... EMSWOR'H 'FLOWVER SHOW.. .* The sixteenth annual exhibition of the Em[Is- jup e.r, worth and Neighbourhood Horticultural anld atlt .eFloral Society wits heild onl Wednesday afternoon C *ds anid evening at Highlands, Emasworthi. The ex-pr m- hibita were cofttairi~l ift two marqsiees. On the hid -it whole the several classes filled as well as in I at pr~~u~ years, but in those for ...

... 'THE MYSTERY OF ri I 11 NUMBER NINE. -! 1 -i ?? CHAPTER XXIX. ii HANK YOU, I CAND 5INANAGL' SY OWN AFFAIBS. t re The letters of Constance ISmith were shadowy WI tscrawls of hair lines, such ais mi~iti be prodalndod by spirit hands for tro annisemnert of fond believers who have taken pen anid papcr and pot Iout thle gap. e, One of these dimu scrawls informed MrIt. Per- it cival that Mrs. ...

... - , l (FROM OUR owN CORRESPO-NDENT.) London, Sunday Night. Forty-two years come next Sunday will have a passed since MIendelssolin's Elijah was first i produced at the Birmingham Musical Festival, I 'and on the 26th, therefore, so far as the original version is concerned, the copyright will cease to I exist. As most people are, however, aware, the original version differed very materially ...

... FRANCIS BA CON. * THE plan of the Philosophical Classics is for the first time departed from in the case of Francis Bacon; and the departure was inevitable. It conduces indeed to truth that the active and the contemplative life of a great thinker should be treated together; nor, as Professor Nichol is well aware, is Bacon an exception to this rule. But the necessities of space left no ...

... SMETHWICE FLORiAL AND HIORTICUL- - TUBAL SOCIEYI Yesterday the third annual exhibition in connection with . the Smethwick Floral cond Horticultulral Society was held i in the Smeehwick Hall grounds, by permission of Mr. G. Dawes, the president of the society. There was a large attendance of visitors, and the show in every respect was a great success. There Twere altogether about sixty ...

... THIS SA'1'A~ t)14' iPlE LAND. T AHE INQUEST INT DR RIDLEY.E The in luest on Dr Ridley was resumned at Fermoy onl Tuesday. Captini Feather~stonhanugh stated that a. l:atek~eeper entervd iDr lrr on the \isitors' books on~s- 'snown, Hs was not cryin.g wvhen he heard AMr O'tBriell had got clothes into the irnol, hut he felt grieved thaty he was betrayed by his oiiCiaR'. He woasn o Vy$ intlucoced ...

... BEAMISH AND PONTOP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW- The ?? show of liva stcek, &.inconntectiouWIt 'Ithel Besmuisl, Fentopi, and Conseet Agricultural Society was4 held on We doerday, in a field situa'e just outside TAu- cheater. The number of entries, though 47 leas than at (Cunsett in 1886, and a similar numbier less Ihars at Lan- chiester in 1881, was yet larger than the number at Chesto:- ?? in ...

... ' THZE MAN WHO MIGHT HAVE A VERTED THE FREN CH RE VQL UTION. * TTURGOT is known to the general reader as a man of heavy qualities, but wise withal, who might have averted the French revolution if he had been given his own way in 1776. As any such licence would have been nothing less than a breach of natural law, it is hardly worth speculating what might or might not have been the sequel of it ...

... TO-NIG HT'S ENTERTAINMENTS, LYCEUM THEATRE. (Sole Lessee, Mr. HENRY IRVING.) EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at 8.is, Mr. RICHARD MANSFIELD is DR, JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. MORNING PERFORMANCE EVERY SATURDAY, at 2a Box-office (Mr. J. Hurst) open daily from to to S. CRITERION THEATRE. (Lessee and Manager, Mr. CHARLES WYNDHAM.) BETSY, EVERY EVENING at 5. Messrs. W. Blakeley, H. Standing, A. Maltby, ...

... 1 f . . - _ I E- A a -d-Countese Brownlow-arrived at g Kingatown yestesday from England., ,B s . ifAeol],M P, arrived at Kiigstown L -ye'serfii froml Englazid. -0 ' r Deputy 7argeon fhneral Dave:arrived at F Knstown itestrday brom England. ?? Carey Ki~tL 3, arrved at Kingstoan yesterday from ' 'n la ' d' Deputy Satgeon-General and MmJtynt ar-' p rved atc'tngstown yesterday from England. r Aozl ...

... FLOWER SHOW AT SOLIULL. A new annunl flower show was opened yesterday at , Solihlil, or, more properly soeanking, a itower chow abandoned mere than twenty years ago was revived under harpyv auspices. The project of the revival origiiated mth the rector, the 'let. Canon Evans, who i the president i of the Dew society, anrd the show took place its tha pretiy 'and finely-situated grounds of ...

... [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,1 , Author of FoOTriUXTS IN THE SiOW, `Tim BROQKe SHAL, &C., &C. CHAPTER XXXIII,-THE ADoNYMOUS L BTTER. Surely soeuething stirred? said Mr. Orine, the sext momuent, inlhis hollow voice, for thatfaintsound behiud the drawi. curtains had asio reiached his ears. It is nothiiig ' inurmsured, maintly, almnost over corue wvith the horror. of cly position. Again lie ...