... 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, ...

... Tat, tilt, thou art all icc; thy kindness freees.'-R1CHAD 11ll. It was evening, towards the latter end of autumn, when the warmth of the mid-day sun reminds us of the summer just gone, and the coolness of the evening plainly assures us that winter is fast approaclsing, that I was proceeding helnewards on horseback, fortified by a strong great coat au ainst the weather without, and refreshed ...

... PRESENTIMENT 0F DEATH. We wvere dispatched from the squadron in erder to draw I the attention of the American troops from Baltimore, while d our army advanced upon Washingtn ; and, consequently, k we were engaged in sotue annoying und offensive operations d every day and night. We Lad, on tile morning of' the day I on Which the following evcnt occurred, not only burnt, hut ?? robbed, a house, ...

... . , 4gy 10. ,r vte 1. Then e she faire May, qtt;e4ii&jrses Mayd on ground ja Deekt With all dainties of ber menas.n's pitioe And throwing fiowrep out' of herlap around. Upon two brethtrem 'Aboulders ahe did Aide, i.- The tgwtnes of Leda; which on eitter side iorzed her like to their a'iverilhe qa- cue, Lord I bow al! Creatures lals-it when tber tmy spide, &nd leaptatid dauiic't as they had ...

... 1 k-- I,/ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1841. WHAT SHALL WE DO? C A few weeks back we treated our readers with a t ; dream of what the Tories might do. Certainly, we s never intended it as a prophecy. But it is useful t 3 sometimes to contrast men's opportunities with C men's practice; to know what they mnight do, as T well as ivhat they will do. So owe form correcter t opinions of men. What the ...

... NO. XXXIV, THE BRIDEGROOM. At last the gallant gay Lothario has come to the deter- mination of committing that very serious act-matrimony, and the resolve is about to be acted upon. All the pre- liminaries of the ceremony have been concluded, and to- morrow morning, at precisely eleven o'clock, will the bridegroom, his future partner, and a few friends go, in a couple of glass coaches, to the ...

... 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 ...

... EXTRAORDINARY EXPEDIENT OF AN I IMPOSTOR. Of all the expedients ever resorted to for the purpose of i extracting money from the pockets of the charitable, by in-t posing on them through fictitious cases of distress, those adopted by a fellow, a few years since, were incomparably I the most extraordinary. Will it be helieved that this rogue who was an excellent swimmer, was in the habit' of pre ...

... Archibald Macdonald was perhaps the most perfect master of his hazardous protiftson of any who ever prac- tised it. Arehibald. wes by birth a gentleman, and pro. prietor of a small estate in Argyle, which be, however, lost early in life. He soon distinguishdd himself as a cattle. lifter on an extensive scale: and weak as the arm of the law might then have been, he found it advisable to remove ...

... 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, ...

... TNTIi&NC rN -AS1tACE- Itis incon divtbleoto te varta ua~tnd p eW~vvrhtyptft~ - o6f ?? wfo have bfien. bbrn ian bred to ?? idleness, 'what eribefh strifit$ are the lt of those, -scadalotis rogues who Loilftdiie hagi lefti to h ft' fo thmevs Sidh was my fei M jacalstifn wiahen fulo itnefrth 'am of uragent naecesiaty, Iwended mywyt h tonay-f whohadswettgeteranid, -for thufftstlit, pecked up th, ...