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Rh on the Bann, four miles from its mouth, and 145 miles north of Dublin. The town stands upon both sides of the river, which is there crossed by a handsome stone bridge of three arches, 288 feet in length by 32 in breadth. The principal part is on the east bank, and consists of a central square called the &quot; Diamond,&quot;- and several diverging streets ; the portion on the west side is called the Water side, or Killowen. Coleraine has two parish churches, two Roman Catholic churches, a town-hall, a market-house, a work-house, an endowed school, a national model school, and free schools founded by the Irish Society of London. The linen trade has long been extensively carried on in the town, from which, indeed, a fine description of cloth is known as &quot; Coleraiues.&quot; Pork-curing and the salmon and eel fisheries are prosecuted. The mouth of the river, which was formerly obstructed by a bar, now admits vessels of 200 tons. The principal trade is carried on through Port Rush, where a harbour is formed by two moles, with an entrance of 200 feet wide, an area of 8 acres, and a depth of from 15 to 20 feet at the wharves. In 187.3, 422 vessels entered with a tonnage of 4G,589. The parliamentary borough has a population of 6552, and returns one member. Coleraine is reputed to have been the seat of a Christian bishop previous to the arrival of the great apostle of Ireland. It owes its modern importance mainly to the Company for the New Plantation of Ulster, on which it was bestowed in 1613. Though fortified only by an earthen wall, it managed to hold out against the rebels in 1641.  COLERIDGE, (1796-1849), the elder son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was born on the 19th of September 1796, at Cleveclon, a small village near Bristol. His early years were passed at Keswick, where his education was conducted in a somewhat desultory manner. He gave promise of great mental power, but derived less advantage from systematic studies than from intercourse with S. T. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, De Quincey, and Pro fessor Wilson. In 1815 he went to Oxford, as scholar of Merton College, the means for his support being principally provided by Southey. His university career, however, was very unfortunate. He had inherited the weakness of purpose, as well as the splendid conversational powers, of his father, and, having never enjoyed the benefit of a regular discipline, lost all self-restraint amidst the gaieties of Oxford, and finally lapsed into habits of intemperance. He was successful in gaining an Oriel fellowship, but at the close of the probationary year was judged to have forfeited it. The authorities could not be prevailed on to reverse their decision ; but they awarded to him a free gift of 300. With this, Hartley Coleridge came to London in 1821, and remained there for two years, during which he wrote short poems for the London Magazine. His next step was to set up school at Ambleside, but this echeme failed, after five years of struggle in a position for which he was wholly unfit. Coleridge then removed to Grasmere, where he lived in great seclusion, writing between 1826 and 1831 Essays fur Blackivood, and in 1832 his Blocjrapliia Borealis, or Lives of Northern Worthies. In 1839 appeared his last work, the Life of Massinyor, an elaborate and artistic production. The closing decade of Coleridge s life was wasted in what he himself calls &quot; the woeful impotence of weak resolve.&quot; In 1848 his health became sensibly affected, and he expired on the 6th of January 1849. The prose style of Hartley Coleridge is marked by much finish and vivacity ; but his literary reputation must chiefly rest on his poetical remains. Of these the Sonnets, and Prometheus, an unfinished lyric drama, are the finest. The influence of Wordsworth is discernible in his poetry, but it does not on that account want originality. (See Memoir of Hartley ColeriJye by Derwent Coleridge).  COLERIDGE, (1790-1876), nephew of S. T. Coleridge, was born at Tivertou, and was edu cated, with Arnold and Keble, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1810 he won the Latin verse prize ; in 1812 he obtained a first class in classics ; and in 1813 both the English and Latin essay prizes were awarded him. He was soon after made a fellow of Exeter ; in 1819 he was called to the bar, and practised for some years on the Western Circuit. In 1824, on Gifford s retirement, he assumed the editorship of the Quarterly Revieiv, resigning it a year afterwards in favour of Lockhart. In 1825 lie pub lished his excellent edition of Ulackstone s Commentaries, and in 1832 he was made a serjeant-at-law. In 1835 he was appointed one of the judges of the King s Bench. In 1852 his university created him a D.C.L., and in 1858 he resigned his judgeship, and was made a member of the Privy Council. In 1869, although in extreme old age, he produced his pleasant Memoir of the Itev. John Keble, M.A., a third edition of which was issued within a year.  COLERIDGE, (1772-1834), one of the most remarkable of English poets and thinkers, was born, on the 21st of October 1772, at his father s vicarage of Ottery St Mary s, Devonshire. His father was a man of some mark, lie was known for his great scholarship, simplicity of character, and affectionate interest in the pupils of the grammar school, whero he reigned until his promotion to the vicarage of the parish. He had married twice. The poet was the youngest child of his second wife, Anne Bowden, a woman of great good sense, and anxiously ambitious for the success of her sons. On the death of his father, a presentation to Christ s Hospital acceptable in a family of ten was procured for Coleridge by Judge Buller, an old pupil of his father s. He had already begun to give evidence of a powerful imagination, and he has described in a letter to his valued friend, Mr Poole, the pernicious effect which the admiration of an uncle and his circle of friends had upon him at this period. For eight years ho continued at Christ s Hospital. Of these school-days Charles Lamb has given delightful glimpses in the Essays of Ella. The head master, Bowyer, though a sever o disciplinarian, was on the whole respected by his pupils. Middleton, afterwards known as a Greek scholar, and bishop of Calcutta, reported Coleridge to Bowyer as a boy who read Virgil for amusement, and from that time Bowyer began to notice him, and encouraged his reading. Somo compositions in English poetry, written at sixteen, and not without a touch of genius, give evidence of the influence which Bowles, whose poems, now forgotten, were then in vogue, had over his mind at this time. Before he left school his constitutional delicacy of frame, increased by imprudent bathing in the Xew River, began to give him serious discomfort. In February 1791, he was entered at Jesus College, Cambridge. A school-fellow who followed him to the university has described in gloving terms evenings in hia rooms, &quot; when yEschylus, and Plato, and Thucydides were pushed aside, with a pile of lexicons and the like, to discuss the pamphlets of the day. Ever and anon a pamphlet issued from the pen of Burke. There was no need of having the book before us ; Coleridge had read it in the morning, and in the evening he would repeat whole pages verbatim.&quot; Frend, a fellow of Jesus, accused of sedition and Unitarianism, was at this time tried and expelled from Cambridge. Coleridge had imbibed his sentiments, and joined the ranks of his partisans. He grew discontented with university life, and, pressed by debt, in a moment of spleen enlisted as a soldier. One of the officers of the dragoon regiment, finding a Latin sentence inscribed on a wall, discovered the condition of the very awkward recruit 