FAIRS

... I PAIRS, LONDONDERRY.-Tbe fair, which was held here on Fri. day, was thinly attended, a circumstance that may be at. counted for by the severity of the morning, which was wet and stormy. The rain, indeed, continued more or less heavy for the greater part of the day, which had the eff ect of in. juring bttsiness very much. The show of horses was small and thi'.qrality in general inferior. The ...

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

... FASHI1ONABLE INTrELLIGENCE. TEIT QtVEWw._Ifor Majesty has announced her inten- tion of revisiting Osborne I-louse at the latter end of this or the beginning of next month, and has issued her com- liands to have the Fairy tender in readiness to convey her from the Clarence-yard to Cowes.-Hanipshlire Tel. It is understood that her ?? will pay her long. expeeted visit to thle Marquis of Salisbury ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... In walking abroad, or in resting at home, the mind cannot be vacant; its thoughts. may be useful, useless, or pcmricious to happiness. Direct them ariglit; the habit of thought will spring up like any other habit.-Benth/sa. BouGcuS AND LEAVES-Every bough that waves over our heads in the summer time has an oracular wisdom. It is posi. tively true that every leaf is full of instruction. Indeed ...

ADELPHI THEATRE

... ADEl,'fll THEATRE. 2'ltis thll~c a closed for the season lost night whit tire buoeic of cliv hivuagur,wo, iln ste Coartse of thle uereelg delivered Loettie4 AND G(ilT~Ltittti-l hare 'icet tees foe seerril yesers eoggrdlI, is 'dde d-wee~ttir Boo/oeou. aid, like oilier careful inefeerarero, beer, fenin Ieaon to Stasson, eridet- route1 ii to vry c tetrter'a of my WYinere end Summere Sieslo, Sof ...

ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE

... ROYAL MARYLEBONE TIIEATRE. We must again accord our maeed of praise to the spirited lessee of this theatre (Mr. John Douglass), and his truly talented company. We marvel not at the in. creasing celebrity this temple of Thespis has recently obtained, seeing that Ro effort is wanting on the part of the conductors to gratify their numerous patrons, and sustain the high position they have attained ...

POETRY

... POETR Y. -- - - - ;ffalor'igal 'Mrisei. MIRTH Is wisdom-sorrow s folly- Say sad sighers what they will:I Here we mock dull melanecholy- Laughter here Is never still. Here no wearing cares come nigh us- Sadness here no sighs can bring, Ask you here why dullt hought$ fy us Here we ever-ever sing. What is glory? What in fame? Homer's being now we doubt- Souls as great hath time shut out From the ...

LITERATURE

... WVORES PUBLISHED BY JAIuES BURNS, Portiman-street, Portinan-square.-To WVhittaker for books strictly educational, and to Burns for those which combine instruction with amuse- ment, are the parents and children of this our day under a great weight of obligation. Scattered on the table of a friend we were first introduced to the works published by Mr. Burns; our attention became riveted by some, ...

Published: Sunday 19 October 1845
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 909 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

... FASHfOINABLE INTELLIGENCE. or 1 . t . . _- . ?? The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne are enter- taitling a select party at flowood. The Hon. Charles A. Gore and the Countess of Kerry paid their noble relatives a short visit, en route to the Earl of Besborough's, at Besborough Castle, near Kilkenny. The Duke of Devonshire has arrived in London from Chatslwortli, Derbyshire. William Smith ...

FAIRS

... PA I [{S. | VIvUitil, FAIin.-This greltt sileep fair, which is one of tho largest in the southern eounnties, Was held on Friday, on tlho land usually appiroprilated fur, the atittil tnLil. The supply of sieep broiughlt in was altnost counietiess, and setlomn has such a fille cxhii btion of well-bred sheep been ofuered lfor salc in a public mnurhet. Tl'e ?? vore conipletely etvelted lwithl tile ...

LITERATURE

... - . CLOS-GIBBON, OR THE WHITE KNIGHT OF THE FOREST, AN IRISH HISTORICAL TALE, By JAMES FRES;CH, Esjq. (Dublin: Peblisbed by James; Deify, Anglesea-street.) A volume bearing this title has just appeared from the I press of Anglesea street, issued in the usual style of elegance l which characterises all Mr. Duffy's publications. i A work of imagination, whether confined entirely, or in i part ...

LITERATURE

... LI ERATURE. DoverLa ENTaRY ELUtCIDATEID, an Improved Mfethor by B. F. FOSTER. London, Souser aeed Lic. This is simple and clear work, stripped of all useless details, y, comprehensive and full, as far as is required_-A ver judicious critic, in commenting on tbs work, quotes D Johnson's words :- Let no Mna enter into busine while he is ignorant of the method of regulating booka never let him ...

Poetry

... pottrp+ ?? I BEAUTIES OF BYRON. n10. XSl. 1CIILDS IsAYSOLD.I 'rhe second canto of this magnificent poem was written in Greece in the year 1810, when the poet was in his twenty-third year. At that time he ap. pears to have regarded the restoration of Greece as all but impossible: hence the dejected and almost despairing tone of the following beautiful stanzas. A few years subsequently, BYRON ...