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Wit and Humour

... IN nub golmar. e THE BURIAL OF THE SESSION'S BUSiVESS. r -Not an act vas passed-nothing came to a vote, AS each bill till next session was buried; d Not pe'n Sibthorpe discharged a random shot At the style in which business was hurried. e 11'.o hurrio-, Supply throuirl at dead of the night, To account %V.I OlCoOLities turilit - ; Of Hunlie and of Willi ims mnaking ligrilf And the candle at ...

Agriculture

... ?? , oric-nature PICTURE OF FARM LIFE iiY MRS. SIGOURNEY. Saw ye the farmer at his plougk As you were riding by? Or wearied 'neath the noon-day toil, When the summer-suns were high! And thought you that his lot was hard ? And did yoa thank your God, That you and yours were not condemned Thus like a slave to plod ? t Came, see him at his harvest' home, When garden, field, and tree, Conspire ...

Agriculture

... AgJrifulturr. It~~ttlS THE GOOD OLD PLOUGH. Let them sing who may of the battle fray, And the deeds that have long since past, Let them chant in praise of the tar whose, days Are spent on the ocean vast. I would render to these all the worship you please, I would horiour them ever now; Bat I'd give far more from my heart's full store, To the cause of the Good Old Plougli. Let them laud the ...

Literary Varieties

... fiterary valiffics. Love of Rome Scenes-Strong and many are the claims arc made Upon us by our mother Earth; the love of locality-the art charm and attraction which some one homely landscape pos- gr sesses to us, surpassing all stranger beauties, is a most re- sid markable feature in the human heart. We who are not ethe- Hc real creatures, but of a mixed and diverse nature-we who, th, when we ...

Original Poetry

... Original POMrP . THE DAY OF HUmILIATION. W~ith penitelit and i nanxiois hearts, just God, we benld befuse Tfhee, For aid a(d ?? iii our need we ?? implare Thee;- For dark clouds risC, and storim-winds howl, portenld- ingl desolation And evil lusts sti; i1tioll UL to dra(l the sword 'gainst nation. 0 Thou, whose high and. hol thic no in ri, liteousness is funded, W1 hose sight by distance, noro ...

Poetry

... hwtnI THE GALLOWS TREE. C, JO11S WATTS, A NOnRIUt alAN or 1.1s11Tr D EDUCATION. The night is darlk, no star is seen, I Black clouds the sky obscuring, A drizzling rain is falling fast, let nell and wonon hurrying past, In one thick tide are pouring-. From cast and wvest, and north and south, The thick'ning current's coming: Is it to viewv sonc noble sight They are abroad this checrless night, ...

Literary Varieties

... I fiterilry, 'TE RIGHT RON. BENJAMIN D'ISRABLI, MP. ASLl .INID POLITICAL BIOGRIIAI Y. ADDRiESSED T, ILE NEW GENEERATION. Tlit the t' ?? of the man, is certain. But 1vho is i:iLie, of thi' boy Thl l' s y'f itther-n ore commonly than z r-cozmi ...

Original Poetry

... orig(lial 3PDctt-i). ?? A L M A. THE 23RD-ROYAL WELSH FUSILEERF. ?? Britain's warlike sons Nvent forth, Those heroes of tile land and main, And left the dearest ties on earth. Whom they might never join again. The sons of brave old Cambriu's race Were wvith that valiant throng enroll'd, Who of yore had faced the cannon's roar, Y'clept our gallant Tiventy Third. The foremost in that fearful ...

REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY

... i REPORT FMROX THE SELECT COMMUTTTE'l, G: Z - I i NA2!ONATL GALLERY After a. mhintc and searcii:i;i i, lu'j-: ; patience, and ;'andour of' vet' 'viil Csci- t;. . tlle ten ihonsand staten..'ts of itsscs rL' t,.i ter - word for e'x'.'.Id-tie Cornlmh tte :,i e clusions, wh`bich ar, bere flat bentire I nt Ii lecommienidations. Such O) tf Qles- ,oa iers r,.: oredj I to 6 affect s1ce futuie Li re u ...

Literary Varieties

... fiterory vantfies. *THEr MAGAZINOE OF MIRACLES.-If any one want Modern Me o miracles ]et him turn to the pages of the ZofWe, a quarterly to a journal, published to diffuse the principles of mesmerism as a hoc e surgical agent. Its stories are more surprising than the old i- Arabian nights, and yet are told as facts. This is not con- sto s tradictory, bnt~ it is interesting. rrle facts too ore ...

Literary Varieties

... 61'Oottrary loorldies. AN OLD Boos.-The oldest book in the United States w it is said, is a manuscript Bible in the possession of Dr f, Wotherspoon, of Alabama, written above a thousand years ago! The book is strongly bound in boards of old Erglish oak, and with thongs, by which the leaves are also well bound together. The leaves are entirely made of parchment of a . very superior quality, of ...

THE WELSH FUSILIERS

... THRE WELSH FUSILIERS. The well-won field of Alma Adds another laurel wreath To Canibiia's Royal Fusilierg, t A~Who bravely figet beneath Thle flag that bears untarnished fame An( prouder now it sways, n1 For Alma's nanse shall honour it, EWith England's heartfelt praise. f And while we drop a mournful tear For those who s b'y fell, 'l 'lMidst clash of steel and muskets roll) Is The cantsons ...