Gentleness is better than violent anger.. Compromising is better than going to law. A small house and a plentiful store Are better than a large house and little food. 2. #Iomad gloir ag neaċ# #to ḃeir sin neiṁċion ara ċeill# #deineann duine le hiomad gloir# #Spaidean don ċoir fein# Too much talkativeness in a man Brings his good sense into disrepute; Because a man by a superfluity of words Only detracts from the force of truth. 3. #ni troimede an loċ an eala# #ni troimede an t'eaċ a srian# #ni troimede an ċaora a holann# #'sni troimede an ċolann ciall# The lake is not incumbered by the swan, The steed is not incumbered by its bridle, The sheep is not incumbered by its wool, Nor is the body incumbered by good sense. 4. #milis glor gaċ fir# #ag a mbiḋ cuid agus spreiḋ# #Searḃ glor an te ḃios loinin# #bunoscionn do laḃrann se# Sweet is the voice of every man Who possesses means and affluence; But harsh is the voice of the indigent man; His language seems topsy-turvy. 5. #naċ buaiḋearṫa ḃid na daoine ar uireasbaiḋ loin# #'san uaiġ da lionaḋ dioḃ go memic san lo# #ni luaiṫe ton ċill an fioṫal fuiriḋṫe dereoil# #na an luaiṫḟear groiḋe no an naoiṫean lemiḃ ḃig oig# How much do people sorrow for their want of possessions, And the grave meanwhile filled with them often in the day! Not sooner to the cemetery goes the emaciated invalid Than the robust and brave man, or the now-born infant. INTERESTING TRIAL. The following account of an extraordinary criminal trial which took place in Hertfordshire in the year 1628, we have extracted from _Reilly's Dublin News Letter_ of the 16th of August 1740. It was published for the first time in London in the preceding year (1739) by Dr Rawlinson, who had discovered it among the papers of the eminent lawyer, Sir John Maynard, formerly one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England. "The case, or rather history of a case, that happened in the county of Hertford, I thought good to report here, though it happened in the fourth year of King Charles the First, that the memory of it may not be lost by miscarriage of my papers, or otherwise. I wrote the evidence that was given, which I and others did hear; and I wrote it exactly according to what was deposed at the trial, at the bar of the King's Bench, namely,