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4L twroil' POETRY LITTLE FOOLS AND GREAT ONES When at th 1 bo-rd) 00 sit, et thou That Ile ave the grape 'g heart 1. in kind, 3 in youth im the ear great ones a 1 or woe And in the deepest little fools may In t great ones not a pleastin Your role be still i tle fools will drink too 1r work not toll. your pleasure pure, Your dr k not rr toots enjoy toy) But Kt eat ones not at all —tlimworth's 31a, NOTICE u t to cheer THE SERIALS FraBer's Fraser this month is full of very pleasant reading —not too le , rued or too trifling, hot a happy medium of grave and gay. The political article on the Maynooth Bill paints in rather too dark colours the conduct of England towards Ire:and in past times; but it contains much which we must admit with 'orrow to be true, and its views of the plicy of the present concession to Popery in that country are just and forcibly stated. Some ex tracts will be found elsewhere. Dublin University Magazine. Dublin Wm. Curry, jun., & Co., The present is a very excellent number ; and we shall probably, in our next publication, borrow from it largely The first article, on " the past and present policy of Eng land towards Ireland," we have remarked upon elsewhere. The " Personal Rec,dlecti(ns of Thos. Campbell, Esq." convey a some% hat different and less amiable impr sion of the poet than is generally entertained. They be , r, however, the stamp of truth.llThe poetical articles are, as usual, very good. The Whiteboy : a Story of Ireland in 1822. By Mrs. S. C. Hall. Part I. London : Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. The name of Mrs. Hall, and her intimate knowledge of the lights and shadows of the Irish character, are suf ficient warrants of the value of any publication from her pen. In the work before us, which is No. sof Messrs. Chapman and Hall's Monthly Series of original Works of F)ction and Biography, the authoress has chosen for illustration an eventful period of recent Irish history; and so far as she has progr.ssed, this promises to be one of the best of her productions. The dramatis persona already introduced present abundant materials for the exercise of her peculiar powers of depicting character. and developing the unravelled web of discordant and strange tissues which make up the fabric of society in the sister country. The following " cry of the keener" over the remains of the last of one of the old houses of Celtic Ireland (the Macarthys), is almost Ossianic; and the practice, of which it is a specimen, goes far to account for the undying hatred kept up in the hearts of the purely Irish people against the " Saxon new corners". The ex tract darkly shadows a portion of the history of the fa mily : THE CRY OF THE " KEENER." " Her `cry' contained allusions to the history of the family —and its leading chiefs for ages—without regard to dates,. rudely, yet not unpoetically, strung together. " Commencing with the usual question, ' Why did you Why did you die? dark- di( haired fiat she framed her replie, .Ighter of kings. Why ? • Ask not again ! What had she to keep her from those of her proud race, who are now suns in heaver.? Only one bright child, the child of a Macarthy—of him her only, only one —the young eagle—struck down by a poisoned arrow, with a broken heart ! A curse on them that broke i► ! Only one young boy was left to the lady, whose hair, once es black as the raven's wing, is now soft and colourless as - he white cloud upon the Reeks —one young boy ! but his bands were week, and his voice feeble. Ab, woe and wail ! he could not keep the great soul from its sister spiri,-; Dark-haired daughter of kings, why did you leave your rastle, the wily castle where there still lived a Ma earthy ? Who now calls out the echoes of broad lye. rash ? Who fi-hes the brimming waters of the Laune? Who dwells within the castle of Palice—the Caislean-va earthy ?. Whose banner floats over the proud walls of Carrig.a.droid, which the Macarthy built in a single week to pleasure the fair lady of his love. Ah, woe and wail! " ' The echoes of Iveragh will not repeat the Saxon name. The waters of the Laune are dark from the sha dows of the thick trees; and salt, from the tears shed by the enslaved of her noble race. The Caislean-va-carthy ito;wracked by the Saxon's breath; and the banner of Carrig-a-droid is the wing of the hoarse raven. " Dark-haired daughter of kings, why did you leave your land.) " ' Hark ! how her spirit laughs. " My lands !" what lands? The child of a Macarthy—the widow of a Macartby—the mother of a Macarthv—has no lands; they have taken and spoiled them ! A few fields, such as her people would grant to a gallowglass, were all that was left to the blood of Dermod Macarthy More, who sleeps at Innisfallen ! "` Where are the lands of Carrigrohan? Where those of Cormac Laidir—the strong Maearthy, who built the castle of soft words, and the holy abbey of Kilcrea? Where the lands of him who set his foot on the neck of the Geraldine ? of him who humbled the proud Desmond ? the sound of whose voice could bring three thousand true hearted men to the war-cry, Macarthy aboo! " • Ab, woe and ss ail ! are there no sons of that three thousand, ready and willirg—now ? " Dark-haired daughter of kings! to count over the castles that bore your name, would be to count the sands of the wild sea-shore ;to Lumbe r those who paid ycu homage, would be numbering the blossoms of the wild rush upon the evergreen fields. Who wanted, when a Macarthy had bread ? Who sorrowed. when a Macarthy could shield ? Who suffered that the Macarthy did not avenge? The love of thy race was sweeter than honey. Thy maidens were fair and gentle—fleet and light of foot. Faithful wives and tender mothers—oh, toe and wail ! " ' They are still fair and gentle, but they are not fleet footed to shun the famine and the fire; the starving child looks into the weeping eyes of the starving mother ! " The dark-haired daughter of kings had lived many days! She saw that the Saxon divided to destroy. " She knew that his step was stealthy ; that he poisoned the free rprings ; that he pinioned the eagle in his hen coops, and fettered the red-deer in his sheep-folds. That his heart turned away from the Celt : while hi. grew LUIB sworn. That he looked upon the mountains and the valleys and said, " They are mine !" While his lips spoke peace, his breath kindled the fire in valley and highland. lie held out his hand to the Madam ; but she cursed the red palm ; she scorned it, as became a Macar thy. " Even in vision or toe future; blight, with a green and purple glory. And a voice said, " Live! " And th e dark-haired daughte r o f ki ngs sa id , " Wh y? And the voice said, " Behold ! " And the vision did not come from afar, nor from over the sea, but from our own land it arose—a vision of peace, of golden harvests, and low ing cows, of dancing and feasting ; the harp, and the pipe, and the grass-green flag—the council of kings. arid the music of a happy multitude. " ' Ab, woe and wail ! " Such visions pass away," said Katherine Macarthy; " I close my eyes, and they come crowding round me, as I saw them in my young oe • - : I open them, and they are gone —gone— gone! " ' " SELECTIONS D2STROYING WORMS. —An infusion of the leaves e common tortlnnt truinm, when poured upon the ground, brings the earth-worm immediately to the aurface.—New Farmer's Journal. the followit k printed in 1599 bears woman's worth defended against all the men in the world ; proving them to be more per fect, excellent, and absolute in all virtuous actions than any man, of what quality soever. Written by one who bath heard much, seen much, but knows a great deal more." LIABILITIES OF AN EDITOR. —Lord Denman has laid down the law recently, that an editor has no right to insert any paragraph before he h.. inn ascertained " that the asser tion made in it is absolute! true." So the n , i n t h e case of the late discoveries male by the Earl of Rosse's tele, cope, en editor ought to have nroc dPP P " •• nmet Planets mentioned bef ore h e insertedany statement r reen specting_them. Acc , irding to Lord Denman, the Man in the Moon and Orion would both recover swinging damages from almost every editor in the United Kingdom for the reflections east by the earl's telescope on their character. RAPHAEL.