... Slp + A-Itellartl RIIA Artl,5fi?. an 1be [SPECIALLY CONTRIBUTED. eic Mr. F. G. Stephens, the well-known art efitio of The It Athenmuen, is about to publish, through Messrs. Remington ale d Co.;, London, an anecdotic and critical essay on the it subject of English Children as painted by Sir Joshua In Reynolds. The essay-which is specially tipropos at the ic, present time, when a collection of ...

... (glit Notts0old. 5, - C IA COLUMN FOn THE LADIES.J a DRESS AND FASHION. d A rrous f.fOJJ1. duunat.Y 1) ' The remarkably unpleasant weather which ushered in E : the new year, combined with the rapid approach of. the 8 ?? season, the period of balls and soirdes, has caused 7 it couturibres to turn all their invention towards the domain if of evening toilettes and to introduce little that is new ...

... DERBY GARIDEN HOLDERS' ASSOCIATION. I. - ?? PE The second annual exhibition of plants, flowers, fruits, W and vegetables in connection with this society was held be on Saturday in Strutt's Park, Duffield-road. The show aI was favoured with splendid weather and attracted a large gr gathering of visitors, some 200 managing to burst the an gates and obtain admission free owing to the inadequate ...

... gra tfit anad fflulipal, rwPECU LLY CONTRIBUTED.1 Miss Alleyn, who was in Derby last week, is this week at St. Georges Hall, Burton-on-Trent, where she is per- forming the same rouind of pieces as sheproduced ?? She goes next week to Northampton. At Nottingham they have The Silver King. Olivette is at the Theatre Royal, Leicester, and L Love and Money at the Opera House. The Theatre ...

... w t A w w A12 The Wirksworth Rose Society, which is presided ovor hi on by M~r. Chandos-Pole-Gell, of Hopton Hall, held its tb con- annusal display on Thursday, on the Laees Grnunds, at tbi eing Wirkswortb, kindly lent for the occasion by M~r. Sealy m o be Fisher, wheu there warn a mose excellent exhibitiou, of nct very ehoice blooms. The entries in the amateur classe8 were Pl and most ...

... THE BIR.12INGHIAM CATTLE AND POUL- TRY SHOW. lust- - rof The 8th annual exhibition, which opens on Saturday und next, at Bingley Hall is, so far as the agricultural part is *o a concerned, by far the largest ever held. The entries of 6ive cattle are more than double those of last yeai; sheep 3 of have never been so numerous, whilst pigs, roots, corn, and [ do potatoes are all well up to the ...

... A SIX DAYS'K-RAMBLE IN DERBYSHIRE I TWENTY-FIVE YEAU AGO. A ?? 6- . ;Y RICHARD KSENE.*' I (Cobtintied.):P Amongst the wonders of this wonderf at region we Is had wandered into, the numerous gigantio ant hills fi stand.foremost in my memory-great living heaps of I insect life, and short sticks and straws-hundreds of them, each three or four feet in diameter, and each t containing myriads of ...

... VARITIE- I (From Punch.) 11 SlIAIESPEARiE ON POTATO CULTURE.- Tuber or WI not Tuber, that is the questioln-af ter an excessive rainl- a.] fall. i A Tno.-Imiagilie the delight ofl Gog and Magog at li hearing that one of the new Sheriffs is to be Alderman ON, Ogg. Ogg, the K~ing of Basin-of-Turtle. be Mrs. Ramsbothain say3s she is Sorry she can't attend the bei Economical Methodist ...

... 0. . I TIHE NUN'S APPEAL. Wfho shall deliver mec* \V hithler to lly ' llow, to escalle flrolmi tbteqe ueaths that I (lie? Whom call I torit to to 1rcs'1I the slavo- An Englishlman's dttirtltl ' I--fiojil this living gravO ? PitRY 111--SVO ?? ltc04tlato onotI, Who is buried alive avs a Carumelite Xun! I Burieid alive! yea, dum(, *lcaf, end blind, Cruslh'd an1d ioontroildlolelt in heart and in ...

... A RELIC OF MONTAIGNE, has, according to the Acadeiny, been recently discovered, and as we probably num- ber amongst our readers many to whom the Essays of the shrewd and witty (albeit slightly cynical) Michel Sieur de Montaigne are bosom friends (talking familiarly, either in the quaint and courtly old French which is their native tongue, or in the equally quaint, colloquial English of our ...

... ?? _ __ Is Tim LIBRARY OF T11E LATE MB, q.,S. GREAVES, Q.C., ir is to come under the hammer of Messrs. Hodgson and Co., I- in London, on Tuesday, August 2nd; and a preliminary ie advcrtisement, which we print in another column, will set r- Derbyshire book-collectors on the gai vive. The working- id tools of so accomplished an antiquary, genealogist, and r- topographer, as Mr. Greaves was, ...

... MAYFIELD POULTRY, PIGEON, RABBiT, AND CAT SHOW. 'I'ie second~ exliilsitioul of this character at Mayfield. near Ashiborne, was iheld onI Tuesday andc Wedlnesday. There O wvere 7:13 entries. The success of the show is entirely wig to th ad n euo aeznent which it has received troin Imr. S'itu] on and Mr. Blond. who in themselves con- IIinitxte the comutuittee. The Squire of Okeover is thle iie- ...