... ,91,lr.bz fine arto. EXHI3BITION or PICTURES. 01. Christ and his Disciples at Emmaus: A. THur.vENETI.- This picture is carefully painted, but we do not admire the ex- pression of the faces, nor, altogether, the arrangement of light and shade. Thereis mucl softness and beatutyin thecolourinI, and as to aim at excellence in this high department of the art, even though the attempt be at first ...

... LZTE1aARY VARIETIES. GOLD. -Trust not to the omnipotency of gold, nor say unto di it, thou art my confidence; kiss not thy hand when thou be- PE holdest that terrestrial sun, nor bore thy ear unto its servitude. be A slave unto Manimao makes no servant unto God; covetousness Iu cracks the sinews of faith, numbs the apprehension of anything st above sense, and, only affected with the cortainty ...

... MIZTRATURM. T/hc ajpproachtg Do..f.l o' I P'oepry and Civil Despotismn in £srOpr.- Philp and Evans, Biristol. In all times of politioal commotion aid chnnge, prophecy has beon the favourite study of rnsids of a particular cast. Tho sangpine and imaginative have endeavoured to find the events pilaSitif over them in the dark mystories of Daniel and of St. John. A heated fanoy has ever roendered ...

... Tbe eine arto. EXTEI:BZTXON Or ICTXRSi.. 27D. Duetch FWtlxiag'boats ilt a Gale off the Dogger Bassk: . T. 1) uN c.,-Tlis is one of the most eFective marine piees we hove ever scen: in watcercolours we hIve auet with nothing tha could suarpass it. It is, indeed, a maste ly produotion, and in point of fame cannot fail to re-aly Af'.Duncan forthe great amount of labour which it is evident lie ...

... voctfJ. - * OLD CHRISTMAS. OLD Christmas j9 come with ills mirth and good cicer, And a welcome we'll give him to close tile old year; He comeo with at right hearty greeting to all, And festive companions Rock round at Ills baUl; 'Fhrisfld of youth anld of ago, or tlhe richl arid tihe pooi, With his ;y stirriig lauglitor hle cntcrs our door; Tig but oaeo in thre year tlat hc iasieo thiS way, ...

... MITERARY VARZ2TIEB. There is a humorous story recorded of the Dirl of De. Wssilshire, A. D. 1210, vho asked a farmer of bis, flow coull h beear his situation, seeingthat his grange wits much troubled by fairies, which,S added the nobleman, e may be spirits froee bell. ' Right hane.ured Lord, replied the quaint fellow, there be verily two saints in heaven which do trouble rne more than ...

... t c rat ur e. Fisher's Draiving-lRoomn Scrap-Book for 1843.-Fiaher & SDI), London.I Fisher's Dr'nwing-Room Scrap-Book this year presents au c unusually gorgeous appearance. Portraits of Her Majesty, 1, Prince Albert, tile Prince of Wales, and tile Princess Victoria, a adorn the Outside of the volume the inside, at the same time, tj being as rich as ever ill those attractions which have made ...

... LIZTZRlARS VARIETZES. IA GOLDErN BULE.-rn reflections on the absent, go) no farther than YOUL would if they were present. I resolve,' says Bishop Beveridge, 1never to speak of a man's virtnes befare hise face, nor of his faults behind his back, A rule, the observ- ance of which would, at one Stroke, banish from society beth fiattery~and defamation. Guurg.-Giiilt, though it may attain ...

... . - Ot f ilic, art%. rSNigZXTION or PICTUORES. 105. Tle WVarren, near lineehead: C. BRAsNaWtt.,; and No. 113-Viet of Alnite/eadfro/n the Sands-by the samo artist, are both vorks of promise, possessing many points of excellence. Tlie trifling faults in colouring, are such as we arc eure Mr. llranwhbite wvill correct. log. Teresa Panza adictating letters to the Duchess and her Rnsobonda &ncho, ...

... A it tit 'itre . Poemts; by Rolert ANcoll-Tait, Edinburgh. There is a melancholy intcroht attached to this volume. Its author died early. Just as his vigorous mind had gallantly suc- ceeded, in a great measure, in obtaining the mastery over ad- verse circumstancesa-ust as his writings had begun to give the world assurance of a poet-the frail body proved unequal to the demands upon its ...

... zzIztAliy VARIHTIES. Time is gtiven us that we may loketrare of eternity, arnd etcrnity will not lie too long to regret the loss of orr time, if we hiave mis-spent it. AlAC .iTiMAiTL OF BEUROVEANS.-he subject of religion, brings to mind a curiolus belief which exists among the Arabs, viz., that we in England are not Christians entirety, but of an aLmphibioussort soinething between Christians ...

... T?1I?A?Y V.&RZETI?S. Aairrrraselc -A science dift'ereistly studied by Fathers anid sorts, the farmer genlerl ly conininhg tlseoiselses to addition, the .sccopd to subtraction.-Ladly Bltes¢sing ton. XV.vrTca OF' NIAGAaA.--The quiantity of water precipitated) over the Falls hoe8 been titus calculated iby diffceret aluthorities --Presidcnt Dwight, of New laven, estimates it at ll,055,a7a tonis ...