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... *Cftttrl? Vottrp. The following lines are translated from a German poem, by M. de Redlitz, written raany years back. The author had then little reason to expect so prosaic a fuifilment of his poetical dream, as the arrival of La Belle Porate, at Cheibourgh with the remaius of Napoleon. THE SPECTRE SHIP. The sound is fltting before the gale, No stars in the dark heavens play, High over the ...

The Church

... Ze Qitlvdj. NOBLE EXAMPLE TO PATRONS OF CHURCH IN CUMB E NCI ES. Few things have given us more pleasure, for some time past, than a brief and simple notice which appeared in the London Gazette of Friday last. It was to the following effect:- Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be mare to parliament, in the next session, for leave to bring in a bill for the division of ...

Literary Extracts

... j~iterarp Oxtracto. HINTS TO WIvEs.-Make yourself so agreeable to your husband, that he will see there is no true hap- piness absent from hishome. Be alwaysbecomingly dressed, and have your household and yourself per- fectly clean and comfortable-looking. But beware how you show too earnest a desire to keep him at home, as mcn are selfish creatures, and seldom feel much beyond what relates to ...

Poetry

... jpottrv. 'UNIVERSAL LIBERTY-THE CHARTIST )tE&CTION. See the wiher of freedom, now proudly unfurleld- Hear ?? glad voice of liberty sound through the world; Ast1 it calls on tho 0ons of oppression to rice; Hark! it rings through the earth, and it enters the skies; And it bears on its migbty breath on high The resolve of a people to conquer or die! Then up! for behold, on the wings of the blnt, ...

Poetry

... i Dott y. L I N E 8 ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND ON HER MARRIAGE. Oh I fain would 1, with Memnon's skill, Nov strike the far-fam'd lyre, Whose notes, resounding, sweetly fill The soul with music's fire, To breathe in friendship's name a lay, Raised by affection's glow, Rich in pale beauty as the ray Refulgcnt stars bestow. --But, alas! a mightier hand Than mine must sweep its strings. Ere into ...

Packet of Fashionable Life

... caetsl of lasbionable Afft'. Trhe Earl and Countess of Cardigan have irrived in town from Brighton, and in a few days leave for Deene Park-, their seat, in Northamptonshire. The Vice-Chancellor of England left Studley Park, the seat of Airs. Lawrence, in this county, on Thursday morn- ing week, where hie had been staying the last six weeks, for London. SUDBURY HALL, OCT. 28.-Her Majesty the ...

Poetry

... . -o-. - _t . I- AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND'S ANCHOR.. What is Britannia'sanclor? Her own soil. Where rests her safety,? On the sons of toil. Cormmerce wvith varied gems nmay deck her bro~v; But Britain's glory is the useful Plough. Commerce adds lustre to our envied isle, And never may we lose her bhiering smile; She stre Ns her luxuries throughout our land, And scatters comforts with unsparing ...

Poetry

... Ioctrp. - - - , . _ ,IEWIDOW'S CHARGE AT EElR DAUGHTER'S BRIDAL. BY MRS E. H. SIOOURNEY. Deal gently, thou whose hand hast won The young bird from the nest away, Where careless 'neath a vernal sun, She daily caroll'd day by day; The haunt is lone-the heart must grieve, From whence her timid wing doth soar, Then pensive 1i1t at hush of eve, Yet hear her gushing song no more I Deal gently with ...

Poetry

... ?? Jo.ottvD. ?? - THE LAND- OF THE BRAVE AND THE FREE I RAIL, Britain! OoenEs noblest born, Hall I mistress of the waves! Whose sons awe like their ?? o*k, Whose daughters own no slaves. Surrounding nations turn to thee, Where plenty seems to smile; And wish their fate was like to thine, Sons of the sea-girt isle. Bat hark I what sound is this that's borne On every passing breeze, Like the ...

Poetry

... IPJm . CHARTISMI FROM SHARSPEARE. No. 2. We are accounted poor citizens; the patricians, poohd. What authority surfeits. on, would relieve us. If they would yield us but the superfluity, while it vere wholesome, we might guess, theyrelievedus humanely; but they think we are too dear; the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to par- ticularize their abundance ...

THE THEATRE

... | ~ I I . 16 . . . I Foui tarces and'farcettas were announced for Friday night;-A Chip of the Old Block; My Fellow Clerk; the Happy Man, and the Valetde Sham. The curtain drew up to a most beggarly, account of empty benehes;-the worst house we ever saw in Hull,--about four in the dress boxes, the same number ih the pit,-and we apprehend not many more in the upper circle and gallery. About ...

Varieties

... VIarieties. I The whole of that beautiful range of sycamore and ches- nut trees that ornament Kensington-gardens had a narrow escape of being destroyed by fire last week. We arc informed, that Prince Albert is likely to have the command of bhc household troops at the next vacancy, and that he will their resign the 1t11 Hussars. Mr. Charles Kemnble has arrived in London from Italy, to meet his ...