... 00tn1. SONNET-DECEMBER,_By EDIMUND OLLVR. TnE unseen Presence with the noiseless wing- Time-has swept bare the bounteous earth at last, And Summer's green and crimson shows have past From out men's sight, like cloud-shapes when winds sing. The seeds, which from the year's great ripening Were shaken, and within the warm earth cast, Live but in future life, and slumbering fast, Lie waiting for ...

... 1,17 -a - I ?? ?? - - (Prom a Correspondent.) In a secluded valley in South Lancashire, where the river R- winds its circuitous course from east to west, may be seen the homestead of a small farmer. It is shel- tered on the west by some lofty trees of elm and beech, of rather unusual dimensions for that locality, and on the north and cast by a well-stocked orchard, which, during the last ...

... iMUJSCAL PUB.IICA TIO Among the musical works published here, which have: recently come under our notice, onrtattention ' has beben especially attracted by a new: work of the - celebrated Dr. Marx, the professoi-of- music in the University of Berlin It is entitled T1te Universa; School of Hitsic, and is a sequel-to his great work, The School of Composition, of which we have already i given oar ...

... FINE ABTS. uld PROFESSOR SEMPER ON ARCHITECTURE, ife- PRACTICAL CONSTRUCTION, AND PLASTIC has ART GENBRALLY. [rs. On Friday night Professor Semper delivered, at lar- Marlborough-house, the fifth lecture of his course on Id the above subjects. The order of the course is as ion follows :-Commnencing with general remarks on the her influence of the simple primitive forms in industrial by works, ...

... = - H -- -- - S .! CH RI STMA S. Yule King, ariso, and leave thy halls- v Where the rudo storm-winds roar, Tbykobse'E cold and ice-bound walls, And Vadik's* snow-clad shore b Ring of the Yule log, C ...

... The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. Rajah of Sarawak, narrating the Events of his Life, from 1838 to the present time. Edited by John C. Templer, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and one of the Masters of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer. 3 vols. Bentley. Ohl the green and greasy pulblic, Jack, writes Sir James Brooke to his friend Mr Templer (vol. i, P. 271), how I should like to gull ...

... I.NEWV BOOlfs. 1bqrCs Life t!6 Ceylo1. BS W. KNIG12TON, M.A., fer- meriy Secreta:y to the Ceylon Branch of the Royal A-is.tic Socicty. Huest and Blackett. MIr. lnighton lived for four vears in Ceylon as a coffee planter and the editor of a colonial newspaper. His eastern life appears to have been passed with little more ?? annoyances than those derived from the visits of those pests to the ...

... HOW wE CONTRtBnTE TO THE SELF vIMPORTANCE OF CrIME.-The juveniles are, when in prison, of all its inmates the most troublesomne; they strut from cell to chapel and from chapel to cell with such an air of impudence and self-importance as is seldom seen in older criminals. Their manner and their questions in the dock declare how their present mode of diaecip. line operates on their minds. The ...

... I A : ' ' - - N SI. GFMUI N E GO S S I P. | B3Y 31 OALN APSS. CHAPTER XXIV.-EXCITEMENT AT EXETER Mr. Hughes appointed his son-in-law, Mr. Bennett, manager of the Exeter Theatre. His daughter, Julia, had married Bennett clandestinely, and had, in consequence, seriously offended her father. The old man, however, ultimately forgave her, and effected a coidial reconciliation with her husband. The ...

... POETRY- - I SONNET. (For tie Preston C/hrontice.J The glebe is cold, and dank, and bleak, and dreary,. This yon poor redbrcast knows as well as I When as nought seems to make birn brisk and cheery, But raves the storm in Winter's sleety sky ; Attracts his glancing eye no leafed tree Sweet, sightly bloom, or bough of usellow fruit; For the cold snow lies thick Upontela And tompests gather with ...

... THE THEATPE HE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES I . I TCATRE ROYAY,. Acrowded tbeatre on boxing night' lie long been', a well known feature of the amerry Christmh a timeI ir Dublita, and rarely-perfps. iever before..have we seoo Collected together, on any similar occasioh, such an over- flowing esoemblage of citizens of oieh foassee-old middle- aged, and y loug-as were crammed, pecked, and Crushed ...

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