... In walking abroad, or in resting at home, the mind cannot be vacant; its thoughts. may be useful, useless, or pcmricious to happiness. Direct them ariglit; the habit of thought will spring up like any other habit.-Benth/sa. BouGcuS AND LEAVES-Every bough that waves over our heads in the summer time has an oracular wisdom. It is posi. tively true that every leaf is full of instruction. Indeed ...

... pottrp+ ?? I BEAUTIES OF BYRON. n10. XSl. 1CIILDS IsAYSOLD.I 'rhe second canto of this magnificent poem was written in Greece in the year 1810, when the poet was in his twenty-third year. At that time he ap. pears to have regarded the restoration of Greece as all but impossible: hence the dejected and almost despairing tone of the following beautiful stanzas. A few years subsequently, BYRON ...

... (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) THIRD DAY. Ballinasloe, Thursday Evening. Although the great fair of this town concluded yes. terday, yet there is another called the poor man's fair,' and this was held to-day. As its designation would imply its business is of minor public interest, the stock offered at it consisting, generally, of the refuse remaining from the former days, with ...

... I II -l .. .. s.- .. - . . _ A IS e _ _ _ - - 18 MORNING CAPs.-Amidst the most fashionable to novelties of the season we have remarked some very vc s pretty morning caps of embroidered muslin; the Sc s front part is concealed by a kind of small half hand- m r lierohief, also of embroidered mnuslin, trimmed round n the back part with two rows of laee, descending on tl each side in the form of ...

... SONG of TIM MBERAID. I Come to our halls of classic light Beneath the crystal sea, The moonbeams shine in splendour bright, Then rove the deep with me. The sea-breeze Voos the fresh'ning wave That curls its lip with scorn, While I my mermaid tresses lave From summer eve till dawn. Or dancing in some inlet spot Apart from mortal view, With shells I make a beauteous grot Of gaily varied hue. But ...

... | HIGILkND AND AGRTCULTURkL SOCIETY'S [ S4SOW AT DUMFRIES. . ?? OCT. 7..I w Te ?? with the Mighland and Agrietiltural SociZs^9yrea A\xnnual Shlo- If Live ircStock; Imlenents of lie:s- ,, t lm a s ol:c: tt tlfri's non T le. i 'lThe ll_ . rti*ato:n r b ve 1been for a leneth of time iII pror'oes, ltiir the diiroe ?? cif t a Local Commiiuee and I f the officers of the Society. n ie most comtiplete ...

... | TIlE CONN:;XION BETW WEN THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND AND TJCh 0O/OWN OF ENG- LAND. BY. R. M A By.R M.D ejqJt.D. (DublinPublished b Anglesea.street.) We are obliged hod over our more formal notice of this work. We have expressed our opinion of its value, and made free with its contents to-day in ourleading article. THE MAYO DEMONSTRATION. A letter promising the attendanod of his Grace the il. ...

... - . CLOS-GIBBON, OR THE WHITE KNIGHT OF THE FOREST, AN IRISH HISTORICAL TALE, By JAMES FRES;CH, Esjq. (Dublin: Peblisbed by James; Deify, Anglesea-street.) A volume bearing this title has just appeared from the I press of Anglesea street, issued in the usual style of elegance l which characterises all Mr. Duffy's publications. i A work of imagination, whether confined entirely, or in i part ...

... I -_I FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. (EXCLuSIVE FOB Tns ERA.) PARIS-Italian Theatre.-On Thursday the I Puritani were represenited to an overflowing house, yet the boxes were not filled with the haut-ton of Paris many of the elegants, the resl company of the Salle Ventadour, being still in the country. More than otne inexplicable toilette proclaimed that the noble ...

... TEHE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES. A PRISON RaScm ir' T'tN BooKs. By TnostAs Cootivi. the Ch/ertijt. London: J. Ilow, 132, Fleet-street. A splendid address to Night opens the Fifth ]Book-we can fian room for only a portion of the stanzas:- Hail eldest Siglit' Mother of luman fear! Vague solitude where infant Maln first felt his native helplessness ! Beneath whose drear And solemn coverture he, ...

... s (From the WVord nf Fashion, Aoagajioe, of the Courts of .. ~~L~ondoni andl Pai)I/.) MoRtNING CArs.-Amnidst the most fashionable noveltics of the season, we have remarked sonic very pretty morning eaps of F embroidered muslin * the front part is concealed by a kind of Ifmll half ha Mildkercit, also of embroidered muslin, trirrinime v- round the back part wvith two owcs of lace, descending on ...

... A oUWE'S MELODIEIS, ILLUSTRAT4LED BY D. AIACLISE, R.A. [Longmuns, Somewhat the same sort of service Which the genius or Moonr has rendered to the music of his country, the peneil of MAJderl confers in this very beautiful volumle upon the poetry of the melodies. Whatever merit there may be, says Mr. MOORE in hls brief, graceful preface, in interpreting the voice that spuke in my cous: ...