... OLDOASTLE OCTOBER AMr. I OLUCASTL, Ocrosen 21.-The October fair of jhfs town, which has improved so much since taken under the patronage of Mr. Naper, and from the facility afforded for the transmission of cattle since the extension of the two railway lines to the town, woS romarkably well supplied with atookr, while the attendance of purchasers was pretty considerable, taking into '-count the ...

... LS. I (FRgOM OUR OWN Ctsjy RES'ON.rDSENTS.) ABERDEEN. TalATtli ItOYAL.-(Mr. M Leiis, Manager.)-Mr. Henry Leslie's new drama, F/ae Hariner's Compass, was producel on Monday evening, and has since kept the ulace of honour in the bills. Nautical pieces have naturally a special interest for a large nunsber of the dwellers in a sea- port town like Aberdeen, and, doubtless, T/he Mariner's Cosmpass, ...

... THE BIRMMGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY I ?? S.SHOW. (From the Afidland Consnt/es Herald.) In our putlicatiol of Augnst the 1st, we stated that the Counlcil had met on the preceding Thursday, to make arrangements for the present year's gathering in Bingley Hall, and that a number of changes had been determined upon. We have now to announce that the prize lists, as revised on that occasion, have been ...

... (noM OUR SPECIAL CORRSPODwsNT.) The new lease of life which the Emperor has given to the Exhibition will be, it is to be hoped, turned to account by British excursionists: not, however, on the plan of the Lancashire man given last week in the Athennurn. This provident gatherer of useful knowledge has misapplied his energy. I'm looking out, he said, all the strategic points of the place. You ...

... 2&w 11 Y BBEUDDWYD YN LLYFRGELL Y GlEADIGAET1, AC AxBYWIAETHAU. Gan Egwisyn. IC Y NAE Egwisyn er's liawer dydd bellach, wedi profi )s yn ddiymwad ei fod yn un o wir blant yr awen; ae r- os oes rhywun o'n darllenwyr yn ammeu hyn, cynghor- u wn ef i ddarllen y Ilyfryn bychan hwn. Cynnwysa : fwy o farddoniaeth wirioneddol nag a geir mewn ei Ilawer awdl gadeiriol. Wele ddau neu dri o -benui- o ion ...

... MRS. SIDDOS F N HERn FrIST Ac4'NG Or, LADY MACBETH. -To Miss Edgeworth Mrs. Siddons relates an incident of her career which it was worth goingsa long way to hear from her own lips:- She gave un the history of her first acting of Lady Macbeth, and of her resolving, in the sleep scene, to lay down the candlestick, contrary to the precedent of Mrs. Prit: chard and all the traditions, before she ...

... THE LONDON THEATRES, I 'TlC NEl QUErENS.-Thoe magnificent new Theatre, erected e tile , o l ti a ar s hull_ Long-acre, was opened, under the naelzgemleirt of 'M1. Allied Wigin, on Tlhursday evening, well tire p ece of a highly distinguished audience atforded the strongest Preidce of tie great interest that had been token in this important eddlirt ?? tie sh places of ?? amusement. lor weelts ...

... MR. H I. ROSSETTT'S ESSAYS ON A RET. Wl have so little good, or even tolerable, writing on fine art in England in the slhape of books, that it is not much of a compliment to rank this volume among the best that our art literature has produced since Mr. Ruskin went off into political economy. Let him come back, and cut a smoother reed, And blow a strain the world again shall heed AMeanwhile to ...

... ENGLISH MONA STICISM.* WCoNDERFUL is that turn of mind which in these days of diffused intelli- gence and critical inquiry sets some writers forward with pretentious octavos on subjects of which they have no real knowledge whatever, w~hether derived from independent thought or even from methodical digestion of original thought in others, and for the elaboration of which they deem it enough to ...

... pUTBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &a Royal Alexandra Theatre.-Tho TempOet. yrinoe of Wales Theatre.-Parents and Guardiaus, ]BUrlonque Mazeppa, and Jenmy Lind at Last. SoyalAmnphtheatro.-Mr. Lawrenoliarrett: Aamlet. Ek Je.es Hall and Operetta Houe. - The Opera 11 Trovatore. Royal Colosseum Thoatr&-Therese, the Orphan of Geneva, 'Alone ID the Pirate's Lair, &o, 3tew SlaPr Mdso HalL-CooQorl ...

... N ittricture. il? Ecclesiasdtical History of En1glanl. From the open- De ing of the Long Parliament to the death of th Oliver Cromwell. By JOHN STOUGHTON. Jack- all Son, Walford, and Hodder. an The long parliament met November 3rd, 1640, fat and Cromwell died on the 3rd of September, 1658. wI In the space of these eighteen years almost every ge kind of question, religious as well as civil, ...

... CLoslNG OF THlE COVENTRY EX IIIBITION. ADDEDRSS BY HAUL OL.IUEVDOX. I ',te Cseretls Acts anod Industial Exhibition, which ligs Tbern VV~a ,tiace the 1litis Juno last, wso clsd aterday wih~tigcsreiliottv, In which Lord Leighb, Lord j ct aot of the County, and President of the ExhIbition, ladye Llthpl Earl Clarendon, filG, the Bishop of d1-otl ile Ma~ or of Coventry, e~nd ott,ro ntaibles took ...