... 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 ...

... 1 _ __I ?? U~I~AMUSMETS, & *1 Prince,, of 'Wadej;Thcesro.-.Parenta, and Guardiacs| BXIO'.qne lMaztepp and *Jeany lind at Last. R°Y~t i nphttheas.. - ichard IlL I 1,,. Junes=, Dpi 2and Operetta House The Opera ,J,$naluoleew ?? !Sua p1ey, Th9' St. George'e HalL-Organ Perform o.,eaq, HOW Starlundo HaLjnc j naume Talokensero, selection from the Opera' !iaie tuart,c &o.. , queen's ll. ...

... xiter'Iturt. NEW BOOKS. Mlr. Murray has added to the admi'able series of Choice Travels, which he is publishing in volumes of convenient size, Mr. Layard's abridg- ments of his Nineveh and its Remains and Ni~nev.eh and? Babylon. The first of these volumes contains the narrative of the author's expedition to Assyria, during the years 1845, 1846, and 1847; the second records the results of his ...

... YOXFORD ALLOTMNT rNPROVEMENT SOCIETY EXHIBITION OF VEGETABLES. YESTEIMAY (Friday). The annual exhibition of this Society, which embraces a district extending for sevcral wiles round the quict village of Yoxford, took place yesterday (Friday) at the Three Tuns Inn, under favourable circumstances. During the morning, the cottagers flocked into the vil. Inge with their productions, and the ...

... it BENZEFVZIT O IS II ATXI. 1 WE. wvere not inistaken when 're &nticipated a crowded house for Aliss Heath's benefit. Last 1 night the upper boxes and pit were literally crammed, and the other parts of the house were *e filled, hut not to inconvenience. The first piece set down in the bill was Lord Lytton's familiar comedy, oner, 'iss IHeath takiing the part of e the constant and devoted ...

... THE ADELPHI THEA TRE. M. CHTARLES DE BEttNARD'S stories of Le Gendre and La Peine dn. Talion having furnished materials for the popular comedy of it Still MWaters Run Deep and the exciting melodrama of Retribution, it was. naturally to be expected that recourse would be had to other works, of the admirable novelist the next time an English dramratist expe ijenced any difficulty in ...

... THE BIRMMGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY I ?? S.SHOW. (From the Afidland Consnt/es Herald.) In our putlicatiol of Augnst the 1st, we stated that the Counlcil had met on the preceding Thursday, to make arrangements for the present year's gathering in Bingley Hall, and that a number of changes had been determined upon. We have now to announce that the prize lists, as revised on that occasion, have been ...

... ?t1r?. T~ill FALL111G Lli AVXS. A hlEMENTO AND ADrSONITIOS. The leaves are falling, and they show Tihat summer tOD bas passed away; E ow quickly zsueny claysi will go, Wh~ether we wrore, or Idly play!I And what is life, but ene'lea3 ohange?. We eat, we drlnk, we rise, we sleep; Within onr bounded, narrow range, WVe 61gb, we laugh, we groan, we weep. The leaves are falllng-failing fast- 'the ...

... I- .. ASHION AND VARIETIES. I Lord and Lady Lismrore and auito left tbwn yoslerday for London. W. ]zcd Bryan, Borrmount, Enniscerthy, IH st atig at the Htibernian otel. Amongst the carriages at the funeral of the lato lion George fluuaidotk was that of the Bight Hen 'hIozero Brady. John Vance, FEsq., MP., Mra. Vance, and sidle arrived In town yesterday from f ondon. The following are amongst ...

... THE VISITORS'-BOOK AT OUR SwISs INN.| (From the London Reviiev.) Most excellent is that practice of keeping a am visitor-'-book in the salon of our inn. How welcome, on hi a wet day, when everything in the shape of literature is d exhausted! There is nothing to look at. The English girl tl sitting in the window has got the second volume of the D Tauchnitz edition of the Daisy Chain, dropped ...

... With Maximilian in Mea'ico. From the Note Book'of a Mexican Officer. By Max Baron von Alvensleben, late Lieutenant in the Imperial Mexicaa Army. Longman and Co. In what part of Mexico was Max Baron von Alvenp. leben born that he writes himself upon his title-page I a Mexican officer I ? He claims community of origin and language with the well-meaning but cruelly weak Austrian Archduke who sold ...

... OPENING OF THE QUEEN'S THEATRE. Grim and cold St Martin's Hall has ceased to be; and in its stead we have a gay and pleasant place wherein to pass away the time betwixt light dinner and light sleep. London has many playhouses; but few, if any, as well designed and excellently fitted for its purpose as the Queen's. Some of the walls in the passages testify how rapid has been the work of re ...