... FILLING FLOWER SHOW. | The annual exhibition of the Pilling Floral and Horticul- tural Society, took place on Tuesday, and, like mnany of its predecessors, was a decided success. The weather was brilliantly fine, though the saa was not so intensely hot as during tha few previous days, ann the number of visitors to the show was largor than has ever been known before. This may be auconuted for ...

... POETRY-. ?? - . ~ ~ ?? WONDERS AND 31URMURS. BY s. C. HALL. Strange, that the wind should be left so free To play with a flower, or toar a tree;. To rage or ramnblo wtere'or it will, Aud, as it lists, to be fierce or still- Above and around, to breathe of life, Or to mingle on earth and the sky in strife; Getuly to whisper, with morning light, Yet to growl like a fettered fien , ere night; Or ...

... AIUTOBIOGKRAPHY OF A CHARTIST. all N1:MBRuesa 9. ity, He who the sword of heaven will bear, t Omn Sbhould be ns bolv as zevere; of Pattern in bimself to know of Grace to stand, virtue to go, of ?? or lose to others paying, tha Than by Self offerices weighing. . ,ur. These words Ironm Shakespeare were applied to the too Chartist trials of 1843. of Fergas O'Connor, and 08 others, ery at ...

... THE REVENGE OF A LIFE: > I ?? CA3IBRO0BRITANNIC STORY. i I ?? Lit tile lest is BlY A PUISTONIAtO. a8 at at wn by ~~CHAPTER XXIX. Scot. ?? OIAORIrLAY VISMT MtISS O5BA5VILLE. Csmbcn Vllaalthough1 in~noccnt of all architectural pretensions, was, nevertlirless, a very pretty looking, and ~r sub' Lviael, subitantial country residenco; and contributed, o thle not is little, to the picturesqueness ...

... OrEAT ECCLESTON AGRIOULTURAL | SHOW. - - I' Greet EcelostOn snnunal Agricultural Show was held Onl ably Tedy Famous usi the district Is fo~r the breeding Of done stock and noted throughout the 00ountry for the promi. dang Ilence which agricultural industry generll xhaso attain ed, andm it Till be no surprise to learn that the ehitonhiyerpr ,08,agalin a decided success, and that the show of ...

... THE REVENGE OF A LIFE: CAMIBRO.BRITANNIO STORY. iwa en- BY A PILESTONIAN. ithe CHAPTER XXXVII. on- A DISTURBARWCH.-A CHALLEN5GE. lisf In their transit in the direction of where several of' ate their friends were congregated, to whom Harry was show. the in' a wrinkle at Jack Marshall's request, Catterall call cc)uldn't help observing the attitude and behaviour of the ose intruders who, in ...

... LITERARY SELECTIONS I LONGEVITY or Fxsn5s.~Fi~h~ are among st the most |long-lived animals. A pike was takoh in 1754, at Kaisorslaitern, which had a ring fastenod by the gill. covers, from which it appeared to have been put into a pond of that castle by the orders of Frederick IL, in 1478, a period of 207 years. It is described as being l9Wt. long, and weighed 350lbs. How fHE BusliZN ODTArN ...

... I | I _ - - .Ac __ Ace ESQVIMAIUX VILLAGL-P. rye ecriptino h Requimaux'llittle snow village, is graphic aod interesting., Not a single material is used in the construction of the houts but snow and ice. The inner apartments of etc r were circular, with arched passages leading into them The interior of these presented a very uniform. appearanco:. The women were Seated on tho beds at the side ...

... IAN ELECTRIFvowo Pixii Founsi;.-St. Elmo's Fire lsathe namne Riven by mariners to a weird glow and lightning-like flame sometimes seen hoveriag round the spars and rig. aine of shipsantigse. It isin reality a ?? of lightning in tho form of a silent discharge of electricity froma the Ibftiest points of the ship into thle atmosphere ; and it is produced by a mass of electrified cloud or air over ...

... I __ STRANGE BURIAL9.-ALttIB, the Hun, died A.D. 453. He was buried in a wide plain in a coffin enclosed, in one of golo, Another of silver, and a third of iron. With his bd~~Y~5 nteredanimmense amount of booty, and that tiij'epot might he for ever un1knowin, all those who were probdut at the burial were deprived of life. The Goths noted nearly in a similar manner on the death of Alauic in 41 ...

... LIGliT AND DARKNESS. Darkness, blind darkness every way, With low Illuminings of light; Hints, imitations of the day That never breaks to full, clear light. Hih longing for a larger light lrge us onward o'or life a hill; Low ear of darkncss and of night Presses us back and holds us still, So while to hope we give ore band, The other hand to fear we lend: 'And thus 'twixt high and low we stand, ...

... LITERARY ISELECTIONS. MODTA~5 hve layd a'grat par is th hitory of many couintries by affording a refue forth people1 whe the lewhnds were conqueedan preservliig la, ong the names, inarnner, and cuto ms of the first nhittsof) the country. The Peak of Derbyshire, and the Cumber- land mountains contain more names in the Celtic or old British dialect than the lowland districts round them do. ...