... Oft wandering down through Harborne's quiet lanes- A is V wont when daily toil is e'or- 'oP1pird a cottage, 'neath some sheltering trees, FiawraplIed in Nature's mantle-ivy green. Not far fromu thence, a running brook purls by, 'ld nniniuurs soft tbrough tie umbrageous glea In diveor cadence with the fitful breeze. A thouiflud songsters swelled their little throats In grateful harmony. Wliiei ...

... The third eshibition, for the present season, in connection with this society, was held at the Botanic Gardens, yesterday. The afternoon and evening proving ?? it was attended by a large number of visitors. The ehow was not so largo a one as we have noticed at corresponding periods In previous years, but it was well sustained in every department. The ornamental plants were espe- diallv worthy ...

... LE FOrLEr says, the unseasonable oharaoter of the weather has almost entirely prevented the adoption of those light and elegant toilettes prepared in anticipation of warmn days and sunny skies. Hence the fashion (which we hoped was but for a day) of large silk paletots, or burnous with a sleeves, is still almost universally followed, and we can scarcely wonder, under the circumstances, that ...

... POETRY'. THE SNOWDROPS. Without the dry trees groan and shiver, The curtained sun in his cloud doth sleep, And through the chamber easement ever Murmuts the roll of the distant deep. By the maiden's sidle onl the couch were lying, Blending their delicate green and white suf Children of winter. half closed and dying. thf Flowers that are born ere spring is in sight. or Slowly she spake in a ...

... I PROVINOiAL THEA rRIGALB (3Fia att oul WS coulEtEBlOSD~ffT.) BRIG~HTON. TERAT~Ra ROYin.-fMeaaee, Mr Hl. Nye Chart.)-The Dow company, having Piayed togetber now for a fortnight, are getting into good warking order, and are on the whole equal to last year's corps. Mr Nye Chart ap- peare to have been partleelarly fortunate in his selection of ladies, and etthongh we mniso Mr W. Cooper, the ...

... THE ReV. HoUGo PIGOT'S HISTORY OF HAI)LEIGKr. -There is no town in Suffolk which offers greater at- tractions to the antiquarian, historian, and archaeolo. gist than that of Hadleigh; and it is with great pleasure that we inform our readers that to whichever of these classes they may belong. their researches will be much aided by the perusal of Mr. Pigot's work on that town. Mr. Pigot has ...

... I - T~lEQUEN AD-T EMEiRnOR o10 AUSTRIA. -Somue German journals state that there Is every probability thert tile EmoIneror of Austria will shortly lhare aisotbar.inlter vi lew witI piin Illustrious persosnage, ead ~tho Queen of Groat siltaie Is nonsned. as tehc soereigng Indicated.' The Emperor, it, is nald. will be temporarily residing In tile neighbourhood. of Cobnrg In the month of ...

... ?? - THB ILLUSTRATED HORSE-DDOTORi2 Mr. Edward Mayhew has lo0g enjoyed a b;gh re. ,utation as a veterinary surgeon. As the editor of Blair's Veterinary Art, and as the author of The Horse's Mouth, and Dogs: their Management, hi name has long been pleasantly familiar to all who interest themselves in dogs and horses. A close and shrewd observer, a methodical compiler of the results of ...

... _tickUl front 4' l uncb, DARING FEATS OF EORBANSrHP. -The honourable member for Stroud has acquired considerable celebrity by putting his spoke in the wheel of the government. GivE IT 'EM.-Punch reads paragraphs stating that the savage Druses claim affinity with the Scetch. This is all bosh. But he is decidedly of opinion that the sooner the Druses are scotoh'd the better. A FAIR ATTEMPT. ...

... ?? i N:. :1 . s i Rft-BpN I ! ;1 . i ! ! . li' ?? I' ,, :laRCIIERX *MEEi'JTG AT PnsN Y GARDDrie, NBA6 RuaBoN;.-On'Friday week an archery meetingwashikeld at .Pon y.gardden, the b'eautissfuil seat of LaduyFMarshall. Her ladyship gave a numb erlof ipripes forthe 6ecauom :amongst therm ' valuab]e gold bracelet 'Tbe!'6ontest coommenced at al 1 } -o'elock a:nd continued tillT3 a3inthe afternoon, ...

... I The annual exhibition of this society was held on Tuesday, at Hexham.. The ahow was held in a field near the town belonging to Miss Chariton, of the Grey Bull Ini. It was considered the best ehow of stock | vhioh has yet been held under the auspices of this ficur- ishing seciety. The prize ball was greatly admired. It is the same animal which gained the head prize at the show/ of the ?? ...

... The Art-Journal. No. 68. J. S. Virtue. This cheap monthly issue of good engravings from choice pictures and statues, and of pleasantlY communicated in- formation upon all matters of art, should be one of the most popular issues of the day. Careful engravings of Rubens's portrait of his wife, of Turner's Rain, Steam, and Speed, and of another work, with a profuse supply of woodcuts, illustrate ...