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/ban). SONG.' SING to me of the dvs that are gone lire the dawning visions of life had flown, When before the enrapturcd eye of youth Lay a world of love, and a world of truth, And not a shadow of dark decay hung o'er that' bright and sun-lit way, Sing of those days to me Sing' to me of those parted hours When life seemed Li:wreath or sliining flowers, And ti promise of lasting beauty fell On each tairsting bud, and each opening bell, And the showers that watered those radiant hues (;tittered with hope's own rainbow dews, Sing of those hours to me. Then change thy song to a sadden'd strain, l'or those days will never return again, A cloud has o'ershadow'd that world of light, And its bea,ms have gone down in a darken'd night And a blight lets come over the shining wreath, And its buds and blossoms are witheed in death, Sing of those days, no, more ! Dublin University Magazine. A WI S WIIEBrvEn you dwell may.content be your lot, And friendship, like ivy, eueircli - , your cot ; May each rosy morn, dross'd in riptides of peace, Shed health o'er your cottage, your blessings increase ; May day smiling plenty atiOrn the fair spot, May sorrow ne'er enter the door of your cot : May your honest endeavours be crowu'd with success; May you ever live happy, ne'er witness distress ; On your neat huiable roof may these blessings descend, 'Tis free from guile, 'tis the wish of a friend. Arnold's Mag(isine. vAaxLTrEs. A barrister lately observing how much the Common Pleas had been plundered of their fees by - the transfer of business, under the new act, from that Court to the Exchequer : and still more by their Chief Justice having abolished their ancient fee for the entry , of declarations; au officer of the Court replied, that in this latter step the. Chief Justice was justified by histori cal precedent ; for it wda only a continuation of Rapine by 7"rndal. • WORDS OF TILE WisE.—Christianitv teaches us to put the most faOurable construction on uve; v thing; to submit to evils which we cannot reineily; to repel tii . eir force by the shield of contrast; to select the undeserved mercies which We enjoyed I"roin-the deserved ills which we suffer, and thus " in every thing to giVe thanks." A holy life has a voice. In more convincing 1,11::s; it echoes-the instructions of the lips, which have aliead3 - I.cen as a fountain of wisdom. Its e.oquence never ceases. It ' . pe;:,ks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant in t:action, or a perpetual reproof. • CLEinc AI, lAN EC DOTE.- 7 4 he late Mr. 0-- , minister of L--ii, in this county, was famed fur his eccentricities in the pulpit. On one occasion a St. Andrew's student of a long Vighlund pedigree, among others ' had heard of the rev. gentle man's fame. and was determined not only to witness his extra ordinary exhibitions hinised, but to take notes of his sermon, for -tile edification of his friends and fellow students. Accordingly, one Sunday, our hero appeared in church, and requested one of the eiders to show hint into a pew, where he might take his notes unseen by pastor or congregation. lie was accordingly.shown into a retired corner of the church, which, however, was by no xuaans invisible. to Mr. U , .who was apprised of the ap pearance and intentions of the learned stranger. After having chosen his text, Mr. 0 proceeded to exhort his readers, oaring the course of which more than one parson fell asleep.— Among these was Janet , an old woman, who kept a small 4le.4unise in the Brae of L—. The neighbours of poor Janet , tuleavoured in vain to awake her. She continued to snore so imd and so long that she at length arrested the attention of the preacher. " Stop, stop," said Mr. 0--, " I'll wanken her; bring in a boWe am and a gilt, Janet!" " Cumin', Sir," responded Janet., starting to her feet awake : " I tell't you sae," rep Jed the minister; " wry brethren—lt is as impossible to keep thwovornan frac sleepin' as it is to keep a highlandmen free swain:: There never was a Highlaudman that ever I kend but faik was a thief. Put. ye down that in your notes, my young friend !"—Dandee Cfm.titutional. The author of the Wealth Of Nations, the late Dr. Adam Smith, used to say that the letter p was the ruin of Ireland, viz :—Papists. Popery.' Priests. Purgatory. Pride. Poverty. Probity, `•want of." Population, "superabundance." Propa gation. Propitiation. 'Prevarication. Procrastination. Pecula tion. Predestination. Potatoes, "the,Ctirse." S11.11:1', BUT 1? EG ac.—Louis the Eighteenth could not en dure the present Sovereign of France. Some years ago, when the latter was Duke of Orleans, he was one day breakfasting w:th Louis, and bitterly attacking the subdivision of property which is enfori:ed by the French civil laws. " 'Tis so bad," added the Duke, " that if ever it should happen that each of My children should have as numerous a fan_dy as myself, my grandchildren wail be compelled to become cobblers." " And May, cousin," answered Louis, " where would be the harm ? ethinks so stanch a Republican as vou are, ought to feel de liglard at the ',tweet." 