The Theatres.

THE THEATRES .

Mrs . Chippendale has taken the Olympic for three years from Miss Ada Cavendish , and will soon open it . * * # Bro . Bancroft takes Mr . Coghlan ' s place as Loris Ipanoff on the reopening of the Haymarket , the 29 th inst ., with " Fedora . "

"M . P . " at Toole ' s reached its 50 th representation last Saturday . Neither managers or players ever expected anything like this popularity . Mr . Boulding ' s drama "The Double Rose " has been transferred to Sadler ' s Wells from the Imperial , and has met with an enthusiastic reception .

* # # Miss Rose Leclerq has experienced considerable annoyance at the statement which has received wide circulation that she is about to be married . The lady authorises its contradiction .

# # # The Novelty , more recently called the Folies Dramatiques 'Theatre , is to be sold by auction on the 16 th October , at the Mart , Tokenhouse-yard , by Messrs . Debenham , Tewson , and Farmer . * *

We have before stated that Bro . Harris has now abolished all fees at Drury Lane—excepting of course entrance fees—and we hope and believe this will further add to the popularity ol this national theatre .

Last Monday the St . James ' s Theatre reopened with " Impulse , " under Bro . Kendal ' s management . The cast is slightly altered . Messrs . Wenman and Dacre have left , and their parts are now played by Bro . Maclean and Mr . Alexander . " Esmeralda " will be the next production here . # #

* Bro . Henry Irving has accepted an invitation ' of the Art Club at Liverpool to dinner on 4 th October . Bro . Irving made a speech at the opening of the New Lyceum Theatre , Edinburgh , last week , and also at the commemoration supper afterwards , which did not break up until 4 in the morning .

Miss Minnie Palmer , the newest importation from America , made her debut in London on Monday at the Grand Theatre in " My Sweetheart . " We believe she is a good actress , but one of her remarkable qualities is her youthful appearance ; though over iS we understand she looks only a mere girl . # # &

Under the patronage of Bro . Colonel Mapleson , Col . Wigram , Bros . I Majors Wilde , Fletcher and Golde , Bros . Capt . Tully and Lieut . Henry Wright , and the other officers of the regiment , a drama will be played on the 1 ith October , at the Britannia Theatre , in aid of the prize fund of the Tower Hamlets Rifle Brigade .

" Glad Tidings " at the Standard is bringing more money to Bro . Douglass than anything else has done for many years . Miss Amy Steinberg and Mr . Arthur Dacre are in a great measure the cause of this by their acting . A professional matinee recently given was well attended by their brother and sister actors .

* # # On Thursday nig ht last week Lady Monckton made her appearance as Peg Wolfington in " Masks and Faces , " before a brilliant and numerous audience , at the Town Hall , Folkestone . Her rendering of the part

was excellent , and , on this and subsequent occasions , gained the enthusiastic reception it merited . Lady Monckton has also been specially engaged for Miss Sarah Thome's entertainment , which commenced at the Wellington Hall , Dover , on Monday .

We believe that the beautiful and talented American actress , Miss Mary Anderson , will shortly appear at the Lyceum in "The Hunchback . " In "Ingomar " she has shown to the English world what she can do , but ( his play , in which she is "Parthenia , " is too old and unsuited now-a-days for London audiences . Everyone is agreed as to Miss Anderson ' s singularly lovely features and natural skill for acting , but she is a little too emphatic and underlines her words too much .

* * - * A very simple but useful bolt , says the Building and Engineering Times , has been invented and patented by Mr . Arnott , of the Lyceum 'Theatre , for the fastening of doors of theatres and other public buildings , so that they can be opened by mere pressure against the door from the inside , and cannot be opened at all from the outside ;

dispensing with all other fastenings , which cause so many accidents in cases of panic . One advantage is , that being once unfastened it cannot be rebolted by accident . A disaster similar to that at Sunderland is thus rendered impossible ; the mere pressure must open the door . The Metropolitan Board of Works are using them in the alterations they are now making at the London Pavilion Musi : Hall .

