... M AR Y. Thou art bright as May morning, Maary, Thou art rich as the western brecze, And lovely aud pure as the cowslips Dihat welcome the labouriig bees. Thy voice is sweet mclody, Mary, Thy smile is the play of the sun That brightens the flowers of the meadolws When birds have their wooing begun. Our land has been vcalthy in Marys, Who lighted oar poets to fame; But I am so blest in thy ...

... SUNDAY EVENING AT A NEW YORK THIEATRE (FllOM T'lE NEIW YORK TRIBUNE, DEC. 11.) TuRoUDnouTr tbe whole of last week it was genelrally nttllersti'etl byn no itneeiment tihat Nix. A. H1. Puridy, p)10 rpiotor ortfle Nationial Tiheatre, in Chathiam Street, haid offered its nse fir the puirpose of Divine service on Sulnday evellings. Tilm Rev. E. D. [liscox, DD., of the Stanton Street Blastist Church ...

... - FASHION THE COURT. WINDson, WEDNEsDAY.-Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Major-General the Right Hon. J. and Lady Alicia Peel, Colonel the Hon. R. Bruce, the lon. Mrs. Biddulph, Major Loyd Lindsay, and the Right. Hon. Spencer and Mrs. S. Walpole, who arrived on a visit in the afternoon, Hans Henry Hamilton, Esq.q Q.O., Chairmanof thM County ...

... I T|he Marquis of Bath is pasitipe, the seninon at Longleate, where his-lordship will receive his Royal High. ness the 1Dulme of Cambridge and a select circle during the present week. The Marquis de Varnbagen has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerinyn-street, from Madrid. The Countess of Licbfield wag confined of a son on the 29th tilt., at the Marquis of Abercorn's seat, Baron-s.court, ...

... U RIGHT OR WRONG. FiJAjt or ion0g. By GERLD=N E. JEWaBulT. London: Hurst and Blackett. It is not ofton'that writers of fiction in the present day can hit upon any class of society'which has not already been worn threadbare. Miss Jewsbury, however, has hit upon such a class. She has taken her hero from one of the unenclosed orders of monks who were bound by certain vows, but were nevertheless ...

... itt rat Ut t. TEE PERIODICALS.: - nttention is. of course, first dIrectd, In the orderof !Ii' j imprtskth addition to itt comprehensive review of contemdPorar i fitrate in ofrlae ntt Iaag mentaies a sI gets wbut le full ri appagrentbly udecVr~iderdi not adversa °roegatrdsu f~theton of. iUGra3- the Blooh staegryoun olt~gaf thhe disadvant hagoiusrie i tf3 nreoroeolude Artices orsnTts ...

... joiktfui from junncb. VERY BAD LiVErnS.-Q. What did the East India Com. pany die of? A. Indi(a)-gestion? TaiE LADIES' PLAGUE.- Burn the crinoline I Yes, my dear, 'tis all very well to say, burn the crinoline; but suppose you are in it ? HIT 'Ex AGAIN.- The Law Times is in ecestacies be- cause the attorneys of England have resolved to wear robes in court. If they'd go one stcp further, ...

... * BALLINASLOE JANUARY FABR. Fe (vRon ?? COURsRSPOaDENT.) 3 BALLONABLOB,.SATURDAY.-This wag the third anal- it versary of our'new fair, and, though a fatlure to a certain a eitent, was and ?? this yearby the inlsub'tants of fhe h town and the l farmers. I cm happy to state those It towpn atond h ot becn realized. Some of the great a lelolster buyeri, o take so prominent a part In our greati Qe ...

... _P_ The Convict to his Mother. Oh! Mother, had you beat me less, And used kind language more, I might have now some cause to bless, Not reason to deplore The timne when, as a little child, I sought my Mother's knee, But was repulsed with language wild And stern severity. When you. and Father used to fight, And live on beer and gin, The tavern bar for half the night Would find you boozing in. ...

... LITERA TUBE. Thc Iiad of Homer. Translated into Blank Verse, by IchIABOD CHARLES WRIGHT, M.A., Trans- lator of Dante, late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Macmillan and Co. Books I. to VI. Mr. Wright, already favourably known as a trans- lator of Dante, has here attempted the more arduous task of rendering Homer into English verse. The task is more arduous on many accounts. The wondrous ...

... The second of the series took place last ever. ing in the Music Hall, which was crowded with a brilliant, fashionable, and enthusiastic asEera. blage. A considerable portion of the prograrout, consisted of a repetition of soune of those pieces per. formed at the first concert, on which we PTeviousls remarked, and among them the Valse Fern Leaves', which was rapturously and most deservedly ...

... THE COURT. WINDSOR, TIIURSDAY.-IHer Majesty's dinner party yesterday included his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Right Hlon. Spencer and Mris. S. Walpolo, Colonel the Hon. It. DiVuce, the Dean of Windsor and the llon. Mrs. Wellosley, Colonel F. H. and Lady Emily Seymour, Sir .naines Clark, and Miajor Loyd Lindsay. Lord Stanley had an audience of her Ma- jesty, and presented Mr. ...