"Hoi Adelphoi" (the Messrs. Gatti), the Adelphians, or, as friend Wagg would necessarily call them, the "Fill-adelphi-uns," have a stirring Life-boat Scene in Messrs. Scott and Thomas's drama The Swordsman's Daughter. Where there are so many rapiers flashing—not one of them pointless—the piece might have suffered from cutting. As it is, the display of fence is most exciting. Mr. Terriss the swordsman, Miss Millward his daughter, are excellent; and this is true of the entire performance. As for Mr. Abingdon, he is becoming a greater villain in every play of his life. He'll end by being hung in the Royal Academy. Of course, first of all, he will have to be "taken from life" by the hand of some distinguished painter.
Pot-Luck.—A sportsman named Mr. Allan Gilmour, junior, has been credited with recently shooting "the first specimen of the solitary snipe" that had been seen in England. Writing to a Scotch paper, he says, "As snipe-shooting has been my favourite sport for the last twenty-eight years, during which time I have killed over 4,000 snipe without ever getting a shot at a 'solitary,' I am naturally very pleased."
For years he'd hunted all in vain,
But when the time was ripe,
His fortune changed—he really bagged
A solitary snipe.
There are who find their chiefest joy
A friend, a feast, a pipe;