¦ * - ¦ / :- " * The current number of the Theatre is as full of interest as any of its preceding numbers . It contains two excellent photographs of Mr . John Hare—Bro . Kendal's partner—and Miss Marie Linden respectively . The reading portion is very interesting , perhaps specially "'The Autobiography of an Actor . " Apropos of Lord Garmoyle ' s

marriage with Miss Fortescue , of the Savoy , the various ladies of the stage are enumerated who have during the last century and ahalf contracted marriages with the nobility . Our lady readers will specially like to know them . First is Miss Fenton , who became Duchess of Bolton , and died 1760 . She was also much admired by Lords Bathurst and Granville . Next Miss Elizabeth Farren , who married the Earl of Derby three weeks after the death of his first Countess ,

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^ she having waited twenty years for the Earl . She died in 1 S 29 . Mr . William Farren , of the Vaudeville , is a direct descendant of hers . As recently as 1 SC 0 a Countess of Craven died who was once on the stage as Miss Brunton . Wc come next to the famous Miss Harriet Mellon , who married Mr . Coutts , the banker , and from whom the Baroness Burdett-Coutts is descended . On Mr . Colitis ' s death she married the Duke of St . Albans . The Duchess

died in 1847 . The second Lord 1 hurlow married a Miss Bolton , an actress . Miss Maria Foote , who gained £ 3000 for a breach of promise , ultimately married the Earl of Harrington , and only the other day another Earl of Harrington's sons , and brother of the present peer , died , who was the husband of Miss Camille Dubois . Miss Kitty Stephens , who died in February last year , at the age of ninety , was the wife of the Earl of Essex , who married her when he was eighty-three and she forty-live . She

was an opera singer . Sir VVnxon Becher , Bart ., married Miss Elizabeth O'Neil , who only died in 1 S 72 , at the good old age of eighty . Miss Mordaunt was married to a second husband , Sir William Boothby , Bart . Miss Robinson became Lady Charles Felix Smith ; and Miss Emily Saunders was united to SirWm . Don , a Scotch baronet . Miss Helen Faucitt , once a favourite on the stage , is the wife of Sir Theodore Martin , the writer of the " Life of the Prince Consort .

* # # The Globe has reopened with " A Glass of Fashion , " a' new comedy by Mr . Grundy . It was first played in the country , but Bro . Sims ' s name then appeared as joint author . VVe believe Bro . Sims did not expect the piece to have a run in London , and therefore withdrew his name from the playbills . In this we think he is mistaken . No doubt the society journals will " one and all" run it

down , as it is directly aimed at them . A melancholy interest attaches to " A Glass of Fashion " in the fact that it was the last piece Mr . Dutton Cook ever saw and criticised . On Saturday , the Sth inst ., he went to see it on its first night in London , and , as we announced last week , on Tuesday , the nth , he died suddenly . He was the critic for the World , and wrote a most stinging criticism on " A Glass of Fashion , " more severe than anything else he has

ever written down . But ourselves and many others cannot agree with him . In " A Glass of Fashion " we have a wealthy , vulgar brewer , Mr . Macadam , who has married a Lady Coombe . He ivants to get into society , and is told by the editor of " A Glass of Fashion " that if he becomes the proprietor of that paper he will rule the world of politics and fashion , and have society at his feet . He bu 3 's it , but from the beginning finds out his mistake , for , as he says ,

"he has society on his back , " for he is always receiving threats of action or demands for apologies , and when he remonstrates with the editor the latter is only able to say he cannot understand how Ihe offensive and personal paragraph got in , and that he did not see it until it was printed in the paper . This , our readers will remember , is exactly what a certains ociety paper's editor did really say . A Mis . Trevannion , wife of a colonel who made his name at

Rorke ' s Drift for deeds of valour , has become mixed up with some other ladies and a Polish prince in gambling transactions . This Borowski wins her money and uses his power over her when she is unable to pay to serve his own base ends . Her husband returns from the war and she asks him for money , believing that she has a fortune of her own of which lie is a trustee . But it turns out that she was born out of wedlock

and that the whole fortune therefore belongs to her younger sister , who was born after her father ' s marriage . The father is killed in battle , but before his death informs Col . Trevannion of this , requesting him not to make it known until Miss O'Reilly , her sister , is of age . Borowski overhears some conversation between the honest colonel and the brewer and contrives to make Mrs . Trevannion believe her husband is defrauding her . By this he sows

