Oh! Let untainted and inexperienced youth beware! Let not the young permit themselves to be ridiculed or beguiled into this fascinating, yet enslaving vice; let them reflect seriously on the gambler's career, in its progress, and in ITS END; its progress, an alternation of feverish excitement and deep despondency; of unsatisfactory triumphs and bitter disappointments;-its end, too often, destitution, misery, madness, suicide! Ruin in this world, and perdition in the next! A. S. B. THE GREETING OF THE NEW YEAR. ANOTHER year hath bid the world farewell! It came when wintry clouds were dark and drear, And spring's sweet flowerets came to tell of peace, Seek strength to cast away all human pride, MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL. "A dim and mighty minster of old Time! HIS noble church, formerly known as the Collegiate Church of Manchester, and now numbered among the cathedrals of England, was erected by Thomas de la Warre, the eighth baron of Manchester. It was built of wood, and is said to have been founded about the year 1422, the year of the accession of Henry VI., from whose father, Lord de la Warre had procured the royal licence for the establishment and endowment of the college and the church. Thomas de la Warre did not, however, live to complete the structure which he had thus commenced. After his death the original plan was enlarged, and various successive additions were made to the building. Sir John Huntingdon added a wooden choir, of elaborate workmanship; but this choir, together with the other portions of the edifice, was afterwards replaced by a fabric of stone. In the year 1485, Sir James Stanley became warden of the Collegiate Church, and erected, on the north side of the building, the spacious chapel, dedicated to John the Baptist. During the wardenship of Sir John Stanley, the church was completed in stone, and presented, in the main, the appearance which it exhibits at present. During the violence and misrule of the civil wars, many of the ecclesiastical buildings of England suffered much damage. The Collegiate Church of Manchester, however, remained uninjured throughout this disturbed period; and even escaped the spoliation with which, in their barbarous and mistaken zeal, the partisans of Cromwell visited many other churches. This latter circumstance has been accounted for, on the ground, that the leading gentry in the neighbourhood of Manchester being devoted to the parliamentarian cause, their noble church was spared. The Collegiate Church, now the Cathedral of Manchester, includes within its walls, the Parish Church; the Cathedral service being daily |