— It was the Spirit The divine words, " Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven," bad inspired his immortal conceptions. It is neither physical- beauty nor mental character, as in the Gr-ek sculpture, which is represented in his paintings. It is the Divine spirit breathed into the human heart; it is the incarnation of deity in the human form that formed the object of his pencil. He has succeeded in the attempt beyond any other human being that ever existed. If ans , works of man ever deserved the name of divine, they are the Holy Families of Raphael.—Blackwood. much d you once, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD --- ORIGIN OF KNIGHTc.—We have seen that knight is THE ENGLISH IN INDIA.—The more I learn of Eng. synonimous with servant. So also is theirs, or thane, one land's mode of government here, the more lam compelled of the oldest titles of northern nobility. Bede translates to admire the talent of the English for colonirition• It it by Minister Regis. Sometimes these thanes were ser- is an error to suppose that the British power in India has vientes regis more literal:y than would suit the ambition attained its meridian height ; on the contrary, note are _ of modern courtiers, for in Doomsday-book we read of ......ru.h...... 4.,1;.....;_.... _. .. .. . . ... IMPORTANCE OF ESTABLI , HING MINERA LOGICAL SCHOOLS IN WALES. ..,,warions or a further development, founded on duration and stability; but it may be affirmed, with _ confidence, that this immense empire is very far is in his arms, to commemorate his de- from having attained its concentrated form, and reached scent from the Conqueror's barber. Sir John Ferne its extreme boundary. -It is not in the power of the traces the origin of kni ,, hthood to Olvhion. the fzrandoom of Noah.—Cnriosities of Heraldry. mem -Wing such offices ns Latioaiius, Aurifaber, Co. gnus—interpreter, goldsmith, cook. Lord Ponsonby et ' " ree corn 'ar will we go, and no further ;!' the necessity of securing their own existence will compel them to make the Indus, or rather the Soliman mountains and the chain of the Himalaya, their boundary, and entirely to subdue the kingdoms in the interior. Want of na tionality among the Indians, the despotic government of l e I their princes, and the dece THE FINEST APPROACH TO LONDON.—There is only on way for the first t;m_• to enter London with advantage, and that route is by the silent highway of the highway of the Thames. Our ancestors understood this thoroughly. IT L • 1 of their courts avour t he attainment of this end, and the more gra: nor of the cas to the great cathedral city of England—Canterbury ; from thence he was conveyed to Rochester,_ where the noble castle and the ships in the Medway would fill his mind with high ideas of oar strength. His next stage was to Gravesend, tie entrance to the port of London where he was received by the lord•chamberlain of tl king's household and by the lore• mayor ; he too water in the royal gallery-foist or b arge, was here rowed to o London, and landed w i th a il due ceremony at the Tower. Here he was waited noon by the chief nobility about the court, conducted to the king at Westminster, bad his house assigned him in the Strand, was received with ex treme ceremony, and returned to Dover in the same ob servant manner.—Fraser's Magazine. PEEL TO HIS STEP-FATHER, COHDEN,---My Dear Step-father,—l write to let you know how I am getting on in the school, which von have sent me to take lessons in. lam making very raniri snail soon go as far as you, if•l continue the steps I am now pursuing. It is very true that I was in quite a diffe rent walk before you adopted me, but I am now at your aide, arid if you will len d me a haul t o d rag me on, I dare SRO r .6.11 h you —no winter what lengths j sou y wi,u To carry me to. I was formerly thought a very slow boy, but since you have adopted me, I have be come so quick that 1 any here, there, and everywhere in nn limp Irk— nu time. i nose who used to be at my side, are quite left behind, anti are obliged to follow me, which th e y d o at a very respectful dista nce , as if they don't halt like it. I wish you would not. pull me on quite so fast, for you for g.-t that I find it difficult to get on as quickly as yuu wish with the corn, which you and I have had so much talk about. I have no doubt that in time I shall get quire as far as you can desire, and I remain, your dutiful Step son, ROBERT PEEL.—Punch. AN AUTUMNAL SUNSET IN EGYPT.—Egypt is always singular and interesting ; but under on autumnal sunset it is beautiful. The sun sinks behind a grove of palms in a golden sky, upon a Welt their most delicate feather ings are distinctly described. A rich amber light glows over the landscape, and makes the meanest and most un couth objects beautiful: soon the feeblest star has lighted its lamp, and the black vault of heaven seems thickly studded with brilliants. Such is the purity of the atmos phere, that you may watch a setting star till it touches the low bank of the river. Profound tranquillity reigns through the universe ; or is only broken at intervals by the mellowed •murv.ur of a distant water-wheel. The moonligi,t streams upon the bosom of the ancient river. A heau.iful meteoric phenomenon heightens the interest of the scene. Ever and anon a bright star seems to shoot away from amongst its fixed companions —glances hori zontally across the heaven;, throwing off a long luminous trail, then, bursting like a rocket, leaves all nature in tensely tranquil as before. " But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?" " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen. both when we wake and when we sleep, _ • . Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Hymning their great Creator!" —Library of Travel. MAYNOOTiI A NURSERY FOR AGITATORS. —NI ay nooth was in full operation. Its inmates —the sons of cotters and sm=ill tenants—drank in the lessons of charity, which Dens and Builly communicate ; and formed their manners, and tastes, and political opinions upon such models as their professors might submit to them, or they themselves create one for another. By batches at a time, moreover, they went forth, ordained ministers, to act, first as curates, and by and by as suc cessors, to the well-bred, well educated, and somewhat aristocratic priests, of whom th e nnmhprc, 11 were rapidly diminishing. And the field into which they entered was precise y such as men of their views would have wished for. The Irish Parliament had already decreed that though Roman Catholic gentlemen should be incapacitated from sitting in the legislature or holding office in boroughs, or, indeed, filling places of authority under the crown, Roman Catholic freeholders should be eligible to vote at all parliamentary elections ; and the more to increase the peril of the measure, the standard of qualification was fixed at forty. shillings. Now the Maynooth-fired priests were not slow to perceive that this arrangement, of which selfishness was at the root, opened for them a wide avenue to power, and they at once took advantage of it. They soon contrived to get the whole body of forty shilling freeholders under their control ? and that war for supremacy between Popery and Protestantism began, which has hitherto gone in favour of the attacking party, and seems now, as far as Ireland at least is concerned, to be drawing towards an issue.—Fraser'a Magazine. PING-KEE ON THE NEW CoMF.DIRS.