in closely serried ranks of any number deep, they are scattered hither and thither over the shore, more after the fashion of widely distributed skirmishers. Of course the Ecole de Natation is a great source of attraction, but times where when both were crowded with the busy bather at this period of the year. Whilst we are spealang of the elements which are beyond control, marrmg tne pleasures derivable irom nature and its beauties, it would not be ill-timed to refer to another source of inter Ivivr, uciiym, to tiic amateurs wno n.nc taken part in the grand spectacle.

"Professor Anderson and his talented daughters nt withS thn -ntenU the aW HaIlor Monday ne.t, ii ith their world-renowned magical experiments reres have Penecl thelr wonderful nouses. gho3ts seraPhs ln tne air. and are drawing good Gala' AcCGeneral Manager, Mr. George R. Kmv vZlnl dld gr-ounds vand P'omenades of the Cliff Bridge Com-thl if ght on Monday evening, on the occasion of i nFi Pla of tlle 5eas which was witnessed by some thou-oCrvn; ebSh'a spectators, w-ho crowded every available place of i Tte by Duffell, the Breworks by Tucker, the yJi p-J Defnes, the music by Herr Lutz and the 6th North iMhL lld' Wlth tne aadlti of beautiful flowers in full bloom, and Mural attractions of this fairyland, combined with fine weather, Hon sala oue of unparalleled success.

The splendid Music Tuesday evening was also a scene of fashionable gaiety. The momi 'ocr lnsfumental concert gave a character to the entertain-Ihl i for the visitors. The Company's band of twenty-two direction of Herr Lutz, performed the cst Fan Tuui and William Tell in a highly effective manner. The voca sts were Miss Editli Wynne, Miss Kate Gordon, Mdlle. Ambrose, Jar.

itutcline, Herr Stepan, and Mr. Alfred Hemming. SHEEENESS. tat CmTS paid ua a visit on Thursday last, and, considering the in the evening was very goodf and the respective artistes acquitted themselves very well indeed. SHEFFIELD.

Theatre Royal. (Lessee, Mr. Charles Pitt.) ThestayofMr Sidneys company having been extended another week, the success!) al drama Liaht the Dark, has been during that time drawing SlL Uos The Theatr was much crowded on he night of Friday, the 19th nTthe performance on that occasion being for the joint benefit of Miss Rose Evnns and Mr Walter Roberts. The evening's entertainment was brough? toTcloseth Leah; or, the Outcast's Curse in both of which the acting of Miss Evans was of an excellent character, but most especially so in the latter The above Grand Musical Evehings. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings last three grand concerts were given in St.

Hilda's Hall, by the following artistes Mr. B. P. Graham (comedian and vocalist), Sinor Menardia (tenor, late of Pyne and Harrison's Opera Company), Mr.T. J.

Finlayson (author of Love wins the Madame D'Este Fin-layson (from Mr. German Reed's Opera di Camera, the English Company's New Royalty Theatre, isc), Mr. Fred. Medex (the American instrumentalist), and Mr. James Turner (the star comic).

The entertainment concluded with a very laughable sketch, Wanted an Orator! in which Messrs. Turner and Medex took part, when the former gentleman introduced his great stump oration. WHITEHAVEN. Theatre Royal. This place was visited on the 18th by a company styling themselves the "Real and Original Christy's Minstrels" but the attendance as well as performance was very indifferent.

Sangers' Circus. This largo and beautiful establishment visifpri The Election for Biemingham terminated in the return of the Liberal candidate, the numbers being Dixon, 5,819 Lloyd. 4 214-majority, 1,605. At Coventry, Mr. Ferrand, the Conservative candidate polled 2,123, and Mr.

Jackson, the Liberal 2 429 majority for the latter, 306. of Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Crampton came before G0ai0t Wednesdayf when a proof for 6 ,661,914 was tendered on behalf of the Chatham anl Dover Railway Company The claim was entered on the proceedings as S.SShT fw Claims PP estate are fo be discussed before the Commissioner. It is proposed to appoint three inspectors to carry on the business of the firm. a fhT1 -TJ tT lTinch BoimaQ Sun was tried last Wednesday fltltl tfok target at Shoeburyness with so great effect that it may be said to have proved its capability of penetatkrany ot our ironclads afloat at a range of seventy yards.

7 of sttherCd c--0? Tuesday afternoon, as the Duchess tookfrhA I asdnvmSmf louche the park, the horses seDaratit Came in colisin th rail separating the footpath from the road, about the centre of the 0nf hor. cleared the raiI- an threw itself i injuring itself so severely thatwe believe it had to be killed. The other was also seriously injured mr Urace, most fortunately, escaped unhurt, and was conveyed nome by the Countess of Carnarvon. On Saturday evening the Lord Mayor gave a banquet to a number of Belgian Volunteer officers in the J3wi? Hll tL ference which is within the power of the authorities to remedy. The dust the dust is the wailing cry that escapes from numberless throats after a few days of sunshine, and as a consequence of being almost choked and blinded with the sand-storms that arise, one naturally inquires where are the water-carts? Ay, where? says Echo, and that is the sole reply.