'i'his is the !Lena of the first water, by the way, whom. last week's French papers charge with having ctually paid Laiitte forty thousand pounds for the Forest of Bretouil, whilst the purchase mouey was given at four and tanty !lawsuit:l only, with a view to reduce the amount of the transfer duty to the buyer. The accusation has been publicly laid, but we have not heard or observed, that the accusers have been set down in the standing order of the day for public pro secution. We ask the late Duke's admirers, of what " prin ciple" on earth he is " the personification ?" If of liberty, then, we admit, he takes it in its fullest sense. Extract of a Letter said to have been addressed during the p:vst • week, by Vernon Smith, Esq. M.P. to the "Northampton Mercury . :"--- . Treasury Chambers, April 4 29, 1833. * # # * * * * • * Half the malt tax at once ! what a terrible blow ; How could Chandus and Ingilby leather us so ? Oh 1 and then the distressing sail consideration What reductions must fellow this vote of the nation. Zest two millions - and halt' we've been robbed of—yes two And a half,--not one halt halfpenny lower would no. From the hour I was whelped a calamity wor4e Never threatened Whig hold on the treasury purse, Ah! too little I thought thelleform of Tralee Would so soon bring destruction and ruin on me. Twenty-five hundred pounds reduced in a day! Poor Lord. Althorp! Poor Polly his nurse! Poor Earl Gres! And poor plaremen like me that subsist upon Ihty Vas there ever such dire unexpected dismay? Twenty-five hundred thousands rellueo.li at a sweep l• IVell may ministers mourn, and their underlings weep, As for me I can scarce see to scribble with eyes Filled With tears at this fatal financial surprise, my paper is blotted all over, most sadly • • As with passion I pen what I'm feeling most madly. Half the malt tax! and this too in spite of the wiles Of Lord Althorp ( Wet Tyler) in cheapening tiler, - Totted earls, haibys, and iosrp so much wanted fur laying When pour slaves in Jamaica cry out for a shaving! 1 lialT the malt tax! alas! 'tis as clear as.the sun In mid June, the 'Whig sinecure holders are done, Done as brown r. , the•outside of roasted sirloin! 01! . 1 what duist:Whigs do Boat on that float upon coin I Fare the;;ell !Cis relief mid these suirows of mine To unbosom my breast on a bosom like thine, 1; ill ,insured as I am of your sympathy with Yours—with pretty r.ame Vermin— ith common name SMITit. I`..9.—Don't forget to praise Althorp, though obvious the Fur rk•fusing.When beaten completely to brulke; (fudge, Send your 101 l for the eulogy soon as it's made, Snid it quiet and you'ittind ha instantly paid.— Entre Dolts what w e give to the radical press In advertisements make it belabour us less, Than it avoid if pernlitted to note and erihe Every sad pee,atlillo umnoved by a bribe. 'Tis.not honest 1 know such a - course to refer to, But 'the Whigs hare long since wave-d pretensions to virtue, 'T was such folly as that tbrew.Conservatives 31 higi keep iu—wiser j.alges of what they're shout.- . London, Tuesday night. p. S.-2nd. ,Tiravo! Bravo! we've got it - all lmel, and I'm your tonla , servant well peosion'd and paid as I.efure! tlo-ra-100 too-ra-100 tol de rot tlddils, diddlt —thy ct,t tic f (Idle! ditriVute a gallon of alp to the ringers yotlr rhatcheS,.and ditto to public-house singers. _l•sn ,) maddened with joy I ,az:rct. kows what, I pc•li But got the ta:: I,:wi; —and I'm •' Bit:hard aguin." 11/1,"0 1ii(VO! for radical volt rs afi r rho Whi g !' g! weahLy and-wise cry • Ll.zhaf .11)1 1 / a u: sp4r.477llcralti. THE LIVERPOOL STAND...LuIIi. LABOURERS, SOLDIERS, PAUPERS, AND THlEVES.—According to the report recently published by the Poor Laws' Commission ers, the following is the scale of weekly subsistence allotted to the above description of persons : Solid jbod. The agricultural labourer 122 oz; The soldier • 168 • The able bodied pauper 151 The suspected thief 203 The convicted thief 239 The transported thief ._....3.30 POETRY OF MINUTE DESCIIIPTION.—" The fashionable as well as the familiar poetry of the present day sparkles with fanciful yet true descriptions, of which the subjects are in general among the most obvious, and yet the least-noticed circumstances, recurring every day and every where. The brilliant parterres of Miss Landon's enclosure, on the south of Parnassus, where ideas, like humming-birds, are seen (lying about in tropical sunshine, or fluttering over - blosSorns of all hues and all climes; and the home meadows of John Clare, the Northamptonshire peasant, whose thoughts, like bees, are ever m On the wing in search of honey fro 'the meanest dower that blows;' are equally productive of these `curiosities of litera ture.' A specimen front the latter (as less known of the two) will show to what perfection the art of making much of a little has lately been carried. TIIE NEST. Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush, That overhung a mole-hill large and round, 1 heard, from morn to morn, a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With joy ;—and oft, an unintruding guest, I wateli'dher. secret toils from day to day, how true she warp'd the moss to form her nest, And modell'd it within with wood and clay. And by the by, like heath-hells gilt-with dew, There lav her shining eggs as bright as flowers, Ink-spotted over, shells or green and blue; And there I witness'd, in the summer hours. A brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly, (-dad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.'—John Clare. Here we have in miniature the history and geography of a Thrush's Nest,' so simply and naturally set forth, that one might think such strains no more diffieile Than for a blael,bird 'tis to whistle;' bet let the heartless critic who despises them try his own hand, either at a bird's nest, or a sonnet like this; and when, he has ;succeeded in making the one, he may have sonic hope of being ablejo make the other."—Montywnery's Lectures on Poetry. LOVE-A-LA-MODC ON THE Iltctt SEAS.--On the quays of such a harbour as Greenock, where ships arrive from, and : . depart for, all quarters of the globe, scenes the most romantic and affecting are of daily occurrence. The bright and joyful icciuntenances of newly met, but long divided, friends and rela tives, and the briny tear, the throbbing heart, and " the long 'and last adieu" of those who are about to part—perhaps for ever—often cause the bystander to "feel the keenest sympathy, and drop a kindred tear." Next to the separation in death is the separation of the exile or the emigrant from " friends, and home, and native land," prepared and resolved, if possible, . never to return. The last embrace of such a one is like the death-gtasp of the dying ; and it is only those who possess the firmest nerve that can witness such scenes and remain un moved. With many who arc specially concerned the case is often worse than death. A few days ago the good. Old . ship, Jamaica, sailed for Montega Bay, her second voyage this sea son. In October last she left Greenock with goods and pas sengers for Jamaica. After being at sea nearly two days, one of the crew had occasion to descend to the hold in search of something, when he discovered a young lady concealed among sonic lumber. Surprised at such a discovery, he immediately gave intimation to Capt. Ilyndman, who shrewdly suspected that she would be an attache of one of the male steerage pas sengers—a Mr. Archibald . Consequently, all was now excitation on the quarter deck, and Mr. Campbell, first mate, was ordered to take the supposed lover with him (on some Other pretence,) to assist in removing the young lady from her hiding place. He unwittingly consented, when, on a light be ing placed at the entrance of the recess, a deep-drawn sigh was heard, and a female voice exclaiming—" 0 Archy, Archy !" Such an unspected discovery so completely petrified " Archy," that he lost the whole of his five senses -at once, and became utterly unable to assist in removing the love-lorn maid, whose Emus had become benumbed by the crammed posture in which she had been so long concealed. She was taken to the cabin, where every attention was paid to her by Captain llvudinan and Mr. Campbell; and after presenting her with a little money, which, in.the hurry of embarkation, she completely forgot to bring with her, the ship bore in upon the south point of the Isle of Arran, and a boat put off to the shore with the luckless maid. On re-embarking, she gazed wistfully on " Archy," as if humming to herself— Look kindly or cauldly, but bid me no lea' thee ;" She was put on, shore on Kildonnou Point, many a long league from her father's house. It may be added that the young lady was a daughter of a gallant Colonel, not a hundred miles from the head of Lochfine.—Glasgow Courier. WORKS TO TIE EXECUTED IN THE GARDEN IN THE MONTH OF aspatagus will now be fit for cutting—my first ob servation shall relate to the most approved method of perform ing this, which is not so simple as may be generally supposed. If you have ever examined the crown of the plant in the bud ding season, von will have remarked that, besides the fine shoot you are about to cut off, there-are Many others in various stages of their growth under the surface—arid if in cutting the one, you maim any of the rest, you destroy those shoots, and may mate rially injure the crown itself. Row, on the continent, where they are Very careful gardeners, they make use of an implement for this special purpose, not unlike a locksaw, but