DEATH OF THE SWEDISH POET TEGNER.-The celebrated Dr. Esias Tegner, Bishop of Wexio, in Sweden, died at the Episcopal Palace in the said city, on the 2d instant, aged sixty-four, having been born on the 13th of November, 1782. ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ENGLISH JOURNAL IN ROME. -An English newspaper has just been started in Rome. It is entitled the Roman Advertiser, and appears once a week. The editor is a Mr. Hemans, but the proprietors appear to be all Italians. REDEEMING THE TIME.-Coming hastily into a chamber, I had almost thrown down the crystal hour glass. Fear, lest I had, made me grieve as if I had broken it; but alas! how much precious time have I cast away without any regret! The hourglass was but crystal-each hour a pearl; that, but light to be broken-this, lost outright; that, casualty, this done wilfully. A better hour-glass might be bought, but time, lost once, is lost forever!-Thus we grieve more for toys than treasures. Lord, give me an hour-glass not to be by me but in me. Teach me to number my days. An hour-glass to turn me, That I may turn my heart to wisdom.-Fuller. ANGLING.-Plutarch tells a very amusing story of Marc Antony who was a keen angler. One day while Cleopatra and he were indulging in this sport, he was unusually unsuccessful. Hurt at this disappointment in the presence of his mistress, he gave secret orders to some of his fishermen, to dive under the water, and to fasten, unseen, to his hook, some some of the finest and largest fishes, still alive, and which they had lately taken in their nets. With nice execution, they obeyed his orders. Every time he drew up his line, he succeeded. Cleopatra, in rapturous language extolled his art, his address, and his fortune.-Acquainted, however, with the artifice he was using she had recourse to the ingenious countermine of desiring one of her own attendants to dive secretly, and attach to his hook a large dried Pontic fish. At last, when pulling up the line, at the sight of the heavy salted fish, the spectators expressed their surprise by a loud laugh. Antony did not relish the joke, and seemed highly displeased. The Queen observing him in this mood, immediately took him in her arms, and fondly exclaimed, “leave, dear general, angling, to us pretty princesses of Pharos and Canopus; your game is cities, kingdoms and provin ces." NEW WORK BY KOHL.-The indefatigable J. G. Kohl, whose various books of travel are so well known, has just published a work on the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. It must not be imagined that the political events now exciting general attention respecting these countries have had any influence in calling forth the present book. The author does not even allude to the subject. It treats fully of the country, its inhabitants, their mode of life, and their character. The manners and customs of the people, their amusements and various sports, both by sea and land, are related in a graphic manThe accounts of the illness which appear at certain ner; nor are their superstitions and sagen forgotten. seasons among plants as well as among men, are very interesting. THE POET FREILIGRATH.-The poet Freiligrath, has just published a volume of translations from the English poets, Mrs. Hemans, whom we have always found a great favorite in Germany, and whose portrait faces the title-page of this collection, has contributed no small number of poems. From the works of Miss Landon, Southey, Tennyson, Ebenezer Elliot, Barry Cornwall, Longfellow, and others, characteristic selections have been made; and the excellence of Freiligrath's earlier translations would be for us sufficient guarantee for the successful performance of what he has here undertaken, even had we not seen the work itself. Tennyson's Godiva pleases us particularly. It is rendered, as, indeed, all the pieces are, with perfect ease; there is a choice of expression throughout, and a flowing sweetness in the versification, which are very delightful. Thus it is when the true poet becomes translator. SCRAPS FROM PUNCH. A GREAT COMFORT.--A tremendous fog on the 3d rendered the Wellington Statue quite invisible. HORSE-RADISH FOR THE MILLION.-Among the enormous benefits of Free Trade, is a tremendous influx of horse-radish, which is arriving daily by ship-loads at the Custom House. Getting the horseradish is one step towards getting the roast beef to eat with it. This is like a friend of ours who has got a banker's book, and now wants nothing to make it complete but a large balance. A BROTHERLY DIFFERENCE.-A provincial paper says, 'There is a sensible difference between the letters of Mr. Grantley Rerkeley and his brother.' It is the only thing, then, in the difference between them, that is sensible. ARRIVAL IN THE METROPOLIS.-A block of granite from Scotland. It has joined a select circle in Trafalgar Square, previous to settling at the foot of the Nelson Column. USHERING IN A JOKE.-No less than one hundred and fifty-seven notices of persons wishing to be admitted as attorneys were posted on the first day of terms in the Court of Queen's Bench. A wagthe senior usher, we believe-wrote in pencil at the end of the notice, "Please to take care of your pockets." WELLINGTON AND FATHER MATHEW.-Wellington, the hero of blood, got more than two millions of the national money; and half the cities of the empire are decorated with pillars and statues raised to him whilst living.-Who could compare a Wellington and a Mathew? the victor of blood and the victor of peace! Who could place in the same class the leader who dried the orphan's tear and hushed the cry of widows, and him whose glory was erected on crushed and withering limbs-on thousands of stark, ghastly, mangled corpses-and whose praises were drowned in the shrieks of miserable mothers, wives and daughters? Who could contrast the man of blood with the man of peace? Why, then, let it be written now, to be remembered in after ages, that a Wellington received a hundred times more from his country than a Mathew-the one for slaughtering thousands of Frenchmen, the other for elevating A DIFFICULTY GOT OVER.