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THE THEATRE

... That highly talented and fascinating actress, Celeste, has been performing at our Theatre during the week, and has been aided by the combined talent of Mr.Webster, lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, and of Mr. Strickland, wvlio, ih his peculiar line of character, stands almost with- out a rival. Among the novelties produced has been a clever little piece fromn the pen of Mr. Webster, called the ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... I!TERARY VARIETIES. Of all employments, luarrelling about religion is thoe worst, HI- that quarrels abliut religion las ion religion worth quarrelling about, I re9olve, says Bishop Beveridge, never to Spealk of a mlan's virtues befote his lace, or of bis faults behird )i, back, a golblen rule, the observance of wlicl* would atoneblow bauish ilattery and dlesmadniao ?? oi the earth. ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... MITE*ART VARIEVZES. A suspicious temper checks in the bud every kind affection. -Dr. Blair. A LUcRY LADy.-Selwyn became devout in his latter days-read his Bible, or had it read to biun-and died bequeath- ing the bulk of his property to Maria Pagniani, because he believed her to be his daughter by a woman who was living with her husband. By the Duke of Queenabury the same lady was supposed to ...

Poetry

... -acltrv. ROBIERT BURNS, 'rO A ROSE, J~tUROV11T FRoM NEARu ALLoWA,%Y Kims, tIN AYm- SIfilB, IN Tim AUTU'MNilX Or 1822. WM'ILI rose of AlloVay! ty thanks- Thou 'mlind'st mnc of that autumn noon Wlhell first we met ?? the banks And itblas o' bonny Doon. Like thine, beneath the tilorn-tree's bough, *Iy sunny hour was glad and brief; We 've eross'd the Avinter sea, and thou Art Nvither'd, ...

Poetry

... ?)otI13J. T~l-E PATRIOTS' HYLDI 1?. iLORD! I vhilo for all mankind we pray, 0f every clime and coast, 0, hoor us for our native land- The land wve love the moat I Our fathors' sepolebres are here, And here our kindred dwell; Our children, too; how should we love Another land so well I 0, guard our shores from every foe, With peace our borders bless; W;ith prosperous time, our cities crown, Oar ...

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LORD BROUGHAM AND MR. BRIGHT, THE QUAKER

... LETTRa L Dear Mister Bright-I'm grieved to see The League has been abusing me. The League is wrong, and I am right; Echo me, do I dear Mister Bright. It was the Chrosncze that said it; Bist there, of coulse, I never read it: 'Twas in the Quarterly Beiews, Which, as a Liberal good and true, I of the Clironicle take in lUen. Write by return, and say there is no room, Dear Mr. Bright, for ...

Poetry

... poetrY., I THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND BOOK OF LTUCBETItUS, Suave maril magnoe turiantitus aquora entis. SWEET on tbe shore, from care and danger free, To wateh the raning of the angry sea; Soe tbe worn ship upon the billows tost- Now high upborne, now in the surges lost. Not that ive any joy or pleasure knowv From witnessing another's grief und wo; But, being ourselves beyond the tempest's ...

Poetry

... JUMP. THE MARINER'S HYMN. GOo of the mighty ocean! Thee In all thy works we own; Upon the wave thy love we see, And there thy powver is known. When the blue seas in silence sleep, And look so bright the while,- When sunshine dwells upon the deep, And the glad waters smile: Lord I 't is thy blessed spirit there Does peace and bliss impart- Bid all thinge beautiful appear, And tranquillize the ...

Literature

... it tv at tu t. 27he Correspondrnce between Burns and Clarinda.-Tait, Edinburgh. Thin correspondence fills up an hiats in thte life of Brno. Manny years ago portions of tbe letters which paused between the poet and Clarinda fonnd their way, by a brench of cofi-. dence, into print, hult, being nmangled anid imnperfect, the mm. preasion prodaced was of the rsterroneousacharacter. In 1834 Allan ...

Literature

... I Literaturt. it The Foreign Quarterly Reviewfor April.-Chapman & Co., tit London. bI This new review takes high ground. Its object is to enlarge ju the English reader' world of letters, by notices of the prin. Pt cipal authors and most psopular works ou the continent-indeed, en in every part of the globe. To do this effectually, it is evident ac that a strong corps of accomplished scholars ...

PHILHARMONIC CONCERT

... PI)MLnJf7MONZO CONCERT. The members of the Philharmonic Society gave a concert at the Yietoria Rooms on Tuesday evening last, upon which occasion the principal room of the building was filled by a fashionable assemblage of ladies and gentlemen, not lees, we should think, than from 900 to 1000 being present. The Phil- harmonics mustered in great strength, to the number of about sixty, and were ...

The Drama

... ?ie ?tama, Qa Monday evening, Mr. Creswiclc, who has, we underatatnd, been engaged for the remainder of the aeason, appeared as ,i, Edward illortii~er in Colman's clever play of the ?? Chest, and the house, althougzh by no means as fall as we could WISh to hove aeon it, preeented a decided improvement on the beggarly account of empty boxes, which threw a damp over the per. Mvl. Croewiok's ...