Day.

His hope is treacherous only whose love dies

With beauty, which is varying every hour;

But, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power

Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower,

That breathes on earth the air of Paradise.-Angelo Buonaroti.

XIII. Francis, Duke of Guise, 1519, Jovian (Emperor), 364. d. Da

17.

dastana.

Horace de Saussure, 1740, Ge- Michael Angelo, 1564. Florence.

neva.

Sir J. Grey, k. 1461. St. Albans.
J. Bruno, 1600. burned, Venice.
Eli.Lady Barnard, 1670.Abingt.
J. B. de Moliere, 1673. Paris.
Denzil, Lord Hollis, 1680.

Dorchester.

As a walled town is more worthy than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honourable than the bare brow Bp.(Geo.)Bull, 1710. St.David. of a bachelor and by how much John Hughes, 1720. London. defence is better than no skill, Father La Receveur, 1788. by so much is a horn more precious than to want.-Touchstone.

Obits of the Latin Church.
St. Theodulus and Julian, MS.
at Cæsarea in Palestine, 309.
St. Flavian, Abp. of Constanti-
nople, Martyr in Lydia, 449.
St. Luman (or Loman), first

Bp. of Trim, d. 5th Century.
St. Fintan, Abbot of the Ivy-cave
in Leinster, d. 6th Century.
St. Silvin, of Auchy, Bp. buried,

718.

slain, Botany Bay. Jas. Macpherson, 1796. Abbey. H. Pestalozzi, 1827. d. Brugg.

A detracter is a person who, if he hears one that is absent

spoken ill of, declares that fellow was always his aversion; he has the look of a rascal, and yet is a greater rascal than he appears to be: his wife, poor lady! has a sweet time of it, he keeps her as lean as a rake, and will not afford her so little as a warm-bath in the middle of February. Theophrastus.

I am apt to believe that whether we rammed an atheist whole into a great gun, or pulverized our infidels, as they do in Poland, such is the natural good sense of the British Nation, we should not have many charges.-Eustace Budgell.

Look up, thou seed of envy, and still bring

Thy faint and narrow eyes to read the King

In his great actions: he whom his large hand

Hath rais'd to be the wall unto his land.-Jonson, in diê.

Acts.

Shrove Tuesday, the solemn period of confession introductory to the Lent fast, and still noticed in the formula of the Catholic church.See 5th April. Upon the Monday eggs and collops of bread only were permitted to be eaten, and the more simple diet of cakes was appropriated for the present day; showing, by a practical lesson, that rebellious man is better introduced than driven to mortification, although a very necessary, and indeed an universal observance. The old English diversion of "Cock-fighting" upon this day was one of the institutions of the East (we can trace it into Greece); and perhaps symbolical of the sun's entrance into the vernal quarter; for this bird will always sound its clarion at the changes of light. Evelyn reaches Venice at Shrovetide, 1646, "when all the world repair to it to see the folly and madness of the Carnival; the women, men, and persons of all conditions disguising themselves in antick dresses, traversing the streets, from house to house, with extravagant music and a thousand gambols, all places being then accessible, and free to enter. Abroad, they fling eggs filled with sweet water, but sometimes not over sweet. They have also a barbarous custom of hunting bulls about the streets and piazzas, which is very dangerous. The youth of the several parishes contend in other masteries and pastimes; the great banks are set up for those who will play at basset; the comedians have liberty, and the operas are open; witty pasquils are thrown about, and the mountebanks have their stages at every corner." The follies of the carnival seem borrowed from the festum stultorum, held on this day in ancient Rome, and have little dependence, it may be feared, on the present season of devotion.

The Quirinalia were established on this day, in honour of Romulus: and the Feralia, sacred to the Manes, or those deities who were supposed to have the custody of departed souls, a pious festival which continued for eleven days.-Dr. Forster observes an appearance similar to the aurora borealis, in the Southern Ocean, 58 degrees of latitude, 1773.

The real loss of a good man, may be called a distress to the world, and ought to affect us more than any feigned or ancient distress how finely drawn soever. Pope on Hughes.

He is set for the fall, and rising again, of many in Israel; and for a sign which Simeon. shall be spoken against.

Obits of the Latin Church.
St. Simeon (or Simon), Bp. of
Jerusalem, Martyr, d. 116.

Beaths.

St. Angilbert, 814. St. Requier.
Gregory V. (Pope), 999.
George, Duke of Clarence, mur-

dered, 1478. Tewkesbury.
Martin Luther, 1546. Wittemb.
Sir R. Baker, 1645. St. Bride's.
Gregorio Allegri, 1652. Rome.
John Louis de Balzac, 1654.

Notredame des Anges.

John Labadie, 1672. d. Altona.
Dr.Thos. Hyde, 1702. Hamboro'.
Ph. Verheyen, 1710. d. Louvain.
Baron Gortz, beheaded, 1719.
Dr. Sir George Wheeler, 1724.
Charles Beckingham, 1730.
G. B. Bilfinger, 1750. Stutgard.
Joseph Berruyer, 1758. d. Paris.
John Ernest Count Bernstorf,

1772. d. Hamburg.
Joseph Terray, 1778. d. Paris.

The choleric, angry, impatient man can be very little delighted with friendship, since he abhors nothing so much as conSts. Leo and Paregorius, Mar-tradiction.-Clarendon. tyrs at Patara, 3rd Century.

People should so act that love and natural right may ever predominate. A truly just judgment cannot be pronounced by the aid of any book, but should proceed directly from the mind, as though no book existed. Therefore written laws should be under the government of reason, and reason should not be held prisoner by words. Luther.

Full forty days he passed; whether on hill
Sometimes, anon on shady vale, each night
Under the covert of some ancient oak,

Or cedar, to defend him from the dew.-Paradise Regained.

Acts.

ASH WEDNESDAY, begins the great and primitive fast of forty days, instituted by Noah, as an eternal beacon to future ages of the providence of GOD in the preservation of the world: the number of days corresponding with the interval between the settlement of the dove, on Sunday the twelfth of August, and the first day of the New Year (Friday), B. C. 2348. It was probably observed by the Patriarch and his pious descendants (among whom we enumerate the ancient Hebrews) until the time of Moses and the change of the year, during the four decades preceding the autumnal equinox.-See 21st September. The eminence upon which Christ himself solemnized this period of privation, called "the Mountain of Forty Days," is even now a hallowed spot, and commands the noblest surview in the province; overlooking the mountains of Arabia, the country of Gilead, the land of the Ammonites, the plains of Moab, and of Jericho (on which it stands), and the flat surface of the Dead Sea. After our Saviour's Resurrection, this institution was, by his disciples, very happily blended (because falling exactly on the day when the ark rested) with a more glorious event-the second, or moral regeneration of mankind.—See 5th April. By the omission of the six intervening Sundays (which were, with good reason, regarded as festivals of rest), there are forty days; an arrangement that was first published by Pope Felix in the year 487; but the custom of sprinkling ashes (clearly a remote allusion to the deluge) on the heads of penitents, was not introduced until about the end of the 6th Century, and established afterwards by the council of Beneventum, in 1091. In this kingdom the comminatory service was substituted in its place, at the Reformation.

According to the tables of Trivalore, the great Hindostan epoch, Callyhougham, began at sunrise this day, B. C. 3102, that is A. M. 902, and before the death of Adam.

While the Earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.-Pentateuch.

Day.

XI.

Cal. 19.

The world's infectious; few bring back, at eve,
Immaculate, the manners of the morn.---Anon.

All the pleasure in the world is not worth an oath.-Prince Henry.