—The play was called the Day of Dqpes; and wise men in the boxes were not exempt from the general fate. All were dupes together. For the authoress was a wise woman, and jingled tle five hundred guineas in a purse, and kept all her own clever observation of life and manners to be used on some other occasion, and took the same view and no other of English customs and characters that Reynolds, and Morton, and O'Keefe, and Colman, had done before her. So her heroes and heroines flew about the stage, and talked funny things, and swore a little, and conversed in a provincial dialect called slang, and behaved exactly as Dashall, and Miss Dazzle, and Lord Sparkle had behaved before. Oh ! was not this a triumph to the great authors of former days. ant! did it nnf- si Ise stage? the boxes are foolish men w h en judging of the lt did, 0 Cho-Ling-Kyang ! but a greater triumph was at hand. The manager having read and studied the preface by the female Inchbald, which I have translated for your instruction, and having given a small sum—so they con sider five hundred guineas in this land of ingots —to a reputed wit, thought he would gain much silver if he ob tained a drama from a requited blockhead. And he was right in his calculation ; for he applied to an author who had written farces in five acts, where various impossible things were done, and per - sons talked in great jokes in vented long ago by a nobleman of the name of Miller, and behaved like the clown in a pantomime, without the advantage of being dressed in his parti-coloured garments ; and in a short time this author furnished the manager with a comedy called Old Heads and Young Hearts.— Blackwood. ORIENTAL CLEANLINESS.—The religious cleanliness of the Mahornetans is frequently spoken of: this must be merely understood to mean, that before they engage in prayer they perform their prescribed ablutions; which consist in dipping their hands •' ..u.s rum water and then sing them over th e i r f ace, and sometimes over their fee t ; and utter every meal to wash their mouth and hands, which they punctually perform in the same superficial manner. But as they never chance their clothes, and always roll themselves about on the ground in the dust of Egypt, which swarms with vermin of every kind, under this burning sun, which is favourable to. their increase; as they admit their animals, their camels, arses, goats, and sheep, into the circle of their kmilies, and if possible be tween their four walls; as they execute every office with their hands, digging the ground in the fields, mixing the camels dung with straw, &c.; they are, notwithstanding all their superficial ablutions, in a state of filth which can neither be described nor conceived : and this extends to all the Oriental countries, and throueh -1 I.lllJUgu tue towns and the rich have their baths. In the chief harems at Con,tantinople, at the marriage -feast in the house of an Arabic Catholic merchant at Beyrout, in the elegant residences of the wealthy and beautiful Jew. eases of Damascus, I never saw one woman who looked clean! They wore silks, embroidery, shawls, and dia monds; but th ese are a l l unwashahie . • ,vas iv cu toe greater part of their clothes, and 101 l about all day long on carpets and cushions. Wherever the women are untidy, the men will ••• aim seemed to commingle with, and be lost in, the depths above. Three thousand years ago. and this forest of columns was standing ; these walls were then as firm as nns, ____„ .viii ye more so ; and if the rich are so, what can we expect from the poor ? Countess Hahn-Hahn's Letters from the East. POETRY.—How so commanding, so permeating, so vivifying, and so transfusing a power should reside in a fact of human speech, seemingly so slight and slender as that' ruled and mechanical adjustment of a few syllables which we call a verse, is perhaps not explicabl e by our philosnnhv • hnt „r .t. unit stupenaous propylpn, which cast its shadow down these pillared aisles, excited the astonish ment of those distant ages, as it has of all subsequent times. What changes has the world seen since the foun dations of this edifice were laid ! What countless genera tions of men have risen and fallen, and passed away ! What transitions from barbarism to civilisation, and from civilisation to barbarisM, in that wide interval of time! ye passed thr,tinh this hall mankind leave 4 us no liberty to cl , iubt. Yet may we understand something of this wonderful agency ; and conceive how the new and "so 111011; atobvses stayed his chari o t w h ee l s to gaze in wonder ilere at the triumphs of architecture. Here S , s(istris was wel comed hack. with the 1 sLran wealth music brought out from words, of which ge the speaker of in verse finds himself the privileged master, may lift up, as on wings, his courage to think and utter. We may suppose that the sweeL and melting, or the solemn, the prolonged. the proud swell. or fll -c • t millio, from his conquests. The sublimity of this acclaim ha o ll st iyed ns the destroy ing hand of the Ptolemies. The Caesars were awed into humility when they trod these aisles—and even the Arab hosts, as they swept by on the tide of victory, paused to admire—and the armies of France, as they rm,hed by in pursuit of the flying Memlooks, were so struck with, amazement at the ruins, 'hat they fell upon their knee s i n homage, and rent th. . surprise his own ear, and sei pected emotions; and that c and, as grave ancient writers t his own numbers, may own soul with unex iis guard and unawares, mess, he may be hurri:(li7t • sacred or greatness, of wonder, and beauty, which would have remained for ever locked up and torpidden to the colder and more re served temper, which seems fittingly to accompany prose, the accustomed language of reason. Versification is Measure, and it is Harmony. If you hear the measure you listen expectantly, and there is a recurring pleasure in the fulfilment of that expectation. But the pleasure thus afforded would soon be exhausted, did nu t th e Dower of listrreknnv tell _ . _ v., use air with shouts of applause. Los ing myself in these reveries, I fell asleep, with a drowsy owl over my head, hooting at his image among the hiero glyphics on the columns. About midnight I was awoke by the distant tread of my companion. As I opened my eyes, I was surprised to see an object seated at the base of a column, about twenty feet distant, glaring upon me with the most diabolical pair of eyes I had ever seen. As I slowly recovered my sight, I made nut the stranger to be a peculiarly ferocious looking jackal. He seemed to be in as deep an abstraction as that which put me asleep ; for, as I gently unlashed my gun, he did not move an inch. I certainly was as much sur f rised at his iuiputlence as he at my imprudence. He did not recover his senses until I had planted a few shot between his bright orbs. He then betoo!c himself to Hight with a dismal howling that scared all the birds, sacred and profane, from their haunts among the capitals of the columns, stunning my ears with their confused plaints. As we bad no desire to give our bodies up as food to jackals, we mounted our donkeys and rode back to the boat. This scene recalled to my mind the verses of a delightful poet, friendly and familiar to me for years, who, speaking of other ruins in a distant land, thus addresses the stranger : us La csa wutly kcii. i nat is a musical pleasure which can not be exhausted. Here, 'ben, is a reason why the natural music of speech shall be elaborated to its height You assume that the mr...1 r.f —_ • " Whose eye shall here survey The path of Time, where ruin marks his way, When wildly moans the solemn midnight bird. And the gaunt jackal's piercing cry is heard ; If thine the soul with sacred ard ,, ur fraught, Rapt in the poet's dream, or sage's thought, To thee, these mouldering walls a voice shall raise, And sadly tell how earthly pride decays; How human hopes, lake human works, depart, And leave behn,d the ruins of the heart!" —Library of Travel. tions—as a science, and as an art. The third forms the --- Philosophy of Miner a l s , compr i s i ng the classification. Many systems of classing have been formed, but all re- The following valuable paper was read at the recent quire galleries for large public collections. These interest meeting of the Liverpool Cymreigyddion Society by Mr. also the numerous class of amateurs, of both sexes, who Solomon Gibson : pursue the study as