... THE TREATRE. he Among the many events which characterize the growing ty refinement of the age, maybe instanced the revival of the h Shaksperian drama. To Mr. Macready is due the honour Iw of the first attempt to reform the public taste. Deyoted to I lit his art, lie saw with pain the inglorio usses to which the stage had been degraded; and it is notorious that his bold th ...

... Voctrp. 3M9DI''ATIONS ON THE P'OOR LAY.. B3Y A CONSERVATIVE P':Et. WIJY should I support mny neighbour On my goods-agailnst ioy will ? Can 'It he live by honest labour1- Call 't he beg,-or can 't he steal? Poor-rates make such sad confusion I- I, for osy part--cannot see Dow Join Thomsofn's destitution Gives him any claim on mne! Soith may n't own a somgle penny,- Alust I then mny pound ...

... POMPttJ. A SONG FOR MAY. jogictc-rojoice I It is the Spring of theyer And the p aute, 0adthe flowers, and the blossoms appear 0, this is the tine to be happy and gay, For this is the beautiful mouth of May I 1eflect-reflect 'It is your life's sweet Spring, And your early tribute of virtue bring; 0; walk in the ways of wisdom and truth, And remember God in the days of your youth I Prepare ...

... THE FUNERAL OF THOMAS CAMPBELL. He departed in the fulness of his years, and his fame shed a halo round the pillow on which he breathed his last sigh! And it is done! the organ peal hath wafted to the sky That now, beneath that gorgeous pile, a poet's relics lie; Beneath that glorious roof where kings repose in awful-state— And England's great and England's brave the Final Word await. No ...

... ZVI 0 et rp - THE FLOWERS. L[Y w. If. PRIDFAUX ] Tiun owrb that deck this earth of oura, lhowm eloquent are they! ?? to the human heart they snlijiagly convey i And jt how pgrent :tle we to plsso their oire mninitions ily, Aldlitgazo %with listleisness of heart and inadvertent eye: To Childhoo, arce tiley tlot as hsopes Whlieh faoscinate the mind, And. Ieads1 thc yanolg hesrt gaily on1, with ...

... XXTEAILY ~.WAILIETZES. a SecREcsr.-What is mine, even to my life, issbers I love; . but the ses-crt of my friend is not mine-SW?- P. Sideiey. f AN AUTLOENTIC JOE MIILLEM.-As if to redeem the habitual dtilness of Joe Miller, one solitary joke of his stands on respectable aithority. Joe, sittiug at the window of the Sun 0 Tavern, in Clare-street, vhile.a fish-woolan was crying, ?? Boy my soles! ...

... POMP-. SUNSET. See shere rtt' horizon shines with tints of gold, The sun bath set, and villagers behold The gorgeous colours of the glowing WVest, Where he had sunk into tile occalt's breast' The pevae3at nowr his dally laboar leaves, And seeks contentment and Isis household eaves; The partner of his love, his hopes, and fears, With tender care the social ev'nig cheers, Spreads choicest fare ...

... aottrli. SO2N3NT.-Coflt1'OSfD AiT GIZENT. To one like Tic -1o wantders with ani eye III qiiest of tlriqce lore, tutd loves to dream Of oil the glsry that ?? bete n, and *seem Pact of tile posor O letch is hi suipply Of inteilectual fotol ii) ?? I Coltdt Thee ani diy site. cities t here, of old, The ulo ?? y leicog ,ain'd nld gore his gold; Fistem inc tbe. Iibelill ;ii tsi with liberal mllind. ...

... foctrtv. ON READING SOME LINES IN THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON.) BAsD, in thy rich and cinseoi rhyme The groas of Poesy are shrined: They shall be valued long as time One lover of the muse shall find. But to this simple page belong The records of anection past; Not the vain breath of Fiction's song, But words on Reason's basis cast. A soul like thine, 't were woman's joy, And woman's triumph, to ...

... MIZTRATURM. T/hc ajpproachtg Do..f.l o' I P'oepry and Civil Despotismn in £srOpr.- Philp and Evans, Biristol. In all times of politioal commotion aid chnnge, prophecy has beon the favourite study of rnsids of a particular cast. Tho sangpine and imaginative have endeavoured to find the events ?? over them in the dark mystories of Daniel and of St. John. A heated fanoy has ever roendered the ...

... LITERARY VAlIrETIES. LoRD KENYON AND THE CLERiK.-To a more humble class in the profession-attorneys' ?? Kenyon often showed forbearance and kindly feeling. He had been a clerk himself, L' and would venture to play with the cubs before their claws were grown. Soon after his appointment as Raster of the Rolls, he was listening attentively to a young clerk, on whom the duty had fallen ot reading ...

... THE SABnATI.-The great Dr. Johnson on his death-bed Sl sent for his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds, and required of him, ti on the strength of their friendship, that he should promise three 1 things. The first and the hardest to be observed was, that Sir P Joshua would promise him that he would never paint again on o the holy Sabbath I V Music or NATURE.-Gardiner, in his Music of Nature, has put ...