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his hand, replied, briefly, Better, my son The stranger was
Mr. Cartwright, a familiar of Ben's, and one of the first wits
of the time. The venerable and decrepit form of the illus-
trious poet, contrasted with the slight frame and animated fea-
tures of his young admirer, affected me strangely. I looked
upon him as the literary patriarch of the age, and thought how
happy I should be to be numbered among his ' sons.' These
fancies were passing through my mind, when the arrival
ut of the
Bishop of Winchester, who frequently visits the poet, pan
end to my dreams. We parted, with a warm invitation to
repeat our call. The carrier allows me time only to write my
name under this hasty scrawl, and to remind you that a word
from his silent friend will gratify, ‘' A. COWLEY."
Of the other articles, and they are both numerous
and well written, we have no space to introduce so
much as a passing observation. We thank Fraser for
an able review of the plays of Mr. Sheridan Knowles,
who, by the way, is richly deserving of all the good
things that have been said of him, both here and in the
New World. Mr. Hume will find something in a paper
entitled " What is the Use of a Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland ?" well worthy of his attention. We believe
that it is now twelve years since the Hon Member for
Middlesex moved the abolition of the Vice-regal office
in Ireland.

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.—CoIburn.
There is more than the usual variety in this Number,
which contains, among other amusing articles, one of
the most amusing we have met with for some time. It
is entitled a " Letter from the Chimpanzee," in which
that interesting and respectable individual recounts
some of his recent adventures in a style of piquant
sarcasm. We take for granted that Mr. Theodore
Hook is the author of this delightful paper ; first, from
its political bearing ; secondly, from the arch and easy
humour that pervades it. We quote an extract from
this little jeux d'esprit :
" I am sure you will forgive my devoting a few lines of
my address to you, to the memory of my poor mother, who
lost her life in endeavouring to secure her child's liberty.
She was an excellent parent, and if not so well educated as
myself, one of the most amiable of Troglodytes—she was mild,
gentle, amiable, four feet six inches high, and a pattern for

her sex.
" Her, Sir, the worthy gentlemen who were anxious to se
cure me for the advancement of knowledge in natural history,
shot. I never shall forget that hour. Devotedly attached to
me, she endeavoured to carry me as fast as she could to a
little place we had about a mile from where we met the
men who afterwards became my masters ; and when they
fired at her in order to make her stop, she threw me be-
hind her, and faced our enemies, who, finding her too swift
of foot for them, fired again, and shot her in the breast.
Her piercing cries still wring in my cars. I did not then
know what a gun was, nor did she, and in hopes to extract the
deadly ball which had taken effect, my wretched parent, while
clasping me with one hand, aggravated her misery by tearing
open the wound with the other. One of the scientific gentle-
men, however, was kind enough, with the humanity and consi-
deration that become a Christian and a philosopher, to knock
her respected brains out with the butt end of his gun, and seize
me by the legs,—l being at that time, as one of your drama-
tists writes, " young and sore afraid,"—and thrust me into a
sack which an attendant zoologist kindly held ready to
secure me.
" My father I never knew ; he deserted my mother very soon
after I was born. She described him to me as a very fine crea-
ture distantly connected with the Pongo family, but of a roving,
restless disposition. I have heard—how true it is I cannot say
—that he is still alive, and, having gone to North America, is
now a member of Congress in the United States ; others tell
me that he is astipendiary magistrate in Jamaica ; while some
gentle:nen, whom I have seen since I have been here, assure
me that he died in England, ambassador from the Queen of
Portugal to the Court of St. James's. Of course lam unable
to decide, but this I know, that from all I have heard of his na-
tural talents, and from all I see of the power of education, as
well as the very little intellect required to go a great way, he
may, for all I know, have been a lord chancellor or a cabinet
minister, although, not having a tail to recommend him, I do
not presume to say he ever arrived at such dignities.
" Well, Sir, after I had seen the last of my poor mother—l
was spared the misery of beholding her death, by the urbane
attention of the scientific gentleman who poked me into the
bag—l was carried about one hundred and twenty miles to the
coast. Perhaps, Sir, you never travelled so far in a sack. It
was the longest excursion I had ever made, and although I
duly appreciated the tenderness and humanity of my mother's
murderers, I can assure you nothing in a hot climate can be
more disagreeable. Everything, as the Trogs say, " must
have an end ;" so had my journey ; and I assure you when my
masters delivered me over to the care of Captain Wood, I felt
more happy than under the circumstances I could have been
expected to feel."
The " Romance of Law" is evidently the produc-
tion of one skilled in the technicalities of the profes-
sion. It is a useful paper, but something dry, which,
however, is necessarily consequent on the nature of the
subject. " Letters from the South" are a continua-
tion of Mr. Campbell's Algerine Papers, and contain
one highly interesting passage—that, we mean, where
the author talks of the coral insect, and the formation
of coral islands.

