der the name of horse-stinger, but is permless. ow-worm', the solitary bee (apis manicata), hite moth (phalena pacta), are observed in h: the ptinus pectinicornis also makes its ce, the larvæ of which are very destructive n furniture. boring holes in tables, chairs, S, &c. outhern counties of England, particularly nd Kent, now yield their valuable produce in this month. The common hop (humulus is propagated either by nursery plants, or month, the English Villeggiatura comand London pours out its thousand tourists, the aid of the almost countless break-necks, rs, and velocifères, which form the perpetual f modern times, in a few hours scatter themver the fertile and picturesque country of the Kingdom. Others, in the humble but agreeracter of pedestrians, seek to realize the on of the poet, and catch the 'incense breath,' and range through wood and dale, hill Tear home discov'ries-pest'ring every place. Like pedlars posting to a country fair, Or, perched on coach-roof, they admire the scene, That Ireland is an island, where abound Bogs, hogs, and dogs, and fogs, the whole year round; ur previous volumes for much curious information respecting worm, with poetical illustrations. That poor folks there, for want of bread and meat, SEPTEMBER, SEPTEMBER is composed of septem, seven, and the termination ber, like lis in Aprilis, Quintilis, Sextilis. This rule will also apply to the three following months, Octo-ber, Novem-ber, Decem-ber. Remarkable Days In SEPTEMBER 1822. 1.-SAINT GILES. GILES, or Ægidius, was born at Athens, but, after he had disposed of his patrimony in charitable uses, came to France in the year 715. He lived two years with Caesarius, Bishop of Arles, and afterwards retired into solitude. 2.-LONDON BURNT. The fire of London broke out on Sunday morning, September 2d, 1666, O.S.; and being impelled by strong winds, raged with irresistible fury nearly four days and nights; nor was it entirely mastered till the fifth morning after it began. This most destructive conflagration commenced at the house of one Farryner, a baker, in Pudding-lane, near [New] Fish-street Hill, and within ten houses of Thames-street, into de 01 th di ar d th a d and the whole neighbourhood presenting ethan closely confined passages and narrow The fire quickly spread, and was not to be ed by any human means.-See an interesting e of the fire of London, by an eye-witness, for 1820, pp. 213-219. 21. REV. VICESIMUS KNOX, D.D., DIED. Knox was brought up at Merchant-Tailors' and completed his education at St. John's Oxford, of which he was a fellow at the f his father, he was elected to the mastership bridge-school, over which he presided for ree years. The duties of a parish priest he ged for nearly forty years, with a regularity, ity, and a zeal, never surpassed; scarcely that long period requiring any assistance in formance of the service of the Church. her he will long be remembered. His matter vays excellent-and his manner possessed a - propriety, and impressiveness, that rivetted ention of his congregation: and while he lived don, he never withheld his powerful aid from pit, whenever it was solicited in favour of the s charities with which the metropolis abounds. Knox's facility of composition was remarkand he wrote Latin with the most classical in prose and verse. He was a great student harmony of language, forming his sentences bly with a regard to rhythmical proportion. yle is at once forcible and polished. His last Etion (on classical education) may be fairly as a standard of his powers as a writer, as well pecimen of the energy of his mind; splendour of à rarely equalled, is here united with a harmony periods that is, perhaps, exclusively his own. yle as well as the matter of the Essays' has been universally admired. They appeared oriy in one volume, in the lifetime of Dr. Johnwho, when speaking of them to the publisher, expressed himself in terms of high panegyric, and predicted the future reputation of the author'. 7. SAINT EUNERCHUS. Eunerchus, or Evortius, was Bishop of Orleans, and present at the council of Valentia, A.D. 375. The circumstances of his election to this see were considered as miraculous, and principally ascribed to a dove, which alighted upon his head in consequence of the prayers of the electors. 8.-NATIVITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY. A concert of angels having been heard in the air to solemnize this important event, the festival was appointed by Pope Servius about the year 695. Innocent IV honoured this feast with an octave in 1244, and Gregory XI, about the year 1370, with a vigil. *11. 1820.-SIR H. R. POPHAM Died, An eminent naval commander, who distinguished himself by his zeal, talent, and enterprise. He formed a code of signals, which has been adopted in the navy: he commenced his professional career at the close of the American war. 14. HOLY CROSS. This festival was first observed in the year 615, on the following occasion: Cosroes, King of Persia, having plundered Jerusalem, carried away large pieces of the cross which had been left there by the Empress Helena. Heraclius, the emperor, soon afterwards engaged and defeated him, and recovered I Many of Dr. Knox's works have been translated into the different languages of Europe. The order in which they appeared, is as follows: Essays Moral and Literary, 3 vol. 8vo, and 12mo-Liberal Education, 2 vol. 8vo, and 12mo.-Winter Evenings, 3 vol. 8vo, and 12mo. -Personal Nobility, or Letters to a Young Nobleman on the Conduct of his Studies and the best Means of maintaining the Dignity of the Peerage, 12mo.-Sermons on Faith, Hope and Charity, 8vo.-Christian Philosophy, 2 vol. 12mo.-Considerations on the Nature and Efficacy of the Lord's Supper, 8vo (publickly eulogized by Dr. Horsley.)-And a pamphlet published a few months since ' On the National Importance" the sal av did bu em an Cr th on ch in be cr de K fo ; but, bringing it back in triumph to Jerufound the gates shut against him, and heard From heaven saying, that the King of Kings enter into that city in so stately a manner, and lowly, and riding upon an ass. The then immediately dismounted from his horse, ked through the city barefooted, carrying the nself. eremony of kissing the cross is performed in k Church on this day. The men stand on , and the women on the other; several priests ymns, and the church is filled with clouds of A crucifix in a basket of flowers is placed he altar, which each person, having first himself, kisses, takes one of the flowers, and a small piece of coin in a dish held by one riests. 17.-SAINT LAMBERT. pert was Bishop of Utrecht, in the time of epin I; but, reproving the king's grandson irregularities, he was cruelly murdered at the ion of an abandoned woman. Being canon- obtained, at first, only a simple commemon the calendar; but Robert Bishop of Leeds, eneral chapter of the Cistercian order, prosolemn feast to his honour in the church in 21.-SAINT MATTHEW. e year 64 or 65, Matthew wrote his Gospel in v, which was afterwards translated into Greek. many labours and miracles, he closed his life abar in Ethiopia, probably by martyrdom. this day the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, overnors of the several Royal Hospitals in n, attend divine service and hear a sermon ed at Christ Church, Newgate-street; they then to the Great Hall in Christ's Hospital, where rations are delivered, one in Latin, and the in English, by the two senior scholars of the |