... r SOUT5Ev ON DEVON8SHIRE.-Devonshire is an ugly county. I have no patience with the cant of travellers who so bepraise It. l They have surely slept all the way through Somersetahire. Its trivers are beautiful, very beautiful, but nothing else, High hills, all angled over, and no trees. Wide views and no object. SCANDAL.-The love of deprecating the character of our r neighbours can only have ...

... Octrvq. TIP SONXET.-COMFOSED AT PARIS'. AYE I 't Is a mirth ?? sight, and I Join li the laughter glad, not less to see And hear thc pateantry aned festive glee, Than to think, u ye sots of Gellia, why-, Dupes that yl are, ye gaily shout, ayd sine, A Fd hell (with lusty lungs) your Citiem KiTIg- WAho, from yota falr pavileon, smiles sereno The liny showgman of that tittering scenae1 Evend roe ...

... i~octr11. S 0 N N E T.-COMPOSED AT B1BEItICI1. UPON the Itiine-the glorious Rhine-we met, Thou from the sunny shores of Italy, I from our native Ettgland. lie'er shall we The tryoting-plate-the soene-thq Itour forget When (to our long-form'd compact iust and trit) We canec, hi that fair reglol, to renew Our glad Cot1fiditlgs, anld exultingly O'er mtounttin lie glts to wander wild and free! ...

... ?? alto. EXHIBITION OF PICTURES. The pressure of other avocations has heretofore prevented us doing more than casually drawing attention to the exhibition now open at the Royal Albert-Rooms, College-green. The col- lection contains pictures of various degrees of merit, includ- ing specimens from the pencils of many of our local artists- Branwhite, Badham, Burbidge, Curnock, Hewitt, Horlor, ...

... *Ltterature. TWle fiperial Dictionany; Parts Y., II, III.-Blacoie and Son, 0 Edinburgh, and Warwick-square, London. 0 This is intended to be a national work. Recent discoveries, P and the prosecution of various branches of knowledge, have carried the language in advance of existing dictionaries; and numbers of terms are in use which are not to be found in ordinary c books of reference. The ...

... ULttraturet The Pictorial Book of Bullatd.-_H. Washbourne, New Bridge-st, Blackfriars, London, This work will moet one of the wvants of the age. The ballads of England are either scattered in various publications, or, as in the collections of Percy and ttitson, are embodied in a form and sold at a price which places them rather within the reach of the book-collector than the general public. In ...

... joortifulture an's Sloriculture. THORNBURY FLOWER SHOW. e The first show of the Thornbury Society, for the present sea- 3 son, took place on Wednesday, in a field in fi-ont of the Casile, e in which a handsome pavilion had been erected for the purpose. e The Tockington band was in attendance, and every preparation made for a gala day. but the envious rain descended in torrents, n and scared ...

... 3etraturro The National Ccptopadi.a; V01. T.-Chae. Knight, Ludgate-street London. The National Cyclopaied is a new work by the indefatiga- ble Mr. Charles Knight, a gentleman to whom the public ie indebted for so many first-class works, published at a price which has placed them within the reach of the mass of the reading community. The ?? Cyclopeeia was originally projected on the ...

... VOLUNTARYISH IN RCELIGION AND EDUCATION.-Ilafy dis- senters imagine that to admit that voluntaryism should not be exolusively relied upon in giving general instruction to children, would be virtually to admit that it should not bc so relied upon in giving religious instruction to the people. But ithe parallel is a fiction. Tue consequence does not follow. Nor shall we, in my humible judgmenit. ...

... A man is more reserved and secret in his friend's concerns than In his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own secrets better than another's. I Tnu Pools-Let the poor man, in the depth of his worldly abasement, respect himself; let him fear rather to do ill then to suffer it; let him cultivate his talents as highly as his daily avocations permit, ever bearing in mind that earth's ...

... Moire and shot taffettas, poults de soie of plain rolourg lit lcru, andeliecks, arefashionable for walking dresses; aend ces of ruches, pinked in ergte da coq, are used for all ,iik ouat rials ; others are in deep vandykes edged with gimp, andfr bar ges with a feston; wide tucks are also worn oil barig, relieved by a heading of gimp. For the pardeas f determines the colour-it can scarcely be ...

... joettrp. SONNET.-COMP'OSED AT BEnNE. SEs loine and dic, tis said; but 0, that hour When first I stood entranced beneath the powver Of yolsder mighty Alps, I could have wvish'd to die: For thoughts I never knew before that day Caine, like bright angels, from those summits high, And seenind to woo Ins from this world away. Evell aq yon glittering peaks the silent skies Plerce with their prcsenco ...