... OXTON AND CLAUGHTON FLORAL AND U01- | TICUiTURA.L EOCIEY'S EXUHIBTION. 'he Tl rt xiiinof t3 fcouitty f4r the seasoan ta,'b phece yes.. to terdeY llfternloco, in Claug, itaparr., 3i~r tlb.e -rnuS ent' o, duL V Pctuni-al~umesoand lx-a&3,oftL,a~.lF eb id . ow,,egio arge mau*e-ncal roct,:! for the occasjon. Tej lye w~athcr wo. & c ione, and ?? the. gecrltry ifltrl.p .Cbead, Oituoi, anrd ~ia` ...

... PEOPLES LECTURE3. I Last evening, Dr. Linlcester, M.D., P.RS., super. intendent of trio animial produet and food department *nat tlia South Kensington Musieumi, deliveredlin the concert Hall, Lord N olson-street, the first of a series t.of six popular lectures on 1Food. There was a Ls good attendance. His Worship the May~or, T. D. 1. Anderson, Esq., presidei, and amongst ot ler gentle. 1 ...

... Education best v2o-moted by Perfect Freedo)m, siot bY State th Endowoments. Wi-tt a,iApiieidix, ?? Official ileturnsI~ of Education in 1818. 1833, and 13~51. By Edwvard Babieis, author of thle ,History of thc Cotton ge Manufacture. London John Snow, Paternoster- th~ row. Leeds: R. NesovsilO. th' The claimt advanced by Mrll. Baines in this pamphlet on i behalf of the claises on whows ...

... 1~-q Child of the nigIht: Whenc ct6int tli() , ~~Unto our sight. .iPk as the midnight, r Light as the fawn, Front whence comest tbhon- ' ' Wlfere Wert thoa born 1 I hlmaxiao I Maximo ! Indian g8d: Round thy dark form, boy, 'The worshippers trod. Say, can thy mentiory r Bring back the past; B Or is it forgot- V In oblivion east? Mazilio Mtaxino t V Idoltsed child: s Gentle and loving, hs :' ...

... I THE.VOICE OF AUTUMN. Thou lonely man of grief and pailn, By lawless power oppreosed, Bunt from thy priron-rend thy chain, I come to make the blest ; I have no springtide bods; and flowers, I bave no summer bee9 and bowers; But, oh, I have some pleavut hours, To soothe thy soul to rest. Plenty o'er all the quiet land Her varied vesture wceaves, And Rings her gifts, with liberal hand, To glad ...

... The second annual exhibition of poultry in this town I commenced on Wednesday last, at the large room used as go Luocas's carriage repository, Great Charlotte-street. The room was thrown open about half-past eleven, and shortly an afterwards was crowded with a large assembly of ladies yel and gentlemen. Besides visitors from Livepo ?? neighbourhood, there were many from Manchester, Bir- Mr ...

... . ?? ?? 0C04-crjfor~tdc People. By11. Soyer. London and New provisil York : Rcutledge and Co. SixI Probably never in theo annals of ]publication, and car- shortly tainly never in those of cookery, did a work bid so fair to will fol fulfil the intimration in its title as this plain, practical, Paris and ye ssentially, artistic, little book, which has already corps reachd i:ts on hneth thousand ...

... I ivye for those who love me, For those I know are true. For the heaven that smites above me, And awaits my spirit too; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by G0od assigned me, For the bright hopes all around me, And the good that I can do. I live to hall that season By gifted minds foretold, when moen shall live by reason, And not alone by gold; When man to man united, And every ...

... THE BREA-TH .OF SPRING. The ?? of spring should ever ope The' portals of the heart, And. clcer it with aray of hope, Pirt pileasure to ihpurL. Fair buds and blossoms ever bloom, Cianud ly .the lbreath or Bpriug Thvy 81101 MIbroad0 a ?? pdifUuUe, And ?? l ach other cling. Liks3 theil the heart shoulI ever be By s'!ringss' .9nect biatl ulnbound(, Awld pJ, lh . from dc eitl frgoa, D:!tsin,, ...

... ?? . - .- I- - - 11 - Arariuion . a Tate of Flodden Field. By Sir Walter Co, Scott, Bart. Illustrated by eighty engravings on wood. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. This is a truly handsome volume, suitable either for the library or the drawing-room table. Tue illustrations are from desigtns by Birkett Foster and John Gilbert, and they are engraved and printed in thle first Style. Thle Poeu ...

... THe POINTS OF THE COMPASS. The Sooth is gorgeou3 in her sunmer bloom; The South is redolent with all perfume; The South is steaming with voll1ptuous fir, Arise, 0 Bard, arid sweep the living lyre.- No, never! Life is sensual in the South- L-o consecration, purity, or truth. 11ow affluent is the bosom of the earth, A2l forms of brightness hastii)g to the birth; Bnt all her fruits and spices ...

... The excellent Saturday evenine concerts in connention Ithe for The excellent Saturday evening concerts in connection For with the St. Mary's Working Men's Association, Kirk- his dae, smill continue with the most decided success, the b ied large room in Bootle-lane being each week densely N sh crowded with respectable well-conducted audiences of the Igh working classes, who lose no opportunity ...