... 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 ...

... %its nitu;z. I Apt title, thi;, for the hturdy fellows Who 1breseb the furious gale and Ipull,'might aid mnaib, Over, ?? seething billows on their enisaica of isaving life Apt story, too, for this seagbin of ?? happy Christmas- tide, when hearts are opena -and .pulse-strliugs are relaxed-when onr test feelings aire at ?? po1ii and ready to aid anudaisit Iduity good work. We venture to think, ...

... 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 ...

... LOUTE. CHRISTMAS 'FAT STOCKI SHOW. I ItC -anlv tvpithn star .oC A At WbS only Last year that the first show of this cha. racterwas held at Louth, and-the success-which then attended it fully warranted a repetition of the tzjiib.- tion. The show-of- Friday last was-au excellent one, and, ?? ann exceedingly p' iseworthy nhumberi of 'anlimals of A,, quaijty .that~ equallecl its- naiiierial ...

... 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 ...

... BARTON %04R S ?? Fir , 7 - X ' (a ; Monday the, in4F i: tpc ' eic- ofesf ally held.' of showV wasi tmklg paeat' ,iggpl Qg Nact rat her interfe reOa, * th ; -stoik ractz i f: the otd Tfi s o, _he~MmmEb Frth e.#. seegrqd ot e a~s ,f. ~essra.1 Rresheey. Oouhbit~somer. as dotes, .were 4gain ,il lhe; aaee;daiL, Td'6 fiie'red bc, and,-whib animlalj threoeyatiU5XJddj&3 sr thi old,: ?? wbich took ...

... The engagement of the celebrated American trage- dienne, Miss Genevieve Ward, has caused quite a has tended to relieve the dulness so often experienced during the time that the Christmas pantomimes are in course of preparation. On Monday even- ing Miss Ward was met by a well-filled house, and the unbounded applause which greeted her, after many of the powerful displays of her, after many of ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...