... THE SNOWDROP. (From Miller's Poetical Language of Flowers.) As Hope, with bowed head, silent stood, And on her golden anchor leant, Watching below the angry flood, While Winter, 'mid the dreariment Ualf-baried in the drifted snow, Lay sleeping on the frozen ground, Not heeding howv the wind did blow, Bitter and bleak on all around; She gazed on Spring, who at her feet Was looking on the ...

... The little, little roan, in little red coat dressed. Sits alone in his little box- He thinks-aye he thinks, As alone he sits, When the next up-train shall pass. Yes, the little, little man, in little red coat dressed, Thinks ! He sits and he listens-hits time he looks, And finds 'tis over-due. Ah ! ha V he cries- The train don't come, What, what, Oh ! what shall I do ! Up then he jumps, ...

... BLAGCtWOOD'S MAGAZIYE-MarCl 1847. The first paper this month is on Pauperism and its Treat- mcnt, including the vexed question of out-door relief, and other debateable points, the spirit of which may be inferred from the following concluding sentences:- The reader now sees distinctly, that which the clamour and clash of rigonrists and universal benevolence-men might have led him to over- ...

... i Madame Anna Bishop achieved another triumph on I Thursday eyvning, in Balfe's opera The Maid of Artois, in which she personated Isoline. It was in this opera that this lady appeared in Drury Lane in October last, and in which she was at once bailed as the prima donna ossoluas of this country. Madamne Bishop's voice is a pure soprano, having a compass of about two octaves-from F on the ...

... LITERA T U REN . - -f ~ gait'as Ednlenbrh Magazine for March. Edinburgh: Suther- land & Knox. IT is only now and then that a stray numlber of Tait finds its way into our hands. The present opens with an article, en- titled George Crabbe a criticisi on the poetical eharac- Ur of the worthy man who bore that name. The author is Kr Gilfillan, who lately put forth avolume of such like por- ...

... Madame Anna Bishop made her first appearance in our theatre on Tuesday evening, in the opera of La Sonna- bula, and, as might have been anticipated, from the celebrity this lady has acquired both on the Continent and in this coun- try, her reception was of the most enthusiastic description. She possesses a voice of great compass, power, and flexibility, and her fine dramatic action gives an ...

... POETRYI RATIONAL HYMN FOlR THE GENZERAL FAST. By the Author of .'linua(t ...

... 'lWe understand that at a meetingr of the committee of the Association for the Prourotion of the Fine Arts for Scotland, held on Saturday, the slum of one hundred pounds, offered some time ago tor the best series of designs in outline, illus- trative of interesting events in the history of Scotland, was unanimously avwarded to the artist who had produced a series entitled Seven Events in the ...

... BURNDnG OF THE THEATRE AT CARLSRHUE- I FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE. - A lamentable fire occurred at CarlsThue on 2ath ult. resultei ing in a loss of life fearful to contemplate. The performances in the theatre were to commence at six o'clock on Sunday the 28th February; and shortly before that hour, when a considerable number of persons bad already en- tered the theatre, the third tier of boxes being ...

... f __ St_ ss I- (From the Lady's Newspaper.) Dressof pink satin,the skirt trimmed with two deep flounces of white lace. On each side of the front breadth a very wide pink satin ribbon is placed perpendicularly along the skirt from the waist to the top of the upper flounce, where it is fi- nished by a bow and long ends. There is also another bow, but without ends, higher up. The corsage is very ...

... Blachwood's lagazinefor March. Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons. THis is an excellent number. The articles, which are of agreeably diversified character, are all good. First comnes a carefully written and judikious essay on Pauperism and its Treatmentwhich welldeservesattention. ARideto MIag- nesia is very agreeably written, and contains many interest- ing incidents. Java is an ...

... 'P ETRY. BONNIE MA.RY RoSS. TuNE- Dinna ask me gin 1 loe ye. Let ithers sing, an' anthems ring, To them o' high degree, Their lofty lays, an' paid-for praise, Is no a theme for me. Nae love hae I, for titles high, Their grandeur is but gloss, Mair dear to me, the beaming c'e (' Bonny Mary Ross. Beside the burn, at eve's return, Beneath the trystin tree, 'Tis there we meet, an' 0 Ihoo sweet, ...