"So fades, so flourishes, grows dim and dies, for the "Vices," we hope, he never even All that this world was proud of."

His light play is beautiful-and his own guard close, compact, and firm; so that it requires an Admirable Crichton to touch him on a vital part. But he is rather out of practice-rests on his former fame and is careless about accepting the challenge of a clever Tyro. About the year 1804, or 1805, or 1806, he won the prize-sword, at a public exhibition, from a crowd of no contemptible competitors and whoever taught him fence, has endless honour in his scholar-for, as our worthy and ingenious friend, Pierce Egan, would say, "Jack's as good as his

master.

Brougham is but an indifferent and awkward hand at the small-sword-the deadliest by far of all weapons-and prides himself in his use of the sabre, the broad-sword, or claymore. He is an ugly customer. Nor should we at all relish having our head broken by such a player at single-stick. But he has a loose hanging guard--nor is it difficult, as we opine, for a clever and active antagonist in no long encounter, to make the blood trickle an inch down his formidable forehead. He blusters and bullies too much during the set-to-is not particularly conscientious about a foul blow-and it is acknowledged on all hands, that he is too much given to ruffianing it. It will be in the recollection of all our sporting readers, that he once suddenly attacked George Canning, that most skilful smallswordsman,-unawares, and out of the ring-and for his pains, got punished by a thrust in the mouth, that almost cut his tongue in two, the point coming out at the cheek, a rueful and ghastly wound that left a scar. He flies at high game. Once on a day, when the Great Lord" was in Spain, he challenged Wellington himself but now he wears his arm in a sling, and seems in no mood for fighting,

The King of Prussia, and the Emperors of Austria and Russia, has he also roared on to enter the lists-and indeed all the members either one after another, or all at once-of that invisible, and hitherto apparently pacific body-the Holy Alliance. But fretting and fuming, and foaming, is not fighting; and though we grant that the odds would be on his head at Tattersall's and Brookes', if matched against old Fred-or the Austrian—we back Nicholas against him at six to four - who, we understand, has threatened to take the shine out of him, were it only to revenge the insult offered of old to his late brother Sandy, who was not a man, had he come to the scratch, to have let Brougham off without a bellyful.

As for Sydney Smith, to him fighting is fun, and he cuts as many capers in the ring as young Spring, the Conqueror. But he is formidable in his frolic-though rather too showy, yet a clean, straight, and even heavy hitter; and most of his antagonists, though heavier men than himself, and deficient in neither science nor bottom, have, after a few rounds, in which their gravity was most amusingly, and to the infinite mirth of all beholders, contrasted with the antics of the Parson, who kept hopping about like a mountebank, yet all the while dealing out right and left-handers like lightning, been carried out of the ring deaf as a house, and blind as the pier of Leith, or the mole of Tyre. He has fought one or two drawn battles, especially one with the best man then in the ring, under the nomme de guerre of Peter Plymley, which was brought to a wrangle, and ended in a draw-but he has never yet been fairly defeated; and to accomplish that, will require an out-and-outer.-Blackwood's Mag.

JULY.

This month the seventh of the year was ordered by Marc Anthony to be so called in compliment to the Mighty Julius who reformed the old Roman calendar established by Romulus, by whom the month was termed Quintilis, and accounted the fifth of the year which begun with March. The word July is derived from the Latin Julius, the surname of Caius Cea er the dictator, who was born this month. Our Saxon ancestors gave it the name of Heu-monat, or Hey-monat, from its being the month "therein they usually mowed and made their hay-harvest." July by the Romans was considered as under the protection of Jupiter, and during its progress they kept the following festivals and ceremonies.

