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334 'P&p. rnEr rentE MERRY svAnkrn wpm's. Tarr come! the merry summer months et Beauty, Gong, and Vidwerk; They aide! the gladsomestubnths that yringthitk leafiness toixAverih Up, up, my heart ! and . waik 'abroad, fling mrk and care aside, Seek silent hills, or rest * thyself 'where peaceful waters glide,; Or, underneath the slaidow vast 91' ; patriarehal bee, klean through its leaves the eldudiews sky in rapt tranquillity. :The grass is soft, its velvet touch is grateful to ihe - hand, And, like the kiss of maiden love, the breeze is sweet and bland; The daily and the buttercup are nodding courteously, It:stirs their blood, with kindest lave, to bless and'wdloomelltoe ; And Mark how with thine own thitflocks*they•now•lite kilyery grey.— That blissful breeze is wantoning, and whispering "liettryi " There limo cloud that sails along .the ocean of yen a ky, But hathits own winged mariners to give it melody : Thou eeeist their glittering fans outspread all gleaming like red gold, And hark I with shrill pipe - musical, their merry course they hold. God bless them all, these little ones, who far above this ealth, Can make a scoff of its mean joys, and vent a nobler mirth. But soft! mine ear upcaught a sound, from yonder . wood itcatne ; The spirit of the dim green glade'did breathe his own glad name;— Yes, It is he The hermit bird:that apart from all his kind, Slow spells . his beads monotonous to the soft western wind ; Cuckoo ! Cuckoo I he sings again—his notes are void of art, But simplest strains do soonest sound the deep founts of the heart I Good Lord ! it is a gracious boon for thought-crazed "right like me. To smell again these summer flowers beneath this summer tree! To suck once more in every breath their little souls away, And feed my fancy with fond dreams of youth's bright summer day, When, rushing forth like untamed-colt, the reckless truant boy, Wandered through green woods all day long, a mighty heart of joy I'm sadder now, I have had cause ; but oh l I'm proud to think That each pure joy -fount loved of yore, I yet delight to drink ; Leaf, blossom, blade, hill, valley, stream, the calm unclouded sky, Still mingle music with my dreams, as in the days gone by. When summer's ioveliness and light fall round me dark and cold, I'll bear indeed life's heaviest curse—a heart that bath wax'd old ! Mothenoell's Poem. ZEt'L ES. We find the following notice under the head of "Fashionable Movements," In 'the Settler, a Montreal paper:—"lteuben's printing press is recently gone to the dogs." So great a martinet in -his profession was Archbishop Laud, that though adrairiug the talents of Shirley, who afterwards be came a celebrated dramatic poet, he refused to ordain him on account of having a mole on his cheek. ANCIENT 'DESCRIPTION OF THE Ecuo.—Since, of all the objects of musical imitation, no one is more obvious, or has more generally employed the talents of composers, than the phenomenon of the Echo, the following description of it, found an a book, entitled "A Strange 'Metamorphosis of Man trans formed into a Wildernesse," (published in 1631,) seems to merit notice :—" The echo -is the iris of the eare, as the iris is the echo of 'the eyes. She is the true cameiion of the aire, that changes into every colourable sense. The Proteus that transforms her selfe to every shape of Words, She is the ivamourata of the forrest, that will be taken with every ones love, and as Narcis sus with his own beauty, be enamoured with her owne tongue, and take delight toheare herselfe speake. Yea, she is a thing, or ndthing, a tattling gossip, a mecre babler, a teller of tales; one that bath no substance in her, but is a weer accident, in that she comes suddenly upon you unlooked for. She is of a strange qualitie, who takes delight to affright the ignorant and simple; will play the hobgobliu, the fairie of the woods, least in sight, or wholly out of sight. Though -shee bee a talker,-and full of her tongue, yet she hath no invention with her, nor can tsontrive any thing of-her owne, forshe speaks but by hear.saye, only shecutters, and that upon trust of another, nor can tell /you the author, unloose he discover it himselfe. She bath no Inemosic at all, and therefore can remember but the last words shee hearer, which she will do very faithfully indeed, and not leave.you out a tittle. She hath no certaine tone of her owne, Ilutras she is taught, immediately before which she wilt exactly imitate, if her master bee present, else not, for shoe cannot re taine her lesson long, but must instantly recite it, or else rho is ,no bodie. She will keepe her key well if she sing, and never anisseit, if 'he thatis the rector chori guides the quiro mistake dt not; •and when shoe sings at any time, she sings no 'distinct part from her fellow, or the rest of the parts, .for she bath no - skill-atall to compose or set a whit, or to runne descant on a ground, but sings the very same the others do. She dares not .stand to-any thing