... 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 ...

... CANADITAN SKETCHES. (From S~ir Francis fhead's 1En-riqrani.) IMajE T HE1! S A S oys. N'orf Tin the sumnrner. the excessive heat-the violent paroxsrens of fl Xed thunidir-the parching droughlt-the occasional deluges of rain- L aj e The sight of bright red, bright blue, and ether gaudy plumaged agair birds-nt theO brilliranrt humiming-bird, and of inunmerabledire-flres some tiliac -at ?? ...

... Iloarp+ o lE Thy ANNEXATION OF CRACOW TO AUSTRIA. eave much pleasure in giving insertien to the ollng spirited lines and also to the author's pre. fol.inar5 remarks, with every word of which we licttiljy concurkd. N. S.1 iwth IeanrilY pinion, the annexation of Cracow is, with- nt txeption, he most barefaced combination of l ence and tyranny, recorded in modern history. ins. is a question of ...

... SELECTE]D. -NIRS. HAR1IS'S SOLILOQUY WHLE THREAIDING HEl e NEEbLE. t BY LADY DUFFERI. ( '(Frolm FisAers Dralvinie-yRoOe Scrap Book.) n Ah dearv me! what needles! well, really I must say s All things are sadly altered (for the worse too) since my day s The pins have neither heads nor points; tie needles have no eyes, And there's ne'er a pair- of scissors of thle good okd-fashioued size e The ...

... , EXHIBITION OF THY LIVERPOOL ACADEMY. ad ?? - d SEVENTH NOTICE, spen Og Since our last notice the exhibition has opened by gas- were de light, and on our visits to tie rooms we find them not stani r, only well attended, but, as to ourselves, we almost prefer ieg ef it to daylight, so brilliant and interesting is the scene. acco !Y. Many pictures which we had never seen or noticed before the ...

... Falmouth, Thursday Evening.—Her Majesty's steam-ship Gorgon, Capt. Croutch, put in here to-day for coals her voyage from Buenos Ayres for Portsmouth. She left Monte Video on Sept. 12th, Rio de Janeiro 22nd, and Bahia 30th. Of course the chief topic of inquiry on the landing of her mails related to the definite settlement or otherwise of the River Plate affairs. It is said that Mr. Hood the ...

... * Manchester, Not. 19 . A meeting of the liberal dec tore was held last nioi. mthe Free Trade Hall, to the nomination madeta*.' Reform Association of Mr. Bright, as a candidate representation of Manchester, and to hear from him .1 position of his sentiments. There was a verv la»r_ George Wilson, Esq., was called to chair* W Mr Absalom moved, that this nf*. liberal electors of the Wrough ...

... Oil Wedlneslay Btiwee's nielo-draniatic comedy of -1i0eey was played at the Theatre Royal; and the careful exetlitlia- tion of the pie, e, thus by another performance atfoirled ns. but went to strengthen all old conviction that it belotirg to the very lowest class of its althor's imagiunise writlligI. Totally delicient in that meanest vet for a modern comedly indispensable dramatic requisite, ...

... 3Ult Zi-o - - clft-tsi e ASTLEy's AMPHITHEATRE. An equestrian drama called Le Cheval du Diable, which has been played with great success at Franeoni's, has been adapted to Astley's, with the title °d 'tlhe Demon -lotse. The human hero of this drama to a young miller of ambitious views, who, by a compact with the powers of evil, becomes poszesse of a deoan liorse, on co0dition that every ...

... T.RFEATRICALS, &c. D- HAYMARKET,-A now comedy, in five acts, is, at all times, a subject of interest; but the production of a cosoedy which will last, is a matter of astonishment and public congratulation. The want of dramatic ability, in a tangible shape, is sometimes said to be the fault of themanagers, who refnsc to encouragethe legitimate drama, preferring rather to please the eye than to ...

... l'OETRY. R 1~ot10 Vt0t O i @J ~1 otu,,J. Thought cloudls o'ercest our native sky, Audz seemi to diim the sun. We will iiot dowsi tn laoogror I e, Or deemslim to day t~isloole The rum1a enrs we loved lur Sre No less re'll cherishl nowv Aiim erouwii the Imomheet, as of yore, Viltil thonour to time Plought. ho tlheserofir folds. whose peaceful spoil To loithm ant hop~e atre giveii, eltol soelk ...

... # octry. I N OVEMBER. Give to the poor, warm clothing, firing, food, At once, unsparingly, and humbly give I prevent the winter's cough, the frame-chill'd brood Of throes which make It weariness to live; For, lo I November, drench'd in fogs and rains, Glooms on the air, and incubates the earth: Days, short and fickle, nip the labourers' gains, And bring increase of suff'ring and of dearth. ...