LITERATURE

... ':Tar1 CRnSIS OF 1847, and the Causes and Care Practically Considered. By a Scotchtan. Glasgow: David Bryce. Edinburgh: . ?? Kennedy. London: Hamilton, Adams, ECo. 1847. This is perhaps the most sensible and seasonable pamphlet which has appeared on the much vexed question of the cur- rencr. It deserves and will repay an attentive perusal. It is not the production of a dreamy speculative ...

ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTS

... ROYAL SCOTIThH SOCIETY OF AT?TS. The society root in thre htll. 91 'xir,nce's Street. on the 1 3th inst. Gcorge lhiuciianao. Isr. Fill S.i;. preisidenr. in the to oir. Tule followxin: ?? wiere mnade:- 1. IDescripti n of thle ()vc-rarch Smipenitnio Bridge. inrventcd hy Mkr JIohn K Abe Msihme. 33i Hlanover Street, Elinhet; i. Coo~r~ncnocarrd lhy Dat'ael Wvilson Esq. FRusS.S.A. A model to scale ...

THE IRISH PARTY

... I - HE IMIS PABTY. Trhe following is the leading article from the Mail of last night on the meeting at the Rotundo :- GREAT nnEETntsO OF IRISH PEERS, MEMBERS OF PABLIA , JENT, AND LANDOWNERS. The Irish Parliament has at length become a great 9 fact-to argue nmw about its necessity would be, to use ti the words of Ar. George Hamilton, 1 arguing a foregone n conclusion. In this faet of the ...

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

... FASHIONABLE INKELtIGRNC.Z I Their Excellencies the Lord LieU.N f arnd the Countess of Clarendon entertained the following party at dinner at the Viceregal Lodge on Monday evening :-His Royal Highness Prince George; the Lord Mayorand Lady Mayoress; the Chancel. lor and Mrs Brady; Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide; Sir Ed. ward and Lady Bilakeney; Right Hon T and Mrs Kennedy . the Master of the ...

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

... I .FASRIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. l The Earl of Clancarty, Major Fox, Messrs. Cassidy, Wilson, EvansHeymlan. Perse, Graut, Shin, Chadwick, Usher, Bell, Machin, Hanker, De Lisle, &c., sailed from Kingstown, on Wednesday evening, by her Majesty's mail packet, Iron Duke, for Liverpool. Colonel Acton, M P. ; Colonel Fairolough, Captain Hanly, Messrs. BonmaneRadford, Blake, Carter, Frazer, Arch bold, ...

LITERATURE

... I ~ IrATERA TURR. NOW AND THEN',-BY Samuel War l (Blackwood, Edinburgh).-It Is so long 510nc we met with any real pictures of modern English life and a nz. ners that we had well-nigh begun to despaire Bt m the author of the Physician's Diary exists, there can be no such fear. In this new production be exhibit, unabated powers; nay, in some things he excells his foroer self. It is ...

ENGLISH FAIRS

... I - BAhNET ANNuAL GREAT CATTLE FAIR.Barnet fair always creates much interest, both in regard to the supply of horned cattle and the show of horses, which, for the most part, are readily taken up, both for the saddle, light- wheel traffic, and agricultural putposes. We never re- member to have witnessed a more respectable show of both orders of live stock than we bad occasion to notice on SEa ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... THE LITERAlRY EXAM2,INEi'R. T7/e Trsu )Seory of sy Ife r' Shctl. ?? :yHans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mary Ieouitt. Longman and Co. We have had much of this true story already told in Andersen's fictitious stories, and we doubt if the rest had not better have remained untold. The first eighty pages of the volume, comprising the author's childish struggle and aspiration, are charmingly ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... ---T -E -LRA EAINR TCHE LITE11ARY EXAMINE R. Xorman's Bridge; or, the Modern .Afidas. By the Author of the Two Old Men's Tales. Three vols. Bentley. This is a very powerful but very painful story. We doubt if in any of her writings, all of which we have watched with no ordinary interest, the author of the Two Old jlkso's Tales has shown greater genius than in this. But it is impatient and ...

The Pope's last Miracle.—The Tablet publishes the following extract from private letter from Rome:— The Pope ..

... He went to Subiaco, and as there was a great want ef rain the people asked him to pray for it. He accordingly went to the shrine of Benedict, and prayed there an Jiour, and immediately tn« rain came, and lasted six hours. ...

Selected Poetry

... Srlctcl vctrij. APR I L. BY TITE AUT1ORa OF RUR&L SONSETS, &C., &C. Tbe ?? gales are Iill'd to rest, Tie early watbilrs re'atth'me their strains As timid April, by the Sun caressed, XNow with lher breath of violets, walks the plains; And when her lord, like some enamoured youth, l),cels on the changeful colours of her cheek, She, like some miaid, hoart.eertain of his truth, Smiles thro' her ...

Literary Reviews

... Lf Jtsrarl) lbidutSc~. N (I. l7. IIANIMI1,.; SIllCED (RATORIO z, TEI , 1M E\SI *s ii' -I IAY D N'S 0IIIATIOIRo, ' Tiil'1 CREATION.' arranilgod 11! Vincent INIvlo. Iondioni: I .(1fred Afrefs. W'e ?? ?? tlhe .laim iry ald ?? I 11111O m Of this (leap nod dleganlt pliblicatioll. Ilrilg driadly favooic- abnl introduced this e1 llealpst niisical llliblicatioli in tilc Wrld'' to our readers, e ...