dissension between man and wife . The colonel is in honour bound to silence . But when Miss O'Reilly comes of age she herself announces to her sister the fact and thereby frustrates the Polish prince in his dishonourable designs . Of course he is wanted , by the foreign police . During all this the brewer has been getting into a sea of trouble by his paper , which he thought he had bought " cheap , dirt cheap . " A paragraph has appeared about a beautiful lady

of society who has taken to gambling and is unable to pay her debts . The brewer's wife , Lady Coombe , thinks this is meant for her and is much upset about it , though there is no reason , as she is not beautiful , but her female vanity does not allow this . The paragraph is intended to apply to Mrs . Trevannion , whose husband , the colonel , not knowing who the proprietor ot the paper is , relates his grievance to Mr . Macadam , and says he would horsewhip the proprietor

if he knew him , and is about instructing a solicitor to bring an action against the owner . Macadam quakes and sends for the editor , who of course is unable to explain " how it got in , " but inserts an apology . Col . Trevannion accepts it , and Mr . Macadam considers he has got off " cheap , dirt cheap . " Probably this will become a catch word . In Mr . Shine ' s mouth it raises laughter every time he says it . Mr . Shine as the brewer is one of the best characters in the piece .

Mr . Beerbohm Tree is suited " down to the ground " with his part . A foreigner who can only speak broken English always suits Mr . 'Tree . His is a masterly piece of acting . The third act , which is the most ingenious and strongest , displays Mr . Beerbohm Tree's acting the best . Mrs . Lingard comes next , having the chief ladies ' part . She plays the wife of the colonel in a womanly way , and with perfect finish . Miss Lottie Venne has a part where she can show

off her piquancy ; as Miss O Reilly she is saucy and cutting in her remarks . Much of the applause given during the acts falls to Miss Venne for her sharp sayings ; she is delightful especially in the third act . Miss Charlotta Leclerq as Lady Coombe is excellent . Her " Please hold Horace , " a dog , was the occasion of a good deal of laughter . " The Glass of Fashion " ought to have a run ; it is bright , funny , and clever ; occasionally brilliant . The comedy is

preceeded by a short piece by the late I ' . Wright Broughton called " Elsie , " who is a young lady who arranges to marry her lover quietly in London , but by some accident misses him . She is afraid to return home , but stumbles across what turns out to be her home , her father having taken a new place , and is kindly received by her sister , but her father

will not speak to her ; all however is made happy by her lover meeting her here , and explainingall , only to glad to have found her again . The little comedy did not go well owing to the gentlemen not being well up in their parts . Twice there was a distinct pause in the dialogue . Miss Noad accquits herself very well .

Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

Births , Marriages , and Deaths .

[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ]

BIRTHS . BROWN . —On the 17 th inst ., at 43 , VVidmore-road , Bromley , Kent , the wife of Mr . William Charles Brown , of a son . FOSTER . —On the iGth inst ., at Wootton Vicarage , Bedfordshire , the wife of the Rev . A . J . Foster , ' M . A ., of a daughter . J ORDAN- . —On the iGth inst ., at Genoa Villa , Anerley , the

wife of Mr . Charles Jordan , of a daughter . TILLEARD . —On the iGth inst ., at Pickeridge , Ardingly , Sussex , the wife of Mr . Frederic D . Tilleard , of a daughter . SCOTT-MONCBIEFF . —On the iCth inst ., at Netherton , Wimbledon , the wife of Colonel Scott-Moncrieff , of a son . YOUNG . —On the iGth inst ., at 12 , Salisbury-road , Leicester , the wife of Mr . G . H . Young , of a son .

MARRIAGES . CHERRY—PERRY . —On the iGth inst ., at St . Mary ' s , Leyton , Essex , by the Rev . A . G . Goldsmith , B . A ., Clarence Cherry , to Mary Ann , daughter of Mr . John Perry , of Leyton . J EANS—SMITH . —On the 12 th inst ., at St . Mary ' s Church , Lewisham , by the Rev . George Jeans , of Haileybury

College , brother of the bridegroom , assisted by the Rev . R . Dutton , Charles Gilchrist Jeans , H . M . 's Ordnance Store Department , son of the late Rev . G . Jeans , Vicar of Alford , to Eve , daughter of Mr . W . H . Smith , of Campshill House , Lewisham .