narrower, longer, and finer; the blade being about eight inches in length, one inch wide at the haft, and terminating in half an inch at the point, which is rounded, and the blade, instead of being sharp, has a fine serrated edge. The rounded point, when sunk gently will not injure the starting buds, and the serrated edge will not slip, but merely cut the stem to which it is applied. I have another hint or two for you also, unless where you are like me, very impatient, and' mean, according to my former suggestion, to sacrifice a few beds for an early cutting :—I would wish you to observe this rule ; don't be tempted to cut the largest shoots —in the third season front making a successful plantation; front each crown, four shoots may probably appear at the same time, two of them perhaps large, and two small; be content with one large and one small one, leaving the others, and especially the strong one, which is the best calculated to supply the returning sap, in abundance, to the increasing root.—One word more— let no avarice or economy, or limitation of garden soil, induce you to sow or plant any other crop on your beds, or in your alleys.-1 have seen a square of Asparagus beds trampled into a flag , by a lazy gardener, or his lazy labourer, crossing the beds day after day, to cut a crop of cauliflowers from the inter mediate .alleys.—Carrots, parsnips, and onions you must now. look to, and clear perfectly from weeds. I gave you a smart. lecture upon this subject in the last month,.. if you attend to it well, but don't neglect your operations to the same effect in this month also; and mind, that you stake your peas neatly, and earth up your growing erops,which are in rows, and if the wea ther lie dry, don't forget the watering pot; and persecute the slugs and snails, and now we shad see what is to be done in your next month.—Doyle's Practical Gardening. DUET FOR A "KIP. ,E" OF BARONETS. SIR FRANCIS. SIR JOHNNY. SIIIV.• Silly, Johnny Cam I Twiddle, twaddle, Dad Burdett, Why even Neddy Bulwer • Your public days. are numbered 1 Could hardly prove a greater Sam What use with me to fume and fret 1 Than you, who long so full were In life I never slumbered, °lnspiration:4, mighty fine, Until your silvery accents lulled All about dietinetinu. 111 y spirit into sleeping; But now your light is, I opine, • Till now I wake, and find I'm Nigh to self-extinction. gulled, And you the harvest reaping ! Courage of a man. Interfere thus far—no further; for rely upon it,.the service would be materially injured, if the law was abro gated. if any of the advocates for the abolition of corporal punishment in the navy, had Withessed the dreadful effects on board ship, arising from the grossest neglect of duty, or from the meddling interference of the senseless drunkard-L--Had they been rescued by the accidental passing of another ship, as Was the case with the Kent East Indiaman, when the crew and paSsengers stood on the very brink of destruction, almost with out hope of assistance they would be inclined to alter their opinions about "treating seamen like boys," or the twopenny trash "of using them like horses "—Compare the loss of the Alceste with the wreck of the French frigate nedusa—the one; the beauty of discipline—the other, the confusion of a mob. Redd with what patient resignation, the crew of the former sub mitted to the dictates of Maxwell and his otlicers,see the eX aniple that was set by all the officers down to the smallest mid- Shipman, and dwell with pleasure on their release. After pe rusing all their sufferings and all their obedience, then castyour eves over the horrid picture of the loss of the Medusa, the drunken hope, of the undisciplined crew, their heartless murders, and their dreadful sufferiug,s, and then ask yourself what caused the quiet submission of the one, or the barbarous brutality of the other. It is sonic comfort in the tropical climates, when squalls come suddenly and awfully strong, to know that every sail may be reduced, and thus the chance of accident diminished. It is equally disgusting to be on board a ship where half the men skulk below—where the masts are carried away, the sails split, or the crew kept on deck for hours. I remember, in one very undisciplined ship in which I happened to be a passenger, that a man fell overboard. The confusion Which ensued baffled all description, the consequence was, that the stern boat was low ered when the ship had too much way, and three men (as the boat swamped) drifted away astern. The foremost tackle of the larboard quarter boat was ret go by the rim, and two men more were throWn overboard; a similar accident very nearly occur red with the starboard quarter boat, which was, however, ulti mately repaired, and, instead of only losing one man, we lost three. Discipline, discipline alone has upheld our navy, and discipline we must havewhy, what captain can forget the