Canst thou then sink, thou daughter of the great,
Sprung from the noblest guardians of our state;
Canst thou thus yield to the first shock of fate?
Whatever deathless monuments of praise

Thy sex can merit, 'tis in thee to raise.-Lucan's Pharsalia.

Acts.

METON, the Athenian astronomer, began his famous lunar cycle of nineteen years (then marked by successive letters in gold, which are now called the golden numbers) with the new moon nearest to the Summer solstice falling upon the sixteenth of Scirophorion, B. C. 432.-See 27th June. The summary of days in the course of nineteen solar intercalary years of three hundred and sixty-five days, six hours, eighteen minutes, and fifty-seven seconds each, was 6940, when the new moon would return to the same position in the natural year as it stood at the commencement of the cycle.--See 21st June. The last corrected Greek cycle terminated B. C. 1; so that we are now (1830) in the seventh Golden Number of the ninety-sixth lunar cycle from that period.

Pompey in passing through the Archipelago stops at Mitylene to receive his wife, the exemplary Cornelia, and there converses with Cratippus, the philosopher, on the nature of Providence.

King John is visited by Pandulph, the Pope's legate, at Dover, in whose presence he subscribed an instrument 1213, by which the sentences of interdict, excommunication, and deposition, were revoked, conditionally that he reversed all his former acts of oppression.-See 15th May.

The Bill is introduced vesting in the crown all the property of the monastic establishments, 1539. This measure, which threw into circulation an annual revenue of £143,000, (i. e. the one-and-twentieth part of the national rental) was promptly effected by the following spring.

Edward I. embarks from England with his chancellor as arbitrator between the kings of France, Arragon, and Sicily, 1268.

The regent, Murray, defeats Mary at Langside near Dumbarton, 1568. The Island of St. Christopher is divided by treaty between the English and French commissioners, Sir Thomas Warner, and M. du Rossy, 1627. Thomas Creede, a printer, enters this day a drama by Robert Greene, entitled "The Scottish History of James the Fourth, slain at Flodden, intermixed with a pleasant comedy, presented by Oboram, King of Fairies; as it hath been sundry times publicly played, 1594.

The treaty of Teschen is concluded between the Empress and Prussia, 1779. The swift is first seen upon the Sussex coast about this day.

A hot May makes a fat churchyard.-Old English Proverb.

An impudent man is one, whose want of money and want of wit have engaged him beyond his abilities. The little knowledge he has of himself being suitable to the little he has in his profession has made him believe himself fit for it. This double ignorance is the cause of the value he sets upon himself, as he that wants a great deal appears in a better condition than he that wants a little. From hence he grows impudent; for, as men judge by comparison, he knows as little what it is to be defective, as what it is to be excellent. Butler's Characters.

Amos Wolff was the oracle
of our burgh: being the tallest
and best-looking it was his

business to read the rules of the
Saturday club, and to make
apologies for the drunk or dumb
members. Such was his alacrity
to be upon his legs, that he was
always sure to be found at the
barrel's head during the fair,
hammering about the malt-tax
and other heavy burdens.
German Ana.

Beaths.

Marguard Freher, 1614. died,
Heidelberg.

John Olden Barneveldt, 1619.
beheaded, Hague.
Bishop (William) Chappel,
1649. d. Derby.
Professor Henry Wilkinson,

1690. d. Cornard.

Louis Bourdaloue, 1704. Paris.
Thomas Rowe, 1715. Bunhill
Fields.
Bartholomew Mercier, 1799.
James Erskine, Lord Alva,

1796. d. Drumsheugh.
James Basire, 1802.

Charles, Earl Whitworth, 1825.

d. Knowle.

The same qualities joined with virtue, often furnish out a great man, which, united with a different principle, furnish out a highwayman; I mean courage and strong passions. And they St. John the Silent, Bishop in may both join in the same ex

Obits of the Latin Church. St. Servatus, Bishop of Tongres, d. 384.

Armenia, c. 560.

St. Peter Regalati, of Valladolid,

1456.

pression, though with a meaning somewhat varied-be promoted

or be hanged.

Shenstone.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing for he shall not be disappointed.-Swift.

Canst thou then sink, thou daughter of the great,
Sprung from the noblest guardians of our state;
Canst thou thus yield to the first shock of fate?