she saith, but goes her - Wayes presently, and never yet durst shew her face. She is a very monster and ,a prodigie of-nature, having no body to speake or; at least as small and slender as the gyre, -and yet bath a -mouth as wide as the valleyes. She hathao•proper tongueof her owe, but what she borrowes. If the , iyon roare, she•roares likewise; if the heyfer Lowe, she lowcs as loud; -if the wolfehut -bowie she howler for company : yea, rather than stand out, - she will bray with the "eerie asse but is -never better in her q, indeed, than when she %pet the nightingale, especially-in their fughes, for then you would thialse them both starke madde, while they follow one =another soslose at theheeles, and yet can never overtake each •other. She is a right'wornan,•that can keepe no counsel!, and et grill bee readie to intrude , herselfe - into everie ones counsel!, but as soone as shee hath it out it goes straight, life - or death, •all is one to her. She were good to make a prayer of the stug,e, `for-she would take her cues excellently well. She -is -no Cice -ronian, nor-apt fur fluent styles; -but a Lipsian right, and fitter `for a briefe manner of-speech dialogue-wise. All her poetry is -thiefiy in Sapphieks or tambicks at most, for she cannot abide the examiter or heroical verse, because too long for her. In fine, though she bee a common speaker-and teller anewes (as I said) yet makes she a conscience to devise any of herselfe, and therefore would hardly serve to be the secretarie of false fame; but being once broached, let her alone to blaze it abroad through all the wilderness." Wolf, the missionary, who is now rambling through Asia, and rejoicing in the perilous encounter of Rajahs , tigers, angry Israelites and dagger-bearing Moslems, will probably soon give a, new public interest to one of the most popular conceptions that ever fell into oblivicrn,—the existence of the lost tribes of Isr4el. The - present object of this indefatigable rambler is de ' claredly to bring to light:the retreats of the famous revolters of Jeroboam. What resources for the discovery he may find in his own possession, we - must leave to time. But if he should condescend to take his wisdom from the pages of the Robbins, :he - will find them ready and'copious in suppiying'him with the most unhesitating information on every point of possible curio - city. The 'Rabbi Benjamin, in his work, Massnoth Shel . Babbi Benjamin, long since informed the wondering world, that "from 'the city Radar, formerly called Pombeditha, on the banks of the ,Euphrates, it is exactly twenty-one days' journey through the desert of Saba, in - the - direction of Sham; to the frontier of the 'conntry - ollect•that of'the Rechabites. Their capital is the city of Tema., where the Prince Chanau, who is also a Rabbi, governs 'the nation. The city is of large dimensions, and the territory Is worthy of the capital. It extends sixteen days' journey be . - tween the northern mountains. The pe o pl e are numerous an d warlike, yet they are subject to the Gojim, a gentile power, which forays to a great distance, in company with some hordes of wild Arabs, who live on their northern boundary. "Those - Itechabite Jews plough, and' keep cattle, give the tenth of their possessions to the scribes and sages, wholiVnin the schools, and especially - to those - who mourn over Sion, and neither eat flesh nor drink wine, but who perpetually wear black garments, in sign of - the sorrows of Jerusaiem. The number of the people living in Tema and Tilima, is about-100,900. And thither come, once in the year, Prince 'Solomon, and•his brother Chanan,of - the line of David, with shattered clothing, to' fast forty days, and, pray for the miseries of those Jews'who are in exiie. In the country of •the 'Prince - who comes periodically to fastwith the Rechabites, the people scent to be tolerably prosperous. Ile 'has fifty cities, two hundred villages, and an•hundred fortresses. Iliscapital is Thenai, remarkably strong, and fifteen miles square, containing fields, gardens, and orchards. Tilima is also- a - very strong city, seated' in the mountains. 'From Tiiima it is •threndays' journey to Kibar, where the, people declare themselves .of the tribes Reuben,. Goa, and 'th e half tribe'of which ( Slitilmaliezer, the Assyrian, carried into cap .' ti-vity. They are a singularty belligerent race; they have large and strong cities. They wage coirstant hoStilities with their '_neighbours, and are almost - secure of impunity, by having in their 'frontier a'desert of eighteen:days journey, utterly uninhabitable 'by-man. The city of liibar Atsotzs large, With about fifty thou sand Jews among the inhabitants. They carry on frequent wars with the - people of Sinear and the north. The other liraelites spread to they east; and the country Of Aliman touches even the !burders of India." We are in some fear that these nannA will - not be found in the , modernmaps ; but the detail is cordident, 'Ana if the missionary should blunder, in the regians between the : 'Euxine and 'the Caspian,' he will have the satisfaction of blun dering upon high Rabbinical authority.