... POLLJOXSHAWS CATITLE SHOW. Tbis annual exhibition came off on Friday in the usual field, and proved. notwithetanding the weather, a very decided snecese. Raifu poured down all day till about four o'clock, when it cleared up, and the afternoon was favourable. The cattle were in good condition, the show of horses very excellent, and the entries numerous. Poultry and dairy produce were also ...

... LITEnATURE. POEMS OF PunrOSE AND SaE'romcs IS PtoscE. By Janet Hamilton, authoress of Poems and Essays. Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son. (Pp. 299.) Wm are glad to find this old tree putting forth neow leaves. There is nothing like genius displayed in Mrs. Hamilton's productions, but she seems to be a clever, sensible, cheery old lady, who thinkks intelli' gently, and who possesses powers of ...

... : LANGLEY LANE, A LOVE-PORM lyroin Good Worda for AuztWJ In all the land, rango up, range down. Is Oe ever a plaO so pleasant mad sweet, as Langlay Lane in London town, just out of the bustle of square and street? iattle white cottages all in a rowe, aardens where batchelors'.buttons growr, ,wallowh' neats in roof and wall, And uhpabove s heostill blus sky, WVhere the wooll white clouds go ?? ...

... ~IJ~AUE lIN' An Autumn Tale. Edinburgh: o ?? &k Douglas. , of the exodus from London daring d 3e r0nthb, when families pack and go to 0 goo Jgand the Continent for the usual holi. 08W St Joha and Charles Hay are two Nt DO wbo are meant to be a contrast to each e; 0be former is the grandchild of Lord Pqn. fr, T ding ?? upon that nobleman b'sd t ort, and he iB expected to marry an to bdpr to ...

... TEE P4 T-11i NO bird-songfoe 5 h No rustle 1 N~o ripple fromi tho water'e hem, ?? The dnek of twilight round us grew, We felt the falling of the dew; Far from us, ere the day was done, The wooded ?? shut out the suii Buo bi 8ho rver'e farther side We'saw the hiiltope glorifed,-' A tender glow, exceeding fair, . j;a me ofday without its glare..) With usrtheidamp; the chill, the gloom:' ,, With ...

... _BUJCIB, THE FRENfl DRAMATIST. Dur ing the frightful days of the Terror, Ducis, when called on to invent something suitable for the theatre, could write a letter such as this :- What have you to say to me, Vallier, about may busying mnyself to write new tragedies ? Tragedy is in oar streets. If I set my foot across my threshold, I am in blood up to my heel. I do well to shake the dust from my ...

... General Lee fills a high place in the esteem of many persons, nud I am far from wishing to=detract from his just reputation. But the fact. I !have to mention is of importance, as showing that the irre. sponsible power which the slave system gave to the Blaveholder over his slave may be very perilous even to men deemed honourable and humane. As you cross the Potomac by the bridge at Washington, ...

... IPRODUCTION OF ArLmTA.INE AT THE | :- ROYAL ITALIAN OPER IA. - .The last dramatic work of Meyerbeer, the long. talked-of and eagerly-expected Africaine, was produced at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Gr- den, on Saturday. 'The Times says that if not a model, the performance was, considering that there had been only three rehearsals, one of the most re. waikable ever heard. Although the ...

... .I6G GOW INSTITUTE OF TaE FitEARTS.I OPENING OF THil AWFNUI EXHiBITION. Last night, the fourth annual exhibition of works artists, undes thae auspices ofthe GlasGo'vi ?? ArtInstitute, was, opened in 6t0e Corporation ' Galiedes by a fall dress conversaZioMe, The doors were opened at six o'cloek, and throughout the'evoi- I og' the rooms were thronged with a brilliant assem- blago. To the ...

... I AEYIEW QF THE BRdTI H CORn ta.b ; I 1 . I I ?? the )Iark LanesEaje.; Althoughthecouamencement oftheweti.. is the latter half was more genici and prenE ;e its effects on vegetation. Somn ?? the late copious rains, the young cere4,;tdt yellow and stunted; and where the wheateilat, thin and weak very little growth was MA, have now good reason to expect a speyly r',e many still isist that an ...

... The Minister of Public Instruction has addressed a report to the Emperor, dated Nov. 8, recommend. ing that in the Paris Interiational Exhibition of 1867 there should be A representation of the progress made by the moral and political sciences in France during the last twenty years, by means of a series of reports from eminent men upon the several branches of these subjects. i The Minister's ...

... JITJTERATU=RE. TLE HrrLIYAlaR AND Tur BUIRTONS: A Story of Two Vamiliep. By Henry Kingelsy, author of Austin Etlliot, Ravenshoe, &c. London and Cam- bridge: Macmillan & Co. 1865. TnE author tells us in his preface that he has painted in this novel the struggle between love and duty. We can only say, candidly, that we should not have thought it. Indeed-and we speak after two do-. lighted, ...