And nothing came upon the soul but soft,
Sad images. And this was once a palace,
Where the rich viol answered to the lute,
And maidens flung the flowers from their hair
Till the halls swam with perfume: here the dance
Kept time with light harps, and yet lighter feet;
And here the beautiful Mary kept her court,
Where sighs and smiles made her regality,
And dreamed not of the long and many years
When the heart was to waste itself away
In hope, whose anxiousness was as a curse:
Here, royal in her beauty and her power,
The prison and the scaffold, could they be
But things whose very name was not for her?
And this now fallen sanctuary, how oft
Have hymns and incense made it holiness!
How oft, perhaps, at the low midnight hour,
Its once fair mistress may have stolen to pour
At its pure altar, thoughts which have no vent,
But deep and silent prayer; when the heart finds
That it may not suffice unto itself,

But seeks communion with that other state,
Whose mystery to it is as a shroud

In which it may conceal its strife of thought,
And find repose.

But it is utterly changed:

No incense rises, save some chance wild-flower
Breathes grateful to the air; no hymn is heard,
No sound, but the bat's melancholy wings;
And all is desolate, and solitude.

And thus it is with links of destiny:

Clay fastens on with gold-and none may tell
What the chain's next unravelling will be.
Alas, the mockeries in which fate delights!
Alas, for time!-still more, alas! for change!
26.-SAINT CYPRIAN.

L. E. L.

St. Cyprian was made Bishop of Carthage in the year 248. After many persecutions, he was beheaded in 258. His works were translated by Dr. Marshall, and published in one folio volume.

*28. 1824.-J. B. DAVIS, M.D. DIED,

The Founder of the Royal Universal Dispensary for Children,' an Institution which has relieved many thousands yearly. It affords us much pleasure to find that MR. WOODHAM has been appointed the Resident Apothecary of this infantine Dispensary;

as we are confident that his medical skill and humane treatment of the little patients committed to his charge, will not fail to ensure for him the respect and approbation of the Patrons and Directors of this excellent Establishment.

29.-SAINT MICHAEL.

St. Michael, the Archangel. His festival was first observed in the year 487.

*29.—BURY FAIR PROCLAIMED.

On the 19th of June 1816, it was decided in the Court of King's Bench, that, from time immemorial, there had existed a Fair, by prescription, at Bury St. Edmunds, to the end of October, and, by the Alderman's permission, into the month of November. This decision for ever confirms the freedom of Bury Fair. There are balls in the next week after old Michaelmas, and the Norwich company of players perform for three weeks or a month.

30. SAINT JEROME.

St. Jerome was the most eminent biblical scholar of the fourth century. He was born at Stridon about the year 331, and died at or near Bethlehem, A.D.420, in the 90th year of his age. He was the first who suggested the plan of teaching children to read by having the letters of the alphabet on circles of ivory. His revision of the New Testament, and his translation of the Old, form the ground-work of the present Vulgate.-For accounts of his voluminous writings, consult Hody, Cave, Calmet, Marsh, and Townley.

* SEPT. 1825.-THE LONDON UNIVERSITY.

Some information respecting the much talked of 'London University' may be acceptable to our readers. The whole expense for each student's instruction at the London University will not exceed £25 or £30 per annum, (this supposes a student to attend five or six of the general classes, but the medical education will be necessarily more expensive, from the costs of the anatomical department); with not more than ten weeks of vacation. The vacations will comprise a fortnight at Easter, about six weeks from the middle of August to the end of September, and a fortnight at Christmas. The capital (£300,000) is to be

raised by 3000 shares of £100 each, or donations of £50, which will entitle the donor to the same privileges for life as a shareholder of £100. Each holder of £100 share will receive interest at a rate not exceeding four per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, and be entitled to present one student for each share. Every student to pay five guineas to the general fund, exclusive of one guinea per annum to the Library, Museum, and Collection of Maps, Charts, Drawings, and Models.—An unsightly piece of waste ground at the NW. extremity of Gower-street, Bedfordsquare, for a long time a nuisance in this respectable neighbourhood, has, we understand, been purchased by the London University Company, as an appropriate site for the erection of their New Building, which it is expected will be completed in August 1826, and the classes opened in the following October.

Astronomical Occurrences

In SEPTEMBER 1826.

Clear shines the azure canopy above,
With here and there a cloud of beauteous hue;
As if some genius of the vale had left

His sky-wrought mantle floating on the winds.
PENNIE'S Royal Minstrel.

SOLAR PHENOMENA.

THE Sun enters Libra at 40 m. after 2 in the afternoon of the 23d of this month; and he rises and sets on certain days, as in the following Table. For other epochs besides noon on these days, we must refer to the directions given in the preceding months.

TABLE

Of the Sun's Rising and Setting for every fifth Day. September 1st, Sun rises 14 m. after 5. Sets 46 m. after 6

Equation of Time.

As the Sun is now before a well regulated clock, to find the time which the latter should indicate at apparent noon, or when the Sun is on the meridian, the numbers in the following Table must be subtracted from those given at the same moment by a good sundial.

TABLE

Of the Equation of Time for every fifth Day.

m. S.

Friday, September 1st, from the time by the dial sub. 0 5 Wednesday,......... 6th,

Monday,

11th,

1 40

3 22

5 7

6 52

836

Moon's Passage over the Meridian.

The following transits of the Moon will afford opportunities for observation this month, should the weather prove favourable :

September 8th, at 37 m. after 5 in the evening

35
33

6

.......

7

Time of High Water at London for every fifth Day. The following will be the times of full tide at London Bridge for several days during the present month; and those for the intermediate days and other places will afford exercises for our youthful readers to find according to the directions already given.

PHENOMENA PLANETARUM.

The brightness of Venus now begins to increase with greater rapidity, and she becomes a beautiful object, amid the calm evenings of this month, as the evening star. The proportion of her phases now is, Illuminated part = 8.066

September 1st, {Dark part

= 3.934

Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites.

Jupiter is now so near the Sun, that none of these eclipses are visible this month.

Conjunction of the Moon with the Planets and Stars. September 5th, with ∞ in Virgo at 5 in the morning

5th,

Venus..........1 in the afternoon 12th, 8 in Capricorn, 8 in the morning.

....

Mercury will be stationary on the 8th of this month, and attain his greatest elongation on the 16th. Jupiter will be in conjunction at 9 in the morning of the 18th. Georgium Sidus will be stationary on the 28th. Saturn will be in quadrature at noon of the 29th; and Mercury and Jupiter will be in conjunction with each other at 1 in the afternoon of the 30th.

Midnight and Dawn, touched by the pen of sensibility, are each capable of affording instruction to the contemplative mind. The following are speci

"Tis midnight deep: o'er all the vacant plains
Thick darkness sits, and awful stilness reigns.
The feathered songsters of the grove no more
Chaunt in shrill strains their amorous ditties o'er;
But, cold and shivering on some friendly spray,
In silence pass the cheerless hours away.
Nor voice nor sound obtrudes, but where alone
The distant cataract's hoarse and hollow moan,
Echoing, provokes the wakeful house-dog's bark,
While faithful to his charge, amid the dark,
He views the gliding Moon with jealous eye,
And growls at his own shadow sitting by.