... MELBOURNE HORSE AN]) FOAL SHOW, In wet weather the eleventh annual show of prize stock wa hehryeatcrulv;ipfields situated at the outskirts of the nvill-g ient by. Mr. Whitfield.- Though rain fell with- out cess4tion tho whole of the afternoon there was a con- siderable attendance. The entries in the 19 classes numbered 118; against 123 last year; but upwards of 30 entries had . to be refused ...

... LEEDS PARISH CHUTRCH HARVEST FESTIVAL. The annual Harvest Thanksgiving Services were held ti yesterday at the Leeds Parish Church. In the evening : the preacher was ?? (the Rev. Canon Jayne, Bishop- designate of Chester). There was a crowded congregation. 'v The offertories were on behalf of the Farmers' Benevolent and Poor Clergy Aid Societies. Canon Jayne took for his i text Philippians ii. ...

... T THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The December issue of the Nineteenth Ccntisry, if less imposing than is its wont in the bill of contents, is varied' enough in matter. Its most important feature bears upon the Education question. Lord Norton traverses the two l conflicting reports from the Royal Commissioners, and puts forward a plea for combining our tentative experiments into a comprehensive and ...

... YORic FLOWPIP sitOW. (FROM OUR OWN RSEPWnTEs.) According to a speech by the Lord Mayor of York | yesterday, the citizens of that ancient place have inherited many important relics; they have not an extensive variety of trades to allure people into their midst; but they feel it incumbent upon them to attract visitors by the addition to present possessions of flower shows, art exhibitions, and ...

... * :It is in iteitture as in Finance-much Paper and) a 1much roverty 3aay coexist. 'I Cultivated Americans are fond of assorting that- v with the singlo exception of William Makopeace a Thaokoray-George Dawson -vas the most brilliant S talker who ever visited their shores. It is nearly a c dozen years, so rapid is the flight of timo, since George I :Dawson leaned over the lecturer's desk ...

... JINETEENTH CENTURY. Mr.. Gladstone has the leading Article in the ANrhtweMh Century. His subject, The Elizabethan Settlement of Reihgion, is another instance of theversatility of our great statesman, and the ease with which he can pass from on, lue of, close reasoning to another. Dealink with the fact that in the great movement of the ?? century the instinct of national unity was more ...

... GLASGOW INTERNA.TIONAL EXHIIBITION. THE MACHINXRY SECTION. (iox. SOUn ComsPonnT.) i Continuing our remarks On the machinery exhibits, it s may be pointed out that one Leeds firm, that of Green- s wood and Batley, appears on the complimentary list in t respect of an engine for electric drive. Mr. William t Johnson, of tie Castleton Foundry, Armley-road, Leeds, c exhibits William Kennedy's ...

... HARVEST F ES IIVALS. HA RoaATE,-The Primitive Methodists held their harvest thanksgiviai services yesterday. In the morning and evening spdoial sermons were preached, and a service of song, entitled H Harvest Home, was given in the afternoon. fhe musical portion was rendered by the choir and friends, and the Rev. G. Day Thompson offl- eiaced as reader., Mr. J. Chippendale presided; and col- ...

... WOL8INUiHAM AXBRIOULTUA SHOW. Yesterday the aunual exthibition of stockt in couneetionae with the Wolsingham ana Wenr Va~lley Agriculturalc Society wras held, and proved successful, the day being iine. Nutwritlistanding that the schedule contaiued some 35 less - classes, there were only some score less entries than leastr year. Short-horned cattle, horses, entd dales ponies wereJ rrell ...

... LITERA1Y AND ART GSI&P. ;: tahoxti volume iotf t tWritsrs ees-wil be Ia Life of Sere, byMr. W. H-: evison. The aurite of t u seumnao psring a. ?? ;Stnst'ezhlhition of lS .,.'ssal,an boos. Mess - wl.* p ?? a'tr bea-1 ing-the joint nanie-of N Dzvisliriste:M yad. Mr, A ibdre Rid, of London aid New ` s , haii thapreas a -novel by a new.:aixth.i1c& Modien etodion0: A trade journal,, entitled ...

... WNERW ART EX=ITITNS'. I. Before the year closes,,it- may.notibe-zltogether use- less to--take , general survey of 'the minor picture exhibitions whiich ave' been opened in.London during -the few last weeks. These Winter Exhibitions naturally divide. themselves into two sections-those3 -organised by- art societies,. and those due to the energy ,and initiative of pioturexdealers. Amongst the ...

... LEEDs F~LK AT THEd FASIR. (zy A WADrmi~ih^) - ed 8 'airIs a tine-houdired Institultion, although ally b eoimm~eial eapecta it ruiay have had ihi I~ygone days have been cblitdsrated, and a weeok's carnival, restrictod to wrastee grounds in convenient parts of the borough, boa been sub-t stituted asiH by common conrent. Some few attraotion8i sre provided ina the old Militia drill-ground off ...