... I FORSE SHOW AT OR)PSKIt8K I The anenal show of entire horses in connection with the Wigan, Ormskir~k, and St. Helen'a Agrical- tural Society was held yesterday at Ormakirk. T The show was first held in 1878. It was then a very insignificant affair, £5 being the highest prize 9 offered. The secondshbow, which took place last 3f year, was a copeiderable improvement upon the rr first. The ...

... ART, SCIENCE, AND LITE RATURER Mr. Tennyron Mssa/id-to be engaged upon a new his- torical drama which will complete the triloy of dramas upon great characters and events in English history which the Poet Laureate original conttainpated and of which two, Queen Mary ?? Harold, already appeared. Messrs. Macmillan and Co. will shortly publish a new volume by Mr. Alfred Rusell Wallace, entitled ...

... BRISTOL SPRING LEATUER PFAIR, (From Hlune01i and Cq.a i Circulau'.) There has been a large attendanec of the trade at 6ur fair, when. a: full average supply of fresh leather was brought forward, of which the larger portion was dressing hides of different olassei. The very depressed state of the general trade of the country is making itself felt- severely amougst the wholesale boot and shoe ...

... ?? 'JTLAJ M~rCha~rles Coaivt'rt hm- c cm' t Cfs-s.w give us anotner SzciZ LI'S L-Lw-23s tthe art of thueatr:aml ?? N:va. : -3 apnpeared at the The-tre- anval _e ho:-d Blvr 0 ?? -. bralss in Jicliry ?? a, wi.r a : mnaric; nora.a' ?? iih P ?? douits t- :? i -e -e -: a sor eu to- ?? aih: -o> :vq ;zri -x - taclct. bet i \ *ll a, - al e se' ?? ai ay 1~: ~i_ rs>e-*rzse- j it an l\ d .-id ?? a t ...

... Thle Tinkling Bells Polka. By May Montague. Joseph Williams.-Tbis is a bright and tuneful polka which, we are informed, has been successfully played at the Aquariulm. The Telephone Walte is by the same composer, and comes to us from the same publishers. It is graceful and pleasing and has more originality than many ordinary waltzes. Lauighiny Eyes. Polka. Composed by C. E. Howells. Doff and ...

... *On Saturday last the concert at the Crystal Palace was dsvdtd to Professor Maefarren, whose dramatic cantata entitled TCrle Lady of the Laike, founded upon Sir Walter Scott's ceiiiu.r-ted poem by Madame Natalia, Macfarren, was pecformrd with grat y e'uess. The work was originally written for the Glasgow Festival. Proces,42! MALfarren's cantata is an important and ambitious work, and is il-_ ...

... * CHARLES BIANCONL did for Ireland with cars and coaches what Hudson did for England by means of railways. Born in 1786, in the neighbour- hood of Lake Como, Bianconi was in early childhood sent to Ireland, where from the age of seventeen he was left dependent on his own resources. For some few years he carried on the business of a carver and gilder; but the important part of his life-that ...

... PONTIUS PILATE. ` THE argument put forth in sonorous language by Dr. Johnson that religious subjects are unfitted for poetry, because infinitude cannot be amplified and perfection cannot be improved, is not one that will bear examination Indeed, it is a sufficient answer to reply that some of the grandest poems the world possesses-the Divine Comedy of Dante and the epics of Milton, for ...

... .. v, I NtI DDyc4,SI.DE FA :ER s it- san AN AIHOW OF SEEDS. AND lOOTS7. 'sell 'ON A Jug ;Thei annual slhow of ideds conl roots was eldc at, nail A'horlour yesterday. There wice a large ncuccber of ant entrieh an' the ~exhiibition wee viqual to thaltao anly I ICformer year ha the Iquality of the seeds linc roots 0 it abowvci The whuol al'rAngeniecatS Were Currieud out by thle a commfiitteel of ...

... Ji- ' A AND' The qoa6eenk Bfid cefs .h6rico drve out this af teinoon, attended by th Duchess of AthOle. - 'their R4IVal U tes ihe laeend Prluees Christisu qf OONhes'1g ?? dln0. UUI hor MaJssty.) The Hod. a d 4eV, ; the paat of WIInidur and Mr.' Theodore Martin,..; who 4a ezlved at the Caetle- in the afteriioon, h ~d the honouI of ieb included in the Royaldinuer The Queen, it: ?esi Beatrice, ...

... As yet there has been no official announcement of the intention of her Majesty the Queen to pay a private visit to the Prince of Wales's Theatre in order to see the play that has so sincerely interested H.R.H. the Princess Beatrice and the general Court circle. It is not improbable that the public will be gratified by a still more gracious exercise of her Majesty's pleasure than the resumption ...

... THE LONDON THEAXTfREB, The variations of prograinnie taking place during the past week have not been associated with the prodtlOtion of any important novelties. On Wednesday evening Miss Neilson replaced her excesllst performance of Julia in The Hurthlback by an equally effective rendering of Pauline in The Lady of Lyons. On the same night Richard Wagner's early opera of The Fl'ying Dustchmsan ...