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tatraturr. POETRY. DEATH SCENE " 0 Day S he cannot die, When thou so fa ir art shining • . 0 Sun, it So tranquilly dec He cannot leave thee now While Ire And all a Thy cheerful li Edwarl, awake, aw 'rang gleams tit on Arden's I Pm thy dreams " Bes My ( That Wuuldst yet hour d, foaming hig further shore st my straining ey " Believe qpt what they urge rom that tempestuous si " It is not d That struggi I cannot let thee test ! One long look, that sore reproved For the we e I of hear— One mute look of suffering moved prayer ; ' And, w Of distrac Not a sigr gth, the sweet sun setting Summer C Glen, and , 11 y d siient treei h a mort orbs grew star they wo! rely dreary, Id wecp. Clouded ever " But they wept not—but they changed not— Never moved, and neve. r cloned : Troubled still, and still they ranged not— Wandered not, nor yet re So I kne Pe's London Magazine. 15, Skinner-street, S early volu es in merit as it progresses. For t is certainly one of the cheapest t. The illustrations are of a very years ago have been a rtaiuly inc miscellaneous reac and best we rthy of admiratic four hundr•d pages, Is char Dublin University Magazine elan, 21, D'Oilier-s reet.—Th( in talent and interest with our Younger Poets, of big the faculty of sere, poetry is very bra n a work of ten times the The volume, a noble royal octavo of upwards of a very low figure indeed. Dublin : James M'Gla resent number is first- The first article, Evenings ntly the work of a man t, although, perhaps, Some of his prose is selecqous from the poetry "The Shannon. under notice full of fine discrimination s behalf. " Our P. n excellent sketch of Sir Henry Pott that is saying much in trait Gal lery " gel's ca with an etching. Mr. Carleton's " Black Prophet" is continued with increasing interest ; and the *tiler articles are above the average standard of periodical literature Fraser Magaz, e. London : G. W —Fraser this month contains some inte papers, although nothing of a very striking cha r of a new tale, entitled " The Regent-stret Nickisson, 215, resting , is done in a fresbing in the aching pen of hid' has recently been want- vildsp - orts and the natural history of the High- The number contains more than its usual quan- tity of matter interesting to tl: the contents of t ieral reader. Amongst class we notice a review of " Hocbe n the New World," by Eliot War- lags, or England onde's ew Sentimental Journey,' and " The " Elinor Travis" is concluded The characters of the' ravagant. " Poems, by very much to our satisfaction 'e too ext d with great origin a lity ught and cc y good The Fortunes of To? h O'Brien No. VII. M'Glast , Dublin, continues its stirring Interest. Toe characters of Tyrconnell and Myles Garrett are strongly drawn, and their joint villainy is the prominent subject of the present number. The Church of Englund Quarterly Review, Oct., London : W. E. Painter, Strand. This excellent Re come to hand and contains some valuable a Review of Anderson's e read with great interest. We view has j the first, in lei time to a careful VARIETIES. &n American 1 1h Annra Th;. ken out a patent for a be : weight of the fowls when ! doors at night, and the eaving in the morning will removal of that open Lb( —ln _opp9 1 to all who denounce music as tne pastia anal, I le frivolous and sen re that its influences will never be ,sioa of tt pn of wh;c is caps a mere aimless amuser ,t, discon- nected from e yother utterance of poetical imagination —Henry F. Ch INVESTIGATION —A drunken sailor, in riding through recently, found himself seized with an iria pensity to pitch forward, much to his annoy. to the complete s ver his centre of gravit and far _ as in any way connected e fore-lees of his steed with himself, he swore that t measured them Ma. DOM BEY'S ONE IDEA.—The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were O give t t their s Rivers and seas were formed rainbows gave them promise of fair for or inst their enterprises ; were the centre onimon Lew meani heir eyes, and A. D. had no concern with anno )omini, but stood for anno Dombei—and Son.—Dombey and Son. )1e re fere r On the death of Washington, lowing order of the day to his Napoleon issued the fol -" Washington oldiers is deaC ais great roan fought agai at tyranny h, established the liberty of his country . : His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds ; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality." Washington died 7ossessed of many slaves, and soon after he became Presi lent, he entered into a long correspondence with Sir of-Arms, in this country, on Isaac Head, G the subject of So much for iberty and ENGLAND 1772 a ne v, named in claimed n by a 19 r. li Ile Sham brought d from the Poultry Compter him away from Mr Q inayo ized the slave and tore ri action was brought nit, and the case being tried, it re Twelve Juc 'oot on Et America is j who, after ople are all me 7-hnnses t and t as soon as a slave sets lERICAN TRAVELLING.—Travelling cheap as stopping at home, As the r less anti-renters, they live in board )on as they leave the expense ceases, and they begin boarding in shore: For them go tw teamboat instead of on the steamers at Buffalo, the best of iigago, 1,050 miles up the lakes, r £1 1 day to ( SUNDAY IN PARlS.—English people generally think that iu Paris the ueople attend chuich in the morning, and amuse themselves in the afternoon. No such thing. Almost every place of business is open from morning till night, and workmen pass along the streets to their various occupations. Mechanics are employed as on any other day. Every place of amusement is thrown open—thea tres, ball-rooms, gaming-houses. No Englishman can discern the signs of the Sabbath, unless it is that the signs of amuse,meht are more visible than on other days. Here is a Sabbath, good Christian people! Heaven pre serve us from the like ! _ THE AGE WE LIVE IN.—We live in an atmosphere of matter of fact, the gloom and dreariness of which we sel dom allow to be dispelled by the genial warmth of the imagination. Everything is grouneed upon calculation, and that of tie lowest kind. Every step in our progress, every move in the journey of life, is made with utilitarian views alone—with the prospect only of temporal gain or loss. We plod our weary way along, not like pilgrims and sojourners in a world of trial, but like denizens of a country which is to be ours for ever, beyond which there is no hope. We rise up betimes in the morning, and late at night do we take our rest; and upon what are our waking thoughts and our last reflections employed but gain —mean and selfish gain ? The age of chivalry is gone," and the " poetry of life has fled." Everything around us is hard, and dry, and calculating; thus even our works of imagination partake of this strongly marked character of the present period, and exhibits its results in striking colours. I ntellcctual triumphs rather than appeals to the feelings or the imagination are sought after, and their pages more frequently display sparkling wit, pointed irony, and clever sarcasm, the feats of intellectual skill, than attempts to lay bare the recesses of the human heart, and to analyse those mighty secrets which it contains. — New Quarterly Review. A LEGEND OF THE SHANNON.