... AVONDALE AGRYCULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW. This society's show tool place yesterday in one of the park adjoirnisg the Avondale Manse. The number of entries was euual to former yenre. The club dinner, took p~zace i a the field, and was Presided over by Mr Ternent of Ryelaul. ' the president of the society. Mr Cowan, secretary, carried out all the arrangements with his usual good tact and abilty. ...

... K we; ~ ~ ~ - :cee is S t(FROM OUR OWN_ CORP.ES?ONaDEYT.) is 'London, Sunday Night. Dr 5 At an informalmeeting of theatre and opera rh: man agers held yesterday it was decided to take Be we g no combined action as to closing the London l h l I places of amusement to-morrow, the day of the set :c Emperor Frederick's funeral. With the excep- . if ?? tion of the Criterion, which Mr Charles Wynd- ...

... ta ~L ~OTES ON NEW BOOKS. thle I MessMacmillan & Co. have added to the The series of Tweclve English Sta.tesmne a iinenerachl rain ?? Cromwell, by Mr11 Frederic Hat- sym ?? Bleckie & Son, Glasgow, have published The Clyde, from its Source to the Just Sea, a Copiously illustrated volume, by Mr W. thle if. Mdi11ar, C.E.-Tbe Memoirs oi the Baron trun de Riminiii (Griscoili de Veazzani) is ...

... LITEIRATURE. oi .NOTB17,S O INEW BOOKS. 1f Messrs Crosby, Lockwood & Son have addec da to their Weale's Rauimentary Series a First R Book of Mining and Quarrying, for use in C primary schools, and self-instruction, by J. H. o Collins, F.G.S.-Froom the New York New tl Church Board of Publication we have Emmanuel w Swvadenborg's Treatise oa The Soul, or F Rational Psychclogy, translated ...

... OPENING OF BELGIAN EXHIBITION. Of- i S ?? (nUMTEa'S TELEGRAI&5.) I aBrussels, June 7, 4 rae. T The Belgian' International Exhibition was iformally opened at two o'clock this afternoon L by the King, who was accompanied by the It members of the Royal Family. There were 3 present the Diplomatic Body, the Ministers, r Senators, and Deputies, the principal civil and la military authorities, and ...

... -- ? ? :. ISOTOPE ?? *: ' 1 ' y ' i , n d . The dutbor's 'oigi-nal- idea was 'rrtO write what we, mayfairly describe as the financial , history of thelast hundred years, but simply to !, take up tlhe subject of finance where it' had been i left ?? stafford. Wortheote. As he applied himself to his task, however, he was not lcng in ,f discovering that the -year 1860 ,afforded no .natarallimit, ...

... -i > . f~: COVEfll{ ; aICP ?? - ~ 'M pal paperB7 '.'The Question of Iriperial Safety. me One is by General Haxoley, who lays down bis views upon the minimum force requisite for ¶ safety; another is by Colonel r Hozier, who enters upon an analysis of our actual military strength; and the third is by Lord Charles- Beresford, who submits a method by which A I Workable Admiralty may .bs ...

... w - ?? ,GLASOW ITNTERNIATIONAL ! - :,xHnB~ITIO-N.- The ttendance at the Exhibition on Saturday :ans the mostgrasifygin return which the execu- tive could have had for t]he care with whic tbhytad prepared the programme of ?? -or te day. The numbers exceeded those of yprevious -day by no le-s than fully 7000. ! Tday which has hitherto held the record for .attCnanee was -May 12, the first ...

... wn at any Handel Festival since that o A GRIC VW URE. LARKEALL CATTLE SHOW. This annual show wavs held yesterday in ths G.,. work Park. The weather cleared up, ard the ay proved very favourable. The show was one of tie best held within recent years. Each of the clasft 1 as well represented, and in the Clydesdale CLasr some of the exhibits were of a high order of merit. Larkball Brass Baud ...

... 'i SAGOW INTERNTATIONAL EXHIBITN10N. Althrough the ;weather yesterday was every- *hi that could be desired the attendance was | ,ot what mi:ht have been looked for. The c 1ninber of season ticket-bolders Dasaing through the turnstiles as compared wvith the previous week showed a dlecrease, aoil the number of t cirect payments Was also reduced. The influx I t of country people helped the ...

... iGLASGOW INTERNATIONAL III Et XHIBITION. I - The weather yesterday could not be called either favourable or unfavourable for Exhibition visitors. It was both. A lowering, sultry morning culminated its a heavy downpour of rain, which continued for some hours, and must have deterred many from making an intended I visit to Kelvingrove. The other extreme, how- ever, was experienced in the ...

... THE FINE ARTS.-No. IV. i ?? the concerns of life an early start is)fra ; ?? at least, to a good beginning It is of t so in the case of a great Exhibition) bet i v, :or wishes the time at his disposal am to ) Lost results. If he seeks only wh laid the pleasurable excitement of cor Ile reeiJ vot. hasten to K(eivingrove : he p pre I v' his Acecunt in night and its u- :L l realising sooner or ...