... MOELAWK MINSTRELS. The Mohawk Minstrels celebrated on Saturday v evening the opening of their twenty-seventh year at t the Agricultural Hall by a special programme consist- jag chiefly of favourite plantation melodies. During the period that has elapsed since this well-known troupe of minstrels began their merry career the fashion in things theatrical has been frequently changed, but thea ...

... EIN UNBESCHRIEBENES BLArT. Comedy, in Three Acts, by Ernst Von WolzoVen Produced at the New Theatre, Oct. 25th, 1MY&. Professor Mohl ?? Herr Lesit s Homann ?? Herr MERTEN Curt ?? Herr CLAUDIUS Aanslie ?? Frau CARLSKN Gertrud ?? Frau NUSCHe BUTZE Paula ?? Frdulein TALIANSKY Deggenmeyer ?? HOLTIAUS Theresa ?? Frau HILLER Lena ?? Fraulein CARLISN Ein Diensuran ?? Herr FL xK (FROM OTR OWN ...

... I -- - -_ 5 Mr Charles Wyodham has decided to open his new 5theatre with a eia o ai Gariek a play which 3 Mr Wyndham, since the death of . A. Sothern, ehas practically made his ow. fh hitry ftepa is curious, and in a measure half tragic. It was, as all the world of the stage knows, written by the late T. W Robertson, the founder of the Caste school, which caused a complete revolution in the ...

... LONDON, TUESDAY, Nov. 7. I About £130,000 has been received by the Lord Mavor on behalf of the Transvaal War I . I .- . I . .. . I ~U lt4 Ur Ulon unail 01 lone Lransva A ar Funds. Yesterday's contributions included a donation of a thousand pounds from the Queen, and gifts of 250 guineas from the Prince of Wales, and £100 from the Duke and Duchess l or York. Telegraphing to a Crimean ...

... TUE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH., ADVANCE FROM ESTCOURT, FRERE BRIDGE DESTROYEDj BEACON HILL FIGHT. THE BRITISH LOSSES; 14 KILLED, 50 WOUNDED. ANOTHER NAVAL BRIGADE. DISPA fUH FROM BULLER. | ir Redvers Buller has telegraphed to the Secretary of State for War as followv : (Received Nov. 2'7, 9.49 a.m.) Pietermaritzburg, Nov. 26, 10.45 p.m. Hildyard, from E-steourt, made successful attack 23 Nov. ...

... L.C C. AND THE GLADST*NE EMORIAL. ALTERNATIVE SITES. As briefly announced in these columns the other - 3day, the Improvements Committee of the London County Council have fallen in wxith the desire of the Gladstone Memorial Committee that, on or !about the place in the new street from Holborn, where it will meet the great crescent leading into the Stn D. site be appropriated for the monument ...

... THE BOER APPEAL TO CKPE IFRIKANDERS. (nrorcxf nnnt'S AcGNaT.) CAPETOWN, Oct. 30. T h1e following is a traslja1tion of the appeal of the Free Steto to the Duttch of Cape Colony. It has been extenvivelv circuiated in the dis- I trnrts of the Colony bordering on the Freo I State i An appeal frmrn the ?? of the Orange Frr Staawto all Airikandrs aknd our symipathisers re'sid- ing i the Cape Colony ...

... Clit Nlack No social problcm is involved in Mr. Sydney Grundy's latest gleaning from the rich fields of Dumasian romance, nor does psychology lend its art ul aid in the setting forth of the story of the love of Dr. Cornelis van Baerle, the enthusiastic cultivator of tulips, for Rosa Grylhus, the beautiful daughter of the grim jailer of Puytenhof. The B/ark 7tip is, in brief, a eimple, old ...

... E-UR'OVE4 AND Ti)E AVIt nm, IVY I k PRESS FUNDP. t1OW IT' IT 18SF RIB TED 83211K , I 2 11 N I SC EN C:LS oF I I 1, PAURN 1K1I 1 I LOB!) IANSPIWN71 ...

... RUNAWAY RALVWAY WAGGONS. A DATNGEROUS .3ISHAP. Part'cnlars have just been made public of an extraordinary railway rmishap at Boscombe Station, Bournemouth It ap pears that one evening last week, whilst engaged in shunting nreratiuns the rear portion of a goods train was left etanding on the line, vhilE the forward part was being made up in the goods yard. On the shunter returning to the main ...

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... |ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH |V EISTS. Several arnbitious works, notably the large can- vases of Mr. ILeonard Watts, Mr. Abbey Alteon, and Mbr. Rupert Buarmy, an intericr of Seville Cathedral by the President, a few landscapes, freshly seen and painted as frieshly, and an ad- mirable interior by Mr. Calev Robinson, stand out from the dead level of the rather mediocre show now housed in the ...