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... aoltr1I. THE DYING STUDENT. I Am. Ca, nln- mv sistor: I feel It nvs- Tbere '5 a terrible tirob on my actilig brow. Oh ! open tile window, let In the breeze Thult tO' iles1il has ganelboll'd o'er grassy leas- That lies chased the clouds of at smokeless sky- Thut has carried the thistle-down fair and high: Let elu breathe it a moatent before I die! Oh ! merrily, merrily, tell years back, I ...

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... Intemperance is a great architect-it builds gaols, hospitals, lunatic asylums, workhouses, and hulks, TAXATION.-He was too good a statesman ever to confiscate; he confined himself to taxation. Confiscation is a blunder that destroys public credit; taxation, on tile ontrary, improves it; and both come to the same ?? Tanecred, or the New C'rsasde. WHAT TIHE ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY SPRANG IRONf . ...

Poetry

... Iactrp. THE IRISH CLERGYUAN'8 TALE. Osi metI It was a fearful scene- A fearful sight for huatien eye! I had riot thought there could have boen So mouch of wofrl misery. Anid yet I knew the face of Woe- Of Death, util I is most ghastly train For Famine brougiht my peolfle low, And those who lived but ?? for pain. And as I wialk'd my parish through, As I irs hapilier years hait done There rose, ...

Literature

... Efteraturt. The Greatest Plrge of Life, or the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Scrriet.-D. Bogue, Fleet-street, London. The plates by Cruikshank are rcplete with the humour of that genuine artist. In the one we have a legion of cats eating poultry, breaking china, and doing all that vast amount of mischief classified under the comprehensive head of The cat did it 1-aud in the other ...

THE DRAMA

... On Monday last 11aduamc Ainna Bishop, Prima Donna Asso- luta1 (as shss is styled in the announcli bills) of the theatre St. Carios at Xtaples, whose recent engageent at Drury-lane was attended with so imuch success, made her first appearanlce in this city as Ainon, in ?? charming opera La Sonnanibula. The house wats not so ?? attended as could liave been desired; or, indeed, considering lin ...

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... TRUE VALuE.-The churchyard is the market-place where the things of this world are duly rated.-Baxter. Let every mninister, while be is preaching, remember that God makes one of his hearers. CONTENTMENT.-ThC highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor; without which ;all estates will be ?? P. Sidney. Tells WORLD AND TIHE NEXT-He ...

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... POLITIC BUT SNOBBISH.-Napoleon, on tile testimony of De Steel, once said, Be If 1 had the choice, either of doing a noble action myself, or of inducing my adversary to do a mean one, I would not hesitate to prefer the debasement of mine enemy. VICTORIES OF TILE PRESS.-Much already has been accom- pllsised; more than people are aware; so gradual and cilent has been the advance. IHow noiseless ...

Literature

... Lftcraturt. Scotland Delineated; Partf J-. Hogarth, Hlaymarket, London. This is a noble and national work, and, when completed, wvill form a splendid volume for the library tables of the wealthier classes. It is a magiflicent specimen of publishing enterprise, and will present the romantic beauties of the i land of the mountain and the flood, and the various famous edifices in which Scotland, ...

Poetry

... 16oetrp. AN EPITAPH. No kindler p'it, I1n a house of clay, Eler dwvelt thais h0er's, whose Pure and placid ray BNow shines no more I Bright as tou sunny bean, And warm as bright; where'er sle went a glow Of love went ?? icr, and she miado us know 10oAV heavenly fair this world may sometimes seem. Not for hersef lshe lived; her geistle haiidd Did oft, for others, lifeo's roegs pa)thway sunooth- ...

Poetry

... J?Ortrp- ENTSCHUL;DIGUNG (VINDICATION).-FROM BURGER. YEs, Bescy I granted that I swore 'To d(te Ipon thy charnms eternally; Blit since thc wlitchig time is o'er, Why fidsely tax my heart with perjury? IT is tr;e, no more tbr thee my fancy warms; But, Betty, where-oh! where are now thy chanats? AMO'R's PFEIL (CUPID's DsaT). CUPID voutids with BARBED dart; Should it pettetrate ithy hecart, There ...

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... ENGLIsH SoLDIEtts.-They have a very high reputation in arms, and from the great fear the French entertain of them, one must believe it to be justly acquired. But I have it on the best information that, when the war is raging most furiously, they will seek for good eating, and all their other comforts, without thinking of what harm might befall ?? of England about the cea, M50. Translated from ...