... THE COLONIAL IMPORTS I IEXHIBITION. (FROM A SPECIAL COBR1SrONODENT.) cot fro In November last Mr Chamberlain issued a eat despatch to the Governors of all the British an( Colonies asking for information regarding the Ba goods imported into each colony from any of foreign country or countries. The despatch in was dictated by a desire to adopt every means pai for promoting the trade between the ...

... LITERA.RY NOTESS AND GOSSIP. BSCong & Wvyrir Stirling, have in the a newl wourk by the RDr i Cm'ol.bl1 of sI~ - i iilog. whii h vtllheli, b jj1iished aboit the- lllid'ile to of Novtembe-r. The. hook well oountaO an account of thet autho&-, travel~s, over 2000 iles beV land r andl sea. and will intluds. descriptions of savo~r- stuns in the northern jonaviness zof India, in Ceylon.,~ the ...

... AmxGrrosr.-The annual show under the auspices of the Abington Agricultural Society taoi; place In duill weatber yesterday within the grounds of Abington H=use. The entries showed a substautial increase on the year. Ayrshire cattle were numerically wentk. but included several grand animalas Clydesdales were fairly numerous and of good sorts. Being in a noted sheep district. Cheviots and black- ...

... LITERARY RNOE. Mrs E. H. Strain, the antflor of bhe historica. novel A bian's Foes, is about to issue, with M&r Fisher Unwin, a volume, entitled, School 'in Fairyland. Mr John Marray announces Running the Blockade, a personal narrative of adventures. risks, and escapes durieg the American Civil. War, by Mr Thomas B. Taylor, with maps and illustrations by Mr R. T. Pritchett Mr E. D. ...

... NEWI BOOIKS OF YESTERDAY.I 'IA jf i~i 1ry o; 12'0der77 Pait'niu,. BY gjr!,ard Molther- Volume TIhree-Admintistro- vr ?? Lccat C l G flrnmenlt Eocrd. By J. iThodoN~ T0dd. M.A1 (London: Henrv & Co.) Jo gf ;, ?? By B17J,. Crawaford (Mrs 3. A. C'ra.iwrdY iLondon: Hulltchisofl& Co.) JA-i/i5A ?? , Cbeing a Popular Hand- F y0 oung Students and Collectors. By j. s. Tuti, P.B.S. (London : George Gill I ...

... ' il_ One bears enoughb, if not more than enough, 1 mot 'about the freaks of fashion-the follies, oddi- rela ties, excesses, and extravagances of fashion- I ihe but nut many people, perhaps, pause to con- styl aider the economic aspects of what it is so easy to the hun ridicule. Yet fashion-by which we do net run! mean merely 1the fashions--is the parent of of Industry. It is by the freaks ...

... FLO WER SHO ZS. I EReSKtNE AsND IDSCRtNsrOktc.-The neventeenth annual c-T hibitien at this society was held yesueriiay in the school at Yishopton.t The camber of entrics was tip to last year's, while the quality of the exhibits swas very good. cut flowers especially bcia: very tine. A mnagnificent table of green~ house plants was exhihited by Mir ileid, gardener to eeril Blant.Yre, Errieine ...

... FORTHCOMINg DAIRY SHOWy. ENGLISH V. SCOTCH COMPETITORS. The premium list o2 the forthcoming dairy show has just been issued. This show is always very popular in 2hthe south and south-west of Scotland, which used to sweep the boards of the leading prizes t but of late years Scotch Cheddar makers have not been so successful. Twis ie due largely to the difference betweea the Scotch and English ...

... 1 (m OUR OWVN canRESroNDEwt.) London, Sundlay Night. The first of this year's musical festivals, that of the Three Choirs, to- he held at Worcester, will commence on Sunday. There are four other festivals this autumn ; one at Norwich which takes place from October 6i to 9, with Mancinelli's Hero and Leander, Cliffe's violin concerto in D minor (afterwards to be heard at the Crystal Palace), ...

... GI kS A 1 E ART. ; - iZ ' is ?? with - ,,dav seasonv that most of cul . ' ol drain. It is not pri .-e oiminish. On the me. . knows thata -a't' ?? and denioralis- rei ! -*e reie to follow the wil A tip. properly de- tor - ' C\(lexess of a legal Sot tie] ' --al ser ice performed SUE * a ter is tipped tiny .a re * believe that he sho si eflfort at heart not get indispersable mu t tiped, because ...