... sobtrs. lM Y FRIEND. THU gencrours eiart and open hand 'TI is mille to honlour Lad conmmesnd, For next to thee' my native land, lon ii the anale of Friend. Let others at Love's altar bend, And heal, Withl gifts his flowery shrine- There is that ?? his charms transcend, Alid that is Frienidship's warmth divine. 'T is mine to know the healing power * Which, o'er life's evils, Friendship flings: ...

... TO THE, |MEMORY OF THE REV. DR. CARPE j He shall not float upon his watery bier ?? Uxwept-ad welter to the parching wind, Ouithput the meed of some melodious iOT vihl his armour on the summons found him,_ e ot 'mid the duties he had done ol well; But solitude and oceans were arodnd him When he, the good-the wise, In darkness fell. No friendly. hands unto his burial bore hilm,- C. Not within ...

... MITERA~W VAILIETZES. Thomas Camphellthe author ofthe Pleasures of Hope, is about to travalate tho works of Petrarch, Government, in pursuauco or its plan of granting pensions to literary men, haa conforred on Dr. James Browne, Ll.D., and Moember ot the Faicuty of Advocates tit Edinburgh, anl an- nuity of 1001., in consideration, it is oxpressly said, of his literary attsiaments. Tim ...

... - octrp- LINES ON THE LA'TE ROYAL NUPTIALS. [Be JAMIES IOrTGOOMERI.] Oclr N arid lond tile globc divide, Sueriner arid ?? shoure the year, flarkrres arid Libll Wralk ride by ubic Anid ia;i ml`id Heaven are ?? near, Though each he w eodl rod fair aloue, And gloriells. iii its timc arid place, Ill all, rhe I fitlN ?? are showir rbere of thleir oaker's povecr arid grace. 'Theni may tire rticis ...

... vottrp._ THE OCEAN-BURIED. [rv W. G. 7`iOr3Mo'N] Antd tany a brillialt star was sn reflected il tile tide A usight screticand birest 'iii a sight to bid the soul (in slioleiam though,1t) l~oo. fortht atd view a boursleoes God's contral. Il' Was night, and o'er tile wide ?? no object there seas seen, Snse, a 'VeIe tril audi brave, site seetmad nit Oreats Queets; And iwith her wvide~stretcihd ...

... t *FtL-L HIGH TO THE QUEE& . To be sung on the 10th February, I840.1 e FILL high to the Queen !-let the toast pass round, . And pledge it with heart and with voice; e If never again, oh! to-day shall resound A nation's loud blessing, and bliss shall abound, And merry Old England rejoice. e Fill high to the Queen-fill high! ,o Fill high to the Prince !-her guardian, her guides This day she ...

... I LITERAFY VA&R.TiES. Tbereare two reasons %iliy we don't trustsman-one, lbcause we don't know-hirn end the other~because we'do. LrrEaAns. PIRtACr.-The Dukes of Luceai and Modtens have acceded to the convention between the Emperor of Aistria aand the Kingu of Sardinia. for the mutual prosectiin of the literary woris and productions of artists published withiu their respective dominions. P'6ooR ...

... G 11 EEC E. An Original Composition, recited at the last Examination of tile Bristol College.-By Mu. OsLER. WnAT myriad visions rise at Hellas' name- Enchantress, conj'ring up the mighty past! What glorious thoughts of gage or poets' fame, Or theirs, who bravely fighting breathed their last! But, ah! no more those noble spirits taste Cephissus' wave, or list Socratic lore. Wily ebb'd for them ...

... $iSTERA.T VAZ^LXTTMS, GOOD ADVICUE TO PerLS.-.YotL are very desirous of en- joying good health, and feeling happy. ?? these you cannot do unless you breathe, freely, a suflicientquantity of atmospheric air, the oxygen in which purifies your blood; and you cannot breathe sufficient airif your eheot(thatis,theupper part ofyour b6dy containing the lunge) be pressed in, or narrowed, by your ...

... THE HUSBAN9, WIFE, AND MOVER. A Trite Story of the Orienit.-By Mlf iss Pardoe. Au eminent merchant of Stamboul, extremely wealthy, and *considerably past the middle age, became the husband of a very young and lovely vosuan. As lurkisb females never set them.a dividuals whom they marry previously to the ceremony, but are chosen by some inatrolnly relation of the person who finds it ex- pedient ...

... poetrj. To TliE EDITOR OF THr BRS11TOL MERCURY. Sift, Allow too to offer for your colajuts suotisor tranislatioii Of thcis Soldior's Prayer or Battle Prayer, of Kdrner, made about fourteens years ago, whlicl sanme of your readels 'who un- derstand Germa ?? like to comparo with the original, and with the translation a Aich appeared in your paper of the loth instant, token from Tait's ...

... LzwmnARYT VAl1xz3mB~. r THE TEmarIoaY OF MIND-` I am not a landlord; but I halve a territory-one not entirely in the realms of ?? , have a territory which I have consecrated i my heart, and a peopled beyond the reach of fortune and fate. There I meet f with all that is manly and intrepid-there are th, lovers of j liberty, whose necks never bowed down beneath the yoke of oppression-there I meet ...