... Mr William Biddell, M.P., has written, suggesting that subscriptions should at once be invited for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument to Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burke, the surplus to be applied for the benefit of those families who may have lost relatives by murder in Ireland. He invites members of both Houses to meet him in the consultation room in the House of Commons on Tuesday ...

... .AcBIC'T1LTwTRE. S17'DMER 'SHOW. 7-ri!ws yesstrdy the s;cene of unwonted excite- ?? wi!th a nulnbor.of 1Ii cictn L.Itit~onrl v d rew. ?? ens ,zgl-cm har~ e over witnessed in thel I' U, c t rg1 .Bin-ides being the day of ta -ecQiictc wnth the District th w-.ch we are rohc-l - et!F% e-!cI we-'o 'lacy two bus-cacro in fant u 1 ao,_ ic l 1ote-rca: t iiial show., w LOsaI t1~;w-e hbiNcn~ it'- ci ...

... opinion to the condition of persons and things. Among-st the congratulations which Dahlia received on her installation as mistress of the Grange was one from Rapier. It was brief, as all his epistolary communications were—he had an antipathy to black and white, and never wrote if he could speak, on the principle that you can give so many meanings to a spoken phrase, and very few a written one. ...

... MA&GAZINEES FOR OCTOBER. HEav~n's MIONTEILY MAOA ZINX (Lodon: .Being- son Lc.ow, & Co., 1838 Fleet .Street, E.Ga.) tics several gooid des~criptive ax'ileo-hdtr~al, biogrphical, or to~cgraphlical-whicli furnlish ?? eble subjects for illustration.. In S~urrey (seconad apaper), Certain Newr York: Houses, Sout'hern .Ciifornia, Medi- ca Education in Ytew .York ...

... SELECTION OF DESIGN. The Art,Gallery and Museum Committee met yes- [BY terday, and had, before them the report sent in by the ?? George Reid and R. R. Ander- son. These gentlemen had carefully examin the whole of the twenty-six designs, and gave.ai unqualified. approval to.three of these, ?? of their three including two of the six selected by the committee. It having been found that by a ...

... I HINTIO OF INDUSTRYk1ND- ART I ABERDN. , I . . I MP 4xkihiltoawof Inustry ah4~Axt, mtider.,tle usu- I1 ie Off tbe Aberdeen United Txadesi~ouncil, ?? QPSZIG in 'the Town and County 1Ea11o~xAberdeep, to-, day promaises to be -fae of the, rmot interesting gnd2 snstructive-fesatres.-of this holiday season. .The ex- lisbition is creditable ?? high degree to the Trades Council, with -whom the idea ...

... BArRY'S Mo.NTHLY MAGAZna (London: A. n H. Baily & Co., 15 ilicolas Lane, LEC.) has an a interestiug list of contents this month. The s' conclusion of the interesting Sketches in the ci Soudan. a further instalmentof the wellwrittea on Turf 'Recollections, a biographical sketch of ii Mr W. R. H. Powell, ?? (of whom there is a good engraving portrait), the Story of the EgIlington ...

... MAGAZINES FOR DECEMBEfl TaE MAYFAIR MAGAZINE (London: David Bogue, 3 St Martin's Place) is a new-comns with some lively reading in it. The first Part of EmileZola's novel Therese Raqui a in.su teresting and characteristic in its style, and there are a number of short stories-grave and gay-and all of them well written, that cannot fail to prove attractive to most magazine readers. An article ...

... RSUSKMIS MUZEX AXT SHEFFTLD. A Sheffield correspondent ?? is at last some prospect of funds being obtained for the erections of a-suitsale building for Mr Buskin's art treasures at Sheffield. Hitherto the movement has met with HIi success, Sd it is Said the result of an appeal to the( people of Sheffield hasbeen a subscription of lesstbsan £50. This has arisen mainly in censeuence of an un- ...

... THE ORCHESTRAL: CONCERT. Attention has already been directed in these oclmne to the visit of the Glasgow orchest on the evening of the 23rd iust., and it is only ini keeping with the unrsual importance of the event tint full ptrticulars should now, be given as to the precise nature of the great musicas treat in store for the public of Aberdeen rntd vicinity on that occasion. It may be ...

... PASBLOINAEBLU WARAE. As briefly repoated yesterday, the marriage of Blajar6 Harvey (late Black Watch) with Mliss Craigic llalicet of Cramond *as dolemnised by special licence at.3t George's, Hanover Square, London, on Wedoesday afternoon. The offeisting clergy were the Rev. Canor, sNisbett, cousin of the bride, and the Rev. Dougljs Harvey, brother of the bridegroom. In the uniavoidabl t ...

... HER MA.Th?ST?'? T?IEAT?E, M~UANTEATIX NOIRS. - In a'gire'%bl sceson t'he ~xelest dramatic fare recently presented by Mr MFarland, the boards The kwere last night occupied by- Mr T. D. Yorkce's Comic agitati 3Opera dompanly. The same ope-ra-4 Manteaux militas 3Nojrs -was produced here for the first time aboet dale? a twelve months ago, and the. present representation there maybe sanid to ...