... It slowly steals away; WVitlh silent step un1heede(l, it depaits; The beauty and the glory of the day Fail from our eyes and hearts. Faint gleams the leafy rill With softened fnush the cloud ...

... IHI(W FRENCH CONSPIRANCIES WERE MANUFACTURED. A smuall volume of about 400 pages, entitled X-6moibles de ('(olkNre, appeared hardly a fortnight ago. The author of the book-at least, the person whose n ...

... THlE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. MANUFACTURES OErWOLVE RHAMPTON AND TEE I)ISTRICT. No. 1. A recent pamnihhid asks and professes to answer the question, What is good iron, and how is it to be got ? 'Tl ...

... |GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL AT CARMARaTHEN. A second grand musical Eisteddfod, carried on in a similar manner as the one of the lst inst., was held- in the MIarket-place, in this town, on WAediieisday, tile 23rd instant, in aid of the funds towards the erection of a new Church at Llanllwch, in the county of Carmar- . then. A preliminary concert of national music was given on the evening of the ...

... Fiferam x1ofices. CA1Ens'S 3oUtNAL FOR JUNE. THE Boox OF DAYS ror JUNE. Edinburgh: TV. d R. Chaambers. Tim first article in Chamnbers's Journal for June is -The Rise and Fall of the Daily .Flambeau-a capital description of the establishment, progress, decline, and break-up of a new daily paper by a limited liability company. There is a remarkably good article on Emanuel Swedenborg, and an ...

... (FIom Le Follet.) Paris, at this season of the year, is beginning to be de- serted by the fashionable world a snd la mode is prin- cipally confined to costume suitable for travelling and the country. For travelling, there is nothing better than plain foulards or alpacas. In the latter material, a drab shade is very much liked * anl, certainly, is a very convenient colour for tourists, who ...

... , Outr (A tkhciauao) ictespondent at. 4ipzigiwairis ts;(6n Geinian report) that a seohd volume of Siendelasol';s Letters is 7ct0 shortly to be expected. On Friday, the 18th, ...

... ThIE AWARDS OF MEDALS AT THE INTER- NATIONAL EXHIBITION. The followhig is an approxiniate statenelet of the number of entries, and the total number of medals awarded in each important class to which the towns in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire have contributed ; and the numi- ber of medals which have been taken by the several towns. The figures representing the number of entries are only ...

... FASHIONS FOR AUGUST ( LrSot L FOLLET.) The fashionables are gradually disappearing irene Paris, bat the toilettes with which they provide them. selves plainly declare they have no desire to leave fashion behind them. t)ur large houses are now busily employed in the Vianufacture of dresses ex- pressly designed for the watering places. IFor the morning, or for travelling, simple dresses, as we ...

... THE QVARTERLIES. The new numbers of t he Edinbur'gh and Quarterly are silent on the subject of the American war and questions dependent on it. Its events are just now passing so rapidly that the National alone of the Reviews before us ventures to deal with it in its present state. Treating of the Slave Power and the Secession War, the National Rev iev does not confine itself to a judicious ...

... Her Majesty has signified her intention to confer the Military Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, as an acknow- ledgment of the important services rendered by him to this country. General Bruce, governor to the Prince of Wales, died on Friday mnorning, at St. James's Palace, from Ithe effects of a fever contracted whilst attending the Prince at ...

... - The favourable comparisbn between the attendance at the International Exhibition and that of 1851, which we pointed out last week, still holds good. in the week ending the 12th inst. the total number of visitors was 307,612; in the corresponding week of 1851 there were 288,427 attendants. On Saturday (hallcrown day) 29,667 persons entered the building, 19,889 of whom paid for admission, and ...