... THE EXILE'S DAUGHTER. Lustrous stars glow dim, And fado from the brow of night, While the last note of tho vesper hymn Wiuigth its mournful flight; Wafted from far, as if augels uoro Somr sister soul to a Lethean shore, Bless'd as tho starry dreams stgt, Like fairy visions, on joildraigh seepl for the dewy evoe Hath touehed the cords of aloving heart, As ench ?? hand shall leave hA balm that ...

... .0 11 A Comprehcensive History of India, Civil, Military, and f Social, front the Ai-st landing of the English to the .Sup- d pression of the Scpoi Revolt, illutstrated by above 500 en- gravings on Wood and Steel.-Blaokie & Son, Glasgow. a WE have just got the first part of this interesting work, which, as to paper, print, and style of getting up, is superior i to any of its competitors which ...

... THE SANDS OF DEE. __ '0 Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home Across the sands of Dcc; The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alono sent she. II. 'The western tide crept oIp along the sand, And o'er awi o'cr the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as aye could see The rolling mist came down aud hid the land- And never homo ...

... Titan, for July. TnIS Magazine opens with a review of the first part of fr Cardinal Wiseman's Reeolleetions of the last Four Pops, A to which is added what is called a missing chapter of gi the, life of his present Holiness, on which his eminence is A silent. The reviewer sees little in the Cardinal's volume.a but ass enthusiastic admiration of the artistic and sensuous si decorations of ...

... POETRY, -LINES WRITTEN ON TR LI DEPARTURE OF THE Ssr. LAWRENCE. The parting hour! Motbinks I feel The magic of its powerful spell, A strange sensation o'er me steal, Which whispers in mine oar, Farewell I Farewell ! for now the spreading sail Unfvrls to'catch the fav'ring breezo; The barquo bends proudly to the gate, And steers her course for distant seas. My native shores will soon recede, ...

... THE CLO UDS. (BY MELLENi, AN AMERICAN NvwraR.) oh clouds ! ye ancient messengers, Old couriers of the sky, Trbading, as In primeval years, Yon-stili immensity In'march', how wildly beautiful Along the deep ye tower! Begirt, as wihen fromn chaos du'll Ye loomed i, pride and power, To crown creation's morning hoisr. Ye perish not, ye passing clouds! But, with tho speed of time, Ye flit your ...

... LIT E Rf AT U RE. Vlackeosod's Magazine. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons. tive! Fraser's Magazine. London : J. W. Parker & Son. don The Dzublin niversifty Mragazine. Dublin : W. M'Glashano bull BLACl;WOOD is strong on tho conduct of the war-denouncing tonl, the conduct of the Minlistry from the outset, especially ol tice a q Foroigu enlistment act. A secoixd pap-er, viz., Peace and Patriot. ...

... THE SNOW-SBHOWERR BY W. C. BRYANT. 1.1 STANB; llerc by my sido and torn, I prtay, . On the lake below thy gentle eyes; btai The cloruls haug over it, llivy-duld gray, irn And dark aud silent the water lies; 1 And out of that frozen mist the snow In: wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake ofter flake, They sink ill the dark and silent lake. he See, now; it a living swarm they cono From the ...

... ST. ;4AR'S FAIR. 4- This old-established annual Fair was held on the well-known stansC on Wednesday, lHeavy showers fell at interval3, but not so as to obstruct'businssq, and, with the copious rain of the previous I day, the weather might be pronounced hkig~hly favourable. Trade, notwithstanding, was extremely.laugaid for all classes of stoek. C.VrtLE.-The shbow of -cattle (about 000) was ...

... THE NIGHT SORTIE. Thore's no sound save the sentinel's mcasur'd tread; There's a heavy mist o'er tho valley spread, Save at times, when n struggling moon-beam frills On tre looming city's belcaguerld walls. Ahd'he often pauses, and looks around; Fbr, beneathi, be thinks he has hearud a sound Of a hurried trampling, and stifid hum, Liko the distant roll of a rauffild drum. There's no flag nor ...

... Select l~'orfs rf Th-omas i'hr-Ioery, D. D., L L. D. Edite-l hr his % Son-iic-Law, tiw 11cv. WILLIAM HtANNA, LL.D. Val. Vi-i .Evidences of tle Cilristiani Ilvelation, au-I Lcturies on Paleys '5 Ev ideleces. Edinb~urgh i Constaible. I-c is of the lire-senit edlition that we have to Spleak in noticing e this volume11-not of its thceologieal. or literary vain o, for tijes, if 1 niot in every ...

... ni The British ,Soti~r : on Anecdotal History of the, Britiih to' Arm fomit erlestoraaios o he i'scittie.Part at I. By J. H. STOCQUELEB, Esq., Author of The Life of at Duke of Wellington), The Military Encycloptedia, at The British Officer, hec. Dedicated, bypoc-mission, to n( H. R. H. thle Duke of Cambridgo. London : Win. S. di Orr & Co. I1 Masis is one of the excellent publications ...