time when the gaols vomited their contents on board the men-of-war? Were those pickpockets, drunkards, vagabonds of the lowest or der, to be ruled with a feather, or 'soothed with soft accents ? Could it be imagined that those who had defied the strong arm of the law should come like good little children, tractable and obedient at once? No 1 those who ought to have been flogged in the' gaols were flogged elsewhere; and, by a constant vigi lance on every action of these vermin, we reformed their cha racters, and turned them to useful servants of the state, from bold but cruel violators of the law. It was after a long deep sigh from the man in the stern sheets, and after wiping away a stream of tears, as he looked at the ves set, then about two miles and a halt' distant, that he broke out into a loud lamentation on the utter hopelessness of their condi tion if they were not seen. In vain they declared that the brig had purposely altered her course to avoid them—in vain they' pointed to a man going aloft, whom they could distinctly see, — and in vain they waved their jackets, and assisted the signal with speech—the time was slipping away, and, if once they got abaft the beam of the brig, every second would lessen the chance of being seen; besides, the sea breeze might come down, and thee she would he far away, and beyond all hope in a quarter of an hour. Now was it that the man who had been so lohdly la menting his fate seemed suddenly inspired with fresh hope, and courage; he looked - attentively at the brig, then at his compa nion, and said, By . heaven I'll do it, or we are lost! " "Do *hat?" said MS. shipmate. " Though," said the first man, "it is no trifle to do, after what we have seen and known; yet I 'will try, for if she passes us what 'tall we do - ?" I. tell you, Jack, I'll swim to her; If I get,sale to her you are saved; if nut, why I shall die without perhaps adding murder to my crimes.' " What ! jump overboard and leave me all alonei" replied his companion, "look, look at that shark which has followed us all night, why it's only waiting for you to get into the water to swallow you as it did perhaps half our inessniates. ,No, no; do wait; perhaps another vessel may come; beSides, I cannot swim half the distance, and I should be afraid to remain behind. Think, Tom, only think of the sharks, and of last night." This appeal staggered the determination of the gallant fellow. 'I here, about twenty yards from the boat, was the fin of a shark, and now and then another and another might be seen. Ile looked at his enemies and then at himself. Certain death awaited him in the boat, perhaps heightened . by crime; a chance of death awaited him in the sea, but there was hope to buoy him up. The time was flying, the breeze had begun to frcesheu a little; the brig was fast advancing, and hope, was every minute growing less. "Well," said he, "Jack, it comes to this, you see that if we wait 'we must die—if I get to the brig we must be saved. If the sharks—God Almighty protect me," said' he, - shuddering as he mentioned the worn—" should take me, and you live to get back again, you know where to remember me. I say Jack, it is no use being 'frightened to death; come give us your hand, my last companion. I'll do it if it is to be • done. Good bye. Now if y . ou, see those devils in chase of me, splash or make sonic noise to frighten them, but don't tell me 'that you see them coming; another shake of the hand? God bless you, Jack—keep your eye on ni and make signals to the brig. "There" said he, putting his knife down, that, might be of use to you, and here's my toggery, if I'm taken it's none the better for last. night's swim," then falling on his knees and saying, God protect me," he jumped overboard with as much calmness, as if he had been bathing in security. No sooner had he begun to strike out in the direction he intended, than his companion turned to the sharks; the fins had disappeared, and it was evident that they had heard the splash and would soon follow their prey , . It is hard to say who suffered the most anxiety. The one left in the boat cheered his companion, looked at the brig, and kept waving his jacket, then turned to watch . the sharks—his horror May be imagined when he saw three of these terrific monsters swim past the boat, exactly in the direction of his companion ; he splashed his jacket in the water to scare them away, but they seemed quite aware of the impotency of the attack, and lazily* pursued their course. The man swam well and strongly . ; there was no doubt he, would kass within hail of the brig, provided the sharks did not interfere, and he knowing that they would not be long in following him, kept kicking the water and splashil. , as he swam. * * * * It was not, however, until a great dis tance had been accomplished that the swimmer became apprised of his immediate danger, and saw by his side one