a member of natural history. Wer- No part. of her Majesty's dominions presents more or- ner admitted only two agents—fire and water; but as gent claim for mineralogical schools than the principality. circumnavigators since have discovered thousands of co. Owing to the vast amount of industry and capital em- reline islands, and the vast formations from animal spoils, played in her mines, she claims from the state the aid of the mountains of statuary marble of oyster-shells in tro. science, to assist the untutored efforts of her people in ex- pical regions, prove that animal chemistry forms a third tracting minerals, which are so important to the manufac- agent. tures and com merce o f thi s country. The subject, viewed I shall enumerate three systems of classification to form as a science, forms the extensive study of mineralogy, and a compendium of the mineral philosophy of the earth. regarded as an art, presents us with the labour of the Werner, in his lectures, used models of the rocks to re miner: in each of these the aid of many other arts and present their order of position in situ of a tabular form, instruments is required. In consequence of which, all - from the old to the new. The Royal Dublin Society of the states of Europe have founded schools of mineralogy, Mineralogy purchased of these models, made under _ ... eoire, tne less will he the sacrifices wit' the which was first in modern times formed into a science by the eye of Werner by ~one.ppils Leske and Karsten,.n ow the More inconsiderable the danger.—Travels in India, Werner, at Friburgh, for the benefit of the mines of called the Leekian cabinet. A profeesor of chemistry by Leopold Von Orlich. Saxony. The vast wealth drawn from these by the go• has been added, under royal patronage. vernment led the circuteijacent states to found similar in- The collection is divided, in the mode of Werner, into LORD HILL.—His sensibility was almost feminine. One of the b o y s h appene d to cut his finger, and was stitutes. Louis th e Si xteen th o f F rance founded the fire orders : the first, for the external characters; the brought by Re6; v l an d Hill to my mother to have it dressed ; r oval school o f mines in 1783, an d a pro f essor of chemis- second, for the arrangement of minerals into genera an d but her attentio n was soon drawn from the wound to try was appointed during the m i n i stry o f N ec k er. spec i es, according to their chemical proportions; the Rowland, who h a d f a i nte d . M rs. Winfield, happening to Under the ministry of Jovelanos a m i nera l sc h oo l was t hi r d i s for the geological relations by position ; the fourth see him on a visit t o Ch ester—for he invariably sought founded in th e Spanish province of A ustur i as, an d t h e has minerals placed in a geographical order; the fifth, her out at every o pp ortun i ty—after one of his achieve- Austrians founded s i m il ar aca d emies at Schecnnitz, in the econo m i ca l co ll ect i on, i n which the minerals are placed ments in the w ar , b roug h t this fect to his recollection, y Hunger , and at the merc ur i a l m i nes o f Id r i a and Bobe- to show their uses in the arts, manu f actures, and com- mia ; and also a grand m i nera l og i ca l ga ll ery at Vienna. A coerce, forms a scho o l f or po li t i ca l economy and finance. with such coolne ss an d v i gour i n the midst of the dreadful remarking that she woun d ere d how he could have act similar ga ll ery was esta b l i shed by Leopoldil. at Florence,in Werner adopted the usual practice of miners to distin al , the Palazzo Pi t ti, f or t h e m i nes of Tuscany. At Turin a guish minerals by their extereal characters, he replied,' the same f ee li ngs; b ut in the excitement of ut b Haile , scenes of the carn age surround i ng him. '' I have still, , d mineral school h as b een f oun d e d b y the King of Sardinia, used instruments to aid the senses—a steel to discover battle all individ ua l sensat i on is lost sight of. " Just conducted by the Ch eva li er N ap i one, who translated the the physical properties of minerals, a eoniometer to mea heed- works of W erner i nto I tal i an. In this country the uni- sure their crys'alline angles, and a balance to weigh their fore he joined his r eg i ment f or the first time, he sick versities are advancin g th ese i nst i tutes b y appointing pro- specific gravity, with models of furnaces for the cupella him by his medic e t a tt en d ant ; and after lie had enteredat the sight of a hu man h eart preserved in spiri• s, sh ,n own lessors of m i nera l ogy an d geology. The government have tion of metals in assaying ; and the optical properties of on his military duti es h e was una b le to look at a prize- founded a geo l og i ca l gal l ery at the British Museum, and minerals, of the Polarised light by the form of the sur amateurs have f orme d a ga ll ery of aeronomical mineralogy face, ha s b een re d uce d to the law of numbers, as analysts doss of his lod g i ng , ari d was ta k en out fe i nting from t fight between Humph reys an d M en d oza, near the %tie in Londo n . Th e W erner i an Natural History Society, at have found expressions for the value of the curve in those room. No com mon o b server wou ld have i magined for an Edinburgh, was f oun d e d i n 1808, and the Geological So- rays that form Polarised light in crystalline minerals. ins ant that th e army cou ld h ave b een his choice : yet as ciety of L on d on i n 1811 , and anorher subsequently i n Th e M useum of Natural History at Penis, arranged on every one knows th a t b u ll y an d cowar d may b e almost Cornwall, unde r ro y a l patronage. T he Russian govern- the system of the .mineralogy of the Abbe Haiiy, on tne placed in the li s t o f s y nonyms, so gentleness and bravery ment has exte n d e d th ese sc h oo l s to Siberia, along the Ur a l c h em i ca l c h aracters of minerals as developed by fire. sensibility and courage, an d we may a dd h um ili ty and and Altai mo un t a i ns , an d esta b l i s h ed a splendid gallery at Hany has defined species in mineralo piety, are cap a bl e o f s i m il ar c l ass ifi cat i on. —Life of Lord gy, a " collection of St. Petersburgh, which exhibit s th e m i nera l s o f a zone b odies in which the integral molecules are of the same Hill by the Rev. E Sidney. geographic, extending over a surface of more than 3000 composition." According to his system, minerals have a TuE INFLUENCE. O F A GREAT MIND.—In public evils miles of th a t grea t emp i re. T he emperor engaged the ce- limit geometric and a chemical limit—one in an invariable lebrated Humboldt to inspect the Siberian schools. That form in the integral molecule, the other in the composi there are always a real evil and an imaginary evil, the one most distinguished of all the pupils of Werner had founded lion of the same molecule. Heil) , prefers the first of these contributing to render the other insupportable. It is a such schools in Prussia during his ministry of public works, to determine species, as the other presents heterogeneous , great point gained to do away with the imaitinary evil •; for after which he passed over to Siberia, wherein, examining materiel so often, that analysis represents imperfectly the 1 you diminish the sease of the real evil, arid inspire him the auriferous strat a , h e p re di c t e d t h at di amonds would he chemical limits. flatly invented an electrotyp e f or re who has to end ure it w i t h t h e pat i ence to await the cure, and above all a disp o sition to submit to the p ro p ose d re edy. Under th e D people b a d ma d e up their I found in th o se mi nera li se d roc k s, w hi ch was soon verified. searches into the physical properties of minerals. I This art of predictin g w h a t m i nera l s are un d er the surface The pyrognostic mineralogy was first used by Tsche mirectory . i minds not to expect anything from a weak, disrespected 1 government, which, in order to repress faction, proceeded to violence, without obtaining any of the effects of strength, Everything that it did was taken in