—Traditiontophe'liat kine.-.-Blackzvood's Magazine.. It has been justl,y observed that what are generally called inien'of fortune Ought not to go to Canada, except they have determined to fiJt their residence either at Quebec or Montreal. In these cities not only all the necessaries, but most of the luxuries of life can be procured with ease and at moderate prices ; they can enjoy the elegancies of life, refined and lite rary society, &e. but of course in a more limited degree than in Eurepeen cities. Beyond these places such persons must not attempt to'stir, unless they can determine to become men of the -werrld, and cheerfully submit to take things as they find them. And we have no doubt that there are maid) , high and noble minded men (and those rich men too,) who could live in many • parts of Canaria, and enjoy more real happiness in witnessitig aad'prombrifig the developement of a new world than in all the parade 'and 'ceremony connected with what is called fashionable life. Canada is, truly Speaking, the .poor man's country ; in it be can live ccimfortably, and procure good wages, and the man of small fortune can make Money, acquire property, and pro vide for his 'family With comp - arative ease. Emigrants should not on any account burtheu themselves with heavy or trouble some articles when proceeding to 'Canada ; however they will do well not to omit a 'tolerable supply, of strong warm clothing, bedding, shirts; and 'houSe linen, cooking utensils, a clock or time piece,' hosiery, Loots and shoes fit for winter weather, a few gobd books; also such articles of ironmongery as may be necessary, such as the iron parts of farming and - gardening im plements, a few of the ordinary tools used 'by carpenters, &c. these'may be added a rifle or fowling . piece, which the emi grant will find both useful and amusing in winter, and fishing tackle for sumnierepOrt, if his fancy leads him to such amuse- Iment : a few 'simple medicines, such as epsom salts, calcined magnesia, castor oil, cream of tartar, ipecacuanha (commonly called hippoo), and tartarised antimony (called tartar emetic), will be found extremely useful when the emigrant has got set tled. In the selection of a vessel a fast sailer should have the preference, particularly in the spring ' • a fortnight or three weeks earlier in arrival at Qu e be c w ill be of material import ance to the emigrant, since he may, by such timely exertion, 7 put in the ground a small crop, and thus in part.. provide sub sistence for the first year, which he should otherwise be Obliged to purchase. - Small quantities of seeds, such as lucern, trefoil, turnip, and the ordinary garden seeds, and a few select samples of potato oats, China or skinless oats, and the large black oat of the south of heland for seed will be a valuable appendage. We 'would here observe that working artizans, particularly blacksmiths, carpenters, bricklayers, ,plaisterers, .masons, coopers, millwrights, and wheelwrights cannot fail, if they are industrious, succeeding in any part of the Canadas, and by one season's work having sufficient to purchase lands in .a settled township.—Erans's Guide to Canada. THE FIDDLE CASE.—A convivial -party of musicians, tired of singing catches and glees, for further amusement, agreed to write extemporary verses. But better practised in music than in poetry, they covered many sheets of paper, without eclipsing the rhapsodies of Homer, or the heroics of Milton. At length, one of the company, whose diffidence had .prevented his vying with such formidable sons of the Muses, put an end to their abortive labours, by seizing a violin that hung near him, and singing to his own accompaniment the following impromptu : A blind man, fed by fiddling, Had charm'd full many a'street ; For though he play'd but middling. The damsels thought it sweet. He prized his fiddle greatly, The stick too had his praise ; The case his wife made lately, Of half a yard of baize. One day, led home by Rover, He had a bridge to pass ; His fiddle tumbled over, Stick, case, and all, alas I lie straight set up a roaring, And made such dire grimace, The people round came pouring, And pitied his sad case. "Sad ease ! Pshaw I twiddle diddle !" He cried, with rueful face ; " Could I regain my fiddle, The deuce might take the case." CONDITION OF WOMEN IN ENGLAND.