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the Almighty giveth men undrstanding.' meant Creator, the 01 ereature. Here across the distir ithout correcti " Now the I tion, in the sc the living oral n, when of lettered skill the pleasure tt heightened FL folly we could the enjoyment Part. But to t are intern dare not The States, w pine em lint, in t points of ;o break her And this s ?ted, will many an in And it may •ation, as afigure: s well Thtologic It finitely as the tern► circle in ral operation on the mold, persutial personal act of tue s a vast difference; and to draw a sponge ion, is what no earnest seeker of truth ;ervant lert their own inspira- They avow themselves to be ' the word of God spoken the advancement of society in sons of genius and We are not in, , eindble to )e derived from the products of ingenious mint ,metimes we taste with are matured under the ich dross and even some r with, rather than remain deprived of it'll any form of original talent can itn there must be a limit. There g, whose safety we 0, it had been our joy to yield the Emerson come among us, from fruits of literary hours, gathered vital and antiwar By herbs, or with chcippy the baleful roots, from which, over the hin her wigwaum, drops may be drawn n of ac anoint with death the weapon ! we love not her fell Botany ; he brews. Humanity bids her go gather for the sick ones a pion, has, with mistaken d. bearing what, freeze the life-blood which for ages has er mighty breast, which has warmed her ual. unworthily of AMERI millions has come, as and borne her on as the r a moral strife. But looking. lit, Britain's intellect and Bri ig. Yet let us remem ninating view, to think s unit of her I believe, on a mis: n of harm No : this naenerous and unjust Elements of the British Constitution. By the Rev. J. D. ;, Vicar of Polesworth, Warwickshire. Lou- E. Paint kingdom are being brought about, as we are almost daily subject to, it is more than ever necessary to understand thoroughly, at all events, the essential elements of that constitution. The design of the work before us is to give as popular a view as possible of those parts of our social system with which ev ry Briton ought to be acquainted. " Not many years ago," says the author, " the principles of the British constitution were locked up in the Com- and the vast majority of Englishmen were free, without knowing the precise grounds of their freedom." This hindrance has been removed by such works as that of De Lame and the one before us. Mr. Schomberg avoids every thing of an extraneous nature, and gives us a corn- preliensive vie England, arrar Civil Governmen wing order of Monarchy—The Legi.la 'ower —The Ecclesiastical —The Monarchical Power and The Checking Power. their distinctive fea intelligibly laid down. lc are, like all the rest, and Government of Live Powei Power—The Executive Pow —The Administrative Powei Under each of these heads i tures carefully, succinctly, and , The following po r ti ons o f th e wo valuable and instructive :-- THE I EGISLATIN tate where the la POWER " In every 8, c paramount, as in England, the Legislature is the supreme power. It is, in reality, the power which gives vitality to the Constitu tion. It is the expounder, the maintainer, the amender 3f the Constitution : ncr is this assertion derogatory to 'hical power. The King or Queen of England, ‘Q supreme ; and the royal power in • hut it is the Constitu- the rnonarc as the Ex, enforcing tion, through sustaining thi might which execute the heart, which gives a capacity for ;reign is the hand of ire is the power at power divided. It thiis7bt; dons, and is the more ens marks and !cfc to its own inc Was no saluta heck of t ;k arising from diffe- aching claims—the Legislature !ean, deprived of the bulwark r and destroy : * * Th e Le light to ited that the int:rest of nterest of no single one ill may b may be p] without a cour to see the consequence the landed proprietary the moneyed, professii Byrth, we cannot suffer ourselves to pass them by unno ticed. He is alluding (p. 55) to the supposed absence of incident or interest in the lives of Christian ministers, anti gray Dr. Byriti, while opportilnity is at hand Vf . n'iaking him speak for himself, " Their histories are not without incidents of the most stirring nature, connected with the conviction and the con- the communication of peace and hope to the victims of despair. It is theirs often to behold, and to be instrumen tal in producing that moral and spiritual change in the im mortal spirit, which is as lifefrom the dead, and compared with which the discovery of a new planet will hereafter be deemed all unimportant event .. It may not bethought out of place, in writing the memoir of such a man as Dr "Atter-hall, to touch upon another mat*-- -^4 -Itoget, ~ dot a __der unconnected with the foregoing 'reflections. The writer believes that a very inadequate estimate is formed by the bulk of mankind, of the amount of learning and talent contributed by the ministers of Christianity to the sacred cause in which they are employed. The prevailing misap prehensions on this subject are productive of serious injury to the cause of truth. No formal correction of them is here to be attempted. But there are two considerations in connexion with the subject which recommend themselves to the thinking mind. The public labours —w e mean, of course, in the pulpit—of the preachers of the Gospel are exposed to the danger of being undervalued, from their frequent and periodical occurrence : No_ other class of mental workmen so often present themselves to scrutiny and observation. Their work is never done : the stream of their toil knows no interruption. The other con sideration which will find a place in the estimate of a candid observer of the intellectual character of the Christian ministry is, that even if the necessity of unre mitting appearances in public be of itself likely to deterio rate the quality of the productions of the speakers mind, the inferiority is rather assumed than demonstrated. It ma y he asserted, without hesitation, that any one in the hAnit of frequenting the places where the minds and thouz,hts of men fly forth upon ' the wings of words,' the Senate House and the Courts of Justice, will as frequently, gested declamations, long speeches, which owe their very length to the unwillingness or inability of the speaker to exercise previous thought, and the other qualities which make up the complement of the most wearying of all things, a tiresome oration, as he would deplore the same trial of his patience from the occupants of the seats of relieious instruction and appeal." * We commend, in justice to the clergy generally, these Of Dr. Tattershall he adds, further on, " It was his lot, and he never repined it, to pursue his work without the worlds favour, and with little of what men call remunera of deep yellow bacon which lined it, that plenty and abun dance, even to overflowing, predominated in the family. " The " chimney brace" projected far over the fireplace towards theil...or, and under it on each side stretched twp long hobs or chimney corner seats, on which nearly a dozen persons could sit of a winter evening. Mrs. Burke, a smart, good-looking little woman, though somewhat advanced in years, kept passing in a kind of perpetual motion from one part of the house to the other, with a large bunch of bright keys jingling at one side, and a huge housewife pocket with round pincushion dangling beside it at the other. Jemmy Burke himself, a placid though solemn-faced man, was sitting on the hob in ques tion complacently smoking his pipe, whilst over the glowing remnants of an immense turf fire hung a singing kettle, and beside it upon three crushed coals was the teapot, waitin',' as the servants were in the habit of ex pressing it, ' for the masther and misthress's breakfast.' " Bud( A. Thes. author to have teemed )licablE