THE MONTHLY M.AGAZlNE.—Slierwood and Co.
There are two interesting, articles in this Number—
" Anecdotes of Napoleon," and " Recollections of
S'r Walter Scott." The others are readable, rather

from their brevity than their intrinsic excellence. We
are told in a Note to Correspondents that a " Great
accession of literary talent has been secured for the
Old Monthly." We are glad of this, as latterly there
has been a great dearth of that necessary commodity.
The literary notices are better written than the mote
original articles.

THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
Simpkin and Marshall.
The third portrait in the " Gallery of Illustrious
Irishmen" is that of Dr. Berkley, the celebrated Bishop
of Cloyne. The hand of the master is visible in every
touch ; and, though a question may arise as to the cor-
rectness of the likeness, there can be none as regards
the intrinsic excellence of the picture, considered merely
as a work of art. It has none of the faults which we
pointed out in the portrait of Goldsmith—faults which,
in justice to the editor, we must allow were not exhi-
bited in the sketch of Grattan. If we are to have a
" Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen"—and none will hail
with more sincere pleasure the opening of such an
exhibition than will the Principals of this Journal—let
it be such an one as will gladden every Irishman's
heart. A spirit of partizanship is incompatible with
the performance of so great—so patriotic an undertak-
ing. We desire to see the memory of the great and
good—and such there ha*e been of every class, civil
and religious—cherished with respect, if not with ve-
neration. In the portraiture of the Irish Hierarchy we
would as soon think of rejecting Berkley, King,
Usher, and Magee, as we would of omitting such
names as Doyle, and several other eminent divines of
the Catholic Church. The portraits of Grattan and
Berkley are all that we would or could desire. We
only ask that those which are forthcoming may have
equal claims upon the praise of all impartial critics.
We have been much pleased with the opening ar-
ticle on the " State of the Irish Poor." Of course
we make large allowances for bigotry and intolerance.
These are necessary ingredients in. every Conservative
remedy for the ills of the Catholic peasantry, and
therefore we have resolved for peace's sake to pass them
over as lightly as possible. The article on Machiavel,
the Florentine historian, " illustrated by a page in
the Contemporary History of Ireland," is too laboured,
prosy, and common place. There are two other articles
of a similar character—one a sort of post mortem de-
fence of defunct Orangeism, of which we are promised
the speedy resurrection, and the other a rigmarole es-
say on the Irish Corporations. We will trouble our
head with neither of these effusions. On the whole,
this Number is not equal to the last. The articles
are neither numerous, varied, nor sufficiently amusing.

UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL.
In an article under the head of " Recollections of
the British Army," there is a whimsical account of
the expedients to which this country had recourse at
the time of the memorable panic, when it was threatened
with an invasion by Buonaparte.
" Orders were sent round to drive and lay waste all the
country where the enemy might land ; all kinds of vehicles
were to be in requisition for the transport of the few troops
to be had. Because one of our ships had been beaten off by
a circular tower in Sardinia, martello-towers became all the
fashion ; the coast of Kent, and even parts of the shores of
Ireland, were studded with these gems of the sea,' and they
stand there now, monuments of the panic of the times. Im-
mense sums were expended on the heights of Dover and the
lines of Chatham,—as if an enemy was bound by contract to
march on London by that route, when he could, as the Irish-
man says, come up " fair and airy " by the Maidstone road.
A canal was dug from Hythe to Rye, which cost 500,0001.,
and the lives of many of the Lincoln militia, who were sta-
tioned there under the impression that they were ' mud-larks'
by profession ; and when this magnificent specimen of inland
navigation, running parallel with the sea was finished, no one
could discover its use ;—an officer of engineers, who had been
employed in the construction, and was hard pressed on this
point, said it would serve as a ditch and defence in case of an
enemy landing on the beach beyond it; an officer of the Rifles
who was present, offered a bet that he would hop across it with
his feet tied together; it also remains, and serves to convey

