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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

s of peace, Hop,

mourner sit

to chase from anxiety's brow
one heart

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wound of the troubled mind

blest are thy children—thy hearth
,bove it not kindled of earth ;

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to lead—

s, this is Religion, RNig

SAMUEL HUGGINS

rtswick.road, 1846

NOTICES

'bole and expeditious metiz9d of instruction in reading
and writing. By Baron de Sepres. Popular Record-
office, Strand, London.
The mode of teaching recommended in this little work
eserves eminently the attention of mothers and precep-
)rs. Its principle is, that the learner should be taught
-cm something—a prayer or a fable—which he already
novas, which should be gone over to familiarize him with
words and syllqii!es by which it is represented. The
both upon children and adults w;ch

er has seer

3aron de Sepres Solution of French Participles.
London : liatchard and San.
Ve regard this as one of the most useful educational
rks which have lately issued from the press, as affording
lear and concise rule for determining one of the greatest
acuities which presents itself to the learner of the
each language. The examples given of its application
conclusive as to the correctness of the writer's sok-
ti of what has always hitherto been regarded as an all
t Insurmountable problem.

rAftIETIES

RC Fl OF

LUXURY.—(Scene, a potbouse.)—Cus
Potboy: Now then, what is it?
nop my arf-an•arf in the Hine a minnit,

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Customer: Jus
that's a good lad.
As ILL-USED BACHELOR.—A bachelor is published
in the papers of Porkpolis for having refused to pay hie
washerwoman's bill. He publishes a card stating that he
refused to pay because she washed all the white out of his
shirts.—Yankee paper.
A SURGICAL COBBLER.—A cobbler of Widmerpool
bas lately put a paper over his door bearing the following
inscription : " Surgery performed here upon old boots and
shoes, by adding to the feet, making good the legs, bind-

g the broken,Thealing the woundea, mending the con-
lution, and supporting the body with new soles.—Not-

'ham Journal.

DEDICATION. —The Hindoo, Mohan Lal, Esq.,

knight of the Persian order of the Sun and Moon, has
recently written a book, which he dedicates to her Majesty
and Prince Albert. He prays—" that as long as the
oceans are filled with water, and the heavens decorated
with the sun and moon, the gracious shadow of your Ma-
jeaty and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert may never
be diminished from the heads of your British and Indian
subjects."

SPANISH MONASTIC DOINGS IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY.—If, in the year 1835, St. Bernard could have
accompanied us on our visit to the monastery of Bernela
in the Moncayo, surely he would have been indignant,
and would have chastised the monks ; surely he himself
would have solicited the extinction of his order. Out of
thirty monks, very few confessed, and only two or three
knew how to preach ; every one breakfasted and said mass
lust when be thought proper; by nine in the morning they
might be seen wandering about the neighbouring country
aad ga:dens, or shooting small birds near the gates of the
Izsona!tery ; at eleven, they assembled in a cell to play
monte with visitors from the neighbouring towns and vil-
lages, winning and losing thousands of reals. During
dinner, instead of having some grave and proper book
read aloud to them, one of their number relating obscene
stories for the amusement of his companions ; at dessert
the finest wines were served, the monks played upon the
piano, and sang indecent songs. The siesta passed away
the afternoon, until, towards evening, these self-denying
anchorites roused themselves from their slumbers, and re-
named their favourite amusement of birding and tale-
telling. At nightfall the green cloth was again spread,
and the cards were in full activity ; sometimes six or eight
of the monks got upon their mules, and rode a distance of
two or three leagues to a ball, dressed in the height of the
fashion. The writer of these pages once asked the prior
to let him see the paintings executed by the brotherhood ;
he was conducted to the apartments of the abbot, and in
the most secluded of them was shown a wretched daub, of
which the subject was shamefully coarse and disgusting.
* * Many of the women of the neighbouring village
A Vera went by the names of the monks ; and so great
became the scandal, that, on one occasion, when the na-
tional guards were sent upon an expedition, the alcalde
"issued an order prohibiting their wives to walk in the di-
rection of the monastery. One woman, who disobeyed the
injunction, was made to pay a fine, and narrowly escaped
having her head shaved in the public market-place.—
Cabello's History of the War GI Arragon and Valentia.
A PROTEST AGAINST THE USE OF STUCCO ORNA-
MENTS.—In our choice of materials for our common
buildings, it appears that we are always struggling with a
deficiency of pecuniary means: for we never yet met an
architect whose skill was not thwarted, in this respect, by
be necessities of his employer. Such a man would have
uilt a splendid palace, only he was not allowed to use
one ; another would have made a magnificent hall, had
een able to employ oak instead of deal. Whenever
le are so situated that they are restricted in the choice
they should remember that they are im me-
Ah in construction and in decorative
limited, it becomes an absu

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