On the first day of this month the leases of the houses in Rome generally expired, and were renewed. And on the fifth or the third before the Nones was celebrated the festival of the Poplifugia, in memory of the retreat of the people to the Aventine hill, when Romulus was killed. The festival of Fortuna muliebris was held on the sixth. This holiday was established by the mother and wife of Coriolanus to commemorate their obtaining peace from him for their country. On this day also commenced the Ludi Appollinaris which lasted eight days in honour of Apollo, these games were under the direction of the prætor, and were celebrated in the great circus. The seventh or day of the Nones, a festival called Caprotina Nona was celebrated in honour of Juno,

this feast was held in remembrance of a female servant or slave called Tutola, having climbed a wild-fig-tree with a burning torch which she held in her hand as a sign to the Romans to surprise the army of the Latins. On the day succeeding this feast was another rejoicing day termed Vitulatio in honour of Vitula, the goddess of rejoicing. The twelfth was kept holy from the circumstance of its being the day on which Julius Caesar was born. The Mercuriales or feast of the Mercantile people kept in honour of Mercury, began on the fourteenth and lasted for six days. On the fifteenth or day of the Ides the Tranvectio or general muster of the Roman Knights took place, on which occasion the Knights adorned with coronets made with branches of the olive-tree rode in procession from the temple of Honour to the Capitol, the Censors being present at the ceremony. And on the same day was kept the feast of Castor and Pollux in the temple, built by the son of Aulus Posthumius in the great place of Rome, because they had fought for the Romans against the Latins, who attempted to restore Tarquinus Superbus to Rome, when solemn sports and combats took place. The seventeenth was accounted fatal from the battle of Allia being lost thereon. On the nineteenth the games called Lucaria commenced and lasted for four days, these games derived their name from a sacred wood Lucus, situated between the Tiber and the Salarian Way, and were celebrated in this place to commemorate the Romans, having sought refuge in the sacred wood after having been defeated by the Gauls. Sports were held in honour of Neptune on the twenty-second. And on the twenty-third pregnant women offered sacrifices to the Goddess Opigena, (another name for Juno,) when they carried small wax figures to her temple, and offered up prayers to her to propitiate their deliverance. On the twenty-fourth the feasts of the Pontiffs were held. The twenty-fifth was devoted to the Furinalia and the Ambarvalia, the former feast was kept in honour of Furina, the Goddess of Robbers, sometimes called Laverna, by some of the ancients, among whom is Cicero, she is considered as being the same with the furies, be this as it may, she had a wood consecrated to her, and a temple, with a priest of her own. The latter was called the feast of Perambulation, when it was usual for the citizens who had lands and vineyards, without the city to go in procession crowned with oak leaves, preceeded by twelve priests three times round the ground, chanting hymns in honour of Mars, and Ceres. The intent of this ceremony was to obtain a plentiful harvest from the gods. On the twenty-eighth sacrifices of wine and honey were offered to Ceres; and at the end of the month red haired dogs was sacrificed to the dog-star to moderate the excessive heat of the season.

The month of July may be viewed as the reverse of January, for as the one is considered the coldest, the other may be looked on the hottest, for, though the direct influence of the sun diminishes after the summer solstice, yet the earth and air has been heated to such excess, that the warmth which they retain, more than compensates, for a time, the diminution of the sun's rays. Summer may be reckoned this month, as being fully with us, apparelled in her gayest attire, revelling in all the varied colours of the rainbow, for now" the Woods and Groves, the Hills and Plains have put off the bright green livery of Spring; but, unlike them, they have changed it for one dyed in as many colours as a harlequin's coat. The Rye is yellow, and almost ripe for the sickle. The Wheat and Barley are of a dull green, from their swelling ears being alone visible, as they bow before every breeze that blows on them. The Oats are ripening apace, and quivering on their fragile stems, as they hang like rain drops in the air," waiting the gathering hand of the husbandmen. Let the eye of the admirer of nature be directed which way it may, whether to the garden, the orchard, or the open field, it meets with something picturesque and beautiful, that affects the beholder with pleasure unspeakable, and fills his mind with vast and wondering ideas of his great creators munificent bounty and infinite wisdom.

