... LITERARY EXTRACTS, CIIARACTERISTICS Or AN A5iERICAN.-It is utterly impossible to mistake an American for any one else, cn route: lie has either his feet upon the seat of the car next to him, which he turns over for the purpose; or if it be occupied he sits with his knees let in to the back of it; he either sucks a piece of sweetmeat, bites a picce of wood, or chews a bit of tobacco, keeps ...

... 1,17 -a - I ?? ?? - - (Prom a Correspondent.) In a secluded valley in South Lancashire, where the river R- winds its circuitous course from east to west, may be seen the homestead of a small farmer. It is shel- tered on the west by some lofty trees of elm and beech, of rather unusual dimensions for that locality, and on the north and cast by a well-stocked orchard, which, during the last ...

... The first exhibition for the season of the Preston Floral and Horticultural Association took place on Thursday last, in the Exchange rooms. There was not so numerous and fashionable an attendance as usual, which was, no doubt, owing to the unfavourable weather of the morning, and the still gloomy atmosphere of the afternoon. There were, however, many of the leading families of the town and ...

... FRASER'S MAi5OZtsE.-The first paper in this month's number of Fraser is an elaborate detail of the splendours of the new Crystal Palace at Sydenharn-a description that will elicit from every reader a desire, if not a resolution, to see a structure that will in every way surpass, in its adaptation to the teaching of the 3nillion, Its well-renmemnbered predecessor of Hyde Park. This article Is ...

... FASBIONS FOR JUNE. (Frouz Le Follet.) It is as we surmised: pelisses are already obliged to give place to the I harpes manteletes of silks, embroidered in open pattorns, trinmned with a fine and close net, upon which are appliqut leaves ofsilk. The patterns are fastened on the net with chain-stitch. his style is very pretty. It is also expected that Mhite canezous and casaques, with silk ...

... ?? ?? - ?? - I EXCURSIVE REFLECTIONS. BiY J. JAMES. (For the Prcesto Chlronicfle.) Farewell, departed year I a long farewell I What proud memorials with thee enshrined I In Time's vast temil~e,-wlat memorials tell Of revolutions, wars, and passions blind I Of souls and deeds whose lustre death can't quell; Of hearts by pure affection intertwined! In silence musing, fervently anni fast The ...

... LlTEI'AllfY EXTRACTS. c,-l itl AID TIME SILENT ENG1tIIItts.--At Hartford, is -11 ctri rytation where tre train Stopped, enthusiastic crowds gilat ri round the cars. Koessuith ?? them seith a few :11 ?? tin thoe usolient when tho traits began to move, a gen- ii -led to him a book, anud disal ipeared in the crowd. P lrat whc words written onl tbo fir-t leaf Mossuth saw that it tat- t ki ...

... THESMANCHESTER AND AGRICULTURAL ANNUAL sjo8 AT WARRIlGTOn.I The sixth annual exhibition of the Manche'ter and Agricultural Society took place at Warrington, on, Wednesday last. The trial of implements took Via ?? former day, in several fields belonging to M Bewsey-hall. The reaping machines were tried o wheat and second crop clover. The oParatiens, altbsaib ?? points of great excellence, were ...

... FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. -1 (From Le Fotlct) This being holiday period with the courts of justice and au public offices, family fetes and pleasure excursions have camel great demand for ball and evening dresses; these are general simple, but the recherch6 is not prohibited: they are CoMpDbed of crepe lisse-blue, pink, white, light green, or yellow; of whit, tarlatane, worked with straw and ...

... Byq Falonbslridgo. ln comparing notes vith a travelled friend, I gleaned from his stock of information, gathered south-west, a few incidents in the life of a somewhat extensively famed Boston panoramio artist -ono of which incidents, at least, is worth rehearsing. Some years ago, the south-west was beset by an organised coall. ! tion of desperadoes, whose daring outrages kept travellers and ...

... I THE SABBATH. By SIR E. BlULWER LYTTON, BART, M.P. Fresh glides the brook and blows the gale, Yet yonder halts the quiet mlii; The whirring wheel, the rushing sail, Bow motionless and still I Six days of toll, poor child of Cain, Thy strength the slave of Want may be; The seventh thy limbs escape the cha- A God hath made thee free I AN, tender was the law that gave This holy respite to the ...

... - LITERARY EXTRACTS. - l,1j' ?? a lecture in New York, on tole To f thO Far WVest, the lecturer said the Indian's Idea of a Ilares ata was this :-As soon as he threw off thlefleshhe would fltur ?? on the bank of a river, the current running flr'eat rapidity. Across this river was a slender pole, strippedt with 9rRand lying close down to the surface of thle water. The has lived a good life then ...