... ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY'S HOSE SHOW. The twenty-first annual hone and sheep show - of the Royal Dublin, Society opened yesterday .moraiag at Ballsbridge. The weather unfortui. nately did not turn out so favourably as could bave been wished, but this did not prevent a large n.uaber of visitors from putting i5 an appearance. The Lord-Lieutenant was au early visitor. He entered some of the rings ...

... K KILLEARN CATTLE SHOW, The annual show of the Killearn Agricultural Association took place yesterday at Killearo, The show is the largest in the district, which comprifes the parishes of Killsarn, Strathblane, Drymen, Balfron, and Fintry. This year the entries showed a considerable falling off as compared with last year, the numbers an the list being:-Horses,,so; cattle, S1 ; sheep, 73; ...

... HUTORESONTOWN GARDENS. The autnmu flower show and rormenade in Con- Inaction with the Hutchesointoova ?? was; held in the gardens on Saturday. The exhibits for com- petition were accommodated in a large tent, and nado a very fair show, though there was a coflst derable falling off in the number of entries comn- pared with former years. This was due to the back- ward nature of the season, and ...

... NOTES ON NEW BOOKS, Unnoticed Analogies: A, Talk on the Irish Question, by Mr Robert Oliver, is- a volume I published by Messrs Kegan Paul, Trench &j e Co.-Messrs Looghians, Green & Co. have pub- t lished in a single volume Mr Rider HEggard's I story, ClMaiwas Revenge: or the War of the Little Hand, an episode in the life of Allan a Quartermain, which has already appeared in f Harper's ...

... THE CHEMICAL EXHIBITS.-No. IV. . BY PROFESSOR DMTlAh. I u ' for DNll dig- ,To find our way to a fresh subject without too up glaring a breach of contiauity, let us go back to 11 as alum, and supploeneat what we said about itby to, explainig one or two of its ?? il the an colour-industries. These are all based upon the he fact that the alumina contained in alum is co WI easily separated out as ...

... TEHE FINE-ATRTS--No. VIIL - x Lo Ia earlier notices of the Exhibition of Pictures Rou at Kelvingrove we alluded to various respects stro in which it compares favourably with the exai Jubilee Show at Manchester last year. The of vrater-colour drawings, to which we shall come and in due course, are exceptionally fine, but what con we nave at present to do with is the collection mat oi foreign ...

... 1I- GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL4 EXHIBITION. - The Atendance at the Exhibit'ion yesterday inay be regarded as satisfactory when the infavourable state of the weather is taken into ,account, DUring the greater Part of the day rain fell heavily and interfered conuideralily with the outdoor entertainmeats I, the even. Sng the sky cleared, and although the grounds were ln a ?? sloppy condition they were ...

... INSIDE THE EXDIBITION. Yj -- d; For sorne days past the Exhibition building, it have been in the hands of workmen. Externally they have been touched up and renewed, and in' le I ternally they have been brightened and freshened, *s Naturally the Executive have made every effort te lo' show their appreciation of the honour conferred oi .d the undertaking by the Sovereign, and they have e been ...

... LIT1IRATURE. or O . - BO.KS. nii-,r I NT. G..Y, MEW BOOKS. The moat important publication oi the week is a work in two voluales, by Williama Henry liurilert, entitled, Ireland under Coercion the Diary of an l Am rerican l, w vnich we have received from Mr David Douglas, Edinburgh. 'he period covered by the writer extends from the 2Oth January, 158L, to the close of June ?? Eduvward J. ...

... A OTES ON NEW BOOK15r. I, - n Messrs Macmillan & Co. have published ia Poetms by the author of John Halifax, Gen- 1s tleman, a volume containing pieces originally .n published in. 1880 and 1881, with some addi. :o ?? the 5Oxford Uaiversity Press we ts have received Elementary Political Economy, 'd by Mr Edward Carnan, M.LA.-The Business Man's Vado Mecum is the title of. a d useful ...

... THE CORR S'AND AND TIUM IRISTU L:IBTON. j Lord -Arthur Iliil fortvarded yeeterday afternoo r a etatetnrt as to his postion relative t. the Ci dr Barrack Stroet Baud affir at the 1ish lxir niuuion t a Lclrd Bridpsrt, equecy-in-waitill; upo tire Qnzan, for presenzhtiun to Her Maj;tty. Le Las &ai0o - tcr*ardod a staterneut to tire Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, in which he savs:- - F When I ...

... P }OhY-GLAsooW.-The twenty-second annual exhibition andl competition under the auspices of the Por Glazgo' Horticultural Society took place yesterday in the Town lIJ. There were 130 exhibits fewer than last year, but this is fully accounted for by the unfavouuable nature of tbe weather both for the growth of greenhouse and herbaceous planzi3 Theexhibitsin potplants were tastefully laid out on ...