regard ot the et the wonder, at Hence that uu most powerful a ders men from field, with insa ath been powt n on t anctuar nation in t The Progress a the Rev. Mel; This is an au Churci ind aided by convincingly es may discr fast and loo: mts of ide a kingly power ho sanction to the laws check on each other's moc constitutional points —a f the Rey()lation, will abun 7: The Parlour Library. The Emigrants of Ahadarra," by T . .1. Carleton LOndon Mr. Carleton stands almost alone, or at all events above most of his contemporary tale writers and novelists in his nice appreciation ot, and power of describing—the wild habits and eccentricities, both good and evil, of the peasantry of his native country. In the emigrants of Ahadarra, he has succeeded in painting some pictures of the peculiar features of Irish society which are worthy of being attentively studied. Jemmy Burke, the snug farmer, shrewd and industrious, yet carrying his gene rosity to a faulty extreme, and slovenly in the very points in which want of care renders his shrewdness and indus try vain, is a character too commonly to be found in Ireland and intimately associated with that country's want of progress in the social scale. The whole history of the Mahon family is full of interest and instruction. The old man, Tom Mahon especially, with his credulous reliance upon the word of a " gentleman " being as good as a lease, is a capital character, as are several others in the tale. The working out of the plot is not quite so happy as Mr. Carleton has been in some of his previous works ; and the conclusion strikes us as being somewhat hasty, as if the author had been pulled up before he had th his subject. We have given some extracts THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD -gam ;;,-~:~~. EOM= occasion some vivid glances, that were burthened, as they passed aslant their fair faces, with pithier feelings than those that originated from a simple desire of victoq. If truth must be told, baleful flashes, unmeasured both in number and expression, were exchanged in a spirit of true defiance between the interested and contending parties, as the close of the contest approached. At length, by t he proclamation of the reelers, the gnat body of the compe titors were thrown out, and they consequently gave up the contest. It was now six o'clock, and the first sound of seven o'clock by Captain Millar's bell was to clue the proceedings, and enable the reelers to proclaim the victor. Only four names now remained to battle it out to the last; to wit, a country farmer's daughter, named Betty Aikins, Dora M`Mahon, Hanna Ci.tvanagh, and a servant girl belonging to another neighbour, named Peggy Bailly. This ruck, as they say on the turf, was pretty well up to gether, but all the rest nowhere. And now, to continue the metaphor, as is the case at Goodwood or the Cur ragh, the whole interest was centred upon these four. At the commencement of the last hour the state of the case was proclaimed, as follows :—Betty Aikins, three dogeq and eight cuts; Dora M'Mahon, three dozen and seven cuts ; Hanna Cavanagh, three dozen and five cuts ; and Peggy Bailly, three dozen and four cuts. Every in dividual had now her own party anxious tor her success, and amidst this hour of interest how many hearts beat with ad the hopes and fears that are incident even to the most circumscribed contests of human life. Opposite Dora stood the youth whom we have already noticed, James Cavanagh, whose salvation seemed but a very trifling thing when compared or put into opposition with her success. Be this as it may, the moment was a most exciting one, even to those who felt no other interest than that which naturally arises from human competition. And it was unquestionably a beautiful thing to witness this particular contest between four youthful and indus trious young women. Dora's otherwise pale and placid features were now mantling, and her beautiful dark eyes flashing, under the proud and ardent spirit of ambition, for such, in fact, was the principle that now urged and animated the contest. When nearly half-an-hour had passed, Kathleen came behind her, and stooping down, whispered—' Dora, don't turn your wheel so quickly : you move the foot-board too fast—don't twist the thread too much and you'll let down more.' " Dora smiled and looked up to her with a grateful and flashing eye; Thank you, Kathleen,' she replied, nod ding, ' I'll take your advice.' The state of the contest was then proclaimed :—Betty Aikins, three dozen and ten cuts; Dora M'Mahon, three dozen and ten cuts ; Hanna Cavanagh, three dozen six cuts and a half ; Peggy Bailly, three dozen, five and a half. " On hearing this, Betty Aikins's cheek became scarlet, and as it is useless to disguise the fact, several flashing glances that partook more of a Penthesilean fire than the fearful spirit which usually characterizes the industrious pursuits of Minerva, were shot at generous Dora, who sustained her portion of the contest with singular spirit and temper. " You may as well give it up, Dora M`M•ihon,' ex claimed Betty ; • there never was one of your blood could open against an Aikins—the stuff is not in you to beat me.' " A very little time will soon tell that,' replied Dora ; but indeed, Betty, if I am doin' my best to win the kemp, I hope it's not in a bad or unfriendly spirit, but in one of fair play and good humour•' " The contest now went on for about fifteen minutes, with surpassing interest and animation, at the expiration of which period, the seven o'clock bell already alluded to, rang the hour for closing their labours and determining the victory. Thus stood their relative positions—Dora M`Mahon, four hanks and three cuts ; Betty Aikins, four hanks; Hanna Cavanagh, three hanks and nine cuts; Peggy Bailly, three hanks and eight cuts. " When this result was made known, Betty Aikin burst into a loud fit of grief, in which she sobbed as if her very heart would break, and Kathleen stooping down, congra tulated the beautiful girl upon her victory, kissing her at the same time as she spoke—an act of love and ki•,dness in which she would have joyfully been followed by several of her male friends, if they Lad dared to take that deli cious liberty. " The moment of victory, we believe, is that which may be relied upon as the best of true greatness. Dora WiVrahon felt the pride of that moment in its fullest ex tent, but she felt it only to influence her better and nobler principles. After casting her eyes around to gather in, as it were, that approbation which is so natural, and ex changing some rapid glances with the youth we have al luded to, she went over to her defeated competitor, and taking her hand said, ' Don't cry, Betty, you have no oc casion to be ashamed ; sure, as you say, it's the first time you wor ever beaten ; we couldn't all win ; an' indeed if I feel proud now, every one knows an' says I have a right to he so; for where was there—ay, or where is there — such a spinner as you are ? Shake hands now, an there's a kiss for you. If I won this kemp, it was won more by chance than by anything else.' "These generous expressions were not lost on Betty; on the contrary, they soothed her so much that she gave her hand cordially to her young and interesting con gheress, after which they all repaired to a supper of new milk and flummery, than which there is nothing more de licious within the wide range of luxury. This agreeable meal being over, they repaired to the large barn where Mickey M`Grory, the fiddler, was installed in his own pe culiar orchestra, consisting of an arm-chair of old Irish oak, brought out from Gerald Cavanagh's parlour. A FLATTERED DESCRIPTION OF LANCASHIRE. - A noble county, believe us, kind reader, is that of Lan - Caster, notwithstanding its tall chimneys, and black-mouthed coal-pits, and • smoke-bcgritnmed faces, and swarthy artizans, and covered operatives. The Southern shrinks