... LIT E RARY GLEANIN GS.I I ?? GENERAL WILLIAlS'S LUTEERS.-Capt, Thompson's fd letters are excellent-frank, joyous, hearty, sparkling r with life and courage; but the bestletters in this volume.t! for dash and energy are the letters written by General ii Williams. They go off like musketry. A few extracts b from tbese letters will interest our readers,-who will, t of course, remember that they ...

... i THIRD~ REPORT of the CIOMMISSIONERS for thle EXHIBITION OF 1851* Presented to both H]ousess of Parliament. London - Printed byG B TE n W. SPOTSISWOODE, 1856. y .rtEit: hmdI A gallop down Rsotten-rolv, elsequered, with spring Xi lights and shadows, end abounding writh: life and the I ..nnshioe of joyous hlearts, is not endued with thle sta fervent interest that belonged to one in 1851. The a ...

... LIT E R AT U RE. TrE RED AN: a Poem. By R. M. EEVBRLEY. Sucood Edition.-London: HAMILTON dz Co. 1856. More enels hive scratched and rattled, poetically and prosaically, to the honour and glory of Old England's arms3 in tiho lats war, than any otber, we fancy, ever called itito alert au dspirited operation. Those woke froom the fogs of dreamland, peoplel with the wild creationS of unbritlled ...

... :, OlNMISCIENCE* ?? ; Tkere ian eye that ever sweeps The vast ireation through. Watch over myriad worlds it keops, A wide encircling view ; All beings, systems, times doth scan Which form the universa ...

... THE VILLAGE PrIDE. 'Twas on a lovely summer's eve I sought the village green, And there a merry group had met To bail a festive scene; I paused to gaze upon those forms, So full of joy and glee, For ? ...

... I a r armo A.. 1 . ?? 1s ?? .- BY J. JOXES, AUTHOR OF RURAL 50O5NETS. p Behold, a pageant o, the air-behold, S The Nortlimen's mcrry Dancers in the sky, i - Whose polar bear ...

... I- !Quen,fefr whom inghghearty and enthusiastie dheers ere given,. Prinae Albert suceeded, and was ,very dan*ily received.. Tbherv,, af fJohnny RiwseU'; elicited a vollejr' ~iii~eMlh r abnd Mr.-'Glad2, 't¢tone was ite.5siua iiopulat, bt foieaih some faint' ,and scattsred ohierswere..givbne; j' The Bishop' of' Oord was greeted' twice :with uamlngledoapplause.. . Thie enies of.'Genercl' Wili 5 ...

... (Abridged from Le Pbllet, JAwtna ?? Greed Monde.) The late fetes in honour of the imperial christening have called forth the taste and ingenuity of our most celebrated articses, which thee dresses we are about to describe will fully prove. A dress of white tulle, with seven flounces-the too one fastened in atthe waist. Eachflounce was trimmed with eight rsews of narrow blue velvet and silver ...

... FASHIONS FOROCTOBER. .. I . . .. I _ I 1 . . . , . [Abridged from L di leaournal Gi'rd ra do.]. Some of our most noted modiates, who at the com-- mencement of the .season spoke of ., revolution in the,. fom of dreses, bavemnowa etecmined boeontinue the style' so much 'in faivourwith lliiec, and, at the. same time; 'eo onvenient.' Basques, then,' will still be ?? ii waling and neglige dress; ...

... VW -i BO ?? NAPLEeS.; PFOL1T1CAL, SOCIAL, AND RELjGIO1JS. By Lord B-. Newby, Welbeck-street.-A book just at this moment upon Naples is most apropos: ' TThe-one under our notice abounds in useful aud' interesting informatiou respecting the habits, customs, character- istics, &c., -of, the, Neapolitans, and likewise handles pretty roughly the ;stuepid and-- otinate'iiaonafch reigning over them' ...

... - - TESDRA, MUSIC, ETA. t'rrwy-f La.sxir-The last-w.ek~l'tttb Italian operatic ] pextrvmancss hasindeedbeena brilliant one. -On-Tuesday, -b Beethioven's magnificerit opera ?? FideIio -as played with T a cast of almost unprecedented, power.,, N eadame Ruder3-, e dorf', as the heroine, achieved in i.itnense triumph-ber A s9inging and acting both being admirable, We have seldom -r wit tewsed ...

... HUhOBOU. m -- GATHELGS. GO ~onLRoo TF 8ea ;--nk A~greeing to Earl' Stanhope's proposal0 for the 'f1rnmationIof ?? Por- jtr;lG Uer ,lthe HEotihe Wf' Lsrds found it necessary to ater gthe t ei ! of She nob1 eiarrD: moton'aris. The reportitat&~th4 ;- The .resolutionwa thaetan agreed to, t~he words, 'sunch portrait' to cornsist aa falr &a poeelble, .of 3tbhe inost eoiinentpersos in lritish ...