... _tickUl front 4' l uncb, DARING FEATS OF EORBANSrHP. -The honourable member for Stroud has acquired considerable celebrity by putting his spoke in the wheel of the government. GivE IT 'EM.-Punch reads paragraphs stating that the savage Druses claim affinity with the Scetch. This is all bosh. But he is decidedly of opinion that the sooner the Druses are scotoh'd the better. A FAIR ATTEMPT. ...

... FASHIONS FOR AtUGUST. 'IUO ?? character of the iweather has ?? entirely prevented thbi.adopilon and el ?? then ad n ?? light t ee torlettes reonred' in antioipation of `Wrerching the'ADD knee, .. avr Henohi th foracsbqon (whiad we; d oipd or-thr.e Henc the fashi Palethan , uis ' for a day) of large silk pahet~te, oi ?? owith saleve, astalmos uhi versally followedp Forthe pli b esaill o s' la ...

... __ | GEOR)H THE FOURTH.bWant of taste ?? many other things painfully distinguished him. He at one time seri- ously proposed to dress all naval officers in red breeches and waistcoats I To the remonstranoe made against this barbarism, he replied with the old expletive tacked to a sweeping r em, dress 'em as you win, they'll never look lke gentlemen1 Such was the taste of the man who Would ...

... FLOWERS.-Many a bright-eyed girl to-day, who works worsted and dances divinely, does not know that a moss- rose is a first cousin to a French turnip, and the mangel- wurtzel a poor relation in the poppy family. Flowers are not trifles as one might know, if he would only think how much pains God has taken with them everywhere; not one bearing the marks of brush or pencil. Fringing the eternal ...

... Spiecimens, VWhMemoirs, of the lems-knoawn BjiRh Poets, with an Introductory Essay by te Acev. George Gilfittan. Vol. I. Edinburgh: James Nichol. The great galaxy of British poets does not, of course, consist solely of starsof the first magnitude. Threugh- out its whole range it is interspersed with luminaries of inferior magnitudes, many of which have some special beauty or interbst of their ...

... EAILY RISING. BY JOHN G. SAIL God bless the man who first invented sleep ! So Sanioa Panza said, and so gay I; And bless him, also, that he did'nt keep His great discovery to himself, or try To mae it-t5 th luky fellow might- To make it-s t~3~ho F ,'patent right. A close monopoly by ptetrih. yea-bless the man who first invented sleep, (I really can't avoid the iteration;) But blow the man ...

... VASH[QNS IOR AU' u,, ; Y t (From Le Foll~). The udslaoale charctner ofte Veaqter has anov t entirely pdovented the adoption hi .bon)ghsandgieplega toilettes prepared iantic t o r j et, snnr skies. ence the ashton (whioh we h o foil a day) of large silk prl tots or har s with ses, is a almost universallyfloe n ecnsacl odr under the circunsancs, htapaac sls tde than comfort. W ant oeehl ertigta ...

... j7 WOO Prove the keeper's sweeping accusa- tiagaict th felino race, says Pussy's friend. Do thy rotf prowl by night? How does the keeper know they do such mischief? Alas, for the counsel for Pussy's defene Lot him go the rounds with the keeper in the morning, and under the warm shelter of a wall, or bank, and even ?? in the very middle of the rides and paths, shall he find the skins of ...

... LYTRAM AND KIRKHAM AGRICUIZURAL EXHIBITION. ?? last was the annual show meetingZ Of the a( thland Kirkiarm Amalgamated Agricultural Society, d byofthai most successful of our local ?? tural associ- t, aee f ad one whose anniversanry is regarded with great 3( iltre_ througbout the whole Of the Fylde district. This t artwas the turn of Lytham to have the honour of rt rci'visg the memiberstat ...

... HALE FLORAL AND HORTI- CULTURAL EXHIBITION. I 1 ., , ?? This exhibition, one of the moat interesti' of its o character held in the locality of Live=pezI, took place yesterda;. The site appropriated fur the show I was a Ppaoious field in the grounds of John Ireland a Blaokburne, Esq., which had been kindly granted n for the occasion, The event, as on previous occa- sions, oreated considerable ...

... - TRUE COUtRAGE is it true Courage, at tbo casnon'smtutb. Arild'tho dreadful elght3 and sounds of war, .WVit ?? Deistli full staring In the face, To seek anotber'i life or lose one's own, - And wield tho decily weapous f- rg'd by Satan Agalnet ()6d's childrre and our..fellow-men2 , Iwit true ?? Vhen a eix-foot giant,'- In drunken ?? all'hts noney gne, . Lifs up htsfi am and dashes to ...

... ?? I W IN SYRIA. Theres a war on mount Lebanon's snow-laden heights. And the tribes of the crescent are gathered to battle; '1be, vales of the mountain are gleaming with lights, And their ecihoes are waked by the musketry's rattle. TIs the feud of the cross and the crescent again; But no Saladin leads on the Nussuln now; No lances are gleaming on Syria's plain, Sor knights Of the temple on ...