Now about three hundred and seventy-two years after, in the thirtieth year of the reign of Theodosius, the heresy of those who denied the resurrection of the body so greatly prevailed, that that prince wept bitterly, clad himself in hair-cloth, and led a holy and religious life, "whiche Gop merciful, and piteous, seeying, wold comforte them that were sorrowful and wepying, and gyue to them esperaunce and hope of the resurexyion of deed men, and opened the precyous tresour of His pyte and reysed the forsayde martirs."

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A certain citizen of Ephesus had resolved to erect, on Mount Celion, a dwelling for his herdsmen, and it so chanced that the masons opened the cave, and the seven saints immediately awoke; and, supposing that they had only slept one night, began to prepare their minds for coming torment, but feeling themselves ravenously hungry, they despatched Malchus, with five pieces of silver in his purse, to buy some food, who, when he saw that the masons began to blysse him, was moche admerueyllyd." And when he reached the city his wonder increased ten-fold, for he beheld the sign of the cross thereon! and on every gate appeared the same sign; so he "aduyseed and comforted hymself, and covered his vysage, and entred into the cite" and when he reached the market-place he heard all the people talking about their SAVIOUR CHRIST. Then quoth the saint, "I trow this is not the city of Ephesus, for it is all other wise builded; it is some other city, I wot not what." This the bystanders presently informed him was not the fact; so he went to a baker's, but when he took out his money, the shopkeepers began to wonder in their turn at the antique impress on the coin, and agreed among themselves that the youth had discovered some old treasure. Naturally supposing that he was known, and that the bread-sellers were plotting to betray him, Malchus entreated them to let him go, and "kepe both money and breede." "Nay," said they, "you have found some treasures of the old emperors, share them with us, and we will keep your secret.' Malchus was too alarmed to reply, so they put a cord about his neck and dragged him into the midst of Ephesus, bawling the while that their prisoner had "found great riches," which Malchus, who had now recovered his self-possession, stoutly denied.

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At length St. Martin the bishop, and Antipater the consul, heard the report, and sent for the prisoner and his money; and Malchus went trembling to the church, expecting to meet his foe, the emperor. He was there interrogated how he had obtained the silver. He answered, "by inheritance." The judge then inquired of what city he was: he replied, "of Ephesus." Then let thy kindred bear witness to thee," returned the consul. Then Malchus mentioned the names of several, but no one had ever heard of them, so all the people concluded that the prisoner was endeavouring to cheat them. "This money," observed the judge, was coined three hundred and seventy-two years ago, in the first year of Decius, 'how may it come fro thy lygnage so long sythe,' and thou art young, and wouldest deceive these wise and ancient citizens, thou shalt be punished as the law directs, until you confess where you found this treasure." Then Malchus knelt down, and asked for Decius: to this inquiry the bishop made answer, that he had been long dead. "That cannot be," replied the saint, "for it was but yesterday that I beheld him: follow me, and I will show you my fellows, who have hid themselves in Mount Celion to escape his fury." Concluding that the youth had seen a vision, the good prelate, and a great multitude of the citizens, repaired to the holy mountain, and saw the Christians seated in the cavern, and "theyr vysages like unto roses flowring:" so they glorified God. Then the bishop sent immediately to the emperor, who, rising from the dust, and doffing his mourning garments, hurried from Constantinople to Ephesus, where he was met by the rulers of the city, who conducted him

ceived him coming, their faces blazed like the noon-day sun, and Theodosius embraced them all reverently, and glorified the LORD CHRIST, who had raised them from the dead to testify to the truth of the resurrection. And when they had been seen by all the people, they bowed their faces earthward and gave up the ghost. Then the emperor commanded that gold and silver sepulchres should be made to contain their most precious bodies; but on the night following they appeared unto him in a dream, and craved him to permit them to lie in the cave, as they lay before his arrival. So Theodosius adorned that place nobly and richly" with precious jewels, and commanded that "all the bysshops that wold confesse the resurrection shold be assoyled."

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Such is the legend of the "seven sleepers" as believed in the middle ages. These saints, according to Alban Butler, were walled up together in a cave, wherein they had hid themselves, till they were found in 479; and hence, he says, some moderns have imagined that they only lay asleep till they were discovered.

July 29.-The Spanish Armada was destroyed on this day, 1588.