SAYER— BELI .. —On the iSth inst ., at Christ Church , Eaton , Norwich , by the Rev . B . J . Armstrong , brother-in-law of the bride , William Feetham Sayer , eldest son of Mr . Edward Sayer , of Oak Lodge , Finchley , to Edith Alexandra , daughter of the late Rev . George R . Bell , of Great Snoring , Norfolk .

DEATHS . BUDD . —On the 17 th inst ., at 89 , Gloucester-terrace , Hyde-park , Mr . 'Thomas William Budd , of 33 , Bedford-row , W . C , aged 7 S . HAROWICK . —On the 17 th inst ., William Turner Hardwick , son of the late Mr . Henry Hardwick , of Sullington , Pulborough , Sussex , aged 47 . HOWE . —On the 15 th inst ., at BouIogne-sur-Mer , France ,

Simon Ames Howe , son of the late Mr . Elias Howe , jun ., in his 39 th year . ILES . —On the 19 th inst ., from blood poisoning , Bro . F . H . Wilson lies , M . D ., Deputy Prov . G . M . Hertfordshire . PENON . —On the 17 th inst ., at Stone , Dartford , Leonard Jules , son of the late Professor Penon , of the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , aged 27 . STEWART . —On the 17 th inst ., at Thornhill-square , N ., Mr . C . J . Stewart , aged 84 .

THE PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE . — Not long since Bros . Andrews and Parker took out a patent lor their new process of purifying sewage , and the Metropolitan Board of Works granted them a concession to tap the main London sewer near its entrance into the Thames at the Northern outfall , Barking , and erect works for proving the efficiency of their process . Ihe works are now in full swing , and last week , at the

invitation of Bro . Andrews , we paid a visit of inspection for the purpose of testing and reporting the results that are being obtained . It is hardly necessary to say that , as the works are of an experimental character , only a very small proportion of the sewage which is emptied into the river at this spot is dealt with ; but the quantity—276 , 000 gallons—which can be passed through the tanks of the patentees into Barking Creek in the course of a working day of 10 hours

is sulhciently large to demonstrate the value of the purifying agency employed . The day of our visit about 122 , 000 gallons were dealt with , and the result left little , if anything , to be desired . The works comprise an underground tank , in which the sewage is received direct from the sewer . Into this are poured simultaneously two streams , one of hydrochloric acid , and the other of a mixture of caustic soda , common chalk , clay , and coke-breeze , previously

ground together in water . When thoroughly mixed with thtse the sewage is lifted by means of steam power into what are technically Unown as automatic agitators , during the passage through which a small quantity of sulphate of iron is added . It is thence conveyed by means of a series of steps , or falls , into a precipitating tank , or reservoir , and thence into a second tank , where the precipitation and with it the whole process of purification is completed , the

effluent making its way thence through a channel lined with white glazed tiles—part of which is open to view , and shows a perfectly clear stream of pure water—into Barking Creek . The residuum which accumulates in the form of sludge during the purification is from time to time removed to a drying kiln hard by , where the moisture is carefully drained oft at a certain temperature , the result being a compost possessing valuable manurial properties , and suitable therefore

to be employed as manure on farms and gardens . The dried sludge , indeed , has been tried in the flower garden with beneficial results . This , however , though undoubtedly an element in considering the merits of Bros . Andrews and Parker ' s patent , is quite a subsidiary matter by comparison with its main advantages , which are these : In the first place the fluid contents of our sewers instead of entering ' the river in their originally offensive state , enter it in a

state of purity , as nearly perfect as chemical science can ensure ; and in the next the influx of the equally objectionable solid matter is prevented altogether . These are results with which the patentees may well be satisfied , especially when it is borne in mind that ninety millions gallons of sewage in all its natural offensiveness are

discharged into the Thames during every twerty-four nours by the northern outfall alone , and these contain no less than 700 tons of solid and equally objectionable matter . It may be as well to add that the process is being worked under the immediate supervision of an officer specially appointed by the Board of Works , whose duty it is to attend daily and report upon the experiments .