... TO A SLEEPING CHILD. Art thing mortal birth, AV hose happy on,c IS on 1 ? Docs human blood with life embne Those heavenly viens heavenly blue That stray along thy forehead fair, Lost 'mid a gleam of golden hair ? Oh ! can that light and airy breath Steal ...

... outbalance right, And justice crouch to might. Earth’s life is wrapt in selfishness: but Death, Who stays the giant’s as the infant’s breath,— Death the all tranquillizing,—brings a balm To heal deep wounds: he hath a spell to calm Revenge :—the living war ...

... between two parties who disputed about the identity of a of mortality, from which the vital spark had long departed. It appeared that a short time before the wife of a man was about to off this mortal coil,” and requested that she might be buried in a cemetry ...

... panting breast. The child, the mother, by her infant legal murder's sanction'd stroke they fall. And flames and blind destruction swallow all. Nor helpless age protects, nor female fear, £*ea lisping infants quiver the spear. Can beav'u be cruel ?—cease ...

... anofiending infants (the one, two years old, and the ether three), merely because a few persons had not to do for them, what, in the nature of things, itis improhable, nav, impossible they ever would, or could have petformed! One of these infants was silently ...

... Coburg Sept. 26:—* Lately a journeyman blacksmith clandestinely broke into and entered the vault in which are deposited the mortal remains of the Dukes of Saxe: Coburg. His object, as he confesses, was to take from one of the Princesses buried there a necklace ...

... se yet it Recessary the excess of mortality among Parately, av ilnstrative of the infant males compared with females. The average of t sm quinquennial periods in the cases annexed) w bi zeneral cept sum of mortality. At the termination sit the years, ...

... influence in increasing the mortality of females. The medium duration of life at the present time is, in Russia, abor 74 9 1 years ; in Prussia, 29 ; in Switzerland, 34; in France, 55; Belgium, 36; and in England, 38 years. Mortality is always much greater ...

... eatastrople will be the cause of throwing a consider- ab'e number out of | Mortality of the bills of mortality for London for the year ending 1338, it appears that out of infants born, uo fe ver than 6286 (nearly one- third) died under the age of five years; ...

... between them and the slaves on the neighbouring plantations, in which he former were given to understand that a grievous mortality was prevailing among the blacks on the island (cholera,) and that it was occasioned poison administered by the whites. This ...

... Lambeth, on the body of a woman named | | Asher and her infant. The woman had been found dead | | in her bed a few mornings ago, and in the room was dis- } covered the body of a newly-born infant wrapped in a}; handkerchief. The deceased was 2 widow, and ...

... precarions con- ition in which he now and th stands between time and eternity, at he knows the honr is fast approaching when his mortal career must come to a Are hbisho termination. The p of Canterbury arrived at the Castle last hight adm inistered the sacrament ...