Messrs. CLEMENT SCOTT and BRANDON THOMAS are to be congratulated on the success of their adaptation of the _Maître d'Armes_, produced at the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday last. The play, which appeared, like the longest remembered dramas of the late DION BOUCICAULT, in August--traditionally "the dead season of the stage"--seems destined to be as popular as the best-liked of its predecessors. For once--but, it is to be hoped, not "and away"--Mr. WILLIAM TERRISS has a chance of showing his quality in a character worthier of his powers than the customary hero of "walking gentleman" romance. Like Mr. HENRY NEVILLE when he appeared as _Henry Dunbar_, after a long course of _Ticket of Leave Man_, Mr. TERRISS makes the most of his opportunity. Miss MILLWARD is excellent as the child of the fencer--a criticism which applies equally "to every one concerned." Well written, well mounted, and well played, there is no reason why _The Swordsman's Daughter_ should not prove the truth of heredity and "run through"--the season. * * * * * "Full of wise saws" is "Amateur Angler," in the _Fishing Gazette_, concerning the river Wye. He complains that "he tried for trout, but caught chub," which, however, we are told "is a comely fish"--quite chub-stantial, doubtless--and "gives as much sport, at times, as a gentlemanly trout." "Lordly salmon" are also to be found. Evidently the Wye is peopled by the upper crust of the piscatorial world, and this, perhaps, explains the reason for "the river being netted and poached in every conceivable way," or wye, as Cockneys say. * * * * * With sorrow we read, in the _South Wales Daily News_, the announcement of the demise of "Billy," the celebrated goat, that for ten years had been an honoured and favourite member of the First Battalion, Welsh Regiment. This excellent animal, who died from the ravages of rheumatism contracted on the march, seems to have belonged to the "giddy" species of goat, for we learn that "he could hold his own with the best in drinking stout, beer, wine, or spirits." With these Anti-Local Veto propensities, it would not have been astonishing had the bibulous "Billy," like a certain historical personage, met with his end by drowning in a butt. * * * * * A DIALOGUE OF THE NIGHT. ["The art of setting forth a scene, an incident, in the shape of conversation natural, fluent, easy, and witty, is not so common an accomplishment as the large supply produced on Mr. CRAUFURD'S demand may seem to suggest."--_The "Daily News" on "Dialogues of the Day" edited by Mr. Oswald Craufurd._] SCENE--_The Elysian Fields, at nightfall._ PRESENT--_The shades of_ Lord _and_ Lady SPARKISH, Lord _and_ Lady SMART, Colonel ALWIT, Mr. NEVEROUT, Miss NOTABLE, _and some other characters in_ Dean SWIFT'S "_Polite Conversation_." _Lady Smart_ (_laying down her book with a yawn_). Egad! Our posterity cannot _talk_, they can only prattle.