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of the young single men. The largest tree from the next forest is chosen, stripped of its bark, planed, and surmounted with the crown of a fir-tree, bearing the emblems of country life; apples, bottles filled with wine, ribbons, and garlands. This tree is raised in the centre of a pavilion, or rather a bower, covered with branches, and hung over with festoons of every colour. Each farmer invites his friends of the neighbouring villages. After grand mass is over, the dinner is served, consisting of at least twenty different dishes. At three o'clock, after the second divine service, the lads make their appearance, dressed very elegantly, and repair in a body to the different farmhouses where the maidens are. These are conducted in procession to the dancingplace, the before-mentioned bower. The orchestra consists of an exquisite band of from ten to fifteen musicians, who regularly attend these festivals. Among their instruments are two lyres, but no violin, which give to the music an exquisite air of country life. There is nothing which equals the waltzes of these people. The most prejudiced enemy to this dance cannot help being delighted with the simplicity and true charm which these dancers display in every turn, without having ever been under the modelling hand and snuffling command of a French dancing master. One might look for hours with interest at the hearty delight with which they enjoy this ancient fête. If distinguished persons are present, they are requested to open the ball, a thing which is always complied with. At sunset lamps are lighted, and the dance continues until eleven o'clock. The maidens are again conducted home in the same manner, and each is delivered into the hands of her parents. It was at the castle and domain of G-k, the property of C-t F- s, where we witnessed one of these fêtes. The family of the Count had partaken for half an hour in the popular rejoicing. For this honour the young people brought them a serenade.-Austria as it is.

Anecdotiana.

REFRESHING A QUEEN'S MEMORY. It is related of our Maiden Queen Elizabeth, that enjoying the air at one of her palace windows, she beheld a gentleman musing, to whom she had not realized her promises of favour, she sent for him, and said, "What does a man think of, Sir Edward, when he thinks of nothing?" After a short pause, he answered, He thinks, madam, of a woman's promise." The queen drew in her head, but was heard to say, "Well, I must not confute

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you; anger makes men witty, but it keeps them poor."

MOZART THE COMPOSER.

WHEN Mozart had composed his chefd'œuvre, Dou Giovanni, he hastened to Prague to lay his work before a public, which, as he expressed himself, was alone capable of giving a correct opinion of the merits of his production. It was accordingly performed through three successive nights. The enthusiasm increased with every performance. When he returned to Vienna, this master-piece met there with a cold reception; the Emperor Joseph was present during the performance. Mozart was called before the monarch:-"Mozart," said the monarch, your music would do very well, but there are too many notes in it!"-" Just as many," replied the offended artist, "as there ought to be!"

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This kind-hearted soul received soon after an invitation from Frederick the Great, with an offer of 5000 florins salary; his own was but 800 florins, 801. While hesitating, he was called before his Sovereign, Joseph II. who addressed him; "Mozart, you are going to leave me.' Overpowered by the kind tone in which these words were pronounced, he, sobbing, and tears gushing from his eyes, could only reply, "No, never will i leave your Majesty!"

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THE PARSON'S TOAST.

LORD CLIVE, one day after dinner, asked a chaplain to one of the regiments in the East India Company's service, for a toast, who after considering some time, at length exclaimed with great simplicity, "Alas! and alack-a-day! what can I give?"-" Nothing better," replied his Lordship ;-" Come, gentlemen, we'll give a bumper to the parson's toast.-A lass, and a lac a day.”

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ON THE LATE JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. Some pious old ladies are said to grow wild, When they hear so much talk of Joanna with child

And swear, as they lift up the whites of their eyes,

That it can only be by the Father of lies.

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ON FRANK ROW, OF SELBY. Here lies the body of poor Frank Row, Parish-clerk and grave-stone cutter; And this is writ to let you know, What Frank for other's used to do, Is now for Frank done by another.

ON A MR. JOHN SULLEN. Here lies John Sullen, and it is God's will, He that was Sullen shall be Sullen still; He still is Sullen :-if the truth ye seek, Knock until Doomsday, Sullen will not speak.

Diary and Chronology.

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CORRESPONDING CHRONOLOGY.

March23 SUN. Fifth Sunday in Mar. 23 St. Edelwald was an English Benedictine monk of

Lent; or Pas sion Sunday. LESSONS for the

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Rippon. He afterwards became a hermit, and was buried by St. Cuthbert, in St. Peter's Church, at Lindisfarne. He is said to have died A, D, 699. 1801. The emperor Paul, of Russia, supposed to have met his death by strangulation at St. Petersburgh, a death that tyrants have often met with. 1824, The beautiful collection of Paintings, the property of the late Mr. Angerstein, purchased by government, towards forming a National Gallery. 24 St. Irenæus, was bishop of Lyons, and a native of Greece. He was beheaded during the persecution of Severus in 202.