bad part ; people would not expect from it any good, neither would they even be lieve it, when, by accident, it accomplished some little. Victory, which had seemed to return to that government s one of the greed advantages resulting from the study of rinhausen for experiments on argillaceous earths, to ens_ ' mineralogy is a science. It is an important tact, that tni- cover the Chinese method of making china, which he nerals are constantly grouped in families. and bear an ana- effected by his burning lens formed as the mirror of Ar loey or relation to one another. The knowledge of this chimedes. The result was the founding of the Dresden truth is most valuable to the miner, or to the capitalist manufactures of china and porcelain in Saxony. whose fortune is invested in mining speculations. The new instrument used by Andrew Swab, counsellor The absolute expediency of drawing the attentio n of the of the mines in Sweden. Every miner in Sweden carries government to the necessity of founding mineral academies a blow-pipe in his travels. Cronstedt made rapid pro in the last days of its existence—victi ry. which would in Wales requires that the subject should be mooted by this gress in mineralogy by the use of this—he found the have brought glory to others, had not even served to pin society. and it is to be hoped that the seraphic genius that chemical composition of minerals, and Dr. Woolaston it honour. The accession of General Bonaparte, of whom the public was i n t h e h a bi t of expecting everything, in passed from Friburgh over Eu ro p e , t o li g h t t h e l amp of sci- made great discoveries with it in this country. Berzelius, point of suc cess , h a d changed this disposition. TI, once on the Siberian m o un t a i ns , will, tinder the auspic es o f b y t h e use of the blow-pipe, has b een l e d to forma new e imaginary evil was cure d ; people had confidence ; they thegovernment, be led to render the same serv i ce to t h e system of classifying minerals by the chernistry of fire took everything i n goo d part. His acts were certainly mines of the Cambrian mountains— a p ar t o f B r i ta i n where based on the e l ec t r i c properties of oxygen, th e zero o f good in the mse l ves ; f or i t was good to release the hostages, volcanic farces have thr own up th e strata i n outcrops, to his scale to the most electro-positive, and his order of to liberate the pri g sts , to man if est pacific di-positions to place minera's at the hand of th e m i ner on the sides of arrangement depends on the physical characters, and the Europe; but a b ove a ll, t h e publ i c was disposed to consider rocks elevated into mount a in s , ev id en tl y d es i gning Wales - electro•chernical on the do c t r i ne o f chemical properties of them as such. A s y mptom o f approach, such as the wet- for mineral industry as the lowlands of England are fitted numbers. come given to an aide-d e - camp , an armistice of no conse , like that whi c h h a d j ust b een signed on the Rhine, for agriculture. Y e t w i t h th ese natural advantages, the The alternate transition of rocks to soil by decomposi miner, by misdirected labo ur , fi n d s h is ru i n in in:lustry. tion cf m i ner a l e to solvent acids by rain uniting these with quence instances of losses from working empirically are noticed a base, draw oxygen from the air by electro-positive Sc.were already regarded as pledges of peace. Such is the by Mr. Murchison, author of the geological atlas of Wales, tion, to supply mineral food for plants, the diet of botanic spell of confidence! It is everything for a government at and of the Silurian system of rocks. In that celebrated vitality : during these changes antagonist qualities are its outset; and for that of the Consul it was immense. work the author states "At Tyn-y-coed I found a credit- developed by minerals, from sanity to noxious poison, as Accordingly, money flowed into the treasury, front the lons f rmer ruining himself in excayatinz a horizontal gal- antidotes to disease. On these the art of Pharmacy de treasury to the armies, which, content with these first lery i n search of coal, an ignorant collier being his engi- pends. The same qualities appear a n t l a of a milder supplies, waited with patience for those that were pea_ lery This case may serye as a striking example of the degree, in which a bond of unity exists from the mineral mised them by-and-by. Overawed by a power reputed to be superior to all resistance the patties submitted : the coal-boring mania in districts which cannot possibly con- world to the vegetable, in a set ies of orders, with a cot ,fain that mineral : those who vainly speculate on it in the responding order in plants, that bind mineralogy with the • oppressing parties without claiming a right to oppress any Silurian rocks are misled by the shale." Shale is not agricultural chemistry of Leibeg, by which a farmer, by more; the oppressed parties with the confid• rice that they the only cause of these delusions; mineral veins are also the inspection of a geological map, can judge on what should no longer be oppressed. The good accomplished, found in the lower format on s in denuded countries, which district fertility and sterility depends. All the elements therefore, was no doubt great ; but all that time had not are of the same form as the metallic veins, some of which of plants are derived from minerals. In consequence, permitted to be done was added by hope.—The Consulate are veins of coal, but are distinguished from beds by an farming and mining, the two great interests of the Princi and the Empire. inclination more vertical. The beds or couches do not milky, would be united by the same academy. CHARACTER OF ISABEL, THE YOUNG QUEEN OF depart more than 20 degrees from the horizon, while the English manufactures derive great benefit from the SPAlN.—Willul and pettish, at times obstinate, deficient coal veins are from 70 to 90 degrees. Welsh mines. it is from the purity of the galena of lead in intelligence as well as temper, and, above all, dissimu- These errors in mining, so ruinous to capitalists, must ore, purer in Wales than any other, that the Staffordshire lode, a diesembler. Ugly words these ; but if it be true exist until the miner is taught the relations of rocks in pottery has maintained ite superiority in foreign markets, that children inherit their parent, virtues and sires, what their chronometric order a position, from the primary to as it produces a finer glazing, and makes more beautiful better could be expected from the ' off-pring of a Ferdinand the modern or latest formations, and of their synchronous porcelain, than any other. Wales is rich in fossiliferous and a Christina Indeed it will be fortunate for herself continuity in concentric zones, and their relations by marble. The carbonate shell marble of South Wales, and her people, if, at a later period of this child-queen's affinity, The miner so instructed could tell by surveyin g and the encrinitic of North Wales, the serpentine of Rhos life, there are not a few more failings to be added to the the surface what strata formed the under beds. Kolin, is equal to the verd anti ,e of Genoa. above list—already sufficiently long. At present, artful- Mineral chemistry is also of great consequence to the It is not generally known that schools of metallurgic netts and insincerity seem kerchief laults—no trifling ones, mining inter es t. A long period elapsed during the exca- chemistry existed in Wales before the wars of Edward certainly ; and to these may be added a want of heart, vation of the copper mine at Mynyth Paris, in Anglesey, the Third. The College of the Pherillt, in Dinas Pharaon, very unusual in a girl of such tender age, and which is before the art was known of rendering solvent mineralised on Mount Snowden, was celebrated for a school of this perhaps the worst symptom in her ch , macter. Taken to a fluids solid, and consequently a great loss resulted bef ore order, that gave the British name of Celveyddeu Pherillt bull-fight, her youthful majesty of Spain