of the terrific creatures. Still, however, he swans bravely and kicked ; his mind was made up for the worst, amid lie had little hope of suc cess. In the mean time the breeze had gradually freshened,. and the brig passed with greater velocity through the water, every stitch of canvass was spread. To the poor swinuner the sails seemed bursting with the breeze, and as he used his utmost endeavours to propel himself, so as to cut off the vessel, the spray appeared to flash, off from the bow, and the brig. to tly through the sea. ,lle was now close enough to hope his voice might be heard, but he hailed and hailed in vain. Not a soul was to be seen ou deck, and the man who steered was too intent upon his avocation to listen to the voice of mercy. The brig passed, and the swimmer was every second getting further and further in the distance ; ever , y hope. was gone—not a ray of that bright divinity remained. fhe fatigue had nearly exhausted him, and the sharks only waited their first quiet imminent to swallow ther victim. It was in vain he thought of returning to the boat, for he could never have reached her, and his com panion hind no means of assisting him. In the act of offering up his last prayer ere he made up his mind to float and he eaten, he saw a rums look over the quarter of the brig; he raised both his hands, lie jumped himself up in the water, and by the sin gularity of his motions, fortunately attracted notice. A tele:- scope soon made clear the object.. The brig was hove to, and a boat and the man was saved. The attention of the crew was then awakened to the Maple's boat; she was soon alongside, and thus through the exertions of as gallant a fellow as ever breathed. both ,wete rescued from their perilous situation.— Dublin University Magazine. LIFE OF A SAILOR. I would submit to any reasonable man, who has been, and has commanded, and who in: y have paid common attention to the character of English sailors, if the better part of the crew WOuld not rather have the cat hanging in terrurem over the ships company, and know that the idle, the skulking, the thief, the drunkard, 'will be certainly punished, if they neglect their Outy;—unquestionably the good seaman would prefer the conti nuance of the punishment, to witnessing the distressing scenes of the black list, or the long row of culprits, with one leg each in the Idiboes—The discipline of our navy has been the pride of England, and the wonder of the world. The fleets of other na tions have been swept from the ocean, and the flag of Britain has been upheld in the furthest quarter of the globe. Surely discipline must have been a peat auxiliary or this glOry would nut have been attained.. W tiv, during the war, did en English fligate unhesitatingly attack a Frenti frig,ate of far superior force whenever they met? Because the confidence of the cap tain was in the discipline of ins crew, and that discipline cannot Le upheld without some greater punishment, than waterin' ,, a mon 'i:: grog, polishin , ,:,- a pin, or baying the black list men likea pack of flamingoes, to stand on one - leg, or stride over a rope. Xhile our naval tiisciphne has 1 is,n above other nations, •while - N',..1 can uphold the honour and glory of the flag, bare us the 1 OW - el ' WC ao..not want the nec,s,ity for punishment. Interfere by all inevns to bring wanton cruelty, or heartless tvranny to its meriteti censure and disgrace. :Rio- one could advocate the Abuse of 41re Ttiwer CI .punbtnnent pess.essing the --feeings and QUIE COGITAVII. Here, however, let us grant that Nature, in regard to such historic want, is nowise blameable : taking up the other face of the matter, let us rather admire the pains she has been at, the truly magnificent provision she has made, that this same Message of Instructions might reach us in boundless plenitude. Endowments, faculties enough we have A. it is her wise will • too that no faculty imparted to. us shall - rust' from IdisuSe ; the miraculous faculty of Speech, once given, 'becomes not more a gift than a necessity; the Tongue, with or without much mean ing, will keep in motion; arrehily in some 'La Trappe, by unspeakable' self-restraint, for gar wagging. As little can the fingers that have learned the miracle of %Vriting . lie idle: if there is a. rage of speakinc , ' we know also there is a rage of writing, perhilpt•the more furious of the two. It is said, "so eager are men to' :ipeak, they will not let one another get to speech;" but,- on.the other hand, writing is usually transacted private, mid everviinin has his own desk and inkstand, and sits independent and unrestrainable there. Lastly, multiply this power of the Pen some ten enusand fold; that is to say, invent the Printing-press, with its Printers' Devils, with its Editois, Contributors, Booksellers, Bill,sittitkers, and see what it, will no! Such are the means whereviWNattire, and Art the dau g