... c I fMTTrrt. r -rmr Snr -wam eln THE QUEEN CITY OF THE WEST. (By Charles Mackay, in the Illustrated London News.) Cincinnati, Jan. 27, 1858. Cincinnati is as yet the greatest city of the Great West. How long it will ,remain so depends on the progress of po. pulation in Missouri, and the city of St. Louis on the Missis- sippi. But a few years ago it was the U'ltima-Thule of civil- isation, ...

... ?? Aat HISTORY OF FREDERICK THE. I ' ' ,--GREAT.* (Fiore thebiterary.Gazettc - - The actual publication of 'these voluLnes, the first half of Mr. Garlyle's long-promised and long-expected Life of t Frederick the Great, sets at rest the question, mooted more than once during the last few years,-wv.hether the work ...

... THE JOLLY -MARINER. A BALLAD. IT was a jolly mariner As ever hove a log; He wore his trousers wide and free, And always ate his prog, And blessed his eyes in sailor-wise, And never shirked his grog. Up spoke this jolly mariner, Whilst walking up and down:- The briny sea has pickled me, And done me very brown; But here I goes, in these here clo'.es, A-cruising in the town ! The first of all ...

... TOWN AND TABLE TALK ON LITERATURE, RT, - -- yea (From the Illustratediiondon News.) The year gone by will be more memorable in art than in literature; and as yet, if we may believe rumour and adver- tisements, there is very little literary promise for 1858. Men afficting to be well informed assert, pretty confidently, that F Lord Iacaulay will give Us another and concluding portion of his ...

... Aln- TWill yo r ome to the Bower Y (From Pin'ich.) Will you come to the room I 'have darkened for you? Will you kneel at my feet as a penitent should (o, And say in what particulna^s you ever did transgress 7 Will you, muaiden, will yoi, won't you come and confess ? Will vou answer all my questions, howmoever strange they scem, And if some of themzi should shock you, %will y~a promise not to ...

... ?? . ., . FRIAGMENT. (Translated from TLaliartile- Coors de Litterature, No. 35, page 215. 0 H-Tarp! below the head that.sleepest Of Israel's Pnet-Kingl Immortal Widow of tile Prophet Awake, 0 Harp, and sing! Iives there lnot iii this flnatihig crowd, The bard whose noble nit Can tune thy cords. ;nd draw from thee Strong utteranuces of the heart? Resemblkest thou the mmiigmty brand, ...

... Who so well deserves high fame? Who so nobly earned a name? The world resounds with loud acclaim- 'Tis brave Sir Colin C(ampbelL ,Who amid Crimean storms Bravely stood fierce war's alarms, With Highlanders 'gainst Russian swarms? 'Twas brave Sir (,liin Ca-Pb)ell. When Indian strife brought panic fear On British hearts, and many a tear To British eyes, men far and near Cried, Seud Sir Colin ...

... I CATTLE, SHOWS. OLD MIONKLAND, BARONTSY, IIOTHWELL, AND CADDER. The annual Cattle Show of the Old Monkla'nd, Barony, of -Btielnid Cadder Farming Society, todkplace at B3ailies- beto on Fia'Iy lat, and we are happy to say that the society e- ha its usua good luck in respect of weather. The stock re exhibited was of a very superior description, and excited the ae- adseiiration of the spectators ...

... NILBARCEHAN CATTLE SHOW. Yesterday the annual competition for prizes for cattle and dairy produce, in connection with the Kilbarchan Agricul- tural Society, took place in a feldd near the village. The veather, notwithstanding a few slight showers, was very fav'nrahle, but the attendanlce of spectators was scarcely equal to what we have seen on some former occasions. There was a tolerable ...

... THE CABTINE.T DRAMA. (From the Times.) What a thing it is to have romance duly represented in a Cabinet! How dull and plodding have been the Ministers heretofore intrusted with the management of our national affairs! How brilliant, and prismatic, and kaleidoscopical are the intellects to which our destinies are now confided ! The Colonial Office, above all, can hardly know itself. Despatches ...

... The Journal of the Society of Arts of last week con- tains, and all but consists of, the report of the committee appointed by the council of the society to consider the expe- diency of establishing a general post for small parcels. The report is signed by Lrd E Messrs. E. Chadwick, .c . * Cole, C Peter Graham, J. J. Mechi, Samuel Morley, 3. A. Nicholay, and 3. Ingram Travers, and ends in the ...

... On Saturday we enjoyed the high pleasureof leisurely sur- veying a noble specimen of landscape painting, which has just been finished by Mr. Horatio Maculloch. We do not usually notice works which have not come formally before the public, but the present is a special picture of a special subject, because, as all cognoscenti are aware, the earliest efforts of this now great artist and R.S.A. ...