soldiers' baggage from Hythe to Rye, and for the officers to
skate on in winter."
These " Recollections" will furnish capital club-
reading, as they are light, sketchy, and anecdotal ; and
are evidently the result of personal experience, instead
of being the mere " idle coinage of the brain." " The
Indian Army" is full of serviceable statistic particulars,
respecting the amount and quality cf our military force
in the East ; it will, however, we fear, be read with in-
terest only by professional men. " Hints to Parlia-
ment on Discipline and Distinctions in the Army,"
will supply thats taunch Reformer, Sir W. Molesworth,
with some valuable hints, when he next alludes to the
subject in the House of Commons.

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. Allen and Co.
Few publications are conducted with greater care,
and minute attention, than the " Asiatic Journal."
We cannot say that it is too exclusively Oriental, as
the range over which it extends is all but unbounded.
Still the original articles are very few, and some of
them are wanting in fire. We acknowledge the great
difficulty of delineating correctly the manners and cus-
toms of the Asiatic tribes, and at the same time corn-
ing up to that standard of quaint gorgeousness, in
point of style, for which every reader looks in descrip-
tions of Oriental life. Many causes operate power-
fully to limit the number of able writers on subjects
connected with India. The most obvious is that to
become acquainted with the habits of the Indian
tribes, so as to write well about them, one must visit
the country ; and to remain in it for a sufficient length
of time is to destroy the very powers necessary for the
able performance of such a work. We know, and
acknowledge with gratitude, that there have been many
distinguished exceptions to this rule. But what of
that ? We are dealing with difficulties, not with im-
possibilities.
The " Mutiny of Vellore" might be made the
groundwork of one of the finest Oriental Romances
in the language. In its present form it is related so
coldly as almost to be repulsive. " Hutchinson on
Indian Jails," is a most interesting and instructive
paper. We recommend it to general perusal. The
following account of the priesthood of a sect of Hindu
schismatics, established about one hundred years ago,
and calling themselves Ramsanehi, or Friends of God,
may be perused with advantage by the Lordly Hierar-
chy of " the most immaculate of Christian Churches,
both in the purity of her doctrine, and in the strictness
of her discipline I"
" Priests are called either Byragi or Sadh, and are divided
into three classes, the two last of which, denominated Bedeld
and Mohani, I shall notice presently. They are enjoined to
study the holy writings, and to disclaim all merit in their works :
to observe celibacy, chastity, humility, abstinence, and content-
ment : to put a restraint upon the tongue : to sleep little : to
accustom the body to hardships and fatigue : and to exercise
charity, humility, and mercy. Anger, broils, avarice, selfish-
ness, usury, gaming, lying, theft, lust, hypocrisy, and all kinds
of luxuries, are strongly denounced. Priests are commanded
never to look at their face in a glass, nor to use snuff, perfumes,
or ornaments, as such things savour of vanity : to go bare-
footed, and on no account to ride on any kind of conveyance :
never to destroy anything animate, nor to live in solitude, nor
to ask or receive money. Dancing, music, and other frivolous
amusements, are forbidden, and to taste of tobacco, opium, and
all intoxicating drugs and spirits. They are not permitted to
prepare medicines, but do not object to receive them in time
of sickness at the hand of a stranger.
" It was a maxim of Ramcharan, that woman and gold, in
the present vicious state of society, were the principal sources
of mischief in the world : he therefore enacted a strict ordi-
nance for priests to shun both of them. The founder, a
married man without a family, set the example of putting away
his wife ; and this sacrifice, with the desertion of one's chil-
dren, are essential to obtain admission to the order : but the
families of these Byragis are, I believe, in all cases comfort-
ably provided for. So strictly is the rule of continence en-
forced, that a priest is only permitted to converse with females
on matters connected with religion ; the smallest approach to
levity would involve the dismissal of the culprit.
" Gold is supposed to beget avarice, and to accept of it de-
stroys the integrity of all previous acts of piety and virtue.
• The touch of gold,' said Narayan Dias, is a lure to sin,
and marriage is prohibited to ecclesiastics (not to the laity),
because the cares of a family would interfere materially with
their holy meditations. The heart should be fixed on one
alone (God) ; he who places his affections on anything mor-
tal, ceases to be a Byragi.' It is related, in example of the
little value set on lucre by the Ramsanehis, that a man pre-
sented Dulha Ram, on some occasion, with a philosopher's
stone, which the sage received in silence, and cast into a well.
The author of the gift, indignant at the contempt shown to his
offering, preferred a complaint to the Raja of Shahpura, who
