... LIT E R AT U RE. Classic and Hfistoric Portraits. BY JAMES BRUCE, Int 2 vols. i London: Hurst anti lac'kstt. , BroInArnIY is in Many respects More instructive than history; Ci and indecd, we bolieve, it is seldom that history affords so corn- Ott pitto at picture of the r~mannrs and customs of a time as is to PS he found in the lives of the men of various ranks who hav '. Iaoor. taken part in ...

... FPE, BY. it' MAN'S 1011TALITY. BY S IcON WAS vTIAL, 2 623. , Liit:s tics ci:lcccccsk cose yci see, Or like the blo-socc Oil tile ties, t Or like tlhe ilailcty flo.erl ill Mccv, ci Ot like thc cocciig of tlics i:tr, ( Or lii' Lihe ucll, 01 lilke tice siciade cc Or licke tlic cciil dvicceic Jcollis lliid, e: E'ec each ci iccic-iclio-c ti c vo(i is cpclcl, 2 D iiin ocit cccii cut, ccl, so is ...

... LIT E R AT U R. Ilaeny pillzi: rs Story of Scottish Life,. By the Author of 1 Passages in the Life of 'Mrs Mlargaret Maitland, Merk- ad Atlat Groom`, &e. in, three volumee. London: T Hurst and Blaekett, sueceesors to Honry Colburit. WetsE pI ae lii public favoeir occupied. by the aulthoress of this Spe novel seas 'von by a Single effort. The reputation obotained by T heor first work, her ...

... PH TORAPEIC EXHIBMON. 'W ii seldom that an. opportunity OCCUrs of directing the att. tion of our readers to a-source- of such high intellectual enjo Wesment as the exhibition of Plootpigrapbha now in the .ela0f, i ;364 -lcs-*thi i the re'csh of almost every inhabitait t Ur . .'Thomebinber'of the Photogphcoieye re.dob; at that instigation of -the Society of Art~s havew newand I th th. .*hicli ...

... TO A WITHERED FLONVER. FRO)M THE DUTCH OF TOLLENS. LOVELY flow'ret, what a doom ! Who bath stript you of your bloom, Thus despoiling and rejecting? Mark its hues, decay reflecting Lovely maiden, made them well; Thou art but a flower they tell. Every charm, ah ! whither gone, Bloom the morning smiled upon, Velvet buds and leaflets crowning; Now the driving tempest, frowning, Beats upon thy ...

... THE LOVING STARS. Beautiful are ye, stars of night! Shining above on your tlhrones of light Over a world of sorrow ! Hera1ds of peace and love to those Wearied and said with their weight of woes, Into a sunnier morrow ! No marvel that men, in times of old lBany a destiny should unfold N Within your gentle beaming. The 'ftio0elitful spirit can wing its way I'ar in tlie region of each brihot ray ...

... Ox Weduesday, this Society held its last competition.meeting and show for the season in the Assembly Rooms. The favou- rite fruits and flowers of the season were very creditably rbpre- sented in all the classes, and were evidently much' admired by a numerous assemblage who crowded the rooms duiring'the day. Although the weather lately had been somewhat da- meging to the more delicate. ...

... THE CATTLE SHOw. THE Annual Show of Live Stock, &c., of the Royal, Northern Agricultural Society has taken place since our last publication; and the reader will find in to-day's paper a general description of the Show itself, with a pretty copious report of the other proceedings of the meeting. The entries this year showed a larger total than usual; and, apart from partialities for particular ...

... aM A RC H. The stormvy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies b hear the rusling of the blast . That through the snowy valley flies. Abd passing few are they who speak, Wild stormy month, in praise of thee; Yet though thy winds are lond aud bleak, Thou art a welomne month to me. Heorthoe, to northern lands ngain, The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast ...

... 1, It is many a day since we have had to notice a combina. rt tion of intrmental talent such as appeared in the Assembly rt Rooms on Thursday evening, at the Concert provided by. s, Messrs Wood and Co. The materials of the programme, and the high reputation of the party engaged in the performace a- offered all that cotild be desired in point of at te the lovers of high-class music; and we ...

... . LITERAT.URE. SLAVERY IN AMEiIICA, Toyss - B~~~~~~~~~Iisto The Key to Uncle TOMn's Gelbss yrugentudg the orifindal fanth Knoxr anid cdoseusete uejie tehded the StoiV is founsded, tcetehesr WtA chars correterative Statements, iveWLfrtig the truth of the: Work 'By th HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. London: Clarke, BecootnL CO. sc THE question of slavery, in general, is one on which, we helieve, sation ...

... 'DURI OF RICEMOND'S CATLE SHOW AT HUNTLY. The usesdl competition and sgow 6f live stock, &G., among the tenadtry of the Duke of Ricbmand, for prizes awarded'by his Grce,-casme off in the Castle Paik, Huntly, on Thursday the 1st current. The show, thougb net the best that has taken place here-a circumstance which the state of the pastures aloneluffirniently accounts for-was iwevery respect ...