From Moore's Life of Byron.
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Byro7afa Vcnaee. .-ssV Venice pleases ne as much as ] had expeeted-and I ex- pected much. Ithas always been (next to the EasD the greenest island of my imagination. l like the gloomy gaiety of their gondolas, and the silence of their canals. l do not even dislike the evident decay of the city; for l have been familiar with ruins too long to dis like desoiation.

 1sI regret the singularity of its van ished costume: however. there is much left still; the Carnival too, is coming"

 Song a7er he Caraipal.

 So we'll go no more rowing.

 So late into the night,

 Though the heart be still as loving,

 And the moon be still as bright,

 Tor the sword out wears the sheath,

 And the soul out wears the breast;

 And the heart must pause to breathe,

 And love itself have rest.

 Though the night was made for loving,

 And the day returns too soon,

 Yet we'll gono more rowing,

 By the light of the moon"

 Byron aul Ronae.-" am delighted with Rome as would be with band box, that is, it isa fine thing to see, finer than Greece; but have not been here long enough to effect it as n residence, and must go back to Lombardy, be- cause am wretched at being away from Marianna. have been riding my sad dle-horses every day, and been to Alba- no, its Lakes, and the top of the Alban Mount, and to Frescati, srcia, &c. &c. with an &c. &c. Nc. about the city, and in the city; for all which-vide Guide book. As whole, ancient and modern, 1t beats Greece, Constantinoplc, every thiIlg---at feast that i have seen. But i can't describe, because my first impres. 'sicns are always strong and my memory selects and reduces them to order. like distance in in the landscape and blends them better, although they may be less distinct. There must be sense or two more thanwehave, us mortals; for x x K x where there is much to be grasped we are always at loss, and vet feel that we ought to have a higher and more extend cd colnprehension.''

 Description of an Execution. .---ss The day before l left Rome l saw three rob bers guillotined. The ccremony--irl- cluding the masqued priests; the half na- ked executioners; and bandaged crimi- nals, the black Christ and his banner, the seaffold, the soldiers, the slow pro seession, and the quick rattle and heavy tall of the axe; the splash of the blood, and the ghastliness of the exposed heads ~-is altogether more impressive than the vulgarand ungentlemanly dirty snew drop, and dog-like agony of inhiction upon the sufferers of the English sen fence. Twoof these men behaved calm iyenough, but the first ofthc three died With great ie rror and reluctance. What wsasyery horrible, he would notliedown; .ne'a his neck was too large for tie aper- sure,and the priest was obliged to drown n's exclanlations by still louder exhorta- nons. The head was off before th,cyc