... I THE i S.)ITHFIELT) CLUB CATTLE SHOW. With the atuiosphere as clear as one can expect I it to be in London at this time of the year, and with every indication of a thaw, those whnom busi- n!css or inclination toook to the Agricultural wall vesterday irorxibg arrived there in better spirits 1 than they woull have done twenty-four or forty- J eight hours previously; and there is every reason to ...

... THE 8M[THFIELD OLUB QATTLE SHOW. The fat cattle exhibition of ths, Smithfield Club Th opened yesterday afternoon in weather which wfas trn really a Sine foretasie of Chiristmias. The snow which Br fell in many parts of the Continent in the later days of Hi last vveekr, and of whichl we had a rathar plentiful fall of in Iplwich on Friday night, did not reach London. ?? little below Stratford, ...

... THE SAMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW, I The grand fat stock show in the Agricultural Hall, which attracted the agricultural public from all quarters of the kingdom, opened on Monday morning, and the judges 4 entered on their duties at nine o'clock. The entries for cattle were beyond the usual number, being about 260 head, 50 more than last year. They were comprised in 32 classes; the sheep occupied 31 ...

... a ArrmnRfoo tel (says the Graphic) are just now, to all the rage, more especially in the co'untry and at the seaside, Theme gatherings are sometnles of a friendly, at others of a ceremonlal character; for the former the ordinary walking dress only to need. in ful, whiler the latter gives ample scope for display of the most dainty. toliettes, At a falahlonable waterlng place last week, there ...

... TiE CHILDRiEN'S PINAFORiE.` A full diess rehearsal was given on Friday afternoonl of YTh Chi/drchs's Pesir,^nie, which, as we have already autoiusced, is a roprescltatiolt of Mlessrs Gilbert ?? Sullivaa's remarkably attractive comic opera f1.L1S.. Pinafiore ctirely perforsued cby children for children. But we shall be very much mistaken if children only are the patrons of this juvcnile opera ...

... AMATEUR THEATiRICALS. A SINGULAB APPLICATIION. At the Heywood Police-coueu, on Wednesdcy mniulug, Mrs Clegg, Proprietress of the Royal Theatre, Hleywood, applied to the Magistrates for advice under the following circumstances - She had a wooden building on the market ground which she used as a Theatre, but she found that nearly every school in the town was having amateur theatrical ...

... I)Oetatg (origilmla ab 5-.etlede. 1 S]&MPER FIDELIS. To the dark hawthorn dell, where the old wishing-well Is hidden by broad-hanging boughs, et us wander to-night, in the mystic moonlight, As 'we did when we plighted our vows. * y its side, where the woodbine anal primroses grow, And the modest forget-me-not clings, We will sit hand-in hand, as we (lid long ago, And listen while ?hilomel ...

... LIT ERA TU RE. Is are 113THEZ-BiBrE DOCTRINE OF MAN. The Seventh the: Seirines of the Cunningham Lectures. By be .t in Johh Laidlaw, M.A., Minister of Free Westu of the Church, Aberdeen. Edinburgh T. & T. tha~ onOf Clark, 38 George Street. 1879. 1doe 41Al To have received the appointment as seventh ma, rus in them Cunningham lecturer is no small honour, consider- Cl1Ii ing that former ...

... L I T E R A T UR It MR. FARJEON'S CHRISTMAS STORY. Every year the reputation of Mr Farjeon as a writer of Christmas stories is increasing, and Messrs Tinsley's Annual is looked for with eagerness by thousands of readers. Instead of the old-fashioned Annual, made up of a series of short tales, essays, and sketches, Mr Farjeon has for several years given his admirers a complete story, and so ...

... Bite rat ure. Barton fer'ris. A T~ileofVillage Lifeand Wnrk. fly BaE- abi JtAMIN ULAIIKa. Loudon: Suuday School Union, 56, OldH Dailey.of Youaq fleads'on Old ,Shoulders. By AscoTT B. florE. ibid.So AMg (,ousin taid I. By ELIZABETH STUARLT PHELPS. Ibid.' Oe/c nestannr. By AN,,'TTr-r LYSTrxt. Ibid.Ol The Vacant Chair; or, Falle-e aniong Thieves. Ibid. Tregurrvo. A Tale of the Corniab Coast. By ...

... | CHRISTMAS IFAT STOCK SHOWS. The twenty-third annual show of the Yorkshire Society for the exhibition of fat stock, poultry, Ly, and roots was opened at York yesterday, and will as reain open to-day and to-morrow. The site was, he as usual, the cattle and wool sheds adjoining the a Cattle Market. The prize list was Very similar in he character to those of late years, and inclrlled a le, ...

... ALL RE11TS BEERVED.f I A ROMANCE OF THE MEXICAN VALLEY. Written: for the Newcastle Coouraen BY CAPT. MAYNE REID. CHAPTER XXL.* A WOMArN'S SCHEME. Mly poor Ruperto is indeed in danger! Now lam sure of it. Ah! even to his life! And I may be the cause of his losing it. So spoke the Countess Alm onte, half in soliloquy, though beside her sat her friend Luisa Valverde. They were in a carriage on ...