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... Rtbiet3. THE PEOPLE'S JOJRNAL, PAnT VI. VOL. 1. London, J. Bennett, 69, Fleet-street., Part six of this excellent:publication, is,like all the preceding parts, full of able, instructive, and delight- ful articled , in prose and poetry. Willam Howitt's Letters on Labour, IV, V, and VI, are contained in this part; and by the same author we have two delightful articles, the one on ...

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... EtbitbO4 TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, July. Edin- I'm burgh: Tait, Princes-street; London: Simpkin sac and Marshall, hir There are certain writers connected with this magazine who appear to be privileged to write fe aonsense, and among these, George Gilfillan stands io pre-eminent. In an article on the writings of Sir fre Edward Bulwer Lytton, he thus speaks of e BYox. bhil Byicn's mind, in ...

Poetry

... POMP* SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE. NO. xx. [In anlnouncing our recent Feast of the Poets we promised to give a notice of the poems mid songs pnf ROnaaT NICO.LL and that promise we had intended - ;b have performed this week;* certain circurmstances have, however, so wocupied our time as to prevent us futibliing our intentions. The promised notice shall appea slPortly. In the meantime we give the ...

DESTRUCTION OF QUEBEC THEATRE

... I FORTY-SIX LIVES LOST. (From the Quebec Mkercury, June 13.) Last night, at ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the Theatre if Royal, St. Lewie-street, at the close of Mr. Harrison's exhibition y of bie Chemical Dioramas. From the information we have been a able to glean, a. camaphine lamp was overact, from some cause or iother, and thle stage at once became enveloped in flamee. In an a ...

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW

... ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S I SHOW. N EWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Tsesdrs/y ffvening. This morning the implement yard was thrown open to the pcblic, asd at the same time the public exiamination ef the wrorhing of the prize implements onl the farm of Mr. Henry Hall, of Gesforth Cottage, commenced. The weathar being extremely fine, the at- tendance eas very large on the farming field, ceot fewer thau ...

The Feast of the Poets

... ebt staot of tbe oetto PART II. In commencing Part II. of our Feast with th oI following stirring poem, we must premise that we think the author is rather hard upon poor Old Eng. land. Certainly England's past career is open to heavy charges. Gigantic crimes, of which other nations anti her own long-suffering working classes have been the victims, have yet to be atoned for. That atonement, ...

BRITANNIA

... BY ERNEST JONES, Author of `My Lif,, etc. [Our Poet's: thick-coming fancies rather myntify, ansl therefore spoil the opening portion cf the follow ing poem. Of the merits of the concluding portion, commencing':- Then man shall cease for aye to 'bend unto each sceptred clod, &c. there can be no question; the verdict must be- excellcnt.] Where England looks o'er channelled waves, and round ...