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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS

THE PARENTS of the PUPILS are invited to
attend the usual HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATIONS,
which take place as follows :
From Tuesday, June Ist, to Saturday, June sth, Candidates
for the SPECIAL PRIZES Examired in the Board-room.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Mornings, June 9th, 10th,
and 11th, Examination of Candidates for the MASTER'S UNI-
VERSITY EXHIBITION. Examiner—The Rev. E. COPE,
M.N., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge.

Miinday and Tuesday (all day), June 7th and Sth, and Wed-
nesday and Thursday (Afternoo an oth, the Classes
of the MIDDLE SCHOOL mined.
Friday, Satur, ay, londay, June llth, 12th, and 14th,
UPPER SCHOO ASSES Examined in the Board-room;
LOWER SCHOOL CLASSES Examined in the Theatre.
Also, on Thursday Evening, June 10th, at Half-past Seven,
the HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATION of the PUPILS of the
VOCAL MUSIC CLASSES will take place in the Theatre,
under the direction of Mr. CROWE.

MR. JOHN GOODALL,
PROFESSOR OF DANCING, SCEPTRE, CLUB, AND THE
CALISTHENIC EXERCISES,
14, WILTON-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
ITAS the honour of announcing to the Nobility,
1.1 Gentry, and the Public of LIVERPOOLand BIRKENHEAD,
that he has commenced Teaching the above indispensable
Branches; in which accomplishments he has had great expe-
rience in London, having studicAjaamierthe-Cm.st Masters, and

a practice of sixteen years eels assured thit his system of
teaching Dancing and ' rcises will give satisfaction.

Mr. GOODALI:b to inform Gentlemen and Amateurs of
the VIOLIN a 'IOLONCELLO, who may wish to avail
themselves studying those instruments under him, or to
those who are far advanced and require Finishing Lessons
that he will he happy to give instructions, as is system is of
the most approved method. Mr. G. begs to state, that hi
studied the former Instrument under DE BERIOT and Mout
and that he is able to produce high testimonials of ability, ex
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In them bath he set a tabernacle for the sun ; which is as
idegroom coming out of his chamber."

The curtains of the east are drawn, and he
Who rules the day', and glorifies the earth,
A bridegroom comes, in beauty's fulness, forth;
The heavens rejoice, and joy is on the sea;
naste, Flora ! deck the bridal festival!
Open, thou waving grove! a solemn bower
For Hymen's rite; while the lark's plcans swell.
Oh, Nature ! thou art glad at thy heart's core,
And deep delight i, flashing from thine eye ;
Spring laughs at youth, and beauty human-born;
And summer—our magnificence to scorn:
-Truth claims thy smile; renew'd is thy first joy
We, while thy balm from many a bud is shed,
Mourn that our early flowers of hope lie dead
May 28th, 1847

SAML. HUGGINS

NOTICES.

Atlas to Alison's History of Europe. By Alexander
,Keith Johnson, F.R.G.S. Edinburgh and London :
W. Blackwood and Sons. Part 1., decoy Grno..

The first part of this very neat publication contains six
beautifully-finished maps, viz. :—Paris at the Outbreak
of the Revolution, 1789 ; Map of the Netherlands, to
illustrate the Campaigns of 1792 to 1795; Battle of Je-
mappes ; Battle of Neerwinden ; and Siege of Toulon.
As a companion to the historian, it will be invaluable and
aimost indispensable.

Brief Memoir of Joseph John Gurney, Esq. By John
.Alexander, Minister of Prince's-street Chapel, Norwich.
Norwich : Josiah Fletcher, Upper Haymarket ; Lon-

don : Charles Gilpin. Bvo., pp. 72.
This is the tenth thousand of a brief memoir of a gen-
tleman, whose philanthropic and Christian labours for the
benefit of his fellow-countrymen are well known, in con-
junction with those of his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, and
with Clarkson, Fowell Buxton, and others, for the aboli-
tion of negro slavery. It is a most interesting and in-
structive record of a life well spent.

History of the French Revolution. By J. Michelet.
Translated by C. Cocks, B.L. London : H. G. Bohn,

York-street, Covent

work, in an English dress, has just been published by
Mr. Bohn, and will doubtless take its place as a standard
work in our literature. Its style is marked with all the
quaintness and force of Mr. Michelet's other works, with
occasional obscurity and Germanism. Much research has
been evidently employed ; and many incidents of the
eventful times and scenes misrepresented by preceding
have been attempted to be truthfully brought
before the public.