from it as a pestilence. " Only think of Manchester, your royal highness !"was Brummell's exclamation, when his regiment was ordered thither. Even the bishopric went begging for awhile. The Londoner would almost as soon be stuck up to the neck in a Tipperary bog, as be fixed in a manufacturing town. But, over the wide world, n:,int out to us a district of the same extent as Lanes- shire aith the same properties of greatness. In this much-maligned county there are fields as green, and landscapes as fair, as eve can rest on. NOwhere is agri culture, in its science and practice advancing more rapidly. From beneath its surface coal is dug out by brawny arms to turn the machinery of the monster factory, and to cheer the fireside of the humble cottage. From its mountain-sides the stoneis quarried in abundance. Along its picturesque valleys the dancing water-fall, is made available for turning the wheels of the mill, and the wild l:i'auties of nature are trained to the service of the practi cal and useful. Railways intersect the county like net work, affording unusual facilities of transit. On its rivers float the argosies of a hundred lands ; and from its ports are borne its manufactures to the four corners of the earth. Its inhabitants are characterised by a sterling intellect of Saxon parentage, polished and whetted by the daily attrition of ceminercial dealings. Many a strong mind has struggled up from the weaver's loots, till it, has enriched the literature of the day, or increased the com forts of man by its prarti..al inventions. A noble coun ty, indeed, with all its failings ! a county " whose mer chants are princes," whose women are "witches," and whose working men are •trong enough to "whip the world."- -Fraser's Magazine. OVERCROWDING OP THE METROPOLITAN GRAVE VA RDS.—Accurate returns have been made of the superti . - cial extent of the parochial and some other burial grounds o f the metropolis, and of the numbers of bodies annually interred in each. The annual average number of burials per acre, for the seven descriptions Of burial places com prised in the intramural grounds, is stated in these official returns to be 2,271. Now, if we divide this by 7, we have the average for each, which gives 324 burials annually to the acre. From the total we may tairly extract the burial places of the Jews, and those of the Society of Friends, which are well conducted. This will give us five species of grounds, with an annual average of 2,130 burials to the acre, or an average of 426 for each. The proper number, you will remember, is 136 to the acre; in Germany, the average is only 110 burials per acre per annum. Thus, at the first glance, it is evident that our parish grave-yards are made to receive every year three times as many bodies as they ought, and four times. as many as are permitted by the laws of well-regulated continental states. The in evitable crowding of our churchyards may be illustrated in anyther way. The annual mortality of the metropolis, at a low computation, is 50,000. Now, suppo•ing the bu rials to be renewed every ten years (and this is the shortest period twat should be allowed for the decomposition of the human body), 414 acres would be required, whereas we have only 209. But this is not all. There are 182 paro chial graveyards in London. Of these, only 48 are con fined within the proper limit of 136 burials to the acre ; the rest exhibit various degrees of saturation, from 200 up to 3000 per acre annually. This is scarcely credible, hut official returns confirm the truth of what I assert. In very many the annual average per acre exceeds 1000.— From Mr. G. A. Walker's Fourth Lecture on Metro politan Graveyards. A CLERICAL DOCTOR-It would surprise many of our fair readers were we to relate with what unreserved freedom the clergyman is admitted into the secrets of all family ailments. The poor seem to think he is entitled to the full privilege of the doctor. We ourselves have made a point of declining—with many grateful acknowledgements —all the delicate investigations which old women would have pressed upon us. From the non-observance of this rule, a clerical friend of ours, not long ago, was placed in a singular predicament. We heard the tale from his own mouth, and can vouch for its truth. He has a country living—surrounded. however, by manufacturing towns, and inhabited chiefly by hand-loom weavers. He acts not only as their spiritual physician, but takes equal pride in administering to the relief of their bodily ailments. -He is consulted by the old women far and wide, and is considered unrivalled in his know' , dge of the Pharma coptaia. Being an old soldier—a Waterloo officer—it is .opposed that he picked up his skill somewhere abroad, or on the field of battle. Some go so far as to say that on one occasion he was shut up four-and-twenty hours with an Egyptian necromancer. One night last winter he was retiring to rest about el yen o'clock : his house was quiet, and his household was in bed ; when he was startled by a thundering knock at the door. " Holloa! who's the a?" he inquired from his bedroom window. "James Jack son," was the laconic answer. " Mother's badly." " Does your motherwant meto-night ?" " Ay, directly !" was the stubborn reply. Our friend was decidedly sulky as he contrasted the warmth of his bed with the • cold without :' but, being too good a disciplinarian to break ecclesiastical canons, he re-adjusted his coat and waist coat, muffled up his throat, threw on his veteran rogue laure, and started off with his parishitiner—a lubberly lad of nineteen. It was a frosty, moonlight night ; on the two trudged over the crisp snow ; when, aftt r walking about half a mile, our friend's temper began to cool by degrees; and, turning rotiod to his companion, he said, in his usual kind tone,—" Well, and is your mother very poorly ?" "Ay, hoo's (sh e 's) vara badly at present. ' " But- she is likely to get better, I hope ?" " AY, ay, hoo'll mend, happen (perhaps), after a bit." " What's f It/ - -Of 0 . kr ne matter with her, do you know r _ ay, 1100'. habboring (in103.9u.r) 7 ' " Lll.ll,,ri••g ! knbb.ring shrieked our friend. turning- round fiercely upon his feliow traveller. " What do you mean by coming for we ? Labboring ; go for Dr. Potts this instant. Labboring ! Am I a man-midwife, think you ?" " Well, well," was the imperturable reply, " Folks says ye're vary skilfu' in chymistering, and"—serat,hing his head, and looking his pastor imploringly in the face—" a 'abhor's ten and six pence."—Fraser's Magazine. A SNUG IRISH FARMER "On reaching the gate, Peety Dhu and his pretty daughter turned up towards the house we have alluded to—which was the residence of a man named Burke. On reaching it they were observed by a couple of large dogs, who, partaking of the hospitable but negligent habits of the family, first approached and looked at them for a moment, then wagged their tails by way of welcome, and immediately scampered off into the kitchen to forage for themselves. " Burke's house and farmyard, though strongly indi cative of wealth and abundance in the owner, were, not withstanding, evidently the property of a man whose mind was far back in a knowledge of agriculture, and the in dustrial pursuits that depend upon it. His naggard was sloienly in the extreme, and his farmyard exceedingly offensive to most of the senses ; everything lay about in a careless and neglected manner ;—wheelbarrows without their trundles—sacks for days under the rain that fell from the eaves of the houses—other implements embedded in mud—car-houses tumbling down—the pump without a handle—the garden-gate open, and the pigs hard at work destroying the vegetables, and rooting up the garden in all directions. In fact, the very animals about the house were conscious of the character of the people, and acted accordingly. If one of the dogs, for instance, was hunted at the pigs, he ran in an apparent