HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. The Attorneys' and Solicitors' Bill passed through committee, on the motion of Lord COTTEICHAM, who presented a petition in favour of Debtors' and Creditors' Bill; the Marquis of L4II9DOWNE from the London Missionary Society. PLEA: OF INSANITY IN CRIMINAL

Beautiful is it when across the vivid fancy floats ft new creation, the germ of some noble work which may give its painter's name to immortality! The eager hand snatches the pencil, quickly striving to "catch, ere it flee, the Cynthia of the minute." Then comes forth Thought, wi

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Day Dreams. By CHARLES KNOX. 011ivier. HERE is much that is poetical and much that is true scattered through this volume. The poet is not, perhaps, a great one; but he is a poet, and offers another proof to the world that poetry is not yet quite dead amongst us. It is true that

We can scarcely imagine a more difficult position than that in which a jury is placed, before whom stands a man accused of deliberate murder, but of whose sanity there is a doubt. The mind revolts at the idea of claiming an expiation from an irresponsible being; while, at the sa

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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There is no royal road to Heaven. The mightiest monarch and the meanest serf must bow at the same footstool—must indulge the same penitential feeling—must pursue the same rugged path of moral integrity, or the desired haven is never attained. There are, however, certain decencie

......_,,,,_. Titian; a Romance Venice. By R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, LL.D. 3 vols., post Bvo. Bentley. RT for his subject, Venice for his scene, the opening of the Sixteenth century for the time, and "II Gran Tiziano" for his hero, it must be •!onfessed that Dr. Mackenzie has collect