was delighted the value of the mineral waters which held copper in so. to these arts, which they had digested into eminent books beyond measure, enjoying the sufferings of maddened lotion became known. Since that discovery the poor of now lost, Another school of this order was founded in bulls and gored horses with as much zr st as could have large towns have found employment in collecting waste South Wales, a branch from Ditias Ernrys. been shown by her illustrious and respectable father. iron, which is conveyed to Anglesey, and is immersed in In the previously enumerated drawings of plans, maps, Unfortunately, auto-dafe:v are out of da.e, or they might those fountains. The solvent, be , the force of analytical and sections necessary for a miner, this embraces a por serve to vary her pastimes. As it is, she is obliged to fill ee ammty acting on the dormant affinity of the iroo, sepa- tion of the objects contemplated by the School of Design, up her leisure by the consumetion of confectionery, of rates the acid, which has a greater affinity for the copper; which the government has established at Somerset-house. which she has a constant and abundant supply on hand. the iron-, robbed of its cement, talk in dust to the bottom As the objects of design are various, these must be applied " This pastry-cook museum, which extends over every of the pit in ochrous earth. This oxidised ochre is ex- to the order of their classification, and, in addition to apartment of the palace, cootains some most interesting ported to Liverpool and sold to druggists and painters as galleries for specimens of minerals, it will be requisite specimens —the tortas, or tarts, of Moron, the most cele brated a colour much used in the arts. At the same place a mass that the wallg of such galleries be lined with the graphic in Spain ; the panes pintados, or painted buns, of of rubbish had accumulated from the time of the Romans. sections of strata. Salamanca; the Paschal fdatore.v, or c arnival and Easter A premium per load was given to remove it; but now this ..—.....,...........--_ dainties ; the hard turrones of Alicant, composed of al- sells at 255. per ton, an d i s f oun d to b e a sulphuret atrial moods, nut-kern e l s , filb erts, an d roasted chestnuts, inter- mixed with honey a n d sugar; dukes of cocoa- nut f roste d gam. with sugar; r o as t e d a l mon d s; avellanas, a peculisrly nice The increasing importance of thin subject renders the early history of it advantageous, as it shows the art is pro sort of filbert, whole and in powder ; alfajor, or spiced gressive in Wales, arid ready to embrace all the advantages bread ; the delicious cheese called jijona ; pomegranate of science through the medium of a mineral institute. jelly; blando de hue - vos, or sweetened yolks of eggs," &c. The Welsh, though preceeding without the aid of &c. &c. When in a good humour, she makes presents of science, by perseverance have done wonders. It has been these delicacies to the persons about her; and the degree ascertained, for statistical purposes, that the annual valve of favour in which her courtiers stand, is to be estimated of iron produced in this island is equal to eight millions by the amount of cakes arid sugar-sticks bestowed upon sterling, and of this sum five millions are produced in them. No place is secure from the invasion of these Wales, an amount equal to the produce of the whole of sweets; even in the council-chamber, while dispatching continental Europe. business with the ministers, she is surrounded by them, Having viewed mineralogy as a science, the second as. and the coofec , ion of decrees, rt, d discussion of dainties, proceed ;mei passe." Th e a b un d ance of the comfits and pect it presents is that of an art extracting or es from the the badness of th e counse ll ors by which the po or child cavernsis of the earth. There the miner fi n d s hi s way by taking his bearings with his mining compass, by the aid of environed, menace grievous injury both to mind and body, the same magnetic needle as the mariner employs in find heart and stomach. A puppet in tne bands of factions, ing his position on the ocean. The miner uses a system living from her earliest childhood in an atmosphere of of mathematics which the ancient Gimbel and Phoenicians intrigue arid falsehood —the usual atmosphere of Spanish brought into Europe, which system is based on the me courts and catnarillas, how was she to escape the conta. thod of shadows, in which the ratio of space is measured pion ? Her education seems also to have been grievously by a proportion given in time on the in rota r y circle. In neglected. When Arguelles was her governor, she was the language of the miner, mineral beds are divided into indocile and refractory ; under the care of 016zaga she the four quadrants of the miner's compass —the north only remained three months. Her female instructors, with the excepti on o f th e C ountess of Mina, have been veins decline 3to 12 ho urs , th e sout h 9to 12, and the e as . tern 3 to 6 hours; the northern veins are of greeter length women of equivocal reputation, seeking to advance them- than the southern, as if the electric had joked the selves and their friends, and teaching their pupil few les- force of gravity in projecting them; and have a vertical sons but those of dissimulation. To azgravate the evil, dip dawn the fissures of unstratified rocks, and in strati during the three years of Christina's exile, that princess fled are found in faults—the collaterals cross the main was allowed to be in constant correspondence with her filon in angles of incidence. daughter, and of course lost no opportunity of inspiring her with a dislike of h er own po l it i ca l enemies, the Pro- Ca eme t rysu b terranean is of essentialvalue. Without this science, it is impossible teexecute mines with a r t an d gresistas. These latter, howeve r , b e i ng i n power, 'end economy or safety to the Eves of the labourers. She takes about the person of the young Queen, she was obliged at the levels or inclinations of the beds, and, with the corn least to appear friendly with them, and was thus " taught pass in hand, the bearings of the mineral veins and beds, to be false and artful by the force of circutnstances, and to determine their direction to the points of junction, and trained by events to deceit."—Blachwood's Magazine. finds the three dimensions of cubic space, and leads to the THE HALL OF COLUMNS AT THESES.—I entered the occult points where two inclined sections must meet in a great hall. The glare of day was gone ; not a zephyr was common angle—the porsition of each part, and the form of stirring, and as we walked down the central avenue, our the profile and plan geometric, on a scale of proportions footsteps woke the sluenberieg echoes. I felt a religious on paper; and the extent, in horizontal and vertical lines, awe in disturbing the solitude of - this ancient shrine. I for the most aeronomical extraction of the ores, and for threw myself at the base of one of the gigantic columns, ventilation. • unwilling to break the eternal silence that seemed to re- To comprehend the subterranean zeometry es an exact pose here. Wherever I gazed, colossal figures of gods engineer, the miner must be taught arithmetic, and the and kings looked down upon me from the walls and projection of plane geometry, with sonic necessary then columns. The moonlight threw its slant beams through rents and problems of the Elements of Euclid, and parti the crevices and holes in the walls, enveloping all in a dim, cularly trigonometry rectilineal, of which frequent use is religious light. The roof was gone, and the columns that made. The principles on which the miner works are the form the interred pavement beneath, seemed to support same as those of ordinary geometry. the blue canopy above, fretted with s countless host o' In the school of Fribergh, the sexagesimal tables of stars. The lofty capitals were indistinctly seen, bt' -• Pi't'seus, and the saurus of Rheticus, are used to com pute the hours; but in France, for a