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London, England, 1827-07-27 00:00:00

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ashes, or ghastly mitraniessApt.- rimer thaw not
to be, would fl----11 in .Allo cold obstruction of
the grave, or the damp hollow solitude of the
charnel-house. Some choose a life in other's.
breath, an everlasting fame, and listen delighted
to the imaginary voice of unborn ages. Some
secure a permanence in their works, their coun-
try, their posterity ; and yet, neither the pro-
tracted dissolution of the carcase, nor the cease-,
less tradition of renown, nor a line of progeny
stretched to the crack of doom, can add an in-
stant of the brief existence of the conscious
Being. Our fathers held a. more palpable
phantom—a dream of grosier substance—that
I the soul, the self, the personal identity, only
shifted its tenement, and subsisted by perpetual

change. •
Et vos barbaricos rims, moremque sinistrunt •
Sacrorum, Druids, posit's repetistis ab annis.
Solis.nosse Deos et cceli numina vobis,
Aut solis nescire, datum : nemora alta nowt:
Incolitis luci; vobis auctoribus umbra*
Non tacitas Erebi seder, Ditisque profundi
Panide regna petunt : regit idem spiriths arms
Orbe alio ; lunge (canitis si cognita) v;r,e
Mors media est. Certe populi, quos depicit Arctos
Felices errore suo, quos, ille timorum
Maximus, baud urget, Leti metue. Inde fier&
In ferrum mans prone viris, anirnseque capaces
Mortis; et ignavum reditiirse parcere
Luc.tx, B. I. •

It is not strictly philosophical, however, to ac-
count for the national temperament by the
national creed, unlesa that creed be really the re-
vealed truth. It is putting an effect for a cause.
We cannot suppose that the Goths became a
hunting, -warlike, and drunken people, because
they imagined their beatitude'liereafter to consist
in chasing an everlastingly revivified boar, and
drinking ale, in the Hall of Odin, out of the
skulls of tlttkiT *ponies. No ; they copied a
heaven from their earthly. Tiffanies -and desires.
The paradise of human inventions is never more
than an imaginary eternity of unalloyed human
pleasures, varied according to the taste of the in-
ventor. Virgil's Elysium is filled with warriors,
poets, and lawgivers,—each reacting, in glorified
semblance, their old parts beneath that purer
sky. Plato's conceptions of a future state mani-
festly emanated from that visionary ambition of
intellect—those yearning aspirations after a closer
intuition of the ideal Good and Beautiful, that
our compound being can enjoy,—which illumi-
nated and sublimed his ;nighty genius to the
very verge of inspiration. Thus, the philosopher's
Elysium is speculative—the politician's practical
—the labourer looks for rest—the injured for
vengeance—the prisoner for freedom. The Goth
transferred his drinking bout, the Mahometan
his Haram, to the skies. Thus each and all
build up a Heaven with the shadows of carnal
affections, or the brighter effulgence of self-
pleasing thought. A period comes, Rhen some
wily politician, or more vivid dreamer, substan..
dates the dim surmises of the longing soul into
a scheme of national belief, and asserts impera-
tively, that the forms indistinctly beheld in the
magic mirror have a correspondent reality in time
and place—an objective existence. The fleeting
vapours of passionate imagination are condensed,
and, as it were, precipitated. They become a
power separate from the mind—controlling the
will, and modifying the total nature. Whatever
of permanent and positive, is infused into human
sentiments; is derived from Religion, whose office
is to establish a supersensual world, as real, and
more permanent, than the-world of sense.
THE OLD BACHELOR,

lu. an affray between man and wife, near
Carrick-on-Suir, last Wednesday, it is said the former
wounded the latter by a ball in the thigh ; and the latter
retaliated on the forma' by chopping his nose with a kuiie.
—Uvulae/ Paper.
ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES.-On Wed-
nsday afternoon, an accident happened on the Thames
which luckily was not attended by any serious consequen-
ces. As a boat, freighted with two elegantly-dressed fe-
males, was passing near Cumberland-gardens, the boatman
ran foul of a barge, when the boat immediately upset, and
its fair. inmates were precipitated into the water, and car-
ried some distance by the rapidity of the tide. There were
luckily, several boats passing at the time, and every assis-
tance was rendered. The ladies were rescued from a wa-
tery grave, witli no other injury than what their silk
dresses had sustained. They walked to their habitations
which fortunately were in the neighbourhood.

