... voetip. A CHRISTMAS HYMN. Uav sv. a; :. Dvalcnfl. Whet Christ from Heaven, his pure abode. Descended to our sinful clime. It was IoI in the summer Imontlis, But in the dreary winter time. No silken coush recelved him then, In a rude manger low he IYa,- 8nt seraph guardians stood around, And angels hymn d his natal day. O'er Bethlehem's delds a lambent light . Ere morning dawned vras seen to ...

... varietiesz. -I Want of sense makes people obstinate, while principle makes thenm firm, since that which would be obsti- nacy in a wrong cause becomes firmness in a right one. To discriminate betaweca the two is often difficult. It is a fair step towards happiness aad virtue to delight in ithe company and conversation of good men, and where these cannot be hadl it is better to Ikeep no company ...

... _ _ ottrp. SONNET. Love, dearest lady, such as I would speak, Lives not within the humour of the eye; Not being but an outward phantasy, That skims the surface of a tinted check, Else it would wane with beauty, and grow weak,- A-s i the Rose mado sumsner,-and so lie Amongst the perishable things that die, Unlike the love which I would give and seek Whose health is of no hue to feel decay, ...

... THE ANSWER OF SPRING. I come, I come I I heard the call Of earth, on every side; I saw the tears which the sky lot fall, And I'd fain those tears were dried I've struggled, and burst from the icy bond Which winter had o'er me cast; 1 hear sweet greetings, all loud and fond, And I come o'er the world at last I I smile, and the sunbeam broke forth, to shed A brighter and warmer ray; I smile, and ...

... I 1poetrtv. THE OTHER DAY. Upon the meadows spread below, Full softly fall the flakes of Enow, Yet choke they up the way That lately wound along the scene, 'Mid fields of gold and swards of green, Ay, but the other day. The sun bath shrunk into the soutb, And every bird hath shut its mouth, And broken off its lay; And yet with sultry beams the air, And yet with songs the woodlands fair, Were ...

... RA~, - I THE~. M RAL OF THIS MILD CHRISTMAS.' Another year i9 nearly gone, Avnd COtritm5s comes again, tse passhig time, - l ntO twith icy tread, in snowy nantle wrapt, t A* he was wont to steal Upon the seene.. The vra blod coursees l his throbbitag veins - ili forehead wvears no rigid aspect now To oh ii the poor with' cold severity, - And smiles arouid hbs thin lips playing, cheer, 's . ...

... Slit Q-1bracb. We learn from the Morning Pos', that the Queen wvisa ing to read some sermons, her uthiTiiters have recommended her Dr. Arnolds ; a divine who denounces the doctrines of Hooker, Taylor, and Wilson, as 'mischievous, a pro- fane, manifestly unchristian, priestcraft positive blasphemy, &c. P'rety books to put into the hands ofte young fb uhaleo It is with feelings of ...

... THE CABI1NET AND THlE CHURCH. C! ~ ~ 1.. ,1. .. dtch is tle title of a very able paper, forming- theleading article in the forthcomiing Nho of TIIL CliunwtirlN, with a proof of Which we have 1)001 favoured. Its object is to press upon the cabillet die appointment of a minister of religion end education, to whorn the interests of the church shall bh confided ; and also the facts, that the ...

... *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 ...

... Zbe Jim gilts. ' JOLLY COMPANIONS-Song; the words by John Broughath, Esq.-the music arrapged by CLEMBNT *.::'W Ts.-LONdON: Keegan, .Barinygon Arcade.. e This is an- excellent convivial song'; the words and e m'e-16y.(beifn' host harmonionsly -married together, and, for6iinga iWhle;e well calcul ated to'iuspire the nijost dull ,i and low-spirited with soniiihinglike cheerfulnessand mirth. ...

... wacfet of gasTiolllable Life. The Countess of Mlexborough and Lady Sarah Savile have arrived in Dover-street from Methley Park, York- shire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, and the Ladies Vane, are shortly expected at Wynyard Park, near Stockton-on-Tees, from Mount Stewart, Newtownard&, Ireland. The Duke of Norfolk, accompanied by Lord Edward Ho-ward, has joined the Earl and ...

... 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 ...