... SOUTE STOCKTON DOG SHOW, Alti~gb itlemore than two months have rA plapsed since the South Stocliton Dog~ Show Cas Society %ras forme~d, its first eyhibition, held in se tile ?? Manicet of that ?? i*t was oni tnquelifled sucecess. In)doeyd, experts Los( qunalifiedt to j ldge- 11ronoun1ce it tile best all. van! round dog show h leld in the district for a long Avoi period, tile averneg entries ...

... TVSAThEL ROYA,, AIID T)LoRlI0UGH.-j[r A. W. Pinero's comedies, Dandy Dioc and MTlre Magistrate, ara being produced at the Mliddlebroiugh Theatre Royal this weeL. Dandy Dick, which is a suiart racy three act comedy, occipied the boards last night, and is billed for Wedneqdaty and Friday. 'The BMagistr-ate has already established a repirtatiou as a really first-class comedy. STrooIcroT ...

... i ?? DAR~LINGTON NORTH END. Hot Judging by the all-round success of Satur. day's gathering and the rapid strides mnade b.D thse society duriing its three years of existence, G there seems little doubt of a speedy realiaation I2, 1l of the committee's desire to makes the North End Chi Horticultural and Industrial Show on,, of th~e IA~li imost important in the North of England. And 1I no one ...

... IMEDICAL, SCIE.NTIFIC, & MUSICAL J CONVERSA ZIONE. A grand conversazione was held on Tuesday evening at the Medical Battoery Comzpany s Institute, 52, Oxford-street, London, a large and distingbished company of ladies and gentlemen being present. The entertainment was excep- tionally interesting and instructive, the main object being to acquaint the leading members of the medical faculty and ...

... IAt AW gitntun. -0- Messrs liutledge and Sons are about to publish a new aSual], which will contain a complete history of cricicet, lawn tennis, football, bicycling, rowing, and athietic sports for the current year. It will contain portraits of players, who bave specially distinguished themselves, and will ho issued at one shilling, and called loutledge's Sporting Annual.' On the completion ...

... WORTEUMBjR LAND PIPE AND BALLAD MUSIC. Th mb sere o ` aric COLmrnrnelCod in the Courane on Fridayl intermi i'lb, 1873, and has been couinued since wlchout TiEE f3HEN'S MARCi,; Olt, THE CACKL GNG HEN. t~ ?? -- This is one of the few nrick ' tunes with which Pipers aze accustomned to entertain their audiences, and it must be onfessed thst the natural notes of the Cackling Hen can be ...

... CASTLE EDEN. The annual fat stook sale, established over twenty years sloce at Castle Eden (near Hartlepool), and which, for eight year; past, has been successfully conducted by Mr Geoige Hardy, took place on Monday in the presence of a very numerous com- pany. The £5 Ss prize, for the best fat bullock, a wonderfully level good roan, was awarded to Mr B. M5. Stafford, Elwick, wa&s sold to Mr ...

... SIA M. W. RIDLEY, BART., ON LIrS BATURD. On Mlonday, Sir Mi. WT. Ridley, Barb,, AL.P, delivere a interesting address on Literature in the Assembly Rooms1 of the Sun Hotel, Werkworth, before the members and Ifriends of the Warkworthi Library and Reading Rooms. 'Mr Clutterbuck presided, wa eriyrciesid.h Sir MI. W. RIDnEY, who he eriyreevd a confessed he was Somewhat alarmed at the notion tha ...

... A TWELETEiwF-NIGBT ENTERT/ AiNMENT. THE NEWCASTLE DEAF AM) DUM~B INSTITUTION. On Monday evening, a very novel and interesting per.- formance was given by some of the children of the New- 1 castle Deaf and Dumnb Institution to their companions and a select comopany of their friends, inl the large school room} of the building, which was cleverly converted for the coca- - sian into a theatre by ...

... N-ORTHUMBERILAND AGRICTUL'uRAL SOCIETY. BSHOW AT ALNWCEK. The annual exhibition at live stock, Implem ents, &c., in connection with the Northumberland Agricultural Society was held on Wednesday in Hulne Park, Ainwiek, the us of which was kindly granted by the Duke of Korthumbr- Ir dto the society for the pu pose Prizes to the amount ot £l,0(0 were offered, end these attracted a large nn nber ...

... WI, Wrary CF)'Itrado. EGY1TrAN FORCED L.&oun, I remember once seeing a public road not half-an-hour out of Cairo being repaired by forced labour. The labourers were men, women, and children. To each batch of ten labourers there was attached a ganger with a stick, who kept striking the labourers when they loitered in their work. The foreman, whip In hand, went about cutting at the gaegers, and ...

... W, ittrary CE-.4ract.51#. i SIB YWALTER SCOT.Sr In novel writing there are many ?? ?? well which other men have done bettar. but no one m 'ker of fiction has combined so many rare qualities as he. Tarse iare alway plenty of men cleverer than ha, but he bas i_ rival in a sort of majestic ?? of power. In facti' - prose is epic. For that sort of coinpositioa there is nro ?? of precise and ...