Whatever deathless monuments of praise

Thy sex can merit, 'tis in thee to raise.-Lucan's Pharsalia.

Acts.

METON, the Athenian astronomer, began his famous lunar cycle of nineteen years (then marked by successive letters in gold, which are now called the golden numbers) with the new moon nearest to the Summer solstice falling upon the sixteenth of Scirophorion, B. C. 432.-See 27th June. The summary of days in the course of nineteen solar intercalary years of three hundred and sixty-five days, six hours, eighteen minutes, and fifty-seven seconds each, was 6940, when the new moon would return to the same position in the natural year as it stood at the commencement of the cycle.--See 21st June. The last corrected Greek cycle terminated B. C. 1; so that we are now (1830) in the seventh Golden Number of the ninety-sixth lunar cycle from that period.

Pompey in passing through the Archipelago stops at Mitylene to receive his wife, the exemplary Cornelia, and there converses with Cratippus, the philosopher, on the nature of Providence.

King John is visited by Pandulph, the Pope's legate, at Dover, in whose presence he subscribed an instrument 1213, by which the sentences of interdict, excommunication, and deposition, were revoked, conditionally that he reversed all his former acts of oppression.-See 15th May.

The Bill is introduced vesting in the crown all the property of the monastic establishments, 1539. This measure, which threw into circulation an annual revenue of £143,000, (i. e. the one-and-twentieth part of the national rental) was promptly effected by the following spring.

Edward I. embarks from England with his chancellor as arbitrator between the kings of France, Arragon, and Sicily, 1268.

The regent, Murray, defeats Mary at Langside near Dumbarton, 1568. The Island of St. Christopher is divided by treaty between the English and French commissioners, Sir Thomas Warner, and M. du Rossy, 1627. Thomas Creede, a printer, enters this day a drama by Robert Greene, entitled "The Scottish History of James the Fourth, slain at Flodden, intermixed with a pleasant comedy, presented by Oboram, King of Fairies; as it hath been sundry times publicly played, 1594.

The treaty of Teschen is concluded between the Empress and Prussia, 1779. The swift is first seen upon the Sussex coast about this day. A hot May makes a fat churchyard.-Old English Proverb.

With thee, sweet Hope, resides the heavenly light
That pours remotest raptare on the sight;
Thine is the charm of life's bewildered way,
That calls each slumbering passion into play.
Waked by thy touch, I see the sister band,
On tiptoe watching, start at thy command,
And fly where'er thy mandate bids them steer,
To Pleasure's path, or Glory's bright career.-Campbell.

To the disgrace of men it is seen, that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it is happened.

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? Song of Solomon.

Acts.

ASCENSION DAY is the fortieth day from the vigil of Easter, and commemorates the Ascension of our Saviour, as that festival records the Resurrection. See 5th April. It is called Holy Thursday in the English calendars, by which title the Thursday in Passion week, is more generally expressed, perhaps with more propriety; and falls invariably ten days before WHIT SUNDAY.-See 24th May.

The custom of perambulating the parishes during Rogation week was first introduced, with other Roman ceremonies, by Claudius Mumertus, a French bishop, of Vienne, in the year 550; whose precedent was soon afterwards repeated by Sidonius, Bishop of Clermont, and at length established by the Council of Orleans. The regulation of Queen Elizabeth, relating to the English ambarvalia, or processions, is as follows: "The people shall once a year, at the time accustomed, with the curate and substantial men of the parish, walk about the parishes, as they were accustomed [with willow wands] and at their return to church, make their common prayers; provided that the said curate, in the said common perambulations, as heretofore in the days of rogations, at certain convenient places, shall admonish the people to give thanks to God, in the beholding of God's benefits, for the increase and abundance of his fruits upon the face of the earth, with the saying of the hundred and fourth Psalm, Benedic anima mea,' &c.; at which time also the same minister shall inculIcate this and such like sentences, Cursed be he which translateth the bounds and doles of his neighbour,' or such other order of prayer as shall be hereafter appointed." This heathen usage, however expedient and necessary to continue the memory of parochial land-marks, ought never to have been amalgamated with the holy service of our religion. Happily, in these days, the church needs no foreign aid-no decorative folds: the naked light and chaste symmetry of Truth is her single only dowry.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. Solomon.