The children together with their teachers and a few friends were entertained at the manse on Tuesday afternoon. Scarcely could there be a place more delightful. The grounds are kept in excellent order, and with ample scope for all kinds of amusement. The landscape there is simply beautiful. If the neat little church with its stained glass windows and monumental headstones which surround the church are too gloomy for the occasion, the eye may be directed to many other things rich in nature— the fields with their various crops ripening for harvest; the woods with their green foliage. The largest of these seen there is Knockman rising in gradual height, and behind is Cordorcan hill; and as the eye stretches along the hills which bind the landscape, which on a cloudless day like Tuesday appeared quite near, we have Lamnchan, Dregmorau, and Cairnsmore, while below in the immediate forefront is Cumloden and Kirroughtree. Certainly a place like the manse is a treat, but doubtless to the young minds such a place so common with all its beautiful surroundings could not he expected to be the chief source of enjoyment on that occasion. About 4 o'clock the children had assembled, and were arranged on the green sward, where a sufficient supply of tea, buns, &c., were supplied by Mrs and Misses Johnstone, after which various games were engaged in and money and other prizes were given away. Before parting, after 5 hours real enjoyment, the children were supplied with as many gooseberries as they could find accommodation for, and were dismissed after singing the hymn "Rock of Ages."