TO OUR READERS.-We have, for this month, substituted for our customary portrait 16 pages of additional matter-making 96 pages of original articles. We have also added a new feature to the general character of the contents, viz., a light synopsis, under the head of "Gossip," of the matters of social interest that occur during the month. No pains will be spared to render this department light and attractive. TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. SLAVES AND SLAVERY.-1st. Message of the President, transmit- PAGE .243 ..255 II. HOCHELAGA.-Hochelaga; or, England in the New World. Edit- V. WHAT IS TRUTH ?-1st. Acts and Resolutions passed at the first session of the 29th Congress of the United States, published by authority. 2d. Sections adopted at the New-York Constitutional Convention... VI. THE INDIAN LOVER.. VII. THE ELEMENTS OF MORALITY; INCLUDING POLITY.-The Ele- .264 .267 .272 .273 VIII. MORNI AND ETHNEA-A Tale of St. Columba .284 .289 X. HAYDN'S APPRENTICESHIP.-Translated from the German. (Con cluded)..... ..298 XI. SONNET-All Mortal Performance but Progress. By the author of "The Yemassee," &c...... ..302 XII. A DREAM OF THE WORLD. By R. S. S. Andros.... ..303 ...305 XIV. THE BROKEN HEART-A Tale of Hispaniola. By S. Anna Lewis, author of "Records of the Heart." ..312 PAGE ...339 I. THE NEW-YORK CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.. IV. MUTATIONS OF TIME. By Mrs. J. W. Mercur.. ..349 ...357 ..361 ..365 ..368 VII. MONEY.-1st. A Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of all nations struck within the past century; by Jacob R. Eckfeldt and William E. Dubois, Assayers of the Mint of the United States. 2d. Annual Report of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, showing the operations of the Mint and Branches for 1845.....369 VIII. THE INFELICITIES OF INTELLECTUAL MEN.... ..378 IX. THE ELEMENTS OF MORALITY; INCLUDING POLITY.-The Elements of Morality; including Polity; by William Whewell, D D., author of the "History and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences," &c. (Concluded.).... ...385 X. SONNETS-Eager Confidence of Ambition-The Sacrifice upon our Altars. By the author of "The Yemassee," &c...... .....391 XI. MORNI AND ETHNEA-A Tale of St. Columba. (Concluded).....394 XII. THE WELCOME RAIN-Translated from the High German of Herr I. THE RESULTS. State Elections-Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, at Boston-Do. of J. M. Clayton and Henry Clay.. 419 II. THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF WASHINGTON AND ADAMS. Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams. Edit ed from the papers of Oliver Wolcott. By George Gibbs...... 426 III. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW-YORK. Natural History of New-York. By Authority.. IV. UPWARD! By J. Bayard Taylor..... V. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GOETHE. Truth and Poetry: from My Life. Translated from the German of Goethe. Edited by Parke Godwin. 433 442 443 VI. A Day in the Dead Letter OFFICE. By Francis Copcutt.... 446 VII. TO THE OCEAN. By Mrs. J. W. Mercur..... 452 VIII. WHALE-FISHERIES. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise; with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar, &c. By J. Ross Browne 453 (Continued.)...... 465 IX. THE INFELICITIES OF INTELLECTUAL MEN. X. SONNETS.-Heart Essential to Genius.-Where to Seek-How to 471 XI. POLITICAL PORTRAITS WITH PEN AND PENCIL.-Zadock Pratt, |