sent to him. He was afterwards engaged on the Morning Post, and after a lapse of twenty years returned to the Day, the title of which had changed to the New Times. Having purchased a share in the Courier, he was editor of that paper at the time of his death. He was the author of two unacted plays and a set of French melodies.

11. ST. MARTIN.

He was born in Hungary in 316, and after having followed the profession of a soldier, took orders, and was made Bishop of Tours in France about the year 374. He continued in his see, with great credit to himself, till the period of his death in 397.

The vulgar phrase, My eye, Betty Martin, is a corruption of the commencement of a prayer to this saintMihi, beate Martine.

13. ST. BRITIUS.

Britius, or Brice, succeeded St. Martin in the see of Tours. His early life was spent in idleness and pride, but, repenting his error, he afterwards devoted his life to those studies which raised him to the bishopric. died in the year 444.

15. ST. MACHUTUS.

He

Machutus, or Malo, or Maclou, was born at Llancaroon in Glamorganshire. He retired to the continent with the intention of leading the life of a recluse, but being conspicuous for his piety, he was solicited to accept the bishoprick of Aleth, since called St. Malo, in honor of our saint. He died in the year 564.

16. 1830. RESIGNATION OF MINISTErs. On this day the administration, under the Duke of Wellington, resigned their offices, in which they were succeeded by the present ministry, led by Earl Grey.

17. ST. HUGH, BISHOP OF LINCOLN. He was born in Burgundy in the year 1140, and in 1186 became bishop of Lincoln, through the favor of Henry the Second. He obtained great fame by the austerity and economy of his life, and his rebuilding the cathedral; in which work, Dr. Milner affirms, he carried many of the stones and mortar to the workmen. He died in the year 1200.

20. ST. EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR, The last tutelar king of the East Angles, who having been attacked by the Danes, in 870, and unable to resist them, heroically offered to surrender himself a prisoner, provided they would spare his subjects. The Danes, however, having seized him, used their utmost endeavours to induce Edmund to renounce his religion: but, refusing to comply, they first beat him with clubs, then scourged him with whips, and afterwards, binding him to a stake, killed him with their arrows. His body was buried in a town where Sigebert, one of his predecessors, had built a church, and where, afterwards, in honour of his name, a more splendid edifice was erected, which was named St. Edmund's Bury, now called Bury St. Edmund's.

20. 1829. BARRY ST. LEGER DIED, ÆTAT. 30.

Francis Barry Boyle. St. Leger was born in Ireland, and educated at Rugby school. At the early age of seventeen he went to India, where he had the prospect of high rank; the customs of the country, and the tyranny and injustice of the Eastern government, however, so ill accorded with his notions of freedom and liberty, that he sacrificed his independence of fortune to the independence of principle, and returned to England. He now turned his attention to the bar, and entered the Inner Temple. At this period he commenced his literary

labours, by writing for various periodical publications: and became editor of a quarterly publication, entitled the Album. In 1823 he produced Gilbert Earle, which at once ranked him deservedly high among writers of fiction. The popularity he thus attained induced him to proceed in the same path, and Blount's Manuscripts, and Tales of Passion, were the result.

Literature, however, was never suffered to interfere with his professional studies and in 1827 he was called to the bar. He was making considerable progress in his circuit towards legal eminence, when he was seized with a fit of epilepsy, supposed to have been produced by a too constant exertion of mind; and, after lingering about five months, died at a period when the brightest prospects surrounded him.

Mr. St. Leger had determined to write no more works of fiction, but to devote his leisure to historical composition. With this view, he had nearly completed a work founded upon the Old Chronicles, and was proceeding with Histories of the Wars in Spain, and of the Revolution in France; both intended for the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

22. ST. CECILIA,

A Roman lady, of good family, who was early converted to the faith, and made a vow of virginity when very young. She was, however, forcibly compelled to marry Valerian, whom she immediately converted, together with his brother, Tiburtius, and another. They were all persecuted and suffered martyrdom, about the year 230.

She is regarded as the patroness of music, from tradition having recorded that an angel, who visited her, was drawn down from heaven by the charms of her melody.

ON A PICTURE OF SAINT CECILIA.

BY T. K. HERVEY.

Her hair streams backwards like a cloud
Before the sun-light of her eyes,
That seem to pierce the fleecy shroud
Of the far, blue Italian skies !—
Her hands amid the golden strings
Play, like a spirits' wanderings;
Still making music as they stray,
And scattering incense on the way !—
And softest harpings float around,
That make the chamber hallowed ground;
Till every breeze that wanders by
Seems holy with the maiden's sigh,
And seraph-forms come stealing down
To hear a music like their own!

Her robe is of the same pure white
Whose silver skirts yon azure sky ;—
Her form is like a form of light,-
But all the woman dims her eye
With tears that dare to look to heaven,
And tears that mount-and are forgiven!-

Deep in her warm and holy heart,

Are thoughts that play a mortal part,
And her young worship wafts above
The breathings of an earthly love!

Of earth-yet not a love that flings
One clog upon her spirit's wings;
Or, like a shadow, dimly lies
Upon her pure heart's sacrifice!
The lark may-like that spirit-play
In the blue heavens, the livelong day,
And He who gave that sunny thing
A mounting-yet a wearying-wing,

Will not refuse its morning flight
Because it stooped to earth by night ;—
Nor shall the maiden's offering rise
Less stainless to her native skies,
Because the youthful saint reveals
The throbbings which the woman feels,
And pours to heaven her worship, fraught
With passion which itself had taught!
The notes fall fainter on the ear,
Yet, still, the seraph leans to hear ;-
Though sorrow sighs along the lyre,
And woman's fears have dimmed her fire;
And breathings meant for God alone,
Echo some pulses of her own!—

The angel stays-and stays to bless
Love-which itself is holiness!

23. ST. CLEMENT.

He was the son of Faustinus, and was converted to the faith, by St. Peter and St. Paul. He was a Roman, and as he himself says, of the race of Jacob. He wrote two excellent Epistles to the Corinthians, found in the Alexandrian manuscript of the Bible. St. Clement succeeded St. Cletus, in the apostolical chair of Rome, in the year 91, and reigned nine years. Eusebius says, he died in the year 100, the reign of Trajan, others affirm that he was thrown into the sea, with an anchor about his neck. In allusion to this, the anchor is to be seen about several parts of the church of St. Clement's Danes, London.

25. ST. CATHERINE.

She was born at Alexandria, and in the year 305 disputed with fifty heathen philosophers, all of whom she converted to the Christian faith. For this offence, the Emperor, Maxentius, had her thrown into prison.