... LITER AT U RE. Bibliothleca Sacra, and Biblical Repository. No. I. Edinburgh, 1851. Aberdeen: G. & R. King. Tiles is the first number of a Quarterly, published in America, and reprinted in this country. Time was when the Americans were content to be our courteous readers; but scow from reading thexy have got into writing, and are beoinning to set up a litera- ture of their own. This literature ...

... titaffturt. wa Memoirs of the Life ?? of Thomas Chalmersr, D.D., LL.P. use By~, his Son-ia-LaiW, thre Blev. William Hanna, .LL.D. Vol. III. an -IPublisited for Thomas Constable by buhrlnead t Edinburgh. lnx ey It was 'originally intended by Dr. Hannah to complete the tivy memoirs of Ihis illustrious relative wvithlin thle compass of three C volumesO, but as hle proceeded wvith the work of ...

... TKEATRE$, 40. 1 I ,oYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-CLOgS OP TdkE SEASON. _An ounusually long and prosperous season was brought. ID a close on Saturday evening last, when Meyerbeer's pera of Les Hugruenots, with a cast including Gridi, lri, Castellan, Angri, Tamburini was given for the last time as a valedictory performance. All the artistes engaged in the representation exerted henselves to the utmost, ...

... SA.MBO TO THE GREEK SLAVE.' ton a berry pretty image ob dat dere am no doubt; And Hiram Powers him clebber cbap, de man dat cut you out; And all de people in de world to look at you dey go, And say you am de finest ting dat 'Ierica can show. But though you am a lubly gal, I say you no corrert; You not at all de kind ob slave a Rigger would expect; You neber did no workee wid such bands and ...

... The Stonemason of Saint Point, a Villae Tale, by AlphonsedeLamartiie. London: H.G Bo.bn,Yora street, Covent Garden. A simple rural tale, told in that earnest pathetic style wbilhftamartine can frequently so admirably employ. The following quotations are examples of the feeling with which the author has written the 6Stonemason Of Saint Point : ,'Very well, there are msoments, on Sandays in the ...

... 1 v w -:I -00 ,- Mnicocns'F ORn. C-IAL nRS. i.kV. W. XMANjTA. Sutlerlanq4 .a A Nxox, £'di7cs ?? copious me- moirs n4i frejsiof tisiate eminent Apreacher ,are.l written by his son-in-law, and he having free access to the voluminous correspondence of the doctor, has been enabled to lay before the pu~ic'h ;waijtdffrn il'interest and varied informnation. Oc Ch12a m h'v evid'ntly a lover of ...

... THlE GREAT EXHIBITION. ON Tuesday thesum of &3,0OS89s. was taken in shillings at the doors, and Xi for the sale of a season ticket. The numlber of visitors, according to the police returns, 'was 62,622. A further addition has been made to the American section: it consists of a large glass case, containing a magnificent tea service of gold plate, a testimonial froni the inhabitants of New York ...

... Jraobion -aun Farieties. THE ROYAL PROGRESS TO SCOTLAND. Tim annual ex'cursion which the Queen makes about this time of the year is always seized upon by the people as an oecasidn for'nianifestirig their loyalty, nor does the repetition of'the occubrehde 'it all diminish the interest with which it is regarded by her subjects. There were certainly more persons assembled along the route to the ...

... THa questions connected with the amount and, the causes of Crime are of deep social importance; h and there are few subjects on which greater errors ! have been committed by our publicists. Much light has been thrown on these questions, and several popu- lar errors have been exposed, in a valuable work just g published by our townsman, MR. PLINT, whose abili- a ties as a statist are well known ...

... -4- Othe rho SATURDAY. nel The following is the official report of the receipts on re, Saturriay:-Siason tickets, Xi ]O3.; at the doors, £1,198 lye.; total aces receipts, £1,200 5s.; police numbers, 120672. tenl The total number of visits to the Exhibition has been calculated are lip to this time, at 4,175,271, and the arose receipts at the doors ant amcount to 221,780 Ws. Gd. 010e MONDAY. the ...

... 2.MR GRC ATS -X BI&TION. MONDAY. The'receipta to-day amounted .to 2,8631. 6P., the num- ber of visitors being 59,344. It may he mentioned, as a curious illustration of the desire ?? among the humbler classes in the prbvinces to see the Exhibition, that a-poor fisherwoman, from the parish of' Paul, in Cornwall, fnamed Mary Calimack, aged eithty-four, walked to London, adistance of250, miles, ...

... ~it - ully Continuing olur daily' notices of the contents theo of the Crystal Palace, we propose to-day call- his ing the attention of* our readers to specimens ised of a class of articles which, in the most striking 5080 manner, illustrate the great end and aim of the h to Exhibition-the progress which man has made in ord- subduing nature to himself. We have shown Dme many of the varied uses ...