... Lis FIRST ROOM CONTINUED. Bet 92. Portrait of the late Professor Wilson, of Edin- al burgh, by Sir J. N. Gordon, R.A., Edinburgh.- asi There is characteristic expression in the rendering of be the individuality of the features, the loosely flowing he gray hair, the collar negligently turned down, and a 1 the outstretched arms supported by the walking stick. per 93. Chiarity-Sevilla, by John ...

... thl Six Z ecstures deliveredi at the Ladies' College, Black-bucrn de Rouse, Liverpool, in April ansd AMay. Liverpool:. thi C. Howveli, 6, Church-street. ha The six leotures delivered during last April and May art at the Ladies' College, Blackbarne House, of this town, 151 and now published in the form of separate pamphlets', 51 possess, apart froma the independent interest they com-'9 At mtand ...

... T W IL I a H T. Twilight! how I love the feeling. Sweetly Soothing to the mind, When o'er the soul thy stillness stealing. Leaves a holy calm behind. Then, to fancy's eye appearing, Forms beloV'd, though distant far, Wake affection's glowing feeling, Silence every passlon's jar. And upon my rapturld vision, 'Mid thy dim and sombre light, Burled forms have burst their prison, To sweetly gleam ...

... ST. GEORGE'S HALL S&TU~BDAY EVENIENG CO;CERTS. The attemnt ?? --n- A - . The attempt toestablish Saturday evening concerts in St. ha George's Hall has failed as a private pecuiary speculation. to We are glad, however, to announce that the people will to not be deprived of the opportunity of spending in their own ball the only evening in the week on which they have leisure. The committee of the ...

... THE EON. W. E. GLADSTONE, MP., AT THE SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS. Al On S otzuay ovening last, the Right Hon. W. E. tb Gladstone, MA , presided at the Concert Hall, Lord vc Nelseon-strect, being accompanied by his brother, pf Roberteon Gladstone, Esq., A. S. Gladstone, E-q., so and party. There were nlso present Mr. Bramley- of Moore, M.P., Messrs. N. Caine, J. R. Jeffery, W Jefferv, J. C. ...

... =T~ ?? LIVERPOOL'S LORDLY CANDIDATBE,1 OaAIMLES T-X, THE COMMITMTEM. I By his honour fair he swore, Rh That the loyal town of Liverpool (i Should suffer wrong no more. of By hh hononr fair he swore it, And for the polling day at He bado the cinvassers go forth, East and west, and south and north, TD To summon hia array. E East and woit, and south nod nor'h, re The canva oerg do fly, ao And ...

... On this day we took the city of Rivas by assault. Lieutenant O-, a young officer of the ?? Brigade, was mortally wounded. When brought into the hospital tent he was delirious, and, fancying himself at home with his mother and friends, he continued conversing all night Me if with his mother, telling her whore he wdshed to be burled, &. cle died during the night, and at suarise Wau nrled in a ...

... THE GIEAV EXHIBITION. we hear that on Tuesday a meeting o f the Royal Commissiwj, will be held to settle finally certain matters onl which it is ne- cessary to coins to a decision before the Queen end the Prince leave for Bialmoral. As the public wvill readily' conjecture, thle1 principal questions thus about to be discussed. are, no doubt, the I exact date onl which the building should close, ...

... . I: 1 THE SEASONS. A blue-eyed child that sits amid the noon, OP'rhung with a laburnum's drooping sprays, Sidging her littlo sons, while softly round Along the grass the chequered sunshine plays. All beiaaty that is tlronod in wonanliondh Pacing a snmmer garden's fountaolnd walks, That stoops to smooth a glossy spaniel down, .To-hide her flushing chock from one who talks. A happy mother with ...

... LITER AT U RE. Bibliothleca Sacra, and Biblical Repository. No. I. Edinburgh, 1851. Aberdeen: G. & R. King. Tiles is the first number of a Quarterly, published in America, and reprinted in this country. Time was when the Americans were content to be our courteous readers; but scow from reading thexy have got into writing, and are beoinning to set up a litera- ture of their own. This literature ...

... LITER AT U RE.I The Lily and the Sc-ani Alpologne of the Crystal Palace. By En, SAM;%UEL WARRLEN, F.B.S. Edinburghi William Blasckwood or & Sons. ele M1R. WARREN'S writings aIrc of a very mixed character. His bill Dayof at late Physleian is a work. of remarkable isower-bis Sp,' Now anti Then fall of practical religion -his 1Ten Thoulsanld full a, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~roe a -year1 more issrked ...

... I I fOn Mod1ay the numlbero visitors to the Crystal Palace was Csmaller, by several thouansthanl on tie two previous Mon- days. At eleven o'clock iillstlhe hrmnometer stood ait 78 dsgrses, 1,and at twelva SO degrees, at which it stood until five O'clock., To learn the immense activity which the Great Exhibition is now setting in motion, was apparent at the termini of the great railway lines. ...