... HE Splendid new elipper-bailt, coppered and copner-fastened Ship, NORTH ATLANTIC, Henry Cook, Commander, - Will he despatched above. This vessel was built expressly for the passenger trade, and is fitted with every modern improvement to render her a desirable conveyance. Intending emigrants are respectfully requested to inspect her accommodations. The poop births are of a superior class, and ...

... on Wednesday the 17tb inst., n County-Rooms. The public will be admitted at One o’clock, by Ticket, or on payff ment of 6d. each person. ™ An Extra Prize of 7s. will be '~~ awarded any class by Messrs Dickson ...

... BLEAK HOUSE—Parr ror Marcu. London: Bradbury & Evans. Tuts story is making but slow progress; and the further it advances the more clearly does it appear to be an iilastration of one of the mischiefs besetting the serial form of publication, and our literature generally. Mr Dickens has evi- dently undertaken the story without any clear idea of how it was to end, and trusting solely to time and ...

... LORD BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND, BILL. (from a One exception has occurred to the neglect which the inte- rests of generally receive at the hands of Parlia- ment, a committee of London merchants having associated themselves together, some little time ro, with no other ob- ject in view than to confer the * inestimable blessing” of their The Scotch mercan- own mercantile law upon this country. tile Inw ...

... ‘Tut Dopp Apsroap. No. 10. By C. Lever. London : Chapman & Hall, Piccadilly. is one of the liveliest portions of this most amusing and interesting history which have yet appeared; and gives ex- cellent promise of what the reader may yet expect. Mr Lever describes in a most agreeable manner the disastrous conse- quences of an unfortunate pic nic; at which the Dodds, after having first invited ...

... Piterature A Visit to Mexico py Wesr Istanps, axp Ustrep Srates, with Onsenvations anp Apven- TURES on THe Way. By W. P. Robertson, author of “ Letters on Paraguay,” &c., 2 vols. London : Simpkin,, Marshall, & Co. Mr Robertson, accompanied by a daughter, sailed from Southampton by the West India steamer towards the close of 1848, as commissioner from the Spanish American Bond- holders to the ...

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... ruin IOI1t . Those who would wvish to see what, a great artist can do with ias a subject, whlen lie is iii earnest to do his best, Should visit the 5'l gallery of Messrs. .31 Cties & Son, Iluehanlan 'Street1 where nI), there is at Isresent 555 view peurhapts thue mjost remarkable Oil pi ctr ever exhiibited its this city, anid whtichl as filuislied Lin aibout itwo years age, by AL 1'otl ...

... CIIRYSTON AND SADDER CATTLE SHOW. The annnal show of this society took place at Ilishopbriggs, ol the 9th currenot. Tho entries of cattle were unusually large, and the show ofldrvaght bOI rse verysuperior. T'I ejuldges-Messrs. Samuiel Clark, Manswraesgs John Black, Easterhousei o anidtobert Clark, Calderbank -awarlded the prizes its followo,- Class 1. For the best 31ilch Cow-Ist, Mr Alexander ...

... The Edinburgh Quartett Union gave the first of a series of three concerts on Monday evening, and the second last night. The audience on both occasions was large and enthusiastic. The programmes included prerogative specimens of the great masters in musical art, and other morceaur choises adapted to the purposes of the different solo performers. ‘The music had ample justice. We never heard ...

... ENGLISH OPERA THEATRE RO L. On Thursday evening, Miss Pyne and the operatic com- pany, now in the Theatre, performed the opera of Fra Dia- volo, by Auber. On Friday the Bohemian Girl was produced. The plot of a ballet, designated The Gipsy, written for Miss Fanny Elssler, was taken originally from Guy Mannering. The Bohemian Girl, of which the libretto was contributed by Mr Bunn, and the music ...

... 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 ...