—Of course mystic and manifold are the legends of this part of the river, nor is this old ruin without its share of such traditionary lore. We were told one, not a little romantic. One of its he reditary chieftains had an only daughter, beautiful. as all such young ladies generally are. Many a doughty knight and prince came to the castle, bent on martial exploits— rather, perhaps, on errands of love and courtesy. Papa, at length, began to suspect something, and being very fond of his daughter, made one of the conditions for se curing het hand, that the inheritor of her castle should, fully caparisoned and mounted on a charger, precipitate himself from the top of the rock on which the castle is situated 1 This arrangement, it may be conceived, dis couraged more than one aspirant, and cooled down pretty considerably the ardour of our youthtul lovers. There lay the beautiful and winding Shannon, and on each side those rich messuages and lands for him who should first attempt the deed. ✓ Love, which has many traits in com mon with other things in the world, is also blind and in- . „ the point of seizing the extinguisher to place it on his flickering flame, when one intrepid and passionate lover, of not very noble blood, armed to the teeth, dashed down the perilous descent, coming safely to the ground, and winning his lovely prize. —Dublin University Magazine. LORD ELLENBOROUGH AND THE BENCH.—The same honest inflexibility of purpose, which would not brook suspicion, marked the conduct of the Chief Justice, in the trial of a horse cause, to which a certain privy councillor was party. The right honourable baronet took his seat as of right on the bench, and ventured in the course of the trial to whisper a remark to his lordship. "if you again address me, Sir William," was the grave rebuke, not delivered in a whisper, " 1 shall pl,tce you in custody of the Marshal." The spirit of the man of rank died within him before the stern voice of the judicial dictator, and he shortly stole away from the side cushions of the bench. The instant submission paid by all ranks to the authority of a chief who ruled the court and its precincts with despotic sway," cuncta superolio moventis, ' is said to have been once exhibited in a very ludicrous manner. A storm of wind and rain had driven a regiment of West minster Volunteers to seek for shelter in the hall, when " vehemently " Wttat is the cause of that interruption demanded Lord Ellenborough. " My Lud, it isa volun teer regiment exorcising, your Ludship." " Exor cising 1 we will see who is best at that. Go, sir, and inform the regiment, that if it depart not instantly I shall commit it to the custody of the tipstaff." The battalion filed off, we are assured, at the first report, with uumili tary speed —Lives of the Judges. AN EVENING IN BOHEMIA.—Reader, should you ever visit Prague, forget not to go to the Sophein Inset ; there twice or thrice in a week plays the Palonihini band. This tumn evening, when, at the - cool hours, numbers of well dressed, cheerful people sit in the open air, under the lit tle grove of pollard chestnuts, and regale themselves and their friends with ices, coffee, chocolate, &c. ; the most substantial suppers may al , o be had. As tt draws in, lamps and chandeliers. s evening friendly and social aspect. Should you prefer it, you can saunter round the little island, adorned with well kept paths and beds of flowers; or on the edge of it, close to the water, guarded by a row of trees, growing on the brink, you may choose a resting- place. Through the stems and branches, some of them dipping into the water, brightly gleams she Moldau, quivering in the sun's de clining rays, and the eye then, finding an opening, may look out afar, and watch the changing hues and softening blue of land and water in the distance, while the heart muses on futurity. hilean. h.le are heard, played with the ,eauty, 1 nest ov sparkling polkas—these last not the dull imitation fashion has lately produced, but the true children of the soil, corn. bitting so strangely sadness and mirth—Sehnsucht and Heiterkeit—that one knows not which predonimacs. I should be inclined to say the runner, for I never IrsTETfed to these tunes without feeling trivte. They.are singular productions; there is so much expression of feeling in them, they wind into the recesses of the heart as the chang ing passages return again and again, and one could sit and HABITS OF THE HERON -The heron is a noble and resque-looking bird, as she sails quietly through the th outstretched wings and slow flight ; but nothing is more ridiculous and undignfied than her appearance a; she vainly chases the jackdaw or hooded crow who is car- rying off her egg, and darting r ipidly round the corners of the rocks and then every heror head and looks on the lert as the peregrine fa rapid and direct flight, passes their crowded dominion ; but intent on his own nest, built on the rock, some little way further on, the hawk takes no notice of his long legged neighbours, who soon settle down again in their at titudes of rest. The kestrel-hawk frequents the same part of the river, and lives in amity with the wood-pigeons that • the sparrowbawk, frequently has her nest within a few yards of the wood-pigeon ; and you see these birds (at all other seasons such deadly enemies) passing each other in their way to and fro from their respective - peace and amity. It has seemed to ring I' is in perfect e that the sparrow- breeding season fre- rly bty ,er North himself. , r.—lt i 4 the fine I Herald. Sharp and Co., which c NOTICES London: T. B. Sharpe tv-hdl.—We have before of this interesting miscellany, present nurot risiopt John's hawk and wood-pigeon c quently enter into a mutual compact against the crows and jackdaws, who are constantly on the look-out for the eggs of all other birds. The hawk appears to d?pend on the of thewood-pigeon to warn him of the approach lies out, and is not satisfied till he has driven the crow to a safe distance from the nests of himself and his more peace al,le ally. At least in no other way can I account for lune range of rock, but within two or three yards of each 'borts and Nat. Hist. of the Highlands•. other.—J DEFENSIVE POSITION OF CANADA.—When in 1812 walk over it, they soon found that they were to take very little by their motion. The whole number of British troops then in the colony was under two thousand four hundred men. Upper Canada was comparatively a wil derness, occupied by a few scattered labourers, difficult to officers could be made. Yet, even with this slender oppo- \ sition, how did the invaders fare? Where were the glo rious results so confidently anticipated ? Let the defeat at Christler's farm, the rout and heavy loss at Queens town, the surrender of General Hall with his whole army and the territory o Michigan, reply to the question. And to-day how do matters stand? " Within the last twenty years, several entire Scottish clans, under their chiefs— M`Nabs, Giengarys, and others, worthy of their warlike -have rr 'of Ulster, and fiery but kind-hea peasants .. fr h of Ireland, with sturdy 1 and Cumberland, have fizet out losing their love and reverence for the crown and laws of their native country, have become attached to their adopted land, where their stake is now aed,and are ready _ _ to defend their properties sion or domestic treas posed in a great part of the excel r The militia, com- Tent materials jr rnerated, is the nominal strength of 140,000 men. Of these a fourth might take the field, without their absence se riously impeding the commerce and industry of the coun- eight thousand regular troops occupy the various garri sons. Quebec, with its strong fortifications and imposing citadel, may bid defiance to any force that could be brought against it from the States; important works have been erected upon the island of Montreal; Kingston and its adjacent forts would requiire'a large army and correspond ing naval force to subdue it ; Toronto would Rive the in vaders some trouble. Defensive works exist along the frontier of Lower Canada. In no way has the security of . A PROOY THAT A MAN CAN BS HIS OWN GRAND FATHER.—There was a widow and her daughter-in-law, and a man and his son. The widow married the son, and the daughter the old gentleman. The widow was iere fore mother to her husband's father, and, consequently. errindmother to her own husband. They bad a son, to whom she was great grandmother ; now, as the son of a great grandmother must be either a grandfather or great uncle, this boy was one or the other. He was his own grandfather! This was the case with a boy at school at Norwich.