... POETPRY. LOVE'S VICTORY. t Lovy caine likec morning, When earth ?? Julne: Oh, thero was very music in her voie, She gave mlly heart tbo cheerfulness of neon, And bade me of life's peaceful paths make choice. Flowers uiseen before catue into sight, Smiling, like loving friends, to ple`asure 111; n And so011(1, once dissolnaut, n1OwY gavO delight, t For virtue heartened dawning energy. I Each ...

... L I TER AT UR E. Works of the Rev. T~ososrs Ml'Ciau, D.D. - A now and uni. thleI formiedition. Edited byhis Son. Part VIII. Sermons, by Is WT. Blackwood & Sons, Edinkburgls and London. her Tests part embraces Dr M'Crie's well-known eind adosirable Orr'. sermon on ?? Christian Friendship, and about twenty others -all marked by the qualities which elistinguisli the predise- THE Hione of the ...

... sit at u r. MISSIONAR-Y TRAVELS AND RESEAROaS IN SOUTH as AFRICA, including a Sketch of SiRteen Years' Re- d sidence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey dp from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the In West Coast, tbence across the Continent, down the he River Zambesi, to the ?? Ocean. By DAVID at LIVISGSTONE, ?? D.C.L. With Portrait, Maps, Iy and numerous ' llustrations. London: John ...

... CA'TTLE SIlO WS. Yesteiday the annual competition of the Kilbarchasi Agri- oultural Society for cattle, poul try, and dairy prroduce,.was held e at Kilbarchan. The weather was really mast delightful, mnd 1% the turn-out on the show grountl was much superior to-what we b have seen on former occasiond. The proceedings were also r conisiderably enlivened from the preoseunce of, the Kilbarchan ...

... (FROM POEMS BY ELIZADETII 3IARRETT DROWNING.) Dying In his absence abroad, and referring to the Poem in which he recorded the sweetness of her eyes. On the door you will not enter, I have gazed too Iong-adieu!- IHope withdraws her peradvOenture- Death is near me,-and not yotu I Come, 0 lover, Close and cover These poor eyes, you called, I ween, Sweqtest. eyes, were ever seen. When I beard ...

... I~ ~ ,_ , . ken. a of (iFramutbe Mtanchester Guardian,) was The Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, this at Manchester, in 18.5?, is now a thing of the past, so far as the nee, public is concerned:- and to the executive committee there re- sage mains but the onerous tasak of. packing the countless treasures por- and retu-rning. them to their liberal-minded owners. it was for ...

... LITER AT U R E. A HANlD-Bio or BRI1TISHI MAnfRITl'JL LAW. By D. R. Morice, Advocate in Aberdeen. L'ondol: Smith; Elder & Co., Corrhill. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh. Tent treatise is intended for the use of meichents, shlipowners,, shipmasters, and legal ?? the three fir!tr. mentioned classes, who have here in an aecessible form that. information which largely enters into their daily trlnsactio!s' ...

... 7 LI TAT k.'i.1 LI TER ATUR E. TnaTHE Asi OF TnX WOIUD; an Aecount of all Religions an, ill, elijibits Sects, their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, niud Cus V -.K tonas Compiled from the latest and best audiroriitie by ti'e ia. Rev. James Gardner, M.D. and A.m., autihorof the Clrrltiart cll Cyclopaidia, &c., and illustrated from authentic gnd trust. 3es wortyi authorities. Edinburgh : A. ...

... LIT ERA T UR E. up. Tue TENT-AND..TE KHAN: A JOUR1NEY TO SINAI AND PAhsE- _ TINE. By Robert Walter Stewart, D.D., Leghorn. With Map and.11luatrations. . Edinburgh: William Oliphant. & Bono.' 1857. Lily'IN~the 4'Travels in the Holy Land, by our townsman, Dr. Rae 0th Wilson, the Lands of the Messiah, by Dr. Aiton, and, The ' nt and the Khan by Dr. Stewart, we may claim for lD, ?? ...

... LESMAHAGOW. OIL The above show took place in a field near the village of GE Abbeygreen. The weather was delightful. The stock shown Ja was on the whole of a very superior description, and the num- 5t ber of entries and of competitors was much greater than on any all former year. The horses of all classes, -but particularly the Il saddle horses and brood mares, wvere considered remarkably W ...

... BY FRANCES BROWN. Children, it is the Christmas chimes:- I have seen many Christmas times.- And the aged worker laid Beside her on the dusty shelf, The old worn tools that, like herielf, Had grown blunt in toil and trade,- As she turned to the children of her speech. They were two-and gray-haired women each, Vho worked by the ltmpiplight, staid end slow,- But she kept the name from long ago ...

... AlslUI2t U-v -, i (By Wm. C. Bryant.) Far back in ages The plough with wreaths was crowned, The hands of kings and sages Entwined the chaplet round; Till men of spoil Disdained the toil By which the world was nourished, And blood and pillage were the soil In which their laurels flourished; Now the world her fault despairs- The guilt that stains her story, And weeps her crimes amid the cares ...