... dells; Oh why Is besaty doom'd to fall By Love's bewetching spells ? Transplanted from her native home, She ?? in grace aw1hie, But son sthe ross pme'd from her cheer, And from her lips the smile; And then she lived neglected o, A flowret cast away, Whose ...

... bought a slave from a plantation in Kentucky; the man was a first, rate mechanic and blacksmith, and his master parted with him because he was hard up, with the Proviso that his wife, to whom he was much attached should not be separated from him. The sum ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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; ...

... THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN. Ate OIElNTAL MOSQUE.- You will go daily to Abe bazaar, (writes Mr. Curtis in his W~ancderer in Syria) b1'- cause its picturesque suggestions are endless, and becanse the way leads you by the spacious mosques, broadly striped with ...

... day-a bye-word be thy namet WILIAMI WHurITMOas, [We extract this from a small book of poems, entitled First- lings. The work of a labouring-men; and noble work, too, when the hours snatched from toil can be so dedicated to the exapression of such feelings ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... expres- sion of infinite disdain for the infidels of all colours whom he saw around hsim. As I had recently come from his part of the world, I accosted him at once, and great was his delight, when he heard a greeting in the language of Stamboul. The whole ...

... 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 ...