... (From the Athenaoimn.) Every nation has its own strongly-marked predilections in ithe art. In England these direct themselves towards vocal music. Our nationality, however, found a singular amount of nourishnient and re.sponse in the residence anong us of a C man like Handel, who accepted England as his home. and who was sustained in his fight with fortune by direct Royal patronage. But after ...

... CATTLE SHiOW ;; 1 ?? .. ?? tle e .e OF TnE STRATIMENDRICK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. expe Ilowar Y The sixth as1suolemswov of this society was held in a field near Bal- ceed ii fron, on Tuesday the 6th current. T'he spectators were not so nusme- of ee 1, rois an on folrieroeejssoiis, isliclimaybi beaccounted for bytbctireaten- to so d iug aspect ef tlie loy. Tfbi pleonsur of the oni-lookers wos, ...

... TIHE FINE.ARTS. t In our last paper we briefly ecalled attcntion to Sir Edwvin t Lauidsecr's excellent 1ictssre which is at present beingl xhibited t i, l the Gallery of Messrs. MIi'Clare & Son, Buchana Strect, andt r equested all admirers of art to sce and examiie the work ort thetmselves. As it is only llow and theo that pictures of the same t high class conme before nus in this city, we ...

... ' ?? - ?? . -n - i. ,,ill - P. v n- n qilvf PAilse's th ?? scill see by an advertisement b in this imorniog's paper, that the veteran Bailie, MaIr. Mackay, is n to take his beneit this evening. A few nights ago Mr, Murray t of EdinbUrgh insfle his last appcarancc this season in the part n of Maejor CGalbraitl. To-e1ight Mr. Lloyd will be ' cowed by d the red-hsot poker of the lailie. It ...

... THE HEllO LABOUR. (From 1 a Nation Boutiquiere,:) BY llENHIY LUS1INGTON. For the plague of Varna, Scutari's bell of woes, For the autumn's battles, for the winter's snows, For her noble thousands dead, and yet to die, She must have a vAlVE, Oln A REASON WIHY. Great in truth is Mammon, great, but not the Mvhole: Nay, at times, in Mammon wvakes the sleeping soul. Mammon's broad keen forehead, ...

... EAGLESHAbr CATTLE SHOW. a The Eaglesham Farmers?'Society's annual eattlo show took e place on Thursday tho 29th May. The judges of stock-Messrs. e John Young, Midton, Fiwick;. James Allison, Westfield, ir Mearns; James Scott, Gnundles, East.Klbride. The judges 3- of dairy produce-Mesers..James Fulton, Eaglesbam; John n Lindsay; and Andrew Kiag,.victualler, Glasgow. The follow- is d ing are the ...

... 'ORIGINAL JIOTTINGS. -TtIt -1 - - - - TtOTnl , MANCHESTEP EXHIBITION. No. 8; We eome now upon a number of pictures by- Sir David Wilkie, and here are most of those interesting painti2ga of -hiumble life and manners in Scotland, wbidh make Willie's e g6nius so intelligible to the masses. It would be difficult to name an artist so many of whose works are popular as Wilkie. He is the interpreter ...

... I. LITERAT URE. . CouBs DE LITTERATURE, par M. de Lamartine: No. 30, - Mozart. Paris: Cher l'Auteur. Glasgow: George Watsoni, Ingram Street. BEFORE resuming our remarks on this interesting series, of which the July number has just appeared, containing the conclusion of the essay on Mozart, we may be permitted a few observations on a malignant and ungenerous article on the subject of the ...

... THE CEOLOGIc AcnE or MAN IN ITS PRESESNT ASPuCT.. By the Rev. John Anderson, D.D., F.G.S. Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co. 1859. 'WE are glad to observe that it has been found advisable, in the shape of the pamphlet before us, to produce in a separate form the very excellent address delivered by Dr. Anderson before the British Association at Aberdeen in September last. In our day, it would ...

... MAMM:IALS FOR T ynN -- ..3 , -vt ?? . ?? ?? . .. ?? .. . . Do good with wbat thou bast or it willdothec no ; .s L Unvelcome'visits often pass off more pleaatlta J1ew PauZiB~hrr._ - l , . cassintllthan ers I Poor womenr! theyhave always to, car and hold th ladder by which -w men ascend into te blue and holdthe ja.eohs ;ffe~men, sewd nto te b~ andsuniset k Jlearn Paul Richte.. ies. Zoroaster,, ...

... ok en ,,nti-P n nnrer- l of ndo in :N LJIV 1-il U b 1 U. ,ag We have this week to notice a parcel of music which includes nt new publications from the establishments of Messrs. D'Almaine & ov Co.. 20 Solo Siquare, R. Addison & Co., 210 Regent Street, and he Duaff and Hodg-son, 65i Oxford Street, London. ys From the first named publishtes we have received a sacred song, I Jesus Wept, writtell ...

... GLASGOW.11ORTICULTURAL. EXHIBITION. Onl Firiday, the second exhibition this season of the West ofit) Scotland Itorticultuial Society was~ held in George Sqoare. I6 F~ocr ]irge maiqusos were cerected on the vacant spaces around of t the Scott moiiument. Two of these were devoted to the exhi- bition of fruits and fib-a er, one: to the display of kitchen vege- the tables, while the other wais ...