While in the ear of royalty this message he imparts : "Kings, would ye safely reign, your thrones must be your people's hearts." Hail, giant Spirit of the Times!-but let us ever see RELIGION, LIBERTY, as now, walk hand in hand with thee; Then shall all nations bless thy course-then shall the world indeed J. HOLLAND. THE RUINS OF PESTUM.* THEY stand between the mountains and the sea. Waiting the appointed time! All, all within Their iron-brown o'erspread with brightest verdure !- The temples of Pæstum are three in number; and have survived nearly nine centuries, the total destruction of the city. Tradition is silent concern ing them; but they must have existed now between two and three thousand years. The violets of Pæstum were as proverbial as the roses. tions them with the honey of Hybla Martial men Sweet as when Tully, writing down his thoughts, For Athens, when a ship, if north-east winds Or the green lizard rustling through the grass, Half razed, half sunk, or scattered as in scorn ;— ROGERS THE SHIELD. BY THOMAS BRYDSON. THE old village clock struck six in the afternoon, as the landlord of the principal inn uncorked a bottle of porter and poured out its contents, with words of commendation, to three young men who seemed but newly returned from a rural excursion. "I houp, gentlemen," he continued, "ye have had an agreeable walk. Ye wud fin 'oot the castle easily by the road I tell't you o'." "Yes," said the eldest looking of the three, "but what interested us more than any thing we saw there, was the figure of a shield painted on one of the rocks in the wild glen through which we passed. The colours have suffered by time, but the outline is perfectly distinct, and beautifully traced. A shepherd of whom we inquired its history could tell us little else than that its origin was unknown, as it had been only lately discovered in the clearing of the woods-perhaps you are better informed." The landlord took a seat without waiting for invitation, and placing his right hand, half-shut, upon the table, looked straight forward, in a manner that presaged either a very long, or a very perplexed, or a very important story." I'ts noo |