... The fourth annual competition of the Barrhead Farmers' Society tookplace yesterday on th e farm of A uchenback. The day proved one of the most nfavourablekind, rain fa lling till near the close, when the sun came forth. The ground was ankle-deep all round, and, owing to the puddle, the fair sex deserted the exhibition at an early hour. The entries were nearly as-if not more-numerous than ...

... LT LITZRATURBE. TEE XW ERZVOLWuiOT, oR TEE NAr NOI.OC Bonr - TuzN i By lE. HB. Patterson. William Blackwood & Edinburgh and Londbn. TErS is a republication, in a connect ed form,- of various articles that have appeared in B9ackeooa-'s iMagazinse, and also in that abirconducted journal The Presw. The author has therein; at intervals, attempted to read the signs of the times. Of course, the ...

... THE:ROYAL DR.AMATIC COLLEGE. : I l' I thro Sien I ' ' . I . * (Yron. the Timesj) An event occilrred. on Eriday at llayb try, near xWu6kinz. whlich snav not improperly be considered as constitutiug an era in dramatic annals. The fogndari~n-stee of an instit- tion )wLiCh is intended to affirda horno ftr needy and dd~s tresed actors, anda kchooI for the iastrucltwr of their chi! dren, was laid ...

... THE ELGIN EMBASSY TO OMNA ANTD JAPAN.*I 17he'disastreus repulse of the British forces at the mouth of the Peibo river, on the 25th of June last, drew a greater amount of public attention to our relations with China than bad ever before been directed towards it. The announcement that a considerable naval force had actually been defeated by an enemy whom we bad been accustomed to regard with ...

... LITERA TURE. EE~~~J~,AND ITS ASSOCIATEDl DUTIES sa ?? ]vy. By Lient. A. H. Alston, R.N. Together with a Treatise on Nautical Surveying, for the use of the Officers on Genera] Service; with 200 Illustrations, London: routledge, Warns & njutledge, Farringdon Street. TEIS work is inscribed to the midshipmen of the Fleet, and is written for their guidance. These young gentlemen, in- cluding Prince ...

... CATTLE SHOW AT CAN4BUSLANG. The Cambuslang, Blantyre, and Rutherg-len Agricultural Raj Society held their annual show of cattle and butter at Casm th buslang on Tuesday last. the 22d inst. The Judges for the lik cattle were-M essrs. Robert Clark, Uddingston; John Mar- thc shall, Airbles, Dalziell; and Andrew Pollock, MoDrhouse, om Easleshami; and for Butter-Messrs. Alexander Sunith, Orr mu ...

... HE QUEEiN'S REVIEW OF. THE SCOTTISH VOLUNTEERS VOLoUBISW li'. o efollowvieg vereby Sheriff Gor.dn, and dedicatey spcal permission to the Queen, have just been published, iith mesic byMr. Howard:]- The legends df the times of old, Which in our childhood we were told To cherish like untarnished gold, Inscrib'd with Britain's glory; 'What are these tales to what we've seen, When good Victoria is ...

... T E M ITDW iN = - my slow degrees w egiw ; 21 t We 1 of Do Indian mystery. Little by lie: the truae easu of the . Sepoy mutiny are coinig to light, d WOe me Adottshed on recognisg their apparet inadequacy t6 e themendon results they effected. Welt not at whichmost towvel. tthe simple credulity of the natives or thei ittiato rof their Brtith rulis There can he little-doubt fbat, whateve ...

... 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 ...

... I1 R VOLUNTEERS! BONG.- 41?lom Bhck-oodas 11BdaUine ter FebruaTy.) Up and arm you, one and AB! Arm toguard our n2ive ihore: Som of freedom, hbar the call- Arm yoa, as in days of yore Hearken not to them that say, Is not Franee our teay? ]'ever war wil come our way; ?? then, lay the rie by. Reakea mnt, but asp ?? ams; bq. are walls .d bubwarks strong: Let ns have nO vain alaxims- ;Temptin ...

... THE GLASGOW MUSICAL mETIv&fL .- . . . e MR. LAMBETN-4IRE CRORISTERS. In the Afhencrts of Saturdar-last, cons-terable space is devoted to a very favoarable notice of our Musical Festiaj. We make the following extracts Such a meeting outd ioto ke place witho'ct the Usual preludes and ,running aceompanimnents-leeal discomfitures (in most cases arising from no desire to offend; soa much as from ...

... ;t SCOTCIH .STO :.jIt In #A,, ..V a, . .- . lce, 7o ?? 1e5 Sir,-? our notice of Dean , bk Sco6MIoml WO ednesday,nwia ot e-it b-hddlto allteitbulk odfeach sbOcceCtdbifetdfftji~6f;, 'sOd Pugkss, afew. anec'dotes-which, sis kagev dc- yet apeared-in print. 'Ithinkaay'lovczcrdfhi trwki' Ii values the, Dean's piouM lahbou is, anud W*hb heW 'laid tbhe4 em. . what. Our Chancellor said in his. addresh ...