... THE RHYME OF T1F D1ROWNED CHILDE. Froml tihe Enquirer. TTwas ane childe sat latfin on ane banke, Eke ase merrie childe was hee; M ?? the daffodils and willows dlnk, ' Thit growe by theriver.Dee. I-tI plaeed'ane foot in the crystall Wave, - And anothir oswthe lea; For. le longed hi6 snowy limbs to lave Iin the vaters of the Il)ee. Ah t heedless childe-lhis desperate skrene, As ane in jeopardie, ...

... TT4rP . O;Nr. V F' \ATOR. Fr.o 05 Ad~oic, t, foli; tt Letter ipi PUs.n. And nowe, with no deiignt to quiz, co! I'll tel-l y:an What this husines' is. cm.i 'fibis route, inglorious toil and ?? Thiat weari tlhe body, not the brain.- li M ichi state in many ca~ei,-itere WI) Much Wes is meant than roerti the ear, i Jistt listen, and you'll find a knack 'tis c oomatered by a little practice.de Tlo ...

... PARTY POrl'lly. I1h' TMfr RIINAIIKADI CIRCUMSTA,'NCES -AITEND- INOe TIIF QUeEF N. JWIhen GCifhrd coni m-nced his attack on the C)ueen, Loud ra rled the thunider, red liglst'nllgs verr setnt Whne Copffy *uurntesl ti all he proved bgld been done, ?? I'war alwost -a ruteal eclipse of tbe r ilu; t1: the svio2le of the case we may clearly remark, Accusatiun in thunder, and proof itl the dark ! ...

... TE FfNV -ARtg. L A. - , 1, - . A . - _ .- - A . I j I We lidve 'o dan tteali ?? attention of oir readers te a larger W l numnber- of first-ratta works of art titan usual. It is cot very w frequenl tihat we have to speak, in one' paper of two pietures 7 E6 by Lnndseer-o. e 1t4 Mr. Fa.3stlue, andt one by Coant Dtrsav. to Is Such, howerer, is our good fortune tiis mowrning. 'ETie two first ...

... CANADITAN SKETCHES. (From S~ir Francis fhead's 1En-riqrani.) IMajE T HE1! S A S oys. N'orf Tin the sumnrner. the excessive heat-the violent paroxsrens of fl Xed thunidir-the parching droughlt-the occasional deluges of rain- L aj e The sight of bright red, bright blue, and ether gaudy plumaged agair birds-nt theO brilliranrt humiming-bird, and of inunmerabledire-flres some tiliac -at ?? ...

... H-IIGHILANcD SOCIETY'S SHOW AT DUMNFRIES. r- , _ I - -I I ?? - - ?? - - - - - - o +h.o - -4n The first meeting of the local committeeappointed at the county meeting on 30th April last, and by the Highland Societv, for regulnting the details connected with the AgricultIral AMecting at Diniftries in October next, was hiel at Dunfries on the l1th inst., andwvasniinmerouslyattended ?? proprietors. ...

... (Abridged fromn the Inverness Courier.) TInURSDAY, JULY 13, TO SATUIIDAY NIGIIT, JULY 15. Our importarnt market commenced as usual on thuesecond Thursday of July, and extended to the Saturday following. Svevral gentlemenl arrived on Thursday evening, but it was not till late next day titat business was attempted, and thett only a few small Jots were disposed of. There never was a market here ...

... I~ ~ ,_ , . ken. a of (iFramutbe Mtanchester Guardian,) was The Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, this at Manchester, in 18.5?, is now a thing of the past, so far as the nee, public is concerned:- and to the executive committee there re- sage mains but the onerous tasak of. packing the countless treasures por- and retu-rning. them to their liberal-minded owners. it was for ...

... LITER AT U R E. A HANlD-Bio or BRI1TISHI MAnfRITl'JL LAW. By D. R. Morice, Advocate in Aberdeen. L'ondol: Smith; Elder & Co., Corrhill. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh. Tent treatise is intended for the use of meichents, shlipowners,, shipmasters, and legal ?? the three fir!tr. mentioned classes, who have here in an aecessible form that. information which largely enters into their daily trlnsactio!s' ...

... ?? Aat HISTORY OF FREDERICK THE. I ' ' ,--GREAT.* (Fiore thebiterary.Gazettc - - The actual publication of 'these voluLnes, the first half of Mr. Garlyle's long-promised and long-expected Life of t Frederick the Great, sets at rest the question, mooted more than once during the last few years,-wv.hether the work ...

... c I fMTTrrt. r -rmr Snr -wam eln THE QUEEN CITY OF THE WEST. (By Charles Mackay, in the Illustrated London News.) Cincinnati, Jan. 27, 1858. Cincinnati is as yet the greatest city of the Great West. How long it will ,remain so depends on the progress of po. pulation in Missouri, and the city of St. Louis on the Missis- sippi. But a few years ago it was the U'ltima-Thule of civil- isation, ...

... THE JOLLY -MARINER. A BALLAD. IT was a jolly mariner As ever hove a log; He wore his trousers wide and free, And always ate his prog, And blessed his eyes in sailor-wise, And never shirked his grog. Up spoke this jolly mariner, Whilst walking up and down:- The briny sea has pickled me, And done me very brown; But here I goes, in these here clo'.es, A-cruising in the town ! The first of all ...