fury towards that which happened to be nearest him, which merely lifted its head and listened for a time—the dog, with laud and boisterous barking, seizing its ear, led it along for three or four yards in that position, after which, upon the pig demurring to proceed any further, he very quietly dropped it and trotted in again, leaving the destructive animal to resume its depredations. "The house inside bore the same character. Winter and summer the hall-door, which had long lost the knocker, lay hospitably open. The parlour had every equivocal appearance ; for the furniture, though originally good and of excellent materials, was stained and dinged and hacked in a manner that denoted but little sense of care or cleanliness. Many of the chairs, although not worn by age, wanted legs or backs, evidently from ill usage alone ;—the grate was without fire-irons—a maho gany bookcase that stood in a recess to the right of the tire-place, with glass doors and green silk blinds, had the glass all broken and the silk stained almost out of its original colour; whilst inside of it, instead of books, lay a heterogeneous collection of old garden seeds in brown paper—an almanac of twenty years' standing, a dry ink bottle, some broken delf, and a large collection of blue moulded shoes and boots, together with an old blister of French flies, the lease of their farm, &c., and a great number of their receipts for rent. To crown all, the clock in the other recess stood cobwebbed about the top, deprived of the minute hand, and seeming to intimate by its silence that it had given note of time's progress to this idle and negligent family to no purpose. _ " On theediawing-roOm stair; there lay what had once been a carpet, but so Inseparable had been their connexion that the stairs were now worn through it, and it required harp eye to ar. such fragments of it as re mained, from the colour of the dirty boards it covered and the dust t " On entering the kitchen, Peety and his little girl found thirteen or fourteen, in family labourers and ser vants of both sexes, seated at a long deal table, each with a large wooden noggin of buttermilk and a spoon of suitable dimensions, digging as if for a wager into one or other of two immense wooden bowls of stirabout so thick and firm in consistency that, as the phrase goes, a man might dance on it. This, however, was not the only picture of such enjoyment that the kitchen afforded. Over beside th.. dresser was turned upon one side the huge pot in which the morning meal had been made, and at the bottom of which, inside of course, a spirit of rivalry but by no means so har monious, was kept up by two dogs and a couple of pigs, which were squabbling and whining and snarling among each other, whilst they tugged away at the scrapings or residuum that was left behind after the stirabout had been emptied out of it. The whole kitchen, in fact, had a strong and healthy smell of food—the dresser, a huge one, was covered with an immense quantity of pewter, wally vigorous and animated eve towards the chimney to perceive THE SPINSTER'S KEMP. believe, two hundred pounds. Like the great Apostle, he might almost say "these hands ministered o niy necessities;" for during almost the whole of his married life he was engaged in preparing young men for the Uni versity." With reference to this necessity, Dr. Byrth had sail before in his sermon, partly re-printed in this memoir. (p. 15)—" The best of his days and the pride of his strength have been expended in the preparir men for the Universities. It is well that the you bialitr classes should be committed to the care and in struction of the clergy. But the latter cannot be at once writing books and teaching others to read them." The details of Dr. Tattershall's ministry amongst us are so recent and familiar, that in the memoir before us they are very lightly touched upon. Of course it is still less needful that further mention should be made of them here. The account of his funeral is taken from one of our local contemporaries, with (may we say served b y on the periodical press of Liverpool. We have already so far exceeded our usual and intended limits, that we must forbear for the present from any notice of the subject matter of the admirable sermons that com prise the body of the work. At some future time we may possibly return to it. Enough, however, has been done in calling the attention of our readers to the publication itself. We speak as to wise men, and are in nowise ap " A kemp, or camp, is a contest of industrial skill, or a competition for priority in a display of rustic labour. Among men it is principally resorted to in planti ng pota toes or reaping of corn, and generally only on the day which closes the labour at each for the season ; but in the sense in which it is most usually practised and contested, it memo_ a trial of female skill a t the s pi nn i ng o f linen yarn.Wt is, indeed, a very cheerful assemblage of the fair sex ; and, although strong and desperate rivalry is the order of the day, yet it is conducted in a spirit so light hearted and amicable that we scarcely know a more_lauda- recreation in coun as they promote industry, a spirit of becoming emulation, and principles of good will and kindness to our neighbour. . " When a ken'p is about to be held, the 'matter soon becomes generally known in the neighbourhood. Some times the young women are asked, but in most instances, so eager are they to attend it that invitations are unne cessary. In the winter months, and in mountain districts, it is often as picturesque as it is pleasant. The young women usually begin to assemble about four o'clock in the morning ; and, as they always go in groups, accom panied besides by their sweethearts or some male relatives, each of the latter bearing a large torch of well dried bog- the stillness of night with a holiday reeling, made . ten times more delightful by the surrounding darkness and the hour. When they have not the torches, the spinning wheels are carried by the males, amidst an agreeable din of fun, banter, repartee, and jest, such as scarcely any other rustic amusement with which we are acquainted ever occasions. On arriving at the house where the kemp is to be held, they are placed generally in the barn or some as to crowd every available space that can he procured for their accommodation. From the moment they arrive the lively din is incessant. Nothing is heard but laughter, key, among the louder humming of the spinning-wheels and the stridulous noise of the reels, as they incessantly crack the cuts in the hands of the reelers, who are per petually turning them from morning till night, in order to ascertain the quantity which every competitor has spun ; and she, of course, who has spun most wins the kemp, and is the queen for the night. "A kemp invariably closes with a dance—and a dance of th e I too upon an unusually extensive scale. Indeed, dun; g tlnt whole day the fair competitors are regaled from time to time with the enlivening strains of the fiddle or the bagpipes, and very often with the united melody of both t)gether, " On that morning, the dwelling-house and mostly all the out-offices of Gerald Cavanagh bore, in stir and bustle, a stronger resemblance to the activity of so many bee hives about to swarm than to anything else to which we can think of comparing them. Mirth in all its shapes, of laughter, glee, and song, rang out in every direction. The booming of wheels and the creaking of reels, the loud banter, the peals of laughter, the sweet Irish songs that filled up the pauses of the louder mirth, and the strains of the fiddle that ever and "anon added to the enlivening spirit of the scene, all constituted such a full and general chorus of hilarity as could seldom be witnessed. "There were many girls p: competition,_ but who, as took no part in the d acquaintances of Kathleen and Fianna, came to enjoy the festive