INTRODUCTION. XXXIV. 



1st Sunday of October; the feast of Guardian 

 Angels, Oct. 2d, and tJien comes Allhallowtide 

 in which we keep two remarkable festivals, the 

 first All Saints, Nov. 1, to celebrate all the 

 saints singing in heaven ; All Souls, Nov. 2, 

 to pray for the souls of those who remain in pur- 

 gatory. Then comes MARTINMAS, Nov. 4, on 

 which day the French eat another goose ; and then 

 we speedily get into another season. 



And thus the catholic year lolls round, exlii- 

 biting the most pleasing and sahitaiy interchanges 

 of fasting and feasting, of penitence and of re- 

 joicing, of praying and of thanksgiving ; all which 

 suit the nature of man, and enliven and diversify 

 the toils of our earthly pilgrimage. 



As we have alluded above to the aerial voyage 

 which Dr. Forster made in a balloon from the 

 gardens of the Dominican Friars, on the SGth of 

 April, 1831, we shall amuse our readers with a 

 short extract from the recorded account of that 

 voyage. 



'' Picture to yourself, reader, two persons sus- 

 pended in a small wicker basket, slung under an 

 inflated bag of huge dimensions buoyant in the 

 air, immediately beneath a canopy of mist, and in 

 the elevated plane of evaporating clouds, whose 

 grotesque forms are gradually becoming lost amid 

 the shadows of greyhooded evening, in perfect 

 stillness, without any perceivable motion, and 

 looking down upon a great and apparently concave 



