... 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 ...

... CATTLE SaOW AT CAAIBUSLANG. UAT.U1' 1 O AA WUN A' .;Az1 BU: LA.iN U. l0oo On Tuesday last, the Cambuslang, Blatyre, and Ruther- glen Agricultural Society, held their annual showy of cattle atet and dairy produce at Cambuslang. The judges for the (Ira cattle department were-AMessrs. John Anderson, Smithston, her Cumbernauld ; Peter Crawford, Dumgoyack, Strathblane ; t and Robert !K'Kean, ...

... THE SHADOW ON TIlE WALL. Was the Shadow kissed by child or maiden? Infantine caressing! By pale dreamer, liro's full sun forbidden? Twilight of half-blessing! Or by votaries' lips a saintly image pressing? M1enl like fiends who Ieap o'er dead and dying Still new heaps to pile, Tossing a fierce laugh to Death's defying, Wild with wrath erewhile- Now like children lie and wait the nurso's smile. ...

... 7 LI TAT k.'i.1 LI TER ATUR E. TnaTHE Asi OF TnX WOIUD; an Aecount of all Religions an, ill, elijibits Sects, their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, niud Cus V -.K tonas Compiled from the latest and best audiroriitie by ti'e ia. Rev. James Gardner, M.D. and A.m., autihorof the Clrrltiart cll Cyclopaidia, &c., and illustrated from authentic gnd trust. 3es wortyi authorities. Edinburgh : A. ...

... Per We have to acknowledge the receipt of impressions from In of two plates which were very recently published by Mcssrs. E. i m Gambart & Company, London. These engravings are after S two water olossr drawings of . Dover and 1 Hastings, which, al it may be:.pioembered, we noticed a flew months since, while In they werbe'oh view in the gallery of Alessrs. MI'Cluro & Son, di C Buchanait ...

... 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 ...

... Tan CURCun1 HIiSTORY Os SCOTLAND, from the Commence- ment of the Christian Era to the Present Century. By the Rev. John Cunningham, minister of Crieff. In two volumes. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Blaclk. IT has been stated that the man most competent to write the History of the Church ?? was the learned Prin- cipal Lee of Edinburgh, who has been so-recently called to his rest. And the reason why ...

... :TkiI-R:FINEiARTS.`,I. i ?? -SXan'W A ?? sC(IVJ -AND 'TS '1ltibWNDS-: ; Weqlad, ?? pleagtureofbseaingthe above iutnre, by 'Mri- 4ed lo- ?? aiififrBWhibh' is at tpresent exhihiting in 'the ii~awgalleiry Jof: ?? :'M31 Clnrs;)Bntchhntan S~reet; 4 Sch a 'at -iork as this' 'hawsl'lainis' 6f ,'no'-ordin'ary kind ?? Y 'attentionmfi'the'lirntifons of'artt! 1 Tlie ?? 'of Sin Walter n Scott, 'and ...

... (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 ...

... TO AN OLD PLAYAMATE. Ui u 1 U.i I Ij v A, BY BARillY CORNaWALL. (Froa 'lThe Kcepsaek, jest published by Bolegn, London.) Dost theou still reinellber me : 1 remember thee nnd thine, When the young and carcless bours All were thine and mnine When we hidl our eyes il flowers, Laughing at the ruling powers, Dreaming life divine. Dreams of bonks, or barren learning, Trotilled not our summer sleep ...

... LIT ERA T UR E. up. Tue TENT-AND..TE KHAN: A JOUR1NEY TO SINAI AND PAhsE- _ TINE. By Robert Walter Stewart, D.D., Leghorn. With Map and.11luatrations. . Edinburgh: William Oliphant. & Bono.' 1857. Lily'IN~the 4'Travels in the Holy Land, by our townsman, Dr. Rae 0th Wilson, the Lands of the Messiah, by Dr. Aiton, and, The ' nt and the Khan by Dr. Stewart, we may claim for lD, ?? ...