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ten to ti
chainbet

dressed figure'of wax

whispering crowd pn

gorgeous

What a change did I beh(
exhibition of mortality !

" What

higher grades of satiety, that of placing the cteau
in a coach, with his relatives or perhaps the Priest-con-
fessor and the doctor, the dead man dressed and sitting
in a 'reclining position between the two living ones. I
saw a Spanish Grandee thus after death, coached off from
his mansion to the church; but the most affecting thing
of this kind I saw at Rome was the funeral of a beautiful
young creature, who caught her death by getting very wet
at the Carnival. There were several hundred persons
in the procession, monks and friars of different orders,
Carthusians, Domicians, Franciscans, all chaunting the
Miserere portions of the 51st Psalm in solemn voice and
• • • - of the Church I

PLEASANT HISTORICAL MORCEAU.—Dr. Parry was
hanged for the attempted murder of Queen Elizabeth;
and when he was apprehended, his absolution for the in-
tended assassination, from Pope Gregory XIII., was
found in his pocket.
manner,--next came banners, insignia, &c., A ROUGH METHOD OF VENTILATION.—Dr. Gregory,
she belonged to, matrons and maidens veiled and in solemn I of Edinburgh, in visiting the poor, used often to begin his
silence. bearinr wax tapers. Then carried on the bier the prescription by breaking a pane or two of.the window with
. - .

.ued in pure virgin his walking-stick, wmcn ne mace gooa again at ME ena
,arrounding her pallid of the illness.
6iossy, raven ringlets, falling around her ENLIGHTENING THE DARKNESS.—" What are the can-
shoulders and upon her bosom, her white gloved hands dles on the altar for ?" said a little boy to his companion,
clasped and held together by a wreath of floifiers, her feet as they came out of a Tractarian church, "To show the
• • —a .Iqo wreathed darkness which exists in the pulpit," was the appropriate

ill lovely form of cl
eath of white rose:

brow, her long,

together. —ure was borne reply.
like a bride to the all-destroy._ ...Arch—Death. Last TEE WISDOM OF OUR ANCESTORS.— In respect to
week she was all gaiety, cheerfulness, and animation at Eton, I would mention that the College is provided with
the joyous festa of the Carnival, and now going to dark sewers, constructed at the time of the foundations being
. . . whn laid them nut. 400 ream

SLOCKinp au
Onward

y this lovely ere

ourning tapers, solemn iormeu ; ttuu „_,
splendour in death, and ago, provided reservoirs and sluices for the purposes of
_.ever shall I forget that cold, flushing them with, water; and those sewers have been
and the dark-fringed, for-ever- kept free from deposit by periodical flushing ever since.—
eyelids, they pass vividly still before my view. Mr. Roe's Evidence.
-liar; but the costume of ft TURNIP BREAD.—To every 41bs of flour add Sibs of
'`vi composed of black turnip, cleaned and ready for boiling. Boil them quite
,nd suited to the soft, then squeeze them through a cloth so as to take as
"cry much-of the water from them as possible (because it is the

e grave
like fac

pompous to
,t
whit(
close_, ,
The matron's funeral is
1 ady I saw borne along the
velvet, and altogether it was mo.

1. One thing detract

and then rub them up with flour, putting the harm after-
wards as you would with common household bread, bear-
.

which they holdup

mourners, catching with great dexteritS, the drops of fall-
ther they make a little harvest,

lug wax, and in w

poor wretches, by this 1

bearer frequently
dle into the paper
re walking, stooping, or

the taper-,

and as these boys

ludicrous appearance, and it is only one of the many
kindly acts you constantly see in Italy shewn to the poor,
and which greater equality in public between them and
+LA rich. the titled, and the great, appears strangely dif-

ferent to the proud, aristocratic, aty distance
kept up in England, where it is too frequently forgotten
that " God hath made of one blood all the nations of the

and haugl

earth," and that our entrance into and demi
life is the same with all the famil-
The pyramid of CaMs Cestius
stand-

the human kind.
gate of St. Paul,

very impos:

when compa
feet broad at
ht. It,is shat

You cv

1. The paintings
we pass_it impa:

A which one

adorned

Strangers'

tiently that you n

once lovely Miss Bathurst, who was drowned in
" the turbid Tiber's yellow stream "—in the sight of her
uarty too—by her horse slipping doWn the bank of slimy
- The horse was saved, but the young, the beautiful,
. What was rather
midshipman, was drowned
r, while bathing near Ostia.
3t, whose portrait is in the
at Florence, also is buried

for ever

brother, a y

scholars, and illustri-
but did not dream to

llert
/Ins of poor John heats

the heart of Shelley, and the last

die, at I

a crowd of busy