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lake. Its waters are perfectly fresh, free from hippo'
potami and crocodiles, and abounding in fish and waW.T
fowls." It is singular that a vast inland sea like this,
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which exceeds lake Tschad in extent, should have been
so long unvisited by Europeans. Till very recently they
do not seem even to have heard of its existence. This
Review will amply repay an attentive perusal, for
it
has been drawn up from authentic documents, trans-
mitted to the writer by an intelligent Arab, a native of
Zanzibar, who has himself trodden the routes vAtich
he describes.

" Mrs. Butler's American Journal" lauds this lady
to the skies. In this, as in the notice of " Captain
Ross's Voyage" it is amusing to see the Edinburgh
and Quarterly at such direct variance with each other.
The former is astonished at Mrs. Butler's abuse of
transatlantic manners. The latter is delighted with
her panegyric upon them. In the case of Captain
Ross, the difference between the two Reviewers is still
more marked. The one considers him little better than
a quack, and that his Discoveries are of no moment
the other, that he is an able navigator, who has con-
ferred the greatest benefits on science. The one, in
short, is an uncompromising advocate of the claims of
Captain Parry ; the other as uncompromising an ad-
vocate of those of Captain Ross. " Who shall decide
when Doctors disagree ?"
" Montgomery's Poems" is a kindly and sagacious
notice of the works of the bard of Sheffield. As this
gentleman has been thrown, somewhat undeservedly,
into the shade lately—notwithstanding the acknow-
ledged excellence of his " Wanderer of Switzerland,"
and "World before the Flood,"—it is but fit that his
claims to the notice of posterity should be duly in-
sisted on. He is not a man to be read one day and
forgotten the next. The broad impress of durability
is on every thing he has written—more particularly on
his lyrics, which have all the energy and high polish
of Campbell. We subjoin one of them :

" The flash at midnight !—'twas a light
That gave the blind a moment's sight,
Then sunk in tenfold gloom ;
Loud, deep, and long the thunder broke,
The deaf ear instantly awoke,
Then closed as in the tomb :
An angel might have passed my bed,
Sounded the trump of God, and fled.
•
" So life appears ;—a sudden birth,
A glance revealing heaven and earth,
It is and it is not !
So fame the poet's hope deceives,
Who sings for after times, and leaves
A name—to be forgot:
Life is a lightning-flash of breath,
Fame but a thunder-clap at death."

This little brilliant of the first water would read ad-
mirably, even in translation, because it is the poetry of
thought, not of mere expression. Nothing can be
more simple than the language. Nothing more solemn
or imposing than the ideas. The lines marked ill
Italics strike us as being eminently beautiful, particu-
larly the epigrammatic but solemn close, which reminds
us of the style of some of the best passages in the
" Night Thoughts."

Of the remaining articles in the Number we have left
ourselves no space to speak in detail. 'We must,
therefore, content ourselves with saying, that the
Paper on the " Irish Church" is penned in a very li-
beral and conciliatory spirit ; and that The Philo-
sophy of Manufactures" shows a thorough practical
acquaintance with the subject.

THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY, AS
DESIGNED BY GOD.
_London : Effingham Wilson. 1835.
This is one of the oddest and most whimsical com-
pilations, in the shape of an octavo volume, that we
have ever met with. With the exception of the design
there is little original in it, as it is a compilation from
the writings of authors of every age, country, and
creed, explanatory of their views, opinions, and senti-
ments on all subjects bearing upon the physical, moral,
and social condition of mankind. The author is to,
the work what the thread is to a string of beads—the
connecting principle. In its arrangement it is divided into
three parts. The first regards Association, and enters
into a long investigation of the various modes of so-
cial, religious, and political intercourse. The author's
standard throughout is the law of God as revealed in
the Scriptures, and by this he determines the relative
appropriateness of each system of social government-
The second part treats of Human Laws. Under this
head is arranged Lawful and Unlawful Constitutions,
with the modes of susperseding the latter ; Rights of
Nations ; Rights of Women ; Titles of Honour ; Nx"
tional Churches ; and a Comparison between the Hebrew
and the British Constitutions. The third part explains
the nature of the various States of Society alluded
to in the Bible ; and concludes with the development
of a new social system which the author modestly de-
nominates a " Heavenly Association," of which all
men are invited to become members. This Asso-
ciation is to consist of a pure democracy ; the author
being convinced that such a form of Government is
only in perfect unison with the will of God, and best
adapted to the wants of man. There is no lack of lamen-
tations for the sins and wickedness of the people ; and
never before did we see such a goodly array of piety
and republicanism in one volume. Of course the
iniquity of Great Britain, bestridden as she is by
by a King, a hereditary Peerage, and an Established
Church, falls not far short of the heinous wickedness
of Sodom, and the cities of Tyre and Sidon, when the
vial of Heaven's wrath was poured out upon them, and
they sunk to rise no more.
With much that is old womanish, more that may
be mischievous, and much more that is ridiculous---*
this work contains many excellent, although hovel
suggestions ; and is altogether well deserving of regard
as a literary curiosity. It is inscribed to the Kings
and the Members of the two Houses of Parliament ;
although, we believe, without any expectation on the
Author's part of obtaining through it the honour
of an appointment at Court. We warn the author
to take care how he exposes himself to the vengeance
of the ladies. They will prove his most dangerous
foes ; for, after his most unceremonious deposition of
them from all plaCes of power, it is not to be ex-
pected that they will suffer him to enjoy his triumph
with impunity. In good sooth he has wronged them ;
and we shall henceforth acknowledge ourselves igno-
rant of the sex if it do not vindicate its privileges.

GREEN'S ASCENT.—Yesterday, Mr. Green cool"
pleted his 200th aerial voyage, by ascending from the Surrey
Zoological Gardens ; it being also the anniversary of his 614
ascent in the year 1821, at the Coronation of George the
Fourth. Notwithstanding the various vicissitudes he has
met with in these excursions, by air and sea, the voyage
of yesterday is without a parallel, he having remained
in the air one hour and three quarters and only reached
the distance of Greenwich Park, where he descended
at a quarter past eight o'clock. He describes the as,
cent as one of the finest and most magnificent he ever
made. On leaving the earth, the balloon rose to the
height of about three thousand feet ; when, not finding ae),(l
current to carry him an horizontal direction, he passe
through the clouds, when the intense heat of the sun's rays
acting on the balloon caused it to rise with the rapidity of ca
rocket. After an absence of half an hour he again passe
through the clouds, and became visible to the metropolis, 85
be describes, exactly over the same spot he had left. Ha deb
in vain tried to find a current to cross the river, he &seem°,
in a favourable part of Greenwich Park, amidst a dense crow.'
of persons, from whom he experienced some difficulty in ex-
tricating himself and the balloon, who in their desire to render
him assistance were wrapping him up in the numerous folds et
the silk. He arrived at the gardens about half-past tens
amidst the cheers of the multitude. The ascent is to be re-
peated to-morrow.
At the Salisbury Sessions, last week, Arthur Ed',
wardes was tried for breaking open and robbing the box.
Ann Harwood. On entering the witness box the prosecutr:t
gave the prisoner her hand, which bo shook most cordially, 1::
having given her evidence the prisoner was acquitted...Jai'
bury Guardian