... It is generally understood that a new bill for the better wI regulation of savings banks in this country will be intro- Ot duced in the next session of parliament, containing various clauses similar to those in the bill introduced by Sir C. Br Wood, the chancellor of the exchequer, in 1850, which, an at that time, were considered by many persons as ques- tionable in their expediency and ...

... FROMS THE QERMAN. U Oh, grave I Oh, grave I l There ia a spot on earth, a Though but a narrow bed, I Where all that aire oppressed, And weary and disqulieted, And struggling since their birth, Mlay lay their aching head, And find at length a rest. Sorrowfal-heavy-hearted- Here ye shall be at peace; Here all the world's departed Have found their sufferings cease. Oh, grave! oh, grave I Gate of ...

... (From1 Tire.Dodd FamWily Abr'oad, bry Chacs. Levrre.) HrRE we are, hyving another kind of life from our old existence at Dodsborough! 'We have capital quar- ters at the Bellevue-a fine hotel, excellent dinners, and what I think not inferior to either~, a most obliging Jew money-changer hard by, whoil advances 1mode- rate loans to. respectable psrties, on personal security -a process in ...

... -TUe instititon shoa be made either a inu;nxnmorationallibrary. Bothitcannotparm,,.t,, - andthesoonerachoice betreenthetwoismadeb th i have the power to make it, the better itwill be T., ocehi antiquities, and literature. If the miscellaneous eoe now, by the admission of the heads olf d leou ae eriet- selves, scarcely available for serious study-vere pem them. etheir contents, we should have a ...

... THE GUILD OF lITERATURE AT MAN- .-I STER. CMr. Charles Dickens and Wii friends having been soieited to visit Manchester a second time, fori the purpose of repeating their amateur theatrical representations in aid of the fund designed to establish a 'uild of Literature and Art, the owners of the Free Trado Hall very liberally placed that building again gratuitously at their service' for last ...

... t I BIRMINIGHAX MUSICAL FESTIVAL. LeBiB1NomAx, -TV3'8DAY EVZNIXG. e The festival commenced tbis- morning most un- e favoUrably, so far as the elements were concerned, for the morning, with gatheringand rolling clouds, which presently poured forth heavy showers, which gave to the streets a dirt' appearance, gave to everything a dull leaden Qspect, an-d east a chilling influence over what is ...

... :TkiI-R:FINEiARTS.`,I. i ?? -SXan'W A ?? sC(IVJ -AND 'TS '1ltibWNDS-: ; Weqlad, ?? pleagtureofbseaingthe above iutnre, by 'Mri- 4ed lo- ?? aiififrBWhibh' is at tpresent exhihiting in 'the ii~awgalleiry Jof: ?? :'M31 Clnrs;)Bntchhntan S~reet; 4 Sch a 'at -iork as this' 'hawsl'lainis' 6f ,'no'-ordin'ary kind ?? Y 'attentionmfi'the'lirntifons of'artt! 1 Tlie ?? 'of Sin Walter n Scott, 'and ...

... IBERS TO THE QUEEN STREET THEATRE. ae. . . .. . .. . . ., _ I _ I ?? _ I _ .. 11 _ ?? * Mr. M'Allister, writer, Union Street, bas kindly transmitted to us sonic old local documents, which he found the other day, in airranging a bundle of ancient papers and records, which had' come into his hands. Amongst these are ani ordinary burgess'n ticket dated in the year 1719, an honorary one dated 1734 ...

... ThE ATREN.ZE(jM B-ANQUET TO THE ! GUILD OF LITERMTURE AND ART. ?? -1 . .. . . . .. -. I : have The festival, qivetn by doilne of the members 6f the Man. hv ?? Athenanirn, and by other gentlemen of this town, insati honour of the Guild of iterature and Art,' onl the O~casiOn derte -oif the -visit of Mr. Charles Dickens and hisanmateur theatri- bigh -asal cot-pa, to Manchestr, to perform f~r ...

... BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESIVAL. Since the Birmingham Festival was instituted, there has never been so successful and brilliant a performance on the first day. Tuesday dense crowds lined the Immediate vicinity of the Town-hall, the interior of which, forming one of the finest music-rooms in Europe, presented a moet imposing coup-d'wil. The orchestra, filled to the extremities with 600 performers, ...

... REVIEWS OP DOOrS ADVENTRNES AND REOOLLECTIONS OF COLONEL LANDMANN. Colbiirn and Co., 'Marlboeough-atreet.- This is an amusing book of gossip, the production of an old stager on the, scene of life. It is pleasantly.. written, abounding in anecdete, and is not characterised by that profuse egotism biographers of the presefit day are so wont to indulge. Colonel Landmaun is a retired officer of ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER, Uncle Tomn's Cabin; or Negro Life in the Slave States of America. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bosworth. This is not only the most effective exposition that has yet been made by any one person of the wrongs that are inherent in the slave system, but as a work of imagination it is to be welcomed as the best that has been hitherto contributed to what may hereafter form a ...