... SWITHFIELD 4 CLUB CATTLE SHOW. _ This annual agricultural exhibition, iihich at this period of the year seems to attract such ?? on the part of the community, has been held dturing the past week, and, although; it may not be classed in the light of a first class show, as we, have noted at the Baker-street' Bazaar even a few years back y etthe promoters of these serviceable undertakings have ...

... Xi t t a t ut. TMsi Homr SCHOOL: or Hints on Home Education. b By the Rev. Norman Macleod. Edinburgh: Paton s and Ritchie. 1856. 1 TIE importance of the subject here treated of, it ist C impossible to over-estimate. Our education for good c or evil begins at the household hearth. It is there t that we are trained up in the way in which, throug6' t after life, it is almost certain that we shall ...

... THE SHADOW ON TIlE WALL. Was the Shadow kissed by child or maiden? Infantine caressing! By pale dreamer, liro's full sun forbidden? Twilight of half-blessing! Or by votaries' lips a saintly image pressing? M1enl like fiends who Ieap o'er dead and dying Still new heaps to pile, Tossing a fierce laugh to Death's defying, Wild with wrath erewhile- Now like children lie and wait the nurso's smile. ...

... I - WATzRnrosnm.-Oar monthly fair was held on 14cnd last, and was well attended by buyers. Toeare wag a preiti good supply of stock suitable for graviers, but a deflcieni, of good fat tock. Prices rangedw as ?? cow, s to £14; ?? do., £10 to £14; dry do., £7 to £9; twi year-old heifers, £5 to £7; yearlings, L3 to £5; sheep, 2 to 40s; hoggeta, 28s to 27s; end lambs, 16e to 21s. HORTICULTUREL ...

... LiEcrunc ox THE OBIt , HITOaR, &C., &C. TIM AFRIoAx RAcE.-A moat respectable and influential audi- euce of cur fellow-citizens assembled ?? in the above section of the Rotundo building, for the purpose of hearing delivered a lecture by Mr. A-len, an American gentleman of colour, late professor of the Greek language and literature in the College of New York, the subject of the lecture being, as ...

... ENIGMAS. I. Take a preposition from an oath, and leave an interjection. . ?? My first is a female; a neuter my second; The sum of my third few desire to be reckoned My whole of the children of wealth is the lot, But hopes of a better in heaven, cheer the cot. Myflrst, a happy joyons thing, A general favourite's reckoned, Oft have I heard its cheerful voice, When resting on my second. But if ...

... Select l~'orfs rf Th-omas i'hr-Ioery, D. D., L L. D. Edite-l hr his % Son-iic-Law, tiw 11cv. WILLIAM HtANNA, LL.D. Val. Vi-i .Evidences of tle Cilristiani Ilvelation, au-I Lcturies on Paleys '5 Ev ideleces. Edinb~urgh i Constaible. I-c is of the lire-senit edlition that we have to Spleak in noticing e this volume11-not of its thceologieal. or literary vain o, for tijes, if 1 niot in every ...

... THEATRICALS. &o. THEATRE ROVAL-STHE GRAND PAcNTOMtME.-NOW that the almost endless details of stage business appertaitling to the pantomime of this year have becocie more famillarised to the artistes and acceasory perforrnera and thiaithe complex ma chinery of its thousand ana one tricks, changes, and traneforma- tions has been made to work with certainty, rapidity, and bril- liancy, under the ...

... LITER.ARY EXTwR ACTS. THIE LAST DiYS OF JEFFREYS. AsIo1to the mane offenderns bhose names were men- tioned in the course of theue inquiries was one who stood alone anid unapprontilehd in, guilt and infamy, and whom ly'higs milid Tories were equally wvilling to leave to the extrenme rigour of tlhe law. On that terrible day, which was succeeded by the Irish Night, the roar of a great city ...

... POETITY. lFOUR O-LD CHRISTMAS CAROLS. nac (Front (hsistiiOS (as c Anc~iri andl Msderll, lby WILLIA01 SANDaS, nc ?? anid TIlE SIIEPUIEAIRD'S SONG: fist-S A UAR.OLL 05, II15550 Y0U CHIitiT55AP. The Sweet Muaseick, sweeter farre Then any, song is Sweet: ISOYC Sweet Meusicice Iseavetly rave, of 1 Mine cares, 0 pecess doth greets. yon gentle flocks, whose fleeces, pearlid with slewe, calci ...

... LITE RATUlRE. %. BOors TOR R vizw.-Books, Music, New Engravings &c., intended for review, left at the establishment of Mr. C. MiTCheILL, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed 1 to the Editor of the Derby Mercury, will be forwarded and receive attention. BouseAold Words Almanac and Christmas Number. Lon- don: Household Words Office, 16, Wellington-street, Nortb. The Christmas ...

... ;fA7 i MRB LE(XflR' LEOitIRO~f~llX GlG. p At :Si tu Hall .mt sig4¢ ?? gave what -he ,-celhed-A 8erio comic Lttret on the Use ani Abase ef Airt,~deiiflntrntirg tihe 2Eiirs in 10i-4uiv Taste CditOdO. g9,o1 and Dramatic I iuatuaions by the Lecturer. FSom this saple flhX the, aubleof of himetlee ma.sny be gtheed.=- Is object teas *orwmmtiend nature tnd aimplliiit1yn the c6md postvion kndi p n ...