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tion's art would hide the stealing tear,
4- of hope disown its writhing pain ;

But THOU behold!sttt

deep despair, ,
wild, impassioned prayer

leir homes are desolate ! Some face
loved hath vanished from the social hearth,—
t charmed it with familiar grace,—
)me tones that gladdened it with music-mirth;
O Lord of mivht pity their helpless pain,
inderers safely to their arms again !

Some.for

in thy hand ; in perfect rest
keep him whose mind is stayed on thee
Calm thou the conflict in each tortured breast ;
Their hope, their trust, their consolation be.

Shed thy de
Be wi

peace upon (
i them, God of love

h care-worn brow

strengthen, sustain them now
F. A.

LITERARY

NOTICES.

Fraser's 4lagazine for May,

Regina is more than usually interesting and diversified
this month. There is much to attract the politicians, the
literati, and the general readers. The first article is a pep-
pery description of the questions which now agitate the
Church of Scotland from " Maidenkirk to John O'Groat's";
and though the writer has dipped his pen rather deep in gall,
he evidently understands the subject, and is acquainted with

a few of whos,

aracters he-pourtrays with considerable humour and skill,
t we cannot add with equal impartiality. The " Tracts

)1. the Times

come in for a share of attention, and, as is
leading periodicals of the day,
It is well said at the close

i well-merited censure,

the members of the church must not
because the Tracts are discontinued,
thief is remedied, or that the mistaken
advocated in those publications will no longer be pro-
1. " The Literary Labours of Daniel O'Connell,"
impudence and falsehood of which are their original,

or believe that the r

peculiar, and distinctive claims, receive such a notice as may

riter in Fraser's Magazine. Every
tide, which will be found enumerated in the adver-
tent, ought to be read by all Englishmen.

xpected from a

Cruikshank's Omnibus. No. 1. London : Tilt and Bogue,
Strand ; Webb, Liverpool.

er a tired traveller welcomed a conveyance upon a
oad, we hail this Omnibus of George Cruikshank's
aeartfelt gratification ; and if ever we sincerely wished
ndertaking to " run along the road" successfully, it is
It is a novelty altogether, and decidedly the cheapest
macadamised and well-beaten highway of literature,
las being amongst the best. In the first place we
a wittily written preface ; next we meet with a plate,
that contains—everything upon the globe and under the sun
Thi

on the

one of the most exquisitely worked and ingeniously
contrived, as well as amusing, things we ever met with. It
slf an hour to examine, and, when well looked at,
upy another, which will be expended in admiration
of the talent of the man who could contrive it. Next we
have a likeness of the artist himself—an inimitable sketch :
it beats all photogenic likenesses hollow " by notches."
Next comes the leading article, entitled " My Portrait."
The intention of

will take

is to cut up the description given of
hank in some pen-and-ink sketch which appeared

Mr. Cru

ilarliantriti.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--THURSDAY

The metropolis improvement bill was read a third time,

and passed

The Earl of RosEpERY laid on the table a bill for altering
and amending the present law regarding Scotch entails
bill was read a first time

merchants and others of Bombay, praying for better protec-
tion to them in their trade to China. Owing to such want
of protection and of interference, there had taken place a de-
crease in the amount of exports, during a certain period, of
no smaller a sum than £12,000,000 sterling, and in the im-

ports of £1,294,000.
Lord ASHBURTON supported the petition.
Viscount MELBOURNE said there was no information be-
fore ministers at present touching the statement contained
in the petition, except what was to be found in certain preli-
minary papers lately communicated to the government, and
ministers could not legislate upon such information as those
papers contained.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said the petitioners had not
made an exaggerated statement of their case, especially as it
referred to recent operations at Canton.
Earl STANHOPE expressed a similar statement.
The Earl of GLENGALL gave notice that he would call the
attention of the house, on Monday next, to a recent case of
falsification of returns made by an officer of the government
to their lordships' house.
The Marquis of NORMANBY said that Mr. Stanley, the
individual no doubt alluded to, had resigned his situation in
connection with the Irish poor-law commission. He believed
that his character was altogether unimpeached.
The Earl of HADDINGTOIsT inquired if the intention to ap-
point the Rev. Mr. Candlish to the Chair of Biblical Criti.
cism in the University of Edinburgh were entirely aban-
doned ?

The Marquis of NORMANBY•said it was not his intention
to pursue the same views he had heretofore entertained re-
specting Mr. Candlish's appointment.
Earl FITZWILLIAM, in presenting some petitions against
the corn-laws, took the opportunity of stating his opinion,
that if parliament wished to keep up the revenue, they would
find themselves under the necessity, if they were also re-
solyed to keep up the corn-laws, to levy new taxes, not upon
those who were engaged in acquiring property, but upon those
who had already acquired it : they must, in fact, resort to a
property tax.
Earl STANHOPE said that the revenue must necessarily,
fall, if government every year continued reducing and re-
pealing taxes.
Lord AsnnurcroN denied that the revenue could be con-
sidered as a falling revenue. The reduction of the postage
charges had certainly caused a serious fall in the revenue,
but the resources of the country were as flourishing as ever.
Earl STANHOPE having presented a vast number of peti-
tions against the new poor-law bill, gave notice, that if the
bill now in the other house of parliament should be brought
up to their lordships, having for its object to continue the
inordinate powers of the poor-law commissioners, he would
move that it be read.a second time on that day six months.
Adjourned.