... LIT ERA TU RE. -R_ ArrrXTURES OF SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B, RAJAH OF SARAWAK. By GEORGE FOaGO, Secretary to the National Monuments' Society. EfGingham Wilson, 1853. Mr. Foggo declares in the opening of this nubication that the appointment of a Royal Comuission to inquire into the repeated charges brought by Mr. Hume against Sir James Brooke is an event of great importance to the caouse of ...

... llrbirw?;. No. 09. Tite DODD FArILY ABROAD. By Charles Lever. Part IX. London: Chapmizan and Hall; Dublin: M'Gls/shan. Tjiis serial-which is undoubtedly MIr. Lever's chef d' aucrtve-progresses vitls undiminished spirit. 'The part before us contains three specimens of the Dodd corres- pondence, which further develope the characters of the writers-Mr. James Dodd, Mliss Mary Anne, and Miss Cary. ...

... arotrp. 'WIFE AND HOME. LErT rakes extol a roving life, Of freedom prate, and all that, Of noisy brats and scolding wife, And doctor's bills and all that; Though fools may rail, and jest, and scoff, A wife's the thing for all that; The time, they'll find, is not far off When so they'll think for all that. 'Tis true, when youth and fortune smile, And health is firm, and all that; When wine, and ...

... deep interest in the social condition of our countrymen in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland, may I beg a place in your journal for the follow- ing observations. These may not be altogether consonant with your economical views, but I trust to your well known liberality for a fair hearing. Famine and destitution were at one period, and that no late one, as unknown in the Highlands and Isles ...

... - - I C. ? ?? ?? THE.IARNONIC.YUNION. TJperformarce. at Teter HaJ.1 yesterday eviu- ing consisted of Mr. Pierson's oratorio Jernsalem,w which was produced at the Norwich. Fest4al last autui n. is thea performed, and also as a published -work, it was folly criticised, and the alroast uninismoius 3dgment,prondounce upon it was decidedly unfavourable. Last evening the work had the advantage of ...

... I The following is the official return of the visitors admitted yesterday:- Season ticket holders ,. . .. B,355 Number of persons admitted at 2s. 6d. each 850 Total . .. ., 4,205 Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of St. Germane, accompanied by some members of their family, and attended by Major Bagot, Captain Cost. and several ladies of the court, visited the Exhibition ...

... CARDINAL WISEM1AN ON THE ARTS OF I DESIGN AND PRODUCTION. On Thursday evening week a very crowded auditor to assembled in the Manchester Corn Exchange, to hear his v eminence Cardinal Wiseman deliver a leeture on the re- A latioris between the arts of design and the arts of produc- di tion. His eminence was received with enthusiastic ac- of clamnations. mn Dr. Tuasina, the titular Bishop of ...

... 'IIIC GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION I' FOR IRELAND. l Wle gave in onr last, an account of the authorized ceremonial at the opening of this Exhibition in Dublin on Thursday, hut our report of the pro- ceedings could not ihe forwarded in time. Availing ourselves of the invitation which we hadn received, we visited Dublin by the special ex- press, which ?? have already noticed, and imnine- diately ...

... 'fltc Slavi nmber of FRASER'S MAGAZIN.E contains critical articles i The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration,, work by Earl Grey; and The l'o'icy of tile Restoration in l by cite Comte do M1arcellus; a very interesting chapter c i'~togap~lty, suggested1 by an article on that science in the Ec,,c,.idica if Ctropotitaet, by Itobert hunlt ; another entitled ;;irkcaldy of ...

... TnE Ex~mrrIoN.--oods are being daily received at tbe Dublin Exhibition building, which is rapidly approaoh- ing completion. There is now no doubt of' itsbeing ready for the publicopening on the ]Otb of May. The articles contributed by Holland consist of 93 cases of pictures, and'25 6ases of' Jpanese productions. They are in charge of Mii Van 'de Casteeli, thq director of the Royal Museum at ...

... Original Poetp. are On the dismal and extraordinary weather throughout ]th the late winter and spring, addressed with kind feel. 8th ing to wt lbs. 0. W., of Thwaste, heir shewiug the utter fallacy of all calculation of co ming westher, in this changeable climate, at the same time admitting the great usefulness of recording data. The scene is changed; spring buds have shot; My doerel rhymes ...

... LITERA TURE. KEY TO UNCLE Tog's CABIN. By Harrse Beechser Stowe. (London: Clarke, Beetass, and Co.>-This volume composed of what the French would call the piccee justifca- t9/es of ?? Uncle Tom's Cabin, or the original facts and do- cuments upon which that world-famous story is founded, is scarcely less attractive to the imagination than the story itself, while in point of enduring value it ...