1602. Died at Richmond, in Surrey, Q. Elizabeth, ET. 70, in the 45 year of her reign. She was born at Greenwich, in Kent. It is said of Elizabeth, that she gloried in the title of a virgin Queen, and refused several matrimonial overtures; yet was supposed to be pleased with these applications. 1003. James I. crowned King of England. He was son of the unfortunate Mary of Scotland, by her cousin, Lord Darnley. Buchan, the Scorch historian, was his tutor, and when accused of having made him a pedant, replied "That he could do nothing better with him."

25 This day celebrates the angel's message to the Vir gin Mary, respecting the Saviour of the World. The Roman Catholic Festival of the Annunciation is commonly called in England, Lady Day, which is one of the legal quarters.

The Roman Feast, Hilaria, observed in honour of the Mother of the Gods.

1815. The allied Sovereigns of Europe entered into a treaty to exterminate Napoleon Buonaparte. 1688. Parochial Charity Schools first instituted in London and its vicinity, for the education of the children of the poor.

26 St. Ludger was bishop of Munster, in Germany, and died A. D. 809.

1811. A lamentable fire took place at Rohenfield, in Hanover, which consumed above 150 houses. 27 St. John was a hermit, inured to obedience by an ancient holy anchoret. He is reported to have lived on the top of a high rock from the 42 year of his life, until the year of his death, A. D. 394. 1625. James 1. expired at Theobald's, near Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire. This Seat formerly belonged to Lord Burleigh, who often entertained his Royal mistress Q. Elizabeth at this residence. 1625. The unfortunate Charles I. succeeded to the crown on this day.

1802. The brief peace of Amiens concluded. 1812. The French Flotilla defeated before Dieppe, by Captains Harvey and Trollope, of the Rosario and Grifin sloops.

28 Sixtus III. was a priest of the Church of Rome, and succeeded Celestine in the Papacy. He was accused of debauchery by Anicius Bassus, who had been consul, and was cleared by a council of 56 Bishops. He died A. D. 440, after having go. verned the Church of Rome nearly eight years. 1483. Born at Urbino, Raffaelle, (Sanzio) the cele brated painter. The Cartoons at Hampton Court, by him, are existing memorials of his great fame; these paintings have been engraved in a stile equal to the masterly efforts of the painter, by the late Mr. Holloway, the historical engraver to the King, who laboured nearly thirty years on them. 1757. Robert Damiens, the regicide, was executed with horrible torture, for attempting to assassinate Louis XV. of France, at Versailles.

1801. Died, the gallant Sir Ralph Abercrombie, in Egypt, after defeating the French, at Aboukir, on board Lord Keith's ship.

1802. On this day the new primary planet, Palla, was discovered.

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In our ninth number, we extracted that portion of Mr. Washington Irving's Life and Voyages of Columbus, which related to the first arrival of the renowned navigator and discoverer in Spain, poor and friendless, not having wherewith to satisfy the attacks of hunger on himself, or to prevent its blanching the cheeks of his child, the youthful companion of his misfortunes. From his destitute and hopeless condition, joined with his commanding and intelligent appearance, when craving food of the hospitable father of Rabida, may be dated the origin of the discovery of the western hemisphere. We now proceed to lay before our readers another portion of the work equal in interest to the extract before given, the part we have chosen is that which details his return, after having completed his first voyage, and the joyful reception he met with from his former friends the inhabitants of Palos, which arrival is most admirably contrasted with VOL. I. N

the return of his companion in adventure, the dissatisfied and avaricious Alonzo Pinzon, who deserted from him in his vessel the Pinta, at Cuba. To this we have added his reception at the Spanish Court.

RECEPTION OF COLUMBUS AT PALOS.

The triumphant return of Columbus, was a prodigious event in the history of the little port of Palos, where every-body was more or less interested in the fate of his expedition. The most important and wealthy sea-captains of the place had engaged in it, and scarcely a family but had some relative or friend among the navigators. The departure of the ships, upon what appeared a chimerical and desperate cruise, had spread gloom and dismay over the place; and the storms which had raged throughout the winter had heightened the public despondency. Many lamented their friends as lost, while imagination lent mysterious horrors to their fate, picturing them as driven about over wild and desert wastes of water without a shore, or as perishing amidst rocks and quicksands, and whirlpools; 12-SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1828

or a prey to those monsters of the deep, with which credulity, in those days, peopled every distant and unfrequented sea. There was something more awful in such a mysterious fate than in death itself, under any defined and ordinary form.

