MY DEAR SlR.—Paris, the city of luxury, of riches, and of prodigality, is also the city of misery and indigence. Yet, but for the luxury and profusion which prevails, there would be more misery and want than now exist. Therefore, the money expended upon the caprices of fashion c

ROCHESTER CASTLE. Rochester, from its having been a station situated at so important a passage over the Medway, m ight well be supp ose d t o have been fortified by the Romans. The probability of this is strengthened by the Roman bricks still visible in several parts of the wall

saddened by illness, and he felt with all the acuteness of a sensitive mind the civil rudeness of many who ought to have understood what they owed themselves and others. The damps of our English November Clung too closely around him; his manhood was in its strength, for he had J

designed and etched by Sonderland. First and second Part of Vol. IL now ready.— Vol. I. contains 20 illustrations. 4to. The BOOK of GERMAN BALLADS, NATIONAL AIRS, DRINKING SONGS, &c. Forming a companion volume to the" Lieder und Bilder," or the Songs of a Painter. ' illustrated

ARBON.—This element occurs in nature in a state of perfect purity under the form of diamond. . The diamond, as - well as every other species of carbon, is infusible; and, anacted upon by the highest temperature which . can be produced, provided atmospheric air be excluded, if it

EDINBURGH ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of this body was held on Thursday evening week, when letters were read from both of the city Members on the subject of the Corn-laws. The following resolution was afterwards agreed to unanimously :—" That this meeting deeply regret

" Oberon " drags tediously on, and to enliven the entertainment, the management have revived Bickerstaff's stupid old comedy of the "Hypocrite," which only Liston's Mazvorm and Georgethe Fourth's patronage ever rendered endurable. Surely the cobwebbed study of the -manager could

-SteI6APHIS noble baronial residence is situated in the parish of Bramptom, Eskdale ward, in the county of Cumberland. It was anciently the head of the barony of Oils-4,irte; -j:> land, the lords of which were much famed in Border history. The castle stands in a fine and extensi

BILDER UND RANDZEICHNUNGEN, a Selection of German Poems, by the most popular Authors, with Illustrations designed and etched by Sonderland. First and second Part of Vol. 11. now ready.— Vol. I. contains 20 illustrations. 4to. The BOOK of GERMAN BALLADS, NATIONAL AIRS, DRINKING S