general uniformity of their new metrical system, tables have been made on the decimal scale by the mathematie'an- Prony, Delambre, and Condorcet, which were used by the mining school charged with the completion of the geological maps of the Cadastre. Our government have extended the same plan of survey to this country in the Ordnance maps, ,and have entrusted the geologic topography of the maps to Sir H. De la Beebe, and those of Ireland to Mr Griffiths. In geological mapping, Werner denoted genera by co lours. These and the species were previously in charac ters used by chemis s, a plan more defective. Geologic maps are, drawn horizontally, arid mineralogic on a ver tical line; but the French use the method of descriptive geometry, combining vertical sections with horizontal. Humboldt, in 1804, formed a table of strata for tee use of the mines of Mexico, in which he used a notation he named pasigrephic mapping, for the primitive, interme diary, arid secondary rocks of America, as equivalent to those of Europe. This confirmed what the sagacity of Werner had predicted of synchronous zones. Cuvier eulogised this superb idea of Werner in his report to the Emperor on the state of the mining interest in France. The annual loss of life in the Welsh mines attracted the attention of the Prussian traveller, Prince Puckler Muse • kau. These evils would vanish before the light diffused by a Wernerian school. The Davy lamp has placed the explosion of fire-damp under the triumphant dominion of -art, Aaa i b il y e fl a t wire ill h i a g s a t u i z n e a • o w f i t 9 h oo 2a a a p p e a r w t u d r e e r s i a t o n a t h w e p s r q , u v a e r i e l t i e i di inch. the Cernish mines by using a rammer of copper and tin. Electricity, the most powerful of blasting agents. is now confined to the Royal Sappers and Miners. A depot of vitt:hi:et,. isitilueol,vvltuitithi h it ma e t d udl teeosl,aa instruction. miningihe AustrianA ehoo l in minesW les , havewould slip-ways, viz., without steps, of an inclined carve, wind ing around a newel of 15 feet radius By this 50 or 100 y ho a r t s id es, th a O nd e fatal asses, a may ecj ddeenstcaeanad commont()get together in this country by descending in buckets; and in five years the wages of the windlass-men amounts to the ex pense of a slip stairway. Stories falling from the roof of galleries can be prevented by a moveable shield, as used in the Thames Tunnel. The construction of this, and of miPnensbliferormlegbleecintghelescopt the hydraulic machines, is the constructive architecture of moles, which is included in the engineering of a Wer nerian school. %vender of geology, prevented t y e e d t the the martyrology I o m g y i a s o i a f the n i a important. He has declared amazing revelations, and opened the great volume of the stone book to exhibit the records of our planet, and time giant races that form the ear the hieroglyphics of the history of the th. The hierophant of the mines draws from the arcana of nature those precious stones that glitter on the diadem of the Sovereign. We have now reviewed the subject under two condi- SPORTING IN TEL Ll GENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. MONDAY, APRIL 28. £5O; four-yr-olds ist 91b, five Sst 91b, six and aged 9s! ast three mes of C Lord Sandwich'sL ta Plangenet, il 4 yrs ... Mr Edwa r d s ' s T rudge-it, 4 yrs ....... (Nat) 1 2 sto 4 on Trudge -it. The Jerry Stakes of 100 sous each, h ft, Lord W. Powlett's Energy.. .. Mr Booth' s New Years Day . ... Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous each, h ft. Lord Chesterfield's The Poor Soldier, 5 yrs .... (Nat) 1 Mr J. Drake's Anonyme, 5 yrs Lord Exeter's f by Velocipede, 3 yrs Colonel Peel's fby Slane, 3 yrs .. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, for three-yr-olds. Duke of Rutland's c by Royal Oak ...... (W. Boyce) 1 Lord Exeter's Lyons Mr E. Batson's Scarmentado .. Mr Osbaldeston's Secutor ..... .. • • ..... Duke of Bedford's c by Ec0n0mi5t. .. . ... . Lord Glasgow's f by Bay Middleton (Nat) 1 2 - - PrJduce Match of 300 sous each, h ft. Lord Albemarle's Tisiphone Lord Exeter's Deodara ........... 2 Match-200, h ft, Bst 71b each. D.M. Duke of Bedford' s Captain Phebus .... (E. Edwards) 1 Mr Greville's Sir Francis .. Sweepstakes of 50 soya eich. (8 subs.) Lord Verulam's c by Sir Hercules . Lord Exeter' s T un i c k 2 Lord Orford's c by The Grand Duke.......... 3 .... Sweepstakes of 20 sous each. .(3 subs.) Lord Stradbr o k e ' s E venus, 5 yrs . • Match -335 t o 300, 150 ft. A.F. Duke of Bedf or d' s E spo i r, 9st ..... (E. Edwards) 1 Lord Glasgow's Sister to Pathfinder, 7st TUESDAY, APati.29. The Coffee Room Stakes of 50 sovs each L'rd Exeter's ch c Lyons (S. Mann) 1 Duke of Bedford's br c Pr010gue.... .. .. 2 Duke of Ri c h mon d' s b r f RefractionB Match-100, h f t . Fi rst half of A.M. Sir J. Hawley's Comrade, 3 yrs, Bst 71b .. (F. Butler) 1 Lord Exeter's Dr. Hill, 4 yrs, Bst 41b The 2,000 Guineas Stakes of 100sovs each, b ft, for three yr-old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. (18 subs.) Lord Stradbroke's b c ldas Mr Wreford's hr c Worthless Mr Wreford's b c Winchelsea . ......... Lord Exeter's br c Wood Pigeon ...... Duke of Rutland's b c Paultons Mh-100, h ft. .M Mr Ramsbottom'satc Pine-apple, Bst 11b D Duke of Bedford's Minotaur, Bst 101 b The Queen's Pl a t e o f 100 guineas, for mares. Mr Osbaldestm's ch f Sorel's, 4 yrs (F. Butler) 1 Sir J. Hawlev's b m Vibration, 6 yrs . .. Mr Newton's b m Ma Mie, 6 yrs .... Anonytne and Eclogue also ran. Won by 15 lengths. Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, for bur-yr-olds. Duke of Bedford's b c Panther .. Match-200, h ft. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 9st, received forfeit from Mr T. 'Wesley's The Counsellor, Bst. (Bell) 1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, £5O, for foitr-yr.olds yrswards. B.C. Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet, 4.. • . (Whitehouse) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's John o' Gaunt, aged .. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, h ft, for four-yr-olds. Lord Stradbroke's Boarding-school Miss, 6st 121 b 1 Duke of Richmond' s R e d D eer, Bst 71b . 2 Duke of Rutland's Welbeck, 7st 7lb The Burghley Produce Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft, for three-yr-olds. D.M. (5 subs.) Captain Spencer's f The Wryneck ...... (Whitehouse) 1 Duke of Bedford's c Leopard Lord Exeter's f Pilgrimage ~ Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft. T.Y.C. Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle.. (Flatman) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of Ronaford'i Cob .. Colonel Peel's Garry Owen ... Mr Shelly's Prince of Wales ......- THURSDAY, MAY 1. Mtitch-200, h ft. D.M. Lord Exeter' s W ee P et, 5 yrs, Bst 6th.. Sir J. Hawley's Comrade, 3 yrs, 7st 4lb Comrade ruptured a blood-vessel early in the race. The 1,000 Guineas Stakes, by subs: of 100 soya each, h ft, for three-yr-old fillies, Bat 71b. D.M. (21 subs.) Duke of Richmond's Pic Nic (Abdale) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Pug Mr Bower's Heather Bell 3 The following also ran :—Tisiphone, Prudence, Topas, Timbria, and Sister to Ma Mie. (Mann) 1 2 May 6, 1,845. Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sous each. ~ Lord Chesterfield's The P oor S o ldi er, 5 yrs .. • • ( 1111 ` 1 2 Duke of Richmond's Pic Nic, 3 yrs ... ' . Lord G. B ent i nc k' s Di scord, aged . • ''. Lord G. Be n ti nc k' s H artshorn, 5 yrs 4 Duke of R u tl an d' s f by Beirarn—Mentor, 4 yrs ..... • 5 The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. R.C. , I Lord G B ent i nc k' s J ohn o ' Gaunt, aged (Nat ) Mr Robinson's Pine-apple, 5 yrs ................. .