—The youth is accus tomed to trade, and sees no reason why he should not drive a good bargain in a wife, as well as in other affairs. Mother as well as daughter is resolved that so " respectable" a suitor, who is " well to do in the world," shall not slip away from them if they can help it. The female has not the privilege of " making offers," and therefore thinks it her duty to accept, if she pos sibly can, the first which comes, lest she should not get another. but it so happens that the process cf courtship affordstio means of enabling the parties to acquire a knowledge of each other's . character. Some one once replied on being asked the charac ter of a woman, " that he had not married to her." He was right. and so must the matter continue under present regulation. The lover makes his visits at stated intervals, perhaps every evenin g i , or less frequently, and if b a d t empere d h e can stay away. He approaches not except in smiles, and in his most engaging garments; he can put what cheat he pleases upon the.lady ; he may court two at once, but the lady, having less freedom, is obliged to have recourse to more art. Be she well or ill, cheerful or ill tempered, she must submit to be courted whenever the lover chooses to 'make his appearance,.. and she dresses her countenance in smile s accor di ugiy. * ** There the lover sits, while the lady tats or knits, and discourses on such things as Providence has forced on his knowledge, till mamma escapes for ten minutes to.give orders for some com pany" supper; and then the lovers do their tenderness till she returns. 'fhe principle of giving dinners and suppers as a matter o f -mercantile marriage business has become so common in Fiore classes than elle, that a man of refinement would al most starve rather than partake of the food of above one person in a hundred—family men or women. "Sir," said a blunt old man, " when do you mean to propose for my daughter ? You have now dined at my house fifty times within the last eighteen months, and it is time you decided on something." The gen tleman Who was a "diner out" by profession, made his bow and retired.—Monthly Repository. REMARKS AS TO WORKS TO BE EXECUTED IN THE GARDEN WITHIN THIS MONTH.—A truly watchful and anxious gardener will find-never-ceasing occupation within his premises for every working day in the year; but the latter end of the last month, and the beginning of this will require his indefatigable exertion. On this precise season, and his m in u t e attention to it, will turn all the prosperity of his main crops of every descriptinn—let him look to those in the first instance and then divide his atten tion among the less important objects. He must now draw earth to the early sown peas and beans, and to kale and cab bage plants, as well as to early cauliflowers. Now also is the critical time to intercept the growth of weeds. If "April showers bring forth May flowers," they also bring forth an immediate and abundant growth of coteniporary weeds—let but a soft shower fa 4; a gleans of genial sun appear, and behold the. surface of yourlbeds brightening with a pernicious verdure. Let the hoe ply in all directions amongst the rising plants and between the rows of peas, beans, cabbages, and cauliflowers to the seed beds of every description, you must apply a better implement, the human hoe, commonly known by the title of " the finger and thumb ;" without this, all your beaut eous sowings will be chok e d, but with this efficacious tool, you -will have similar success with the mock doctor in the farce. " How do you-cure the tooth-ache, Doctor ?" f‘-rinkes and plucks it out by the root—this we call a radical cure." • Rely on it—no other operation will make your minds easy, and your plants free, and that if you neglect it while the "ill.weeds grow apace," the malady will be. growing 'worse and worse. I must give you a word here about the American shallot, -and the potato onion, both of.which I would strongly-recommend. The former. grows, with proper culture, as large as an egg, and is peculiarly mild and well-flavoured; the latter is similarly circumstanced with respect .to flavour, being less pungent than the common onion, and has all .the additional merit of being easily cultivated by bulbs on the:surface of- the ground, and of producing-large and shapely onions, at .the time that those from-the sown crop are merely fit for salads—some of the best-gardeners are in Devon shire, and :this bulb so rare in the gardens of this country has been cultivated there upwards of twenty years.—Doyle's Practi cal Gardener. We take the speaker,and bother him, and•harrass him, from twelve o'clock, to three, in order to prepare him for a fresh set to take.him up.and work him again from five to midnight; and there,he sits I*Acept when compelled to stand up to call 'us to ,order) "like Patience on a monument smiling at Grief." I have.looked at him several times,•and have calmly weighed the matter in my mind, whether I..would endure for the rest of my: life what he has to endure, or leap into tl)e life to come at once by the assistance of a halter. Endure it I could not. Lab.bui! 141 y God! what,is any labour compared to that ? aVly readers . heard my naelaneholy-waihngS-at being obliged - to sit still four hours and a•hall to hear speeelles at Birmingham, though the slieechcs were good, and though Iliad the 'hopes every minute of hearing myself talk in t urn . Wh a t t h en w ould b e my suf .fea I ngs, if had to %it twelve hour s Out of twenty-four, and - hear others talk, and have my own tongue tied all tie time l—Ceb-' bett in. the Lioese Commans. A gentleman, r ecen tl y travelling near Hutklersfield, called out to a boy, "'Where does -this road go 'to my lad?" " I 'do not know," said the boy, "where it - gues to, but it is always here 'when I cOme by." MAW, A MYSTERY.