The French papers report the death, at Paris, of M. MORA, the Mexican Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James. M. Mora was the author of a History of Mexico and its Revolutions since the establishment of its independence, and editor-in-chief of several journals in Mexico.
MR. B. SIMMONS, an amiable and accomplished writer, whose name will be recollected as that of a frequent contributor of lyrical poems of a high order to Blackwood's Magazine, and to several of the Annuals, died in London on the 20th of July.
[From Graham's Magazine.]
ON A PORTRAIT OF CROMWELL.
BY JAMES T. FIELD.
"Paint me as I am," said Cromwell,
Rough with age, and gashed with wars—