... I c s The Bishop of Derry promises, through Mr. Murray, a 5 life of St. John a Dr. J. II. Gladstone, ?? has presented £100 to the o Research Fund of the Chemical Society. Dr. Smiles is writing, under the title of Duty, a coin- pfanion volume to 1 Self-Help and other popular works a of Isis of the same class. a Prof. John Rhys, of Jesus College, Oxford, has under- 1 t taken to write the ...

... VAL OF TODMORDuE AGRIC ULTTJRAL SOCIETY. l The eleventh annual ehow of this society was hold on b Saturday, in the fields at Sanddholmen Todimorden. The b day was fine, and there was a large attendance. The u entries were about 1,100, which is pretty nearly the same C as os.uprevinus occasions. in cattle and horses there was ir an increase of nearly 50 entries, And the quality of the E stock ...

... A selection from Mr. J. G. Whittier's poems as ljust been rendered into Portuguese by the Emperor of Brazil. Mr. Do Soyro's edition of Pascal's ' Provincial Letters, mentioned some time ago, will be published shortly by Messrs. Dcighton, Bell, and Co. Mr. W. E. GCrilis, author of The Mikado's Empire, is about to publish a work entitled Tho Japanese Fairy World, witll eleven illustrations ...

... YOR~KSHIIRE AR'T EXHTBITIONz ' THE OIL PAiNTINGI-S-IM i Localart isreprcsentedby otasyw orks, but inadequattly t Irom another point of view. Few cxa iples of great I utehieveament are here, and such familiar names as Waller, Grinmshaw, and Lowcock aro absent. The txbittition is, indeedl, singularly dolicient in portrni- tLre. It niust be adiititte that too frcquenatly siclh wvorks have no ...

... OPENING UEREMONY. (Front f/ic Sot/sh Auastefalisas Adrerftisc'.) M1 MaELsoURNa;Es October 1st. - The iirst Interuational Is IExhibition held in the largest capital of the Australian b colonies miany be colnsidered ats marking cl ia l portaist 'l eioch in thun history of those rapidly rising Britisfh coin- 0 ninlities. It is doubtless a great venture fur so youig¢ a tl colony, but whether the ...

... | A PERSONAL NARRATIVE BY -I AARWOOD. The following appears in the Sheffield Daily Telegr'aphA, in connection with the recent execution of John Henry Wood, at York CaStle:- It was a grand execution I Wood never moved even a finger, were the first words uttered when he entered the room, where a number of persons were assembled in a room at Leeds, to meet Mr. William Marwood, Her Majesty's ...

... 'AN INCIDENT IN THE DEATH OF KING by T . JOHN. Ln Thefollowing paper was read by the Rev J. A Spurrell, M.A., rector of Faulkbourn, Essex, before in the Historical Section of the Royal Archeological ,i Institute, on the occasion of their last meeting at ,le Lincoln: It is right that I should make an apology, for a b Southerner coming to speak to the archaeologists of 1 Lincolnshire, about one ...

... LETTER FROM THE AfTTOEYEY-GENELRAL. The Attoriey-Gerno nl (Sir Heury James, ?? in reply to a comnu siniciti i fromil Alr. 1. M-. Evaus, Secre- tory to the Atisalginsted Society of ?? Scrvants, asking his opinion as to the bearing of a contract in ?? ot tho EmilolYrs' Liability Act on the legal claims of the srite and children of a servant kilied from culpable negligence on the part of the ...

... SCHIOOL D.OOKSi. We have onl several1 IcZIis:Oii calleod the attentionl of teachers to the admrnnable series of (3ThAMtNitlr m~1!11m Tixrrs (1), edited by J. ?? White, M1)]. Wli~eli T Norr' Lrirgntari arid Co. ire pablsl dtinz, arid liavo poilltleJ It i the ninnly excellences of the i'liano vill h11hey W: 10 ?? prepared. Tite issue of three ness vol iei- - lhe T1eit Book of Virgil's JlE!ieid ...

... LITERAPJY AND ART GOSSIP. Dr. Landauer, of Strasburg, has in the press a1grammnar 1 of the Chaldee language. S Nine distinguished natives of India have recently sub- f scribed sums amounting in all to 19,COOrs. towards the Oriental Seminary Building Fund. It is announced by Richard Wagner's organ, the ?? her Bldtter, that tee production of ?? Parsifal is now definitely fixed for the year ...

... THE CRY OF THE CLE11K. or.. .. 2..X (Freor PuVncl.) Why do they talk of the Border-laud, the rippling streams and miles of heather, To one who, scribbling-, pen in hand, can scarce keep body and soul together? My border-land's 'twixt life and death, and I long for ?? hum of the Undergrouud To take me away from the roar of the strees. the City's crash, and eternal sound That rings in my ears ...

... . gI', 'I OF TlE GERMANI X anOOLLE1. I''D-USTR. EImPalc, July Ist, 1330. stu aso h 5th of October, 1877, at ameeting the L-e m Central Union of Manu11facturers of int Gjoods hell at Crimunitschast, iribaxoiny,ar 4 t on ua'la for a special Exhibition of cot ?? Jnidustry, bitt the carrying out of the the ?? was first derided upon at a Sa: 1,iiirrg i~ie~aon the 12th of October, spt kn., ehss. ...