—Hood's Magazine. TEA.—The chemical constituents of tea are—volatile oil, tannic acid, and theine; the other constituents are those commonly found in the leaves of vegetables. '1 he. tea owes its smell, and part of its effects to its volatile oii. The tannic acid blackens the salts of iron, as the tannic acid of oak. The theine is the most remarkanle constituent. Peligot has lately discovered in tea a larger quantity of theme, besides some caseine, both of which are azotised substances. The use of carbonate of soda is advantageous in the preparation of tea, as it is in that of coffee; it in creases the power of drawing the extract out of the leaves, makes the infusion stronger, and gives it a better taste. In the ashes of tea the author found oxide of iron and ar gilla, and draws from this circumstance the conclusion, that the shrub grows and thrives on ferruginous and ar gillaceous soils, which are also in other respects favourable to the formation of ammonia, and of the azotised caseine and theine. In using tea, most persons only consume those parts which are to be extracted by water, particu larly the etherial oil, the tanuate of tbeine, gum, and most of the soluble salts. But the tea is not exhausted by a single infusion in boiling water; at least one-third of the soluble constituents remain in the leaves, with the greatest part of the caseine. Carbonate of soda dissolves the caseine, and therefore materially increases the strength of the beverage. The theine is composed of eight atoms of carbon, four atoms of nitrogen, ten atoms of hydrogen, and two atoms of oxygen. In those countries where tea is generally taken (as England and Holland), diseases of relaxation and eannoliition prevail, particularly among the female sex. Tea considerably increases the sensibility of the whole nervous system, and relaxes the digestive canal; but it certainly possesses some nutritive power, in conse quence of containing two azotised substances—theine and caseine. The increased secretion of urea and bile, subse quent to its use, shows its medicinal effect. The Chinese use the tea leaves as an emetic. Fresh tea acts, according to Percival, like opium and henbane on the nerves, and like foxglove on the tunction of the heart and arteries. Those wen who are engaged in unpacking tea are very liable to become paralytic; the exhalations of tea produce headache, giddiness. tfcc. Vessels of porcelain are the best for extracting the constituents of tea; and tin boxes should always be used for preserving it.—Chambers's Journal. HONG KONG AS A PLACE OF TRADE.—We have taken some pains to make ourselves acquainted with the capabilities of Hong Kong, and with the circumstances connected with its being chosen as a British settlement. It is situated in the neighbourhood of an immense trade, and has a magnificent harbour. These two facts are in disputable, and every body can appreciate their impor tance. Mr. Davison, in a work of much interest, lately published, entitled " Trade and Travel in the Far East, " and who was for twelve months at Hong-Kong. says that " as a depot for goods intended for the Chinese mar ket, I conceive the situation of Hong Kong to be unri valled." As a decisive proof of the eligibility of Hong Kong is a place of trade in the eyes of the Chinese them selves, he mentions that some of them have paid immense sums fur ground on which to build stores there. In re gal(' to climate there can be no doubt that it has proved unfavourable, but.this disadtantage is shared by Chusan, the only other place nam d as suitable for our settlement, and probably by any locality along the coast which could be thought of fur such a puria;se. Much of the unhealthi ness of at' these pl,ces seems referable to temporary and superficial causes—to paludal miasma, exhalations from deserted rice grounds, as well as from naturally swampy spots in the ravin s, and from the brushwoods growing and rotti -th T • ,og there, _nis we gather from the itoportan't work of Li - . Wilson, inspector of our naval hospitals and fleets in China, lately puolisited, and entitled " Medical Notes on C..ina." The writer holds (p. 164) that acci. centsl circumstances have helped to fix on the climate of Hong Kong, at the commencement of its colonial history, a much worse character than it will be found to deserve. One main ground arises from his remark, that there ap pear to be in China great periodic physical movements— times of exaceibatiun of disease, with long intervals of remission ; and that the accumulation of the causes of endemic tu Being now discharged, a period of comparative immunity will follow. It may thus be that our first an• pearance in China syncbron•zed with a cycle of disease, and that attention being directed to the removal of excit ing causes, the climate will not be found permanently nn• favourible to Europeans. There appears to he no reason to blame the government for selecting Horz Kong as the site of our English colony _ , and none,certainiy,for reflect. ing on our envoy in regard to that transaction. The choice rested between this place and (..husan. It will be remembered what an outcry there then was against the latter place, on the ground of its unhealthiness. It ought also to be known that Hong Kong was selected by Mr Elk the predecessor of Sir Hertiy Pottinger, and that the latter found many costly public works erected and in progress there, and laree sums of money expended both puulicly and privately on the island. In 'his state of af fairs, Sir H enry Pottinger referred the choice of the place fur our settlement to the ministers at home, stating the comparative advantages'of the two places under conside ration, Chusan and Hung Kong, and on what was, we believe, a just estimate of their merits, the government decided fur Hong Kong.—Dublin Univereily Magazine. THE BADGER.—Notwithapainr nerseeutinns ahrl iKaltralies that he is unjust ly doomed to suffer, I maintain that he is far more respectable in his habits th an we gene rally consider him to be. " Dirty as a badger," " stink ing as a badger," are two sayings often repeated, but quite inapplicable to him. As far as we can learn of the domestic economy of this animal when in a sttite of na ture, he is remarkable for his cleanliness—his extensive burrows are always kept perfectly clean, and flee from all offensive smell; no filth is ever found about his abode; every thing likely to offend his olfactory nerves is carefully removed. I, once, in the north of Scotland, fell in with a perfect col ny of badgers ; they had taken up their abode in an unfrequented range of wooded rock., and appeared to have been little interrupted in their possession of them. The footpaths to and from their numerous boles were bea- ten quite hard ; and what is remarkable and worthy of note, they had different small pits dug at a certain distance from their abodes, which were evidently used as recepta cles for all offensive filth ; every other part of their colony was perfectly clean. A solitary badger's hole, which 1 once had dug out, during the winter season, presented a curious picture of his domestic and military arrangements; a hard and long job it was for two men to achieve, the pas sage here and there turned in a sharp angle round some projecting corners of rock, which he evidently makes use of when attacked, as points of defence, making a stand at any of these angles, where a dog could not scratch to en large the aperture, and fighting from behini his stone but tress. After tracing out a long winding passage, the workmen came to two branches in the hole, each leading to good-sized chambers ; in one of these was stored a con siderable quantity of dried grass, rolled up into balls