... The series of classical and popular concerts | in the Newcastle Town Hall, under the able anid enterprising maragement of Mr Rea, continue to attract numerous and delighted audiences. The programmes are most judi- I ciously chosen, popular and standard works I being blended in a mannea calculated to please all tastes. We have nut space to particularise tile performances of each night, but must ...

... Lord and Lady Amberley are making a very plea- sant and useful tour in the United States. They have recently been visiting the Shakers at Mount Lebanon; and our latest news from America tells of their visit to the Bible Family at Oneida Creek. The fensale saints were curious to see a real live lord an'd lady, and we cannot doubt that the English travel- lers were ias wonderful to their hosts ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMBNTS, &he I floyal Alexandra 'Theatro.-'The Tempest. . Prince of Wales Theatlre.-'¢On 'OhangA and 1ttAe 11oyal Ampphitheatre. - Bamboozling, ani nIe Laftrshire leesJ'- : t.. 3emea's::Hilk and Ilpertta Rouse.- The' Oponra Alarths. . Yal Colomeum TheOtr. . - The Cattaway,` The Iffe Stgrizl, &C. 3ew Star Maudso Rall-r. Iarry Sydney, Mr. Xathan,' ioge'al Pictures, lectton ...

... WINTER HEALTH RESORTS IN THE SOUTZiP THE summer tourists have had their holiday, and are once more home again till next year's sunshine allures them to pack up and go forth from the hlomes of their fathers. These are of the working, able-bodied traveller kind-determined pleasure seekers, who will do and suffer much to get at the object of their quest. Travellers who will march footsore in ...

... : : FASHIONS FOP NOVMB4 i1, ?? ?? ; ?? :. 'i , .1 f':r * :?r r4Pi?1h,.L~6, FoUct,) j4V S: IThe odD dweather We.have bad latel has b~een the agul~ f~rth peav~i of0 th 0ugly iter tollettes, go that;theattorii; Imatel~all Isidityle ;AY10or mt#,y aod ',pps P ly dq*ld4 on.u,.A Adoh* ca dq4tte ,4dem -d66driij~i14q~u the 'MAelase shudh the sake as thdii e wbrvltiion jbut h .waOin gaqstumeshave-&muc ...

... 1. , .11 R I :inceo the Droduetioik 6 Mauw'e Peril at this . house, thr author, A F. Watts hi]iips, has made several h alteratiosainutbe or, Na,,idWthse alterations were tried Llast nig'ht, wve beliew tor the firsttime, with encouraging * Success.; Mr. Phillips, wve thin . has very judiciously strengtbened thesecond act, which wasrather weak near l its closes, by making the returned convict, ...

... THE NOVEM1tER, MAGAZINES. Caassell's Ifoqazfne ?? this month a j new novel, i'llor Elumanity ; and amongst other papers of general interest we find Per- sonal Recollections of Professor Aytoun, by James ?? The Emperor of Abyssinia - his Character and Policy * ' Gossip about (4reevnwich Hospital ; BE;iyin, Horses and 1'ricks of the Dealers, ' Sesing Machines, English and American ; ...

... (oROM OUR SPECIAL coRREspoNnDENT. The dinner offered by the Foreign Commissioners to the Imperial Commissioners was given on Satur-' day last at the Louvre Hotel, under the graceful chairmanship of Lord Granville. The record of it will remain as a memorial of the amiability of the foreign exhibition representatives. You will have received an account of the speech-making-and who among ...

... THEA TRICALS IN GERMANY. [THIRD ARTICLE.] WHAT are the pieces usually performed in Germany? The answer to this question is significant of the present condition of the Art. Thanks to the existence of Court Theatres there is still some strenuous effort to keep up the character of the stage, and stem the rush of vulgar appetites towards vulgar food. In Germany, as elsewhere, costumes and bare ...

... titevrltUtc' l Tw vrfile Tributaerics of Abyssinia and the #Sword ti .I-Toruters oftie Heamram Arabs. By Sir SAMUEL r. W. BAKER, M.A., ?? &A, Author of Si the Albert XNyaza Great Basin of the Nile, o &c. London: M~Iacmillan and Co. 1867. C Sir Samuel Baker has not only associated his ii own natme with the greatest geographical discovery t of the present century, but has given that discovery ...

... We could forgive any manager bad scenery, if he would contrive to give Us new plays with good wit in them, and plots showing that English playwrights have some inde- pendent power of construction. The wit is to be had by trusting in it; and in that sort of construction which gives to a play or novel a soul worth saving, Frane never was a match for England in the days when we had plays, and is ...

... THE FASHIONS FOR NOVETMB:ER, (FRom DI&iIAIIoMte's .omncstio Magazine,) The let of November is a great fete day in Paris-la Toussaint, All Saints' Day. On that d My there is quite an exhibition of new winter bonnets at Nimtre Dame and La Madeleine, this being considered the fittest occasion for the display of novelties in the fashion of au openingl season. At the moment we write this letter the ...