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v MUT HOUR OF bIOR LNG.

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now sweet fisiilisd the forest's tangled sLa E,
When early stinbeams, from the easterniliund,
its=' Dawn on the sleeping landscape in the glade,
Which fades, as Morning spreads her blush around !
When every isfaat flower that wept in night,
Lifts it's chill head, soft glowing with a tear,
Expands it's tender blossoms to the light,
And gives it's incense to the genial air !
How sweet the breeze that wafts the rich perfume,
And swells the melody of waking birds ;
The hum of bees btneith the verdant gloom,
And woodman's song, and low of distant herds!
Ther. doubtful gleams the mountain's hoary head,
Seen through the parting foliage from afar ;
And farther still, the ocean's misty bed,
With flitting sails, that partial sunbeams share!
But vain the sylvan shade, the breath of slay,
The voice of music floating on the gale,
• And forms that beam through Orion's dewy veil,
TI health no longer, bids the.heartbe gay !

PAL ACES, SfC. IN PARIS.

PARIS, JULY 2..
I have found, by conversing with several English
travellers who have not failed to visit the Palais Royal,
Tuilleries, Louvre, Carrousel, and St. Cloud, that very
few are acquainted with the origin of the names which
distinguish these Palaces, and, what is more to be won-
dered at, their derivation is unknown to three-fourths
of the Parisians theinselves. Perhaps it may be amusing
to many of your readers to have a brief account of them:
The PALMS ROYAL was called Palais du Cardinal.
having been built by Cardinal Richelieu; it was finished
at an enormous expense in 1686; this haughty pre-
late laid out 300,000 francs in Iron circles to bend the
branches of the walnut tram .h the Palais garden,
which formed a kind of verdant arcade; they were
destroyed in the Revolution. At bis death the Cardi-
nal left this Palais to Louis XIII. after whose death
Ann of Auitria, Queen and Regent, left the Louvre
with her two sons, Louis XIV. and the Duke of Anjou,
and occupied this magnificent mansion, from whence it
was called the Palais Royal. Louis XIV. at his death.
left it to the Duke of Mitre' from whom it descended
to the present Duke of Orleans, by whom it has been
occupied since the Restoration. It is needless to give
any account of the immense Bazaar of every article of
utility and luxury to be found in the galleries of the
• Palais Royal, built- by the late Duke, called Egalite.
The Tuit.t.eatas takes its name from the palace and
gardens being erected by Catherinede fdedieis, mother
of Charles IX. in 1574, on a spot Where formerly were
tile-kilnuartuileries. This magnificent palace wants
nitifbradig-tbotigh built ander the inspection of Phil-
lips: de
,rorune, Abbe of St.'Serge and St. Eloi, who
was considered the beep architect in France. The pas-
'sage leading from Ron:St. Honore to the Rue Rivoli
bears bis name.
• The Pt.aoz CARlNkriteL -take; Sys tame nom a grand
entertainment given by Louis. .to his Queen and
the Queen Dowager, his mother. These Royal feasts
• were called Carrousels, at which every species of amuse-
ment and good cheer was to be' met with.
The Louvas was built originally of wood, by Phil-
lipe Auguste, iwthe year 1217, and enlarged by Charles
VI. Its nanseis derived from the ancient Saxon word
Leaver, whichtignifies * chateau or Royal edifice. It
was long &Weed to rateive Itnifertaign Monarchs who
visited Paris. In 1584 Francis'', 'demolished the old,
and commenced the new palais, which was continued
by Henry 11. and embellished by Henry IV. Louis XIIL
and XIV. At length Napoleon projected the comple.'
tion of its embellishments, %having. plated his bust ia,
the facade of the Louvre, over which was written-b-
Neeost le Greed a achy a le• Louvre. The picture.
gallery that communicates this palais with that of dal
Tuilleries is of the length of 1,380 feet, or 230 toisei.
SAINT CLOon.—This palace was commenced in 1372,
by Jerome Gandy, one of the richest financiers of his
time, and was then simply calledGcmdy. It was here
that Henry 111. was assassinated by Jacques Clement, a
Dominicanisionk, on the lst of August. 1588. This
chateau was afterwards called St. Cloud, from the fol-
lowing histprical factst-rclovis. at his death, left four
sons, Thierry, Clodonsir, Childebert, and Clotaire, who
divided the kingdom. Clodomir, at his death, left three
sons, Theobald, Gunthane, -and Clodoalde, who were
brought up by, their grand; nother Cletilde, the wife of
Claim. The two former werebarbarously assassinated
in their infancy by their uncle Clotaire ; the Latter es-
taped the fury of this barbarian. but was afterwards
obliged to profess himself a-Monk, iwdSl. He after-
wards retired to a hermitage br monastery, founded by
him atislogent. a village two leagues from Paris. After
the death-of Clodeelde, whose name by corruption has
been changed to Clad, the memory of his piety and
social virtue procuted him canonization ; and a Church
was built: under the patronage of his name at Nogent,
and called St. Cloud ; since which the village of Nogent
has changed its same. Is 1656;Lealia VV-bought the
chateau de Goody of Hervard, etwaptroller-General of
Finance, for his brother
. the Mike of Orleans, since
which it has been erected into a Royal Palate, greatly
extended, and beautifully embellished. The immense
park was laid out by Le• Notre. This Palace and the
village in Which it Italia is. hciVi knower by the name of
-Saint Cloud.

Tuesday morning. about•three o'clock, a watchman,
named Johnston, on the tletwell-street Trust, observing
a hackney-coach draw'up-oppokite bit watch-box, from
which de.cended a man of suspicions demeanour. ac-
costed the coachman with—,4 WhatEgoing to the job
so early ?" To which the coachman replied, he was
ignorant of What he 'e.as-''wented fbr,' but -it for any
harm, he should. not dtiit. The watchman, not so
easily gulled, ken! Ms. eyes about- him, and presently
parceivesi a tnan:aiiiroach hinifrout the tetrtre of 'Well-
alley,- with abag /upon his shoulder, whu,'•finding be
war watched, doiabled into Goswellaueet, -by the way
Of Arthtir-lane, tind.was'making hem the coach with
the sack still on his • hack, when beinglnitsned, and
Ending he was gained upon, be dropped it and ran off.
It proved to be the body of an- oldswoman,,arhich was
taken to the watchlabuse.- when Mr. Waits, :the night
constable, cotratikneed an active •seal-ch among the
neighbouring burialtronnds and paiish 'books, bit
'without any clue.: he still-persisting,. at length gained
intelligence it came 'from- a house in"Pavton's-green.
Well-alley, Gosviell-street;whete on prod-ceding a parish
shell was found. The body was then conveyed to St.
luke's vrotkhniase for hastiest:of-to durleisaPpointmeilt
of the purchasers of it, to whom it appears it was sold,
by an abandoned daughter of the deceased,for. dissection.