... -- RXRcT : atok a i JUS9T P*]Lw5-D, gNSITLE: . It coulA nit be t1E Ia tshtol ~eael to n Boils*lst I~ns4 ,d wlsa ;.4rj :sedb : W'oul~e meseessz. --c esqli 1 wbi 5so By tbenes myefe sat it - 'r)IIw hs mwn Jbosm8land ~ 35 5.OkS Directed as my Cfa e e ?? throne T pat . ~GWha a ottn t? dt I mst turn rne froe each foeign dime,:. From scenes of wdnt and delight: for nowr T. Ail eown ngad boeathe hand ...

... EXHIBITION OF DlRAWINGS. To TIlE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. GENTLEssEN,-As you are ever alive to merit, and desirous to render it its due, I hand you a few observations, made after several visits to the Exibition of Dr-awings of Natural His- tory, now on view at the Royal Institution; somewhat late, perhaps, but I trust not too late to excite all those who have not yet seen them to pay ...

... Vottri. - fdyi PAINGLE'S EPIII!MERIDES. teff t'ati sulf We have before us a most interesting volume, entitled pro Ephemerides, or Occasional Poems, written in Scotland, and to I South Africa, by Thomas Pringle, formerly the conductor of lie, a liberal and enlightened journal in Southern Africa. The arr spirit of this gentleman was found too manly and uncomprO. wa sising to suit the taste of ...

... '4004n>etrpn. ev TO TaE 1DITORS OF THIE LI.YRPOOL MErqcUaY. M GENT LEriEX,-.The following lines are attributed to pa Professor Peorson, an~d I1 belipye co~r~epcl. Whether they sq have ever yet appeared in the Metcury or 5galeidosespe mn 1 anm net aware; At all events; thbey aie at your service;* ro al~d I shoepldf be glad to sepi them in-setted in tbe werct ry, an fIt' have not been elready ...

... En J - ?? I ?? . Sinee we last addressed our readers, the public.spirited proprietor of our Music-hall has gratified th e town with - two interesting concerts, the latter of which took place on Tuesday evening. We were much pleased with 1 Miss Paton, of whose future eminence whilst she was a youthful pupil of our friend Mr. Webbe, we formed the mos' confident'anticipations, which are fully ...

... 4WItIfftiono. a CAMBRIDGE PRIZE POEM. The Cambridge English prize poem for 1826 is a very w eloquent poetical essay on Venice. The opening lines k will sufficiently testify the correctness of our opinion:- h1 fc Spirit ! who oft, at night's unclouded noon, jr Dost love to watch the melancholy moon ti Shroud in the wanness of her spectral ray pa Rome-Athens cold in beautiful decay: Or where ...

... Artainal. LINES RN SYMPATHY. Bright as the beamthitshone on the youngearth, t Fresh and exulting from her recent birth, Purer than purest wave of ocean, flows From pity's eye the tear for other's woes. The wandering Indian, Nature's untaught child, Nurs'd in the bosom of the trackless wild, Where fiercest tempests howl along the sky, Owns the soft power of heaven-sent sympathy ! In utmost ...

... J?uctr)). onl3 SONNET. FILOO BSARRUIFALDI. Stern Winter knocks at dying Autumn's gate S With all his stormy troop and drear array ±left And Autumin bids his yieltding doors give way, Tbi And drops his sceptre and resigns hig state. P hut rosy finger'd Spring comes forth elate, one And scares the hoary tyrant from his prey; Then yields in turn, and feels her feeble sway ONe B.-Fore the sultry ...

... MOURNINC FASHIONj e C a D~ia -Abli& bomba zinehalfdets Y niat three-quater height; the waisti ts , the back has a little fslnief at the bottom, but * pla; r at the top; it laces bhiond; the firt is squa iD - bas, aDIN tight to the btst, which is orr a ses s~ na~tW blackcrape trimeng Lon s ha . stra fibt, nishedb a puckered cuffof black csrat. e te c of threefanls of , ;d l Y thformof a-shelh ...

... l tri. ; SOLILOQUY. we FROMt LOJD WRYOWP WERNER. - JoSEPHNEe (cemiag fantard.) 1 fain Woul-d.sbUn tiesescenies, too oft repeated, - Of feudaltg nyos 4 tvii~s I canssot tid'and~ nil~not witness such. Eyedi here, in ti ebe naedl pt T A inss in the district's in-a, existo The insetol~enaof wealth in poverty Soi Oaer sOmethin; poorer still-the prideof rank Mi Tsriue 'rsmtig stillimore senvile; ...

... tue [Continued from our last.] po0 Ing When we gave the particulars of the aneeting in the { last Mercury, we omitted stating that Dr. Collins ad- pul sic- dressed the assemblage towards the conclusion of the busi. fill, ness of the day. We were not aware of the fact, nor did was we know that we had received the high and unexpected not honour of the unanimous thanks of the meeting, for of ...

... Metro SONG OF TBE GREEKS; BY T. CAMPBELL., Again to the battle, Achaians! ouilhearts bid the tyrants defiance; Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree- It has been, and -hall yet be, the land of the free; For the eioss of our faith is replanted, The pale dying crescent is daunted, And we march that the foot-prilnts of Mahomet's slaves May be wash'd out in blood from our forefathers' ...