... On Tuesday the principal butchers i the old townt anticipated the wishes of their customers by pro- a viding a plentiful supply of extraordinary beef and mutton. The butchers without the bridges made n no display more than they ordinarily do on a market Tls.y. In all probability the great show will s be on Friday next. The cattle that were exhibited v in the Market-place and neighbourhood ...

... PAWs, May 1. One of the most difficult tasks the juries had to accomplish must have been the finding a verdict in the great trials of the sewing machines, for the outer circle of the Exhibition bristles, so to speak, with sewing machine needles, and many inventors of many coantries have a perfect sewing riachine to show. It would be difficult to say which of all these machines is the best, ...

... EIPRiINGI1IAM A TTLE A~D POULTRY ~SHOWS. Thde nineteenth aum~l.a exhibition of fat cattle, poultry, he., was opened at Bingley Hall, BirminghaLm, mil Satu rday. The usual thick wet weather sot in just before the ehow; such weather as is hardly known in Birming- ham, except on the occasion of the annual cattle show. The price charged for admission (half-a-guinea) prohibited anly very large ...

... 'THE pARI tXHI)BITION. THE IILV9B1 MEDALS. The following is the list of British silver medal- lists. The names of Yorkshire exhibitors are given in! italics:- O 51 APPARATIS AND 'APPLIOA7iONO OF Tun rfl3.AL A2Eb Class 6.-Pintffng and ?? a~nd. Co., books; Me~ssrs.W. nbd B. Cghaambers, books;' Bradhury Evans and Co., books'; Virtue and Co., books; ypwnc, Blakoe, and Co, London and Sheffield, ...

... LITERATURig. TIlE MOTHER'S PRAYER. 1la mother by her infant watch was keeping, hbrolgh night's Blow, mourriful hour; an, sickness, like an angry east wind, sweeping O'er her dear cherished fiower. she beard its feeble moan, its piteous sighing, Sharp rangs it scomed to bear; Art Co01T avail no more-they left it dying, A&nd her to cold despair. 2he moonlight, through the window softly stealing, ...

... NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS.-THE PULPIT iAND THE STAGE. I On Tuesday evening Mr. A. K. Rollitt, LL.D., delivered a lecture on National Ainusementsincon' nection with the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society, at the Royal Institution. The president (Dr. K. King) presided. There was a very numerous audi- ence. The lecture was devoted to the amusements of the ancient and mediteval times, Mr. ...

... THE LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL AMATEUR I THEATRICALS I. Lust nighlt a very lirge and fashionable corn- pany wes present in the Music-hall to witnoss the annual amateur tbeatrical perfornanuce in conection with the Grammar School, and the two pieces which were presented to the audience were attendled with an amount of success which is surprising, wieih it is remembered what an amnousit of paiuetasing ...

... I TE (UREAT FRENCH EXHIBITION A Paris Itter ?? 2ltirch 6i, Sitys -Siico I lasit wrotie there has tacit a most mnarked ?? ili tie( itelivery us Eiigli.It goodic. More than 2,60 packageos Itle alretidy ill tle iioi~ioliig Ilt thle labour of getting twitia inl 1dir Slt'ink's Seaetns cranes ?? done1 goat1 Work, tb ohe neat 13'ynill the heavy ntaour ilit our section, It is iii1k tiult to slpe.tik ...

... The work of tbe Exhibition has colmmenced. co] Tirere are no notices flowing from the Enl iisih execuitive, Icc there is little interchange of official talk, and probably tire frc, rules and regulatiocis which we are, now about to publish enl, tsr xtrisoe, will form the concludinig chapter of the business ha proclamations. These rules and regulations relate to ?? Mc exhibition of worksH ...

... NAT -1S ?? OF I , ?? , No classes of horned cattle have been permitted at the Bury St. Edmdnd's meeting, butthere is a very large show of horses, sheep, and pigs. At the last meeting of the society at Plymouth, in 1865 there were only 92 entries of horses; at Bury there Lare no fewer than 260 entries, and comparatively few vacant boxes. Messrs. Oldacre, William So4h, and Henry Thurnail, the ...

... ~IlE GREAT 1' ?? EXHIBITION. PA&IB, Weodnesday, JUUO 1'3. A t( It 's ranler anl odd thing we have to report that moer ~sEshihitirll is ?? comlplete. III soror few of its details, lanc tcedi it unay bo still unfinished. Tlhe F:ench oomplain of ban ba .lerilers, torid Pjilt out that the portion of the laric nok bloilte to1 En la oos not look so pretty, nor ovour A ts tidg' DS the6 portiou ...

... THE HORME-SHOW- AT THE AGRICULTURAL HALL. On. Saturday the fourth great show of horses in the' metropolis was opened at the Agricultural Hall Islington, and, as on former occasions, a large ?? fashionable companywere attracted together, the majority of cours.4, being fron the country, who went to town for 'the ?? week. Though these shows have only been in existence for so short a period, they ...