... | 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 ...

... IT-sOultry. ELYTH POULTRY SHOW. The fourth annual show of the Blyth Poultry, Pigeon, Cage Bird, Cat, and Rahbit Association was held in the Central Hall, Waterloo, Blyth, on Saturday, and was a great success. In the poultry classes there were about 300 pens, Mr G. Sowerhy of Gateshead, carrying off the first prize and a special prize of a splendid silver cup with a valuable pair of cochins; ...

... e Messrs Triibner and Co. announce a new wvork on Madagascar by the Iiev. James Sibree. Mr Edward Jenkius, N.P., purposes appearing s on the platform as a reader of his own works. t The French Senate, by 161 to 58, has passed the i Colportage Bill, which aboli hes the censorship. I 0 The price of the Farmn JOurnal has been reduced E i, to one penny. There has been no reduction in I d r Shaw ...

... FROM 7TH UERM w AN. Not in the heat of pain and strife Think God had cast thee off unheard- N or that the man whose prosperous life Thou en iest, is of Himh preferred Time pas--e ...

... Lll,Tt and &W, itzraturr. Captain Burton's History of the Sword is nearly ready, for Captain Burton has inspected almost every great col- lection of swords in Europe. Mir Jenkins, M.P., following the example of Dickens, purposes. it is said, appearing on the platform as a reader of his own works-not that Mr Jenkins can be compared with Dickens. Kossuth is about to publish the memoirs of his ...

... The great fat stock show at Smithfield this week reminds us that a still more important show-that of the Royal Agricultural Society-will be held at Carlisle in July next year. At that time a quarter of a century will have passed since the last meeting of the society was held at Carlisle, and during these twenty-five years greater progress has been made in the science of agriculture than was ...

... Skirts made perfectly plain of corduroy satin or velvet are remarkable for ele-gant implicity. Wiit toes> hlcirts is worn the lambrequin drapery overskirt, a most becoming fashion for slender figures. but for persons inclined to stout- ness the drapery is arranged more like curtains, having the fulness muchlower down. For full figures a great deal of shirring is used on the hips and across the ...

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... | NORTHUMIBERLAND PIPE MUSIC. I I _ . .. ANNUAL COMPETITION. The third annual competition in the playing of Northum- brian music on the smallpipes took place in the Town Hall Newcastle, on Tuesday evening. There was a arge audience, and it may indicate in what quarter most interest is felt in the movement, when we state that by far the greater number of those present were of the male sex, and ...

... FAT CATTLE SHOWVS. SMIITHFIELD. T'hesli ow that opened on Monday is the eighty-second with which the n ~ 3e of the Smithfield Club is associated, and this is the eigh'eenth occasion on which the exhibition has been held at the Agixcultural Hall. There can be no question that the withdrawal of the rile prohibiting the admission of cattle shown at the Birmingham and other recent shows has tend(d ...

... I DECEMBER MA-GAiZ: NX. L T P, '>TUREE RAILWAY: -) ' ?? ?? Bk,> cbwcoo~s3 MaDcriae is on:i ?? gt -l. ' Bush Lie i. Queensland', Part I., openst with fresh bt:.ihtnest of descrip. tion, and promises much interee-inug in'orun ntion for omu:g numbers. In Old Squires andl N9aw, te.- have feeiingiy and hopefully set before us the chanzcet anil changing pose tioni of our St dal country life. Here ...