This subject would admit of our being more diffuse, were we not confined by the limits of space. Therefore we must forego speaking of the feathered tenantry of the groves, and the insect tribe now in their full vigour, myriads of which haunt the air and take full possession of the leaf, the trees antique branches and their covering rind, the blossom and bud, the mossy bank made brilliant by the sun's bright beam, the bare earth, the pool, the ditch, all of which may be seen teeming with animal life, affording to the enquiring entomologist, food for his contemplative mind. Having presented our readers with a slight sketch of this glowing and beautiful month, we shall here conclude with a brief and striking picture of this season by a poet of no common ability, though but little known :

Now glowing in full summer's heat,
The sun pours down his genial rays;
Yet rip'ning crops the traveller greet,
And cooling fruit his thirst allays,
Thus, like the sun in splendid might,
On man celestial glory shines;
Still ripening to perfection bright,
Eternal Bounty's vast designs.

Diary and Chronology.

DATE. DAYS.

DIARY.

DATE.

CORRESPONDING CHRONOLOGY.

June 24 Tues. St. John the Bap- June 24 The nativity of St. John the baptist is kept on this

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day, because he was the forerunner of our Saviour, and, by preaching the doctrine of repentance, prepared the way for the gospel. It is usual for the church to celebrate the festival of saints on the day of their death, but the feast of St. John is an exception to the rule, from the saint's having been sanctified in his mother's womb. 1497.-John Sebastian Cabot, the navigator, made the discovery of Newfoundland on this day. On his return from this voyage, finding himself neglected by Henry VII. he went to Spain, where he was furnished with ships and stores, and thereby enabled to effect the discovery of the Brazilian coast, and the river La Plata.

25 St. Prosper, of Aquitain, was the Secretary of Pope Leo I. by whom he was employed in the most important affairs of the church. He was a vigorous defender of the writings of St. Augustin, and is said to have died A. D. 465.

1314.-This day is the anniversary of the fight of
Bannockburn, when Robert Bruce signally de-
feated the English army in the presence of Ed-
ward II. The glorious termination of this battle
secured the throne to Robert Bruce, and the inde-
pendence of Scotland.

26 St. Vigilius was bishop of Trent. He was stoned
to death by idolaters for destroying an idol which
they worshipped. His death took place during
the consulship of Stilicon, A. D. 400 or 405.
27 St. Ladislas was the son of Bela, king of Hungary.
He succeeded to the throne in 1080. He died
A. D. 1095, when about to take the command as
general in chief of the great expedition of the
Christians against the Saracens for the recovery
of the Holy Land.

1775.-The severe fight of Bunkers Hill took place
on this day, when the Americans were compelled
to abandon their fortifications. In this disputed
contest the English suffered considerable loss,
without reaping any vast advantage over their
enemies.

1820-Died, J. Von Hager, the eminent professor of the Orieatal languages, at Pavia. He was well known by his writings on the literature and language of the Chinese.

28 St. Irenceus, bishop of Lyons, was martyred, and with him were massacred all the Christians of Lyons, A. D. 202, the beginning of the persecu. tion under Severus.

1811.-The surrender of the Spanish sea-port Tarragona, after enduring the utmost hardships, took place on this day, when marshal Suchet dishonourably suffered his army to sack and plunder the town and distressed inhabitants. 29 This saint was the first consecrated bishop of the Catholic church in the cathedral of Rome. 1190.-On this day Richard Cœur de Lion joined Philip Augustus, King of France, with his army on the plains of Vezelay. The forces of the two monarchs amounted to 100,000 men, who followed their leaders to the Holy Land, to assist Frederick Barbarossa in the third crusade against the Infidels.

30 St. Paul was not one of the twelve, yet says Butler he is entitled to the honour of an apostle, from his conversion, great learning, and piety. He was beheaded A. D. 66. St. Paul is denominated as the apostle of the Gentiles.

1825.-Unfortunately drowned by venturing out of his depth, the Rev. Henry Kett, ET. 64. He was the author of the Elements of Useful Knowledge a work which has passed through nine or ten e ditions, as well as several others of interest.