... NORTH LONSDALE AGRIECIU- - TURAL SHOW. This annual show ceame off at flverston yesterday, and was the largest and best the society has ever held. The entries were more numerous by about it 100 than in the prebeding year, and about 50 more Is horses competed. These, especially in the hegy fr classes, were a remarkably ine collction ofianimals, at though the leaping fell soriewbat below the ...

... BmIRMIGHAX MUSICAL FESTIVAL.e -The thirty-fourth triennial festival, which 50 closed on Friday night last, merits a passing S.. Ia- notice mn order to show what substantial aid the ed. has been rendered to the cause of charity, and The rs, also what undoubted impetus has been given to that ste musical art. The financial statement, which to t: ala will be found below, shows a grand total of on ...

... ' At the Hanover Gallery, MIessrs. Branch and Leete are exhibiting, prior to selling by auction c on Tuesday, the 19th instant, two small private e collections of paintings formed by the late Mr. t Robert Brockbank and the late Mr. Willianm t IIerrdn, comprising 58 drawings and 82 pictures; t besides 20 pieces of statuary in marble, chiefly P executed by Mr. A. Boos, of Rome. Among'the v water ...

... THE CORPORATION k1JmaU * EmBITIoN. 6. Satuday was the occasio of the great event. ?? of the veer in local irt cicles85 V, aviz , 6VfilPiMl a knownbs the private view of the autumn a-abl, hib~iion; and in speite of thetheavy ad con- ti g tinuou3 downpour of roin in the afternoon, the r e galerizes at three o'clock were crowded with tha :, fashionable people, artists, their friends, ?? repatrons ...

... THE GOBCORPORATION AUTM - XH-T'BIION. Q ROO -. LOIL PAINTINGS. E On enteling the third room, a cursory glance will showi the visitor that the leading feature b of tlie pictures on the walls here is variety. s English and foreign, realistic and 'imaginative a landscape and figure subjects, in frames of a ,yvanoios colnurs, from -lemon -ellow to blue s ..black-, areo bo seen on the walls; and ...

... WIELFAL & BIRKYIEAD 4GR.I- | ULTURAL E0 IBIION0 IN The 40th. annual exhibition of the Wirral end Birkebhsad ?? E day'at.Bidston, close to the docks sttion of the ;i1ui Birkeahead snd Hoylake Rsilway. The showgro.nd Lwo consists of several ?? an&dulring the past eara .or' twa the comnmittee haive ineurred a large: ex-. Art nenditure *'of money 'inD lconstructinge 'permanent Fam Suildines ...

... - AGRTUTURAL- SHOW AT b I ?? BOOTLE . . lhe twventy-sith.nua exiito of the Ovie-Imigeri kik, Sotprai ot.Agrclua society I.il was held yeaterday, atBootle, T,02U Rusell to-day. The touts ofthe society werepitched aspen Bull 0 Mba large piece of ground which,. bas'been purchased Beasel,.j ,rt by the Corporation of. Boot-le for the purpose, of Bull a- asa making a public park for the inhabitants ...

... LITERARY -NOTICES.. tic ?? Hfydropathki nd Sanatorium, be - hginwbur~h. tb Under this title Mr. Edward Burns, of Edin- m' burgh, gives a vivid description of the popular (C ,and extensive establishment which has recently tb been added t6 the attractions of the western be outskirts of the Scottish capital. Accompanied lal as it is by numerous beautiful illustrations Ur c executed by the well ...

... ALTRrNCHA.M AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW. 141 Thei twsenty-first showv of the Altrincha Agri- Tin d colt oral Society was held yesterday. at Devisulale, Mlobb 8Bowdou. The weather was very favourable, and cc a there WL5i a large attendance. The showr ?? in all ?? Ie departmnents thte best the society has held. There N~ant d wa-s-an increase in the number of eshibits, and a HS:iz ts general ...

... sin AIsi )at The annual exhibition of -the 40beshire Agrioul- Chi to' tural Scociety was held yesterday at Nautwich. The Cal C la- society erfibraces a large and -most important ac, 38- agicultural. district, but for some reason or other acr, mal ffte entries were not so numerous as in the pre- C )se ius ysar; indeed the number of exhibits has not titIC ?? been so small since the show was held ...

... VIROX TO-DAY'S ATHNMMUM.) A asequelto the 8toryof TheLittlePilgrim appears in this month's number of Macmillan's lfaga. sne under the title of The Little Pilgrim goes up Higher, it may interest some people to know that the writer is Mrs. Oliphant. The Bishop of Natal, having completed one volume of his analysis of documents conuected with the Zulu war, has made considerable progress vith ...

... BENGHAM }IUSICA ?? I ?? | FE STIVAL . : I: atFrDYNGT Pe Aasovert and: another Birmingham Festival IdIhas passed; ;- not, however, without leaving 'behind it traces of the good service rendered y 1 t the causa of art, for though the ordinar'y S- music one hears in Eiimi'nghram is the ?? g.% of hammers and the whirr of machinery, yet an to occasional exchange for that'1 concord of sweet T sud ...