... LITER AT RE, I The Modern, HousetWif, or Menagere: comprising nearly One Thousanad Receipts for the ?? aind Judicious Prepara- tion of every oeoal of the Day, and thase for the Nursery and the Sick Room; with Huintte Directionsfor Pamily Manage- meaC fin att itd Branichteg Illutrhatedl wyith Engravings, includ- fty the Modern Houseie'Jos Unique Kitchen, and Maygic Stove. By ALEXIS SOYER, ...

... . 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 ...

... CH UELTY TO ANIMALS TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY. bez to be allowed to offer a few remarks on a fact which must force itself oa the observation of many of your readers, frequency with which the spirit of the law against to is with impunity infrieged. It seems to be pretty generally understood that open vio- lence, blows, and infuriate torture, are necessary to constitute “* either an act of ...

... Naval tutelliqence. Woolwich, April 22. APPOINTMENTS. Masters.—John G. Mugford (1841), to the Amphion, 34, screw steam. frigate, of 300-horsepower, advanced war steamer, at Sheerness; Stephen Spain (1846), to the Cyclops, wheel steam-frigate of 320-horsepower, advanced war steamer, at Sheerness, Second Master Henry W. Inglis (1849), recently serving in the Vulcan, screw steam troop-ship, to ...

... deep interest in the social condition of our countrymen in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland, may I beg a place in your journal for the follow- ing observations. These may not be altogether consonant with your economical views, but I trust to your well known liberality for a fair hearing. Famine and destitution were at one period, and that no late one, as unknown in the Highlands and Isles ...

... MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. Commerce or France.—The official returns of the trade and navigation of France with her colonies and forcign coun- tries, during the first six mths of the present year, have just been published, the resultd of which, as compared with the same period in the previous year, are very favourable. Thus the total duties receivell upon importations have been 69,002 ...

... (Abridged fromn the Inverness Courier.) TInURSDAY, JULY 13, TO SATUIIDAY NIGIIT, JULY 15. Our importarnt market commenced as usual on thuesecond Thursday of July, and extended to the Saturday following. Svevral gentlemenl arrived on Thursday evening, but it was not till late next day titat business was attempted, and thett only a few small Jots were disposed of. There never was a market here ...

... I~ ~ ,_ , . ken. a of (iFramutbe Mtanchester Guardian,) was The Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, this at Manchester, in 18.5?, is now a thing of the past, so far as the nee, public is concerned:- and to the executive committee there re- sage mains but the onerous tasak of. packing the countless treasures por- and retu-rning. them to their liberal-minded owners. it was for ...

... LITER AT U R E. A HANlD-Bio or BRI1TISHI MAnfRITl'JL LAW. By D. R. Morice, Advocate in Aberdeen. L'ondol: Smith; Elder & Co., Corrhill. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh. Tent treatise is intended for the use of meichents, shlipowners,, shipmasters, and legal ?? the three fir!tr. mentioned classes, who have here in an aecessible form that. information which largely enters into their daily trlnsactio!s' ...

... ?? Aat HISTORY OF FREDERICK THE. I ' ' ,--GREAT.* (Fiore thebiterary.Gazettc - - The actual publication of 'these voluLnes, the first half of Mr. Garlyle's long-promised and long-expected Life of t Frederick the Great, sets at rest the question, mooted more than once during the last few years,-wv.hether the work ...

... c I fMTTrrt. r -rmr Snr -wam eln THE QUEEN CITY OF THE WEST. (By Charles Mackay, in the Illustrated London News.) Cincinnati, Jan. 27, 1858. Cincinnati is as yet the greatest city of the Great West. How long it will ,remain so depends on the progress of po. pulation in Missouri, and the city of St. Louis on the Missis- sippi. But a few years ago it was the U'ltima-Thule of civil- isation, ...

... THE JOLLY -MARINER. A BALLAD. IT was a jolly mariner As ever hove a log; He wore his trousers wide and free, And always ate his prog, And blessed his eyes in sailor-wise, And never shirked his grog. Up spoke this jolly mariner, Whilst walking up and down:- The briny sea has pickled me, And done me very brown; But here I goes, in these here clo'.es, A-cruising in the town ! The first of all ...