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Her mons
Her pomp

sinecures is stuffed,
down and mitre coifed;
: little to her toes,

Crane like. she look:
The curates, though

them her reverence goes

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hers 'neath her winos;

of Rowe devoutly sings,
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;y things which speak,
honk! seek :

Puseyites the pay of
Strange ! that their
To those

nother gii es bed and board
) 'gainst her whet their traitor sword!"

The Baptist, toe, has a rude hit administered in Stanza
XVI. :

A fowl domestic waddles o'er the ground,
Which ne',r is right, till half in water drowned;
Not f the genus goose, and yrt allied,
A strange embodiment of humble pride;
If as a duckling wetted, 't will not do,
The full grown duck must get .i ducking too ;
As if the sien of grace forbidden were
To babes, who grace confessedly may share I"
Some other passages, in which the writer describes the
state of things to arise when the union of Christians is
effected, are written in a much better spirit and are in
good taste. The following is one of those to which we

refer :

" But let thy medi'ative eye alight,
And one so'e spot arrest thy stelfast sight;
Lownn ! Britannia's glory ann disgrace,
Shouldst thou be crowned the Capital of grace,
Thy teeming streets, thy squares of dusty green,
(Each in itself a town and rural scene,)
Thy monuments of vast masonic art,
Thy river highway, and thy monied mart,
Thy giant bridges. that their isthmus stretch,
An., fleets that of the world the commerce fetch,
Might all remain : But Mai , mysterious Man—
Bounnless as space, yet bounded as a span—
A seed the sport of every wind that blows,
And yet the tree immortally that grows;
Plaything of Time, experimental gem—
Or spurned as dross, or set in egad, sri—
Ah ! what the change that would transfigure Thee,
Wert thou with Scripture's second sight to see!
No more would counters, spread with rich and rare,
Furnish of Va ity the gaudy lair;
No more would Luxury's ignoble skill
Larders and cellars with its dainties fill,
Nor helpless Art (like st earns that cannot rise
Above the source in which their birth-place lies)
Chisel her marble, or her colours m.x,
And vainly strive the Beautiful to fix ;
Nor Intellect her God-like powers employ,
To frame a law-suit, or to mend a toy ;
Nor Poesy her magic lantern trim.
To paint a butterfly, or sketch a whim ;
Nor Music of the heart each fibre thrill,
With fancies—fairy harbingers of ill;
Nor Eloquence, with wild .ZEodan note,
Grandiloquent o'er straws and air-bells float ;
Nor trifling Legislation condescend
To vote a nuisance, or a highway mend.
Oh no I Were Christ king or all hearts, each rule
Supreme would issue from his rightful school,
And Parliaments and Judges only meet,
To seat them at His equitable feet;
And 110011 S now spent in barter's lawful game,
And nights which wallow in lascivious shame,
Serene as heaven. woulii pass in praise and prayer,
tlatinn hush the hallowed air,
to Jehovah's coon lead on,
ion give the duteous tone;
knd g-,rgeous pageantry, all out of date,
Or cease, or on the King of Glory wait3l •
And nobles humble as the poor redeemed,
The poor, aristocrats of grace esteemed.
Would with one heart the Lamb enthroned proclaim,
(Their o I strife who best show a bless his name;
Ah London I then no Babylon wert Thou
But nuptial New Jerusalem b low
Thy husband, Nature':
Obeyed with zeal. will

And Conte'
And Fashic
And to Dew

Revelation's Lord,
:cstAsy adored !"

With a few exc ptions the style is easy and flowing,
and suited to tiie subje

t treated

VARIETIES.

A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—The only persons ob- ing proficiency. The Latin tongue became the sole ob-
jected to for the borough of Bewdley, as not entitled to ject of her thoughts and the one great occupation of her
have their names retained in the list of voters for the life. Her favourite amusement was to turn into Latin
western division of the county of Worcester, are Benja- whatever she thought and heard. The boys of the class,
min Halfpenny, of Mamble. and William Penny, of at her request, looked out the words she wanted in the
Hawthorn Bush, Bewdley. • dictionary, and the schoolmaster was ever ready to ex-

