... PICKINGS FROZI PUSCH. TEE RIGHTS O' ALN. (A Southern Version of them, in blak aal 'hino.) In the Rights o' Alan I dn believe, with Washington and Jefferson; But from them ondying patriots a pint or two I doffers on In their noble declaration they oughter set out fuller That black and white stands oppersite, in rights as well as colour. They'd no pesky abolitionists, a hatchin' revolootions To ...

... 8 -e Xa*vsa -a-. v 1YRICAL PoEMB. 13y John Stuart Blackie; Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: I Sutherland & Knox. rC WE are delighted again to find FrofessorElackieiadamance E vith the muses. IIis last volume took the world by sur- prise, similar to that which was pretty generally experienced j when the late jolly Patrick (Lord) Robertson made, at a asomewhat late ...

... MR. 1'BULL'S SECOND SONG. | M!EN SLY L~PL '± - .fFrm B ackwood's Magazine for February.) Thereare some of my neighbours .who say of my song, ?? Taurus is surely a Uitte too strodng: ThRyask 'Why I sptak of so stran'g - a pleasant and peaceable neighbour of mine? And.tbe think that.the plan Of tbealyjittlv man 3s mlerely to kee wiat he has, if he can. But did be not Bay to n$, not long ago ...

... 7tr EDUCATIONAL COxNMIropN Or SCOLAND A NATIONAL DISGBACE. Present Remedial Suggestions considered. :By the Rev. William Frazer, Paisley, author of State of our Educational Enterprises. Robert Stewart, Paisley. Tan author of this pamphlet is well entitled to be heard on the question of national education. His published account of the state of our educational enterprises is the result of a ...

... Tanm HABITs oF Goon Socxzrv. A Handbook di Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, with Thoughts, Hints, and Anecdotes conceming SocialObs6rvanees; Nice Points of Taste and Good Manners; and the Art of Making Oneself Agreeable. Londbn: James Hogg & Sons. - ALTHOUGH it is quite true that worth makes the mau, and that it is in vain for him to cltivate all the social graces of life, if he does not ...

... THE USICGAL FESTIVAL. I IY . . - r LT___a - We understand that Mr. Horsley, -the composer of Gideon, who has been in Glasgow for a short time, re- hearsing with the Choral Union, returned to London a few days ago, highly satisfied with the attention devoted by the members of the society to the study of his new work, which, - as our readers are aware, will form a distinguished feature of D ...

... . GLASGOW MUSICAL FETIVAL. MAs. HOSSLEYyS NEW OR..TORtO OF GDEON. ; The first musical festival iii Glasgow will be memorable 5 not only for itself as the commencement of the new era, of: Sacred.Oratorio in:Scotland, but for the first performance of asplsadid additonal work in this the highest department -of the art. M Mr. HorEley has achieve I a great triumph in the production of Gideon, ...

... ANNUAL GONCERTS. In accordance witlit annual custom,,this flourishing musical society gave ivot concerts yestercfay in the City sall, one in the.morag and the other'linNihb.evening. The fo of these was devoted to sacread mnusiand con- ;ainedhelections from the works of HaidelHa4n, Men- `delssoli ' aninSpohr; thelatterconcertiwasof aicularand -Misceliiieous -'nature. The principal voc4lists it ...

... - UpMro ON: A Tale of Modern Engish Life. Two Vok London: James Hogg 4 SoRs. TH tale of modern life, which is written in an off-hand and would-be harum-scarum style, will, we think, become a reneral favourite with novel readers, a nd especially with all who take pleasure in scoffing and scolding at some of the Mt-common customs Dyandodes of action which prevail in theee -modern days. The ...

... INVASION NEWS-1588 o11antw~n1§dtn earnorncha r --a . Attend aul ye who Mlst to hear or roble En nand's praise I tell of the thrice famous deeds she ?? in ancent days, wh6en that great fleet invincible against her bore ii vain Thexichest spols Of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain. it was about the lovely close of a warm summer day, ghere came a, gallant merchant-ship funl sai to Plymouth Bay ...

... fgR. vtwu ;LS' -S~O G. ?? ±5. . -VICSJ U ?? - : ?? BlaCkawod'5 Magazine for January.) here a sly little mn that lives over the way, Who always has so, ethiigqte di oj Yetoe jo.ksatmy house from his own,&with an eye *s 3- I pks may look ii by-and-by:) SI $hijk my best plan - -With 4thb sly littie manH ls to a a the premises safe, if I can. Ibsvondrlthe leut doubihe w~ould think it no sBn, A, ...

... (Continued from the Times of Jan. 26.) We mow come to the regular journal of operations, and ldmost the first remark which strikes us in the first journal, from October 19 to October 25, is weakness and small- ness of working parties. We are told that a battery was established on the left attack to fire at the men-of-war at the end of Dockyard Creek; but we are not informed what was ...