... shesecond annual festival of the Ardudwy Temperance Choral Union, took piece in the ancient and romantic Castle of liar- lech, on Thursday last, the 24th inst. The day waus a beauti-I =fllline one, even for Midsnunmer, and the attendldnee was an exedingly large one, and coflhlrissd persons from all parts of Wales, andfromt Liverpool end other English towns. The Welsis are essentially a musical ...

... pi The materials this season are in great variety, an I the Ii .new shade of pink with turquoise and the early string th green are worn in the more elegant toilettes; some of fo the silks resemble a black net over colours, and is moytly pi used with flounces of black lace. English alpacas and (I foulards are very fashionable .in Paris; dresses of organdy, rp barege, chambery, and gauze, ase ...

... ~Ovtvm. PROLOGUE e SpokeD on MonDay laist at Wrexlham Theatre. Celebration of the Shakepeare Tercentenary. There needs no trumpet to proclaisn the name Of him whom Milton hails, Great heir ofafnac The Bard, who on the banks of Avon breathed The first and last of human life, and there Buried, for favoured Stratford has enwreathed Endearment and renown, a garland rare: And to mankind of every ...

... THE FLOAWER SHOW. The Denbigh Annual Flower Show was held at the Royal Bowling Green, on Friday, the:llth inst. Unfortunately, very little vigour has been exercised ;of late years on behalf of the Denbigh Flower Shows, and it is generally complained that they are held rather too' late in the season to possess any. peculiar. or interesting features. The soil of the Vale of Clwyd is naturally ...

... . wittrarp (extrarto. Home! What snakes a home, I woasder Looking back in the after days, looking back to that queer old Cumberland farmhouse across the sea, thinking of its quiet and its happiness, even whilst surrounded by the warmth, and the beauty and the gaiety of southern climes, Captain Stoudon eatoe to believe that home is not so much one great fact, as the total of an aggrega- tion of ...

... LLANFAIRFECIAN. cUi1HOLTICULTURAL SHOW. cml- for This pretty little village presented a most lively aspect Oct on the morning of 5Thursday, the 12th inst. Early in lief the day could be seen men, women, and children, if parading the roads, bearing in their arms divers speci- use mens of garden products, flowers, window plants, &c., seir towards the National Schoolroom, where the show was hat ...

... MY BROTIIER. A Poem reclted by Mr. Robortson Gladstone, at Liverpool, on Thursday June 4th. (Fromt the Olotj Who sath his prayers every morn, And did, the moment he waq born, And doth the path of sinners scorn f- Mly brother. Who always did obey his pa; HIs brothers loved, likewlie his ma, And sold, when he was told, Ta ta ?? Mly brother. Who's now a imark for scoffers mild, By shiners In the ...

... Our , i-karil B3LxAcKWKOODl 1lAtaAN for del'iisrv.- London ti t Edinburghi: Win. Blalsekioo(l d aolls. I The opening paper in Miga, is on the ques- tionu What wvill the Goverunment (to? The conferring office upon Mr. 1o'urtescu, Mr. Forster, and NIr. Go0-e chen, supplies, the writer thinks, an answer to this ques- tion. Sir Robert Peel, who, with dlI his eccentricities, c lnevel, to the l ...

... Our ?Obvaq TCAW. THEn RIVz-m's SIDE, on T'ni TROUT AND GRlA1.INO, AND lloW TO TAKiM TIIEM.-By Sir Ranudi Roberts, Bart. -London: Horace Cdox. FISHING GoSdace; OR STRAY LFAVES FROM TME NOTE Boons OF SlEVEIMAL ANCt.S.Us,-Efdited by H. Chol- mnondeley Peuuell.-Ediuburgh: Adam and Charles Black. All loveis of angling should possess themselves of these little volumes; the one containing everything ...

... Ij_ 4NEG RvN. HARVEST TfnASOI]-Iz{h.G The harvest festival of the above-named parish took place on, Tuesday, the 15th instant. The church during Monday was profusely de- corated with flowers and ears of corn. A large crop of dhalias stood on the rood loft The pillars of the same were entwined with ivy and virginia creepers, dotted with flowers. On the re-table stood six vases of choice flowers ...

... CHRISTMAS IN LANOCASHIRE. 1862. I My country, thou bast sinned. This cotton dearthb, With all its bitter-crop of want' and woe;- Caust thou not iead-init thy punishment For wilfuilness and greed ? Couldst thou not find,, ?? Bible-taught England, for thy potent gold, L A nobler market than the slave's, forsooth, To buy in? There was blood upon the bales, The brand of goad, and lash, and gory ...

... |GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL AT CARMARaTHEN. A second grand musical Eisteddfod, carried on in a similar manner as the one of the lst inst., was held- in the MIarket-place, in this town, on WAediieisday, tile 23rd instant, in aid of the funds towards the erection of a new Church at Llanllwch, in the county of Carmar- . then. A preliminary concert of national music was given on the evening of the ...