The clamorous horn along the cliffs above;
The hollow murmur of the ocean tide;

The hum of bees, and linnet's lay of love,
And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.

The cottage curs at early pilgrim bark;

Crowned with her pail the tripping milkmaid sings
The whistling ploughman stalks afield; and, hark!
Down the rough slope the ponderous waggon rings;
Through rustling corn the hare astonished springs;
Slow tolls the village-clock the drowsy hour;
The partridge bursts away on whirring wings;
Deep mourns the turtle in sequestered bower,
And shrill lark carols clear from her aërial tow'r.

MELODIES of the EVENING.

Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close,
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;

BEATTIE

There, as I passed with careless steps and slow,
The mingling notes came softened from below;
The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
The sober herd that lowed to meet their young,
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
The playful children just let loose from school,
The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind,
These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
And filled each pause the nightingale had made.

GOLDSMITH.

JUNE.

THE Saxons called June weyd-monat, because their beasts did then weyd or feed in the meadows.

Remarkable Days

NICOMEDE was a pupil of St. Peter, and was discovered to be a Christian by his burying Felicula, a martyr, in a very honourable manner. He was beaten

to death with leaden plummets, on account of his religion, in the reign of Domitian.

*1. 1803.-CAROLINE SYMMONS DIED, ET. 14! This amiable young lady, when she was only eleven years old, displayed an astonishing brilliancy of invention and harmony of numbers, and may be fairly classed among the prodigies of early genius. The following beautiful lines, almost prophetic of her own melancholy fate, were written in her eleventh year :

On a BLIGHTED ROSE BUD.

Scarce had thy velvet lips imbibed the dew,
And nature hailed thee infant queen of May;
Scarce saw the opening bloom the sun's broad ray,
And to the air its tender fragrance threw ;
When the north-wind enamoured of thee grew,
And by his cold rude kiss thy charms decay :
Now drops thy head, now fades thy blushing hue,
No more the queen of flowers, no longer gay.
So blooms a maid, her guardian's health and joy ;
Her mind arrayed in innocency's vest,
When suddenly, impatient to destroy,

Death clasps her vigour to his iron breast.
She fades: the parent, sister, friend deplore,
The charms and budding virtues now no more!

*1. 1794.-VICTORY OF LORD HOWE.
4.-KING GEORGE III born.

5.-SAINT BONIFACE.

Boniface was a Saxon presbyter, born in England, and at first called Winfrid. He was sent as a missionary by Pope Gregory II into Germany, where he made so many converts, that he was distinguished by the title of the German Apostle. He was created Bishop of Mentz in the year 145. Boniface was one of the first priests of his day, and was also a great friend and admirer of the Venerable Bede. He was murdered in a barbarous manner by the populace near Utrecht, while preaching the Christian religion. 11. SAINT BARNABAS.

Our saint's proper name was Joses; he was de

scended of the tribe of Levi, and born at Cyprus. His parents being rich, had him educated at Jerusalem, under the care of Gamaliel, a learned Jew; and, after his conversion, he preached the Gospel with Paul, in various countries, for fourteen years. Barnabas suffered martyrdom at Salamis, in his native island:-being shut up all night in the synagogue by some Jews, he was, the next morning, cruelly tortured, and afterwards stoned to death. The Epistle which he wrote is considered genuine, though not admitted into the canon of the church.

*12. 1381.-WAT TYLER killed.

The king passing along Smithfield, very slenderly guarded, met with Wat Tyler, at the head of the rioters, and entered into a conference with him. Tyler, having ordered his companions to retire till he should give them a signal, after which they were to murder all the company, except the king himself, whom they were to detain prisoner, feared not to come into the midst of the royal retinue. He there behaved himself in such a manner, that Walworth, the Mayor of London, not able to bear his insolence, drew his sword, and struck him so violent a blow as brought him to the ground, where he was instantly dispatched by others of the king's attendants. The mutineers, seeing their leader fall, prepared themselves for revenge; and this whole company, with the king himself, had undoubtedly perished on the spot, had it not been for an extraordinary presence of mind which Richard discovered on the occasion. He ordered his company to stop; he advanced alone towards the enraged multitude; and, accosting them with an affable and intrepid countenance, he asked them- What is the meaning of this disorder, my good people? Are ye angry that ye have lost your leader? I am your king: I will be your leader.' The populace, overawed by his presence, implicitly followed him: he led them into the fields, to prevent any disorder which might have arisen by their continuing in the

city being there joined by Sir Robert Knolles, and a body of well armed veteran soldiers, who had been secretly drawn together, he strictly prohibited that officer from falling on the rioters, and committing an undistinguished slaughter upon them: and he peaceably dismissed them with the same charters which had been granted to their fellows. Soon after, the nobility and gentry, hearing of the king's danger, in which they were all involved, flocked to London with their adherents and retainers; and Richard took the field at the head of an army 40,000 strong. It then behoved all the rebels to submit. The charters of enfranchisement and pardon were revoked by parliament; the low people were reduced to the same slavish condition as before; and several of the ringleaders were severely punished for the late disorders: some were even executed without process or form of law.

17. SAINT ALBAN.

St. Alban, the first Christian martyr in this island, suffered in 303. He was converted to Christianity by Amphialus, a priest of Caerleon in Monmouthshire, who, flying from persecution, was hospitably entertained by St. Alban, at Verulam, in Hertfordshire, now called, from him, St. Albans. Amphialus being closely pursued, made his escape, dressed in St. Alban's clothes. This, however, being soon discovered, exposed St. Alban to the fury of the Pagans; and our saint refusing to perform the sacrifice to their gods, was first miserably tortured, and then put to death.

*19. 1215.-MAGNA CHARTA SIGNED. 20.-TRANSLATION OF EDWARD, King of the West Saxons.

Edward, being barbarously murdered by his mother-in-law, was first buried at Warham, without any solemnity; but, after three years, was carried by Duke Alferus to the minster of Shrewsbury, and there interred with great pomp.

21.-LONGEST DAY.

This day is, in London, 16 h. 34 m. 5 s., allowing 9 m. 16 s. for refraction.

*21. 1377.-RICHARD II BEGAN TO Reign.

He was violent in his temper, profuse in his expenses, fond of idle show and magnificence, devoted to favourites, and addicted to pleasure; passions, all of them, the most inconsistent with a prudent economy, and consequently dangerous in a limited and mixed government. Had he possessed the talents of gaining, and, still more, of overawing his great barons, he might have escaped all the misfortunes of his reign, and been allowed to carry much further his oppressions over his people, if he really was guilty of any without their daring to rebel or even murmur against him. But when the grandees were tempted, by his want of prudence and rigour, to resist his authority, and execute the most violent enterprises upon him, he was naturally led to seek for an opportunity of retaliation; justice was neglected; the lives of the chief nobility sacrificed; and all these evils seem to have proceeded more from a settled design of establishing arbitrary power, than from the insolence of victory, and the necessities of the king's situation.-Hume.

*22. 1476.-BATTLE OF MORAT.

Not far from Morat, a considerable town of Switzerland, a celebrated battle was fought, in which the heroic Swiss nearly destroyed the entire army of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. On the high road, there was formerly a chapel filled with the bones of the Burgundian soldiers, who were slain at the siege of the town and in the battle. Lord Byron, who visited this spot in 1816, observes, The chapel is destroyed, and the pyramid of bones diminished to a small number by the Burgundian legion in the service of France, who anxiously effaced this record of their ancestors' less successful invasions. A few