ht er o f N a t ure , h ave equ i ppe d their favourite, man, for pubzishiug himself to man. •. Ltuis:dc 11 r 01V t'xo things :—first, that one Tongue, of average velocity, Asia publish at the. rate of a thick octavo volume per day ; and then how many nimble enough Tongues may be sup- posed to be at work on this Planet Earth, in this citY.!6'9s r at this hour! Secondly, that a - literary Contrihot e s ' i ; cre c a heart and urged by hunger, will many times }ti w e c i i s tl l° i s b informed) accomplish his two Magazine sheets a"' e ao' e i si end twenty hours ; such Contributors being 11°,,`,sg : I ' 4 o not by the thousand, but by the million. Nay, ta7i in its narrower, vulgar sense, as the mere chroni€-Ad4 rences" (of things that can be, as we say, , 131r sarO ss t ' s ol ealenlation is stiß hut a little altered. Siire c attic 'S will be observed, is the grand 'staple of Speech man" ss Jean Paul, "is copious its Narrative, tire rscv iteflexion ; only with the cultivated man is it ( : ; ',01!", } , Yersetvise." Allow even the thousandth part of l' ( the el" i s ing for the emission of Thought, though perhaps nine Were enough, we have still the nine hundred ""`„es, :„ employed in History proper, in relating ocentr e ii t er I ",e lecturing probabilities of such : that is to sq , .', l „ s ' ) , •,, e 't tory or Prophecy, which is a new form of the reader can judge with what abundance this, I t scr i 'te the human intellect is furnished in our wo rld; ' o3° , d e r. s . has been stingy to hint or munificent. Courage, r e. ; s et e l) can the historical inquirer want pabulum, belt er ,l ) ,,srin t ' there are not forty-eight longitudinal feet of sin a" e tory in thy Daily Newspaper ? The truth is, if Universal History is such a tive "shred" as we have named it, the fault lic "" ssY: l l historic organs, but wholly in our misuse of diesel; the s in so many wants and obstructions, varying sc !t ts 0 0; age, that pervert our right use of them; esp ec ' a that press heavily in all ages; want , of • Houest:c, :s derstanding. If the thing published is not true, is position, or even a Vilful invention, what can be,. s ay' except abolish and annihilate it? But again, Trtl i t %iiev e ! : Tooke, means simply the thing treiced,tibe thin)-. " ta t & d i now, from this to the thing extant, what a new ta. p f have we to suffer ! Without Understanding, isl profit little : and how can your publishing avii -whets s r was no vision in it, but mere blindness ? t se I, litical appointments, the man you appoint i s 'lo° ae"s, ablest to discharge the duty, but only lie w h I s e ) be appointed : so too, in alt historic elections a u t ' s be, the maddest work goes on. The event _worthiest 00" is perhaps of all others the least spoken of; lies in the very nature of such events to be so. ; es ell same ,forty-eight longitudinal feet of history, o r Y is .: have stretched out into forty-eight longitudioal tinC o 'S 3 quality, there may not be the forty-eighth Parse tilt breadth that will turn to anything. Truly, N i ‘ l' a t t ' e be quantity of printed Publication that will need- t ° 0 4,e s ; with fire before the smallest permanent- a dv3 i n ie e , t" drawn from it, might . fill us with astonishment, a, Dt, prehension. Where, alas, is the intrepid Herctnetao tail, that will reduce all these paper-mountains i" extract therefroth the three drops of Tinder indeed, looking at the activity of the historic lienf 111 through - this last half-century, and what bulk. ofort!,‘, yields for that period - alone, and how it is li ci ' ss ess' increase in decimal or vigesimal geometric Pres'rseivi might feel as if a day - were not distant, wheu the whole Earth would not now contain those see was done in the Earth, the human memory mus t ' i e confounded, - and - cease remembering!—'Lo sou:,:- c „ 0 , m a" ay be new end consolatory, that this state 0 16 " ; t i, - unexampled as it seems ; that with memory able the s ease was always intrinsically ; Nero oceuptes some diamond pages of our Taci 3 Os or al parchment and .papyreus archives of New's t4t-ts many ilia it:fill! The author of the I'is . de tance, picking a feiv 'residuary slips; has Wi s s ell two octavos of it. On the other hand, were the L t ( i ' ll A then extant Roman memories, or, going to -the alai were the contents of the then extant Roman s were all that was then spoken on it, put in tvlr t ;tlA "longitudinal feet" of small-pica had we—in fico go round the Globe ! * 3 1 , 1 Remark nevertheless how, by natural ten dencY, it were witheut man's forethought a certain fi t t! c a 'els and this even to a high - degree, becomes inevit Vt, worthless the selection could not he, wer e thete i ,.'"A: then this to guide it : that men perma ne ntly sP c3 do t ) t` is extant and actively , alive beside them. I bus o'it that have produced fruit, nay whose fruit still 0 11, to be the things chosen for record , and writing,o4asaf): alone were great, and worth recording. Tin= P at )lii!, Where . Humana met RoMe, and the - Earth was i t se,si sword-defence, by two earth-bestriding whose swords cut kingdoms in pieces; hovers r` *aid . remembrance of a few; while the P °° Treachery of a wretched Iscariot, transacted tin i ,it land of Palestine, centuries earlier, for " tbi rts e yer," lives clear iu the heads, in the heart s of 3sstvij moreover, as only that which bore fruit was g', Oa'pp things, that whose fruit is still here and gro,".4?'sitho;fd greatest, the . best worth remembering; while by the very nature of the case, is mandy the & !.; Observe too how this "Mainly" t e nds alwaYsn o i oschep,Sl `°solely," and the apProximate continually apPrilia") for triviality after triviality, as it perishes tivity efmee s dreps away frote their speech all , the great and vital more and more exclu sivel) Thus does Accident correct Accident, and boundless jostle of things (an aimful Power r tha tY say rather, dwelling in it), a result comes out up with. c a',/ ea • Curious, at all events, and worth looking a t . c 5 5,,, is this same compressure of History, be the Pi o t '' Yf A i;f. it may. How the "forty-eight longitudinal fe e / int o 7' together after a century, after ten centuries ! 00 . 0 0 end to beginning, over any HiStory, over o ti s is how, in rapidest law of perspective it d w indles " .ea st?, O f , An unhapi,y Sibarite, if we stand within two csel'so'S and name - him Charles . Seeond shall hav e t o il bn space of a Heroic Alfred, two or three thoniseptay name Isins:Georp'Fotirth. The whole Saxon flesP events to which Maena Charta and the w° r ict'sr f ~t 1 Reading are as dust in the balance, took placcci England, to mention nothing else, get itself , ,'?) OA , in Parliament, yet converted to ChristianitYitses°,6, practically that one sentence of Miami's ' o rit' o e9. ceeding writers have copied. or readers I. ,e, i ';,:e'oi c s : " lighting and flocking of kites and crows. '‘o . o Mi s t an - unimportant wassail-night when the , o il Lt J i Brothers strongheaded,. headstroug Hengist t jo t lion and 'Horse), determined on man-tint boar-hunt at home having go t ovet-crowded;a ryi hungry Angles, made an - English nation , gu l l , ' °,,, and—produced thee 0 reader ! Of Tugs scarcely half a page of good narrative c'slo'o`f the Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxfbrd standing , liot vi e d t to mankind in a respectable volume. N itY,.,,ee 3 I.l' not the destruction of a Brunswick theatre 'sco' times as much telling as the Creation of a Magazine. t ai 1 . ) THEATRICALS EXTRA OI-1 I , 9 e As we h ,,„ shave not the advantage' of a a bet, it readers will pardon-our , being sometime - formation. ;_mee t our last number Iv an " - s ot play-hii was pint into our bands; we have v ,,,-- other 'raper, and therefore we insert it n'-' , % se si's,'. fe r , THEATRV , ROYAL, ST. s'rc L ".0 1 On Tuesday next, April 30th, his ) I ."„ h e f a r have the honour to perform an' entirelY m!`" o s est . 'ti aISLA'TION MADE EASY; OR THE "SAY s ! . j i or t ' s st The LA . RDLORD OF THE CHEQUERS , t Which character he will introduce the vve o, malt. for l e t Os' ' The part of the PATRIOT will "be 1: ,- 1. - L irt, .; this night - Only, by young ROscitis, 'citias The MASTER IN CHANCERY, by i r ' kindly consented to sing'the favourite s" l '''thes,l The Judge of the Court of CollSiStefiCAOtit, manity, and the able advocate of Jugg' eL st isee 3 the audience with the sacrifice of his 0 , 1.0' 15 ' 0 P pularity on the•funerel pile of his dyinls .t i s g 3 The - whole will conclude with an att e `aisoe n s t ginal appeal to the - cOnipassion of the an ~ r It- Alter , em will repeat his universal I sravcr' li nt • , s a poor old man: to Ce YOUNG Roscius begs to announce pey 'public - in general, that his benefit will tos v ' e - h ot- s t i s i! the 7th May, at the .Theatre-royal , will perform, o fo v r the third time 0 e , this 6° ,7-01 SYCOPHANT. No mon takeniaiitttlitli i e had at the sign of the Jolly Grazier ev.°s t ' `'hl ar The origin of this performance ,aris isst, tc the State Managers went., on Sad:urea), ssset,e, of the Theatre and said, that, in e"i l- i e ) ? the t s, unsopularitv of the 'House, but alS° 40 0, acknotiledged inability of tlie s; ea t ' s ' they could no long el. retain the reana: it'' most anxious to Sian d by their emploVere se,f,Sl they were Wel! aware, -that, EllOtZi d e ver.,! Cepch i engagements, they could not hop- ! ) ,„,pf were reciinimended to take further teastit,aso,:i the result was, that the above r eap de. too on Havish what , SueCess the" public knoN s ' Bat Poi 741 t, h o , e Poli ttj h r 8 0 1 t 1e Iportal t il so di affair it ,this Ort Plth o rke 6,_ ole Itus l',Y r of Adri !i y Politi c pir e ll ' - e as [I 2 f._ Ni a! 18 1 1 ' 1 , th: • _ e 1 eral con a nd th e .ra otui itil Ithee,'*4