... WIREX HAM HORTICULTURAL SHOW. ?? exhibitirn of flowers, vegetables, dc., held +wla in connect;on with the wrexham Floral, Hortioul- r tural, and Indastrial Society, took place yesterday, the exhibits being displayed in a series of tents. c communicating with each other, in a field off :,,n Grosvenor-rou,. The weather was fine, and, 3 the exhibition being looked upion as one rim of the most ...

... I GOSSIWWITH Ir aHIDEN. BY UNWCLE OLDMAN. a Thoulghsuch an old man, i feelto-iiight almost like a school boy on the eve of breaking rp. To morOw` morning I start on my holiday, and before these lines meet the-eyes of my nephews-and nieces I sball be far away. cc May I go With you, ncle u You cannot enjoY yourself as you ought if I am not near. It was my dear little friend Laugh-avay who ...

... CbenApraey: A Cuban Roman ...

... [1 BY A 1ADY CONTRIBUTOR, Domestic servants in Melbburne are taking-matters into their own hands. They have formed a Servants' Union to deal with all matters specially affecting their class. They have issued a circular to the follow- ing effect: The members of this society wish itto be thoroughly understood that they have not banded 1 together for the purpose of taking any arbitrary steps ...

... | COUNTRY L1pr-f BY RANG R. XXXVX. AmongAtho variou classes into Whichicht names are divided, as those from ' occr, locality, & C., that which includes nicilXN' no means the smallest. Long before nat 3 came universally adopted, we see fr r tbe nA the early Saxo o kings the application of ntic e in the historical bright eye ad h Very many of our local names mv t o been bestowed to mark ...

... ALEXANDRA THEATRE. In the felicitous speech in which he recently took farewell of us, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes spoke of London as the throbbing heart of Eng- land, and of Liverpool as her warm band, Mr. Augustin Daly's company of comedians, who are of the country whose literature the Autocrat adorns, had, in the heartiness of their reception at the AlexandraTheatre lastevening, a ...

... ETHIdS AND THE DRtAMA Professor Blackie has repeatedly defied the conventions, and in no respect has he done so more conspicuously than in respect of the drama. Again and again he has championed a play in language of no measured eulogy, and nearly always at the cost of the pulpit and its sermons. It would be ungracious to say that this ardour has been at any time prompted by a desire for the ...

... LIVERPOOL IINTERNITLONAL EXHIBITION. No fewer than 35,f69 persons passed troughb gateways oE the Liverpool Isternational Ehibi tion on Satutday, the number of admions for the week being 147,651, and for the period from txae inauguration of the undertaking on the 11th May last, ,960,954. one or two heavy showers of rain fell in the afternoon and evening. but throughout the greater part of the ...

... TH LAWYER, EDITED BY A BARRISTER AT LAW. XXXIX. EXECUTORS. Under the Bankruntoy Act, 1883, a-y creditor of a deceased debtor whose debt would have been suffi- cient to support a bankruptcy petition against such debtor, had he been alive, may present to the Court of Bankruptcy a petition in the prescribed form praying for an order for the administration of the estate of the decessed debtor, ...

... ,II BY A LADY CONTRIBUTOB1 Fashions in hair are more variable and extravagant, e: if possible, than fashions in olothing. It is humiliating I to think how ?? of the modes previling at differenb tl periods have been designed with a view to beauty, or y .at any rate with any jnst ideas of beauty. A glance b through n series of historical pictures soon brings this A fuothome tan obsserver; indeed ...

... I THE MANCHESTER AUTUM EXHIBITION OF PICTURES. T-day the private view of the fourth Autnt Exhibition, held at the Royal Inati- tation, under the auspieas of the Mancheter Corporation. It comprises 1096 pietures, drawmig and a few examples of sculpture, -which ave been judiciously arranged under the dirction ofMr. Phil Morre, ARA% Last year the chief feature at Manehester was the exibition of ...

... HEE MACHESTER & LIVPOOL AGRICULTURAL SHOW. FIRST7flAY'S PRWCEEDINGS AT ?? CHESTER. Yesterday, so far as the general public were concerned, was the openingdawy of the annualshow- of the Royal Manchester Liverpool, and North Lancashire Agricultural dociety at Chester. The ground chosen for this year's show, as already stated in these columns, Is the lfar-famed Roodees the site of the Chester ...