... patt.rp. - SO N NE T. CLOSE, close the book-the book of the old year I Enough I 've read- -enough recorded there i Sorrow, and death, and sin, on many a page (In dismal characters) mine eye engage. Bright names now carved on monumental stone- Names of the wise, the kind, the good, the gay,- Who were my joy on the year's primal day, Here, as my loved associates are shown. And thou, old year, ...

... 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 ...

... . Voctrp- . I 1, [There is a paper in this wveek's Pasnch full of matter that should be known to every one. It is called The Song of the Shirt ; and is the production of a person of genius, if ever there was one. We advise the well-doing and thecomfortable to con. mit that I' Song to heart.-Examiner.3 THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and sad, A Woman ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... PHILHA.RMONIC CONCERT. The, members of thce Paillsarmonic Society gave their first ,concert tfor the season, ait the Victoria Rooms, on Monday even- ing. The principal apartment presented quite a gay and ani- i1satcd appearance, the majority of- the company with which it wras Crowded being ladies, all of whom appeared to have done their beat to show, their, practical contompt for chat oft ...

... LxwZ]tRART VARIETIES. BrGOTRY.-Claiming a right to set everybody's dial by your own watch.-Johlnson. COBIMEencE.-The medium through which England com- mnanids the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.-Raleifgi. FASHioto.-Gentility running away from vulgarity, and being afraid of being overtaken by it-a pretty sure sign the two are not very far asunder.-Haztitt. HEROIC ACT. ...

... LITERyAR VA1XETIES. Keep him at least three paces distant who hates music and the laugh of a child.-Lavater. HUGUENOTS.-In spealking of the Protestants, French historians represent them as the offspring of treason and rebel- lion;- while the term Huguenot is incessantly disseminated throughout their writings. This denomination is said to have derived ire origin from a supposed mischievous ...

... LZTERART VARZETZES. HYPOCaecTE.-7'is not that the hypocrite deepises a good character that he is not one himself, but because he thinks he can purchase it at a cheaper rate than the practice of it, and thus obtain all the applause of a good man merely by pretending to be so.-Fielding. DOING GOOD.-How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence ...

... IMrEptav VIARIMETZES. DECtIPEaIN'G POWER or LONDON PRtNTEES.-You tax m11 with Sny illegible wrsiting; but I cannot amend it, for 1 3 mosa t. fle'tay to shape my letters, and I bave, I believe, got a I bad habit from the facility with which the Nrinters here make I it out; verily believe, if! I hut my eyes, or flung the pen at Ithe paper. so as to make any kind of mark, the London printers - ...

... I ite era tu re+ Murray's Colonial andl Honme Library-Borrow's Bible In 1:13 S'palas-Murray, London. The name of Murray has been for many years identified with A the leading literature .jof ;the day. Many of the works of our national writers have first issued from the great literary emporium in Albemarle-Street, aind the accumiulationcof'valuable El copyrights in the hands of the publisher has ...

... MITERAST V.AXETZES. GENERAL WOLFE'S PltESENTItMESNT.-On the night previous to the battle of Quebec, after all the orders for the assault were given, Sir James Wolfe requested a private inter- view with his friend; at which, saying that he had the strongest presentiment that he should be killed in the fight of the morrow, but he was sure he should die on the field of glory, Sir James unbuttoned ...