... FASHIONABLE INTELL1GENCB The Lord Lieutenant will leave town on Easter Monday on a tour to the south. He will proceed through tile county Wicklow, and will visit the Lakes of Killarney before his return. The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans have ar- . rived at Holly Lodge, Highgate, from Redhourne Hall, near Brigg, Lincolnshire. The Duke of Norfolk, who went to London to attend the levee held by ...

... BY MRS. JAMES GRAY. (From the University Magazine, for April.) Joyous and happy creatures--7 Roamers of earth and air_ Free children of the woods- Bright glancers o'er the floods, Your homes are every where Dear are ye, and familiar to the heart, Mldking of nature's loveliest things a part. Ye are upon the mountains, With proud and lonely flight; Ye are uponithe heath; The dear blue heaven ...

... .. .. - . . 1. . .. . . _ - We pray the attention of the public to the following very sensible reflections on those shows, which we find in the Clare Journal, a Conservative newspaper:- These shows are got 'up for the benefit and to gratify the vanity of our gentlemen farmers, not certainly to ad- vance the interests of the people at large. The premiums are for stock that the small farmer can ...

... (Continuedfrom our last.) P5ALMIE LVIX. Bre mercifull to ree, 0 God, bee merelfull to nie: For why? my Soul in all assaults shall ever trust in thee. And till these wicked stormes be past, which rise on every side: Under the shadow of thy wings my hopes shall alwayes bide. 2 I will therefore call to the Lord, who is most high alone, To God, who will his work in moe bring to perfection. 3 flee ...

... T N - ISNF i!RN8. -1 I I FINE ARTS-ROYTf1 - I nt t. hA BOard. I The general committee IAst on r1iany own -- Itoom,-;Collegeastreet. There were preselt- The Marquis of OBBSaONDE, President, in the chair, Lord Viscount Massarene and Ferrard, Sir Geo. Hodson, Bart., Henry Lindsay, Esq., Colonel Birch, R.A., George Carr, Esq., Colonel Pratt, J. ?? Kane, Esq., B. IWright,. Esq. B. Jager, Esq., John ...

... FINE ARTS-ROYALIoRISH ART UNION. - A1 genra meeting of the mnembers of this admirable and'I highly ~lWi~hig inistitutiton wes hekld'en,'~hturday, at thei Board-rdomi of the Royal Dublin Society, which 'was kindly I~ placed at their disposal, for this purpose.: 'The apartment l, wavs well filled, and amiongst those present wve observed-. t Sir George'T. Hodson, Bart., Sir John' Burke, Bart. ...

... JOHIN KNOX'S AllETRICAI, VERSIN OF THE PSALMS. N ?? (Coatinucdfrofli our' last.) EP S A 1 . M E TIL. SAVO Mee, 0 God, for thy Names sake, And by thy grace my cause defend : 2 oi, hleave my prayers which I make, And lot my words to thee ascend. 3 For strangers do against moo rise, And tyrants secek My Soul to spill T'rhey set not God before their eyes, 13Bt bent to please their wicked will. 4 ...

... THE MOUNTAINS. OLt Erin's vales are beautiful, And pleasing to the sight; Her tangled dells and verdant glades Are sunny, green, and bright But oh l I love her mountains steep, Where all is wild and free, As the foaming headlong cataract, Leaping onward to the sea ! Firm, since creation's morning dawn'd, These noble fronts have stood; Unchang'd by earth's convulsive throee, By tempest, or by ...

... :OYAZ~ e e e' aIr-- So~T J4,AlLL HW. - OYAL DIIBlw 51cJE_ .t,. EL&-- . ?? cattle, sheep, sinputy .m lug. jmplementi; jqc~inenced t! jW Iubh so et poemises on Tuesdahitl ?? edy bition was in many respects of first-rate character; eqal ?? I least to the very best of any that have preceded it. Im- '4 spr-oleliobt 1n thi-s~~ ' 'altit~e dapartments generally, but lucre particularly in brood stock; ...

... The performances yesterday evening were by command of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, but we regret, to observe that neither the representation of a most delightful comedy by skilful performers, who exerted themselves to the top of their bent for the gratification of the spectators, nor the imposing display of military pageantry by which a Vice-Regal visit is; invariably attended, had ...

... IT ZE ORIGIN OF TIHE OPERiA;IN ITALY, t.The Italian opera, now viewed with so much interest throughout Europe, owes its origin to the following inei- dent -It was about theyear 1494 thhithtlde young Flo- rentine noblemen, associated together frbm'i'a similiarity of taste and habits, and from a congenial love 'of poetry and music, conceived the idea of revivingg the recitative of Grecian ...

... GRACE DARLING-BY WORDSWORTH. AIo-,G the dwellers in the silent field z The natural heart is touched, and public way And crowded street resound with ballad strains, Inspired by one Whose very name bespuanks Favoulr divine, exalting humans lovc; Vlhom, since her birtth on bleak Northumntria's coast, KIloVn unto few, but prized as far as known, A single act endears to high and low Through the ...