PHYSICAL FORCE.—A. poor Welsh miner, who had plain and elucidate such difficulties as occurred to her,
been induced to join a riot, when under examination be- and thus, by a repetition of these exercises, and the con-
fore the magistrates at Newport, repeatedly exclaimed as centration of vigorous intellectual powers. not disturbed
follows 1 spur never for vissikful force." Being in their labour by the sense most easily wtracted by ex-
asked to explain himself, he replied—" Why, zur, I never ternal impressions, the Latin language ended by becoming
the habitual medium of the blind girl's reasoning—the
readiest vehicle for the expression of her thoughts. Thus,
as she herself says, she thinks in Latin, " et quod tents-
bat dicere (to adopt her own expression) Latinum crat."
On two occasions the writer has been witness to the
uncommon proficiency of this young person in this her
favourite study. A traveller having asked her if she
knew where Cadiz was, she replied, " Credo super His-
palern ;" and upon the questioner expressing a doubt of
the correctness of the preposition super, as applied in the
sense beyond, she answered without hesitation, " Recte
dixi, nam Virgilius foster, super Aeramantas." On an-
other occasion, speaking of a diligence, she explained
with the greatest ease the synonymes, quad riga,. vehicu-
lum, and curriculum.
Once the human mind is opened to ideas beyond the
common routine of life, it seldom happens that it is con-
fined within a narrow circle, find that a noble ambition is
not awakened to enlarge the sphere of acquired know-
ledge. I have heard the blind girl exclaim with the ac-
cent of real passion, " 0 libri ! libri! quis dabit mihi
libros ?" Her poverty and the well-known de firth of the
means of instruction in the interior of Spain deprive her
of all those resources which might contribute to her no-
ble aspirations. However, not long ago accident threw
in her way a few historical works, and she has devoted
herself with enthusiasm to this new branch of study. A
boy of the town reads aloud to her, and thus she learns.
She is in the habit of sharing with those who do her this
important service the alms she collects from travellers.

wur vor pysonin urn !

NATURAL ALAttliM.—To those who wish to rise early
during the summer months, the following plan is worth
their attention :—Go into your garden in the dusk of the
evening, and pick a flower in which a dumbledore has
taken up its night's lodging, place it near your chamber
window previous to going to bed. Soon after sunrise,
the insect will commence a very loud tune on its trumpet,
at the same time beating its wings against the glass in
endeavouring to escape. This will soon awake you ; when
you get out of bed, open the window, let your living
alarucn fly, and proceed to apparel yourself.
HOME AND FOREU•N MARKETS.—IR England 27 per
cent. duty was called monopoly; but the same persons
who raised this cry her., called a 30 per cent. duty in
America " Free Trade." There the manufactures of
Coventry, Nuneaton, and Birmingham, had to pay one-
third of their value to Uncle Sam and Brother Jonathan
in the shape of taxes; and he wanted to know why the
produce of the waves and prairies of Uncle Sam and
Brother Jonathan should not pay a share of our taxes
here ? He wa no advoc-ne of prohibition, but he wished
to make the foreigners who sent their produce here pay if
portion of the taxes. Sir Robert Peel wished the people
of this country to receive the pro.luce of other nations free
of duty, that they might have them at a low cost, yet he
had no objection to levy high taxes upon the produce of
this country,—on malt, on spiritA, on salt, and on the
light of heaven. But Sir Robert Peel's sympathies lay
not in the direction of this country but in that of foreign
ones. It had been proved in the case of timber and sugar,
that a remission of duty caused the price to rise abroad,
and the foreigner got the benefit. When the duties were
remitted here on leather, on salt, and glass, the parties
concerned in the produce and manufacture of ttose articles
shared in the bent fit which did not all go to the consu-
mer; but thy were our countrymen, and he did not ob-
ject to their sharing in the gains. He thought the proper

FORGIVENESS.—When misunderstanding and con-
strained intercourse arise between friends, or between
members of a family, they seldom pass without a crisis,
and an explanation; but these are dangerous moments of
revolution, and for once that they wrench out the wound-
ing thorn, it happens thrice that they press it in the
deeper. Ah, why do we find it so difficult freely to for-
give, freely to forget ? We nourish our wrong ; we medi-
tate upon it. we desire to have some right, some recom-
pense, and thus warm the serpent's egg in our bosoms.
Blessed are the peace makers ! Blessed are the good, who
forget, who forgive, even without thinking. " I forgive !"
—Mary Howitt.
CATs.—There are four distinct races of cats; namely,
the tabby, which includes the black cats, and which is
nearest allied to the wild kinds ; the tortoise-shell cat
which came originally from Spain, and the males of which
are buff, with stripes of a darker hue; the white and light
coloured cats, which have reddish eyes end a greyish tint

mode of remitting taxes was to remit those which Pressed

upon our people and not these which pressed upon fo-
reigners, that our countrymen and not foreigners might
receive the benefit.—Lord George Bentinck's Speech.
SKETCH OF JOHN CUNNINGHAM, THE POET.—John
Cunningham was born in Dublin, some lime in the year
1729, and was the eldest of r,even children. Nursed and
bred in the lap of poverty, hi= father became suddenly af-
fluent by a prize in the English Intl ery of £l2OO. On this
he set up as a wine-merchant, spent the whole of the sum.
and figured in a short time among the list of bankrupts.

ere first rudiments Of education he
mar-school of Drogheda, and had

and the Angora cats, which are quite distinct from all
others, and are known by their long fur. The tailless cats
of Cornwall and the Isle of Man belong to the Chartreuse
breed, and they are the ugliest of their kind, as the Angora

ceived

rued to r

little French,

to his own home, h

irn, as it has dri-

cold, wW6) generally gets well without any particular care
being taken of it; but when they have any serious disease
it generally proves fatal.—Mrs. Loudon. . .