In Sykes's "Local Records" it is related that on the 29th July, 1822, the cordwainers of Newcastle celebrated the feast of St. Crispin, by holding a coronation of their patron saint, and afterwards walking in procession. The coronation took place in the court of the Freemen's Hospital, at the Westgate, at eleven o'clock, and soon after twelve the procession moved forward. through the principal streets of that town and Gateshead, and finally halted at the sign of the Chancellor's Head, in Newgate-street, where the members of the trade partook of a dinner. There had not been a similar exhibition at Newcastle since 1789.

Poetry.

In Original Poetry, the Name, real or assumed, of the Author, is printed in Small Capitals under the title; in Selections, it is printed in Italics at the end.]

A SKETCH FROM LIFE.

A. H. T.

AH! lingering flower, thou art fading fast,
With lovely things thou must lie,
The yellow leaves, as they rustle past,

Are whispering,-thou must die.
Thou didst tell me blithely of summer skies,
Of the long sweet summer hours;
Aye, many a blessing hidden lies,
Within the eloquent flowers.

Many a tale of the far-off past,
Shining in hues of gold,
Relieving the shadows around us cast
By all which was bright of old.

I remember well the pale features of one,
In the light of whose earnest eye
Lay the nameless expression of something gone,
Of much which had shone to die.

How oft he would gaze, with that mournful look,
Which speaks of some grief within,
On a flower, as some richly illumined book,
Whose love it were treasure to win;
On the crimson bloom of an op'ning rose,
As tho' in its depths lay coiled,
Far hid in its roseate depths, that repose
For which he had vainly toiled!

Full deeply he read of a distant hour,

When he look'd on a form most fair; When the gift, aye, of even a little flower, First taught him sweet love nestled there!

For the hand, as it offer'd that simple flower,
Trembled with hidden feeling,

And the voice, as it faltered, revealed a power
Which mocks our feeble concealing.

Her voice, though it was but a careless word,
In its tone, so low and broken,
Betrayed how the spirit within her stirred---
We needed no farther token;

And the quiet garden, which slept around,
And the broad moon glancing over,
Listened and caught the half-whispered sound,
The first low words of the lover.
Yes, it was love-as the dawning day,

In its purple beauty it shone,
He lived to behold it fade sadly away,
To seek, when, alas! it was gone!

Till dull o'er its loveliness, darkness crept,

Like the deep desolation of yore; Even darkness that well might be felt--and he wept In his grief, for the anguish was sore. Thus he wandered forlorn the wide heavens beneath, Before him a broad desert lay,

The world's mighty desert-from manhood till death, Alone he must pass on his way.

The melodious depths of his eloquent mind

Found a language and spake did he feel
When the pomp of the laurel his temples enshrined,
There was aught in its splendour to heal?
He felt not the glow of its deathless green,
He turned from the glorious dower,
To remember, how meekly, a distant scene-
To gaze on what once was a flower.
Poor colourless dust-in that hour of light,
He felt not that thou wouldst be,
In thy loveliest promise-thine after blight,
A type of his destiny.

Thus he went on his way; till his course became
As a star's, through the midnight sky;
Girt ever by darkness; his radiant name
Shone with cold immortality.

None knew, when like music, exultingly

His voice through the broad earth ran,
That even to bow down his head, and to die,
Had been bliss to that lonely man.

They looked on the features, so quiet and cold,
The dark eye, with its earnest gleam,
They knew not, how deep in his heart untold,
Lay the wreck of his morning dream.
They heard the sweet tide of his minstrelsy roll
As the voice of the rushing wave,

They knew not how hid in his inmost soul
Lay that dream in its restless grave.

Yes! thus did he live-and e'en thus did he die,
Yet of love, and its charmed hours,
He clung to one ling'ring reality

In the beautiful presence of flowers.

Miscellaneous.

"I have here made only a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own, but the string that ties them."-Montaigne.

No man has a right to say he can do nothing for the benefit of mankind, who are less benefited by ambitious projects than by the sober fulfilment of each man's proper duties. By doing the proper duty in the proper place, a man may make the world his debtor. The results of "patient continuance in well doing," are never to be measured by the weakness of the instrument, but by the omnipotence of Him who blesseth the sincere efforts of obedient faith alike in the prince and in the cottager.-Rev. H. Thompson's Life of Hannah More.

