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... oHRISTMAS SEO WS AND SALRS HAMILTON AUCTION MART. Messrs Shirlaw, Allan & Co. held their annuat Christmas show and sale yesterday. Nearly all the principal local buyers were present, togetber with a lamre number from Glasgow and surround- ing districts. Calving cows were a snpenor dis- play, all the classes being well filled, while the faf cattle forward were well-finished, creditable ani. ...

... GLABGOW SCHOOL OF ART AND HALDANE ACADEMY. Ps Rdtnso JEB ON Tim' M-rhIO M[OVnET. The annual meetisng in connection with the Glasgow School of Art and Haldane Academy for the distribution of prizes was held last night in the p Queen's Rooms. There was a large attendance of students and their friends. The Hon. the Lord Prorost presided, and among the others present were Sir P. Cunliffe Owen, ...

... -ITEBATURN, mA 'Hie mcry of tais Liferaftre. S Most excellent talk, rather than history or i1 criticism, will be the approving verdict of culti- vated readers of these t-re% bulky volnmes. X UIrbanity, the virtue of Latia literature, is also c I that of MIr Silmoox. He is, further, not without a i the defects of the quality, 1catching the tone of 1 good society,and tendingto anarrow ...

... THEI BIRMNGHAM MUIC - i FESTIVAL GOUJTOD'S MORS ET VITA. .. (FRO!X OURP OWh- CRIZESPONDEN-r.) . '9L Birmingham, Wednesday Eveni,, Those who attended the two festival Oncsr; given to-day, and endeavoured intelligently ta follow the music performed, addressed then. selves to a task of no ordinary difficulty x? fewer than three new works were prociaed, inclurdin Guonod's oratorio, Mfor$ el, ...

... I (BY Moxcur. D. CONWAY.) THE THEOSOPHISTS. Adyar (Madras), January, S14. And what or where is Adyar? It is the centre of the new cult called Theosophy-whose believers see in it the fulfilment of past visions and prophecies, while ?? find a repeti- tion of the pious frauds which have attended the history of religious enthusiasm in all time. One hears stories of able men- - European and Hindu ...

... -E C 31US ult7LECITURES. I - , Yesterday ielivered } - yesterday delivered sr cbia C di,, lecture of his i-.e sail ei'flir on the history f rii of anlcient Assyria and 5e:~quitee s~b;> nwas one of peculiar ,, l'a The Sujetrvit the Chaldeaa halO -~ an nquiryideit ;t aearh-, the grave, and 5~ - TEO lectarer said that helohad in- t3'' letre in, the preiit course On la5 , aight ,hich the Assyrian ...

... TVE ROYAL CALEDONIAN HORTIOUL- TTURAL SOCIETY'S SPRING SHOW. The annual spring shewef the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society was opened yesferday in the Waverley M~arket, Edinburgh. As compared with severall former exhibitions there is a faffing off in the number of plants, but the beauty Of somne of Ithe tables is very striking when the late cold wea- ther is taken into accovat. The ...

... . t .i . E In the production of the Creation by the fr Greenocar Choral Union in the Town Hall last| might there was one of the essentials to success toj. begin with in a large aid educated audience. It has often been said, and with some Justice, that Greenockianrs genoratly fail in their duty wheats high-class music demands their patronage. Of i n lAte, perhaps, it may be' accepted as a ...

... :di _ca b.uc Messrs Redder & Stoughton publish this week As to all ti an important volume by Professor J. J. Rein, of numb 5' Bonn (author of Japan), on The Industries and i . of Japan; together with an Account of its Agri- such, Aculture, Forestry, rts, and Commerce: from when re Travels and Researches, undertaken at the cost be do J of the Prussian Government. The book has the r y ?? al ...

... NYOTES ON Fr- BEOfTS . | Messrs Hurst & Blackett publish To Siam aend Malaya in the Dnke of Sutherland's 1 Yacht ' Sans Peur,' by 'Mrs Florence Caddy, i author of, Through the Fields with Linnau, in one ?? George Redway publishes The White Ring; or Charles the First and the Menand Women, Life and Manners, Literature 1 and Art, of England in the First Half of the 17th Century, by WV. H. ...

... LITEIRAT1JL1E. srorl',s ON NEW flora00) . 'mr Waiter Scott las ?? to the Great WVrliter' Series, edited by Professor Eric S. 7 Robertson, a Life of Victor uino, by Frank IL P. hlarziais; to the Caselot Srios, ''The I morals of Seneca, a selection of his Prose, ' edited by 'Walter Cloec; and to tire Canterburv Poets, Song-Tide, Poems and Lyrics of Love s a Joy and Sorrow, by Plhilip tourke ...