these worn monuments of our ancestors, we cannot fail to reflect on the changes that have occurred since the structure first rose proudly above the subject lands around it. He who was as a sovereign lord within these proud walls, whose shrill clarion could evoke squire and vassa

We have received a spirited letter complaining of the liberties Mr. Bunn has taken with various operas produced by him at Covent-garden. Perhaps the writer's charges are all correct—but who ever said that Mr. Bunn was anything like an arbiter elegantiarum in operatic affairs? If

forms. The warder's horn, the prancing steed, the glittering mail, the sheen of spears, the shout of triumph, the yell of death, the noise of revelry, the groan of the captive all, all are present to the eye and ear ! What matters it that their walls are crumbling? We ascend the

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The Queen Dowager, attended by the Dowager Lady Clinton, visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual early walk in the royal gardens. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their accustomed airings in the grounds. Prince

The railroad between Heidelberg and Carlsruhe has been just opened, and a convention has been entered into between the Government of Baden and Ducal Hesse, for the continuation of the line from Heidelberg, by Darmstadt, to Frankfort. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The following, according t

Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, performed in His Majesty's ships Dorothea and Trent, under the command of Captain David Buchan, R.N., 1818. By Captain F. W. BEECIIEY, R.N., F.R.S., one of the Lieutenants of the Expedition. (Published by authority of the Lords Commiss

_ The" Art Union" is publishing a series of articles, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, entitled " Memories of Pictures." From one of these, devoted to a notice of Bird, the Painter, we subjoin the following account of the manner in which the people of Bristol, the city wherrein artist life w

Vict. cap. IX). and is so constituted as to afford the benefits of Life Assurance in their fullest extent to Policy-holders, and to present greater facilities and accommodation than are usually offered by other Companies. The decided superiority of its plan, and its claim to pub