... 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 ...

... GEMS OF THOUGHT. The worst education wvich teaches self-denisl is better than the best which teachea everything else, and not that. Virtuo like the loadetone can only communicate its propertiee to susceptible natures. The felicity of the body consists in health, and that of the mind in knowledge. The object of life is to improve life: if we do but our duty to ourselves we shall soon learn to ...

... ?? I GEMTS OF THOUG HT. principles, lim troops of the line, are undisturbed and stand fsst.-Ric1*ftr. Anxiety disfigures the face of prospority and renders it like a crystal glass blown up by impure breatb.-W. Be'cker. Too many, through ivant of prudence, are golden ap. preuticeR. silvor jounrfeymean, and copper masters.- FUNzrUALITY.-I Owe everything in the world to being alwuys a quarter of ...

... VARI ETIES. 010,1tEM OF THOUGiHT. Time is tho only touchstone wvjicll distinguishes the true man from tho impxsdtel-. Upon the aCA of hifo Sutrtnder not your bont to thl wavee but row yourself, and dc uot row unekillully. Human nature is so constituted by the Creator that morality is as necessary to the prosperity of mankind as oxygen to combustion, caloric to vegetatios, nnd respira- tion to ...

... FULWOOD FLORtAL& HORTICULTURAL a SHOW. The fourh spring show under the auspices of the Fal. 3 , wood Floral and Hort icultuiral Society was opened at the Cr Skating Rink, Preston, on Wednewlay, at two p.m., by tic Edmund Birley. Esq. (the G~uild Mavor), in the presence pa of a considerable number of the elite of thu town. In Si: declaring the shlow Open, hisl Worship said they had come J 1 ...

... I -- - ~ _ _- I PROGRAMME. The followinig is the official programme of the countrymeetingof the Royal Agricultural Society of Eugland, tobe held at Moor Prlk, (entrances off Grstang- road and Moor Perk Avenue), Preston, from July 15th to July 20th, 1885 (Sundays excepted). ADMISSION OF THE PU1B1LIC BY PAYA ENT :-Tuesday, P July 14tb, (Implement Yard only), 26. 6d.; Wednesday, t July 15th, ...

... VOETRY. COMP'ENSATION. CrtaStd alnd dwarfed the tree oust stay, Nor lift its groon head to the day, till useless .erowth, are lopped awa y. AdLi thla- doth human nature do Till it litth careful prunlilng, too, It callaot glow up straight and true. For, but for ?? severe, Xo soul could ever tell how near ;il comC3. to ?? eud lovoth hore. witliont life'o ills, Wee Could not feel Tile lgleased ...

... I ner } Last year's annual exhibition was considered the era best that had been held at the Crystal Palace to that time, but there is a distinct advance, both as art re'ards numbers and quality, in the collection of at cats on view at Sydenbam on Tuesday and Wednes- me day. There are.484 oats, or 130 more thanin 1884, - which are divided into short-haired and long- haired groups, each ...

... THE HARRIS FREE LIBRARY AND MUBEUM.-(CoNTPDBD.) I The fair and graioues alone-pictures ieproduoed here tat represent a soleman religiosm procession of ancient times, rem Its object was to present to the patron goddess of the I city nf Athens, on he r birthday, a robe woven In honourn. oai It wasn renewed every year, but with especial solemnity toI on sech fifth anniversary. It wasn an ...