... Lord Walsinghana's Royal Reading first prize Southdown ram, in the two-year-old class, at the Royal Agricultural Society's Exhibition in 1882, has just been sold for 100 guineas, to Mr. John Hobart Warren, of Hoosick Falls, New York, America. The ram has been used for two seasons in the Merton flock, and has leftt excellent produce. His pedigree is a good one, and it. goes back in a direct ...

... FORESTERS' ANNIVERSARY AT I . EYE.- The ancient town of Eye is in an important degree a Friendly Society town, indeed, it is questionable whether there be another town in the county with a similar population which can boast of so many really financially sound and ably-managed societies as are found in the town of Eye. Without reckoning two or three so-called benefit societies, there are no ...

... SUFFOLK AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONW. A Committee meeting was held, at the Town Hall, Ipswich, on Tuesday, at 3.30 p.m. Present: Messrs. M. Biddell, J. Smith, J. Toller. A. W. Crisp, T. Girling, G. Gooderham, A. J. Smith, H. Wolton, R. H. Wrinch, and H. Biddell. The following awards were made to deserving labourers, - shepherds, and servants:- CLAss I.-To the labourer in husbandry, whose rent ...

... Although the effects of the terrible catastrophe at Sunderlaud have over-reached the horror of the sudden- uses with which they startled the country in all quarters, the utmost sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents and for the serrow int, which Sunderland has been plunged. In Sunderland itself the mourning is not such as leads itself to the demonstrations of ordinary grief; itis too pro- ...

... I COLCHESTER. NARROW ESCAPE OF STANWAY HALL.-On Satur- day morning, Stanway Hall narrowly escaped destruction ty fire. About 5.30, Mr. Thomas Moy, who resides at the Hall, observed smoke issuing from the roof of a brew. house. He found the place to be on fire, and at once gave the alarm, and despatched his son on horseback to Colchester for assistance, and in about 15 minutes from receiving ...

... : In Kent and Sussex agricultural prospects are looking up. The nent and Sussea Courier of May 25th state:- As a sign at length of improving times, Messrs. Dunan and SBoman, land agents, of Tunbridge Wells and London, inform us that farms are letting readily, at fair rents, and the demand for agricultural holdings this season is very great. In addition to this outlock, the apple, pear, and ...

... TIHE IPSWICH :dJOTJRNAIL. There probably was never a, more striking: and flagrant example of the distance between promise and performance than exists with regard to the promises of 1879-80 and the performance of subsequent years. Even the promisers themselves are scandalised and in- vent apologies. We are told very frequently that the promise of peace has turned out to be a Jingo performance ...

... Nature has fixed certain limits to man's eccentricity in the re-moulding of his features and the disguising of his skin. They are wide, in truth, but it maybe ob- served with safety that she will not tolerate a fashien that removes any leading meniber. The hair alone, of all properties strictly personal, lies at our mercy, and seeing how that is dealt with we may not doubt that mankind would ...

... Two concerts of a high order were given at the Rectory on Thursday, in aid of the organ fund. Since the last concerts were given here for the same object the new or- ganu has been built by Mr. Dresser, of Birmingham, and was opened on Whit-Sunday. The total cost of the new instrument is X80, of which, previous to Thursday, there had been collected, includ- ing proceeds of concerts, sale of old ...

... THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT. EAR,-The Agricultural Holdings Act is now engross- ing the attention of most of your agricultural readers, and the merits and demerits of the Bill have been freely discussed by the different Chambers throughout the country. In looking through the contents of the Bill, the tenant has in many of the schedales the whiphand of the land- lord. SuppOsing, for example, ...

... frL - O _A 1_1 _- _ _ L - _ . 11 - The monthly meeting of this Commission was held on Tuesday, in the Committee-room, Town Hall, Yarmouth, Mr. R. Rising presiding. The gentlemen present repre- senting Suffolk were Mr. J. Peto and the Rev. J. F. Reeve. Some discussion took place in reference to the ac- counts, Mr. C. C. Aldred remarking that he was sorry they did not present a very favourable ...

... A. SCIENrIpVic zXcuttsIom~ .(B our UWceatjc Reporter.) I had an invitation, and I went. That is, the invita- tion was to join tie Ipawich Scientific Society to make an excursion jite the Carlford Hundred. The weather recently hasbeen deligWul, the landscape is just now in its full Midauiner glry, and I knew the scenery of- the valley of te Finn, ad of the high lands of Burgh and EHaketin-to be ...