Varieties

... varietiesz. -I Want of sense makes people obstinate, while principle makes thenm firm, since that which would be obsti- nacy in a wrong cause becomes firmness in a right one. To discriminate betaweca the two is often difficult. It is a fair step towards happiness aad virtue to delight in ithe company and conversation of good men, and where these cannot be hadl it is better to Ikeep no company ...

POETRY

... PBETRY. TIE DEATH OF THO4MAS CAMPBELL.t: Strike loud the notes of woe! Bow down each drooping head! The patriot's pride, the poet's glow The zentle heart to friend and foe, Cold in the narrow tomb lie low, The 'Barad of Hope is dead. Weep, Poland, weep! ah no'er Will worthier tear-drops faill The dauntless mind to do and dare,: The soul that swelled at thy despair, The champion's, patron's, ...

LITERATURE

... 7 - . . ?? ' I I JARDINE'S NATURALIST'S LIBRARY. THE PEOPLE'S EDITION. In Parts once a Fortnight, Price RiglLteenpence. (EdiaburghV W. H. Lizars; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun., and Co.) The great achievement of Sir William Jardine- The Naturalist's Library.excitedon itsfirst appearance all the attention which a work so comprehensive in outline, yet so comp1ete in itl parts, might reasonably expect ...

DRURY-LANE THEATRE

... DftURY-LANB THEATRE. Drury-lane Theeatre opened for the season on Saturday evenlng. The greatest of the English theatres has become, to all intents and purposes, a regular Opera-house; tra- gedy and comedy are excluded, and the place they once held is wholly occupied by music and dancing. We are rnot incined to reg-ret that this is the case. The errors in I the conduct of our theatres has been ...

Poetry

... I oetrP. I TO TH E UNSATISFIED. Why thus longing, why for ever sighing, For the far-off, unattained and dim; while the beautiful, all around thee lying, Offers up its low perpetual hymn ? Would'st thou listen to its gentle teaching, All thy restless yearning it would still; Leaf, and flower, and laden bee are preaching Thine own sphere, though humble, first to fill. poor indeed thou must be, ...

LITERATURE

... I! I ERA t U REi B ackwood's Maga Ine fr SeptezSbr' ., THis number opens with an sgreeably=lritten notice of Ltesle a Memoirs of the late John Constable, thbe well-known aisd most Successful painter of Englsh landscape. He *as boiirn im7'1. at :astBergloltin ussetx, and died suddeni la i137. His .father :ntended him for the humble traae of a miller - b;t yontgt CoPq- stable soonnianifested ...

Poetry

... 0 pactrp=. THEi GOLDSMITiV's DAUGHTER. [TRANSLtATrED FROM UtILANtD.] itr (,fo-linithtlt ' 1 ei0lgt ?? jesvelS stailltS, Ilisdau11411e Icr liv hi koive-- M o1ire thlkit tile ?? of nil the lainsb, llelen1, art tioul to 10c. A stitely knig*ht dotl: enter nOW, frets Ielheealv lyithl wiill sirc- * ake eI d I ?? tor the brow O0 tmy ?? tiette, I desie ' Attit vitoi tile glitteerlig wreatth vats ...

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

... I Lit I FFASIONABLE INTELLIG.ENCE. I The Privy Council held by the Queen at Osborne House, 0n Saturday, was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Al. bert, Lord Wharncoliffe, Lord President; the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief; Sir B. Peel, First 1ord of the Treasury; Sir James Graham, Secretary of State for the Home Department; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LAilY HESTER STANsOrP.'s OPINION OF WELLINGTON.-The Duke is a self-taught man, for he was always in dissipation. I recollect one day Mr. Pitt came into the drawing-room to me, Olh, said he, how Ihave been bored by Sir Sydney, with his box fill1 of papers, and keepins me for a couple of hours when I had so much to do. I observed to him that heroes were gene- rally vain: I Nelson is so. is ...

MARYLEBONE THEATRE

... We paid a secoad visit to this theatre on Thurs(all evening. The pi (es were, TIhe Sea Captpaiss, iii Nhils tlie aetinig of M1s. J. Riyner, as Gceosge VTilier's; SMr. N' 'ie (fronm the Surrey), as Rzivecl, the piratte captaiu; :r Snaithls~se.5 cktM. U. L ss, as Ben !it'soc; ajjd 6lttes ais Jaua~tt; lit'. D. Lcxii sl' i/>c ~l Mr'. Cn aiphll, as EL ilv ?? 'it, el;,-ited the ;oLli:s'r'd applause ...

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

... LOVE AT FIRST SIGH'T. ?? TWOl of die Sioux Indianse. BY iVtlCY~ .. ST. 50510. To the veerv (entre of'one of the thickest and heanviest woods of t!i, .\inwrietin conti[mcii, where neow Stanids a butey nsuuoifactiu-ing ii tOrn IS.$I. ?? t' Ye:- itg' n 11flitl -Iicanp oecco- pied by a aittidl bend of the wild and warl ike Sioux. 'They wtere not ilnure titan fifivy it, nnitilibei, lhaving visited ...

Literature

... ff itirature. - ORIGIIVAL AA'D SELECTED POETRY. TO CHIAtlTY. Charity, decent, easy, modestt kilnd, Softens the high, and rears thc abject mindm 1(solws with just reins, nnd gentleo lmid to guide Bctween vile shamiie and arbitrary pride. Not soon provoked, she easily forgives, And much she suffers as she much believes; Soft peace she brinigs, wherover she arrives, She builds our qeict as she ...