... IRISH A1TISANS' EXHIBITION. The following letter has been received by the eon secretary of the Irish Artisans' Exhibition- DEAR Mn GRAV~s-Will you be good enough to put down Lord Pembroke's name as con- tributing the sum of £50 to the funds of the Irish Artisans' Exhibition. As tre housing of our industrial population is a matter of deep in- terest to us all, it appears to me that the ex- ...

... SCOTTISH WATIONAL PORTRITE GALLERY. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, under the management of the Board Of Manufactures, ' is to be- opened to-day in temporary pre- imiser on the site of the permanent building i about to be erected in- Queen Street, Edin- l burgh. The importance of a collection of this character; from various points of view, cannot be overestimated, and it is matter for ...

... LS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) ABERDEFEN. HER MAJESTY's THEATR.E-Lessee, Mr W. M'Farland.-The Compton comedy company are the entertainers here this week, and very excel- lent fare they present to the patrons of this theatre. We have had Daoy (Gasrick, 2'/he Comedy of Err ors, and Miloney, and equally accept- able pieces are in the programme. Of course, Mr Edward Compton takeesthe burden of ...

... I CONoERT AT EMMANUEL SCHooLS.-An interesting children's concert in connection with the above vas given on Monday evening, in aid of tho school exteusion fund. The Ibev. It. S. Murdoch presided. The concert was a great success, many being unable to obtain asmission. ORUAn RisonrAL.-Mr. Tomlinson gave an organ reeital on tbe Devwharst organ on Saturday evening last. The programme was selected ...

... THIE TE~NANTS OF BELDORMTE. 'Miss Kiettle introduces rThe iilnaafs ii. Bceldurnii (I), her new novel, by a quotation from ohld Andrsewr Marvell, the Purita~n poet, who says, ''ito vorl1d iiall ;41duth bet tvo NationsR bear, 'les Uced od Bait !l; ande these intel everywhtere. 'This is peculiarly wppplicablo to the characters, and to' -their arrangement, in the -.boek under notice. The scene of ...

... Le : ? lo v-c- EDNA LYALL has written In the Golden Days (3 vols. Hurst and Blackett) to the honour and glory of that most impracticable of patriots, Algernon Sidney. She has, as becomes a genuine hero worshipper, painted the martyr's portrait rather according to the measure of her own enthusiasm than to such authorities as Burnet or Baiillon: though his imaginary conversations ...

... COLONEL RILLS OFFER TO THE CARDIFF MUSEUM. Tim CORPORATION ANND SUNDAY a OPENING. IMP41ORTANT DISCUSSION. th. t At the meeting of the Cardiff Corporation On Monday, Alderman Taylor presiding, as an amend- tfir mentto then-inutesof the Free Library and Museum ha Committee, which contained the refusal to accept is a gift of pictures for the Museum from Colonel th~ Hill because the condition ...

... I| NAAZIM FOP. MR KAY.'ls fle pontaor Read nLondon: Isbister and Go.) opens with a paper on our relatious with Turkey, the materials for which were obtained in a conversation with Sir Austen Henry Layard, ?? who may, therefore, be, considered the writer. : The position assumed is this, that the policy of the greatest English statesmen, or at least those who are considered to be such by Sir ...

... 1 There is no reason to doubt that the International a Inventions antil ui Exhibition nosw open at Sonth ?? will prove lees sutceesiftul than its predeeceadeis,p tile ?? Fisheries in 1883, and the Hitiltlt Exhibition qE last year. It hears compairisoni wmcl themn in extent, anid ill tile, interesting character of thke objects to be seen; 'nubil tilc promoters ?? sparedX no pains to make- the ...

... TH.E SORCERER AND 'rTRTAL BY B JURY AT THE CARDIFF THEATRE. - for - fo on On Thursday evening the two earliest works of es those famtous jesters, Messrs. Gilbert and Sulli- [Id van, weae performed for. the first tinme in Cardiff, nr and a brilliant audience affixed to both the unmis- ve takable seal of approval. It is now ten years hE in- ago that the dramatic ?? by Jary, la; B.) first saw ...

... ; PoET1 . Y .- . v I l :E KNOWEVTfl BEST. What if the way ?? loa'g add weary Thy tiroed fese ar rorced to tread?, Some day thou sbalt looik back with wonder, My stpw ety led, And say, D~ygte The WAy was Gbort. What if the rotgh stoi8e voeud thee sorely, Thou toespathway terh'ors lend tr o all thyen thou wilt find otly fn rs, When thou asreacbedhy joutrniey ti trs. *Wheyre brae shaltdrest. ...

... ALL RIG}HTS RESERVED. By A LAM-r As a preface to my letter on the abore-na mNI to:)ics I cany a hardly do better than quote the suhju:aed susof M)ar- f: singer:- As the index tells us the contents of stories, and 8 directs us to a particular chapter, even so noes the outwrardi e habit and superficial order of gsrmuents, in inrie anid women, give us; a taste of the spirit, arid ...