spirit of the day. Hanna herself, however, who had earned some celebrity as a spinster, started for the honour of winning, as did Dora M`Mahon, whose small and beauti ful fingers seemed admirably adapted for this graceiul and peculiarly feminine process of Minerva. Towards 'even ing the neighbours assembled in considerable numbers, each interested in the success of some particular favourite, whose former feats had induced .her friends to enter tain on her behalf strong, if not certain, hopes of victory. Kathleen, from a principle of generosity, patronized her young friend, Dora M ie other hand, took ks the eve' Nl`Malion, on under her pro the spectators in order to be be difficult to - I placed under. Le mirth an, sive of their verdict upon what we have written We have heard, from his own lips. the Hon. C. Kendall Bust Justice of the Queen'; w9pos to this, from one who heard it ipituon on this subject of the late Right for many years the distinguished Chief Bench, in Ireland, that it was a task of r, to produce a sermon of half-an-hour's al as it ought to be, than was i volved in the every-day practice of a barrister of no more thi th once in the week Reading for the Railroad. Londc Chambers. Wertheim, Aldine A book with the above title, of very modest appearance Ind moderate dimensions has come before us. It is yen le in design, and likely to prove very useful in it; It consists of short extrects judicially selecte( Is persons, botl e writings of eminent and les of men and women. Cowper, Cecil, Bish( Horne Leigh Richmond, & c ., ar e sufficient guarantees for the Character of the work ; and the appended index of subjects, renders its stories imme diately available, while its size and price must prove an additional attraction, ensuring for it a very wide circula- ver were invested in one, I non t requires little foresight Advice to Clerks, and Hints to Employers House of Lords is seated Red Lion-court, Fleet-street .e of Commons receives This is one of those invaluable little works which M , ommercial inteie-t : the Mitchell has of late been so assiduous in giving to th C. Mitchell, nee, and gives its ultimate world. We recommend it to every clerk, and, Indeed,. to & two houses are a au tent every youn g man w h o i s en t er i ng upon the career of . life, is far as relates to great as an excellent guide to advancement and honest nide wn history, since i?endence. Empl o y ers o f you th, m oreover, may gather fromits pages many a useful lesson. aptly testify tection circumstances of such song and general murmur diminished by degrees, until they altogether ceased, and nothing was to be beard but the perpetual cracking of the reels, the hum of the rapid wheels, and the voices of the reelers, as they proclaimed the state of this enlivening poll of industry. As for the fair competitors themselves, it might have been observed that even those amo or at least but slight pretensions to hE from the excitement w tually interesting Their eyes, lit by the active spirit of rival culiar brilliancy, their ( Lem, sparkled with pe ase flushed or got pale as they felt themselves elevated or depressed by the pros pect or loss of victory. Nor were there wanting on this THE MAGAZINES The Dublin University commences the year with more than its usual quantity of valuable and interesting matter. Amongst the reviews in the present number, a review of Owen Madden's "Revelations of Ireland." and the Rev. M. Vicary and Father Prout's works upon Rome, are very clever. " The Fatal Bride" is a well told tale ;as is the first part of " The Apothecary's Wire,"—a Ru , sian story. The political article on Irish politics shall receive, as it deserves, a more extended notice. Blackly' ood's Magazine has this month two political articles—the first entitled " Thirty Years of Liberal Legis lation," and the second, " Ireland and the Ministerial Measures ;" both of which are well worthy of a careful perusal. Our old favourite is also fertile in interesting and valuable matter, amongst the best of which are the tales entitled " Evenings at Sea," and a " Night's Peril," in another style. The article on the periodical literature should be read with attention by parties on both sides of the Atlantic. Fraser's Magaiine for the present month is an excel lent number. We have extracted largely from its first article, " The Manufacturing Poor." We shall return to some articles on other subjects. VARIETIES It has been calculated that a pair of sparr w 4, while rearing their young, destroy on an average 5363 cater pillars every week. _ _ . . . 'lease, but rub them "bright dry" each time: don't leave a particle of moist ure for the cold air to act upon. ANGER.—Passion is the drunkenness of the mind ; and therefore, in its present influence, not controllable by reason ; forasmuch as the proper effect of it is, for the time, to supersede the operations of reason.—Poynder. ash them - a4 often as you The verb "to build" has been much degraded among us, and has lost its full signification. " Our English word, to build," says Horne Tooke, " is the Anglo-Saxon byldan, to confirm, to establish, to make firm and sure and fast, to consolidate, to strengthen ; and is applicable to all other things as well as dwelling places." In Ger many the word retains its full meaning.—The Builder. During the alarmAaust d by a threatened invasion of this country by the French, in 1795, the following singular an nouncement appeared in the public papers :—" The Bishop of Winchester has sanctioned the whole of the clergy of Hampshire, and especially of the Isle of Wight, to take up arms in the present crisis, and also to do whatever they may think best for the service of their country." LISTON AS AN OPERATOR.—II iS related of him, that of performing a dangerous operation, Liston t his horse, arid gallop miles over the country, would _ . not for amusement or recreation, but deeply pondering on the case at issue, and steeling himself with that determi nation which was requisite for success. Alone, and almost proaching struggle, he has (as we have heard from his own lips) rushed over the Corstorpbine Hills, near Edinburgh, or Hampstead Heath, in the vicinity of London, and re turned in a condition, mental and physical, to undertake (under the most favourable auspices) the onerous and lite or-death task before him.—Literary Gazette. _ A COMPLAISANT HUSBAND — Tn the neighbourhood of Rochdale, it happened that a big, hulking collier, six feet two in his stockings, had an extremely diminutive wife. But, what was more singular, it was currently reported that the said little woman, being, in country dialect, a spreet, (sprite) was in the habit of thrashing her husband. " John," said his master to him one day, " they really say that your wife beats you. Is it true ?" " Yoy," drawled John, with most provoking coolness. " Yoy." responded the master, with indignation. " What do you mean, you lout? A great thumping fellow like you, as strong as a steam-engine or an elephant, to let a little woman like your wife thrash you! What a blockhead you must be !" " Whoy, whoy," was the patient reply, it ple-ases hor, an' it does me no bort !"—Fraser's Magazine. THE DRESS OF ENGLISH LEPERS IN THE 14TH CEN TURY.