A melancholy and distressing accident oc-
curred on Saturday, on the journey of the Cornwallis
coach to London, in passing Epping Forest. A respect-
able tradesman of Bury was- conveying two boys, who had
been in the country during the holidays, to town, and
fearing a change in the weather, put the youngest (aa'aaaa
seven years of age), who had no great coat, in the iailde of
the roach, himself remaining with the other on t"ae top.—
It is supposed that the boy must have been leaning against
the door, and that it flew open ; for being soon missed, his
body was taken up lifeless, and dreadildly mangled, from
the wheel having passed over Herald.
SUDDEN DEATII;-7-,-011 Monday evening
last, a gentleman named Opearce, a resident
.at Sutton-
Valence, set out from that place on foot to go to Langley.
a village about two miles from Sutton, to attend the anni-
versary of the opening of the Wesleyan chapel there.—
After walking some distance, Mr. Opearce felt unwell, and
sat down in Langley church-yard. Observing two yonna
men passing in a cart, he beckoned to them, on whirrs
they alighted and went to his assistance. They found
him,too ill to walk, and accordingly placed the sufferer in
their cart, and took him to the house of the Rev. Mr,
Gambier, who paid every attention to the unfortunate
gentleman, and administered some medicine in the hope
of affording relief. He was again placed in the cart, and
proceeded slowly towards home, but Mr. Opearca expired
in the arms of one of the young men, a few niinutes before
they arrived at Sutton.—Maidstone Journal.
An inquest was held at the sign of the Welling-
ton, in the Albany-road, Camberwell, before H. Carter,
Esq., on the body of a fine young woman, named Ellen Logan
who committed suicide by throwing herself into the Sur-
rey Canal. During the investigation before the jury, cir-
cumstances were related, by which it appeared there was
considerable blame attached to the individual who prevailed
upon the unfortunate deceased to accompany him to a
brothel. It was intimated to the Coroner, that the peraon
alluded to had induced her to drink until she became in,
toxicated, and while in that state led her off to the house
where they remained all night. The next morning she be-
trayed much anxiety of mind in consequence of what had
occurred, and in order to pacify her, he declared that he ,
would procure a licence for their marriage. The deceased,
on finding she had been deceived, received such a shock,
that she became delirious, and while in that state, destroyed
herself under the circumstances above stated. A verdict to
that effect was taken.
SHERIFF CRINIINAL COURT.—On Satur-
day James Aitken, one of the actors of the Caledonian
Theatre, was brought to trial before the Sheriff and a Jury,
on a charge of assaulting W. D. M'Alpine, a
theb effusionrotherco-
median, of grievously injuring his person, to
of his blood and danger of his life, and of having deprived
him of the sight of one of his eyes. The assault was said
to have been made on the 27th March last, in the Caledo-
nian Theatre. Aitken pleaded not guilty. It appeared
from the evidence, that on the night in question, both par-
ties were on the stage performing their respective parts, in
the afterpiece of The Night Hap, and that some part of
the equivoque used by Mr. Aitken in the first scene, which
was not in the beak, gave offence to M'Alpine, who,
' throughout the evening repeatedly resented it, by using
abiniive language to Aitken, and provoking or challenging
him to fight ; that at last the partial did come to blows,
and M'Alpine lost .one of his eves in the ecuffle. The
Learned Sheriff, in summing up the evidence, a detail of
which would neither be interesting nor edifying to our
readers, said it had been stated by the pannel's Counsc',
that if a verdict of guilty was found in this case, it might
he the foundation for aia action of damages in a Civil Court.
Now he (time Sheriff) was of opinion, that a person prose-
cuting for damages must come into Court with clean hands,
and he believed M'Alpine could not appear in this way.
The Jury retired for a few minutes, and returned a an.a.
sore verdict, unanimously finding the pannel Not Gltiltif,,
who was in consequence dismissed from the bar:—Edin-
Intry4 Observer.