... POETRY'. THE SNOWDROPS. Without the dry trees groan and shiver, The curtained sun in his cloud doth sleep, And through the chamber easement ever Murmuts the roll of the distant deep. By the maiden's sidle onl the couch were lying, Blending their delicate green and white suf Children of winter. half closed and dying. thf Flowers that are born ere spring is in sight. or Slowly she spake in a ...

... rRUCTION OFF THE BRIDGCWATRIL C( X'I nfit A It I A RAU;1 Il. ,i THE CONsSTRUCTION o0 THE BRIoGEWATERL CANAL. -No sooner was the ground surveyed, and Brindley's views ex-tr plained to the Duke, than the latter at once resolved that no rc sacrifice on his part should be wanting to ensure success to c the enterprise. Disregarding all personal comfort, renouncing all the supposed requirements of ...

... mnx. . TDOMAS AT=i SHARLES JAMES FoD RrrA(MP v W.-x How CHARLES JAMES FOX BECAMIE A REFosmra.-Fox sI bad displayed no-particular talent so long as he was in the n ministerial ranks. He appeared quite satisfied to receive his tj salary. and to squander that and a great deal more in p gambling 'but no sooner did his father, Lord Holland, set g him at ease by paying off his debts, the amount of ...

... POETiRY. THE DAISY. When first the teeming world was rife With beauty, plenty. light, and life d When Nature's Godhead, great and wise, Had look'd upon the earth and skies, And saw all good that He had done. - From glow-worm's spark to rolling sun; 'When every tribe, and every race, Seem'd well contented with their place; One little voice alone was heard To utter a complaining word. ...

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH, EXIT ROMBAT.INn' be EXIT BOMBALINOl The Earthquake growls beneath his feet, Vesuvius banks her fires, o'erhead, Bewildered gbirr' through the street Slink with a tamned and timorous tread. r. The ptiest holds up his trembling hands, In vain to sainted Januarius; The Despot's hungry hireling bands ?? to deem their pay precarious. Armed Retribution pours its force id From ...

... .. .- . .. . .. . . . It is alarming, peculiarly at this time, when the female go ink-bottles are perpetually impressing upon us v woman's Y1 particular worth and general missionariness, to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for tc any m mission, or usefulness at all. It is equally unfitted for o1 all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man is now a far b ...

... n. (From Le Follet.) exhi Throughout the season gold and silver gauze has been very bon( ashionable for ball dresses. Tarlatane, with flounces em- beer broidered with coloured spots of velvet, or of gold-spotted the a led all over with gold, silver, white, cerise, &c.--are all in favour. held I W. We have also remarked an organdi, with white stripes, which mat, makes a simple but very charming ...

... I forgot to tell you that on a former visit to the hotel I KS found, sitting at tO table with as long a face as he could TU make of a round one, our ?? the Cockney; being by his own contrivance a d4tenu. Having, as usual,delivered em tip his passport at Cologne, he persuaded himself that the act printed Dampftchiff document he obtained at the packet- no, office v as something equivalent to the ...

... *POE'TRY. A SONG FOR THE RAGGED SCHOOLS. To work, to work! ye good and wise, Let - ragged scholars grace your schools; Ero Christian children call arise, They must be train'd by Christian rules. We ask no fragrance from the bud Where canker-vermin feeds and reigns; We seek no health-pulse in the blood Where poison runneth in the veins. And can we hope that harvest fruits In desert bosoms can ...

... OSMIASTON MANOR FLOWER SHOWV. n. n l 1A - - ?? to On Wednesday was held the second midsummer flower smhow at Osmaston. A nurmerous company assembled from riL the neighbourhood to enjoy the pleasure of seeing Mr. ith Wright's unequalled conservatory and the manor grounds 1.* and to examine and criticise the flowers, fruits, and vegetable Ing exhibited in the Raquet-court. The late unfavourable ...

... . The following is a List of the Prizes awarded at the exhi- l bition noticed in last week's Mercury:- (LASS 1.-PLANTS. MISCELLANEOUS PLeAWS (collection of six -let, Mr. Dryden, gar- r denor to T. W. Evans, Esq., M.P., Allestree Hallt ORCHIDS (collection of three.)-It, ltMr. Dryden. H iFCCsoAS (collection of six)-Ist, Mr. Seals, gardener to J. T. , Morley, Esq.; 2nd, Mr. George DorI'inlgton, ...

... ?? SPRING. P A flush of green is on the boughs, A warm breath panteth in the air, And in the earth a heart-pulse there J Throbs underneath her breast of snows: Life is astir among the woods, And by the moor, and by the stream d The year as from a torpid dream C Wakes in the sunshine on the buds; n Wakes up in musit as the song a Of wood-bird wild and loosen'd rill MIore frequent from the windy ...