... ' @ . 1 ,T.H t : - 9D ?? S I I .1 i, ?r'THE 4OIW, ElL6' BtlGEa ?? ~: 7., pi -~ 'I ?? , . , ~s 1; . lend Y li'oks 'douti'f aidl'ff; i' b etnftnilnean ch os'e to'co~io'e iojy 'ca~bis he mhly rnk s~s'o it ,as lfng as het'pfiehs.'' A-fe'vw day siftir, ie at bad: efsed the .hook ifbtftothe'other.toc'frwapiif b-low 'I 'never .? leid~i~yidiellowsiouf,'~ alle thaentber^;t'hut il the; gent~era5d ...

... We have known many persons who affected a taste for wxiting in extremely meinute characters, as, for instance, the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and the Ten Cemmandmnents, within the compass of a sixpence, or, perhaps, a silver penny. On this subject the learned D'Iaraeli has the following obser vations :-The 'Iliad' of Homer in a nutshell, which Pliny says that Cicero once saw, it is pretended might ...

... C IIAPTER I1I. A very selset party was congregated at the house of Mrs. Lifmetwiz, to celebrate the birth-day of her daughter the vouflgest of four, the fair Balinda: wvho, 'it the time we vrite, had entered into her nineteenth year, and although she had no fortune--at least, what is vulgarly understood by tlae mercenary young men orf our day as fortune; she had the nobler kind of wealth in ...

... j.WHALE 4flIA enl ournal, the Galedon an Metciuji, describes the ' following gnimated scena, which took pleb'-ff the town of hi Stornowgy, in the island-&f Lewis. An imimense shoal o wbales was, early in thromrning, chased' to the mout4 of - the hbrboour by two fishilig boats which had met them inthe. offing. ?? K..- up 'The ciriuintn . w mmediately descried from the aci shore, and a 64t of ...

... A- PARLIAMENTARY SKETCH. We hope..otr readers will not be alarmed at this ratler ominous title. 'We assurp them that we are not about to become politicalseither have we the slightest intentioof- being more prosy than usual-if we can help it. It has occurred to us that a slight sketch of the general aspect of ' the IHOCuse and the crowds that-resort to it on the ciobt of an important debate, ...

... *It was on the afternoon of a bright summer's day, that a stranger of athletic proportions, armed somewhat in the manner of the poorer knights of the twelfth century, and mounted on a powerful coal.black steed, was trotting leisurely down the high road leading to thetown of Fevers- ham. About a bowshot before him, a man, riding on a mule, and leading another loaded with a large pack, was ...

... MEMOIR OF ~MADAME LAFFARGE. WITH PORETRAITS OF THE FRNCIPAL PERRONS CONNECTED WITH HER. :-4F FELiCl FELIX CLAV19. 'After having put on again our gloomy dresses, we went to mass and to prayers. This was no longer a few words to the good God, asking of him wisdom for one's self and health for one's friends; it was a great prayer read from a book. The pope, the king, the bishops, the deacons, ...

... tlLLUSTRATIONS OF WITCHCRAFT. NO. IV. |'What has NELLY BROwN done? Why, they say she's bewitch'd old Farmer Jumps; and he's a.going to marry the Blacksmith's Daughter.' About 1664, the epidemic broke out in Essex, and the infamous wratch, Matthew Hopkins, took a advantage of the mania to volunteer his services as f witch-finder. A nature so base and cruel was fitted 3 to perform the task, and ...

... The new model prison is situated in the Chalk- t road, which leads from the bottom of Pentoiville- 0 hill to Holloway, and is near the Caledonian 6 Asylum, and when completed it will contain 00 r prisoners. It is surrounded with walls of consider- S able height, which enclose within them, in the 9 shape of an irregular pentagon, an area of GQ acres. r The entrance to the prison, which faces ...

... s0 I HRAZIL SUGAR AND BRtAZIL GOLD. 1! suh Copy of a Letter to Viscount Melbourne on the Sugar QueStion, rought - ?? c ure My' Loan,-The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery wr Society has forwarded your Lordship a strong remonstrance, Icee tik dated the 126thi March last, against the admission of Brazil ?? sugars, because produced by the legal slave labour of that sin botcountry, although it ...

... THE BLIUE PARLOUJR; OR, OUR CORRESPONDENCE. On the night of Wednesday, the 4th of the present -outh, we were alone, regretting the existence of those F, rcumstances which prevented our friends mingling with e hereason for which, about five weeks bygone, they fad made so very hurried an exit, could not be instanced %; the cause of our solitude, for our ' Parlour' was quite i y,,and retained not ...

... When Curran was called tO the bar lie was without friends, without connexions, without fortune, conscious of talents far albove the mob by which he was elbowed, and cursed with sensibility, which rendered him painfully alive to the mortifications he was fated to experience. Those who have risen to proessional eminence, and recollect the impedi. bients of such a commencement-the neixlect abroad ...