... WHLTTINGHAM VALE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. This society held their seventh exhibition on Friday, the 31st alt. in a spacious pavillion erected for the pur- pose. The display if flowers and vegetables were very good, and refletted great credit on the cultivators. The attendance of the nobility, gentry. &c. of the neigh- bourhood was very great. An excellent dinner was provided by Mr ...

... I LITETARY NOTICES. COX CREGAN, NO. 1 (Orr and Co., London).- This is one of those dashing tales which cannot fail to be highly popular. KING DOBBS, by James Hannay, No. 1 (Dar- ling, Bishopgate Street).-This is one of the amphibious tales in which this writer delights, and of which several have already been before the public. THE Boo or OFTIM FAitbL, by Henry Stephens, F.RS.E.-A new edition, ...

... COUNTY OF DURHAM FLORAL AND n HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. I This society hold their show in the Exhibition Rooms, Durham, en WednesdWy. Judges-Mr. Roberts, gar- dener tO His Grace the Duke of Cleveland, Raby % s- tIe; Mr Graham, gardeser to Joseph Pease, Esq., Dar- ligton; and Mr Ross, gardener to Mrs Pemberton, Barnes, Sunderland, for the general production. For tde best culolatedAilotments.T L. ...

... I SPECIMENS Or-ANCIENT EiLISULj -VOCAL ?? On Tuesday evening the 'dererre4speoiuesuis c ent Euglish music, wth illustrative remarks by tili Rea . the Tiear, were given in the Millsio Hall, iii this towen, to a numerous. and respectable andience, It will be remembered that in consequence of the untoward oir* cumstances attending the Promenade in the Castle, the eouneil of the Aptiquarian ...

... BOTANICALAND HORTICULTURAL IOTANICA SOCIETY. The great summer exhibition Of this society wras held on Wednesday and Thursday In Its show ground, at the Bar- ras Bridge, in new marquees provided by Mbwr Thomas fllekham, and the attendance ofthe band o the 63rd re- giment tended to'eliven the scen. We have often spok- en of the excellence of these exhibitions, bait the above was allowed by all w ...

... The sixth annual exhibition of the Newcastle and Gateshead Society was held in the rooms attached to the Royal Hotel, Grainger-street, in this town, on Tuesday and Wednesday last. Great efforts had been made on this occasion to make this show surpass aU its predecessors, and the result was not only cheering and encouraging, but evidently proved that each mem- ber had done eo much, and that so ...

... LITERLARY NOTICES. BLAcKwoon'sMAGAZINE.--(Blackwood, London and Edinburgh.)-The leading piecein this number is an able review of Macaulay's History of England. Of this author the writer (after a high compliment to the Edainbzq-76 Peview, in) the first years of its exis- .tencs) remarks that he is superior to Lord jeffrey from the richness of his stores both of ancient and modern learning; that ...

... T. T4R Y NOTICES. JAHE OCIENCE O1-LIFE, -OP HOW TO ILIVE, AND WHAT To.LivE'yon., (Kent'and Richards. Paternoster Row, Lobdon).-This little work 'contains a variety practical observations, by a PhYsician upon health and longevity. It is wrteale'o tyl, jet'ir frets from technicality. Writen in a lucido stye ethrelhm frame, and the manner in which the varioos orgatis per. Iform their functions, ...

... MARKE'i' S, VAk KS, &X. N'EWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 25. Time of year considered, the show of fat cattle on offer here to-day has been ful ly an average, both in respect of quantity and quality, including several very good lots of shorthorns from Yorkshire, and twenty of the Irish breed, from Liverpool, in excellent condi- tion. in sheep and lambe there was a decline both in their numbers ...

... I , Tup, POTTLETON- LEGACY, art IX.--(.Bogae, London .)-The interest of this cldqerly-written tale in- creases as the end draws near. KMWo DOBBS, No, v.--(Darlirngon, Bishopsgate Street, Loudon.)-Tbis part is decidedly interior to the preceding ones. D-tVND COPrEIutEELD THE YOWMNGER, by Charles Dickens. Nos. 1 and 2.-(Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, London.)-This new tale displays, in its ...

... I i,, .LITERARY NO -.MMA, by Miss Austin. (,imn- tyre, Paternoster Row, London.;-Tbjs and i edition of a novel, by the above ver~00' y forms one of the neatly got up Serie,, a.rit Parlour Library, now being issued byt0 R5's Publishers, yt e THE RErORX(ER'S ALMANACIC. ( Jones, Paternoster Row, London).-Thj apr t ditionto the usual calendar, &c.c,; (cajtlai of' POiticit information, especially ...

... LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SO- CIETY'S ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE. This annual conversazione took place on Tuesday evening, in the splendid and spacious rooms of this va. luable and im portant society. These gatherings might with propriety be termed in- augural meetings for the winter season, forming, as it were, an incentive to desire by creating anticipations of 'A good time coming, that is the ...