... POETRY-. ?? - . ~ ~ ?? WONDERS AND 31URMURS. BY s. C. HALL. Strange, that the wind should be left so free To play with a flower, or toar a tree;. To rage or ramnblo wtere'or it will, Aud, as it lists, to be fierce or still- Above and around, to breathe of life, Or to mingle on earth and the sky in strife; Getuly to whisper, with morning light, Yet to growl like a fettered fien , ere night; Or ...

... FILLING FLOWER SHOW. | The annual exhibition of the Pilling Floral and Horticul- tural Society, took place on Tuesday, and, like mnany of its predecessors, was a decided success. The weather was brilliantly fine, though the saa was not so intensely hot as during tha few previous days, ann the number of visitors to the show was largor than has ever been known before. This may be auconuted for ...

... THE REVENGE OF A LIFE: > I ?? CA3IBRO0BRITANNIC STORY. i I ?? Lit tile lest is BlY A PUISTONIAtO. a8 at at wn by ~~CHAPTER XXIX. Scot. ?? OIAORIrLAY VISMT MtISS O5BA5VILLE. Csmbcn Vllaalthough1 in~noccnt of all architectural pretensions, was, nevertlirless, a very pretty looking, and ~r sub' Lviael, subitantial country residenco; and contributed, o thle not is little, to the picturesqueness ...

... AIUTOBIOGKRAPHY OF A CHARTIST. all N1:MBRuesa 9. ity, He who the sword of heaven will bear, t Omn Sbhould be ns bolv as zevere; of Pattern in bimself to know of Grace to stand, virtue to go, of ?? or lose to others paying, tha Than by Self offerices weighing. . ,ur. These words Ironm Shakespeare were applied to the too Chartist trials of 1843. of Fergas O'Connor, and 08 others, ery at ...

... ?? I GEMTS OF THOUG HT. principles, lim troops of the line, are undisturbed and stand fsst.-Ric1*ftr. Anxiety disfigures the face of prospority and renders it like a crystal glass blown up by impure breatb.-W. Be'cker. Too many, through ivant of prudence, are golden ap. preuticeR. silvor jounrfeymean, and copper masters.- FUNzrUALITY.-I Owe everything in the world to being alwuys a quarter of ...

... GEMS OF THOUGHT. The worst education wvich teaches self-denisl is better than the best which teachea everything else, and not that. Virtuo like the loadetone can only communicate its propertiee to susceptible natures. The felicity of the body consists in health, and that of the mind in knowledge. The object of life is to improve life: if we do but our duty to ourselves we shall soon learn to ...

... FULWOOD FLORtAL& HORTICULTURAL a SHOW. The fourh spring show under the auspices of the Fal. 3 , wood Floral and Hort icultuiral Society was opened at the Cr Skating Rink, Preston, on Wednewlay, at two p.m., by tic Edmund Birley. Esq. (the G~uild Mavor), in the presence pa of a considerable number of the elite of thu town. In Si: declaring the shlow Open, hisl Worship said they had come J 1 ...

... VARI ETIES. 010,1tEM OF THOUGiHT. Time is tho only touchstone wvjicll distinguishes the true man from tho impxsdtel-. Upon the aCA of hifo Sutrtnder not your bont to thl wavee but row yourself, and dc uot row unekillully. Human nature is so constituted by the Creator that morality is as necessary to the prosperity of mankind as oxygen to combustion, caloric to vegetatios, nnd respira- tion to ...

... MARCH PUBLICATIONS. LONHorAN''S MAGAZINE.-The contents of the Marcha part of this magazine are replete with variety: sections of stories, essay-like productions and sketches-the latter full of very interesting, instructive matter-have a place in it; and, on the whole, the magazine is a pleasing, com- nmendable ptoduction. Tort SaOENOci MONTEVLY.-TCis is a particularly good periodical in the ...

... I LITERARY SELEOTIONS. LoYn JOHN RUSSELL AND THE CacMa.-One evening Lord John Bussell called a cab to convey him from the House of Commons to Chesham Place. To the cabman he gave a coin; but, when with proper care, he balanced his accounts that night, be found that he was nineteen shillings short. He rightly concluded that he had given his driver a sovereign for a shilling. On the following ...

... I ner } Last year's annual exhibition was considered the era best that had been held at the Crystal Palace to that time, but there is a distinct advance, both as art re'ards numbers and quality, in the collection of at cats on view at Sydenbam on Tuesday and Wednes- me day. There are.484 oats, or 130 more thanin 1884, - which are divided into short-haired and long- haired groups, each ...

... I Whatever the times may be like-whether good, or bad, or indifferent, and whatever the doings or undoings may be in the imperial political arena, and however serene, mixed, or breezy may be our local affairs, that which we call fashion is always going and always with us. Fashion is the fetish to which we all bow down-at least all who wish to be in the swim with our fellow dwellers in the ...