... THE LOAN EXH rfl AT SOUtGH KENSINCITON MUbR UM. At the South Kensington Loan E3;hibItion yesterday a number-of p)apers were read. Among those on the pro- gramoso were the following :-On The ordg?ss and pro. gress of the Geological Sisrvsy of the British Inlee, tud. the method on which it is conducted, by Professor Rain- say, LL.D., I1'.1RS., o The Suh-11esildet BorTiing, by Mr. D. Topisy, ...

... LIT EI R A T UE B. W, BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. Tim LrPEu oF Jo7. Locr (1), by Mir. Fox lourne, which Messrs. U. S. King and Co.bIavejustpublished, aup- hlies its own justification if justification be ntederl, for ise publication of two bulky octavo volmunes ou such a ,ubject, nearly two centuries after Locke brought with him froni Holland thle manuscript of the Essay Concern- big Human ...

... The E cho, which in future will be again anu advocate of Liberalism, has begn purchased by Mr. PassmoOe Edwards. The Premier has granted an annuity of £5O a year to the widow of Michael Banim, an Irish author of great celebrity. Major W. NV. Knollys will contribute to the forth- coming number oh the .Nsews Qiafrly Magazaine a paper upon Our Disasters in Afghanistan. Among the recent deaths ...

... higra xibitin whc is to be formally olieni, by the K~in.g o he Be'14lgiansion IMonday nxpoic be cne of the meet unique and instructive that have el-el taken place in modein times. invnion.-oprss ties most improved means Ind inetosfor protection aaainist flre, both on tacdit n water, incluscisog machinery andl wotking models ter~ extin~guisbinc: fires. Chass II.-Machinery and inetruments of ...

... 4LI TER AT T RE. tEW BOOKS AN]) NEW EDITIONS. Mr. Guy, one ol tie specials who accompanied thf r Prince of Wales to India, iJ early in the field with a 5 handsome volume entitled FaRO PALL MALL TO TIHE PuvcTA.un (1). With the political aspects of the Prince's journey Mr. Gay troubles himself but little. His object has been to describe the mnore important places visited by the Prince and ...

... TIIORNE AGRICULTURAL SHOW. The twventy-fourth annual show of the Thorne Agricul. tural Association was held yesterday, in the picturesque grounds of Mir. Makin Durham, of Thorue Hail. The weather was exceptionally flne, and this is a more thaei usually important fact, when it is remembered that throughcut its history of twenty years this show has very rarely beer similarly favoured. ?? ...

... WOOLLENS IN THE. BEXHIBITION I AT -PlILAD- ELPIIA.. (FG>ox A ColaEsroNn Jn DFNT .) : PM&rDELPHIls, June 2. The Canadian manufactures are all under, glass-a mistakin arrangement under any circumstances, but especially so in tbis instance. -a For reasons not quite clear to the uninitiated, a series of cabinet oases intended for the Ottawa Museum have been sent to Philadelphia on preliminary duty ...

... Ufr. Elliot Stock is about to issue in his fac-simile series, a reproduction of the first edition of Milton's Paradise C Lost. ( The first Silesian Ilullical Festival, after the pattern of n the Rhenish ?? Festivals, is to take place at Hirsch- I berg in Silesia from July 16 to 18. It is stated that the 3ie Arts Commission in France r have voted a sum of SO,0OOfr. ts be employed in the pur- ...

... The seventh annual show of the Thirsk Agricultural Society was held yesterday, on ground situatedl a short jistrance out of the town. Better weather for the pur. poses of the show could not have been desired by its most ,esloill friends. Thes sky during the day was cloudless, ,;d -lthoush the rays' of the sun were exceedingly powerful, yet a delicious breeze from the Hambletou Hills, vsinih ...

... 1X: 'ri-X RAT T IvB. M W BOORS AND~ NEW EDITIONS. It'-ia rone slnce the whlole questiomwof -mle alleged Priesthood, of the glergy received so -pearching and Bo vigeorous a handlinT, id this country', as~ it has in Dr. Mdellor's LareOuSE (1). Ho has brought to thco task which lie assigned himself great ability, a very exteosivo acquaintance with the literature of his subject, both Rtomainsst ...

... NAPIONAL EXHIBITION OF DOGS. The Great National Exhibition of Sportine and other Dogs W..s neld at Fakenhan, Nortolk. yesterday. Dni was patrouise t by his Royal Higuess tne Prince ol Wales asd by the leading nobility and gentry of tho county. It was under the presidenevof Mr. Anthony Hammonl, Master of the West ?? Foxhouinds. The large compnuY on the ehow-groiud mcludedl poisons from mativy ...

... IT The reries of summer promenades at the above garden was inaugurated on Wednesday afternoon, when the patronage displayed was hardly such as might have been expected after the energetic catering of the committee. In addition to the horticultural beauties of the garden, a high-class military band-that of the Royal Dragoons-was en-ggec, and under the &aton of Mr. F. Heidlerfinn, a programme of ...