... ITHE EARL AND COUNTS~ OF SEPTON AT- ThE LIVERPOOL SATURDAY EV.ENIKGI 'CONCERTS. sn-1 VOCER~iTh. it- The succes which has attended the Saturday evening fo oriecratinsfor the working classes, since the preslentfo - lyr ?? refused to allow his name to heused is- as one of the patrons, has been greater than could hare 1 ~sr benanticipated by the meast sanguine expcctations of 8ani he those who ...

... 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 ...

... LITERARY VAlIrETIES. LoRD KENYON AND THE CLERiK.-To a more humble class in the profession-attorneys' ?? Kenyon often showed forbearance and kindly feeling. He had been a clerk himself, L' and would venture to play with the cubs before their claws were grown. Soon after his appointment as Raster of the Rolls, he was listening attentively to a young clerk, on whom the duty had fallen ot reading ...

... A BITTER TiUTH.c-We level the poor to the dust by our ge- neral policy, and take inflnite credit to ourselves for raising them up again with the grace of charity.-Fonblaaque. TIuE PLEASURE OF GIVING.-I am rich enough, and can aflbrd to give away £100 a year. I would not crawl apon the earth without doing a little good. I will enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it while alive, and ...

... THE SABnATI.-The great Dr. Johnson on his death-bed Sl sent for his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds, and required of him, ti on the strength of their friendship, that he should promise three 1 things. The first and the hardest to be observed was, that Sir P Joshua would promise him that he would never paint again on o the holy Sabbath I V Music or NATURE.-Gardiner, in his Music of Nature, has put ...

... poetry0i SONNET. now rosy fair my Ilody was to see C1,11of by my uancourtly wvorsd, ho told; Bather a 1hoping borrower let ia be-.- A debtor to the lloaster minds of old. Of golden wires, or capture I susbeams made, Hler lovely locks fell o'er her neck of snow; Her arched hro'vs Inelosed, in fringed shade, Two nurplo violots thlt slept el own .f rcddet cornl were her houeyed lips (anrdig the ...

... BY W. nOOD. &' f.* I remember, I remember - The house where I was born. ' The little window, where the sun buI Came peeping in, at morn; of I Ho never came a wink too soon, the Nor brought too long a day; cot But now, I often wish the night cer Had borne my breath away! tet I remember, I remember po] The roses, red and white,e The violets, and the lily cups- dit Those flowers made of light; ...

... t-1 - I - f This fair, held on Tuesday, Dec. 15, was well supplied with ci a cattle of all descriptions; ant those which changed hands o Iwere sold at reduced prices. Though a great many fat sheep |0 e were penned, but few were disposed of. Beef may be quoted E Dat 6id., and mutton at 6sd. per lb. . The show of fat cattle was first-rate, but more.limtted than ' usual. The principal object of ...

... LIT ERAT U R E. ,T SHIP OF GLASS, AND ATCHERLEY. By IJARGRAVE JENNINGS, Esq. Newby, Mortimer- street. The first of these tales is a romance, the second a fiction, whose ground-work is the Rye House Plot. It is obvious from the preface that the author's favourite is his romance, and such it ought to be with hose who concur with himself in the impression that the world is growving too ...

... are amc'ngst the necessaries of life. They have ad. 13 o rapl l1v and as universally as tea in public estima. I ie that refreshing and long-abused herb, once de- tion a the svmbol for every thing the contrary of man. nce bat at last esfablished as the temperate drink of crack har .coarchmen, and very probably now in vogue even with the st8e1. tr e g1ritto successor to the Jehu of the common ...

... Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the exhibition of the Royal Academy on Monday. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desart, Lady Caroline Cocks, Bon. Miss Devereux, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness, the Vice.Chamberlain, the Master of the Hoousehold, ron. Colonel BerkeleyDrommond, Colonel Arbutbnot, and Lieutenant-Colonel ...

... The House of Commons met yesterday at twelve o'clock, but uutil two o'clock a succession of desultory conversations occupied the attention of the House. At two o'clock the order of the day for the second reading of the Factories Bill was put from the chair. Mr. Hi'ME then rose, and having remarked upon the importance of the subject, and the consequent impropriety of discussing it in thin house ...