as large as a man's fist, and evidently intended as food ; in the other chamber there was a bed of soft grass and leaves —the sole_ inhabitant was a peculiarly large old dog-bad- ger. Besides coarse grasses, their food consists of clarions roots ; amongst others, I have frequently found about their hole the bulb of the common wild blue hyacinth. Fruit of all kinds and esculent vegetables form his repast, and I fear that he must plead guilty to devouring any ye or c though, not being adapted for the chase, or even for any very skilful strategy of war, I do not suppose that he can do much in catching an unwounded bird or beast. Eggs are his delight, and a partridge's nest with seventeen or eighteen eggs must afford him a fine meal, particularly if he can surprise and kill the hen-bird also; snails and worms 3 I which he finds above ground during his nncturr al rambles, are likewise included in his bill of fare. I was one summer evening walking home from fi-hing in Loch Ness, and having occasion to fasten up some part of my tackle, and also expecting to meet my keeper, I sat down on the shore of the loch. I remained some time, enjoying the lovely prospect : the perfectly clear and unruffled loch lay before me, reflecting the northern shore in its quiet water. The opposite banks consisted, in some parts, of bright green sward, sloping to the water's edge, and studded with some of the most beautiful birch-trees in Scotland ; several of the trees spreading out like the oak, and with their rag ged and ancient looking bark resembling the cork-tree of Spain—others drooping and weeping over the edge of the water in the most lady-like and elegant manner. Parts of the loch were edged in by old lichen•covered rocks; while farther on a magnificent scar of red stone rose perpendi- cularly from the water's edge to a very great height. So clearly was every object on the opposite shore reflected in the lake below, that it was difficult, nay impossible, to distinguish where the water ended and the land commenced . —the shadow from the reality. The sun was already set, but its rays still illuminated the sky. It is said that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step;—and I was just then startled from my reverie by a kind of grunt c:ose to me, and the apparition of a small waddling grey animal, who was busily employed in hunting about the grass and stones at the edge of the loch ; presently ano ther, and another, appeared in a little grassy glade which ran down to the water's edge, till at last I saw seven of them busily at work within a few yards of me, all coming from one direction. It at first struck me that they were some farmer's pigs taking a distant ramble, but I shortly saw that they were badgers, come from their fastnesses ra ther earlier than usual. tempted by the quiet evenine. and SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS (From a paper read before the Archceological Society, of _ _Sussex, by E'dwinKeet, Esq.) The consideration of the various modes of sepulture. and the forms and ceremonies of different nations used in the interment of the dead, is a subject, if not the most pleasing, yet replete with interest to the Antiquary and lover of the history of past events. "After life's fitful fever, we sleep well;" and Shakspere says "our little life is rounded with a sleep." Volumes have been written upon marriage ceremonies, funeral processions, and the modes of interment of the dead by different nations. I shall, in this brief paper, enumerate a few of the most striking impressive modes of sepulture, beginning with the Cromlech, Cairn, and the Barrow, as most peculiar to the islands of Britain. The Cromlech, of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Kit's Coty House, in Kent ; those in Cornwall, Wales, in Ireland, Scotland, and many parts of the Continent, are probably the most ancient modes of sepulture of which we possess any relics. A variety of opinions are, however, indulged in regarding their origin and end. One affirms they are altars from Druidical sa crifices; another avows they are sepulchral monuments, where the once mighty now repose in death. A third as serts that they are, more particularly that at Stonehenge, immovable observatories for astronomical observations. These conflicting opiniqns, like those entertained upon the uses of the Round Towers, will probably never De fixed satisfactorily to all parties ; and if we consider how vague and uncertain many of our conjectures are upon the ancient Etruscans, their monuments, sepulchral caves, and Cyclopean walls, I know not why our gigantic Crom lech may not be part of their history, power, and majestic skill, now passed away for so many ages. The Cairn is more open to satisfactory elucidation than the Cromlech : these abound more in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland than in Engl ind. Same of these vast heaps, these monumen tal piles, upon which the passing traveller casts his solitary stone in token of respect for the dead, had one flat slab upon their apex, upon which sometimes fires were kindled as beacons; at others, sacrifices offered to the manes of the deceased. Warlike instruments, ornaments of the dress, urns containing bones and ashes, have been fre quently discovered on Cairns, as well as in the vicinity of Cromlechs. And when Messrs. Rolfe, Roach, Smith, Fairholt, and myself, explored in the Isle of Thanet, some Saxon graves, which had been cut into by the Can terbury and Ramsgate branch of the South-Eastern and Dover Railway, we came across a small Cairn of great antiquity. Around the head of the horse, the antlers of the deer, and many other bones, fragments of many urns. &c., were placed a vast number of huge boulder stones of fl nr, in a circular foim, enclosing the urns, fragments of which had the Rotnish potters' names upon them, mixed up with the bones of the animals which had probably been immolated upon this rude shrine Up to the present time, the Scottish Highlander repeats the old proverb in token of respect, " I will add a stone to your Cairn ;" but the Welshman says, when he imprecates, "May the stone of your cairn lay heavy on your head." Some au thors have supposed Cairns to have been rude temples or mounds for religious worship and sacrifice, as well as for monumental tombs. Barrows were used by the ancient Greeks. Homer alludes to those erected as tributes of affection to the memory of departed heroes !! Herodotus describes the barrow of Cansus, King of Ly dia, as a vast mound of earth raised on a lacy basement of many huge stones. This grand monumental harrow was 200 legit _ high, and three-quarters of a mile in circum ference Mani smail , r ones were in its vicinity ; some ornamented with the figures of anima's, and others with pillars with inscriptions. Mr. Jefferson discovered some very large ones in America. with multitudes of human bones. Stackhouse, from his extensive observations, thought barrows in England and Scotland were admirably adapted, from their situation and eminence. for direct and speedy communication, without impediment or interrup tion. This favours the opinion of their being also used as beacons. with materials kept ready on their tops for ignition. Sir Walter Scott vividly describes the firing of these beacens from hill to hill. The Egyptians, Greeks, and early Christians buried their dead in catacombs. Those in Egypt, near Thebes, have a prodigious number of entrances, and a countless number of catacombs. When I was in Egypt I witnessed the blasting by gun powder of many Greek and early Christian catacombs; this idle destruction was for the purpose of procuring masses of stone to finish the fortifications of Alexandria. These explosions laid bare a most beautiful Greek sarco- phagua, which was got out with slight damage; an son took a sketch of it—the figures were male and female