... numbers are affixed ! tain days in March and April, which are the days of tW moons ; and the Sunday succeeding Easter Day. The term Easter taken from our Saxon ancestor* v at this season of the year held festival honour of , goddess Eoster; supposed be ...

... on of their consciences, that their Easter devotions would, in some measure, come up to their Easter dress. This day kept with great splendour at Rome, in the Churches, and in all Roman Catholic countries. Easter Monday and Tuesday, are also provided ...

... rendered the time of the celebration of Easter the same through all the Christian churches. The time is now determined according to the rule in the Book of Common Prayer, which is fixed by Act of Parliament that Easter-Day shall be the first Sunday after ...

... GOOD FRIDAY AND EASTER. Good Friday.—This day, the anniversary our Lord s »cifixion, was observed in the primitive Christian Church *»th great strictness fasting and humiliation. Some abstain- from food the whole six days of the week, some four, some ...

... DEVON EASTER SESSIONS. On Tuesday tbe Easter Quarter Sessions for the County of Devon was opened at the Castle of Exeter, before Sir John Ken- Haw:;)-. Bart., Chairman, and the following Magistrates :—The Right Hon. the Earl of Devon, Viscount Courtenay ...

... ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. THE RISING GENERATION. To the Editor of the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Sir,—Great complaints are daily made the misconduct of the more juvenile portion the population this neighbourhood. It is notorious that the boys particular ...

... BRAD WORTHY, near HOLSWORTHY,—Devon. jlO be Sold by Private Contract, a small Freehold ESTATE called STOWFORD, otherwise EASTER STOWFORD, situate in the parish of Bradworthy, Devon, lately occupied by Mr. Walter; consisting of lecently erected Farm House ...

... WEEKLY CALENDAR. MAY .-Third Sunday after Easter-Lesions for Morning Service, Deut. ir. Matthew iv.-Evening, Deut. Rom. v. Sun rises bait sets \ 7. 11.—Full Moou at \ past 8, morning. ...

... WEEKLY CALENDAR. April Sunday after Easter.—Lessons for morning service, Deut. iv. Acts xxiv. Evening, Deut. v. 1 John iii. Sun rises at before : sets after 7. 29.—Fu1l moon, before 11 at night. May L—St. Philip and St. James. ...

... WEEKLY CALENDAR. May 4.—Fourth Sunday after Easter.—Lessons for morning service. Dent. vi. Matthew ii.—Evening, Dent. vii. Rom. iii.—-Sun rises at past 4 sets at J pas t 7. 6.—Moon's last quarter. past 5 in the evening. ...

... WEEKLY. CALENDAI! Easter-Day,—Lessons for, Service? Exodus xii, Romans Ex xili- Acts ii, begmning at 22d verse, 7 Sun rises after 5 ; sets 7 minates before7, 12.—Moon’s last quarter afternoon. 19 minutes past 3 in the ...

... WEEKLY CALENDAR. ArßiL 20.—Second Sunday after Easter.—Lessons for ing service, Numbers xxiii. and xxiv. Acts 1 ' Evening, Numbers, xxv. 1 Peter iv. -S? rises 2 minutes before 5 ; sets 2 minutes after 22. —Moon's First Quarter, i past in the morninf)' ...