... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... -PASHION.-I (Froe thM Lancotf) The mniltability of fashion is proverbial, especially in all matters of female attire and adornment; so that when a lucid interval does occur it is probable sonme utterly preposterous vagary will very noon mnarlk the relapse. It huppens, however, that just at this time men and women who attire themselves according to the dictates of fashion, end fall down and ...

... The annual show of this society was hold yes- terday, in the usual ground ill Church-streot, Morlay. There was a remarkably good show of horses, and an excellet floral exhibition. The dahlias, especially those exllibited by Mr. H. May, of Bedals, and Mr. G. Edwards, of York, were remarkably dlne. Whilst the j ansping was proceeding an accident that might have been attended with serious and ...

... I Yesterdyv thel ninth show of this society was held close to 'the town of Stokegley, in two filelds belonging t4 Bliss Ilildyard, of the Manor House, and thc exhibition 21rTpassed any previous one at that place since the eatab- lishmernt of this society, the entries boiug more numerous mud the quality of the stock unexceptionable. The entries swore as follow :-Sheep oS, pigs 9, horses 195i, ...

... WORTLEY AND AUmLEY FLORAL AND fORTI- CUITUR5AL SoEXssY.-The thirty-first annual exhibition of this society was hold yesterday, in a field in Chapel-lane, Armley. The committee had issued a lengthy prize-list, and there was a correspondingly lengthy list of entries, snore especially in the floral and horticultural departments of the show. The tent accommodation had accordingly to be very ...

... I {(Roll the Qhe(onie.) One of the largest questions which the fine art of the Paris ExhibitiOn is adapted to suggest, and in purt to answer, is that of the points of contact andi diversity, and of general cotspariso, between modern or coathee- porary art and the art of tho past, especially of those whom we are wont to term r Old Masteri. The quesd tion is, of course, t vasty too large to ...

... PICKINGS FROM THE CO' MIC PAPERS. Y, (rROa PUNCH.) n RITUALISTIC CHURCH WHERE THE BANNS OF - MARRIAGE OUGHT ALWAYS TO B3 PROCLAIMED.- g St. All-banns. n, BILL SYicaS IN VELVET.-A swindler who adopts R an al ay be politely described as a gentleman rmwho changes his name for property. ig EPITAPH BY A LADY. Fucumbrance sore long time I bore dci Derision was in vain; n11 But when short skirts ...

... I Yi _ . . ?? .- , Late on Sunday night, the 30th of last June, the Daylesford police were told a sad story of missing children. At ten o'clock that morning, three boys, William Graham, aged seven; Thomas Graham, a aged four; and Arthur Burman, aged five years, the sons of respectable persons, started from their homes, in Connel's Gally, to search for wild goats. Tbey did not come back to ...

... REPORTS ON THE CLASSES, PFEPAn n BY OxDC n OP osm COaTUE or Couc 017 EDUOA'IOOX. CARDED WOOL, WOOLLEN YARNS, AND WOOLLEN FABRIOS, CeAse 30. BrY GEO0ne Iacu, Esa. UtoARDf WOOL, tough occupying a prominent laco in the classification of the British catalogue of class L, does not appesr 't have been introdused into the Exhi- bition as an object of competition for rewsrd. It rarely forms a ...

... -1 : ., J PUBLIC AMUSEMiENTS. , - | :,Mn. Connex s OLEAT ,,.1 DO9N04ASTEU,,-, Tche. Doncaster papers speak in high terms of the performances of Mr.- w: John Coleman and his company at the theatre during B, the past week. Mr. Colemanhasbutrecentlybecome tb the lessee of the Doncaster theatre, and his first act H was-not merely to decorate and renovate, but to reconstruct the interior of the ...

... _ 1 RA U _ I ?? ?? L1ITERAT U RE.0 B1NDAY IN THEI COUJNTRY. zol,4 (Ii IN ivwichi rest to ?? br rugs ~, S ri' ,ciir tioti the' lisijiutli, .A- if -ii Td coe]it5O ii 'Ii ls 'llSt5 wns A in0 c it hr cuteat ie tile quiet iii treo skies. No iroiI ?? the clatter (if tire till1; ~ t .ke~rrtiiSforge isi ilir-lied, the 1icItigli is Still. ,Ill(.jws, iii the greeti puddock ilseins to kirow ljt tee, ...