not participate in that feeling of beauty and tenderness, profusely regret, which the death of LORD BYRON has occasioned. Born to rank and affluence, and possessing a genius of the highest order, his Lordship was, by domestic circumstances, driven from his home and family, and has died an alien to the country his talents have so much adorned: for, much as the world may differ as to the motive or tendency of some of his recent works, no person can deny that he was the first poet of his age; and his death, at an early age, and in a distant land, would of itself disarm every ingenuous mind, had he not perished in the most sacred of all causes, that of assisting a brave and oppressed people to shake off the yoke, and to rescue a christian people from the dominion of the infidel Turks. scattered through his poems, all of which show that he was (how painfully, for the first time, we speak of him in the past tense!) a perfect master of the art. His character produced his poems, and it cannot be doubted that his poems are adapted to produce such a character. The desolate misan throphy of his mind, rose and threw its dark shade over his poetry like one of his own ruined castles; we feel it to be sublime, and are sometimes lost in admiration un awares. George Gordon, Lord Byron, had not only his own talents, but the pride of illustrious ancestry to boast; for even so early as the conquest his family was distinguished not merely for their extensive manors in Lancashire and other parts, but for their prowess in arms. The annals of literature do not furnish a similar instance of extensive literary fame as that of Lord His Lordship spent a considerByron. The distinguishing feature able portion of his early life in of his Lordship's poetry is elo- Scotland, where it is supposed the quence, and that of the most ve- wild and mountainous scenes which hement character. His verse surrounded him, contributed not rushes on with the rapidity of a à little to elicit and strengthen the cataract, carrying our ideas im- mighty energies of his mind, and petuously along in such a manner to imprint on his vivid imaginaas to prevent any thing like repose tion those powerful and beautiful or steady contemplation. Yet, images of natural grandeur and amidst the wild variety of objects wildness which are so observable and obscure disquisitions which in the whole of his writings. At this magical genius contrives to times his Lordship would exclude bring together, without any regard himself from his ordinary comto appropriate selection or lucid panions, and wander alone amidst arrangement, there are descrip- the majestic and sublime scenery tions and sentiments of exquisite of the highlands, until his soul seemed tinged with those elements In the course of his Lordship's of real sublimity, and drank a amour with Miss C. and particuspecies of inspiration from the larly towards its termination, he mists of the mountains, the wild addressed some beautiful lines to waves of the ocean, and the black the fair, wayward object of his afadamant of its terrific boundaries. fections. Many of those amatory The celebrated school at Har- morceaux display considerable row, and the University of Cam-poetical excellence, mingled with bridge, had the honour of adding much richness and tenderness of the polish of education to the in- feeling. The following stanzas nate powers of his mind, and are taken from Hours of Idleness, several of his academic compa-and although they are not clothed nions can relate not a few instances in that glittering drapery of lanof the precocious talent and strange eccentricities, which even then characterised his Lordship. Among the early amusements of his Lordship, were swimming and managing a boat, in both of which he is said to have acquired a great dexterity even in his childhood. In his equatic excursions near Newstead Abbey, he had seldom any other companion than a large Newfoundland dog, to try whose sagacity and fidelity he would sometimes fall out of the boat, as if by accident, when the dog would seize him and drag him ashore. On losing this dog, in the autumn of 1808, his Lordship caused a monument to be erected, commemorative of his attachment, with an inscription, from which we extract the following lines: "Ye who, perchance, behold this sim ple urn, Pass on--it honours none you wish to mourn! To mark a friend's remains thèse stones arise--- I never knew but one, and here he lies." guage and imagery with which - thine, As once this pledge appeared a token; These follies had not, then, been mine, For then, my peace had not been broken. To thee, these early faults I owe, They know my sins, but do not know 'Twas thine to break the bonds of For, once my soul, like thine was pure, loving. And all its rising fires could smother; But now, thy vows no more endure, Bestow'd by thee upon another. Perhaps, his peace I could destroy, Aud spoil the blisses that await him; Yet let my rival smile in joy, For thy dear sake I cannot hate him. Ah! since thy angel form is gone; But what is sought in thee alone Attempts, alas! to find in many. Then fare thee well, deceitful maid, 1 'Twere vain and fruitless to regret thee; Nor hope, nor memory yield their aid, But pride may teach me to forget thee. To be continued in our next. FROZEN MARKET masses of timber and coals. The provisions collected here are the To strangers, unaccustomed to product of countries many thouthe various changes produced in sand wersts beyond Moscow, Simen and things by the influence of beria, Archangel, and still remointense frost, nothing appears more ter provinces, furnish the merchanwonderful than that part of the city dise which, during the frost's sevededicated to the sale of frozen pro-rity, is conveyed thither on sledg visions. The astonished sight is es. In consequence of the vast there arrested by a vast open square quantities of these commodities, containing the bodies of many and the short period allowed for the thousand animals, piled in pyra-existence of the market, they are midical heaps, on all sides; cows, cheaper than at any other part of sheep, hogs, fowls, butter, eggs, | the year, and are therefore bought fish, all are stiffened into granite. eagerly to be laid up as winter The fish are attractively beautiful; stock. When deposited in cellars, possessing the vividness of their they keep good for a length of time living colour, with the transparent At certain hours every day, the clearness of wax imitations. The | market, while it lasts, is a fashionbeasts present a far less pleasing able lounge. There you meet all spectacle. Most of the larger sort | the beauty and gaiety of St. Petersbeing skinned, and classed accor- burgh; even from the imperial ding to their species; groups of family