asked the superior the motive of his conduct. The man having
acknowledged he bestowed away the stone, the Mahant en-
quired how he could in reason complain of the loss of what did
not belong to him.—' Your motive,' said Dulha Ram, in pre-
senting the stone, was to tempt me to evil; but I covet not
gold, nor is the transmutation of metals fitting employment for
a mendicant; take ye twenty rupees, and begone.'
" A Byragi, convicted of receiving money, is branded on the
forehead with a metal coin, heated for the purpose, and ejected
from the community. Yet this interdiction, however strict,
must be regarded as nominal, since lay followers receive money
for the use of the order—and two Banias of the sect, residing
in Shahpura, arc appointed expressly to receive remittances,
lend out money, and carry on trade, on account of the holy
fraternity.
" A woman may become a priestess, as in the instance of
Sarup, a devoted adherent of Ramcharan, by abondoning her
husband and offspring, and by conforming strictly to chastity
and other statutes. Females are forbidden, under pain of
chastisement and excommunication, to approach places of wor-
ship after dusk, as they form the residence of the priesthood :
it is considered prudent to guard them from temptation,
although they are supposed to have acquired absolute control
over the passions and all unlawful desires, before they are ad-
mitted to the sect. The sexes sit apart in the temples, and
never sing together.
" In regard of the injunction to sleep little, and to follow
habits of industry, they say there is enough of sleep in the
grave ; life is evanescent, and of too much value to be passed
in repose ; and by wasting the precious hours in slumber, man
degrades himself to an equality with the brute. Their aliment
is poor, and taken sparingly, because abstinence induces watch.
fulness, while a surfeit of food and sleep makes the soul heavy.
Priests reside away from the habitations of man, as the turmoil
of cities would interrupt their meditations ; but they are at the
same time commanded to live together, to correct the foibles
and relieve the gloom of each other. ' A solitary lamp,' added
the chief, however brilliant, casteth a shadow beneath it—
' place another lamp in the apartment, and the darkness of both
is dissipated.'
" The priest changes his name on admission to the order,
to denote that he enters into a new state of life, and the hair
of his face and head (with exception to a small tuft on the
crown) is shaved close ; there are several barbers in the esta-
blishment, whose business is to perform this office ; they are
wealthy, and receive occasionally valuable presents. I heard
of a Charon, who, in a fit of liberality, presented five hundred
rupees to one of them. The only covering worn by the Sadh
is a cotton cloth, of coarse texture, seven feet and a half long,
with a small piece for a waist-band, and another for a percola-
ter, water being always strained before it is used for culinary
or other purposes, to guard against the destruction of animal-
culm. The sheet is coloured with Giru, a kind of red ochre,
emblematical of humility ; they add a second in the winter
season, and sometimes a third, when, if warmth be not ob-
tained, they throw off all clothing, to mortify feeling, dis-
daining, as they express it, to be overcome by the wintry ele-
ments. This sheet is brought over the head, and forms its
only covering ; but woollen cloth of similar dimensions is
sometimes substituted for cotton, in the cold months. They
all go bare-footed, and never ride on any description of ani-
mal or wheeled conveyance.
" A perpendicular mark of white clay, called Sirt, im-
printed on the forehead, is a distinguishing symbol of the sect,
denoting belief in the unity of God, and they have a rosary
of small beads used in prayer about their necks. Metal uten-
sils are proscribed. The Sadh drink from wooden goblets,
and eat off stone, china, and earthenware; the latter, it is well
known, are forbidden to orthodox Hindoos. They abstain from
animal food, and what is singular, considering the extraordinary
anxiety shown to provide for the safety of insects, partake of
nothing unsubdued by fire, fruits and vegetables not excepted.
They have no objection to touch the element, but refrain from
preparing their own food : thus, it should seem, however fear-
ful themselves to incur the deadly sin of robbing a creature of
life, they do not view the act in others with the same anti-
pathy. Even the most loathsome vermin are held sacred :
whenever a Ramsanehi kindles a light, he covers it with a
shade, and lamps are excluded from the temples, from an ap-
prehension they may lure insects to destruction. Influenced
by a similar feeling, the priests look on the ground before they
walk, and never move out of doors, except on very urgent
business, during four months in the year, or from the middle
of Asarh * to the middle of Kartik : the insect population
being most active in the wet months, they fear to crush them
under foot in passing through the rank vegetation, and, should
they be on a journey, halt, with reference to situation, till the
season is over."
* July, August, September, and October.

