... A BITTER TiUTH.c-We level the poor to the dust by our ge- neral policy, and take inflnite credit to ourselves for raising them up again with the grace of charity.-Fonblaaque. TIuE PLEASURE OF GIVING.-I am rich enough, and can aflbrd to give away £100 a year. I would not crawl apon the earth without doing a little good. I will enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it while alive, and ...

... LITERARY VAlIrETIES. LoRD KENYON AND THE CLERiK.-To a more humble class in the profession-attorneys' ?? Kenyon often showed forbearance and kindly feeling. He had been a clerk himself, L' and would venture to play with the cubs before their claws were grown. Soon after his appointment as Raster of the Rolls, he was listening attentively to a young clerk, on whom the duty had fallen ot reading ...

... THE SABnATI.-The great Dr. Johnson on his death-bed Sl sent for his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds, and required of him, ti on the strength of their friendship, that he should promise three 1 things. The first and the hardest to be observed was, that Sir P Joshua would promise him that he would never paint again on o the holy Sabbath I V Music or NATURE.-Gardiner, in his Music of Nature, has put ...

... poetry0i SONNET. now rosy fair my Ilody was to see C1,11of by my uancourtly wvorsd, ho told; Bather a 1hoping borrower let ia be-.- A debtor to the lloaster minds of old. Of golden wires, or capture I susbeams made, Hler lovely locks fell o'er her neck of snow; Her arched hro'vs Inelosed, in fringed shade, Two nurplo violots thlt slept el own .f rcddet cornl were her houeyed lips (anrdig the ...

... poarp. - IMITATION OF A LATIN VERSE IN MILLRERD'S MAP OF BiRISTOL, 1671. [in translating the last twolines of lilieord's verse, read downwards, Watead of right on-a word of each line iln successlon.) Urbs hime, sublimis, spateos, flidells, amoene, DUlils et insignis, prIsma, beitigna, intens. Jurn Deonte. Itngeti ltegieolei, Crtehisa, Pacemi, ?? I. hl. 3BItI ST TO L L. A CITY sie, of high ...

... 00oetrp. 011I LUT MIE NOT DIE. Ot) jot me notilde wholn tills bright e brti is weaing Its rich brolidl'rd curpot or lonafint) of fluvror; I Would noot ticart whorl All ?? is breathing Its incelo of praise from deeatoil irolOoI ard bower. Oh I lot me iot dlie wirorl thD weot baontlo areo 1ingio. Theoir (ica frgrullO through ebrth rind through air, &aod out of ther ?? tlero Ioor 00e3 rleagimg, ...

... Vppourpo ?? A P R I L.-Br JoHtN 'CRITCHLEY PRINCE. SIGIHING, storming, Singing, smniling, With ber ninn11Y oloods9 heg9liag Aprii walllks tile ?? earth: Wheresoc'er she looks and lingers- Wheresoc'5r she lays hier finfera, Sor los ebharm starts ito birth! Fitful clo0ds about liar sweoping, Cooling, gohig, frowIlilIg, Weep ig, IlIt In fertile blcssilgs round; Freluellit rainbows ?? embhrae ...

... oet~ro. THE MISERIES OF WAR. TT is a 6righhtfal Visloal far and wide Roii the fli~ice MiUMeS Of a humane tidle; There I1 the tolisguoe imarch, the ceaseless strife, The murder'd Ilnfat anid the ravish'd wrfoe, Tile bharniet hilxalnet, the descrtaQ plain,: CrueshIl by tilc living, elienerdl by tihe stain: There, tlo, the reckless itogh, the aclsatll cheer ThaLt stehel trim hoantd ofdcbous the ...

... 1Ltteraturc. Blohn's Standasrd Librsssy-Vfe If Leo the Tenth; catif S/ilegels 11' Fhiteassphy of Iistor-y.-II. Bohnl, York-street, Covenlt-gardenl, w London.ii Blihn's Standard Library is a marvel of cheapness. The ' works of whichl it is composed are of tile highiest character ;the paper, typography, and binding are unexceptionable; and the olmsaeissued to the public at a rice which places ...

... m)ottrp. BEPLY TO THIE MOTHER's LAMENT FOR HER LOST CHILD. Olt I believe not, poor mourner, the 1lertig sweet affections Were ever bestow'd to be os squnderi'd away ;` That aught inI our nature of pure or of fervent Should ever be destined to blight or decay. T'were sninul to deem that the Being who form'd us, Aetd gave its all beautiful thlngs to enjoy, Should have planted withlin us such ...

... jacett'r. THE SAILOR'd DESTINY.-BY LADY Dfl1FFERIN. ?? offcer who hid dlttiungnlshlc ?? van twice refused the oommanud o a ship-1to firt time ol ?? ground that hoevas too young; the second tile that he was too old.] RtCcl In hops. the brave heart goes To dare the stormny vave, And to IIhs, from England's foes, Either glory or a grave In that roey dawn of litle by poets sung: oie wio ...

... . 4ottrp. UTIIHTARIAN SONNET. WuAT are vain verses, flil of war Sitd love, Ble skies, and misty Idlls, said gentle g des, Anld dovwbeasprllkled elowers, ad grassy vales, And swaiis, love.wounded, phiing in a grove? T'ley are not poetry: tho fools, that rove In lilton's limbo, ract their shalalow brains To rave to ovory wind souh pullng strains; Not so those bards whos1e song is heard above. ...