-It is in trifles, the merest trifle, perhaps, that the disposition of a man is soonest seen ibut in difficulties, and on trial Only, can his true character be discovered. A rabbinical kitchen is a spot as awfully superstitious as that where feraietly was held a witch's sabbath. Two spirits have been conjured up in the bewitched circle—there haunts Dasher, the. lawful food, and Treffo, the impure. Remove a pan t or handle a knife, and you raise that multiform dem o n Treffo, which no H ebrew dare touch; and whose diabolical agency is at eternal war with that benevolent spirit tq hungry Jews, their beloved Rasher. This active diabolism of Treffo is occasioned by a duplicate set of culinary utensils, to preserve the sanctity of the Mosaic .kitelren ; those dedicated to butter must not touch those appropriated far meat. Should a butter-knife be stuck into a joint,.or e meat-knife be plunged into'butter, that dread omen would shake a Jewish house. The Basher vanishes for ever when the Treffo triumphs, and the dinaerless family—for there is no exorcism to expel this demon—with trembling and with curses cast away the polluted food, or send it to a stran ger in the gates." Moses permits an impure animal to be sold to an alien. now has this tradition of these duplicate utensils come down to them, and how has this panic been raised? The answer is ready. Not a single superstition, indeed, is practised, Which is not founded on some scriptural phrase ; or, if at a loss for the highest authority, the physical prohibition is educed from a metaphorical sense; the manner we shall -now thew. Moses forbids ".seething a kid in its mother's milk :" as no reason is assigned, the rabbins, not satisfied with the literal ac ceptation of the precept, extend it to all sorts of animals and to all sorts of mirk; or, they allegorise the text. The cabalists allege for this prohibition, that the flesh of a kid may not be cooked in its mother's milk, because milk is the symbol of pity, and the. flesh that of judgment, and pity and judgment must be kept distinct. Au aumirable maxim, degraded by its ludicrous application. Why 'do the tribes of Israel for ever regret the absence of choice fillets and rumps? - Father Jacob, wrestling with an angel, had theeliollow of his -thigh put out of joint; and this hamstringing of their patriarch still occasioning disagree able recollections, the sons and daughters of Israel shall never .regale on .any hind quarter WhateVer.. They may " not eat of the sinew which shrunk"—so many thousand years ago ! But they have their subterfuges and their equivocations, as well as their traditional ordinances. As the Mosaic code has prohi bited the use of certain foods which in Europe are medicinal, such as shellfish, we find that even the Jewish bigot, like his Roman Catholic brother, can have his conscience accommo dated by the subtlety of his rabbin, as the other has flesh in his Lent by the device of his auricular confidant. A prescription of the physician is allowed to suspend the law of Moses. A Hebrew epicurean extorts the favour from his medical friend, and the palate of the Israelite eagerly relishes the forbidden and novel aliment. They can relax by connivance. Though stern and irresistible when their " traditions" are suspected, the rab bins, like the Jesuits of the Lettres Provinciales, have their dis tinguo and their salvo. It is a rabbinical injunction that a Jew must not drink wine that has not been made by "a son of the covenant." In a wipe country this was found perpetually in convenient, and we find in Italy how the rabbins escape from this dilemma by a subterfuge. They declare that " the law was designed to prevent all intercourse with idolaters, but did .not extend to the nations among whom they now reside." F o r th e i r casuistry, I have compa re d the rabbins with the sons of Igna tius; but they have not usually, like the Jesuits, justified crimes, or systematised immorality.—A remarkable circumstance of these rabbinical opinionists, which cane authentically to my knowledge, May illustrate our subject. A Jewish gentleman, well known to the scientific world, and moreover a lover of an cientromances, had often luxuriated in the descriptions of the spiendidbanquet of the " Peacock," so famed in the romances of chivalry. In an hour of fancy he had a peacock killed; the skin was carefully taken whole from the body, and when the bird was roasted and richly farted with aromatic' spices, the skin was nicely replaced, and it was served up with its gorgeous •plumage. A religious scruple suddenly haunted his mind that the demon Treffo at on the peacock, and that its flesh was for bidden aliment. The Israelite 'despatched the brilliant fowl to the house of a neighbour, the chief rabbin, for his inspection. He told