... The annual show took place yesterday in Mr J. a Woolley's field, adjacent to the railway station, 8 The attendance was greater than last year, and the c number of animals exhibited was also large. Entire _ horses were as numerous as on recent preceding s occasions, and there was a good competition for other classes. The judges were Mr Stephenson, h Bushy Hill ; Mr John. Ingramn, Wood Hall ; ...

... THE BEST THING OUT.-An aching tooth. FOOD FOR THE IMAGINATION.-Faucy bread. CAUTION TO SISTERS -Harriet: I say, Charley, I've been stealing some of your scent; but it isn't very nice-something odd about it-smell. Chiarley: Not wiped your lips with it, I hope? It's the new stufffor my moustaches-brings 'em out an inch every night ! FAAIILY PRIDE,-First Boy: My father's a orficer. ...

... t COYEI~TR'Y AND IMDLAND EX-HIBITIONsw T1h tnnT A ThT R TfNT IlNAIJGURA TION BY E3AHL GRA?IVILLE, X.G. On Wednesday the Coventry and Mildland Coura- tiee Manufacturing, Industrial, and Art Exhibition at Coventry, was formally opened by Earl Oranville, KiG. His Lordship arrived at Coventry from London about eleven o'clock, and was met by Lord Leigh, the Lord- Licutenant of Warwickshire, who ...

... YORIKSHIRE SHOW OF FAT STOCK, POULTRY, AND ROOTS. I Tho eleventh annual show of the Yorkshire f Society for the Christmas E xhibitioni of stock, poultry, and r roots %was opened yesterday in the wool sheds adjoinling thle a cattle market, at York, and both for entries and their a quality was the bestaincee tie establishment of tse society. I This is no, doubt a result of the liberality of the ...

... EASINhGWOLD AGRICULTURAL SHOW. I The sevenith annual show of the Easingvwold Agricultural Association was held yesterday ill a large field in the occupnttion of Mr. Shiels, of the 3corge Iia. The weather, though cold for the season, was very favourable for the exhibition, which was one of the best since the establiillelit of the society, and it excited a lhugo amount of interest in the ...

... TH E LAST DAY OF THE, PARIS EXHIBITION. IiI The crush on Sunday was enormous, It wm ~'not only the last day, hot it was the flits day, and having dons their duty at the cemeteries, the Parisians dlocked to bury the Great Exhibition ; for Parisians they were the II'bowns bonrqsooi5fe'' and the men and women of the pleople who ciowded it. flut in anticipation of the sad ~0 event, and not caring ...

... FLOWER SHOW AT THE BOTANIC . GARDENS. ~e. If we may take as a criterion the great number of ith people who oa ,Wednesday thronged our beautiful er otanie Gardens, the love of botany iniifull is very LoU strong and wide-spread. Of sourse v'e should be te pdown as cynical if we were to hinttihat a taste vas for flowers was not the primary object for which ry ladies flock Uto ,lioral shows, ...

... TIHE FASTI I)ON'S. ( f;CI >0w I/o l',rqlolii/eij,'S ?? 5i.' .eifegn:re' ?? Joan rray.) Paris we:rs sn altosetlb4 r diflererst aspect onl the npproach of New Year's lsay to what it does at any other time. Parisians care little ate ut ('hristmraes, but the popu- 1lis ftW is tr [,vicr (le 1'a7. Th'W cUstoiII of exclhan girng gifts on that d6v is so general that most shopkoepers reckon upon it to ...

... THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN'S LITERA.RY REMAINS . _ The Pall Hall Gazette ?? first four ?? of these interesting Remains, which, it is said, are being prepared for the press at the express desire of the Emperor of Austria, have now been published.. They contain a description, in the form of a diary, of the travels of the thenyoung Archduke (he was eighteen tears old when he made his first journey) ...

... -Y. GEORGE'S ROWING CLUB. BALL. t The annual ball'd the above club was held last night, at the Music Hall, Jarratt.street, when 173'i ladies and.gentlemen Were present. It was a very fashionable one, and attended by many of the leading gentry of the town and neighbourhood. The stew- ards were Captain Cator, R.N.; Major Bannister, E.Y.R.V. ; Lieutenant Bethel Jacobs, ?? W. Reynolds, Eq., ...

... (Acn the London Review.) l Mr. Tom Taylor, in~ a prefacea to one of his DI French plays, sepocs with real or apparent admiration of Ot that peculiar product of our own times, the buriesqisus- c .writer. 'Of course, thei art that can boset to have enrdllsd of 'en Aristopharnes amongst itd suipportets m'sy claim im- hi pentance and assume a certain digfinty. But, unfortunately, el iat hardly ...

... THE BUDNING OF HER MAJESTY'S TlHlRAIRlE. It was not intil Saturday morning, when the calamitous lire of the preceding nright had spent itsclf, thflt the full efects of the disaster could ba ruitlisedi, or any inquiries couldi be instituted as to its origin. Of the theatre itself, one of the finest in the world, nothing renmins but the hare, roofless walls, and immeseo masses of charred ...