gracefully reposing under the palm tree, with heads of Apollo and other deities. The catacombs without the walls of Rome, by the kindness of Mr. Gibson, the sculp- tor, I have also explored. I was under ground with a party of ladies and gentlemen nearly two hours, the en- at a time. We soon found, as we advanced; long streets or passages full of catacombs, the bones completely turned into earth, literally, when we touched them, to dust; these streets of catacombs we supposed to have extended more than a mile-and-a-half, indeed they appeared like a small city of refuge for the early Christians, where the living and by the tyrants of Rome. The subjects of tombs is full of interest. The Persian tomb is a circular building, open at the top, about sixty feet diameter, within this is a well of eighteen or twenty feet diameter ; around this well the earth is piled up 25 feet in height. There are three par titions in the Persian tomb—one each for men, women, terwards the bones are collected and thrown into the well' by the friends of the deceased. SAterranean passages leading to the well allow of the occasional removal of the bones to prevent its filling. The ancient sepulchres of Russia and Siberia are per fect tumulimf_g_reat height—they are encompatsgd will a high wall ot large igtonesiirrtren Tn ttit erect position. he tombs of the Turks and Moors are generally of a simple form, except the shiek or priest's tomb, which is a hum- ombs, near Grand Cairo, are objects of great maj. sty and I climbed a tower of one of these magnificent tombs, and the prospect was quite enchanting, the whole city of Cairo, Boulac, the Pyramids, the hills were all be fore me in vast perspective. No traveller should cross the desert on the overland route to India without seeing the Caliph's tombs, but they are generally so hurried off from Alexandria on their overland mute to India, that they get but a passing glimpse of the obelisk of Cleopa tra, and Pompey's majestic pillar, with its nearly defaced interest Greek inscription. At Anchiale was once seen this in scription upon the tomb of Sardanapalus, which king, with his luxuriant magnificence, called forth the genius of our Byron,—" Sardinapalus built Anchiale and Tarens in one day ; go, traveller, eat, drink, and be merry, the rest is nothing." 'lhe catacombs of Syracuse are full of recesses and chambers, with a flat circular roof and opening to admit 1 ght at the top. In Malta they are cut out of the rock in galleries ; and in Syria and Palestine massive stone doors, moving on pivots, close in the dead. Various also are the opinions of the learned regarding the Pyramids of Egypt. It is certain that they have contained sarcophagi. 1 - fir - odotus thought the form emblematical of human life, certain it is the pyramidal shape is best calculated for length of duration ; some have thought them to be erected for astronomical purposes, w LI philoso7. )ers have ney thought the ancient Egyptians acquainted with elec tricity, and that as Egypt suffered from drought, and as immense masses of vapours pass from the Mediterranean to the mountains of Abyssinia, these gigar.tic artificial mountains might interrupt their passage, and cause rain to descend neon the parched plains. The coniect THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. EXTRACTS FROM MR. DICK! ls;S'S WORK, "DOMBEY AND SON." INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRM Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if h's constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pompous in appearance to be prepossessing. Soo w,s very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniable fine infant, somewhat crushed and spotty in his general effect, as yet. fin the brow of Dombey, Time and his brother Care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time—remorseless twin they are for striding through their human forests, notching as they go—while the countenance of Son was crossed and recrossed with a thousand little creases, whicb the same deceitful Time would take delight in smoothing out and wearing away with the flat part of his scythe, as a preparation of the surface for his deeper operations. D.rmbey, exulting in the long-looked for event, jingled and jingled the heavy watch-chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire. Son with his little fists curled up and clenched, seemed, in his feeble way, to be squaring at existence for having come upon him so unexpectedly. " The house will once ag tin, Mrs. Dombev." said Mr. Dombev, '' be not only in name but in fact Dombey and Son ; Dom-bey and Son !" PROFESSIONAL QUACKERY Doctor Parker Peps, one of the Court Physicians, and a man of immense reputation for assisting at the increase of great families, was walking up and down the drawing room with his hands behind him, to the unspeakable ad miration of the family surgeon, who had regularly puffed the case for the last six weeks among all his patients, friends, and acquaintances, as one to which be was in hourly expectation day and night of being summoned, in conjunction with Doctor Parker Peps. " Well, Sir." said Doctor Parker Peps, in a round, deep, sonorous voice, muffled for the occasion, like the knocker ; " do you find that your dear lady is at all roused by your visit ?" - + "Stimulated, as it were ?" said the family practitioner. faintly, bowing at the same time to the Doctor, as much as to say, " Excuse my putting in a word, but this is a valuable connexion." • Mr. Dombey was quite discomfited by the question. He had thought so little of the patient, that he was not in a condition to answer it. He said that it would be a sa tisfaction to him if Doctor Parker Peps would walk up stairs again "Goa! We must not disguise from you. sir," said Doctor Parker Peps, " that there is a want of power in Her Grace the Duchess—l beg your pardon ; I confound names; I should say in your amiable lady. That there is a certain degree of languor, and a general absence of elas ticity, which we would rather—not—" " interposed the family practitioner, with another inclination of the head. " See, " Quite so," said Doctor Parker Peps, " which we would rather not p‘er. It would appear that the system of Lady Cankaby—excuse me: I should say of Mrs. Dom bey : I confuse the names of caes—" "So very numerous," murmured the family practitioner —" can't be expecied I'm sure—quite wonderful if other wise—Doctor Parker Peps's West End practice—" Thank you," said the Doctor, " quite so. It would appear, I was observing, that the system of our patient has sustained a shock, from which it can only hope to rally by a great and strong—" " And vigorous," murmured the family practitioner. " Quite so," assented the Doctor—" and vigorous ef fort. Mr. Pilkins, here, who from his position of medical adviser in this family —no one better qualified to fill that position, I am sure." " Oh!" murmured the family practitioner. " Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley " You are good enough," returned Doctor Parker Peps, "to say so. Mr. Pilkins, who, from his position, is best acquainted with the patient's constitution, in its normal state (an acquaintance very valuable to us in forming our m y opinions on these occasions), is of opinion with me, that nature must be called upon to make a vigorous effort in this instance; and that. if our interesting friend the Countess of Dombey—l beg your pardon; Mrs. Dombey —should not be—" _ " Able," said the family practitioner. "To make that effort successfully," said Doctor Parker " then a crisis might arise, which we should both sincerely deplore." With that, they stood for a few seconds looking at the ground. Then, on the motion—made in dumb show—of Doctor Parker Peps, they went up stairs; the family practitioner opening the room door for that distinguished professional, and following him out with most obsequious