... On Wednesday last, the annual exhibition of stock, &c., of the Blackburn Agricultural Society, was held in a field adjoining Blakeley Moor, and near to Paradise Cbapel. This was decidedly the best and throngest meeting ever held by this society, and, unlike that of last year, there were amongst the visitors a pretty fair sprinkling of landed proprietors. There was the largest quantity of stock ...

... MEETING OF WORKING MEN. hi On Thursday evening last, a meeting was held at the tB Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge, to consider the propriety of calling a public meeting of the working classes, h to assist in carrying out the exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, to be held in May, 1851. James se German, Esq., Mayor, and S. Cartwright, Esq., attended fr as a deputation ...

... LINES ON TBE OLD YEAR. Fil ntanly a muornings light with rosy dawn, Fall ' nimay a night with sable curtain drawn, THavr round mne bless'd with health, and hope, and love, 11;i1ee richest gifts to earth fromt heaven above, Iriendship hath charmed me thro' the lingering day, And amaranthine flowers of love bestrewed my way, MAv life's untroubled stream has glided on Like shadouws fading with ...

... CARDINAL WISEM1AN ON THE ARTS OF I DESIGN AND PRODUCTION. On Thursday evening week a very crowded auditor to assembled in the Manchester Corn Exchange, to hear his v eminence Cardinal Wiseman deliver a leeture on the re- A latioris between the arts of design and the arts of produc- di tion. His eminence was received with enthusiastic ac- of clamnations. mn Dr. Tuasina, the titular Bishop of ...

... I| - ., ?? FLOWElRS. ,, y I O It .A C E S 3I I T H1. y e ?? worshippers Who, benlding lowly ,ifore tile uprtisel s5u, God's lidless eye, Throw from your clhalices a sweet and holy Incense oin high. Ye bright mosaics! that, with storiod beauty, The floor of natures temple tesslate, What numerous emblems of itlstruetive duty Your forms create I 'Neath clustered bou1ghs, carl, floral bell that ...

... I|I THE RTSING GENERATION IN ARMS. We find in the Cincinnati Times the following account of one of the most remarkable fairs of that go-ahead country, held at Springfield, Clark county, Ohio. It is a refreshing change from the dry columns of political re- solves and convention speeches :- I TRE ARRIVAL OP THE BABIES. Decidedly the greatest feature of this fair was the National Baby Convention, ...

... ! _ ?? l - | THE BROOK; AN IDYL. BY ALFRED TMNNYSON. I come from baunts of coot and herni I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty bills I hurry down, Or ?? between the ridges, By twenty thorps a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ...

... ' - LINES Written by a pupil of the late Mr. Charles Nloholson, the Tn.. rivaed flont player, who died In London, about twenty years ago, and whose remains lie interred In the burial ground of old. St. pancras Church, London. Orpbans could woods and rooks in motley throng, By playing, with him cause to dance along; When Nicholson petformed upon his flute Thy sounds, Oh harmony I were no longer ...

... THE TRUTH AND PLAIN DEALLNG.-If ever you find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing circum- stances, out of which you are at a loss to extricate your- self, do what is right, end be assured that that will extri- ente you the best out of the worst situations. Though you cnnnot see when you take one step what wil be the nest, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never ...

... BRTIiSH WORKUMAN, for April- The number for the ensuing month of this magazine, which, for the excellence of its pictorial embellishments, the general style of its typographical execution, and the fine, manly tone which pervades its literature, stands at the head of the penny periodical press, gives an account of Sir Richard Ark- wright, the poor barber whom King George knighted. Sir Richard, ...

... ?? THE TEAR. When infant innocence is grieved, And hath not power to say In words, the import of its wrong, What giveth utterance way? When tides of unexpected joy, Like mountain billows come, What tells the rapture of the heart, Though speech itself be dumb? When pent within its secret cell The agony of grief, Upheaving, threats exhausted life, What lends the soul relief? When Folly in ...

... II COUNSEL TO THE AMERICANS. Abolish slavery I -Well I By multitudinous murdering of brotherm Outrage and tyranny beyond all others, By sword and flame, by recklessness and ravage, By au that marks the fiend or moves the savage f There,-tbese are works of hell I Ye cannot wrest Heaven's holy purpose so, God, Christ, man, mercy, charity cry No ! Ye waste your wealth, ye maximise your woe I ...