... AMATEBUR G ONOERT -AT SAXMNDHAM. - JAn amateur concert of *a high character was success- fully given in the Mtarket-hall, Saxmundham, orThlrs- day evening. -The concert was promoted by the teachers of the district, who are to be heartily congaratulated upon Ithe manner in which the various items of their admirable programme were gone througb.. The soloists ?? H on. MrS. North, Mrs. Wilmer, ...

... Flower Show and Sale ,of Work at Winston.. Adjoining to the Winston rectory grounds-in fact formning part of them-is a large and park like ineidow, where' one a year at lenst, a ?? number of the inhabitants of the parish and the district assernble under the auspices of what hals come to bhe known as the Winston Flower Show. Some of the word aetive spiriti in the locality have advocated an ...

... rTHE NWw D~OOmSDA BnOOK. 'We have already given selections and analyses of the returns of the owners of land, in the Journal. On look-jog into the volumes more closely, we are coo- vinced that the interest attached to soch matter is too general to be restricted to merely the lareer owners, and we have resolved to puillish from one -to two columns of the Suffolk returns in our Tuesday's paper ...

... LITERIARY NOTICES. - W IIOLtOAY NtMtaRae OF' LONDON Soclrar. Lon- don: Low/, Marstora, Searle, and givington.-Onrt pur- voyors of ljglmt litcrature, or thlat which is amusitag in contrad jstinc~ iota to that wvhich sets up to instruct us, begin now to provide for the holiday sleason in SumDmer as well as for that of the Winter. Men and womenx wbor are ablout to start for their Summer tours, ...

... WOODBRIDUE HORSE SHOW. The agricultural show, season, for this part of the county at all events, commenced yesterday (Friday) as usual with a grand display of horses, under the auspicies of the Woodbridge Horse SlIoF. This is in some respects the most important and attractive gathering of the year, so far as a large district of the county is con- cerned. If any proof were wanting in this it is ...

... * IPSWi: MUISEUM: I: i- LECTURES.: 'O PO rida evening Dr. Taylor delivered the last but one of his serles of lectures on 'The Physical History of the Earth in tfe Leeture Hall, Ipswich. The sub. jeatb hosn bj'thsiearne'd leoturer wsvth toea and its' 'inhbitan;ts. Theviews show' byMi.Vick with the 'aid'of a powerful oxy.hydiogan'lantein were prepared from photgraphs' chiefly of the ...

... THE SUN, THI PLANETS, AND THEIR SATEn- LITES, by Edmund Ledger, M.A. (rector of Barham). g London: Edward Stanford.-Of all the studies to which I men have turned their minds, none are so fascinating as is that of astronomy. The starry heavens have been the theme of ignorant wonder, of daring speculation, of lofty l and pure admiration of something beyond man's power a to fathom; and they ...

... THE 8M[THFIELD OLUB QATTLE SHOW. The fat cattle exhibition of ths, Smithfield Club Th opened yesterday afternoon in weather which wfas trn really a Sine foretasie of Chiristmias. The snow which Br fell in many parts of the Continent in the later days of Hi last vveekr, and of whichl we had a rathar plentiful fall of in Iplwich on Friday night, did not reach London. ?? little below Stratford, ...

... ' Dr. Taylor brought his series of lectures on The World before Man to a close on Friday evening, and was honoured with a large and influential aadience, the Mayor (Sterling Westhorp, Esq.) occupying the chair. Dr. Taylor said he had to go somewhat superficially over a great deal of ground, for he proposed giving them a sketch of the last great division of geological time called the ...

... With apologies to the Shade of Longfellow. Under Britannia's spreading oak The Grand Old Woodman stands; A presentation axe he wields With large and sinewy hands- But the onslaught of his cruel arms I As yet the tree withstands ! His hair is white and dank and long, His collars none can span; His brow is wet with heavy sweat He chops down all he can. He won't look Duty in the face, ...

... On Monday evening the third of the eeries of pro. monade concerts in connection with the Ipswich Conser- vative Club was hold at the Royal William Gardens. Mr. C. Cullinglhm again opened his pioturesque gronnds and gardens adjoining, and the weather fortunaielyheld. dine, but the attendance was comparatively. small. Another andndable programme was provided, including the excellent string band ...

... WARINESS OF WILD GElS3.' As for wild geese, I know of' no animal, biped, or quadruped, that is so diffloult' to approach ox deceive. Their senses of heaiing,.eeeing, and smel. 'i .ug are all extremely acute; independently of which ,a they appear to act in so organised and cautious a .enanner when feeding or roosting, as to dify' all danger. Many a time has my Utitio~t caution leews of no avail ...