... vatrt1I CLOUDS AND THEIR SILVER LININGS. DEAD LEAVES, but yesterday, along the lane Were rustling drearily, or soddened lay In drifted heaps around; as ii in pain, The Earth's old face grew furrowed with decay. T'e orchard boughs with brittle moss were wrapped, The ruby berries withered on the thorn, With clogging snows the village roofs were capped, The mill-wheels tast in ice were yester ...

... The Bridih Sacred Baniner; a National Hymn, written and composed by ?? lf GzARY; the music by Gzo. PERRY. Published for the Author, Euston-place, Euston-square, London. This is i wef.'written lyric; set to a bid and spirited air, which is worthy the fame of the gentleman (Mr. Perry), to whom we are indebted for the establishment of the Sacred Harmonic Society; and whois amost excellent, sound ...

... PUBLIC AjaUrEIJB TS AT Liverpool. forgom O0R OWN CoRRESpoDNOTq) AMPHITHEATRE.-The opera Com-any terminated their successful engagement on Saturday evening to the great regret of many of their admirers, who had enter. tained hopes of a re-engagement. On Monday evening Mr. Henry Farren and Miss Louisa Howard, from the Olympic Theatre, London, commenced a brief starring engagement, and made ...

... -- 10 actru. THE PEASANT'S PRIDE. SHE left her father's busy home- A lass of eighteen years- She heard no more her sisters' laugh, Or her brothers' blithsome cheers. Beneath the household holly trees, No more at noon she listens To the hum of her mother's honey-bees Where the hire in the sunshine glistens. Her cot is on a dreary moor, Where sound of human -life For hours at time will never ...

... iortru. GOOD TEMPEr. S Y C It H A L ES S IW A I N . T'HEUE's not a cheaper thing on earth, Nor yet one half so dear; 'Tis worth more than distinguish'd birth, Or thousands gain'd a-year. It lends the day a new delight; 'Tis virtue's firmest shield; And adds more beauty to the night Than all the stars may yield. It maketh poverty content; To sorrow whispers peace; It is a gift from Heaven sent ...

... CH UELTY TO ANIMALS TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY. bez to be allowed to offer a few remarks on a fact which must force itself oa the observation of many of your readers, frequency with which the spirit of the law against to is with impunity infrieged. It seems to be pretty generally understood that open vio- lence, blows, and infuriate torture, are necessary to constitute “* either an act of ...

... PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS. First Concert, Monday, March 15. PART I. Grand Symphony, No. 12. ?? ?? .. ?? Haydn. Recit. and Aria, Land of my sire, Mr Sims Reeves (Joseph) ?? ?? Mehul. Concerto, No. 2, Pianoforte, M. HalId ?? Mendlelssohn-Bartholdy. Recit. and Aria, Ho spavento, Mdme Castellan (Atalia) Weber. Overture, ZraubsrJldte. Mozart. PART II. Sinfonria Eroica ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? Beetboven. ...

... POP'ULARl ENTERTAINIMENTS. ?? . . ?? ?? . .1- 1 .. 1 ?? I Pt'isce's ?? establishinieut 31r. Josh. Silsbee, . the faunols siet'iean comedian, and Mir. B3enjamiin 13arnett, have been perfbrniing nightly to good h(ousPs. Of the former t we do ineit well know what to say that mnav not be construed into lanlt-filoidig and hypercritical fastidiousness, hult we Canitot help what nitay be thought of ...

... Ptblic AltUFMIMttI, MARYLEBONE. 'I'e enterprising un;lnager of this place of entertainment Prvided a rich treat onl Monday night. for tile lovers of novnlty, in the prioiuction of two new pieces. Tbe first is a i :iee-act driama, from the pen of Mr. II. Coleman, on- titied Lelia ; or, tho Betrothed. The scene is laid in It ,!y; and tile plot chiefly turns on two rival counts (Mr. Li ghain ...

... to WJhat A1re Yea At I A 1'1ainc Qwist-oa, adidresseds to n thc Earl of Derby. By ?? Farmier. Lou- but don: James Ridgwvay, No. 169, Piccadilly. heE Poor Lord Der~by, whose moet ambitious aim, in entering doi upon the duties of his high office, was to be tolerated, to tif3 have his ministry judged by the standard of thinge which he, servo at a pinth, will not carry his point by having fixed ...

... LITERARY MISCELLANEA, ELEPATS IN SMOATRA.-A small prow which we inet with this afternoon, had the day before fallen in with a very large male elephant in this narrow Channel, which of course Choaked up the passage. The crew, four in number, fled to a tree not far off, where they reseained for the night, previously fastening the boat to the reeds. 'The single m'ale elephants are very dangerous. ...

... aEVXEWS ;oF BOOKS. ME.UOIRS. OF THE WHIG PA1TY. . By LORD -HOL- LAND. Patmcnn, Paer-oster-row. -The present Lord ?? baving determined to publish the me- moirs of his late father, a nobleman who played a rather prominent part in the political events at the be- ginning of this century, has just issued the first volume of his work The libook is da'dicated to one who may, perhaps, be styled 'the ...