must make one single extract from our favourite female writer.

ENDURING WOE.

From the German of Zimmermann.
By Mary Howitt.

The leaves come whirling from the trees,
The autumn wind blows chill:
Know you the old decaying house
In the wood so deep and still ?
The yellow leaves lie thick around,
The winds wail all about;
A pale and lovely countenance
Looks from the window out.

That pale and lovely face, how calm
It looks in evening grey!
The lady who has spoke to none,
To none a word will say.

No serving-man hath she, no maid,
To no man's voice gives heed;
A sound is heard when day declines
As of a coming steed.

Like a horse's tread, it comes a-near:
She listens-forth she bends;
And lo! an old grey-headed knight
Before the door descends.

He climbs the stairs; and now a kiss

Upon her brow imprest,

"How art thou now, dear child?" said he, And held her to his breast.

They sate them to a table of stone,
And look'd with looks of woe;
"Sing me," said he, " that little song
As thou didst long ago."

She answered, "Ah! how gay I was
When Love's young morning shone!
But now, old man, 'tis so no more,
My young friend-he is gone.
"I deck my hair with rosemary,
My funeral crown to be;
Thou know'st, old

man, thou knowest well,

Thy only son was he."

In a ghostly voice the old man spoke,
In a ghostly voice replied,

"He fell in the joyous strength of youth, In the ocean-fight he died!

"For the honour of my Lord he fell,
Mangled with sword and shot;
I gladly gave my Lord my all,
My son withheld I not.

"My Lord is dead-thy love is dead-
Like sorrow for us two;

The world plays now another game,
With which we've nought to do.
"The world turns topsy-turvy now,
And lauds the new as prime;
But we we have our bitter grief,
And memory of old time.

"And with us two the play is play'd,

Thou 'rt weak and I am old."

The yellow leaves whirl'd round the house, The autumn wind blew cold.

Who had been there had wept to hear

The two so sadly speak;

But there was not a sigh or tear
On either woful cheek.

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Nov. 2. The ceremonial of the reopening of Gresham College, in the new hall in Basinghall-street, took place at two o'clock. This institution, as is generally known, was founded by the celebrated Sir Thomas Gresham in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. That Prince of English merchants bequeathed his own magnificent mansion in Broad-street, with a suitable endowment, for the purposes of the college. That building escaped the great fire of London, but in 1767 the site was pitched upon by the government for the erection of a new Excise Office, and it was accordingly surrendered by the trustees of the college, on consideration of a perpetual annuity of 5007.; the trustees agreeing to pay 18007. towards the expense of pulling down their own building! This extraordinary transaction had the effect of ruining the college. A small room in the Royal Exchange, capable of holding some five and twenty persons, was allotted to the professors for the delivery of their lectures, and the consequence was, that the lectures ceased to be delivered, and the appointments became sinecures. When the Royal Exchange was burnt, a few years since, the preparations for rebuilding it directed attention to the state of Gresham College. A claim was made on its behalf for suitable accommodation in the Royal Exchange; but the matter was settled by the erection of the spacious and handsome building now opened.

The

The lecture-hall will conveniently accommodate 500 or 600 persons. Lord Mayor was present in state, with several of the civic functionaries, the members of the Gresham committee, &c. After prayer by the Rev. Dr. Birch, a hymn was sung by the vocal band assembled for the musical part of the ceremonial. The academical business of the college was then commenced by the Rev. Joseph Pullen, A.M., Professor of Astronomy, who delivered a lecture on that science, to which he gave, very happily, the character of an address to the audience on the occasion which had brought them together. In giving a general and popular view of the progress of modern astronomy, he pointed out the large share which Gresham College had in this progress, from the labours and discoveries of the illustrious men who were among its professors. After this address, an ode on the occasion was sung. The