... (From an English translation just published.) The Magyars are a nation who abound in the staple ma- terials of poetry,—fancy, invention, enthusiasm, and strong susceptibility to the external influences of nature. They are a branch of the great Hungarian tribe but it is only of late years that poetry, as an art, has been cultivated with any success among them. Once sown, however, the seeds seem ...

... On, 1831 AND 1832. Thirty-one is gone—thirty-two is here, Like the cradle beside the tomb, And we'll rock the birth of the infant year, With a dirge to the one that is gone;- And, yet of the old, no ill shall be told, And we'll hope the best for the new- If we were young in 31, We are older in 32. Then fill the bowl, and feast the soul, And set the fancy free We must not have a thought of the ...

... RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCE. No. XII. CELEBRATED CAVERNS OF TOURAIN^—Near the village of Savonniere, upon the road from Tours to Chinon, not far from the river Cher, are caverns, which, in the language of the coun- try, are called Caves Gouttieres (caverns with gutters formed drop by drop). The descent into them is by several narrow openings, now nearly closed by the falling in of the roof. The ...

... This remarkable Bore is principally known in our own country,—he is extremely domestic—and even rational, except on one topic- his dear little family. His aspect is indicative of timidity, which has been ascribed to his being almost always hen-pecked if you visit him at his house you run the risk of breaking your neck over a go-cart or rocking-stool, or of endan- gering the limbs of a shoal ...

... THURSDAY, JAN. 19.-The Earl of Aberdeen gave notice that on Thursday next he would submit a motion on the subject of the Belgian treaty—an arrangement which he considered to be in many respects not only highly impolitic, but attended with gross injustice. Lord, Strang ford called the attention of the house to the state- ment in his Majesty's speech at the opening of the session that a ...

... (From the New Monthly Magazine.) In Moscow all kinds of churches exist, and amongst them is a church, it cannot be called a mosque, for Tartar worship. I at- tended on Friday; and as they had no minah to call the pious at the hour of prayer, the Imaun mounted a wall, and stood in a tottering situation, exhorting the people with Allah is God to prayer, come to prayer-prayer is to be preferred ...

... Mr. Littleton, after disclaiming all personal feeling towards the member for Colchester, introduced a motion which originated in a petition he had previously presented from Mr. Ayre Lee, who had received a letter signed W. R. Sidney, announcing that the writer had entered into a professional connexion with Mr. D. W. Harvey, a member of that House, for the purpose of car- ry ing on the business ...

... The Loyal Trafalgar Lodge of Ancient Druids, No. 91, held at the Swan and Falcon, Monmouth, under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of England, celebrated their Tenth Anni- versary on the 29th ult. The brethren of the town and its vi- cinity were awakened to their anticipated festivity by a summons from the bells of St. Mary s Church, which rang merry peals at intervals, from the rising of ...

... COUNTRY NEWS. Circulars were on Tuesday issued in Manchester, calling a meeting of the leading inhabitants to consider of the best means of supporting the Government in case it were com- pelled to have recourse to a dissolution. This is not all- eleven of the gentlemen calling the meeting, deeming exam- ple more valuable than precept, immediately subscribed to begin with. We have much pleasure ...

... Wt have to correct an error in our report, last week, of the speech made by the Vicar of Abergavenny at the Usk Reform Meeting. We, make the Rev. Gentleman, in alluding to the Russian Auto- crat, to express a wish that he, like the Sennacherib of old, might die by the sivords of those who came forth of his own bowels. This was art entire mistake of ours.Confu,sed by the loud ap- plauses which ...

... MR. EDITOR,-At a time when the legislature is actively en- gaged in relieving the burdens of the people, I am not a little astonished to find that a bill is now befoje Parliament, for the purpose of introducing additi nal clauses into an already existing law, for rating to the poor rate tenements of twelve pounds annual value down to six pounds. The additional clauses en- gross tenements of ...

... ALDERMAN KEY.—A requisition has been forwarded to the Lord Mayor, requesting his lordship's permission to be proposed, on Michaelmas Day next, for re-appointment to the Civic Chair for the ensuing year, in order that the Livery of the City may have an opportunity of testifying how highly they appreciate the very able and distinguished manner in which the worthy alderman has discharged the ...