... LEEDS FAT CATTLE SlOW. A -,4-7Ah At a Ia A I Arrived at that stago when it has come to be recognised as an institution, and one of the gathorings of the season, the Christmas fat cattle show in Leeds, as at York, Bir- mingham, and London, seems but to have to assounee its recusrence to command that attention from stock-breeders to fill its pesls, and that patronage from the public to fill the ...

... :EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH. AN APOLOGY AT GLASGO(W.| Ben, excuse not truth s traalsgrcsiion, Own that what you said was wrong. Bludering wpas a fair exprpess~ion; l Plundering' is a word too strong, Liberal Ministers may blunder. Some have done so now and then. Thieves ...

... THE CHRITMAS CATTLE SHOW AT 'WAKEFIELD. The annual show of fat stock was held in the Cattle Market, at Wakefield, yesterday. Although the number of pens has been recently increased, every pen was occupied. The weather was fine, and the fair ground presented a very animated- appearance. The number of animals on offer was 1,570, being a larger number than has' been exhibited at former Christmas ...

... Yeas, Tuzoday.-The annual fair opened yesterday morning, anud will continue dluring the remainder of the we~ek. Many ofthe principal buyers, both from London end the midland counties, were here as early as the middle of last week, and through their agents they have become considerable purchasers of the higher classes of animals for all purposes. The numb~er of gentry, and those who follow the ...

... LITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, AND It I - ?? . (Fr'omn to-day's Athenwinm,.j Mr. Henry Sidgwick, of Trinity College, Cambridge, is engaged upon a work to be called The Methods of Ethics. A literary society has been foinned at Lima, one pur- pose of which is to collect a museum of Peruvian anti- quities. People complain that the Nationll Museum is unworthy of the State. The Histoire des Croisades ...

... I I ma L- -1 I ) - I -- . - . . . The continuance of the heavy fog by. MOih th% metro- polis is-visited has been productive of _the most serious conse4ienccs'to the cattle c if it coutisep, possibly lead to a premature closina4 the show. TIxinik the night of Tuczday Professor Brown if*.O, the -itak'l . officer appointedly the Privy Council, aud his shoiG. duty it is to make occasional ...

... dART, LITER~ATUJRE, SCIENCE, AND I (f2romf To-day's AitlweeeunrZ.) she Mr. H~olirsa Hunt's picture lie Slsr~dowf of Death, o, v is to be engraved by Mr. iF. Stackpool. S3 A new edition of Raja Radhaese'0; Bahsadur's Great could Sanskrit Dictionary-long out of print, and very rare- [lar~s -will be published in India. The stay of Dr. You Bullow ur this country will not be lise prolonged beyond ...

... NEW BOOXS .&D NEW EDITIONS. We are ns(debted to Messrs. Isbi~ter and Co. for an early COPY of the first volume of a deeply jnterestinig work- Esn A ?? AD Xs~ora ore TxsosrA ogtlE, D-D- (1). Ricaders will naturally turn with couch anxdety to the autobiography, and their keen regret at its brevsty will only be increase d as they procee~d with its perusal. When so much that is delightful and ...

... The Atheneuarn publishes this week a review of the Continental literature of 1873, arranged under the heads of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Servia and Crotia, Spain, and Sweden. Te he writers of the article on Belgium (Monsicurs de e Lavele e and Paul Freddricq) say:- Belaium. which escapet almost by a miracle the calamities of'the ...

... ILITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, ANm I MusIc. (R0oss to-day'. Athe?2nUeJ.) the second part of Prof. R. C. Childers's Pali'. Ditionary is in the press. ; |she last volume of Mr. Spe(lding's edition of Bacon is |now at press, and its publication may be expected next 1 spring. L The Buildor says that the contractors for the new i Courts of Justiee are to begin the work o0n the 5th of Janual?,. German ...

... THE YORKSHIRJ FeiT STlOCK. SH:OW. Yesterday th e Yoekshire Society for the C:hristma~s -d ex~hibition of fat stock, poultry, and roots held its annoal ti show in the~ork wool shleds, adjeinina? thec Cattle-market. i ?? was little alteration in the schoefulo of prizes from tt lest year; besides money a number of pieces of plate fall- tl1 ing to sheolot of the successful exhfibitors. Of the ...

... LIT E RA T 1T RE. NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. In his Pmacerss or TmrunL (1), Mr. Black has, we think, made a decided advance upon any of his previous works. In this charming story, written with a grace and picturesqueness of style which no other Bnglish novelist can command, we find the beauties which distinguished A Daughter of 1eth and the Strange Adventures of a Pheeton, combined with ...