... THAT wife over whom your love broods is fading. Not beauty fading; that, now that your heart is wrapped up in her being, would be nothing. She sees with quick eye your dawning apprehension, and she tries hard to make that step of her's elastic. Your trials and your loves to- gether have centered her affections. They are not now as when you were a lone man, wide-spread and superficial. They ...

... DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF AT WESTMINSTER. On Monday morning the workmen engaged in ^ft Messrs Kay's manufactory, observed a party %VA F tokens of insecurity, and before they had tl effect th- ir escape, a stack of chimneys fell meudous crash, burying the men beneath. Weston was crushed to death. A body of men 5 to work, and after almost superhuman EXERTION3' PIT#1' James Comb, who was ...

... My dog lay panting at my feet Five years ago. A maiden he sprang up to meet Five years ago. r see that form before me now, Egeria-like the lip aud brow, Eye-glances soft as music's Five years ago. My arm around her sinking waist Five years ago. Bar head upon my shoulder placed Five years ago. Her dark hair shades my forehead glowing, Her dark eyes into mine are flowing. Oh, simple heart! oh, ...

... THE BELGIAN GIRL'S CASE- Notwithstanding the reward offered, Madame and her husband have hitherto eluded the by the police to apprehend them. They are suppose^ abroad. A second charge would have been made them—that of conspiring to procure the JJ young French girl named Gabrielle, who was decoye jjl the house, but contrived to escape. A letter to thisi from a foreign actress lias fallen into ...

... MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BIRMINGHA^ BIRMINGHAM, Saturday.—Murder aud suicide have become epidemic in tliis locality. Within the 1 few days three persons have been murdered, and the of another is placed in imminent peril. Scarcely excitement caused by these occurrence subsidedi the public was shocked by rumours of a still more and frightful tragedy, which was unfortunately too founded. jj The ...

... JWrftteE. during a conversational discussion with a friend, on fee subject, and at the time of the late Justice Talfourd's de- cirka in the case of Bird and his wife, accused of the murder of a child.] THEY often err who, anxious to decide Correctly, circumstances take, That leaning one way only seem to make The thing conclusive that particular side But oft coincidences only hide The real fact ...

... HENRY, fifth Duke of Beaufort, K.G., Lord-Lieu- tenant of the counties of Monmouth and Brecon, &c., succeeded his father while in his minority, being born the 16th October, 1744. In 1766, he married Eliza- beth, daughter of Admiral Boscawen, son of Hugh, Viscount Falmouth, and by her had issue :— 1. Henry Charles, Marquess of Worcester. 2. Charles Henry. 3. Edward Henry. 4. Arthur John Henry. ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY, MARCH 16. On the motion of Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Coasting Trade Bill was read a second time. The following bills were also read a second time High- ways, South Wales Commons Enclosure Bill; and Mutiny Bill.' The Consolidated Fund, JE8,000,000 Bill, was read a third time and passed. Several other bills were forwarded a stage. FRIDAY. ...

... On Thursday, his Grace the Duke of Beaufort w ^0xd vested before the Town Council with the j th0 High Steward of Bristol; after which, hl? CoUocil* civic body were entertained at luncheon in t house, by the Mayor.. _.pnt We understand that, during the late mclJ „.orth W. P. Herrick, Esq., munificently gave i1'' 0f th6 blankets and coal, to bo distributed among ^JLho^ parishes of Undy, M^gor, ...

... Dr. William Smith, lately residing at the old village of St. Fergus, near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, has been placed at the bar of the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, charged with the murder, on the 19th of November last, of William M Donald, farm servant, on whose life the prisoner is said to have effected various insurances for short periods, and which were on the point of expiry when ...

... TUCKERMAN, during his Month in England, obtained a glimpse into the London residence of Rogers, the poet. Here is some idea of what he saw:— The aquatic birds in St. James's Park, 'WjMh their variegated plumage, may well detain loiterers of maturer years than the chuckling infants who feed them with crumbs, oblivious of the policeman's eye, and the nurse's expostulations; to see an American ...

... THE BEAR AND THE CRESCENT. The following is a prediction of the 15th century,, re- cently versified: In twice 200 years the Bear The Crescent will assail But if the Cock and Bull unite, The Bear shall not prevail. In twice ten years again Let Islam know and fear The Cross shall stand—the Crescent wave, Dissolve and disappear. The following curious inscription is taken from a mo- nument in ...