Tavern Music Halls.—Numerous Rooms connected with taverns have been opened in London, within the last few years, for musical performances. The music is a singular compound of Italian, English, and German operatic compositions, fairly executed, with comic songs of the most extravagant kind; to these are added what the performers please to term ‘nigger’ dances, and athletic and rope-dancing feats—the whole accompanied by drinking and smoking on the part of the audience. The chief among these places are, _Canterbury Hall_, near the Westminster Road; the _Oxford_, in Oxford Street; the _Royal Music Hall_, late _Weston’s_, in Holborn; the _Alhambra_, in Leicester Square; the _Philharmonic_, Islington, near the _Angel_. _Evans’_, in Covent Garden, does not as a rule admit females, though ladies, friends of the proprietor, &c., are occasionally allowed to look down on the proceedings from wired-in private boxes above the line of the stage. _Evans’_ has long been honourably known for its old English glees, catches, madrigals, &c., good supper, and gentlemanly arrangements and audiences. The _Raglan_, the _Winchester_, the _South London_, and others, are of plainer character. Charge, usually 6d. to 1s. Mr. Morton, the former proprietor of _Canterbury Hall_, provided a capital gallery of pictures, (_Punch’s_ ‘Royal Academy over the Water,’) placed freely open to the visitors to the Music Hall. Entertainments.—There is a class of London amusements, called _Entertainments_, which has come much into fashion within a few years. They generally last about two hours, from eight till ten in the evening. The late Mr. Albert Smith was one of the first to commence these entertainments, with his ‘_Overland Route_,’ ‘_Mont Blanc_,’ and ‘_China_;’ and the names of other well known entertainers are, Mr. Woodin, Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, Mr. John Parry, Mr. A. Sketchley, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul, &c. Delineation of character, painted scenery, descriptive sketches, singing, music, ventriloquism—some or all of these supply the materials from which these entertainments are got up. Sometimes the _programme_ of performances is of a less rational character, depending on the incongruities of so-called negro melodists; while occasionally a higher tone is adopted, as in ‘_Readings_,’ by various persons. The principal halls or rooms in which these entertainments are held are the _Egyptian Hall_, Piccadilly; the _Gallery of Illustration_, Regent Street; the minor rooms at _St. James’s Hall_; and the _Music Hall_, in Store Street. The prices of admission generally vary from 1s. to 3s. The leading pages of the daily newspapers, and more especially of the _Times_, will always shew which of these entertainments are open at any particular time.