—" The brothers [of the leper-house of St. Julian, near St. Albans] are to have a tunic and upper tunic of russet, with a hood cut from the same, so that the sleeves of the tunic be closed as far as the hand, but not laced with 'knots or thread after the secular fashion. They are to wear the upper tunic closed down to the ankles, and a close cape of black cloth, of the same length with the hood, as they h ave b een ac c ustomed of old." A particu lar form of shoe was also ordered, and if the order was disobeyed, the culprit was " condemned to walk daily barefooted until the master, considering his humanity, said to him—enough." —Dr. J. Y. Lawson on Leprosy and Leper Hospitals in Scotland and Ireland. THE .LANCASHIRE DIALECT: PURE SA X ON._Our description of the manufacturing poor would be im perfect, without some reference to the peculiarities of their dialect. Their vocabulary is very circumscribed. It contains a strong dash of saxon, with a considerable mixture of th ose non -d escr i p t words which are t racea bl e t Nv o li n e o n ro so o m t. e olnteism,nhooreweasvpeirri, aspiring among them ve n t ures uponll of energy and express i on . classical ground, there is great danger of a fall. It is not unusual for us to be called suddenly to an old woman grievously ill with " spavins" (spasms) in the stomach, or " palpalation" (palpitation) of the heart, or " conflagra tion" (inflammation) of the inside. " How is Jane ?" I inquired of a loquacious old lady the other day, •‘ How is your daughter ? What did the doctor say of her com plaint?" " Wbv, got' she answered, "he said, sir, she was in a very pthysical (critical) way, indeed, sir—very ptnysical." It is well, therefore, to use much plainness of speech in your intercourse with the poor. Not, per haps, that this, in many eases, is at all required; but in some you can only make yourself intelligible by descend ing to their level.—Eraser's Magazine. Customs Excise Stamps Taxe; PropertyPostOffi Tax Crown Lands. , Miscellaneous China Money. Imprest &othe Moneys Repayments c Advances 1 50,615.020 i Deduc 18,397,5661217,7902,435,244 t Increase Vase on the Year .. £2,217,454 ARTERS ENDED JANUARY 5 Total Income 1848. 1 Incr. I Deer £ £ £ £ 4,514,721 4,111,862 402,859 3,608,155 3,246,883 361,272 1,740,687 1,564,855 . 175,832 1,909,899 1,914,783 4,884 .... 450,219 462,567 12,348 .... 203,000 208,000 5,000 30,000 40,000 10,000 .... 29,657 I 11,746 •• • . 17,911 I 31.884 I 302,449 74,048 12,820,671111, 6 6 5 ,3 58 Deduct Increase ~ 228,401 32,232 11 , 187,545 32,232 Decrease on the Quarter.. £1,155,317 The revenue for the year shows a deficiency of £2,217,454 in comparison of the preceding. This amount is partially accounted for by the facts, that in 1846 a sum of £667,644 was brought to the credit of the account as Chinese ran som, which, however, was the last payment ; and that, under the head of the repayment of advances, the public accounts were credited during the former year with a sum of £1,070,411, while under the same head, during the last year, the amount is reduced to £564,046. Those items, no doubt, account for about one-half of the existing de ficiency of the year, but they do not reduce it. And the work of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is just as diffi cult as if it had originated from some more regular causes, though it is assuredly gratifying and encouraging to find that, amidst the great calamities under which the country has been labouring during the past year, the revenue has not more collapsed than this account indi cates. The falling off in the customs returns is less than might have been expected on the whole year; only £295,567- This is about one-sixtieth of the total receipts from cus toms in the year 1846. whereas the decrease in the excise is little less than one-sixteenth of the total receipts from that source in the same year. In one respect there is a pretty exact parity in the returns of the customs and ex cise. In both, the returns for the two first q uarters of the year 1847 are in excess of the returns for the corresponding quarters of 1846; in both, the decrease in the third quar ter of 1847, as compared with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year is greater than that in the last quar ter. The variation in the returns of 1846 from those of 1845 was scarcely perceptible. This indicates that, as was to be expected, the full pressure of our embarrassme n t s has only come to be felt considerably later than their ex istence was known or apprehended ; and (what is more consoling) that the slight revival of the last quarter gives room to hope that the worst hour is passed. The two main suggestions of these returns we are anxious to impress deeply on the minds of our readers. Their general aspect indicates undiminished elasticity in the national re sources, and an apparent abatement of the pressure. The great reduction in the excise receipts for thet activityw o l in st quarters , m o em a nedi employments, oy th m e esnttasm, and p s , indicates dimi nished great privation among the less wealthy c l asses, extending upwards consi derably beyond the mere working classes, Littra t urr. NOTICE Practical. B SJII ; Liverpool Le late Rev. R. P ylly expressiAl with by a tie memorial of one the loved 1: so !uglily es- at Everton anc ie Church ui Christ vhieh Mr The Pro tear to tit bed tne Sua cravings 01 a spin winch, like tie iwt continually crying • Cr: lere4t a the artied us to Ice the - a.ahty wit chenv.,s of pk,liffeal eco t , hay m colt tut t regaru eve :r mats rot. or tool : al, as tool :acu into wealth. Aud U 1 mater►al realities. whet e disappeared in the exp,rt übstantiaily little richer than w•e spe:111 sal :polt of traffic, th erlOoketi all the sonable protiao lhi~ cuudtry a w yvars ago 1 aline:A the moeitery, or the wont tied pre :sure of business, Satan's s well as most secret device, wlac❑ 'un seeing the things which be Long to their Hellce the iticreashig numbers of [Lust o lay h line to Louse, and tielu to * Tbe true divinity and worse thaw atoeisni; has the love 01 wealth Covet ousut Well so much inordinate desire and so nAht and territory of Almighty God [he latter would desolate the lit y itselt eu; the former would set up au aboun- Improvement of Human Society. By issuer iquilro. tondo', : Isilabet & Co. ress delßercd to the Alancliest,r 'Scotch Jciety, on the prog y the proUdence, losp►rutwn, of tUe aupretue God; witli abashes she points he maintains; auU as being at present tadustriuusiy argued to . ln6piration, he x plain muds by verbal paltering lie term leviratioe ; ii nothing : the iutitiela of the preseut tllC ten.; tueze it weans a..y •tie to it ail suits Suakspt &e ispired ; Jew, Jacques is iuspired ; UT t . , bolize a term out of its proper motheutous d.staletion be- human mgenu.ty or 12, I su y of tue true coin in, is not fur It is playing 4 words are the expo- con:ounding the one you confuse tue on literally s, gnities, ' a breatimig into THE ECCLESIASTICAL POWER " It will scarcely be denied that this great institution — the Church of England—is part of the British Constitu tion. As a national Establishment, it is a bulwark of no a creature of the State, or mere engine for carrying o❑ the purposes of Government. It is as much a part or the Constitution as the House of Lords or Commons, or even the Monarchy itself. It has been said that the State could go on without it : so it undoubtedly would—so it would without the House of Lords or even the Monarchy. It would go on, because the course of society ►rust pro ceed. But the question is—how would it go on ? The Constitution of England would have lost an integral part of its subsistence. If it be enquired what part in the Constitution it sustains it be answered, the most beneficial, the most beneVolent, the most powerful. The legislative po er acts for the general welfare, by the enactment of beneficial laws ; the judicial power, by the just application of them ; the . executive,hydu!y and im- partially enforci them • but th rstanding, enl. mass of the citiz, I training them as candidates for It is impossibl to calculate the influer. consoling pr of the body politi stitution. If God be th it binds together the chtferent parts f the Con and pre e temple of society, it is the altar t social sistem : it str the arm of the magistrate, supports tl the people.. It has been said t the State—an expressic tion. It is allied to th Monarchy is allied to t mons : it is one of the elements of the Constitution. It has been argued, that her churches and emoluments be long of right to the Romani s t s , by w h om