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FAMA SEMPER VIVET. Translation: REPUTATION LIVES FOR EVER.

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died, aged 92, 1858.

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unpopular.

9 W Battle of Citate, when the Turks defeated the 8

Russians, with a loss of 2,000 men, 1854.
Cruelty is the parent of revenge.

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11F Hilary Law Term begins.

NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.

14.-Felix Orsini, a man of high character, undoubted ability and great energy, would probably have achieved success and eminence had he applied himself to any of the ordinary pursuits of life; but he devoted all the ardour and energy of his mind to the accomplishment of Italian independence. This was his con

stant "thought by day, his dream sacrificed all those things which

by night;" and to this object he

ordinary men love most-coun-
try,
friends, children, li-
brity and, last, by the mad
attempt upon the life of the Em-
peror of the French-of which he

2 224 was the chief instigator, and in which he was the principal agent 25-he sacrificed his life. Born in the year 1819, Orsini studied, in 1837, at the Italian city of twenty-four years of age, we find of a secret society; and in 1844, he

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20|S|2nd Sund. after Epiphany. 4 26s 21 M Louis XVI. of France 1793. 7 56r 22 TuThe first post-office steamer entered Dover 4 30s

beheaded,

Harbour from Calais, 1822.

23 W Duke of Kent died, 1820.

25 F Princess Royal of England married to Prince 7 51r

Frederick William of Prussia, 1858.

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Bologna. In 1843, being then only

that he was an energetic member

was arrested and condemned to

the gallies for life. He was, however, released in 1846. He took a conspicuous part in the Revolution in Rome, in 1848, and was even elected a member of the Assembly. On the fall of that unfortunate and short-lived republic,

he fled to Genoa, in 1849; and in 1853, he came over to England. of defeat and adversity, still pursuing the object so dear to him, he entered into fresh conspiracies,

Restless and daring, and, in spite

and in Jan. 1855, he was arrested in Hungary, and sent to Mantua; but escaping from the Austria dungeons, in 1856, he again made his appearance in England. In this country he was the associate of Kossuth, Mazzini, and other eminent republicans and revolu

tionists, and here it was that he of putting an end to the life of whom it was aimed, was the cause his own restless and chequered

devised that plot which, instead

the extraordinary man against

of the premature termination of

career. It is stated that before

his execution Orsini's hair, which was jet black, turned white.

01421. The execution of Louis

XVI. forms one of the most strik

(Australia) kept with much festivity, 1859.

27 S Septuagesima Sunday.

plore of heaven that my beloved France" At this instant the

drums were ordered to beat, and the executioners to perform their office. When the guillotine descended, the priest exclaimed, "Son of St. Louis, ascend to Heaven!" The bleeding head was then held up, and a few of the populace shouted, "Vive la Republique!" The grave of the illfated king was immediately afterwards filled up with quick lime, and a strong guard was placed around until the body should be consumed.

Like little seeds are little deedsThey grow to flowers-or to weeds.

HAT plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men having riches possess both these qualities. Many friends we think useless often give us valuable help at need. Resolutions taken without any thought, bring disasters without remedy.

A man who is in the right knows that he is in the majority, for God is on his side.

He who rises late in the morning, may run about all day, but he will never overtake his business.

He who follows his recreation instead of his business, will, in a little time, have no business to follow. Pleasures, at best, are short-lived; but the delights of virtue are secure and perpetual.

Remember that it is a fixed fact, that revenge, however sweet, costs more than it is worth.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joy.

Always bear in mind that repentance is not a single act, but a habit of virtue.

Passion has its foundation in nature; virtue is acquired by the improvement of our reason.

The feeling of love for her children survives all other affections in

the mother's heart.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

The gleeful laugh of happy children is the best home music; and the graceful figures of childhood are the best statuary.

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch; hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

We should educate the whole man; the body, the head, the heart-the body to act, the head to think, and the heart to feel.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art in life is to have as many of them as possible.

Don't live in hope with your arms folded; fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves, and put their shoulders to the wheel.

The follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; those of the wise man are known to himself, and hidden from the world.

The richest endowments of the hind are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue, which enters into the compogition of all the rest; and where she not, fortitude loses its nature.

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THE VALUE OF WORK. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can he can bear. Worry is rust upon the hardly put more upon a man than blade. It is not the revolutions that destroy the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.-Henry Ward Beecher.

A GOOD RULE.

My rule is, deliberately to consider, before I commence, whether the thing is practicable. If it be not practicable I do not attempt it. If it be practicable I can accomplish it, if I give sufficient pains to it; and having begun, I never stop till the thing is done. To this rule I owe all my success.-John Hunter.

TWO GOOD QUALITIES. Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begins covetousness; the last without the first begins prodigality. Both make an excellent temper. Happy the place where they

are found!-William Penn.

AN OLD NORTHUMBRIAN SONG. A man may spare,

And yet be bare,

Knowledge is modest, cautious, pure, Ignorance boastful, conceited-sure.

IF you employ your money in doing good, you put it out at the best interest. This brings a sure reward!

Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirits; wherefore, jesting is not unlawful if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or season.

We should take a prudent care for the future, but so as to enjoy the present. It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to-day because we may happen to be so to-morrow.

How many a man, by giving himself up to despair, crushes and destroys for ever a thousand flowers of hope that were ready to spring up and gladden all his pathway.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavours with the utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself. A rhymer writes a truth and a moral in four lines:

Among the pitfalls in our way,

The best of us walk blindly; So, man, be wary; watch and pray; And judge your brother kindly. Learn in childhood, if you can, that happiness is not outside but inside. A good heart and a clear con

nowght;

But a man may spend,

And have money to lend,

and no circumstances alone ever do. If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness,

owght.

HOW TO RUIN HEALTH.

If you want to ruin your health1st. Stop in bed late. 2nd. Eat hot suppers. 3rd. Turn day into night, night into day. 4th. Take no exercise. 5th. Always ride when you can walk. 6th. Never mind about wet feet. 7th. Have half-a-dozen doctors. 8th. Take all the medicine they send you. 9th. Try every new quack. 10th. If that doesn't kill you, quack yourself.

A COMPARISON.

The human heart is like an artist's studio. You can tell what the artist is doing, not so much by his completed pictures, but by the halffinished sketches and designs which are hanging on his wall. So you can tell the course of a man's life, not so much by his well-defined purposes as by the half-formed plans, the faint day-dreams, which are hung in all the chambers of his heart.- Lady Blessington.

TAKE CARE OF THE MINUTES.

Let us recollect the admonition of a famous man, that the humblest persons are bound to give an account of their leisure; and in the midst of solitudes, let us be of some use to society. The spare minutes of a year are mighty labourers if kept to their work. They overthrow and build up; dig or empty. There is a tradition in Barbary that the sea was once absorbed by ante.

to write with your left hand, and remember a child is all left hand.

Time is the most subtle yet the by appearing to take nothing, is most insatiable of depredators, and permitted to take all; nor can it be

satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices and duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.

A ton of perfect pain can be more easily found than an ounce of perfect happiness; he knows little of himself or of the world who does not think it sufficient happiness to be free from sorrow.

Never forsake a friend. When world is dark and cheerless, is the enemies gather around; when the time to try true friendship. They who turn from the scene of distress betray their insincerity, and prove that self-interest only moves them.

PERSEVERE!

SAY not, when you've been defeated,
That you'll never struggle more,
Labour oft must be defeated
Ere you reach the wish'd for shore.
Coward hearts alone are beaten-
Disappointed you may be;
Bread, before it can be eaten,

Must be kneaded well, you see.