When the news arrived, therefore, that one of the adventurous ships was standing up the river, the inhabitants were thrown into great agitation, but when they heard that she returned in triumph from the discovery of a world, and beheld her furling her sails in their harbour, the whole community broke forth into transports of joy. The bells were rung, the shops shut, all business was suspended; for a time there was nothing but the hurry and tumult of sudden exaltation and breathless curiosity. Some were anxious to know the fate of a relative, others of a friend, and all to learn particulars of so wonderful a voyage. When Columbus landed, the multitude thronged to see, and welcome him, and a grand procession was formed to the principal church, to return thanks to God for so signal a discovery made by the people of that place, the unthinking populace forgetting, in their

exultation, the thousand difficulties which they had thrown in the way of the enterprise. Wherever Columbus passed, the streets resounded with shouts and acclamations; he received such honours as are paid to sovereigns, but to him they were rendered with tenfold warmth and sincerity. What a contrast was this to his departure a few months before, followed by murmurs and execrations; or, rather what a contrast to his first arrival at Palos, a poor pedestrian, craving bread and water for his child, at the gate of a convent!

Understanding that the court was at Barcelona, Columbus felt disposed to proceed thither immediately in his caravel reflecting, however, on the dangers and disasters he had already experienced on the seas, he resolved to proceed by land. He despatched a letter to the king and queen, informing them of his arrival, and soon after departed for Seville to await their orders, taking with him six of the natives whom he had brought from the New World. One had died at sea, and three were left ill at Palos.

It is a singular coincidence, which an

poor and unknown in Spain, offering him
his purse, and entering with hearty con-
currence into his plans. He had assisted
him by his personal influence at Palos,
combating the public prejudices, and
pro-
moting the manning and equipping of his
vessels, when even the orders of the so-
vereigns were of no avail; he had ad-
vanced the part of the funds to be borne
by the admiral; finally, he had embarked
with his brothers in the expedition, staking
life as well as property on the event. He
had thus entitled himself to participate
largely in the glory of this immortal en-
terprise: but forgetting the grandeur of
the cause, he had deserted the high object
in view, and by yielding to the impulse of
a low and sordid passion, had tarnished
his character for ever.
That he was a
man naturally of generous sentiments is
evident from the poignancy of his remorse:
a mean man could not have fallen a victim
to self-upbraiding for having committed a
mean action. His story shows how one
lapse from duty may counterbalance the
merits of a thousand services; how one
moment of weakness may mar the beauty
of a whole life of virtue; and how im
portant it is for a man, under all circum
stances, to be true, not merely to others,
but to himself.

pears to be well authenticated, that on the very evening of the arrival of Columbus at Palos, and while the peals of triumph were still ringing from its towers, the Pinta, commanded by Martin Alonzo Pinzon, likewise entered the river. After her separation from the Admiral in the storm, she had been driven before the gale into the Bay of Biscay, and had made the port of Bayonne. Doubting whether Columbus had survived the tempest, and, at all events, anxious to anticipate him, and to secure the favourable prepossessions of the court and the public, Pinzon had immediately written to to the sovereigns, giving information of the discovery he had made, and had requested permission to come to court and Communicate the particulars in person. As soon as the weather permitted, he had again set sail, anticipating a triumphant reception in his native port of Palos. When, on entering the harbour, he beheld the vessel of the admiral riding at anchor, and learnt the enthusiasm with which he had been received, and the rejoicings with which his return had been celebrated, the heart of Pinzon died within him. He called to mind his frequent arrogance and insubordination, and his wilful desertion off the coast of Cuba, by which he had impeded the prosecution of the voyage. It is said that he feared to meet Columbus COLUMBUS'S RECEPTION AT THE SPANISH in this hour of his triumph, lest he might put him under arrest; but it is more probable that he was ashamed to appear before the public in the midst of his rejoicings, as a recreant to the cause which excited such universal admiration. Getting into his boat, therefore, he landed privately, and kept himself out of sight until he heard of the admiral's departure. He then returned to his home, broken in health, and deeply dejected. Palos had been his little world, in which he had moved with unrivalled importance; out now he found himself fallen in public opinion, and fancied the finger of scorn continually pointed at him. All the honours lavished on Columbus, all the rapturous eulogiums of his enterprise, sunk into the soul of Pinzon as so many reproaches on himself; and when at length he received a severe and reproachful reply to the letter he had written to the sovereigns, his morbid feelings added virulence to his malady, and in a few days he died, the victim of envy and

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COURT OF BARCELONA.

Columbus's entrance into the noble city of Barcelona, when on his way to the Spanish Court, has been compared to one of those triumphs which the Romans were accustomed to decree to conquerors.First, were paraded the Indians, painted according to their savage fashion, and de corated with their national ornaments of gold. After these were borne various kinds of live parrots, together with stuffed birds and animals of unknown species, and rare plants, supposed to be of precious qualities; while great care was taken to make a conspicuous display of Indian coronets, bracelets, and other decorations of gold, which might give an idea of the wealth of the newly-discovered regions. After this, followed Columbus on horseback, surrounded by a brilliant cavalcade of Spanish chivalry. The streets were almost impassable from the countless multitude; the windows and balconies were crowded with the fair; the very roofs were covered with spectators. It seemed as if the public eye could not be sated with gazing on these trophies of an unknown world; or on the remarkable man by whom it had been discovered. There was a sublimity in this event that mingled a solemn feeling with the public joy was looked upon as a vast and single dis

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