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M.A. on Robert Stephenson, and on Mr. Henry Taylor, the author of "Philip Van Artevelde." * * * * * JOHN G. SAXE has been elected by the Mercantile Library Association of Montreal, to deliver the poem at the opening of their winter course of lectures. * * * * * THE SULTAN of Turkey has granted to the Princess Belgioiso, for herself and the Italian emigrants, some extensive tracts of land on the gulf of Nicomedia. * * * * * THE NEW OPERA, on which M. Strakosch is now engaged, is to be called _La Regina di Napoli_. The plot is taken from the history of the unfortunate Queen Joana of Sicily, and abounds in scenes of dramatic interest. * * * * * [FROM THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE FOR JULY.] THE OLD MAN'S BEQUEST; A STORY OF GOLD. Through the ornamented grounds of a handsome country residence, at a little distance from a large town in Ireland, a man of about fifty years of age was walking with a bent head, and the impress of sorrow on his face. "Och, yer honor, give me one sixpence, or one penny, for God's sake," cried a voice from the other side of a fancy paling which separated the grounds in that quarter from a thoroughfare. "For heaven's sake, Mr. Lawson, help me as ye helped me before. I know you've the heart and the hand to do it." The person addressed as Mr. Lawson looked up and saw a woman whom he knew to be in most destitute circumstances, burdened with a large and sickly family, whom she had struggled to support until her own health was ruined. "I have no money--not one farthing," answered John Lawson. "No money!" reiterated the woman, in surprise: "isn't it all yours, then?--isn't this garden yours, and that house, and all the grand things that are in it yours?--ay, and grand things they are--them pictures, and them bright shinin' things in that drawing-room of yours; and sure you deserve them well, and may God preserve them long to you, for riches hasn't hardened your heart, though there's many a one, and heaven knows the gold turns their feelin's to iron." "It all belongs to my son, Henry Lawson, and Mrs. Lawson, and their children--it is all theirs," he sighed heavily, and deep emotion was visible in every lineament of his thin and wrinkled face. The poor woman raised her blood-shot eyes to his face, as if she was puzzled by his words. She saw t
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