... LEAV1S FROM TIM NOTE-BOOKC OF A NATURALIST. I TURTLES. i (Froim Fraser's Magazine.) ap After a Short account of the hawksbill, Catesby says of the leggorhli~Lds, that tliey are the boldest, the moat voracious, anti] to the fouilest feeders of all the turtles. C ?? Try range (says lie) the ocean ovor;- an instance of whichi, th amongst Many that I havo known, happen'ld the 20th of April, ne 1 ...

... E O D S ]IITION OF TIIE DANCE MUSIC OF SCOTLAXn. Ar- ranged for the IPiano-forte, and edited by J. T. Surenne. -dinburgI, CGlasgow, and Aberdeen: Wood & Co. i*EWAIE OP TIIE GIrsIEs. WVords by Cliciles SwYain. DIusie by George Simpson. London: D'Almaine & Co. IJE OvEesAND MAIL POLKA. By George Simpson. D'Almaine & Co. :-IS FLIURS POLKcA. By Ricardo Linter. D'Almaine & Co. .IA.INO OX TIIE SUiMME ...

... L EXHJII3ITION. PIn our ublication of Friday last, we noticed the opening of. this lxhibition, we nory proceed to refer to a few of the arti- s cles exhibited:- r In thc meclanical department, there arc, amongst others, a Id a bobbin turning machinie, wrought by MINaught's patent *s high-pressure and condensing ?? combined, made by i1 Messrs. Shanks, & Co., Jobilstonc, and exhibited by Messrs. ...

... LITERAT UREE TiE AUSTRALIAN AND C.T.irORiAN GOLD DIPCOVEAIIure AND TIIEIR PRoltOINLE CONSEQUENCE;S. By Patrick Junl.; Stirling, ?? Author of The Philosophy of Trade.' Edinburgh: Oliver& Boyd. 1853. IT is not at all surprising that the recent discovery of gold i,, California and Australia, in connection with the rapid progr c; of emigration from Great Britain towards our own colon!g, should ...

... LITERATURE Taira; on THE or A Cray Farm; An Agricul- { tural Fragment, by C. W. H. London: Reeve)& Co., Hen- rietta Street, Covent Garden. Tue series of sketches composing this volume have already appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, and are now reproduced, with illustrations by Mr George Cruickshank, as a Christmas book for the farmers. To find so much practical truth, con- veyed with such ...

... MI L LW A U K I E. Throug1i SunmierTs pride, an' Lammas' tide I wonnd' beside Millwaukie, An' wi' tBe sim the mill gae'd on, An' clatter'd through Mrillwaukie. rlov'd the miller,.an, the mill, The roses roon' his window BiUl The very reek almot the kilnt- O weel I like Millwaukie. ThE miller sang the hae] day lang, An blithely rang Millwaukie - The croodlin' doo, gae'd croo, croo, croo A' roon ...

... it (Fromn Le F'ollet.) I s, Conrt dresses are decidedly in favour-not, as formerly, with er trains requiriug a page to attend the fair wearer-but sufficient-. ily drooping behind to give elegance to the material as well as to for t the figure. Moire antique, velvet, and embroidered satins, J h- should always be made long. 't An evening dress, composed of three skirts of white tulle, 0cal ...

... URY COURT—SECOND DIVISION Jan. 4. (Before the Lord Justice Clerk and a Jary.) anp Curator v. Dean anp Smita. This was an action for damages, in consequence of the pur- suer having met an accident, whereby he lost his leg, while working as a waggon-driver in the defenders’ employment. The following was the issue sent to be tried :—It being ad- mitted that, on or about the 28th day of December ...

... LITERARY AND ARTISTIC BANQUET AT BIRMINGH1AM. (Froum tile Globe.) Birmingham, Friday.-Yoster'day at banquiet inl connexion with the Literasry and Artistic 1 nstitlittions 01' Birmingi aghiln and for which cosisidarable prseparatiosn have. foir omae tinmc paet been molde, took place in thle assembly reslins or Dec's Hotel, inl thi~s town. TJhe banquet originated in at combinfd movement onl thle ...

... SUM:NEBUI)Y'.S ST'ORY. t'b'e luive dilrilg thle past tltrepo years, givets occttsitnal ex - att. t tracts frout D1 ?? ickens' admittralle wrehkly Serital, Uoshl lold, he Wors ist I it is whiti tnuelt gratiflicationt that we refer tot, atit Al (julote froni, lith last part, whitch hals appen~dedl to thle misitn wteekly ottatbers a otptetet ltyte, cotttaittitg a ll oundtt ovume of first-tate ...

... Br b Pai' ear'ls Magazine. London: J. W. Parkas'. l1)st iffts agazine. Edinburgh:- Sutherland & Knox. N' Tic Dublin University commences rtse year with an adidress to Li its redrcallcd forth, not by the now year) hut by tse faot thatci sth yer tatis gone completes the 20th yeas of th Magazine's los exsec. We -ara glad to find that its career has bean one of in[ dcontinuausly increasing success ...

... I IT ERR A U RE. hi AR E I bII P Re up fore Katie Stewart. A Trute Story. Edinburgh : 'William Black-! lb, cod & Sons. cud Tins is a pleasant tale o~f Scottisha life, in the fourth and fifth ary decades of last century. It originally appeared in the pages of eanat `Blaekwoed,, and that circumstance alone maybe regArdedlas a pric sufficient6gisaranteecof its excellence. But, apart from the ...