... discussion and of bearing arms in the nat onal defence, to the small Protestant minority of a Roman Catholic people. What better fate might better signalize the eternal quarrellings and dissentions of the Floods and Grattans. The Liabilities incurred ...

... seized her arm, raised her up, and in a few words rewarded her for all she had suffered during.the last fortnight. 'You at my feet, countess,' said he. 'It is I who should be, and who always wish to be, at yours.' Then he extended his arms to her, following ...

... of the American revolt, when Grattan carried his famous resolutions in favour of Irish indepen- dence. The question after this time was frequently debated in the English Parliament, when the splendid eloquence of Grattan always secured a hearing for his ...

... throughout, the want of strength and steadfastness of purpose which he considers to have been manifested by the ministry. Sir John Burgoyne's opinion of the inability of the Turks to defend the Danube or even the line of the Balkan against Russia, caused ...

... supercilious droop of the mouth, so characteristic of John Bright, even in his anti-corn-law days ; and W. T. Roden has imparted to the elongated visage of that intellectual giant of the Church, the Very Rev. John Henry Newman, .GD., that smiling lugubriousness ...

... and graceful form. Her father the Captain had taken charge of the Italian wife and daughter of a friend who had died in his arms on the field of battle. After a time he married the widow, and before she died she had left him two children, Owen and B3eatrice ...

... uticle, Mr John Christian Curwen, who ranks as the tetiher of Cumberland farming, Dr Lonsdale dedicating the sketi h to his hero's grandson, the Rev. Henry Curwen, Rector of Workington. John Christian Curwen was born in 1756, and his name was John Christian ...

... lupanar as freely as the lyre and the lute, and he is equally matter-of- fact in singing of Herodias with John the Baptist's head under her arm, and of Hortense dying in a Parisian hospital. Nothing comes amiss to him--except obedience to authorIty. How ...

... Impressions of a Traveller. By the Author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman,' &c. Hurst and Blackett. WVe must confess that we are on the whole dis- appointed with this work. We expected something better from the author of 'John Halifax,' and ima- gilned that she would ...

... neighbourhood as an ecclesias- tical reformer. The prelate of St David's being negligent of oversight, the people of Pembroke and Cardigan, negligent of duty, withheld tithes of wool and cheese. Gerald directed to these enormities the attention of the Archbishop ...

... the child looked so ill that it became absolutely necessary to divulge the cause. She spoke not, but caught her boy in her arms, and would not loose her grasp until at length he had fallen asleep upon her bosom, and the bleeding had stopped. Then she ...

... not be very apparent. Then the shoulders, arms, and hands were really beautifully white, and she lifted them to show there was no paint on them. At least, said the Grecian maiden, if that cat yonder have arms or bands, so have I; but, alas ! her face ...