Of that which lewdly-pamper'd luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispens'd In unsuperfluous, even proportion, And she no whit encumber'd with her store." We are decidedly not of those who consider that as all are equal in after

THE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY TIMES. TIIE CASTLES OF ENGLAND.-NO. beside those who fell in action, more than sixty of the marauders were hanged at Naworth and elsewhere. His lordship was a man of a stern and gloomy character, and the severity with which he executed his office caused his

ever seen in England. It is true, the figure of the monarch, now in his forty-first year, had no longer the elasticity of the prince, who, by mastering his natural infirmities, and bylthe dint of study, had gained a superiority, even in those days. in every variety of active amu

MANSION HOUSE. A SOVEREIGN REMEDY.—A girl named Sarah Evans was charged-under very odd circumstances. A policeman stated that he saw the defendant, of whom he had some slight knowledge, walking along the street crying bitterly. She had a small packet in her hand, and upon being

This wonderful testimony to the inventive powers and vast - chanical skill that characterise the nineteenth century has, at last, appeared to satisfy the incredulous and the curious that the project, absurd as it first seemed, was not at least a mere chimera existing alone in th

be somewhat surprised to learn that this is, in truth, no visionary scheme, " but a design of very scientific conception, carefully and perseveringly wrought out. It would, perhaps, be too much to affirm ( what yet we cannot deny) that the machine in its present state will certa

benevolent institution assembled on Wednesday, in large numbers, to celebrate the twenty-second anniversary of its foundation. The dinner was given at the London Tavern in Bishopsgate-street, and the hon. Sidney Herbert was in the chair. By the report it appeared that her Majest

Nothing is more difficult than a commencement, save indeed a conclusion. Few know how to enter the world with grace, and fewer still, how to go out of it with propriety. We hope to be an exception to the first ignorance, and to have no occasion for the study of the last necessit

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