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THE FEUD

... THSI WEUD. (r~rom Ireland-it-e Scenery and Character.) BY Slit. AND MROS. S.C. HALL. JACKe CASEY Was a ?? and wealthy farmer, but his ncighbours called him 1hard arldhonest, and certainly, what-' ever swore his claims to the latter distinction, there could be no. l. doubt as to his meriting the former. Hie had two daughters, Aisty anid Holno th eldet, a cheerful, sunny-hearted girl, the ...

PRACTICAL JOKING

... PR A C T 7 J'OZNEG. B1Y7TUR00D0RE ?? Ha00r. I had never seen each a man as Air. Daly before, nor- have I ever seen such a one since: ~from the time he oat 'delwnl todin- ner, till all wvas done, hsis tongue never ceased-be wso', assfalt, at everything--played billiards better than anybody 1. eve' saw, .-jukmped higloer-hmitatod birdo alnd' heasto, including' mon, women, and children,' more ...

Literature

... f t r a t u re£ Fox's Book of Martyrs, edited by the Rev. John Cumming, . - ~Part 1.-Virtue, London. Itis nov drawing fast towards Owed certaries sines Foax's Book of Martyrs 2 arst mnade its appearance, 'and,: during that long period, perhips no other work has been more extensively poirased. i'ts popularity, though varying in kind, is seomething on'a par with the famous Pilgrim's Progress' ...

Poetry

... ,3ottrp. SO0NNET. - THE PAST MONTH. LBa WV. H. FitIDEAUX.] IT looks but yesterday, to mortal sight, The cold, dew ycar was baili; and yet'one age Of its round twelve is added to tbe page Of other times, and slcepetis with their night; A aecond nose Ibegun.. sasy tve invite New courage, aod seith error stoutly wage Slow conflict on our farther pilgrimage. Living as moen with Reason's steady ...

Poetry

... ?jl .- ?i Vvl--? . I I . -THEIE F L A' O F ENG'&L AN'D . [BY OaHAnLEs swAIsN, ESQ.] WaEN whirling flames round Moscowv rose, And fetters boe'd the prideof Spain, When Austria, chased by Gallic foes, Fled from. Mlarengo's fatal plain; When Italy and Egypt knew i The woes their dread invader hurled,- Then high the flag of England flew, And carried Freedom to theworld I Then honour'd he the ...

A STORY OF REAL LIFE

... -a;a STORY OF 1MLEAM I~ZI'. 'g[IcNGIENTS similar to that described in the follo wins-extractara- Cnot unf reqluent inl novels, but, for the honatur of human nsture, Willi to e 'hoped that such: uninitigated baseness is notloften i perpetrated in the real world. The story forms an episode in a tovery interesting sketch of the life and character of Culeridge~l wthe povt, written by his friend Do ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... .. ERAIIT V4LRUITZES. PHaNOaXTEA VOF SouND.-In the arctic regions, persons can converse at 'more than a mile distunt, when the thermomoe- teor s beliow zero's In air, sound travelsfrom 1130 to 11421 feet per second. In Water, sound passes ati thevrate of 4708' feet-per second. Soundtravels, in ?? for every pulsation of a.healthy versoii, at 7S in a uminute. A bell sounded under Wvater, mady be ...

Literature

... 1, its T'a t U V V+ ? , Bristol Magazsine, No. 17S-Hodges, Bristol. Aci excellent sotild onl steam navigation,,which lately appear- ed in this promising miscellany, was inadvsrtently transferred to outr columone front thle Liverpoool Standalrd, without credit! beisig givcn to whore, credit was well-deserved, vii. :-to the 11Bristol Al agasise. The present number of thle same ubi cation ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... Is ?? :VAY4 ETZE8f .- ,TiScRfeS L ,tr ES -,I lave been-shown the.beauty and the pox.er of, the Sacred Writinigi',s'; t by linqliubottions, but by opposite rfefescen ein every case of ditfeulty-; and it has been forcibly ii'p resed on m y mind,:1ho tiat ee is not a ?? il n wsibh we cdab'be-hliced, a feblinge whidhrcan arise; but We find directiobnstbete to meet every exigonciy; and this 'not ...

Poetry

... vottrp. STANZAS. ' Wimare (lost thou wander, thou fairest and dearest? Through many long months I have waited for thee; And, when the rays of tile moon are the clearest, My mintd dwells more fondly-snore strongly on thee. Far as the ocean I 've follow'd thee, dearest,- - In climates of heat and o'er mountains of snow, Still in my heart thoughts the darkest and drearest Forbode, lore, for thee, ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... :. tbVDRAR.T .V'l.ZENSIB.¢ :1 Wt, Why does sunshine extinguisha filre? -Becauso' tiie vay a engage thc oxygen which has hitherto suppshted the'ire.- 1. Inn asingle century, four thousand8,,millioi8' ofsthuman e .beings'8ap'oear on the face of the earth, act theirbasy paits, an sink into its peacefulbosom. ?? 'The transparentiwings of certainl inoects are so atteiluated' ,f 'in!their structure ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... I~iTmaaR.T va1l.ZiTZs., Ambition in idleness-meanness mixed with pride, 'a de. sire of riches 'without industry,-aversion to trath,-fattery, perfidy, violation of engagements, contempt. of civil, dutioes fear of the pridnc's virtue, hope, .from his weakless,-but above. all, a perpetual ridicule cast upon virtue, are, I think,' th' charac- teristics byswhich most courtiers in all ages ...