... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... LI-ERBATURE- NO2NESOY OyNEW BOOKS. Mlessrs Swan Sounenschein & Co. have pub- lished The Nature of Harmony and Metre, ?? by Morit Ilanptmann, translated and edited by WE. M eiatbcHte, M.A.-Mr William Peteraon has is-sued three pretty little uniform volumes Jof Weird Tales, Euglish, Scotch, and Irish. I-All the way from Qn'Appelle, ?? we have a copy of ?? Alphabetical aud Business ...

... AGLASGOW INTERNATIONAL I EXHIBITION. - i I hoer, sI The weather yesterday, although shorery, as it has been all the week, had no deteriorating effect upon the attendance. The total for the; I day was 28,708, a result that must be regarded i as extremely satisfactory in, view of the fact a that there Ywas no very special attraction. In addition to the ordinary programme, however, r there was a ...

... GLASGOW 1T'ERNATIONAL EXSHIBITION. ?? No ?? trains arrivei in Glasgow yester. day bringing visiwors to the Exhibition, but it was evidet that there were many strangers presext from various parts of England and Scotland. In the morning the sky had rather an unsettled appearance, but as the day ad- vanced the weather improved %ud the ?? was clear and fine. The drawings amounted to £618 l2s 6d, ...

... - An induttrial exhibitiou ef the various kinds of 1 'work done by the inhabitants of the district sur- rounding Abington was opened yesterday by M\r Heazier, M.P., in the presence of a large audience. .The exhibition was held in the schoolhouse, and ' there were present Lady Mary Healer, Lady Cole- . brooke, Lord and Lady Lamington, Hoen. Violet Cehrane-Baillie, Hon. A. Y. bingham, of Stone. ...

... PLANT EXHIBITS AT THE EXHIBITION, BY JAN6S AfDEZZSON, UDDLNGSTON. The plant exhibits within the Exhibition Buildings gie pleasing relief to the numerous articles of manufacture on view. Foremost among these are the grand Brazilian araucarias, two of which adorn the orchestral platform and two vis-a-vrs at the opposite eud of the hail. The two BidwiLlian ones (Araucaria Bidlwiij?;') are about ...

... |THE BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL 'I FESTIVAL. . (sIaOe OUR SPECcAL CORRESPONDLNT. Birmingham, Tuesday Night. The evils of scanty support which threaten the prospects of the 36th Triennial Birmingham Festival were cartainly not observable at the I opening performance this mcraing. Despite a heavy dounpour of rain, the music-lovers crowded i the Town Hall in honour of the oratorio with K vwhich the name ...