... THE GIEAV EXHIBITION. we hear that on Tuesday a meeting o f the Royal Commissiwj, will be held to settle finally certain matters onl which it is ne- cessary to coins to a decision before the Queen end the Prince leave for Bialmoral. As the public wvill readily' conjecture, thle1 principal questions thus about to be discussed. are, no doubt, the I exact date onl which the building should close, ...

... . I: 1 THE SEASONS. A blue-eyed child that sits amid the noon, OP'rhung with a laburnum's drooping sprays, Sidging her littlo sons, while softly round Along the grass the chequered sunshine plays. All beiaaty that is tlronod in wonanliondh Pacing a snmmer garden's fountaolnd walks, That stoops to smooth a glossy spaniel down, .To-hide her flushing chock from one who talks. A happy mother with ...

... LITER AT U RE. Bibliothleca Sacra, and Biblical Repository. No. I. Edinburgh, 1851. Aberdeen: G. & R. King. Tiles is the first number of a Quarterly, published in America, and reprinted in this country. Time was when the Americans were content to be our courteous readers; but scow from reading thexy have got into writing, and are beoinning to set up a litera- ture of their own. This literature ...

... LITER AT U RE.I The Lily and the Sc-ani Alpologne of the Crystal Palace. By En, SAM;%UEL WARRLEN, F.B.S. Edinburghi William Blasckwood or & Sons. ele M1R. WARREN'S writings aIrc of a very mixed character. His bill Dayof at late Physleian is a work. of remarkable isower-bis Sp,' Now anti Then fall of practical religion -his 1Ten Thoulsanld full a, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~roe a -year1 more issrked ...

... I I fOn Mod1ay the numlbero visitors to the Crystal Palace was Csmaller, by several thouansthanl on tie two previous Mon- days. At eleven o'clock iillstlhe hrmnometer stood ait 78 dsgrses, 1,and at twelva SO degrees, at which it stood until five O'clock., To learn the immense activity which the Great Exhibition is now setting in motion, was apparent at the termini of the great railway lines. ...

... POETRY, I A PARAPHIIRASE. PsALM liii. 6.-And I said, oh that I had wines like a dove! for then would I flee away and be at rest. Oft have I said, oh that to me The turtle's fleetest wings were given, Far from this dingy earth to flee; Amid those glittering orbs of heaven. Midst those bright fields of living light, Whose golden down would he my nest- Where suns unsetting scare the night- Ahi ...

... POETRY, rTnE 'OTS GREYS AND NINETY-SECOND HIGHLANDERS AT WATERLOO. (Vrms De Renzy's Poetical Illustratioms of the Achiecemeots qf the Duke off lellington.) High praise and lastingl honour To the feoarlss end the true, And cireling round their banner Be the fihnie of Waterloo: With tho plaudits to the name That so led them on to fime, Shalll the echoes of the praisc Be repeated nll around, ...

... I THE GENTLENESS OF DEATH. Who that can foel the gentleness of Death, Sees not the loveliness of Life? and who, Breathing content his natural joyous breath, Could ftil to feel that Death is Nature, too? Anu, not the alien foe bis fears dictated, A viewless terror, heard but to he hatecl. One died that was beloved of all around And, dyin g, grasped a flower of early spring, To hold beside her ...

... theit Letters of John Calvin. Compiled from the original manu- exise scripts, and Edited, with Historical Notes, by Dr JULES thre BONNET. Vol I. Translated from the Latin and French was languages, by DAVeD CONeSTABLE. Edinhuigh : Themeas that m~oo Constable & Co. sine' THrs is the first bf a series of four volumes, which are to rans contain at least six hundred letters of Calvin, the greater ...

... I i I i II I 31 II i c i t s I 0 1 i Ct II I I i i I I I I I i i I i i I i I i I. Btcskrwooe's iAlafagine. Edinburgh and London: William Blaekwood & Sons. MAGA presents herself this month with as much vigour and grace as ever she did on the first day of any month of any year in her existence, She wears on her dusky brows a perennial youthood, and mingles mirth with her wisdom, and wisdom with ...

... LITER AT U F. gas New books, prints, inusic. &c. intended forir'view rmay be left at Mr C. Mitchell's General Advertiing and Pllb- lishing Olfice. London, addressed to the Editor of this paper, when they will be duly forwarded, and receive at- tention. The Nortz Britis7 Review: No. XTIi. FREQUENTMv as we have expressed a favourable opinion of the general merits of this periodical, it is now ...

... LIT E R AT U RE. Classic and Hfistoric Portraits. BY JAMES BRUCE, Int 2 vols. i London: Hurst anti lac'kstt. , BroInArnIY is in Many respects More instructive than history; Ci and indecd, we bolieve, it is seldom that history affords so corn- Ott pitto at picture of the r~mannrs and customs of a time as is to PS he found in the lives of the men of various ranks who hav '. Iaoor. taken part in ...