politeness. MR. Vv"AKLEY'S PERSEVERANCE AND STYLE OF SPEAKING. (From F, user's Magazine.) An amusine instance of Mr. Waitley's determined per severance occurred on the last day but one of the session which has just closed. All the public business hBd been disposed of ; the paper containing the notices of the pro ceedings for the day was, with one exception, a blank ; and but f.wi , members were present in the house. Among them were the Home Secretary and his underlings, and a few members notorious tor their approval of the Poor law- Sir George. Grey 00...fia 0heer....44,-ovary now and then, to turn an anxious eye to the green door, evidently hoping that some one would or would not make his appearance. The explanation was found in the notice-paper. The one Mr. Wakley that he vould bring before the house the case of the Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum. This was the shadow that darkened their fair prospect of a holiday. But Mr. Wakley might be persuaded or cajoled into giv- ing way, or he might not come ; and so the threatened exposure, which the government bad reason to dread, might not be made. At length in came Mr. Wakley, who strode up to his seat with an awful air of determination. Now,the play began. First some personal fritnd of the hon. member, and supporter of the Poor-law, began talk ing to '-nt it in a friendly way, urging how inconvenien.. would be thus, at the very last gasp of the session, to bring forward a long series of charges. But Mr. Wakley only shook his head and knit his brows, folding his arms with a sly smile, as much as to say, No, it won't do. This shot having missed, Sir George Grey went across to the immovable tribune, and, with the blandest air of aris tocratic condescension, put to him how extremely outré would be his threatened proceeding; that there was scarcely a house to listen to him ; that the country would overlook the case ; that the doors of the Home-office would be open to him ; that every justice should be done, and so on : but it was of no avail. Even Sir James Gra dam could not have succeeded. Then how much less Sir George Grey ! The honourable member was still obdu . . message came It was the Home Secretary' s duty to name the members iien the list was read, it was observable that the Speaker pronounced the name of Mr. Wakley with peculiar em phasis and unction; for he, too, would not have been sorry had the honourable member relented. One by one the members went up to the Lords, Sir George Grey e himself at their bead • but Mr. Wakley, who seemed irate might in some degree receive sanction from the immense at what he supposed a manoeuvre to defeat his object, figure of the Sphinx, which not being a commemorative flatly refused to stir. He was afraid lest in his absence monument, more connected with the rites of sepulture, some scheme should be devised to defeat him. Folding was probably intended to denote the two signs of the Zo- his arms, be stretched himself at full length on his seat, disc, the Virgin and the Lion, through which the Sun saying, in reply to calls on him to go, " No, no, I shall passes during the innundation of the Nile. lose my chance I" And there he remained obdurate, But among all the various modes of sepulture I have alike to the tetchy remonstrances of the Home Secretary witnessed abroad, perhaps next to the almost unimpaired and the earnest pleading of his friends. Constituted as grandeur of the Egyptian Pyramids and catacombs should the House of Commons is, it required no ordinary amount be considered the Etruscan sepulchres hewn out of a rock, of moral courage thus to persist in the discharge of a which are seen only by torch light, outside the walls of troublesome and self-imposed duty. At last he rose and Voltera. Here, in this rock, closed in by a single slab of made a speech of several hours' duration, full of extraor stone at the narrow entrance, with a pillar of the natural dinary details, and his reward came in due time when the rock left standing in the centre, you see three tiers of sar- newspaper reports appeared, and it was found that he had cophsgi, composed of alabaster, marble, and stone, all given a last kick to the Poor-law Commission. A man with rudely carved, but bold figures of the deceased, de- with such perseverance in a cause where the credit is often scribing his profession, or her loving, amiable and mater- in inverse ratio to the trouble, must succeed, and de serves nal quality. The poet is gracefully reclining, with his el- Ito do so. • bow leaning on a pile of books; the lawyer_ and senator pleading. w ith divers other alegorical and illustrative de signs. In these rich, but externally unnoticeable land Mr. Waklev's style of speaking is the most simple and unaffected. He has been too busily engaged in the bard work of life to have had much time to bestow on oratory. lc Etruscans' last his ges of the haughty Romans, who meats escaped the raN He has the appearance of a provincial, and has also the accent of one; the associations thus excited still further negative the idea of polish or preparation. You might fancy, but for the knowledge of passing events, not less than of subjects of higher order, which his speeches dis play. that be was some country farmer suddenly smitten with a passion for speech-making. The structure of his speeches is quite inartificial, and the language usually the most simple and colloquial of every-day life. It is plain. even homely, without being inelegant ; a manliness of sentiment and a quiet self-possession in the speaker, im part a kind of dignity to the most ordinary expressions. Mr. Wnkley does not so much make speeches, as deliver the thoughts which burden his mind on any given subject, with frankness and sincerity. Even hard words do not come offensively from him, such is his good , humcur and the amenity of his disposition. He constantly displays great shrewdness of perception, unmasking the motives of opponents with a masterly power, and, at the same time, with an avoidance of coarse imputation. Yet he can be sarcastic when he chooses ; but his s arcasm i s more in the hint conveyed, and in the knowing l oo k o f i face and tone of voice, than n any positively Cu tti ng ex. little knew their more humble predecessors, the mcinumental trea sures that were tranquilly reposing beneath their warlike and world conquering tread. It is something to hare been at the top of that—the loftiest pyramid—to have gazed from the top of St. Peter's upon the vast Campagna where the tombs of Crecilia, Metellu of Plautus, the ho ratii and Curatii, and a number of other vast sepulchral monuments, stand in their .lovely grandeur, like giant skeletons of a departed world ; but you cannot gaze on the tomb of Nero, the pyramidal monument to Caius Cestius so near the strangers' burial ground, where Shelly and Keats, with so many other noble English, take their last rest in a foreign soil, without feelings of awe and hu mility, and how little our modes of perpetuating a recol lection of the venerated dead, compared with these, ap pear in our churches and churchyards. It is a subject of congratulation that the custom of interment in Christian churches, which began in the fourth century, by deposit ing the clergy there, is now falling, happily, into disue tude ; and it is a consummation devoutly . to , be wished, Oct. 6, 1846. rather takes up questions for their own sake, Mr. Dun combe for his own. With the latter it is all holiday work and fun : Chartism is a capital stake to gamble with. True, he sometimes sails rather close to the wind, but there is pleasure in the risk : it is like yachting in rough weather ; the excitement balances the danger. But with Mr. Wakley, grievance-hunting is a very serious business. It is the occupation of his life. As his time is very valu able. he might do better with it than bestow it on the public; yet