... ?? 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 ...

... -A Vottry. I EPITAPH ON A YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL LADY, [TRANSILATION FROM THre PRENCH.) Tun morning saw the rose's birth- The noon its fullest glow; And, ere the evening sun had set, The rose-bud was laid low. MAlour not its fate, ye weeping sylphs I It shared the lot of all: All that is bright below must fade, At Time's relentless call I LUndon, Feb. 5, 1644. J. N. W. THE HOMEWARD AND OUTWARD ...

... IaZTERAZT VARIETZES. Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured l man into an idiot, and the choleric man into an assassin. It i gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, I and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. -Addison. DirrFCULTY OF DISTINGUISHING ONESELF IN LoN- | ...

... . Vttup. SONNET. C ScENES of delight ar here to glad each sense,- V music to fill the bar and heart With Jdya And Peace with tle.sUre, tree 1r ll 0, why then idly dream rwneighne Of oter scenes aond other friends in quest y l Birds, flowers, and fragrance round esourectaotd Health, love, and beauyi thosbe aset ae oud And calm felicity olay fillthbest Stay, wande~rer-tay, and learn at length to ...

... -ottr==. A RAMBLE TOWARDS BLAISE CASTLE. THE skylark's voice from heaven attunes the lay- A serenade that cheers his lowly nest; Salutes the rising of the star of day, And stirs the feather'd chorists from their rest. The birds awake within their leafy bowers, To chant their orisons by wood and lea, Around Blaise Castle,-whose majestic towers Command the circuit of the Severn sea. The ...

... 2L12TRANY VA&Rzwzms. TLfs SEA.-ThO mean depth of the eea is, according to La Place, fiom 4 to 5 miles. If the existing waters were in- creased by only oeefourth, it would drown the earth, with thie ezception ofesome high mountains. If the volume of the ocean were augmented by only one eigbth, conisiderablo portions of the present continents would be submerged, and the seasons would be changed ...

... rLjTmR,&2l2* VARIETIES. Goo6d manners is the.-art of -making those hrappy with when' we confverse: whoever .makes the~fewest persons uneasy is tbe best bred man in the'66ampny-Swi~ft. A GnEAT BArTTLE -TO 'Owg WHO is IN IT.-FromD the instant that the firing-became general, all was to me dark and obscure beyond the tdistance Of a, few hundred yards fromI the spot On which 1 stood r' indeed, it ...

... . t t a t AUt. Miscellaneous Psents.-Wright, Bristol. This local publication is ushered in with a. brief and modest preface, in which it is stated that the contents of this little volume were composed only in the brief periods of cessa- tion from active business. Several of the pieces originally appeared in this journal, under the signature of Alcestea. As they reached us trons time to ...

... peorp. THE SKELETON OF THE WRECK. IN my first voyage to the West- Those isles that bear the Indian name- Well was in me this truth confest, That Youth and Folly are the same. Alas I that Grinf alone can tame The spirit of our earliest years,- That Knowledge should be link'd to Shame, And Wisdom's self be bought with tears I Three weeks a strong and favouring gale Had kindly hurried us along, ...

... XXZTERARY VARZDTZES. To be good and disagreeable, is higttreason against virtue.. When we are alone we have our thoughts to watch-in our families, our tempers-and in society, our tongues. The most accomplished way of using books at present, is to serve them as some men do Lords,-learn their titles, and then brag of their acquaintance. ,THE FUTURE.-It is a curtain of mercy. Happy it is that we ...

... .jltu~fcal Entertatnrmento. (F;romn a Cortresepondenlt.) Mr. Templeton gave two musical entertainments, illustrative of Scottish history and Scottibb song, at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, an Monday last. In the morning the weather was very storiny and boisterous, and, consequently, the attendance was less considerable than in the evening, when it was beth numer- ous and respectable-indeed, the ...