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LITERARY EXTRACTS

... THE TRUTH AND PLAIN DEALLNG.-If ever you find yourself environed with difficulties and perplexing circum- stances, out of which you are at a loss to extricate your- self, do what is right, end be assured that that will extri- ente you the best out of the worst situations. Though you cnnnot see when you take one step what wil be the nest, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... ORInG OF ST. BARITOLOMEW'S, ST. THOMAS'S, AND CRBMf3S Ho8FiTAsi. - In. the beginning of 1633, Dr. Ridley, Bishop of London, preached before King Edward, whose health was. then declining, at Wlstn4nster. The subject he selected for this discourse-in which he urged. the king, in eloquent language, to take care that a more effectual provision should be made for the poor-was charity.. This ...

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... Vidtfno from I iunjb.py THE REAL MMLRE WAY--The projected telegraph line from Alderney to Cowes. YOUNG l'RkCTITIONER: Hl'W, very Odd-I mnust have made some mistake; there's nothing the matter with this tooth. Never mind, try again I CLERICAL BOREDoM.-Thea Abbd Domenleh, in his record of priestly experiences in Texas, describes how he drove his errant congregation from his garden Into his ...

Pickings from Punch

... pft (fnomi m vurwb. Ors'sxssgn NtsnEs.-.It mnay be all vr well toch out aia~a confiscation In Oude for. those who Imagine that any proper Oude haa been unjustly confiscated. But Justic as wells Cha . rty, should bgin at home. Does not confiscation exist in tills great (pgOa of a) country, in the shape of a partial and nneqou -income-tax ?? e A Cno bON CanonqoLu..-Mr. Reiseaberg. continues to ...

POETRY

... I ldAUlvrED HOU8SES Ur Lo2(GIVELLOW. Wberein men have Idved and died Ai bal ted ho Thses. rough the Open door re hare5s bphantomf on their errado glide, t t that make no sound upon the floorS them at the door-wSy, on the stair, s methe ,athe they come and gE, Ajoe til ps~geS in the air, a ImrtegsIo trmoving to and fro. ssse rf u~me tbig table than the hosts han ID f e- aviD q iet noffenslvo ...

POETRY

... SPIGAND SUMMER. WiTh feralfa be a to With starry ts o'er with dew With buttercup Ora o thelea, Wtt lonely berebellgolden hue, WI A id loney haramet flresh and blue Wbusn thvlnge ?? 8 When last I was at Aldeidoy (0 The robes of Spring wore fiuged,. of Another dame is coming now, With golden looks and wreathbd brow to With fragrant breath and laughter free;- W Anid flowers beneath her footstepe ...

THE LEYLAND FESTIVITY

... j _ | EXHIBITION OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. We This celebrated exhibition took place on Thursday last, gol when the society was again favoured with most propitious m weather; the day being fine and warm, and not too sunny no for the comfort of the great numbers of people who make it a point not to be absent from this very delightful fes- thi tivity. The agricultural show, ...

POETRY

... ?? I1 TO THE COMET. Tb5 tlon ing lines written for the Pra o7 Ch-icA by the Mr Jam,, Scott Walker, of this town, on the occasion f to I c~ree of Hanley's comet in 1835S wmi be read with the ap pba resent time. Welcome I bright stranger of the sky, That after many a Ulngering year, AWein appear rt to mortal eye, As thou in thy subalme career, Swifter than ?? thought can trace, 3ol1rst on ...

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... Uftftno from jipuncD, HOW TO LEARN ALL YOUn DEFECTS.-CQuarrel with your best friends. To ASCERTAIN THE NUMBER OF YOUR ENEmmcs.-Publish a book. CLEvER HEDGING.-Lord Derby has ordered his stud to be sold. He considers that he shall have enough to do next session in starting bills, training subordinates, handicapping colleagues, and backing (out of) rash pledges. But Lord Derby is not going to ...

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... ViCUTfnS ftoln 1luxumib A MESSAGE TO BE WRIBPERED IN THE EAR OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- It's never too late to mend. SOCIAL QUZSTION..If social science is independent of parties, what becomes of scientifie eoirges ? ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.- An Oxford gentleman ?? published Counter Thoughts on Church AMatters. Is this Ox- ford mixture ?-and if so, what is the next article ? One of ...

POETRY

... - l7OETRY._ OLIVER CROMWELL'S ANNIVERSAKT. S september 3rd, 1658% ?? two hundred years ago, mday I ~The asniversaxy of the death of 5 x istectordie~ of Englishmen, and the greatest of ait did this year, on the. very day on ?? hsdyffae On it he WOn tbe be allowed to pass without remark. on It he obtained the crowning gresict°orter;aaed'on It he died. While on his death. for his country's weal ...

Borrowed Cristes

... 3BorroatD 't le- A PAsaDox.-A lady asked'a veteran which rifle casried the mairntum distane I The old chap answered, A Minip, murss :P., D. AND THE COOM ;-ZA New York reporter sent to the printing-oillce a notice of an inquest, an4 -P. D.,- meddliug wfith tbe.verdict, struck out a comnma after the word apoplexy; -ahingit read thUU : Deceased came to his death poby ex=. drinking, ...