his tale, the rabbin alternately looking on the gentle man and on the peacock: at length the oracle ! First he-so lemnly observed, that there were some things of a doubtful nature, among which was the eating of peacocks. He opined that this bird was among the forbidden meats. "Beitso !" exclaimed the romantic ritualist, "it was the fancy of a mo ment, and I have only lost a splendid bird; I have not trans greased. Since it is killed, I will send it as a curious dish to my neighbour, who, being a Christian, is not perplexed by so ditlicult a ritual as our own. He may partake of the feast of the peacock." '" I would thank you for it myself," said the ' rabbin. " For what purpose ?" interrogated the ritualist. "To eat it !" rejoined the master of sentences. "'How ! If forbidden meat for me !—You understand the consequence ?" The rabbin, fixing his eyes on the ritualist, and holding his fin ger up, as we mark our interjections in writing, to prepare the reader (here the hearer) for the notable wisdom forthcoming, and with an emphatic disteiyuol thus opined the opinionist. " Eating the peacock is, as 1 told you, among the doubtful things. One rabbin is of one opinion, an d another of another. You have required my opinion as your rabbin; you are bound to .abide by it. I opine that it is unlawful to be eaten. My father was of a different opinion; and therefore it may be eaten by me, because I act on my father's opinion. I accept the pea cock ; but I must not ask you to-participate in it." The bird was lost for the ritualist, and went to the rabbin's table.—The Genius of Judaism. LESSON TO Lawyees.—An important jury trial took place in Edinburgh a number of years ago. The subject at issue was a property of considerable value in a northern, parish ; and the question on which the whole turned was the state of the intellect of -the person who had disposed of it. - A great many witnesses were examined on either side, and among the rest a shrewd old man, a cattle-dealer, who was chiefly versant in the language he was in the daily habit of hearing. Mr. Jeffrey- s -" lam given to understand that you have been long intimately acquainted -with the late Mr. Badenach, and I wish you to state to the Court what was the estimate you formed of his intellectual cha racter." Witness—" I kent the man brawly, but never heard ony thing till his character. To be sure he seldom geed to the kirk." 'lllr. Jeffrey—" It is not his mora l character I wish to know about, but I do - wish to know, and I insist on y our stat ing, whether or not you consider the late Mr. Badenach a gen tleman of peculiarly quick parts or otherwise. Witness— " What's your wull, Sir?" Mr. Jeffrey—" Did you think Mr. 'Badenach compos mentis ?" Witness—" Compass mentus !" Mr. Jeffrey—'" In other words, did lou consider Mr. Bade nach's mental faculties to 'be on a par with those of the ge-. nerality of other men, or otherwise ? ' 'Witness—"A man of faculties and otherwise!" Mr. Jeffrey—" Why, my Lord, I can make nothing of this witness." Mr. Cockburn—" My Lord, my learned broth.er is himself in fault. I shall examine - this, witness myself." "Weell, 'Saunders," said he, in a most fa miliar manner, at the same time handing the witness a snuff box to give him a snuff," "hae ye been ony 'thing hug ac quainted wi' Badenach ?" " Ever since he was the hicht o' my knee," was his ready reply. " Did ye think," says Mr: Cock burn, giving the witness a significant look, " that there was any thing intill the creature ?" Witness—" Troth man, no that muckle, nac mair indeed than the spunc stag set' intill him." Mr. Cockburn—" Could he have been trusted - to sell cattle in the market?" Witness—" The body coudna hae been lippent wi' the selling o' a calf. Ony fleshes's bairn might hae cheated. him." Mr. Cockburn--"The 'witness may retire, I have -no. more questions to put to him." THE LIVERPOOL STADAh,b. LITER ATURE. The Asiatic Journal contains several ably written and interesting papers upon-the affairs of India. The great question, in which the Company and the country are both concerned, is discussed at length, and a fun exposi tion given of the views - of ministers on the subject. There are some articles of a lighter and amusing nature, more particularly addressed -to the fair sex. We can only find room, however, for the following extract, relative to the Turkish andißassian governments. "The moment of the dissoluti on o f th e ,Ot toman emp i re ad vances with rapid pace,* and the Sultan is on'the point of los ing, at least, his possessions in Asia. 