Some of the Poetry in this number is excellent--a few of the articles only so-so. We recommend the Messenger anew to all our readers, as a publication worthy to be supported for the credit of the South--for its own intrinsic merits and for the enterprising spirit of Mr. White, its worthy proprietor. _From the Norfolk Herald_. _Southern Literary Messenger_.--The first number of Vol. 2 of this Magazine has come to hand, greatly improved in outward appearance, as well as in literary merit. No Journal of this kind in the country has experienced so rapid, so extensive, and so unequivocal a success as the _Southern Literary Messenger_. It is now, whether we consider the extent of its patronage, the great beauty of its mechanical appearance, or the lustre of the names of its regular contributors, _the first Monthly Magazine in America_. In the variety, and more especially in the _originality_ of its articles it has no equal; and among other things we must not forget that the author of the _Lunar Hoax_ is indebted to the _Hans Phaal_ of Mr. Poe (a regular contributor to the Messenger) for the conception and in a great measure for the execution of his discoveries. Indeed several passages in the two are nearly identical. As regards the amount of absolute matter contained in a number of the Messenger, we cannot be far wrong in stating that it is equal to that of any two monthly Journals in the country--with the exception perhaps of Littell's Museum, which is made up altogether of selections from foreign Magazines.