... THE CAMEL OF THE DESERT.-From this encamp- ment we pushed straight across a fiat desert covered with dry thorns and gum-arabic trees, in which were many camels grazing. We met once at a hollow, where some water still remained from the rains, 2,000 camels ...

... under control, carc fully secured, and all doors doubled to prevent draughte. It is break- fast time, and reeking hot cocoa from L-very35.e5sstableis sending uep a dense vapour, which., in addtitions to the breaths of so many souls, fills the syoce between ...

... prince from the arms of his niece, exclaiming, 'Tnis is a noble little Duke of Bor- deaux ; he is the son of us all ?? And all rejoiced as if the case were so, especially when the king, taking the head of garlic that had been expressly sent from Pau, gently ...

... to be passed by ?? Conqueores of the New World. R~shr oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently pro. ?? OF TIE PERSIANs.-The Persians are ex- tremely cruel, as is evident from the punishments they devise, and from their refined modes of torture, as may ...

... praise from wisdom's tongue, May, in time, be as enduring As the strains which Homer sung. J. IL C0asasXTsL VIEW FROM A MouNTArN SueMmi.-The author of a Journey from New York to Nineveh gives the fol- lowing word-picture of the prospect from the top ...

... had lefs their guns, when suddeniy a shriek was heard from one of the men who searched the bank with their feet: he was seen to fall back in the water; and a huge ser- pent, uncoiling himself from his cool ir,and raising Isis head above the surface, tookis ...

... ing of the balloon in the vicinity of such a people was the signal for a general rush from every habitation upon the monster that appeared to them to have dropped froms the skies. In less than half an hour it was torn into a thousand pieces, which were ...

... private physician, but he was absent from town. A mes- sagewasnext sent to Dr. Ferguson, and a similar answer returned. A third was forwarded to Dr. Williams, that gentleman, though not absent from town, was absent from home. The message did not reach his ...

... TO THE DUKE OF'WELLD,TOTON.. The.following verses have been printed in the Morning Post, from the Scrap-book of a gentleman, who states that he extracted them from a newspaper some years ago.] . Not only that thy puissant arm could bend The tyrant of a ...

... sung- The Natineas Hero lies upon his bier. A Beamon-light bath vanish'd from the esq - A Aele.i .9pitl frtui ths bfinatA rae- A worthy, foremost in the ranks of worth, Is missing from his old oecustoes'd place. The Conqueror's halls are desolate at last; ...

... grows dim and grey. The blackbird and the thrush, 'The golden oriole shall Sit around And waken, from a mellow gunsh of sound, The forests solemn hush. Birds from the distant sea Shall sometime hither flak, on snowy wings, And soar above my dust in airy rings ...

... I THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN. FOtMALITIES OF A CHINESE DINNB R.-Several dishe being now set before me, and a cup of wine poured oD by the host, I took a sip of it, and, taking up my chop. sticks, went on with my dinner. Having had great ex. perience in the ...