'Will Russia permitibra 'him Pasha . to 'take peaceable possession of Asia'lllinor, Meso-' potamia, and Turkish Armenia? We think not.. The Court of St. Tetersburgh has too long coveted the possession of the: latter country and the southern coasts of 'the - black Sea, to see quietly - added to the dominions of a new coaqueror territories whith, according to , the views df its cabinet, are indispensable to the consolidation of the Russian.power beyond the Caucasus. In fact, after the final occupation df Georgia, in the beginning of this century, - Russia has'been continually extending her fron tier towards tie south; the last peace with Persia carried it to. the A taxes, and 'the treaty of Adrianople extended it, in a south west direction, towards Erzeroom anttTrebizond. The posst?s sion-of the first of these cities, situated at the sources of the Eu phrates, would' render - Russia not only - mistress of the grand route of - the commerce 'between Persia and Turkey, but it would fortimril considerably the execution of - the great project, Ellis IV N% ritten. before the-recent ces.satioli Of ' ho§tilitieo be tweeirtlie Porte and.theiriceroy. upon which the Russian cabinet has been sd tang possession of the banks of the Euphra. If Russia succeeds Ia effetting this project, rest of Armenia, and in maintaining herself and Irak Araby, she will cut off entirely the tions with Upper Asia, extend her political Asia Minor, and all the trading ports of the procure a sure and advantageous market Mistress of the Caspian Sea, she domineers thing oan hinder her from extendiu her inf and Bokhara, and from corroborating the which have already begun to.forin between 1 of Afghanistan and the' Korth-west of India. Russia, already sovereign, facto, of Armenia, finds devoted subjects in all the si of the east, who consider tie Emperor of R , mate sovereign, because he is the possess country and of the holy convent of •Eclimi4 seat of the Armenian patriarchate iii. 'A s ia. mei:liens enjoy the rights of citizenship; the' to enrich themselves by commerce ; there tf wealth without being despoiled of it; and dulge the hope of obtaining, at the expense sacrifices, distinctions, crosses, and titles, w which this nation evinces more puerile cage' sinus themselves. "lt is an invariable principle of the Ti not to interfere in the internal affairs of tht communities Using under its rule, and it holding their chiefs responsible for The gt individuals ? and for their fidelity-as subje4 empire. 't he Porte has never troubled itse of the schism which divides the Armenian n; is ignorant that it exists. But with xespect ligious police, by surrendering it to the Arr the sole supreme religious chief of that natik the sovereign arbiter of a portion of the Arm, from recognising him as their spiritual ch: straint alone to his decision. The Catholig ever, had a bishop of Constantinople prior ti 1828; but this prelate never had any interco and was bound, on all occasions, to apply to dissenters, who naturally did what suited community. This untoward position of th arts became still more apparent when the P , found itself accused of, injustice and prec repair the evil it had done, resolved to recall happy victims of its persecution. A vast nu. recall had been issued, and yet but a small of little consideration returned, and even th' expected difficulties. On inquiry into the c and of the obstacles opposed to the exec equally humane and equitable, they were fot of the powerful persons amongst the dissent the unlimited power of the patriarch, to wh nation, the firmans had been transmitted, them back, or conveyed them only to those did not fear. " In the Russian provinces beyond the ber of Armenians of the Latin ritual is mu , the Dissenters. In Georgia and Imerethi, tween 700 and 800 families. They have chu. Gori, Kootaissi, which are served by Fran Italians, and sent directly from Rome. "The Armenians, like all Christians of been, since the introduction of Islamism, llusulmans, the oppression itself has attar name of Christian, since it is only in the bos , can find real consolation in their public or But this oppression has, at the same time, 0 in another way. In order to elude or in; the tyranny of their Alusulman Sovereigns, often accommodated itself to the will of desp unusual in the East to meet with a Christie of the name, and is attached to it as much has been frequently the instrument of Or suggested and ordered by the tyranny of thit _globe. Consequently, these Christians, lc most scrupulously the different - exterior act have become corrupt and incapable of struggle with tyranny for the preservation Intead of showing a face of resistance to unshaken firmness against the infidels, they tricating themselves by docility, artifice, cu fraud. Being incapable, .generally s p e ald territorial property, because it would be es. capricei of their oppressors, they have there profession of commerce and trade, being importance and the amount of their property may thereby be enabled to withdraw from . c became insupportable, by transporting their tunes elsewhere. "Amongst the Armenians, and generally tics, widowers and widows marry only with considered disgraceful for a young man Divorce is prohibited in the Armenian ch i ever, admits several causes of separatio9, tery, but always with a veto against re-mart of marriage customs amongst this people 0 1 too indelicate to particularize. "The Armenians, as well as most Asiatic, of a daughter as a misfortune : in this case, place in the house, which happens only born. The wife always waits upon her 'lust* at table. Grown up sons, even when forty and fathers, never presume to sit in the parents; the eldest alone has this privilege , members of the family are bound to wait 111 ) ,' never appear where men meet together. 