... CLOSE OF THE lROYAL AGRI- . CULTURAL SHOW. . X Friday was the concluding day of the show fa which was thrown open to the public, at a charge Di Argl Is. each. The admissions were about 5000 in excess whit of those on the preceding 'day, and the visitors in Aed the aggregate were quite a different class of persons. Ao ADMISSIONS AND RECEIPTS. Ahs The following Showvs the number of admissions MO ...

... The second showv for the season took place yesterday, bt isroveiloshat fxliuulea call a blank draw, owing to the thunder storo alid heavy rains, whiliI continued more or less (though rather inore than less,) all the afternoon and evenitgl A goad Mary folks were inside the exlsibition miarquee when thle storm cominmenced, and there they had to renlil till it ?? over. As tlae ligihtning ?? ...

... 'Xittrature Df t4t Wlfuat?. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE has lately contained some of the most spirited, and, so far as we can judge, reliable sketches of the Indian war. This superiority is not only due to the celebrity of the magazine, bitt arises from the fact thati a considerable number of the civil and military offices are filled by Scotchmnen, all of whoul are more or less qualified to record ...

... FASRIONS FOR JULY. - (Abridged from Le Follet, Journal du Grand Monde.) At no season have the patterns of taffietas dresses been more varied or more ele gent than at the present time. Large flowers and checks are less in lavour than they were; narrow stripes, small sprigs, spots, or stars appear to be the favourite styles; these figures are frequently of the same colour as the ground, but of a ...

... L I T E R A T U R E. BLACKcWOOD. For July. A very well written, but unnecessary long article, on the social and sanitary state of The Soldier and the SurqPeon of the British Army, opens Blackwood's literary budget for July. The subjects are both important ones, but, beyond telling us what we already know, we are at a loss to conceive what good can result from an article that points out no ...

... BALLINABLOE FAIR (EROX OvU COBRESPOwDENT), BALLINAOLoE, Five O'CLOCB, Pi..-Thle was a very late fair, though the usual supply of cattle and sheep was on the green at an early hour, still from the absenoe of strange buyers nothing wag done up to ten o'clock. Set. le.s we' holding out for high prices In the morning, tnt wale obliged to yield in the ocourse of the day. Few sales were efieoted up ...

... THE OPERAS. The subscription season at HER MAJESTY'S Theatre closes to-night, and next week the house will be open to the universal public for the performance of operas at reduced prices without any abatement of the strength of the company. We assume this to be now an established custom of the house, and very heartily applaud it. COVENT GARDEN having opened later, will present more good work ...

... NA atil. -P A MYSTERY. HE sitteth in an ancient hail- He sees the daylight rise and fall; He hears the tyrant Tempest call; Sitting and singing there alone: The golden glories of the skies, The silver stars become his prize; The sapphire lamps (young maidens' eyes) Are all his own, his own. He sitteth in the ancient ball, An ancient sage, a hoary seer; Hie sees the pictures of the past, In ...

... -0 I C, 2'ise Afoney Bag. No. 2. London: D. F. Oakey. hL 'THE Money Bag, as its name may perhaps serve to indi- ti cate, devotes a chief share of attention to matters Of .A finance, the object being both to argue monetary theories, Cft and also (and more particularly) to enoourage fair trading, fi Rild to discountenance and expose its opposite. Literature 0 and polatics are also, however, ...

... SPIGAND SUMMER. WiTh feralfa be a to With starry ts o'er with dew With buttercup Ora o thelea, Wtt lonely berebellgolden hue, WI A id loney haramet flresh and blue Wbusn thvlnge ?? 8 When last I was at Aldeidoy (0 The robes of Spring wore fiuged,. of Another dame is coming now, With golden looks and wreathbd brow to With fragrant breath and laughter free;- W Anid flowers beneath her footstepe ...

... ER COF AM MttS. WV. TI. OWEN, I'IlYLLON, Tiir syni, mior syll, Y trim ?? bili tla'. ?? Yii ?? I ?? foaivell ilildicl; iior ul lx - ior %clivw yAV et, r-ricldil * ie,2-i-lR hll~t p,] da:tt'':l sydd, Nbl-i .iivfeald yelyi 1hn. O lherivvii drar ewri y inveidi giveddlillion, suripleu lid d ariei,'ai ! i kihavle all) d ei (I -n Ei! ovdd1 orzgal:~ )tlawn el0^: swyfllilo, Alisl oilil0 Ipic loi diei ...

... ig4 iTT attur,. REL1QtTE 'OF ANozcxv EoGLTSR POrTRY, consisting of o!d Heroic Ballads, Songs, ani other Pieces of -or Earlier Zoets, together vrith some few of later ; date. By TvoGNAs PERCY, Lored Bishop of Dromore. Reprinted Entire from the Author's Last Edition. With Memoirs and Critical Dissertation, by the Rev. GRoRGE GIn-FiLAN. Three Vols. Edin- burgh: James Nichol. THE BALLADS OF ...