THE LONDON AND EDINBURGH PH
SOPHICAL MAGAZINE, No. 47.
Richard Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street.
In the present Number of this valuable journal, we
observe a paper by Mr. Schweitzer, on the frequent pre-
sence of lead in English chemical preparatious, which
claims the serious attention of chemists and medical men,
as well as that of the public in general. Various earthy
and alkali salts, constantly used in the healing art,
are stated often to contain above two parts in a
thousand of the corresponding salt of lead. This
impurity partly arises from the use of leaden ves-
sels in the manufacture of these salts ; but another and
perhaps, upon the whole, a more dangerous cause is
the action of various chemical re-agents upon the
common white glass, in which chemical and phar-

,
m aceutical preparations are generally kept, and 7hic !It
readily gives up to them a portion of the lead whichant
it
contains. Mr. Barlow's " Remarks on Lieuten
Lecount's Treatise on Iron Rails" is also a paper of
Te
great importance in reference to the useful Arts.
author demonstrates very clearly, and with great eod
humour, that Mr. Lecount's statements in his critique
on. Mr. B.'s Rail-road Reports are without founds'
Lion, and have proceeded from an entire and rather lu-
dicrous misunderstanding of the tables which he at-
tempted to criticise.

THE SPORTSMAN, AND VETERINARY
RECORDER.
This periodical improves apace. The present
Number is far superior to that which immediately pre-
ceded it ; and the Number for February was unques"
tionably better than the Number for December. We
can, therefore, with a safe conscience, recommend it to
all Sportsmen. The embellishments for this month are
three Pointers, grouped together from a design bY
Johnson. Several of the articles are full of archness!
and all display a most intimate acq field
uaintance with
sports.

THE CHRISTIAN REFORMER.
Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
This is an excellent`Number. The articles, though
not more ably written than usual, are more varus
io ni
their character, and will therefore afford more satisfac •
tion to the general reader. There is an ample and is
teresting account of Dissenting proceedings during
the last month, the most remarkable of which is the
withdrawment of the Presbyterians from the tvvo other
Dissenting Bodies—a transaction which the Record
a high Church Evangelical Newspaper, says reflects
great credit on the Piesbyterians, whatever it does on
their late associates.

THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE,
In addition to much agricultural matter of average
quality, contains a copious supply of letters, speeches'
plans, &c., relating to the Tithe Question, wich
now the engrossing topic among the proprietoh rs an
cultivators of land.

TRUE TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY'
AS RELATED BY THEMSELVES•

Tait, Edinburgh.
Ireland owes much to the patriotic exertions of
gri
Tait, in every cause connected with the maintenanc%
the civil and religious liberty of her people. -1%
seems to have made her the country of his adoptl°n;
and we are bound to acknowledge that few of her rn
take so much trouble to effect her regenerat'%;
Wherever there is an abuse, there Mr. Tait is to
e,
found labouring to expose and eradicate it. Thei:Phrea
sent publication is 'a selection by that acconlP,,s-or
writer, Mrs. Johnstgrid, from the report of the Oat
Law Commissioners,. with a view of making the
rent'
condition of the Irish poor known to every Persce,
in the United Kingdom. The cost is only sixPelied
and the profits resulting from the sale are to be aPriere
to purposes of charity connected with Ireland. tn,
is indeed an instance of pure, disinterested patriotis