his pursuing the art for profit, but a provident commencement enabled him to close a long life unchequered by the fears of want or privation. 5. ST. BONIFACE. St. Winfred, afterwards called Boniface, was born in Devonshire, about the year 680. He became primate of Germany and Belgium, and was murdered by the populace whilst preaching at East Friesland, in the year 755. 5, 1771. DUKE OF CUMBERLAND BORN. 10. WHIT SUNDAY. This festival is celebrated seven weeks after Easter, and commemorates the descent of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles, after the ascension of our Lord. 10, 1831. COUNT VON DIEBITSCH SABALKANSKI DIED, ÆTAT. 46. This celebrated soldier was descended from a noble Silesian family, and born May the 13th, 1785. He commenced his military career in the Prussian service, which he left on his father accepting a major-generalship on the staff of the Emperor Paul. At the battle of Austerlitz he was wounded by a spent ball, which lodged in the palm of his hand. He also distinguished himself in the actions of Eylau and Friedland, and in the celebrated campaign of 1812. At Dresden he received a severe contusion, and had two horses killed under him. He commanded the Russian army against the Poles in their struggle for independence; but the unsuccessful issue of his campaigns caused his dismissal: the chagrin this occasioned, joined to his excessive indulgence in the use of intoxicating liquors, appear to have occasioned apoplexy, of which he died. 11. ST. BARNABAS. He was born at Cyprus, and descended from the tribe of Levi. After his conversion, he became a coadjutor with the Apostle Paul; and was stoned to death by the Jews, after undergoing many sufferings. 17. ST. ALBAN, Born at Verulam, in Hertfordshire, since called St. Alban's, in honour of the saint. After his conversion to Christianity, he preached the Gospel, for which he suffered martyrdom in the year 795. 17. TRINITY SUNDAY, The Sabbath following Whitsuntide, and a festival in honour of the union of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 18. 1814. BATTLE OF WATERLOO. It startles the heart as its echo rings, Each note to the wind replying, And the brave young knight on his charger springs, He waves an adieu to the distant vale, There are sheathless swords around him now, And brightly o'er his dauntless brow The trumpet raises its proudest sound, And tinged with blood is the verdant ground, He dashes his charger fiercely on, His foes retreat before him ;- Alas! his triumph forebodes his doom!- And beneath the sward where roses bloom, But the songs that live in his country's tongue And his name shall proudly shine among 20. TRANSLATION OF EDWARD, KING OF THE WEST SAXONS. This day commemorates the translation, or removal, of the body of Edward the martyr, three years after its interment, from Wareham to Shrewsbury.-(See page 40). 21. CORPUS CHRISTI, The body of Christ, a festival appointed to celebrate the blessings conferred upon mankind by the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. It always falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. It was formerly observed with great solemnity, and in the eleventh year of the reign of Henry the eighth, it was ordered, that every person absent from Corpus Christi mass should forfeit a pound of wax. In the registry of proceedings, of the parish of St. Ewen's, Bristol, the cost of a breakfast on this day, in the year 1460, is thus entered :— Item-For a calf's head and hinge 236∞ S. d. 0 0 8 In the books of the same parish, for the year 1794, appears the following:-" A supper for the parish officers to settle their accounts, and to regulate the assessment of the poor-rate, £50. 17s. 2d.” 21. THE LONGEST DAY. This day, in London, is 16h. 13m. 5s., allowing 9m. 16s. for refraction. 24. NATIVITY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND MIDSUMMER DAY. St. John, the forerunner of our Saviour, was born in the year of the World 4004. He was beheaded through the contrivance of Herodias, at the age of thirty-four. 28, 1831. THE REV. WEEDON BUTLER, M.A. DIED, ÆTAT, 58. Son of the Rev. Weedon Butler, and brother to Dr. Butler, late Head Master of Harrow-school. He was Rector of Great Woolstan, Bucks, and evening Lecturer of Brompton Chapel, Middlesex. Among other works he published The Bagatelle, consisting of original and translated poetry; The Wrongs of Unterwalden; and Zimao, the African. 29. ST. PETER. This day is a festival in honour of the apostle St. Peter, who was crucified during the persecution of the Emperor Nero. It is a day kept with great solemnity and splendour at Rome. 30. 1831. WILLIAM ROSCOE DIED, ÆTAT. 80. Mr. Roscoe's early career was attended with difficulties, that would have effectually prevented a mind of less persevering powers than his own from rising above the mediocre station in which Fortune had placed its possessor; but it is the enviable privilege of genius, with almost a certainty of overcoming every external difficulty, to convert the very disadvantages, which at first appeared to impede it, into its fairest marks of honor. Although almost wholly undirected in his studies, at the early age of sixteen, his poetical productions were such as would have done credit to any one whose talents had received their full cultivation; and he was at this time found sufficiently qualified to be admitted as an articled clerk into the office of Mr. Eyes, solicitor, of Liverpool. While engaged in the duties of his fatiguing occupation, and fulfilling them to the perfect satisfaction of his superior, he found means, by his own unassisted efforts, to acquire a proficiency in the Latin tongue. After the expiration of his articles, he entered into partnership with Mr. Aspinall, and it was at this period of his life that his abilities began to attract the notice and meet with the deserved applause of the public. An Ode, delivered before the Liverpool Society for the encouragement of Painting and Sculpture, was followed by a work upon the Slave Trade, entitled A Scriptural Refutation of a Pamphlet lately published by the Rev. Raymond Harris, and shortly afterwards by his principal poem, The Wrongs of Africa. Mr. Roscoe, in common with many leading spirits of his time, was at first captivated by the splendid dawning which preceded the desolating and tempestuous era of the first French Revolution, and while under the excitement of feelings, at that time common to the generality of the nation, producing his two well-known ballads, The Vine-covered Hills, and Millions be free! which were equally popular in France and the United Kingdom. But the great work by which Mr. Roscoe's fame was firmly established is his Life of Lorenzo de Medici, which was commenced in 1790, and appeared in 1796. After the warm and universal approbation which followed the |