... RITERARY VARIETIES, No mans has so much care as he who endeavours after the most happiness. WAR.-A state of war is nothing less than a temporary repeal of all the principles of ?? Hati. IMPERXAL AMUSEMENT, B. C. 1154.-It would be dis- wasting to detail all the atrocities of these twvo monsters (the Emperor Cheo-sin and Empress Ta-ke). One of their amuse. ments, wvhich is represented in an ...

... zITZ29aST va=E.Z3Es. Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him that I never trust him without my ?? T. Brown. A GEM or TmOUGHsT.-ReligiOn is the final centre of repose; the goal to which all things tend; apart from which, man is a shadow, his very existeuce a riddle, and the stupen- dous scenes of nature which surround him as unmeaning as the leaves which the Sybil scattered in the ?? ...

... TIRE PNINE ARTS. Mr. Baily (a native of Bristol) has just completed for Mr. Neeld-a liberal aradltaoteful patronof art, towbosecommnissiOn, it will be remembered, we owve the 'Eve listening to the Voice' -it work of poetical sculpture, which makes us regret that art has not a fewv more such patrons, The figure represents a fe- male preparing for the bath-the loosened garments sustailed around ...

... 4qotttAv. DRUNKENNESS.-FitOSt PRlNCE'S HOUBS VrTH THra MUSES [The writer is, or was, a poor weaver.] B11SOLV t~e wretch beeotted and beguiled, Whose hours are wasted, and whose thoughts defiled Within those dens of drunkenness, that stand, Breathing a moral poison o'er the land; Say, can you view his lineaments, and trace Ought of intelligence and manly grace I Where is the soul's serene ...

... IqITeR&2T VA'RXZTXEI- NuGLECT AND AGIT.ATtox.-As I feel that, 6f the two beocoin sio o huan nature, selfish neglect and selfish aigita- tion, thre former to the more commonS, and haiohe fgrn ctone far more harme than the latter, although the outbreaks o the latter, wehile they laot, are of a far mare atrociohis character; So I h~ave in a manner vowed to myself, and prayed that, With God's ...

... POMP-. SLtEP FOR THE HAPPY. SLEEP for the happy 1-cot for me, who watch ?? oeep the live-long night! Who svish at muorn the night to see, And psray at eve for morning light. No peace for me-no placid sleep, For nothing new has power totalease, While here, bereaved and lone, weep For him whose home is on the seas. Sleep for thehappy!-how can I Rest calmuly o( my couch of down, When the ...

... Vowttpq THE MISSIONARY'S HOME. IT stood amid the mountains, From whose crown'd crests sublime Came the voice of many fountains, And the faint winds' passing chime. The giant river rush'd likelight, Throegh all th' unbounded plain, Or warrior to the field of fight; SD dash'd it to the main. A home to dream of-beautiful; It stood beneath the trees That gave the fragrance of their breath To every ...

... LZTEIARY VARIMTZES. I feel persuaded that an entire change of opinion and feel- ing towards the classes beneath us, that a total change of cou. duct must be wrought, before we can lay any just claims to the character of a really Christian people-Christians, not in name and doctrine only, but in feeling and ?? l Righes of the Poor. THE CITY OF X(Exico.-The plan of the city of Mexico is ...

... LIzTE1AEY VARIETIES. THE SANGUINE AND TaE OvEt-CAu~tOUS -There are many men, especially at the outset of life, wvho, in their too eager desire for the end, overlook the difficulties in the way; there is another class, who see itothing else. The first class ?/iay sometimes fail; the latter rarely succeed.-S. ?? Coleridge. TlHE Fox FAMILY.-Napoleon remarked that all the family of the great Fox ...

... The make of the new Spring redingotes and dresses is with tight bodies, open In a lengthened cinur, something resembling the straight it waistcoat ; they are either plain, without lacing or rovers, or hale& e revers forming small clhle * or are with small collar, forming legbth. c encd, with Anglaises, which should not be too wide Anothn Style is not quite So high on the shoulders, but still ...

... i.XTERAIRY VARIETIES. Unsupported by justice, power is an engine of oppression. Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency. THE BEST OF THE BAiRtAIN.-Whben I was called to the bar (said the late Lord Eldon to Mrs. Forster) Bessy and I thought all our troubles were over; business ?? i;, and we were to be almost riob immediately. So I made a bargain with her, that during ...

... ?? Alloilal 3-:11tertainmeato. One of the signs of the times is the almost total transference iii of music from the stage to the concert room. This would seem el pertly to be owing to a change in the social habits of the com- of munity, and partly to the popular and profitable career of Mr. a Wilson in the mixed didactic (or narrative) and lyrical line; ci and, certainly, a most bountiful crop ...