... Several valuable and interesting additions have been made . to the Exhibition during the past week; foremost we mayth ,t mention Mr. Walton's Card-making Machine, which hav. oa as ing been sent to the British Association at Birmingham isc ,. now returned, and may be seen daily performing its necro. de mantic operations. A newly-invented Machine for joining wI ir straps in a very expeditious ...

... . -, 4 WtertWj Oxtl'i?`?5- -. t . .. t ?? to rb av(l1l ?? i;-lr f.;it t 'lii':ti~'uotI ,! izol ?? A* ,: a I o thie : loi eirsci.a tawlue. (ot li mere mi:l ?? ?? ?? to til(, that NIw-,, y ou0 p eaI , no one listens to the end of your story or remark; so, there is no kind of flattery more irresistible than to fiud that your conversation gathers hearers, more and more; and women are but too quick ...

... Wtaarg OxtrattO. CHARACTER OF LAFAYETTE. (Prom ihe Etudes our lea Orateurs Parlementaires, by Timon.) Opinion has its prejudices,andthus it has been said Gf three Liberals, namely, Lafitte, Dupont (de l'Eure,) and Lafayette, that Lafitte did not make his' owaispeqehes; that Dupont -i9a;S&-good sort,-of man aad nothing else, and that Lafayette was a Mimpleton. Now Lafitte has the most extended ...

... poetry. a. a . - ?? MY OLD COAT. (Front~e Frowh of De BGsw r.9) Sois-moi fidele, o pauvre habit que j'sime 1 Ensemble nous devenons vieux,' &c. My dear old coat, I grieve to see How time is wearing thee and me; Each day, for years now half a scors, (Not Socrates himself could more Have done) to ssvo thee from mishap With ?? own hands I've brushld thy nap, Or rather texture I should say, For ...

... LITEP.&RY SCWAPS. GnREAT WITS HAVE SHORT MEMoRIEs, is a pro- verb, and as such has undoubtedly some foundation in nature. The case seems to be, that men of genius forgot things of common concern, unimpor- tant facts and circumstances, which make no slight impressions in every-day minds. But sure it will be found that all wit depends on memory, that is, on the recollection of passages either ...

... M1OTTO FOR A SPEECH LATELY PUBLISHED. On Cicero's infant lips, they say, the The bees, enamour'd, hung; And left, In memory of their stay, Their honey on his tongue. (he When in our times the Inseets grew TC AS weary on the wing, asi On LYNDHURST'S lips they settled too, mil But only left-theirsting! gra Y. C. W. we Dr. Lowe was confirmed as Dean of Exeter on no' Friday, and enthroned on ...

... conctra. =- Wl . trp. DEATH OF CHATTERTON. SCENE.-A Ous-ret in BroMlc-slreet, LondOn.-C55ATElt- TON discoerevvd seated (it a table, his faei white and holloe, und Isis w-holelperson esnociated. CIIAT,-11ow cruel is til Nvorldlwhich crushes orth, And calls the guilt blind destiny 0 lie ! Ill-fated aaworld, which mnakes the fate it mourns I Ah! (?vririi) -Hurl thee back thy scorn: let me livo ...

... The first exhibition of this society was held on Wednes- fly: -day week in the British School Room, kit Rastrick. J. T. the Clay, Esq. was in the chair, and delivered an appropriate the icddtess on'the occasion. We have seldom seen an exhibi- aI tion which surpassed this, and we have no doubt-that, by bet the united energies of the gardeners, florists, and amateurs mO of this society, they ...

... 1 Z17DCOn r- r- , - - I FIRST CATTLE SHOW. l The first (From the Halifax Express.) - VThe first general meeting and cattle show of the Calder T Vale Agricultural Association was held at Hebden-bridge, i on Thursday last ; and, notwithstanding the very un- favourable state of the weather, was attended by a large a number of the gentry, farmers, and other inhabitants of' a the district. The ...

... The additions made to the Exhibition during the past week, though not numerous, are interesting; the principal D -aones being a power-.loom for weaving ribands, presented ~l.by Mir. Fairbairn, and a machine for stuff printing, from tate Mrt. Rogers, of School Close. Both there machines were the shown at work from day to day, the latter being superin. ti tended by Mr. James Rogers, Jun. C The ...

... Xitcrarp 6xtrarto. HINTS FOR THE FAIR SEX, ON M AR RI AGE. The mate for beauty should be a man-not a money ?? E. L. But-rcr's Richelieu. There is seldom any event in the life of a young female thatproves so decisive of her future happiness or misery as the choice of a husband: yet how often is the judgment led astray in this important particu- lar by a mistaken appreciation of character, by a ...

... =LUcrattt'a. THlE DEMOCRAT; OR, A CURSORY PIC- TURE OF THlE PRESENT CRISIS. A Poem. By CHARILES DALVIN. Manchester: Hteywood ; Leeds: Joshua Hlobson. The author of this poem prcsonts us 'with another instanco of the power of nativo genius to triumph over adverse circumstances. lio is a poor hanid-loom weaver of Bolton, on whomn neither fortune nor what 5lc ?? ptiases to Coall education have ...