th e y w e re built and endowed. With as much truth :night it be said, that the Throne belongs to them, St. Stephen's Chapel, and the House of Lords. All have passed through their hands, and for each we have had equally to contend. It has also been asked why the present Church, to the ex clusion of all others, has been chosen to fill up this part of our Constitution ? It is answered—the present Church has not been chosen : it is the oldest institution of the country : it existed before the Monarchy, or the Lords, or Commons, or the Popish Church : it is nearly coeval with Christianity itself. The Church of England we may consider as the true apostolical episcopacy, which has devolved to us through successive generations, delivered, at the Reformation, from the abuses imposed upon it during a long season of darkness, and, in a great mea sure, restored to its pristine excellence and beauty. The present ecclesiastical establishment is, therefore, in its OWN PROPER PLACE in the Constitution. It is not there by preference : it has usurped no other Church : it is not there by permission nor by compulsion : it is its own witness—its own legitimatizer: it has fulfilled and is now fulfilling the duties of its function in the Constitution, if not with all the efficiency which might be expected from its resources, yet with admirable consistency and advan tage to the community." and blesses llied to reflec y that the Com- i too often used withou State in th State, or t Sermons by the late Rev. Thos. Tattershall, D.D., F.C.P.S.. are Sre , late Incumbent of St. Augubtine's, in this town ; with Memoir, by the Rev. Thos. Byrth D.D.. F.A.S Seldom has a volume been laid up'on our table for which we could at once anticipate a circulation so rapid and ex tensive as this, whose title we have prefixed. So many causes concur to warrant our opinion, and to bestow upon the volume before us an interest far beyond what is ordi- The deserved estimation in which the pious and ed minister of St. Augustines wasuniforn-dy and uni versally held, the fragrance of his memory amongst all classes up to this moment, the affectionate and confiden tial iAtimacy known to subsist between his erudite editor and himself for so many years, and the consequent cor diality with which Dr. Byrth may be supposed to have given himself to the task, dipping his pen into his heart, - . . and suffering it to overflow, a s it — were, upon the page of his memoir—and his eminent fitness, from a thorough ac quaintance with the sentiments of his author, to send forth to the public his deliberate opinions, admitting no- thing save what was perfectly in accordant known sentiments of his friend : these conside with the it will be ob.erved they are all wholly independent of the intrinsic value either of the memoir or the sermons, mu 4 needs secure for any work so recommended a most favour able reception from the public of Liverpool and of the kingdom in general ; nor w,ll this interest be lessened when it is known that the profits of the publication belong to the bereaved widow, the person of all others best enti tled to reap the harvest, since be who laboured has not been permitted to enjoy himself the fruits of his labour. laterwoven through the history of Dr. Tattershall's pa rentage and early as well as academic life, will be found several original letters from the celebrated John Wesley, as also some from Dean Milner, Bishop Ryder and other witness to that eminent p'e y ,nd intellectual' ther with tirot meek spirit, which signally c tie departed suhject of this friendly hut accuri acteriied . .It is neither our desire or our purpose to anticipate, by an attempted outline, the pit asure reserve d for our readers in the perusal of the memoir itself, which has but one . _ t, viz. t being too short. so jus/, and so profound unavoic wre oec•ur two or THE REVENUE An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended the sth of Jan., 1847 and 1848, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. EARS EN DE. Customs Excise. Stamps Property Tax Post Office.. Crown Lands.. Miscellaneous . China Money.. Imprest &other Moneys Repayments oil Advances Total Income* 16,301,865 12,521,25:) 6,931,414 4,272,408 5,395.391 816,000 120,000 317,09,i 667,644 X X 8,015.298 .... 295.567 1,730,746 ... 790,504 6,959,546 . 28,132 .... 4.334,561 62,153 .... 5,450,801 55,410 .... 864,000 48,000 43,00 0 667,644 18 7 4 7 ; 0 92 00 6 132,164 192,547 1,070,411 216,640 24,095 564,046 •• • • 506,365 D JANUARY 5 1848. I Incr. I Deer Jan. 11, 1848. THE NATIONAL DEFENCES , The Morning Chronicle of Tuesday, publishes the let. ter of the Duke of Wellington, on the national defences, respecting which so much has been said of late. It was dated "Strathfieldsaye, 9th Jan. 1847," and is addressed to "Maj.-Gen. Sir J. J. Burgoyne, K.C.8., &c."—"My Dear General.—Some days have elapsed, indeed a fort night since has, since I received your note, with a copy of your observations on the possible results of a war with France, under our present system of military preparation. You are aware that I have for years been sensible of the alteration produced in maritime warfare and operations, by the application of steam to the pi opellino• of ships at sea. This discovery immediately expos e d all parts of the coasts of these islands, which a vessel could approach at all times of tide and in all seasons, by vessels so propelled, from all quarters. We are in fact assailable, and at least liable to insult, and to have contributions levied upon us on all parts of our coast ; that is, the coast of these islands, including the Channel Islands, which to this time, from the period of the Norman conquest, have never been successfully invaded. " I have in vain endeavoured to awaken the attention of different administrations to this state of things, as well known to our neighbours (rivals in power, at least former adversaries and enemies) as it is to ourselves. " I hope that your paper may be attended with more success than my representations have been. " I have above, in few words, represented our danger. We have no defence, or hope of defence, exceptin g i n our fleet. " We ought to be with garrisons as follows at the mo ment war is declared : Channel Islands (besides the militia of each well organised, trained, and disciplined,.. 10,000 men. Plymouth Milford Haven 5,000 men. Cork Portsmouth Dover Sheerness, Chatham, and the Thames_ lO,OOO men. " I suppose that one-half of the whole regular tOrce of the country would be stationed in Ireland, which half would give the garrison for Cork. The remainder must be supplied from the half of the whole force at home sta tioned in Great Britain. " The whole force stationed at home in Great Britain and Ireland would not afford a sufficient number of men for the mere defence and occupation, on the breaking out of war, of the works constructed for the defence of the dock-yards and naval arsenals, without leaving a single man disposable. " The measure upon which I have earnestly entreated different administrations to decide, which is constitu tional, and has been invariably adopted in time of peace for the last eighty years, is to raise, embody, organise, and discipline Cie militia of the same numbers for each of the three kingdoms united as during the late war. This would give a mass of organised force amounting to about 150,000 men, which we might immediately set to work to , discipline. This alone would enable us to establish the strength of our army. This, with an augmentation of the force of the regular army, which would not cost £lOO,OOO. would put the country on its legs in respect to personal force, and I would engage for its defence, old as I am. " But a 9 we stand now, and if it be true that the exer tions of the fleet alone are not sufficient to provide for our defe ice, we are not safe for a week after the declara tion of war " I am accustomed to the