down to the Russian mer many hundreds are seen piled up chant's wife. Incredible crowds of on their hind legs against one ano-sledges, carriages, and pedestrians ther, as if each were making an effort to climb over the back of its neighbour. The apparent animation of their seemingly struggling attitudes (as if suddenly seized in moving, and petrified by frost) gives a horrid life to this dead scene. Had an enchanter's wand been instantaneously waved ever this sea of animals, during their different actions, they could not have been fixed more decidedly. Their hardness, too, is so extreme, that the natives chop them up for the purchasers like wood, and the chips of their carcasses fly off in the same way as splinters do from throng the place; the different groups of spectators, purchasers, venders, and commodities, form such an extraordinary tout ensem ble as no other city in the world is known to equal. During this mart of congealed merchandise, affecting scenes often occur. The provisions are exported from the most remote provinces of this vast empire, and the infinitude of sledg es necessary for their conveyance, are accompanied by boors. It is not often the case, that for more than one season, the same persons travel with them; and this change of conductors is produced B by motives more honourable, more the heart saddens while listening to the impatient inquiries of many who are soon deprived of their dearest hopes by the information that another country contains their ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF CARDS, ABOUT the year 1300, cards were invented to divert Charles the VI. then king of France, who was fallen into a melancholy disposition. powerful, than interest itself. Whenever a new levy is made for the army, a given number (according to the state's necessity) is taken from every five hundred vas-offspring: perhaps another world. sals capable of bearing arms. Most of the villages have been thus deprived of some of their inhabitants, and it is with the affectionate hope of again seeing their different relatives, that many aged men accompany these frozen caravans. St. Petersburgh is the extent of That they were not in use their views. The knowledge of before, appears highly probable. that city and of their own village, First, Because no cards are to be bounds their geographic acquire-seen in any painting, tapestry, ments; it is thither all their wishes &c. more ancient than the precedtend; for to that spot alone, they ing period, but are represented in falsely believe, is fixed the object many works of ingenuity, since of their fond solicitude. Ignorant that age. Secondly, No prohibiof any particular corps, and only tions relative to cards, by the conscious that it is a soldier they king's ediets, are mentioned, seek, under the liveliest impres-although some few years before a sion of expectation and affection, most severe one was published,' they momentarily look for the forbidding, by name, all manner blessing of again embracing a son, a brother, or some other near and beloved kinsman. Actuated by similar feelings, hundreds of soldiers are seen going from group to group, searching for their own parents among these patriarchal strangers. To the observation of a benevolent individual, these scenes are delightful. Nothing can be more affecting than to witness their joyful meetings; fathers embracing their sons; brothers their brothers. But expressions of disappointment frequently excite more distressing sympathies; and time is found, in the account-book ! of sports and pastimes, in order that the subjects might exercise themselves in shooting with bows and arrows, and be in a condition to oppose the English. Now it is not to be presumed, that so luring a game as cards would have been omitted in the enumeration, had they been in use. Thirdly, In all the ecclesiastical canons, prior to the said time, there occurs no mention of cards; although, twenty years after that date, card-playing was interdicted the clergy by a Gallican synod. About the same or clubs) instead of the trefoil, we gave the Spanish signification to the French figure. The history of the four kings, which the French in drollery sometimes call the cards, is David, Alexander, Cæsar, and Charles, (which the names were then, and still are, on the French cards). These respectable names represent the four celebrated monarchies of the Jews, Greeks, of the king's cofferer, the follow-Dutch call the French word caring charge: "Paid for a pack of reaux, stieneen, stones and diapainted leaves, bought for the monds, from the form. Trefle, king's amusement, three livres." the trefoil leaf, or clover grass Printing and stamping being then (corruptly called clubs) alludes to not discovered, the cards were the husbandmen and peasants. painted, which made them so dear. How this suit came to be called Thence, in the above synodical clubs I cannot explain, unless canons, they are called pagilla borrowing the game from the picta, painted little leaves. Spaniards, who have bastos (staves Fourthly, About thirty years after this, came a severe edict against cards in France; and another by Emanuel, duke of Savoy; only permitting the ladies this pastime, pro spinulis for pins and needles. The inventor proposed by the figure of the four suits, or colours, as the French call them, to represent the four states, or classes of men in the kingdom. By the cœurs (hearts) are meant, the Romans, and Franks under Chargens se chœur, choir-men, or lemangne. By the queens are inecclesiastics; and therefore the tended Argine, Esther, Judeth, Spaniards, who certainly received and Pallas [names retained by the the use of cards from the French, French cards] typical of birth, have copas or chalices, instead of piety, fortitude, and wisdom, the hearts. The nobility, or prime qualifications residing in each military part of the kingdom, are person. Argine is an anagram represented by the ends or points for Regina, queen by descent, of lances or pikes, and our igno- By the knaves were designed the rance of the meaning or resem-servants to knights [for knave blance of the figure induced us to originally meant only servant; and call them spades. The Spaniards in an old translation of the Bible, have espades (swords) in lieu of St. Paul is called the knave of pikes, which is of similar import. Christ]; but French pages and By diamonds, are designed the valets, now indiscriminately used order of citizens, merchants, and by various orders of persons, were tradesmen, carreaux, (square formerly only allowed to persons stones, tiles, or the like). The of quality, esquires, [esquiers] Spaniards have a coin, dineros, shield or armour. bearers. Others which answers to it; and the fancy that the knights themselves |