f authorship, and,

at the Dublin Theatre a two-

from which Garrick is sail to have borrowed the plot of
" The Lying Vah-t." " The Los of Spirit" was favour-
ably received. bad a run of several nights, and procured
its author, if riot somethir, more substantial, at least the
freedom of the theatre. Here he became acquainted with

" stateliest city" in the New World. Its plan was laid,
and the principal portion of its public buildings are said
to have been designed by Cortes. They bear all the im-
press of a superb mind. The habitual meanness of de-
mocratical building has no place there; the majority of
the fabrics were evidently constructed by a man to whom

actors and with

anti i,i,a
k his tp,rn

rt the imitative

—a step which Ritson

says he repented t.f, and joining the company of an itine-
rant manager, crossed into England, and added the cha-
racter of the strolling player to that of the poor poet. This
sort of unsettled lite he must have led for some twenty
years prior to the oublication of his poems. What vicis-
situdes of fortune he p-ssed through in this long career of
strolling, who shall say ? Now in mirth, now in sorrow,
now in plenitude, now in .poverty ; the companion of the

the royal architecture of the European nations was familiar
and the finest houses in the city are still inhabited by the
descendants of the conqueror. The principal square is
the pride of the Mexicans, and the admiration of travel-
lers. It has an area of twelve acres; unluckily, this fine
space, which in England would be covered with verdant
turf, shrubs, and flowers, is covered with pavement. But
the buildings are on a noble scale. The Cathedral fills

bandit d in body and in mind.
is has preserved will shew the
at tiMrs reduced. Burns had it
r, who knew Cunningham well,
" A fat dignitary of the church,"
4 II lta•
emning past Cunningham one Sunday, as

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sites of both are memorable and historical;, the Cathedral
standing on the ground where once stood the great idol
temple, and the Palace on the ground of the palace of
Montezuma! The latter building is 500 feet long, and
contains the public offices, besides the apartments of the
President. The Cathedral is of strikino. Gothic architec-
ture, and after all the pressures and plunderings of the
later period, still retains immense wealth. The high altar
is covered with plates of silver, interspersed with orna-
ments of massive gold. This altar is enclosed with a
balustrade one hundred feet long not less precious than
the high altar itself. It is composed of an amalgam of
gold, silver, and copper, richly flourished and figured. It
is said that an offer has ben made to purchase it at its
weight in silver, giving half a million of dollars besides.
Of this balustrade there are not less than 300 feet. Sta-
tues, vases, and huge candlesticks of the precious metals,
meet the eye every where ; and yet it is said that the still

A story which

phew

Sr. Woods, a r

rod in some stream near
everence reprimandrd him severely for such
,„ curb a day. The poor poet, with that

busy p
n. his r

its fist:

es.; of r which was his peculiar
characteristic, replied, that he hoped God and his rever-
ence would forgive his seeming praanation of that sacred
day, as he had no dinner to eat but what lay at the bottom
of that pool." His engag-rnenis never led him as far as
London, but he was a tav,,urire in the north, and, it is be-
lieved, deservedly so. At Edinburgh, however, he fre-
quently acted ; and here he beea-ne acquainted with Robert
r ergus4on, " the writer chid," and lively poet, at whose

ningham waamodest,atid his fii,nds, happily too judi-
cious, did not buoy him up with fal-e bladders of impro-
per praise. Ritson. the antiquary. who knew him well,
ates that he was unequalled as a Frenchman, and good
I re ,em er him." adds Ritson,

popular eye. The streets are wide, and cross each other
at right angles, dividing the whole city into squares. But
the Romish habit of giving the most sacred names to com-
mon things, is acted on in Mexico with most offensive
familiarity. The names of the streets are instances of this
profanation, which has existed wherever monas have been
the masters. Thus, the Mexican will tell you that be
lives in "Jesus," or in the "Holy Ghost." In the Spanish
navy the most sacred names were similarly profaned; and
the Santissima Trinidad.' (the Most Holy Tr,nity) was a
flag•ship in the fleet destroyed at Trafalgar. What blas-
phemies and brutalities must not have been mingled with
this sacred name in the mouths of a crew !

other character

;:excellent in Orator Grw-l." Sunderland, Dur.:
ham, Stockton, Whitby, sc„hurough
.Newcastle, and oc-
casionally, Nnrtbampton, were the fields of his exertions.
At these places his talent for prol.,gues and epilogues was
frequently called upon, and at intervals, too, he set forth
certain small pieces in print, such as an " Elegy on a Pile
of Ruins" (rather too muck► an echo of Gray), and the
Stanzas on the Death of George 11."—Fraser's May.