... GREAT EXHJBITIO.N OF TBlE WORKS I OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NA TIONS. MONTHLY REPORT OF PROGRESS. [FROM THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN AND SiANITFACTURES.] Manufacturers and all who are disposed to promote the Exhibition have now the assurance unmistakeably before them that some exhibition will take place; and it remains with them, and them only, to determine whether it shall be large or small, worthy of the ...

... C Y The papers in Blackwood this month arc few in number d but somewhat lengthy. The first is a review of tile chaili. Y tion of home and European politics during the year just closed, as compared with the posture of affairs in lelO cc. ?? garding the two as a year of reaction succeeding a sear of revolution. The writer seeks to prove that the reaction e must of necessity have occurred, as it ...

... DRU U Y-LANE THEA TRE. After a forced exile of some few years Miss VANDEvNIcFF has returned to the London stage. She has not been, hoes ever, during the interval, stholly estranged firom the metre. politan public, having been engaged, together Nsith he father, to aid in the dramatic reading of A etiyi-ew li, given last season, with AMENDBLsSOnN'S music, at Exeter Hall. The impression made by ...

... THE LIFE OF MRS. ,SHERMIAN.* We have before us a contribution to religious biography, which there cannot be a doubt will prove highly acceptable to that section of the Evan- gelical community of which Mrs. Sherman was so earnest and worthy a member. Surrey Chapel, in St. George's-fields, owed its foundation, in 1782, to the zeal and exertions of the Rev. Rowland Hill; and it continued under ...

... Tho BURGER and BRIGHTON LEOSORA.* It is not very easy to determine the category in literature to which this thin oblong quarto should be referred ; and even the professed catalogue- maker or librarian would be perplexed in allotting to it a proper position in a collection of books. The Burger and Brighton Leonora consits of three dis- tinct parts-an original German poem, a metrical translation ...

... -(Concinuail). ?? Besides the article on Labour and the Poor, which we transferred a few days ago to our columns, F rater's ilsyer. zine contains this month many excellent papers. The Miemac's Bride is the first of a series promising to recouint the adventures of an emigrant faemily ill the wilderniss of Acadia. At the termination of the American contest is 1784, many loyalist families in ...

... * A bright blue cover bedight with gold heralds our introduction to the living ballad-writers of 1850. There is pretty writing within this azure cover-some verses running smoothly enough, some pathetic tales pathetically told. Our ballad-writing has been too long neglected; no style is more effec- tive, if the necessary requisites be preserved- namely, a proper union of strength and simplicity ...

... GREA 7-iNDUSTRIAL EXHIBITJON OF, 1851. [FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE op LAST NIGHT.) WHITEH.ALL, JAN. 3, 1850. The Queen has been pleased to issue the following Corn- mission for the Promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, to be holden in the year 1851, viz.;- VICTORIA, R1.-Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, De- ...

... THE BE VIE TWS. -4- Thee 7e-stminstcr and Foreign Quarterlyg Re- ?? who will read attentively the first article in the TVcstminster, will be repaid for their pains by much valuable and practical information upon a subject interesting to all-epidemic disease; the most recent and best authenticated facts, the experience of antiquity, and the results of modern science, are grouped and condensed ...

... L]Y1 ?? ,PE'XNRIOS. To ?? 7ITR 'TIlL 310 ING CR OIICt0MLE. S.-; I. qud' sti. d .:ttleiscus.c ;. allI let it boIJ*: -. d P- tru ujitS, alnd let IS ?? . . tlel e: dn:: iA debate. All arC ?? t I W ed'eney Of elevatilg Ontel- lectual cxc..lknlce; lut the ?? iS, w!hethor we .1O good (or 111 a riinpiid .eas:on list placed at the dispo :1a ,,f :, -issl ul e ?? form of Cl' i'iic:it, hers ee sr ct pa ...

... THE BEVIEWS. -- [Cont'7ued from T/he 3orning C7imonie of JTanzmru 7J. The English Reriew commences with an essay on Coleridge's Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, which is made the foundation upon orthodox prin- ciplea for an analysis of the views entertained by Coleridge and his followers, and by the Rationalists of Germany and their disciples, upon the inspiration of the Scriptures. It ...

... ST. JAMESS THEATRE.-THIE OPERA COMIQ U. Last night Mr. MITCHELL commenced his second easonl of French comic opera, with some new arrangements, and some accessions to his already efficient company, of all which we Eometime since gave a very full account. It is satisfactory to see that Mr. 1ITCIIELL is, in many respects, aware that his first or experimental season left him open to criticism on ...