Beautiful! beautiful!--thou shalt feel
Their eloquent music from thee steal
Those darkling thoughts, that should mournfully twine
With the light, the life, and the joy--_now_ thine.

Beautiful! beautiful!--each glad bell
Sings to thy soul--'Thou hast borne thee well:
The toil, the strife, and the tempest are o'er,
And thy rest is won--on the Deathless Shore.'


M.L.B.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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MR. HUNT, M.P. FOR PRESTON.

(_From Speakers and Speeches in Parliament, in the New Monthly
Magazine._)

Feb. 3. Mr. Hunt.--I was particularly curious to witness the _debut_