'l' with respect to the presence of men at asse r ' amongst whom the newly married obey the o r ones, and never dare to speak to any one still less out of doors, until the husband 1 which is not till they have been married two "The ignorance and superstition of the . habit the Russian, Turkish, and Persian surpass all belief. A few years back, the 11 lent its.aid to establish primary schools at 1:1 expected that these schools can contribut e people, when they are under the directio n stupid priests, who stand in need of clean themselves, in order to furnish their minds a little useful knowledge ? Superstition 3 ' ticism, which prevail to such a pitch an' w nation, have ,never suffered even the most w' able families, that for several genera tions ba cow and St. Petersburgh, to divest their ro e ' rust with which religious and political de, t . them for so many ages. Indeed, whilst we in general prone to craft and deception, we individuals amongst them in a condition to P , l reasoning or a course of clear ideas. We ; the respectable Armenian clergy in the Aej at Venice, who have learned to avail thews' the advantages of European civilization, O r and highly respectable persons of this nation the same advantages in British India." FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY, No. 40., morphoses, with a biographical sketch of engraving by Freeman: The work is eV out, and its cheapness cannot Tail to Tee,. VALPEY'S EDITION OF THE PLAYS !'1 spEARE.—This work, which is to be cool and 170 illustrations; from the plates in 1 , 0 proceeding through the press, f or th e s istY, before us. It contains' Ma c b e th , b e autou ll John, andliing Richard th e Second. "Observations on a Bill now pending Commons for the b e tt er o b servance of the. This little work contains the views °, f l l , this subject, and we are sorr y that o for a longer than the follOwinc , extra ct recur to the subject. we ` a ` r T a he T, preventivescopeo fla o l r y ampursottheecali;ited. - that of absolute command. Still, cilawfulc a t Y l: t in cases like the present ; an d what it can, the public voice requires, and the public cannot regulate private practice, it canno(titietil servance of Sabbath on a single in divi o n r te c e g t u a ire n s on h s iin cic t i o ttio h u a s uo u w nn f i r t o m m t, i y nt a c e r f r e u n p ii d l i° h l tss encroachnientS of an unp,rincipied rival in , to the labourer that interval Of repose whien_ sential to his welfare; it may check the nqg' cupidity might press its demands upon tthos e) influence. In this way it might sp d read a, over the whole animated creation, an that labour to which they are born. Thisn'.lg and this measure of pro t e ction the conainunit pect from the legislature. The other art 0,1 t p h r e o v s e mathabcbnt f m t y h a rest applied — must t thus of individuals, with the hope that the sentio avowed by law will gradually be adubted, ou ,ion, atl classes of society. stthebeinoleriatit], ‹a' c i to y e: een .o long r l ' ye - ,1 t ), uphrates iolue 'oject, in 01 104 herself ii , ,r, ely the la•e' oe cif t „' t ( , t 1 : 1 L14 3 :: tical intlile e , or 1 0 ° , 11 14 3 f the Leva' l ,",,r . , itb' Pi:, rarket for ' 1 ' ta t , ri sktst iineeTh of er o fer rti4 i kr her indue e li , 41 1 1(tj u V ig the ties d ot' tn:3T,;„', weer her as 11 1 15 i, India. di .i' v '''TMlt., lr, h e - 3 • •••••4 r7to, of t 0 0 the schiso ° :tls 4 ' l kni i i t 1 rof Russia ` t t i,eit t vi ~,..1! assessor of 'OP 4 , 1 ot l ',:eilMlatlYlo, %5, 116 11 e, /1 Asia. lo l ' u :it!' ktid l22 l' iP • there the` ,or' N).... - , ~,, •-•6qb .here theY•-,be,' ; and thereli,eie, 1, : p ru se of '` ',.,•':',„, '44 . P a , ties, which! th `, , l . kt eagerite , ' ; . v the Turkish,,2:L ands of the Olu e ,',is I, or d ,'Gcl,, 4 ad it cont e " tir, I , ttj„ -- B.o', 'the good c,f il t he,, • Ca , A subjects o' A V •, p' 111 13,, Dd itself ali''',olf . ),T l '37 .tian uatioa,„etp,. 4 T ur iin Dspect to ill y oft.; 4 er v i l i t iNgs k ,' ke Armenia,:,s , 1 1 ) )1 . 1 4.....p t natiou, 1 . , 'lf! • 4 I‘, c;,; le Armeiviol)ol ' , 41 111 ) ] ual chief , 41 ,, / I eia 2 oo atholic Ar:. 3 ' 0•••. 4 4, irior to the 4 0 and taii atercourse ' .0 4 , I ,e, , ply to the et 4 :_t; t 7 . ,l Lilted the 111 ,11 . 4 ,. ,. P0r,, of the C3bic .16?)' ~e 6 the Porte , '1,',,, titer,_,mo, precipitabeoill . 4 e, „7 1 recall frol e d . . 1 c 0... rust numbe,r of ' vet dq, 4 small nun' b j ai ,en these OP f 44 d att, the cause s :f s ,4eot'', execution lilt il e _t, ere found 3t1 . '1 ',:14'.i.:0 dissenting „,-Ord .(1(,1 to whole, 'bo , , b_iti ve Litted, and ‘ v 0 b e0...8, those whos e ' ~ t , 6 (1 its .....' 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