Babbling current should the fair Stop to listen on thy shore, Bid her, Sylvio, to beware, Love and truth he oft had sworn. T.H. * * * * * THE SPRING AND THE MORNING, _A Ballad._ _Written by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart._ _Inscribed to Miss Foote_. When the frosts of the Winter, in mildness were ending, To April I gave half the welcome of May; While the Spring, fresh in youth, came delightfully blending The buds that are sweet, and the songs that are gay. As the eyes fixed the heart on a vision so fair, Not doubting, but trusting what magic was there; Aloud I exclaim'd, with augmented desire, I thought 'twas the Spring, when In truth, 'tis Maria. When the fading of stars, in the regions of splendour, Announc'd that the morning was young in the East, On the upland I rov'd, admiration to render, Where freshness, and beauty, and lustre increas'd. Whilst the beams of the morning new pleasures bestow'd, While fondly I gaz'd, while with rapture I glow'd; In sweetness commanding, in elegance bright, Maria arose! a more beautiful light! _Gentleman's Magazine_. * * * * * UNEXPECTED REPROOF. The celebrated scholar, Muretus, was taken ill upon the road as he was travelling from Paris to Lyons, and as his appearance was not much in his favour, he was carried to an hospital. Two physicians attended him, and his disease not being a very common one, they thought it right to try something new, and out of the usual road of practice, upon him. One of them, not knowing that their patient knew Latin, said in that language to the other, "We may surely venture to try an experiment upon the body of so mean a man as our patient is." "Mean, sir!" replied Muretus, in Latin, to their astonishment, "can you pretend to call any man so, sir, for whom the Saviour of the world did not think it beneath him to die?" IRELAND. The following is the territorial surface of Ireland:-- Acres. Arable land, gardens, meadows, pastures, and marshes 12,125,280 Uncultivated lands, and bogs capable of improvement ... 4,900,000 Surface incapable of any kind of improvement[3]........ 2,416,664 __________ Total of acres 19,441,944 [3] Parliamentary Report. * * * * * ROUGE ET NOIR.