And when the storms of time shall end,
And all your mortal toil be o'er,
O may cherubic hosts attend,

And bear you to the blissful shore!

There may you join the' angelic choir,
And swell the symphonies divine;
And bright, as is the solar fire,
To everlasting ages shine!

From you, whose bounty is display'd
On each succeeding festal day,
We ask again the kindly aid,

While we our grateful tribute pay.
Your help we need; your help we crave:
Look on this smiling infant train!
A powerful claim we surely have,
Nor can we, shall we, ask in vain.

New-Mills.

AN INFANT'S LAST SLEEP.

Go to thy sleep, my child,

Go to thy dreamless bed,
Gentle and undefiled,

With blessings on thy head.
Fresh roses in thy hand,

Buds on thy pillow laid,
Haste from this fearful land,
Where flowers so quickly fade.
Before thy heart hath learn'd
In waywardness to stray,
Before thy feet have turn'd
The dark and downward way;
Ere sin hath seared thy breast,
Or sorrow woke the tear,
Rise, and secure thy rest
In yon celestial sphere.
Because thy smile was fair,

Thy lip and eye so bright,
Because thy cradle care

Was such a fond delight,
Shall love with weak embrace
Thy out-spread wing detain ?
No!-Angel, seek thy place
Amid the cherub train.

Hartford, September 15th, 1829.

James Nichols, Printer, 2, Warwick Square, London.

G. B.

BE it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days;
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
The wall on which we tried our graven skill,
The very name we carved subsisting still;
The bench on which we sat while deep employed,
Though mangled, hack'd, and hewed, not yet destroyed:
The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot,

Playing our games, and on the very spot;
As happy as we once, to kneel and draw
The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw
To pitch the ball into the grounded hat,
Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat;
The pleasing spectacle at once excites
Such recollection of our own delights,
That, viewing it, we seem almost to' obtain
Our innocent sweet simple years again.

COWPER.

COLSTON'S School, in the city of Bristol, was originally "the great house," for the refining of sugar. It was purchased by the benevolent Colston, and in the year 1709, established as an hospital for the education of one hundred boys, to be fed, clothed, and instructed in writing and arithmetic, till they should attain the age of fourteen years;

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at the expiration of which time they are put out apprentices, with a fee of ten pounds each. This sum was augmented in 1782 by John Purrier, Esq., merchant of London, who vested sufficient property in the public funds to increase the apprentice-fee from the school to fifteen pounds. The master is allowed one thousand pounds a year for the maintenance of these boys, and has two ushers to assist in educating them. The founder purchased lands in several parts of Somersetshire, and settled the revenues, amounting to £1,318 15s. 6d. per annum, on this foundation. The company of merchant adventurers of this city are the receivers of these rents, and also inspectors of the charity. Eighty of the boys must be the sons of freemen of Bristol; but the other twenty are from different parts of the county. Their dress is similar to that of the boys in Christ's Hospital, London; namely, a long flowing coat of blue cloth, lined with orange, breeches of the same colour, stockings the same colour as the lining of their coats, and a small black worsted cap, with a leather girdle round their waist. On their left breast they wear a brass badge, impressed with the crest of Colston, a dolphin; but on public occasions these are exchanged for silver; both of which kinds were presented to the school by John Purrier, Esq., already mentioned.

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. Colston's Hospital is an extensive building, of rather an unsightly appearance. The school-room is a spacious apartment, at the upper end of which is a portrait of the founder; and several full-length paintings of eminent men adorn the walls. The system of education is that estab

There is a tradition, that Mr. Colston chose the dolphin for his crest from the following circumstance:-One of his ships, returning from the West Indies, richly laden, sprang a leak, which the crew were unable to stop; and the water was rapidly rising in the vessel. At length, however, it was ascertained, that, by some unaccountable circumstance, the water diminished by the usual means adopted by the crew in such cases; and on clearing the hold of the vessel of the water, a dolphin was discovered stuck fast in the hole, by which the water had entered, and being unable to extricate itself had completely prevented the water from increasing, and thereby saved the ship. To commemorate this event, as a signal interposition of Providence, Mr. Colston is said to have chosen the dolphin for his crest.