Dull humdrum murmurs lull, but hubbub stuns. Lucullus snuffs no musk, mundungus shuns. Puss purrs, buds burst, bucks butt, luck turns up trumps; But full cups, hurtful, spur up unjust thumps. * * * * * A young English lady, on observing a gentleman’s lane newly planted with lilacs, made this neat impromptu:— Let lovely lilacs line Lee’s lonely lane. ALPHABETICAL ALLITERATION. THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE. An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly, by battery, besieged Belgrade; Cossack commanders cannonading come— Dealing destruction’s devastating doom; Every endeavor, engineers essay, For fame, for fortune—fighting furious fray:— Generals ’gainst generals grapple—gracious God! How honors Heaven, heroic hardihood! Infuriate,—indiscriminate in ill, Kindred kill kinsmen,—kinsmen kindred kill! Labor low levels loftiest longest lines— Men march ’mid mounds, ’mid moles, ’mid murderous mines: Now noisy, noxious, noticed nought Of outward obstacles opposing ought: Poor patriots, partly purchased, partly pressed: Quite quaking, quickly quarter, quarter quest, Reason returns, religious right redounds, Suwarrow stops such sanguinary sounds. Truce to thee, Turkey—triumph to thy train! Unjust, unwise, unmerciful Ukraine! Vanish vain victory, vanish victory vain! Why wish ye warfare? Wherefore welcome were Xerxes, Ximenes, Xanthus, Xaviere? Yield! ye youths! ye yeomen, yield your yell! Zeno’s, Zapater’s, Zoroaster’s zeal, And all attracting—arms against acts appeal. THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT CELEBRATION.