be works away harder than ever. He cer tainly makes greater sacrifices than Mr. Duncombe, if he does not win quite as much ephemeral applause, or obtain it quite as easily. It may be urged that his patri otism is all prospective; at least, however, he pays down a heavy deposit. Upon the whole, too, he has done much good, if, in the course of his career, he has also caused some evil. The errors of the Lancet, and the occasional violences of an enterprising demagogue determined to rise in the world. may be forgiven in the man who has done so much to unmask the minor tyrannies which oppress the pauper population of this country. A SCENE AT A GOVERNOR'S BALL. A nice tale is told how a member of the legislature of Washington showed himself to be quite au fait in high life in the great republic. We say nothing atiout the richness of the scene generally, a most graphic account of which is, F owever, given in the New York Spirit qf th Times. The following is a goad extract:— " Hark ! the clatter of knives and forks is interrupted by the cry of Waiter ! eh ! here, here boy—you feller — give us some of that ere pudding.' Dis here, sar, am not pudding—it am de werrr, werry best of cream,' replied the sable attendant. ' Well, niver mind,' said the gentleman, 'just give some of it ;' whereupon helping himself to a plate full, and not finding a small spoon bandy, or thinking it would take too much time, he put a tablespoon in requisition to facilitate des'. etch. The first spoonful was enough. Twisting and turning the cream from one side of his mouth to the other, yet still finding the cold undiminished. he resolved to try the dernier resort of ejecting it on the carpet. `Look here,' exclaimed he to the waiter, 'just place this on the stove and get it warm, it is too d—d cold ! You'll get all my teeth aching like the devil, and I should not wonder if I had a swelled face—a pretty condition that would be to speak on the Oregon question, to morrow.' • Why, ear, dat am ice cream! _ _ ' Put it on - the stove and get it warm, I tell you.' No sooner said than done; the plate was put on the stove, which was heated as they well know ►how to do it when the quicksilver on the thermometer indicates its neighbourhoodr.o zero, and there left by the astonished black. After some minutes had elapsed, sambo was summoned to fetch ' that ere plate.' Why that aint what 1 gave you,' saluted the ears of the confounded waiter. ' Yes, sar, that um de cream,' replied be, as well as his bewildered faculties would let him. ' You be darned !—I gave you pudding, I did'nt give you cream nor custard. Where's that ar plate I gave you fust ?' • Dat am the very identical plate as you had the honor of handing me in the first place, sar,' replied poor sambo. ' You git along, you son of darkness;' but so uncon trolable was the laughter, that no satisfactory explanation was given the worthy member from 0-." SPO RTTN G I N TELLIGENCE CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING THURSDAY There was a tolerably numerous company.- The first race was the Hooton Stake, which was won by Mr. Tem pest nas Lucy, beating perpetual Motion and British Tar. Won easy. The Grand Stand Stake was won by Mr. Mostyn's f by Lanercost— L' Hiroudelle beating c by D'Egville and Cha peau Rouge. Won by half a length. The Saracen's Brad Handicap was won by Mr. W. Scott's Driffield. beating Psalmsinser, Laura, and two others. Won by two lengths. The Selling Stake was won by Mr. Flintuff's The Rhine, beating six others. Heats. Won easy. FRIDAY The Mostyn Stake was won by Mr. I'. Dawson's c by D'Egville, beating Sbarston and Lanercost. Won easy. The Chester Handicap Stake was won by lfitr. W. Smith's Master Downes, beating Romance, Spithead. Patriot, The Prince, Erin-go-bragh, c by Touchstone — Laura, and Factory Girl. Factory Girl took the lead, with all the horses well up. Master Downes came up at the Cagle turn, and won cleverly by a length. Spithead was beat about the same distance by the second. The Helier Skelter Handicap was won by Mr. Meik lam's c by Touchs , one, beating Fair Rosamond, British Tar, Factory Girl, Lady Sarah, Alice, and Juvenal. Heats. Won cleverly. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING UESDAY For the Buckenham Stakes Col. Peel's King of Naples received forfe it. The Hopeful Stakes was won by Col. Peel's Isis, beat ne Vice-Consul and five others. Won by a length. The Grand Duke Michael Stakes was won by Colonel Anson's la t to, beating Sir Tattoo Sykes by a length. Match.—Auricula beat Leopard. The Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous each was won by Mr. Pemberton's Best Bower, beating Skeleto❑ and African. Won by two lengths. Match—.£29o. b ft—Lord Ordford's Blackie beat Sir J. t-i awley's Humdrum. Won easy by 8 length. The Plate of £5O was won by Mr: Pemberton's Best Bower, beating Mount Callan, Beaumont, Glory, and The St. Leger. Stakes was won by Lord E. Russell's Sting, beating Footstool, Joy, and Tugnet. A good race. Won by halt a length. THURSDAY, The Town Plate was won by Col. Synge's Mount Cal lan, beating Humdrum and Radulphus. Won by half a length. Match, 100 soya., was won by Mr. Mostyn's Vice Con sul, beating Black Cat by a neck. Match, 200 soya., 50 'feet, was won by the Duhe of Bedford's Paragon. beating Missed Stays. The Rutland Stake was - won by Mr. Moystyn's, beat ing Docrine, - f. by Haman Platoff, and Palma. Won easy by a length. A sweepstake of 5 sous. each was won by Mr. Ford's The Attorney, beating Caen, Deer Chase, and Marble Maul. Won easy. The Queen's Plate was won by Mr. Moore's Wolf Dog, beating Bravissimo, Little Vulgar Boy, and Ohio. Won by a length. It is a . " singular coincidence" that Holmes has ridden ces this year, viz. :—Bro ger, and Conspiracy for cardo for the Derby and St. Le the Oaks and Great Yorkshire. Tffn ST. LEGER.—The value of these• stakes, won by Mr. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes, is £3,475. It is calcu ated the owner won a further sum of £4,000 in bets. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE IST OCTOBER (From Colburn's United Service Magazine.? ere two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the Dep6t of the Regiment is ationed Ist Life Guards—Windsor. 40th—Canterbury. 2nd Ditto—Regent's Park. 4lst—Mnhingar. Royal H.Guards—Hyde Park 42d—Malta ; Isle of Wight.- Ist Dragn Gds.—Birmingham. Reserve batt., Malta 2d—Dublin. 43d—Dover. 3d—Piershill. 44th—Belfast. 4th—Nottingham. 45th—Cape of Good Hope, I.W a li ia; Dublin 2d—Dublin 49th—GalwaN ni 6 th—Y or k. Reserve batt., M.Video 6th—Norwich. itogne. 48th —Jamaica; 46th—Canada; Chatham illi Mai nc d o s 7 1 s t h t — D r C a . g G . 0 . n s _ Hope, B 3d—Bengal; Maidstone 4th—Dublin. 6th—Longford sOth—Bengal ; Chathar kslst—Van D.Lar Chatham 53d—Bengal; Chatham 54th—Glb - raliar ; Kinsale Bengal; IVlaidst 55th—Cork 7th—Chaihm. rsth—N.S.Wales;kChatharc 12th Lancers— Hounslow 13th Lt. D'goons 14th—Dombay 15th Hussars 16th Lancers— 59th—Limerick 60th( let bat Maidstone —Bomb' Madras; M'ston ;2d batt.)—Canada ; Chitham 61st—Bengal; Chatham. 62d—Bengal ; Chatham. 63d—Madras ; Chatham. 64th—Dubin. 65th—N .S. Wales ; Chatham. 66th—Gibraltar ; Templemore 17th Lancer Grenadier Gua Winchester (2d batt.)—St. John's Wood (3d batt.)—Tower. Coldstream Guards 'Pandalk. Ills, (lk batt t. George's Bar I st batt (2d Matt.)—Portman-st. Ban Scotch FusileerGrds—(lst bat Welington Barr (2d batt)—Windsor Ist Foot (Ist batt.)- Newbri •ge. (2d batt.)—Edinburch Trinidad 67th - Cork. 68th—Dublin. 6gth—Manchester , . 70th—Templemore 7lBt—Liarbadoes ; I. of Wight. Reserve batt., Canada th—Devon 6th—Cape Good Hope. 7th—St. Vincent ; Newry. Elth—Rombay, Chatham. gth—Bengal ; Chatham. 10th—Bengal; Chatham. 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham. 12th—Mauritius ; Isle Wight 72d—Gibraltar; Nenagh. 73,1—Monte Video—Buttevant 7401—Aberdeen. 