Ir is a fair ornament of a man, and a grand convenience both to himself and others with whom he converseth or dealeth, to act regularly, uniformly, and consistently; freeing a man's self from distraction and irresolution in his mind, from change and confusion in his proceedings; securing others from delusion and disappointment in their transactions with him. Even a bad rule constantly observed is, therefore, better than none; order and perseverance in any way, seemeth more convenient than roving and tossing about in uncertainties. But, secluding a regard to the precepts of religion, there can hardly be any sure or settled rule which firmly can engage a man to, or effectually restrain a man from anything.-Barrow.

THE innocent are naturally unsuspecting; the guilty, as naturally suspicious. For it is according to nature that we should judge others by ourselves, until experience of the world awakens the man from the dreams of the youth. Then, indeed, he becomes cautious of committing himself to the treachery which he knows to exist in the world; but if he has preserved, in any degree, the spirit of early years, he never believes any man deliberately evil whom he has not found such by experiment.-Anon.

YEARS may pass over our heads without affording any utility; whereas not a day passes, but, in the common opportunity for acts of high beneficence or extensive transactions of life, and especially in the intercourse of domestic society, gentleness finds place for promoting the happiness of others, and strengthening in ourselves the habit of virtue: nay, by seasonable discoveries of a humane spirit, we sometimes contribute more materially to the advancement of happiness, than by actions which are, seemingly, more important.-Blair.

Ir has been wisely said, "there be as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them." I have a rich neighbour who is so busy that he has no leisure to laugh. God knows that the cares, that are the keys that keep those riches, hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle, that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, when others sleep quietly.-Izaac Walton.

THE man, whom I call deserving the name, is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than himself, whose high purpose is adopted on just principles, and never abandoned while heaven or earth afford means of accomplishing it. He is one who will neither seck an indirect advantage by a specious road, nor take an evil path to secure a real good purpose.-Sir Walter Scott.

IN conversation, humour is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge: few desire to learn, or think they need it; all desire to be pleased, or, if not, to be easy.Extract from Caldwell's "Results of Reading."

MEN should know, that the noble power of suffering bravely, is as far above that of enterprising greatly, as an unblemished conscience, and inflexible resolution, are above an accidental flow of spirits, or a sudden tide of blood. Whosoever is really brave, has always this comfort when he is oppressed, that he knows himself to be superior to those who injure him; for the greatest power on earth can no sooner do him that injury, but the brave man can make himself greater, by forgiving it.-Pope.

FEW districts in England are more worthy of visiting than the Borders. They formed the great arena for the conflicts between two gallant nations; there is hardly a castle, or hill, or valley, which does not teem with historic or romantic traditions. Alnwick, perhaps, holds the most pre-eminent claim upon the tourist for a first visit, not only from its historic importance, and princely castle-the great Border fortress and residence of the Percys, who were themselves the very centre and source of Border story,-but also from its favourable position as a central point from whence to visit some of the most remarkable places in the country. The great trunk railroad from London to Edinburgh, will convey, in a few months, by means of a short branch, the distant traveller, for a few shillings, almost to the very walls of Alnwick Castle. There are three main entrances into the town, all of an imposing character; but as we suppose the visitor to enter at the south end, we will briefly forewarn him of the objects that cannot fail to attract his attention. The first is one of a very pleasing character, not so much on account of its great architectural and scenic beauty, which how ever it possesses in a high degree, as from the gratifying evidence it affords of the kind relationship that exists between one of the greatest landed proprietors of the

kingdom and his numerous tenantry. We allude to the noble column which was erected at the south entrance of the town, by the Percy tenantry, to commemorate the liberality of the Duke of Northumberland at a period of great agricultural distress, when it is said more were found to blame than to imitate. The column, which is built on an eminence rising somewhat suddenly from the great south turnpike, beautifully laid out with shrubbery, is about one hundred feet high, surmounted by a lion passant-the Percy crest, and at the base are four splendidly sculptured lions couchant. Beyond this, the traveller immediately enters into a spacious street; but his length of view is suddenly obstructed by an old and gloomy gateway, which has stood sentinel there since. the time when the gallant Hotspur, with his powers, went forth to do battle with his sovereign on the field of Shrewsbury; for tradition ascribes its erection to that hero. The town was anciently fortified by four strong towers, of which Bond-gate, as the one we are speaking of is called-probably because the houses in this street consisted of those of the bondagers, or persons bound to perform certain menial offices for the Lord of the Castle-is the only surviving one. The name of Hotspur has preserved it from the destruction that has swept away the others. The other entrances are very