consideration of these ques tions, and have examined and reconnoitred, over and over again, the whole coast from the North Foreland, by Dover, Folkstone, Beachy Head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selsey Bill, near Portsmouth, and I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on shore, at any time of tide, with any wind, and in any weather, and from which such body of infantry, so thrown on shore, would not find, within the distance of five miles, a road into the interior of the country, through the cliffs, practicable for the march of a body of troops. " That in that space of coast (that is between the North Foreland and Selsey Bill), there are not less than seven small harbours or mouths of rivers, each without defence, of which an enemy, having landed his infantry on the coast, might take possession, and therein land his c a v a l r y communicationan d artillery with F allcalibLe, ce a , nd establish himself and his "'The nearest part of the coast to the metropolis is un doubtedly the coast of Sussex, from the east and west side of Beachy Head and Selsey Bill. There are not less than twelve great roads leading from Brighton upon Lon don, and the French army must be much altered indeed, since the time at which I was better acquainted with it, if there are not now belonging to it torty chefs d'etat, (Major-Generals), capable of sitting down► and ordering the march to the coast of 40,000 men, their embarkation, with their horses and artillery, at the several French ports on the coast; their disembarkation at named points on the English coast, that of the artillery and cavalry in named ports or mouths of rivers, and the assembly at named points of the several columns; and the march of each of these from stage to stage to London. " Let any man examine our maps and road books, con sider of the matter, and judge for himself. '• France having been in possession of nearly every ca pital in Europe, and having levied contributions in each, and having had in its possession, or under its influence, the whole of Italy, Germany, and Poland, is reduced' to its territorial limits as they stood in 1792. " Do we suppose that we should be allowed to keep— could we advance a pretension to keep—more than the islands composing the United Kingdom, cedipg_dilyntase fnuelvleyr ' e tb st u abla a e l d in ' m l s s e la lf ri s d ince on the svi pt h iod an of ' r i N le o r rin n at Conquest ? " I am bordering upon seventy-seven years of age passed in honour. " I hope that the Almighty may protect me from being the witness of the tragedy which I cannot persuade my contemporaries to take measures to avert.=-Believe ever yours sincerely, " WELLINGTON:"- -- This document, if it does notning else, will relieve the fears of those who have been frightened from their pro priety by the contradictory and e xaggerated views said to have been put forth by the illustrious Duke. The orga nization of the militia, and a small augmehtation of the regular army, are the summum bonum of his grace's sug gestions. Beyond this he does not venture ; and all the columns written about coast fortifications, &c., &c., seem to have sprung from the vivid imaginations of our terrified contemporaries. As the Times well observes, " unless iwithv ess t e h ls eir which French can rea sonabl y expect to elude our cruisers in the Channel, to land unhurt on our coasts, to march un impeded to Lond on, to exact and pocket a fitting ransom, h g b a l g v e ug a h nd t them, and to theyw r ill e - pro bably resolve upon stayi ng a t h ome ." A n d no d ou bt t h e y will stay at h ome . l e o ro fisnsdthaegan seas the ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE The Olympic Games, as instituted by the Greeks, ori ginating in their fine perception of all that was beautiful in poetry, painting, sculpture, and music, together with their love of beautiful form, became a principle•of their religion, and the result was their being enabled to produce such extraordinary efforts in the various branches of the Their fine climate also tended to the encou- fine arts ragement of these pursuits, and gave them the means to enjoy out-door pastimes. Whilst the more savage and bloody amusements of the Romans outrage and shock our feelings of humanity, we find the Greeks occupying them selves by the innocent and delightful objects sought after in their Olympic Games. They contended for glory by the peaceful arts, and chariot-racing, running, wrestling, throwing the discus, gymnastics, acts of strength and feats of agility, and other amusements of the kind, were among the recreations of the people; and if they were compelled, by less peacefully disposed neighbours , to war inwh which contributed their topeacem dowe domestic c hp celebrated apiness o y these ant, games, y Their philosophers and other distinguished men, too, did not think it beneath their dignity and elevation of mind to enter into these enjoyments, knowing than they had : for their object the attenuation o f the human f orm , producing health and elasticity. or the mind. The human figure, by these opportunities, attained its highest point of beauty — each individual muscle was brought into action ; the limbs were by this means fully developed, producing per fect symmetry of the parts ; judge s were appointed, and prizes given for the must perfect forms, both male and snow to, our readers that female. ' —'. , :--- , These reflections have been elicited by witnes s ing um truly p h e i ex h c e e l a l t e r n e t , F a r n e d n cwhecompany o f equestrians now at our they behold in them the spirit qf the O lymp i c Games of Greece revived to us in these our m od ern days, and trust that we shall be able to point ou t t hose points of excel lence which would escape the casual or g ens . ra l o b server , and the amazing feats performed by and so increase the gratification of those will witness the performances. The fine forms produced by the nature of their exercises from their eally youth, (both male and and the result must, we con ceive, be satisfactory to M . wonderful,) Dejean, who brought this themf t e ,r m e r a , lceahrecoeq truly u rn e p s t a r i , : a y t 1 : As we were one of the early visitors to witness his efforts here, we felt convinced that such talent could not long remain without meeting with its full re ward find overflowing tourlmt h views ons e a nightly. otits We h superior l e nceopo w with that this, his fi rs t v i s it across our c h a nnel, is o n ly one of a series t o t hi s town . F or ours elves, we tende r to min our be s t th an k s f or hi s en terprise and the great treat afforded i n w it ness i ng th e performances. It is also not the lea s t gra tifyi ng pa r t of our task to record of this gentleman, that the perfect air of respectability that per vades his entire establishment and troop in dress and manner, leaves nothing to be desired for the most fastidi ous taste.. All is elegant and unique in its way. The entire costumes and paraPhernalia are giver ; meet a n d truth, and with rigid exact which racteristic of our neighbours the French. the charm, a total absence of all vulgarity nected with o The interior taste, into a perfect Amphitheatre, and t away with, the entire performance takes pla which was the character of the ancient places of amuse ment from which the theatre takes its nam , We have a vivid recollection of Ducrow' within these same walls, and the dramatic! which he threw into all his parts must performances er of feeling brance of many of our readers. There was he did, and it is no more than: common ac. his memory to state, without any feeling of disparage ment, that although there is no oue member of this com- pally who can be said to be his superior, or equal ; yet, as t r i whole, the troop of M. Dejes * u stands unrivalled is power, excellence, variety, and the indescribable elegance of the entire arrangement.—R. M.