78th—Bombay; Chath - am. 79th—Qibraltar ; Castlebar 80th—Bengal; Chatham Blst—Canada ; Jersey. 82d—Canada; Spike Island BM—Dublin. - 84th—Madras; Chatham 85th—Buttevant - 7. Dr. Scor of molten 1 tent of a number fth one of them t : about one hundrc , or ev ter or of an atmospher There was several miles in breadth s a lin ifty miles in length, which uance of e is yet one I carried ou Halifax, and extend- i lodging included penny per s closed by is ays to the lat spring of 1847, we are told which are to open the great la mer time that may suffice. But tne hve me le canals will be completed sto our fleets. For sum ..;nter And apart from the military of the case, I eons. It wi benefit of final a railway would be strengthen the intimacy Wetween this splendid colony and the seat of government : the emigrant from home, and the produce from the west, will then pass through British waters and over British territories only, one vast ruin of nature; and ricans, with their great mercantile astuteness, are making of the rock, driver, out of the voice. every effort to divert the trade of Canada into their chan .o be laid at various distances." The nels, and to make us in every way dependent on them for ;xpects it will soon be possible to daguer- our communications. The drawback-bill, by which the :04 I . sage of the moon upon the speculum— custom-duties on foreign goods are refunded on their pass. which can,._ ae done at present, as the moon is not sta- ing into our provinces, has already been attended with tionary; but the earl contemplates a piece of mechanism great success in obtaining for them a portion of our carry. to move the telescope to a certain distance, with a motion ing trade, especially during the winter, when our great corresponding to the motion of the moon.—Athenceum. highway of the St, Lawrence is closed.—Blackwood. any of the piec pea, appeared actor says be, nip in of " Hochel This is the construction of a of P ,ish Americ commencir ing, by Quebec Amherstbut the lin K Lawrenc g and the far west. The essential portic lat from Halifax to Quebec, by which, v by a heavy summer shower tnat was just over, ana winch had brought out an infinity of large black snails and worms, on which the badgers were feeding with good ap petite. As I was dressed in grey and sitting on a grey rock, they did not see me, bnt waddled about, sometimes close to me : only now and then as they crossed my track they showed a slight uneasiness, smelling the ground, and grunting gently. Presently a very large one, which I took to be the mother of the rest, stood motionless for a ment listening with great attention, and then giving a sone grunt, which seemed perfectly understood by the others; she scuttled away, followed by the whole lot. I was soon joined by my attendant. whose approach they had heard long before my less acute ears gave me warning of his In trapping other vermin in tk. - we constantly caught badgers—sometimes several were found in the traps; I always regretted this, as my keeper was most unwilling to spare their lives, and I fancy seldom did so. His arguments were tolerably cogent, I must confess. When I tried to persuade him that they were quite harm less, he answered me by asking, " Then why, sir, have they got such teeth, if they don't live, like a dog or fox, on flesh I—and why do they get caught so often in traps baited by rabbits ?" I could not but admit that they had most carnivorous-looking teeth, and well adapted to act on the offensive as well as defensive, or to crunch the bones of any young hare, rabbit, or pheasant that came in their way."— Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands. coming Lege woods that our churchyards may, like that remar turesque one of Dartford, in Kent, be r beautiful and solemn, by planting cypress yet more Ind other trees, nts, like t Li- laying out'walks, fixing seats, erecting mono those of Pere le chaise, Kensal Green, St. Jam This is by far the preferable mode, than that our deceased friends should lie incold obstruction and to rot Within the walls of populated cathedrals and churches, a others moat unhealthy mingling of the quick with toe auto. Never shall I forget the impression felt at visiting the grand sublime cemetery, without the walls of Belogna, the Campo Santa at Pisa, and the last resting place of Smol lett in the interesing necropolis at Leghorn—requiescant in pace never cutting deeper than is absolutely necessary, s ome of his " points" have, from time to time, told rema r k a bl y well ; such, for instance , as that in which he described the Whig ministry as being made of " squeezable " ma terials. That one express i on contr ibuted considerably towards gaining for Upon th. whole, e esti- Mr. Wakley contrasts favourably 1,0 • •• first sight he is not so captivating or prepossessing as Mr. Duncombe, but he has more sterling stuff in him, and is, i n all probability, more to be depended upon. Appear ances are against him ; they are in Mr. Duncombe 's fa vour. The latter has a careless, thoughtless,—nay, if one may be allowed the term,—an innocent expression of countenance : the former has a peculiar habit of contract ing the eye-brows ; and a keen and restless eye and peer ing expression set you at first on your guard as against a scheming, designing man, not overburdened with scruples or with the milk of human kindness. But the longer Mr. Duncombe speaks, the less strong is the prestige in his favour, the more suspicious you grow that he is careless of everything except personal display and producing an effect. Mr. Wakley, on the other hand, wins on you as he proceeds. The frown relaxes ; the face, which had been too pale for an earnest man, recovers its colour, and a good-humour or an evident sincerity propitiate favour and confidence. As bas already been said, Mr. Wakley 13th—Port,motith. 14th—Halifax, N.S; Plymoutt 15th—Ceylon ; Waterford. 16th—Gibraltar; Birr. 17th—Bombay; Chatham. I gth—Barbadoes Reserve batt, Bermuda 97th—Newport. S. W. sBth—Malta ; 89th—Halifax, N.S. ; Hull. 90th—CapeG , odilope ;Model gist—Cape ofGoodHope; I .ofW 19 1 4 th —Aden ; Chatham sth—Ceylon ; Tralee., Isle of Wight. 97th—Corfu ; Isle of Wight. Reserve batt., Canada Reserve bat., Cephalonia. 24th—Bengal ; Chatham. 98th—Chin a ; Chatham. 25th—Madras ; Chatham. 99th—N. S. Wales; Chatham. Rifle B (istb.)—Corfu ;**Sheer. 26th - -B C D B a eo u p nm b e g li ba G n al . y , ; Hope Chatham. Ist ope;Guernsey (2d batt.)—Halifax,N.S., IsleW. Chatham. Reserve batt., Halifax, N.S. W. I. Regt.—Jamalca, &c. 30 th — Newcastle.on-Tyne. 2nd—Nassau. 31st—Bengal ;* Chatham. 3d—Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c 32d—Bengal ; Chatham. Ceylon Rifles—Ceylon. 33d—N. Brunswick ; Mullingar Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape 34th—Corfu ; Clonmel of Good Hope. 35 th — Mauritius; Charles Fort. R. Canada Rifle Reg.—Canada. 36th— We edon. Royal Newfoundland Veteran 37th—Chatham t Companies—Newfoundland 38 th—Jamaica; Londonderry. Royal Malta Fencibles, Malta. 39th—Bengal; Chatham. St. Helena Regt.—St. Helena. *Ordered home. fOrdered to India. *Under orders for New South Wales. grader orders for Bengal. Part on passage home. ¶Ordered to Hong Kong. ** Under orders for Cape Good Hope. Antigua EPIGRAM The following epigram in Latin and English was_arelen com posed by the Rev. Charles Wordsworth, Warden of of Trinity College, Perthshire, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the chapel by Sir John Gladstone : Mactus honore novo. proprio coguomine kens Fundamenta domils Virque Lapis que jacit. Quern Lretus lapis apse jacit, lapis auspice lretus Stet, stet, in reternum mactus honore novo. In honours new for high deserts arrayed. Gladstone, auspicious name, this basement lai d. Glad stone, laid here by Gladstone's bounteous hand, Still blest with honours new, for ever—ever stand !