... POETRY, I A PARAPHIIRASE. PsALM liii. 6.-And I said, oh that I had wines like a dove! for then would I flee away and be at rest. Oft have I said, oh that to me The turtle's fleetest wings were given, Far from this dingy earth to flee; Amid those glittering orbs of heaven. Midst those bright fields of living light, Whose golden down would he my nest- Where suns unsetting scare the night- Ahi ...

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... LIT ERAT UR E. --I A Jranuaw of Prattical Draining. By HENRY SrTErwESs, F.R.S.E. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. Mr STEFIvNS~'s name. is already familiar to agricultrisiits, as th 8uthor of that excellent manual, Te Book of the Farm, a isork replete w~ith deductions of acute observation, extensive ex- perience ani souita de resni The present publication con- tain, wlith utwablet ...

... U THE LANGUAGE OF THE LENVES. f ___________ h 2O. M-._THE SCO0CII F1R. t On the barren waste, or bleak hillside, r I firmly take my stand; v From cold or storm I scorn to bide- t I'm the child of a mountain land. 0 WVhen the lovely shrub and the stately oak V Muist their verdure and leaves resi nt11 I fear not the frost, nor the tempest's shockl, For they make no change on mine. No perfumed ...

... XTHE HIGH~LAND SOCIETY. IILOHANI' octK SHhIfl OF STOCK, AGRiICULTUiIALt MiEETING, AlTl-Itt- tN-'tti. Till great ero;Ti, ill rtvl ?? sLiorItI Poliie ett cot tine ?? bl 1111 I let. Ilb akrit place. Olla, tL- sI ithe Witnir a- Ih ?? ?? ,tt ttiet-l IIlatOO ofl ?? lDtA ?? tO Iel. 01 t~ittl111 It 11015 lnd ttiei-zsst built Ei~glait twill 001o twit .iul itoile t1-,l at- bring tiles'ebuelre111 ...

... TLhe l'olloo'ing beaotifoI linies ate token fvo ot Northern Cootempe- rare;. Th~ey strongl~y retoijoi us of time potiros aid puorify of WVords- weor' it. The author, it Is said. resides troor Fort Augusolis. LINES WRITTEN DECEMBERti~ 3iST, 1510. oih yes !It is a melancholy time To tlrinhing arlnds-tho' thoussrrdo rnay be found so thooghtiess, as to wev. ?? tile past, Roses to deck the ...

... - - - - * . -- - To Oh, JbAtorsY foul thing, That knows no balmy rest, How doth thy fierce and rankling sting Corrode the lover's breast; Illack'ning Isa soal with horrid spell. And stamping In his heart a hell! Dreading the glare of day, A watcher of the night, Thy victim knows no cheeringray Of pleasure's caln delight: A slave in envy's spiteful thral., Friendless and loee,-distrusling all. ...

... PBETRY. TIE DEATH OF THO4MAS CAMPBELL.t: Strike loud the notes of woe! Bow down each drooping head! The patriot's pride, the poet's glow The zentle heart to friend and foe, Cold in the narrow tomb lie low, The 'Barad of Hope is dead. Weep, Poland, weep! ah no'er Will worthier tear-drops faill The dauntless mind to do and dare,: The soul that swelled at thy despair, The champion's, patron's, ...

... PCET RY. THE MELANCHOLY MONTH OF MAX'I The poets sing the marrv month of Mlay, But surely Nature noxer looked so glum- Where are tho flowers that make all Nature gay? Where are the bees > Alas'- they-re all a-hum. Where are the blossonis that should rem the bowers ? This vear they nmakje a very sorry SlOw; For, wlhat with himsterous w.inds and peltig showers, The burds are '.-ovwn away before ...

... OSEA'r EZHISXTION OF THF. hGHLA?;1) AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND, AT INVERNESS. The fifty-third Geueral Mfeeting aud Cattle Show of the High- land and Agrieultural Society of Scotland was held at Inverness oo Tuesday. Wednesday, and Thursday last. The arrangements by the Comamittee of MJan emeent, in co-operation with the local authorities, rendered the denionstration in every respect ...

... FARE;WE;LL APPEARANCE OF MR MACRXAT. TIIE farewell appearance of Mr M~ackay, the veteran rev- presentative of' Scottish character o'n the stage, took place on Tue~sday evening, in the spresence of onte of the mnost' crowded end fashionable audieiices thht ever asseijibled in the Theatre - The first piece performed was the national play of Rob Roy, in which Mr Machay, as Baillie, Nicol Jarvie, ...

... POETRY I I THE LIdHTH6OUsE. Back'd by the inky bank of -cloud end storm Brooding o'er rock and sea, yon Pharos tower Looms like a spectre: but when nuidnight hour Veils the wild coast, and hides each Ruiding form, Headland, or huoy, or beacon, thence a gleam Gladsome as Uope to the condemu'd, flings far is pennon thro' the rapid tempest's war, And bids the rallying sign o'er ocean stream. ...