-A day or two since, and purifying millions of his own people. How the Common Sergeant assured the Old Bailey Court posterity will scorn our boasted civilization !-Scot- that " Alderman Gibbs was as sensible a man as tish Temperance Review. any in London, although he was an Alderman.” A PRETTY IDEA.-A young lady, who is partial to silk stockings, declares that she is rejoiced at Professor Schonbein's discovery of gun cotton; as cotton will now be generally exploded. Ought he not to have some testimonial for remaining "sensible" under such trying difficulties? How many Aldermen sink under them! O'CONNELL'S Two BUCKETS.-A day or two since, at Conciliation Hall, Mr. O'Connell said, 'My heart is full for Ireland.' May not an agitator's heart and his pocket be sometimes like two buckets at a well; the one becoming 'full' as the other becomes empty? Sich a Gettin UP.-The Earl of Stair is to be made a Knight of the Thistle. We congratulate Stair on being about to take an additional step. RECENT ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS. Neophilus; Moral Reflections on Various Subjects. By Rev. Denis Kelly. Sir Robert Peel's Life and Times. By Prof. W. Correspondence of John, from the Duke of Bed- Popular Life of George Fox. By Josiah Marsh. Second Series of Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors--from the Revolution, 1688, to 1806. 2 vols. 8vo. Gatherings from Spain. By Richard Jud, Esq. Seventh, and last volume of Madame D'Arblay's Diary & Letters. 8vo. NEW INSURANCE OFFICE.-A new Insurance Office is to be started to protect ladies from the casualties of cotton. The rates will be low, having been drawn exceedingly fine, in order that the commonest article of female apparel may have the full benefit of Insurance. Gowns will be insured at so much a dozen; and ladies' workboxes will be charged according to the amount of danger they may conceal that is to say, according to the number of balls of cotton they may contain. The Anti-Explosive Cotton Insurance Office states in its prospectus, that it Lives of the Sacred Poets. By Rev. R. Willmott. is started expressly to prevent ladies being blown up The Psalms in Hebrew, with Critical Commenby their husbands. This appeal cannot fail to in-tary. By George Phillip, D. D. 2 vols. 8vo. sure its success; every married lady is sure to subscribe. PUNCH'S AMENDE HONORABLE.-Some weeks ago, Punch read a letter addressed to his Monaghan tenantry by John Evelyn Shirley, M.P. He commented on that letter, which purported to be an answer to applications for advice and assistance, but which really resolved itself into an exhortation to pay rent. He knew nothing of Mr. Shirley but his letter. His comments had reference to that only. On the face of it the letter justified the comments. He is assured, on good authority, that Mr. Shirley has no right to the place which Punch, judging him by his letter, assigned to him. Mr. Shirley is declared to be a good landlord, residing on his Irish property four months of every year-to have been supplying his tenants with Indian meal for the last twelvemonth, at a rate below market price, and-| not wanting for the aid of Government Acts-to have given his agent directions to set the poor on his estate to work. For several weeks every distressed tenant and cottier has been employed at a rate ranging from a shilling to sixteen pence a day. The Battle of Life, a Christmas Story. By Charles Dickens. Gardner's Travels in the Interior of Brazil. Military and Political events of Modern Italy. The Will; or, The Half-brothers-a Novel. 3 vols. A Third Volume of Blunt's Posthumous Ser mons. Personal Recollections of Berlin. By Major in Brandenburgh. By C. A. Weldenhahn. 2 vols. The Romance of the War; or the Highlanders in Characteristics of Men of Genius; a Series of reprinted Essays, from thy North American Review. Poems. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Punch regrets that Mr. Shirley's letter was not more carefully expressed, or that, being so loosely expressed, it was made public. Mr. Shirley acts like a good landlord, but writes like a bad one. Punch judged him by his writing, not knowing him by his acts. If he be what our informant describes MEMORIAL OF THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN FIELD.him, he does his duty. This is a virtue in Ireland, A few yards within the gate of Selkirk churchyard, and Punch recognizes it as such, in Mr. Shirley's and on the left of the carriage road to the church, case, with cordial pleasure. The rare discovery of there is a small stone that marks the spot where lies a good landlord in Ireland reconciles Punch to the interred Peter Fletcher, who died in 1645. He was still rarer discovery of a harsh judgment in him-grandson of Andrew Fletcher, the hero who carried self, REQUISITE RETURNS.-Among the railway bills that will submitted to parliament next session, it would be as well if there were all the surgeon's bills ani bills for manslaughter which have been occasioned by railway negligence. PITY THE POOR STATUE.-A blind man's dog has been considerately engaged by Sir Frederick Trench to lead the Wellington Statue about town the moment it loses its site. ABUNDANCE OF FOOD.-The Duke of Cambridge wonders, there is such a fuss made about the bad potatoes, when pine-apples may be bought so cheaply. off the English standard from the fatal field of Flodden. The flag, which is now a thing of shreds, is still in the possession of the incorporation of weavers, to which trade Fletcher belonged; and though on former days it was annually carried round the marches, it is now brought out only on very extraor dinary occasions.-Kelso Chronicle. |