... ...

... ...

... 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. ...

... | THA!EDEBIN1RGH. AMATIUIA rsXFpBXIQE.- The Theatre-Royal wa on Monday night the arena of . mostlbrilliant an 'attractive scened bbing the ocanqion ot the appeatance of a number-of gentltmen connected with literature, who gave a dramatic entertainment in behalf of the endowment of a perpetual Cratorship 'of Shalspeare's House. So great had been the demand for tickets that the number issued was ...

... . .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER. By Alexander Wilson, the A erica= Orrnitlwlogist. Of all professions that this world has known, From clowns and cobblers upward to the throne- From the grave architect of Greece and Rome. Down to the framer of a farthing broom- The worst for care and undeserved abuse, The first in real dignity ...

... Literary and Sclent1Bd Notices, &c. Dlacekrwod's Ma 'azine for October opens with an ablearticle on the re. cently published Diaries and Correspondence of the First Earl of 31almesbury. His Lordship was for many years British Ambassa- dor at the Russian Court, and In that situation bad constant oppor- tunities of making himself acquainted with the public and private h character of the ...

... I! I ERA t U REi B ackwood's Maga Ine fr SeptezSbr' ., THis number opens with an sgreeably=lritten notice of Ltesle a Memoirs of the late John Constable, thbe well-known aisd most Successful painter of Englsh landscape. He *as boiirn im7'1. at :astBergloltin ussetx, and died suddeni la i137. His .father :ntended him for the humble traae of a miller - b;t yontgt CoPq- stable soonnianifested ...

... PAIRS IN ArI j7 I Ah 9': o. S 1on-1.. . . . -- I WV. 29. Aberdeen POsh-Brnela r-G7d terlaw Inve i ir A h. 30. Curineston-Echt tryst - Falkllnd - Kirlm ch:e. I.anrenee1iv-k-Oad berdeell LITEBAH s R Y.- - A new nov el b-y 'bickeus,`to be publihed ill tTenjity ' mionthly partsisforthcoming. Namne not yet annonnced. His r Pictures from Italy, as exhibited first in the Daily Ncwl , are - to ...

... ON MEMORY. BY MRS L. I1. 91GOURtSEY. The Past she rnleth. At her touch Its temple-waves unfold, And from their gorgeous shrines descend The mighty men of old: At her deep voice the dead reply, Dry bones are clothed, and live- Long perished garlands bloom anew, And buried joys revive. When, o'er the Future, many a shade Of saddening twilight steals, Or the dimmed present to the soul Its ...