climate, though to what country it retires is not certainly known. There known. There are many varieties of the cuckoo; the picture in the previous page represents one known as the HONEY-GUIDE CUCKOO. Brisson, the Naturalist, mentions twenty-eight different kinds, which all bear

a greater or less resemblance to our English bird. This one, the CUPREOUS CUCKOO, is not, you see, much like our native kind, but is very much smaller and not so pretty in colour or graceful in appear

ance. In the forests of Brazil there is a cuckoo which makes a horrible screaming noise, quite unlike the gentle note of its English namesake.

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, HULL. N 1312, the fifth year of the reign of Edward II., was commenced the building of the beautiful church of the Holy Trinity. The king, who was then at York, contributed bountifully to the edifice. The merchants and tradesmen of the town, assisted by liberal donations from the gentry, supplied the rest and from this early period it has been the principal ornament of the town of Kingston-uponHull. This stately structure is built after the cathedral fashion; and is the largest parish church in England.

The architecture is in the first style of Gothic grandeur; and in its original state must have been very beautiful. The nave, a portion of which is devoted to the church service, is divided from the aisles by eight pointed arches resting on angels,

those on the north side playing on wind instruments of every kind and form, and those on the south on stringed. The whole of these figures are in fine

preservation. The ceiling is flat and panelled. In the western gallery is an excellent organ,

which was

separate pulpits, decreasing in size, but all similar in

form and ornament; they are eight-sided, covered with rich panelling, and standing on four columns conjoined; each has separate steps, and over the largest, which is more elaborately sculptured than the others, is a sounding board, suspended from the roof by a chain.

Almost the whole of the beautiful east window (it is said that there is only another window of the same style of architecture in the kingdom,) was occupied by a painting of the Last Supper by Parmentier, done on plaster, which was taken down in 1831, and restored with stained glass. Around the chancel are two rows of seats, at some of the ends of which were carved various figures.

At the east end of the south aisle is a white marble tablet with a pyramidical slab above, surmounted by an urn.

F you have ever been down the river Thames, as far as Woolwich, you may have noticed, just outside the dockyard, a shabby, dismantled vessel, painted black with white stripes round it; and without masts, yards, or rigging; well, that is a hulk.

The hulk is used as a storeship; and sometimes, as in the case of the one at Woolwich, as a receptacle for convicts previous to their final transportation to the Penal Settlements, at Botany Bay or elsewhere.

And now, having traced the progress of the ship upwards-from its birth in the huge forest, where it once grew a tiny twig a child could bend and snap, to the time when, all bright with streamers and filled with gay company, it was launched into