... ?? THE TEAR. When infant innocence is grieved, And hath not power to say In words, the import of its wrong, What giveth utterance way? When tides of unexpected joy, Like mountain billows come, What tells the rapture of the heart, Though speech itself be dumb? When pent within its secret cell The agony of grief, Upheaving, threats exhausted life, What lends the soul relief? When Folly in ...

... ! _ ?? l - | THE BROOK; AN IDYL. BY ALFRED TMNNYSON. I come from baunts of coot and herni I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty bills I hurry down, Or ?? between the ridges, By twenty thorps a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ...

... THE TRUTH AND PLAIN DEALLNG.-If ever you find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing circum- stances, out of which you are at a loss to extricate your- self, do what is right, end be assured that that will extri- ente you the best out of the worst situations. Though you cnnnot see when you take one step what wil be the nest, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never ...

... - PIOETR'Y. CHRISTMAd IS COME. BY ALXMRT SMIUTE. The old north breeze through the skeleton trees js chanting the year out drearily; Bst loud let it blow, for at home, we know, The dry logs are crackling cheerily: The frozen ground Is in fetters bound, But pile up the wood, we can burn it; For Christmas is come, and in every home To summner our hearts can turn it. Wassai ! wassail ?? bappines ...

... LOG-BOOK OF AN EMIGRANT TO AUSTRia . We have been favoured with a perusal, With a viewto. publication, of the log-book of an emigranf, transmitted ,by him from that colony, to his frends here. .The follow- ing extracts will be found Interesting, not only to intending emigrants, or to those who may have relationsa on tie deep bosom of the ocean, butwe,. 1hip :k,aso. to sou readers generally: - ...

... ' - LINES Written by a pupil of the late Mr. Charles Nloholson, the Tn.. rivaed flont player, who died In London, about twenty years ago, and whose remains lie interred In the burial ground of old. St. pancras Church, London. Orpbans could woods and rooks in motley throng, By playing, with him cause to dance along; When Nicholson petformed upon his flute Thy sounds, Oh harmony I were no longer ...

... I|I THE RTSING GENERATION IN ARMS. We find in the Cincinnati Times the following account of one of the most remarkable fairs of that go-ahead country, held at Springfield, Clark county, Ohio. It is a refreshing change from the dry columns of political re- solves and convention speeches :- I TRE ARRIVAL OP THE BABIES. Decidedly the greatest feature of this fair was the National Baby Convention, ...

... pft (fnomi m vurwb. Ors'sxssgn NtsnEs.-.It mnay be all vr well toch out aia~a confiscation In Oude for. those who Imagine that any proper Oude haa been unjustly confiscated. But Justic as wells Cha . rty, should bgin at home. Does not confiscation exist in tills great (pgOa of a) country, in the shape of a partial and nneqou -income-tax ?? e A Cno bON CanonqoLu..-Mr. Reiseaberg. continues to ...

... I ldAUlvrED HOU8SES Ur Lo2(GIVELLOW. Wberein men have Idved and died Ai bal ted ho Thses. rough the Open door re hare5s bphantomf on their errado glide, t t that make no sound upon the floorS them at the door-wSy, on the stair, s methe ,athe they come and gE, Ajoe til ps~geS in the air, a ImrtegsIo trmoving to and fro. ssse rf u~me tbig table than the hosts han ID f e- aviD q iet noffenslvo ...

... Vidtfno from I iunjb.py THE REAL MMLRE WAY--The projected telegraph line from Alderney to Cowes. YOUNG l'RkCTITIONER: Hl'W, very Odd-I mnust have made some mistake; there's nothing the matter with this tooth. Never mind, try again I CLERICAL BOREDoM.-Thea Abbd Domenleh, in his record of priestly experiences in Texas, describes how he drove his errant congregation from his garden Into his ...

... ORInG OF ST. BARITOLOMEW'S, ST. THOMAS'S, AND CRBMf3S Ho8FiTAsi. - In. the beginning of 1633, Dr. Ridley, Bishop of London, preached before King Edward, whose health was. then declining, at Wlstn4nster. The subject he selected for this discourse-in which he urged. the king, in eloquent language, to take care that a more effectual provision should be made for the poor-was charity.. This ...

... I G~-- REFLECTIONS O 0AvIfG LEFT A PLACE OF RETIREMENT. Yn COLERIDGE. SermoniproP';orn.-Hon. 1°' Was our pretty cot: our tallest rose yeep-d at the chamber window. We could bear tsilet noon, and eve, and early morn, T wsea's faint murmur. In the open air Our myrtles blossom'd; and across the porch hick jasmins twin'd: the little landscape round Was grcen and woody and refreshed the eye. Wt was ...