historians

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rotes for Emigrants. By Abra-
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Ward, 6, Barge-yard, ilucklersbury. Bvo., pp. 388.
The author of this lucidly-written and instructive work
was employed for five years by the Government of New
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The opportunities of personal observation thus afforded
him, enabled him to make himself thoroughly acquainted
with the climate and the general resources of the country,
the manners and habits of its population. and the claims
which it possesses upon the notice of the British emigrant.
He has introduced also an early history of the province,
an account of the Indian tribes, and a large mass of topo-
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fisheries, &c., and some valuable remarks upon its con-
templated railways. The work is one of great value to
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annoyed by rising at so unusual an early hour. I soon
found my cunning Bostonian had gone quietly down the
street while the horses were being put to, and got himself
a cup of coffee and some cigars to fortify himself against
the miasma of the marshes. Not dreaming any house
would be open at so early a time of day, I proceeded, con-
trary to all rule, without any refreshment, the 25 miles of
marshy route. . _

These marshes are from six to twelve miles broad. If
we take the average at nine miles, there are 225 square
miles of this half-drained and halt-cultivated plat of land.
The Romans made over it the Via Appia, and attempted
to drain it. Many succeeding Roman Catholic pontiffs
have also tried, and Pius VI. and VII. cut many canals,
brought vast tracks into cultivation, constructed a new
covering to the antient Roman road, and the much
dreaded malific" marshes appeared in many places to be
rich meadow land, cattle grazing in herds here and there.
The people were certainly pale and sickly-looking; one
sturdy fellow was, however, heating a pool of transparent
water lustily, to bring up leeches to carry to market.
Altogether, the ride was an anexceedingly pleasant one,
malgre the incessant cigar-smoker, and a Neapolitan wife
and child constantly sucking at a wine-bottle. In about
three hours we arrived at Terracina. I could but draw a
comparison between our pleasant ride along this excellent
road and the old mode, when travellers were drawn
slowly by mules along the canal that intersected the stag-
nant lake and marsh. A good breakfast awaited us at
Terracina, to which I did ample justice. This is the bor-
der town, last of the Roman, first of the Neapolitan
states, The cathedral contains a sarcophagus inscribed to
Theodoric, first king of Italy. The baldacchino is sup-
ported by four Parian marble Corinthian columns, taken
from the temple of Apollo, the ruins of which, and the
temple of Jupiter Anxur, as also the port of Antoninus
Pius may be seen at Terracina. This town, so beautifully
situated, was called by the Volsci, Anxur, and by the
Greeks Trakina. I soon, in my perambulations, diico-
vered that the heights were crowned by some curious
arches, so determined to climb and inspect them. My
Yankee companion, however, tired halfway up, and re-
treated. I found 12 arches, 24 feet high by 12 broad, 61
paces in width, fronting the sea, which, with the town and
port, were at my feet. Wiping the perspiration from my
brow, I sat down among the masses of stones of the
arches, and pencilled this note :
"Dear C. R. Smith,* by permission.—From the heights
of Terracina I write this. The fires are not yet extinguished,
kindled here to greet the arrival of Pope Gregory XVI ;
the blue and boundless sea is before me ; in- the distance
the mount of Circe ; a lovely bay, like that figured of
Naples. The grand and simple work of the Romans re-

main even here, and where are t _
rings pealing up the mountain from yonder cathedral
which seems no larger than a dove-cot. I wish you were
here to enjoy the solitude and grandeur of the scene ;
but, alas ! I am alone ; my only travelling companion has
forsaken me. Addio, cara amico !"

ley not ?

We arrived at Lago di Fondi at 2 p.m. The antient
stones of the Via Appia were still the paving of the street
of this poor little town. It was plundered in 1534 by
Barbarossa, a painting of which adorns the Church of the
Annunciation. It is a beautiful coast, with the bays and
ports of Mola and Gteta. The ruins of Cicero's villa, and
a monument upon the spot where he was overtaken and
murdered, stands as a landmark for the traveller's notice.
We slept at a delightful inn at Mola, the antient Formix,
built by the Lacedemonians, containing now about 10,000
inhabitants. Up a mountainous ascent we passed through
the wild, savage, dirty town of Itri, amidst vast volcanic
remains. Then came we to another dirty town, called St.
Agata. The difference is marked, indeed, between the
Roman and Neapolitan states. Here, having passed from
the former, we soon discover the filth and vice of the lat-
ter. Pigs, with head-gear and harness, running about the
filthy streets like dogs ; girls, ten years of age, with no-
thing but one ragged chemise to hide their dirty naked-
ness with a dirtier covering; old beldams crackin

vermin

at their doors, and scratching themselves, by way of pas-
time, in the sun, make you walk quickly by them on tip-
toe. There is a curious tower here. the walls of an an-
cient theatre, and an octagonal altar fourfeet square ; And I
copied this inscription in this filthy town, which Dickens
designates, not inappropriately, a pig-stye! near the castle:

IMP C2ESARI

CAROLO V