... PUBLIC AMUSMIENTS. ALEXANDRA XTEATRE. The Naval Cadets, the opera comique about which there was so much debate in the metropolis, . was presented to a Liverpool audience for the first time at the A ...

... CATTLE SRO W& NE'W MVONlILAND. Yesterday the aunoal abow of frrm strok and dai27 prc- duce, under the auspices of the Neew Monkland Agricultural Society, was held ou the Racecourse at Airdrie, under the most favourable circlustalcsan TtiL parish show is of con. siderable importance, several o1 the Class being opeu, and, besides ,uips and medals awarded bYvais, aa Putcons. ouchi s t Sir Edward ...

... -IE--I - - LITERARY AND Ar>T GOSSIP. .5 The Roval (gold) Medil of the Institute of British '3 L- Architects has been awarded to Mr. J. L. Pearson. mc Mr. Ohurton Collins is, we (A thenarisin) believe, engaged in preparing an edition of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's tra n poems. M-2. Henri Cohen, compnoser and theorist, author of rec 0 treatises on harmony and fugus, has lately (lied at Bry- th( a ...

... i V,,oqfrL). DULCIB'S BLTTIlDAY. 1wae twelve long years since, on a dark wilh night, A God gavo a littlo solul into the Care OS somo hair angel, beautiful and bright, And leite hin gently rake it through the air, 0 Where waited, with deop love anid anxious eyes, o A mother for her love-gift from the skic. h Frail wast the tiny form, and tired and weak it From that long journey iii the angel's ...

... JUNE MAGAZINES. THIRD NOTICE. Aunt Judy's Alagazein (London: Geo. Bell and Sone' York-otreet, Covent Garden) is well mode up of tales sketches, competition questions, correspondence, &c., including e record of the benevolent efforts of its readers on behalf of the inmates of the Great Ormoand-street Hospital for sick children. The author of ''Mother Molly keeps up the interest in her ?? ...

... ne. I am going to take a level look round me and put my a notes and recollections in a book. There are many be- ich sides our distinguished American visitor who follow the luit same plan. Statesmen, painters, actors travellers, all rush ian into print, often as the relaxation of a busy life. But the n' restless, inquisitive curiosity which distinguishes the pre- sent day is most eagerly ...

... cl Le Voyage en Suisse, the Parisean absurdity, which has had so great a run in London, was produced here on Monday night, to a crowded and applauding house-a strs indication of a cont ...

... THE BRAIN AS AN ORGAN OF HIND.* AMONG the scientific problems of the hour those of nervous physiology have a special interest for the general reader. This seems to be clearly illustrated in the fact that men of science not engaged in this branch of inquiry are now and again tempted for the sake of popular effect to enlarge on the subjects belonging to it. To discourse learnedly on the ...

... MARIEOLtOUGH AGRICULTURAL SHOW.| _- . . .. , ?? . . - .. . . . I Yesterday, the Marlborough and Pewsey Vale Agri. cultural Association held its annual show and dinner at Marlborough, Wills, on the extended basis upon which it Was remodelled some two years ago. For upwards o. ia quarter of a century the society, under the title of the c 1Marlborough District Association, carried on its work in ...

... LIT ER AT U RE. I hmi NEW BOOKS AND NE W EDITIONS.1~,' MARY ANERLEY: A YORKSHIRE TAL-E, i nfll What Yorkshireman that has road Mr. Blaokmore's to ''Loria Boonl will not ho pleased to learn thathis own i lgi broad ?? of thle novelist'slateststory? (1). j . True, the date is further, back tisen the oldest of us can 41. ,remember; the neighbourhood of the Tees and even that th' of the Dances' ...

... The following are tlie receipts into and payments out of the Exchequer between the Ist April, 1880, and the 12th June, 1380: Revenue and other Receipts. Total Receipts into the Budget Exchequer from - Estimate April 1,1880, April 1,1379; lor I&so-bl. to June 12, to June 14, 1680. balances on st April: £ £ Bank of England Z. 2,532,454 5,964,818 Bank of Ireland 740,974 950,938 Revenue. _3. 2 ...

... CLELTEIMAM AND WEST OF EqGL&ND. . HORSE S6hW AND CHELTENHAM HffmORTIOULTUR&L' SOw.I 'The first annual show of the Cheltenbau and West of Erglasd Eorse Show Society was held yesterday at Cheltehana, in a field adjoining Pittsille.gardens, where the show of the Gloucestershire Agricultural Society was held last year. The sky was somewhat gloomy through- out the day, but the rain held off, and in ...