... pA4SfIONAND VAE ITBTIES. Ladr Edmnund Talbot arrived at Kings'0;, yesterdaiy from England. Captain Siaclhe arrived at Kingstow-n t-- terday from Engiand. Mr. and Hon Mrs Farrell arrived at R 1ingatown nyestcrday from England. Sir ?? Maxw-ell arrived at KR . lstaw1 yesterday from Englandl. Surgeon W Gwen, Bengal 3 S, arr~ve.: King-town ?? irontl EIglanl. L f ord and Lady George Hamilton have ...

... I REMINISCENCES BY THE LATE GENERAL SHERIDAN. UNDER the title From Gravelotte to Sedan Scribner's publishes some posthumous reminiscences by General Sheridan of the Franco-Prussian war, during which he accompanied the German Emperor's staff. We extract a few stories of Bismarck and the Kaiser:- KAISER WILHELM. General Sheridan gives us a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm before Gravelotte:- His ...

... THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANZ. (AuGusrUS HARRIS, Lessee and Manager.) EVERY EVENIN;, at 7 3J, THt ARMADA. MORNING PERFORMANCE SA'URDAY N1EXT. at r.30. WVinifred Emery, Editih Pruce, Katte . eAd. N'eileon. and m-1 I Moon; I..eosard Bayne, Luigi Lablache, Ed ard G:,rdirer, Victor StICV;slA. ?? aunont, ilcury l Sor . DA n, Merrin . ,1b S~anislaus Calhaem, B. Robins, F. Dabe i, 14.astl WVest, WV. ...

... MUMS = lIALLOWEEN COXCEIRT. The ancient ocutoms on Allhaulow Even-that is to say, the bobbing for apples, the roasting of nuts to doterdtine the identity of future husbapda, and the playful game of trying to light a caudle on a pole I stretched across a tub of wqtor, into which the per. formor must inevitably tumble, have now fallen into disustude in England. But the Scoteh lsies mdiiB pull ...

... NE W MUSIC. IF we may judge by the specimens of sheet-music which make their way to our book-table, there is not much prospect that the works of any of our minor composers will for the present take the musical world by storm. Much is published which is entirely worthless; of the compositions which have a certain comparative value the following are a few specimens. From Messrs. Stanley Lucas, ...

... * IN the new volume which M. Zola has just added to his library of ?? natural and social history, he very literally turns over a new leaf. From the brutalities of the gin-shop and slough of the cow-shed, we pass in ; Le Rere to the peaceful quiet of the cloister and dim religious light of *the cathedral aisle. The publication of this charming and innocent idyll has of course no connection ...

... I4TERATU RE. I I -w EOI it NOTES ONf NEW7 BOOK;S. . - Messrs Kee Panl, Trench & o. send us a Life of Lamartin6e, by Lady Margaret Domvile, and 'The MuSic of the Waters, a Collection of Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of all Maritime Nations, by Laura Alexandrine Smitb.-Messrs Longmans, Green i & Co. send us Force and Ernergy: a Theory of a x Dynramics, by Grant Allen. ...

... ra J .. p .. QLASGOW INTERNATIrA EXmHfBITjroNs TiE' ART4UNWiN DRAWHX-LftT r TM r thle 'ilawing of the Art-Union prizes and the! visit of H.RrH. Prineess Louise and the M&arquis ?? mtade yesterday an important day ato the tExhibtion, a&nd assisted greatly in seeling jgl the attendance during the day. 3xcujsioa - trains were run 'by the North British aiwiwayj a Company from stations aloug the ...

... THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION SOCIETY.-THE NEW GALLERY, REGENT-STRERT, NOW OPEN, IO to 7. Admission, Is. CLOSES SATURDAY, December I. WALTER CRANE, President. ERNEST RADrORD. Secretary. THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION SOCIETY.-A COURSE oi FIVE PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS will be given in the NEW GALLERY on THURSDAYS throughout NOVEMBER.-Tickets and full Particulars of the Secretary. WILLIAM ...

... LEED StJBSCR12PTION, CONOERTS. - li. i..Q -: - - 0 : - . I D ; The first coqeert of this series wee given yesterday' evenntg in'thq Colseum.' Frqm tho point of . view of ao musncal puist it may appear somewhat inappropriate that the first of a succession of concerts occupying the most prominent position 'among the. events of our musical season should be of the ordinery ballad concert type. ...

... TO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGuSTrUS HARRIS, Lessee and MNlanager.) EVERY EVENING, at 7.30, TE ARMADA. MORNING PERFORMANCE SATURDAY NEXT, at X.30. Winifred Emery, Edith Bruce, Ilate Jasoei_ Ada Neilson, and Maud Milton; Leonard Boyne, Lnigi Lablache, Edward Gardiner, Victor Stevens, A. Beaumont, Henry Loranoe, S. Dswson, Mervin Dalhai, Sianislaus Calhoem, B. Robins, F ...

... , CARDIFF FREE LIBRARY, l !, -MUSEUM, AND SCIENCE AND ART SCHOOLS. I ( ?? .li, C ed ANNUAL REPORT. :dt A special meeting of thme Cardiff Free Librarv 4 Committee was head at tihe Art Schoois on ThOur- I ne day evening, for rile purpose of considering the 1 annual report of the Free Library, Mu-euum. end E Science and Art Schools for the paast yeori. Dr. T. V. Vachlell presided. ' ri ' The ...