... LINES ON TBE OLD YEAR. Fil ntanly a muornings light with rosy dawn, Fall ' nimay a night with sable curtain drawn, THavr round mne bless'd with health, and hope, and love, 11;i1ee richest gifts to earth fromt heaven above, Iriendship hath charmed me thro' the lingering day, And amaranthine flowers of love bestrewed my way, MAv life's untroubled stream has glided on Like shadouws fading with ...

... CARDINAL WISEM1AN ON THE ARTS OF I DESIGN AND PRODUCTION. On Thursday evening week a very crowded auditor to assembled in the Manchester Corn Exchange, to hear his v eminence Cardinal Wiseman deliver a leeture on the re- A latioris between the arts of design and the arts of produc- di tion. His eminence was received with enthusiastic ac- of clamnations. mn Dr. Tuasina, the titular Bishop of ...

... I| - ., ?? FLOWElRS. ,, y I O It .A C E S 3I I T H1. y e ?? worshippers Who, benlding lowly ,ifore tile uprtisel s5u, God's lidless eye, Throw from your clhalices a sweet and holy Incense oin high. Ye bright mosaics! that, with storiod beauty, The floor of natures temple tesslate, What numerous emblems of itlstruetive duty Your forms create I 'Neath clustered bou1ghs, carl, floral bell that ...

... 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, ...

... ! _ ?? 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 ...

... ' - 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ?? 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 ...

... 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: - ...

... l _ ~ ~- _I_ HAYMAKERS VISITED, (RESPECTPCLLY INSCRInED TO MXISS ELIZA COOK.) [Freom the Village Muse and other poecjs, by Elijah Ridings, On the eve ef publicalisal.J . brief time ago, I was hcart-sick and dreary, For the .orld, now and then, makes the best of us weary; i spirit was drooping, yet restive and wild, And my heart turn'd away from the mirth of my child. I Closed iny book, ...

... 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 ...

... - 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 ...