But stayj we believe the authorities might answer, are two; one whose capacity is about a hogshead, and another a degree larger." It is scarcely credible that these are the only media by which the inordinate amount of sand that predominates here is attempted to be kept down. Might we not suggest, in the name of all that is reasonable, a proper and regular system of watering the roads, by which the residents in the town would receive that immunity against discomfort accorded by all fashionable watering-places, and would not be exposed to those freaks of nature that one anticipates only meeting in the Desert of Sahara or other equally uninhabitable regions. A word about the Theatre, where we also have another Manager a i Hi- i.J last Friday (19th), and gave two representations to very large assemblages. We can justly confirm all that has been 6aid in vour columns i praise of the performances, which leave very little to be desired. WORCESTER, Theatre Royal.

The Grand English Opera" Comoanv. under tho in ni. jossea, as mi. j. luaruu, wnu nau iuu uian uuns iu tne nre, was made a bankrupt in April last, having struggled on to the close of the season.

Martha was the opera on Tuesday, and it afforded a most agreeable evening. M. Uolomb, in the role of Lionel, brought down thunders of applause in his delivery of The Last direction of Madame Florence Lancia, opened on Monday last with La Sonnambula, the cast being as follows Count Rodolpho, Lord of the Manor. Mr. C.

Durand i Elvino, Mr. W. Parkinson Alessio. Mr nonHr. Birl.

and an Tri.h rimfl Notarv. Mr. Baildon; Lisa, Miss Carlottn Zerbini; Dame. Miss HiH Amina, Miss Florence Lancia. At the end of the piece the company were called before the curtain, when they received a long and reiterated to be a good one, and, judging from the crowded state of the ukely to be successful.

Alexandra Music Hall. (Proprietor, Mi. T. Youdan.) Don Pattos (one-legged dancer) and Mr. Harry Breese (comique) opened here on Mon-aa5 and met with a good reception.

i LoNDON Music Hall. (Proprietor, Mr. W. Cooper) Miss Kate -Hartley and iVIiss AnniR Anderson finveiiilp Rose of Summer," and Madame Varez, as Lady Durham, was not omitted in the ovation at the fall of the curtain. The choruses were miserably weak and discordant.

Amongst the spectators we noticed Mdlle, Carlotta Patti, who repeatedly showed her approbation. Eknst Schulz's "Masks and Faces." The first season of the popular entertainment given by M. Ernst Schulz at the Egyptian Hall will be brought to a close, after a most successful career on Saturday afternoon, the 17th August. This is a most interesting performance, and well worth a visit. was of that sumptuous character which distinguishes the- hospitality of the Mansion House; and some interesting speeches were maae bv his Lordship and by the eloquent burgomaster of Bruges.

Owing to the late! ness of the hour at which the review at Wimbledon was brought to a. conclusion several of the invited guests were unable to be present. This Phillips's Will Cause in the Court of Probate was brousht tn a dose on Saturday evening, by a verdict to the effect that the defeased Mr Phillips never executed at al) the codioU of the will which the nrn ceedmgs were intended to establish, and that he was not, at the dav of its date, a state of mind to execute any such deed. The Court accord ugly pronounced against the codicil, and ordered probate thereof tope v-iciicuwji luuiiuay, auu icctavcu an euLiiumasuc reception. cheering, ana wen tney mignt, as was penection tnroughout but as the talent of the company has been so frequently noticed in the columns of this paper, anything further from us is perfectly unnecessary.

On Tuesday The Barber of Seville was performed on Weduesday, II Trova-tore; on Thursday, La Traviata; followed each evening by a laughable farce. Mr. G. H. Cooke is the Manager and Conductor, and Mr.

Baildon Stage-Manager. Fatist was announced for Friday evening, for the benefit of Mr. C. Durand, -with the following powerful cast: Faust, Mr Parkinson Mephistophiles, Mr. C.

Durand Siebel, Miss Carlotta Zerbini Valentine, Mr. Tempest Marguerite, Madame Florence Lancia. Eacli evening the audiences have been enthusiastic, and as the Yeomanry SOUTHPOKT. in0WS Mr- Sam Biylis opened this Hall on Monday, the 22d tli-H romailled throughout the week. So far he has succeeded i Fr 'Si anii leliSn'ed audiences to witness the performance of his "ncn Manoaettcs.

The movements of the figures are life-like, anil the.