... IMR. GLADSTONE ADVISES FRUIT I I CULTURE, - The annual show of flowers, fruits and vegetables, under the auspices o0 3 the Hawarden Cottage Gardens socievt, took place on Thursday afternoon in the grounds:of the Hawarden castle. The old castle and grounds were also thrown open to visitors, many of whom came from Manchester, Liverpool, and other towns. Rain fell heavily nearly all day, but ...

... . {FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, AUG. 19. - Mr Francis Wilson returned last night to the Broadway Theatre with The Merry ilionareh, a three-act musical burletta founded upon Leterrier and Vanloo's farcical opera produced at the Bouffes-Parisiens in 1877 under the title of ,'Etoile. The version performed last evening was by J. Cheever Goodwin, with a musical setting by Emile Chabrier ...

... I H, LITERATUTRE I TEl G-REAT SACRIFICE OF THE NEW LAW, | . EXPOUNDED BY THE FIGURES OF THE OLD, ] By James Dymock, a Clergyman. London: Burns and Oates. This is she second volume of a new series, en-: titled Old English Ascetic Books, being issued bytheo enterdr s 'ng Catholic. firm of Burns and i Oites, and under the capable editorial supervi- ijdon of Mr. Orby Shipley, M.A. The present ...

... LOUISE. MICHEL IN LONDON. I Louise Michel, addressing a crowded foreign audience in the Athenseum hall, Tottenham-court-road, on Tuesday night, explained why she is visiting this conu- try. She has come, she says, to stay- at any rate for some considerable time. Willing as she is to suffer as a political prisoner, she told her compatriots that she emphatically declined to be detained as a ...

... I M. GLADSTONE AND XOSES. In the September number of Good Words Mr. Gladstone enters on a de. fence of the Pentateuoh. He says:- What is lunderstood to b t at issue is the date sad authorship of the books in the form In which we now have them ?? Spe.kig at large, every imaginable difference has pre- vailed among the critics themselves as to the source, date, and authorship of the books; but, ...

... IO-NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENTS. CRITERION THEATRE. (Lesseeand DManarer, Mr. CHARTESP WYNDHAM.) At Wire, vELC()ME LITTLE STRANGER. Preceded by, at Eight, JILTED. Doors open at;7 ?? SAVOY THEATRE (Proprietor and Manager, R. D'OYLY CARTI,) TO-DAY, at 2.30 and 8.30, the entirely c*tgicial Comic Opera in T1'o Acts, ettitled inE GONDOLIERS, by W. S. GILDERT and ARTiiUR SUVOVVAUt Doers open at 2 and 3 ...

... (FROM OUR O-W\N CORREESPONDENT,) PARIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 28-Operations are to be t resumed next week in two or three houses, and if the weather continues to be as abominable as it has been of t late, both here and on the Normandy coast, we ouy 8 expect to see the new campaign open along the whole i line much sooner than managers intended. It is e now certain that the first important novelty of ...

... CENTRAL MIUSIC HALL PORTSMOUTH On Wednesday, 27th inst., Mr G. rr Sin on behalf of Mr David John Barnaid for a provioed grant and order sanctioning the Provsional r the licence at the Amphitheatre (the Blue Bemoval of Mary's-street, Portsmouth, to premises to hel in s, land at the junction of Willi and Ediohu o Landport. Mr Gco. Feitham opposed 0n behaglf eofdss Fred. Fordham, proprietor and ...

... STHE CBLACK MUSEUM`A |SCOTLAND YARD. l THE STORY OF THE STOCKWELL TRAGEDY, THE REV. JOHN SELABY WATSON, DTURDER O0 RN VIrF', t ANSNE WATSON. TaS R3ev. John Selby Watson, M.A., was born in the 6 year 1815, graduated B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin, in t 1838, being one of the gold medallists in classics, and was ordained in 1839. After holding one or two parochial charges he was appointed Head ...

... SWAINSL'A,- *SE SHOW. SECOND DAY. -- ?? FUJIHIER AWARDS. t en T1HE JUMIPING COMPETITIO.NS. he. The second day of ?? Swansea Horse Show gave little more promise of better -weather titan ths e first. In the early morting the weather wan ' ed slightly brightier, but showers began to ?? as on .ts ?? preceding day directly thi show was opened. 20. This ill-luck in the moatter of weather %1 ,n has ...

... BITS FROM 3BOOKS. A STiiAi~GE VISION. The master of tlC house led the WIvn to another Jore nd ?? roloon. TClis wvas Seated to accolmnodat obc~ut~forty.,or fifty Persons. ~1i sets ereraned in thu's rising oneo ?? the ether as ill a tlit'tl'C. lBut. wher'e the stage ought to have been., there, was oul1yj blank wvall, fitted with a grat ~i'~i ofsmal d svji'r.PJ.'ofundlis lowver'dt he llrllahi ...

... POET BY. .QUMitP WAYS. Wlhlat'a the uso of worryuing, Of hurryhig, And scurryiug, Eyrcrybody ffilrrying, And bicrliing up thidr rest1- WVheu Cvery OL10 is teachitng llS, rreaching ?? beccohing us To settle dovn annd eoln the fuss, For quiet ways iare best. The rain that trickles dowu iai showers A blessing brillns Lo thirsty flowors; Sweet fragranco from cach biiunmieg caiP Thoe gentlo nephyrs ...