... THE NAVY.—A fact which is communicated by a correspondent who is to be relied on, speaks volumes as to the destitution of topmasts in ou.r great naval arsenals at this moment. A nobleman, a member of the Yatch Club, lost his topmast about three weeks ...

... THINGS BY RIGHT NAMES! What noble names we give to tlrings of sin As spirit rectified we speak of gin Blue devil'd, here, in alcoholic hell, Spirits'' so rectified, blue ruined, dwell. The only drop of cordial in their curse, They will yo farther ...

... FIRST, beside. The dawn is overcast! A solitary bell The mournful truth must tell How oft my SECOND was his lot—and worse, It speaks of brutal blows-of drunkard's curse, But her tired spirit finds repose at last. He feels it not. A life of sin, Of crime a ...

... CHARADES. (No. 8.) Oh sorely vexed—oh greatly tri,j! Where shall thy bruised spirit hide, Where stay thy ruined mind ? My miy speak long hours of thought, Till reeled the madden'd brain to find Escape, my SECOND brought. Yes, Comfort came-she put aside Her ...

... lias taken [dace ill the diocese of Llandaff in favour of th • appointment to Welsh livings of those persons only \.1, > can speak the Welsh language; but it is curious to obs rv the causc of this movement, and still more extraoriinary t ...

... greater facilities be afforded them for ac- quiring a more correct and extensive knowledge of their own business, properly speaking—as well as of other branches of knowledge more or less connected with it a successful examination in which is the future ...

... this I know, I nol hopc,-1 cannot That she can c'er my SECOND be. Fairer than poet ever sung, Behold the come! Ne'r or now—speak out faint tongue, Or be hereafter dumb What lie- resolve wa3 — Ayr or i\ 0- With equal force my WHJLE Cdts show. — SOLUTION ...

... not think that authority is the more t ...

... Guardian. Slit, -1 have read with considerable pain, a letter in your last number, signed A Celt in Devonshire. The gentleman speaks of Sir Arthur Chichester's stay hounds having roused a fine buck (red deer) on Exmoor Forest. Now, really, such a solecism ...

... in ministration, instead of clinging to the Word and the vital truths of God, and telling me (for, unfortunate' I am not speaking of imaginary cases) that they must cling to those antiquated follies, unsanctioned and unauthorised alike by the letter aud ...

... fellow-villagers have immemorially done before them. Not aware of, nor intending to advance to the fearful' con- sequences I speak of—often, indeed, half persuading them- selves, that if not entirely innocent, it is, at least, a very venial offence to a ...

... celebrated 43rd Light Infantry, with his bosom friend Gen Sir William Napier, who (in his Life, edited by Mr. H. A. Bruce,) speaks of his friend as the intrepid Shaw. We purpose in our next number to give a short memoir of this accomplished officer.] BEAMISH ...