•• 3 Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet, 4 yrs Match-200, h ft. A.F. Mr Osbah:eston's Sorella, Bst 91b, received forfeit from the Duke of Bedford's Minotaur, 9st. Match-50, R.M Mr Wesley's Counsellor, Bst . Mr Jenkiu's Lycurgus, 6bt......., . (Sly) I 2 in verse historian. the philosopher, is mum or the o rator , the given up wholly to the truth of his matter. Therefore in him the palpable study of harmonious periods (as in Isocrates) impairs your confidence in his earnestness and sincerity. Nut so, we venture to say, in the case of the poet. In hi. ...Jai 111 G VIGO y Law ui LUC verse instals the sound in asort of mysterious sovereignty over the sense. He hurries or he protracts—he swells notes as of an organ, he attenuates them as of a flute. He seeks in the sound of words their power—and their power is great—to paint notions and things—to imitate the twanging of a bow, the hissing of an arrow, the roaring of the winds, the weltering of the waves. His verse laughs with merriment, and wail s with sorrow; and that, which would in a grave writer of prose be frivolous, be sonorous trifles, crowns his muse with praise. Consequences follow, deeply penetrating into the substance of the ahole composition, which is thus delivered up, in a manlier un'Anown to prose, to the wonder-working power of a delighted inspiration.—Black. wood. FRIDAY, MAY 2 - - Match-150, 25 ft. T.Y.C. Colonel Peel's Garry Owen, flit 7th (Nat) 1 2 Duke of Bedford's Minotaur, 7st 121 b ........... .• • The Newmarket Stakes of 50 sous each, h ft. (23 subs' ) . Lord Stradb rn k e ' s Id as ... wa lk e d ores Mr I. Day' s Wi nc h ester saved his stake, and recd. Xso' • Match-200, h ft. D.I. Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Bishop of Romford's Cob, 5 I"' received forfeit from Lord Glasgow's Amulet colt, 4 9 11 ' Match-2A, 25 it. T.Y.C. The Duke of Bedford's Espoir, Sit 10Ib, received for' feit from Mr Osbaldeston's Secutor, 7st 31b. BETTING AT NEWMARKET, THURSDAY NIHOT' CHESTER CUP. 6 to 1 agst Fitz• Allen (taken) 6 „ 1 „ Semiseria 12 „ 1 „ The Era 14 „ 1 „ Sorella 20 „ 1 „ Cataract 25 ~ 1 „ Queen of the Tyne • 30 „ 1 „ Counsellor 40 „ 1 „ Pug (taken) 40 „ 1 „ Witiesour 40 „ 1 „ Ratan 40 „ 1 „ Aristides Cataract's d ec li ne arose f rom a rumour that he pulle d up lame after a gallop on Wednesday. Fitz-Allen air Semiseria, The Era, and Sorella, were in great demand but from the departure of many of the subscribers, yell little business was done. • ..“1.•••••• Several hedging bets at 2 to 1, 9 to 4, and 5 to 2 were laid agst Idas for the Derby, and 8 to 1 offered on hito for the Newmarket Stakes ; 1,300 to 100 laid agst and 7,000 to 200 agst the Ironrnaster. OAKS. 8 to 1 agst Mr Worthington's Lancashire Witch (taken)• No other betting. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING. Many of the influential members of the room were S t Newmarket, which, with the highly necessary task of comparing books on the Chester Cup, has, for the Pal two or three d a y s , great l y l i mited speculation on that other forthcoming events. If we mention a desire !! back Fitz-Allen at 7 to 1 outright—with offers to lay 200 to 100 that be beats Obscurity, and 5 to 4 on any other; that Cataract was backed for £5O, at 8 to 1 ; Pug for X ls ' at 30 to 1; and Mickey Free for a small sum at 50 t 9 we shall mention all the business transacted yesterday To-day there was only a slender attendance, and business was exceedingly flat. The movement, however, in favour of Fitz -Allen was again observable. 6to 1 would ba r e been tak en t o a l arge amount. The same may be said 0 Ould Ireland and Sorella, each of which would 11 016 found sanguine friends; the former at 8 to 1, and the latter at 20. C ataract and Obscurity were scarce/ named, and when so, only . to show a growing dispositio n to lay against them. There was not a het made on the Derby ; and for the Oaks, Lancashire Witch was backed for £75 at 9to 1. The following are the closing prices: CHESTER CUP. sto 2 agst any two 5 „ 1 „ Fitz-Allen, 3 yrs, sst (take 6to 1) 7 ~ 1 „ Ould Ireland, 3 yrs, sst 7 „ 1 „ Setniseria, 5 yrs, 7st 81b (offered) 10 „ 1 „ C ataract, 5 yrs,6st 10th (offered) 10 „ 1 „ Obscurity, 4 yrs, sst 121 b (offered) 12 „ 1 „ The Era, 5 yrs, Bst 11Ib (offered) 15 „ 1 „ Sorella, 4 yrs, 7st J2lb (take 20) 22 „ 1 „ Portrait, aged, 6st 10th (offered) 25 „ 1 „ Trueboy, 5 yrs, Bst slb (offered) 25 „ 1 „ Queen of Tyne, 6 Yrs, 7st 51b (taken) 30 „ 1 „ Winesour, 5 yrs, Bst 61b (offered) 30 „ 1 „ Put 3 yrs, 4st 81b (taken) 40 „ 1 „ Ratan, 4 yrs, Bst 4lb 500 „100 „ Fitz-Allen and Everton (taken) 1000 „15 „ Extempore, 5 yrs, 7st Slb (offered) it 100 „ 1 „ P r id e o f Kild are, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b (offere d) 400 „ 10 „ F o i g h- a -B a ll agh, 4 yrs, 9at 21b, Pride of Kild are (offered) PRICES OF SHARES, MAY 5. SHARES Sales This Dar -------- RAILWAYS. 2a Banish y Junction 5 !Birkenhead, M'chester& Chester gl 9 I 100 iirmingham and Gloucester •35 25 Ditto quarter 5 Blackburn and Preston 4 Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool 70 Bristol and Exeter 30 Bristol and Gloucester 5 Caledonian 50 Chester and r iirkenhead 12 Ditto new Shares 20 Ditto half 10 Chester and Holyhead 1 Chester and %N rexharn 21 Dublin and Belfast 5 Dublin and Cashel 6o Dublin and Drogheda 21 Dundee and Perth 25 1K astern Counties 538 ad! Perpetual 135 4d I Perpetual, No. 2 50 dinburgh and Glasgow 121 Ditto quarter 20 Edinburgh, Leith and Granton.... 151 5 Ditto, preference-shares 14 Glasgow and Dumfries 25 u asgow, Paisley, & Greenock 121 Ditto half shares 11 Ditto preference 50 Glasgow and Ayr 121 Ditto quarter shares 100 ;rand Junction 5 0. Ditto half shares 15 Quarter 5 One-eighth . 19a 100 treat North of England 75 rcat Western 00 Ditto Half Shares • 4 Ditto Fifth Shares 50 Hull and Selby 10 Ditto quarter 10 Lancaster and Carlisle 471 .ancaster and Preston 19 Ditto three-quarter shares 100 .iverpool and Manchester 50 Ditto half shares Ditto new 21 Liverpool, Ormskirk & Preston 100 London and Birmingham 2 Ditto ''32 shares. 2 Ditto quarter shares .. 45 Andon & Brighton 121 Ditto Loan Notes 50 '.ondon and S ou th W es t ern 6 Ditto new shares 2a London and 1 ork o Leeds and Bradford Manchester and Birmingham ', Ditto quarter....,... . . 2 ,q Manchester, Bolton & Rossendale „,' Manchester, Bolton, & Bury . s„" Manchester and Leeds 2 Ditto half shares Ditto quarter shares 100 Midland Counties 2 I.sth Shares 1 4ewcasrle and Berwick 100 Newcastle and Carlisle 21 Newcastle and Darlington June. 5 • 'North British 100 North Union (A.) ....... Ditto (B.) 50 Preston and Wyre 100 Runcorn Gap 100 Ditto preference Sheffield and Lincoln 9 5 Sheffield and Manchester 8 Quarter 23 Scottish Central 5 Shrewsbury and Grand Junction 50 South Eastern and Dover New shares 2 Trent Valley 29i Ulster 20 Yarmouth and Norwich 50 York and N , rth Midland 25 Ditto half Shares 10 Ditto, (Scarborough) York and Selby £s , t shares Ditto £25 shares 100 100 25 lt FRENCH, &e. RAILWAYS 4 Boulogne and Amiens 2 Central of France 2 Lyons and Avignon Or:eans and Bourdeaux 2 Paris and Lyons 20 Paris and Orleans 20 Paris and Rouen 2 Paris and Strausburgh 12 Rouen and Havre 14 Strasburgh and Basle 4 Sambre and Mense 1 Tours and Nantes ... BANKS, and MISCELLANEOUS 124 Liverpool Hank 10 Ditto Banking C, mpany 10 Ditto Borough Bank 10 Ditto Commercial 500 Ditto Royal 10 Ditto Union 10 ‘lanchester & Liverpool Dsctrict. 10 N'orth and South Wales. 176 AnciertonCarrying Company iootle Water Works -- Coal Gas Company Ditto newshares. .txcliattge Buildings larrington Docks 200 larrington Water Works 24 Liverpool Fire and Life 100 Liverpool Dock Bend 10 Amine Assurance Company 100 yew Gas 8.: Coke Ccmpatty. 25 Ditto, quarter 20 'lock Ferry 10 steam Tug Company 58s. 6d [MONTHLY REPORT.] EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY. CORNER OF HARFORD-STREET, MOUNT-pLE A- Surgeons Dr. Edwards and Mr. Nei ll Assistant Surgeon, J. B. Barrow. Treasurer Henry Crossfield, Esq. EYE DEPARTMENT. New Patients admitted in the month of April ......... Patients prescribed for , and who ha ve rece i ve d Surgic Bl 1 49 S assistance during the month of April...• • ...... ..••••1 e SI Total since the commencement •• • • EAR DEPARTMENT. Patients prescribed for, and who have received Surgic B %it assistance during the Month of April ........ ilia Total since the commencement • • •