... MRI REA'S CLASSICAL AND PROMENADE CONCERTS. On Monday evening last. the second series of Mr Rea's classical and plromensade concerts was commenc- ed in the Town Hall, Newcastle. If an inferenue may I be drawn from the opening night, the enterprise may already be pronounced to be a success financially. To gratify musical appetites which had been whetted by I a long fast, Mr Rea has secured for, ...

... NORTH TYNE AND REDESDALE AGRI- CULTURAL SOCIETY. The twenty-eighth annual show of the North Tyne and Redesdale Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held on Friday in a field at the high end of the town of Bellingham. The exhibition was an improvement both as regards the quality of the produce and the number of the entries compared with that of any former year. The sheep embraced some splendid ...

... The Paull MfaZil Gatte bears that a movement is being made for a testimonial to Mxr Gladstone.- The death of Lord, Colehester is announced;; he was Fast-Mlaster General in Lord Derby's first ad- ministration. The Herald understands that tho Chancellor of the Excheujierwill he the guest of Her Majesty before the Edinbargh banquet, and that he will prooeeol from Balmoral to that city. Lord ...

... MAGAZINES FOR OCTOBER. Blac1kwood's .2fat,,azine.-Under the heading of Work and Murder, Maga devotes an ar- ticle to the recent disclosures before ?? Unions Commissions at Sheffield and Manches- ter. I he writer does not expect from legislation either a cure or a preventative of such evils as have been laid bare. The true remedy (he conceives) must corne from the working nien tliemselv's, ...

... HER MAJESTY'S PIOTURE. THB MAtKRIAGE OF H.R.H. THE PRiNTSB OF WALES. This magnificent and interesting pictare, painted for Her Majesty the Queen by W. P. Frithl, R.A., in still on view at Mr Turner's Fine Arts GalIery, Grey Street, Newcastle. The marriage, as our readers re- member, took place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and the picture presents a, splendid representation or the memorable ...

... THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES: SECOND NoTICI. The Dublin University Magazine devotes a brief paper to the War Poetry of the South, introducing to notice a collection of war ballads written during the late civil war in America, and illustrating the varying fortunes and feel- ings of the Southerners as the struggle proceed- ed. The reviewer, wgho appears to be a sympa- thetic admirer of the South, ...

... It appears that the report of Mr Paget's speech respecting the Princess of Wales at the St. Bitrtholo- mew's hospital dinner the other night, was misappre- hended. Mr Beget did not say that her Royal High- ness would shortly be able to resume her active habits of life, but that much time must elapse before she could do so. TnE COURT AT BALMOnAL.-INAIGURAT5ON OF A STATUE ITO PRINCE ALBERT.-A ...

... FASHIONS FOR 00 'OBER, (From Le Follet). According to the great preparations being made in the Paris houses, it appears that the coming winter season will abound in novelties. Many new patterns for the make of bodies have been shown by the mo- disls. Satisfied as they are that the gored skirts will be still preferred, they think that the bodies might be rendered a little more varied and ...