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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(FROM LLOYD'S BOOKS OF JULY 16.)

LIVERPOOL, JULY 14.—Arrived the Elizabeth,
Punter, from La Guayra ; Ranger, Roberts, from
Savanilla ; Luna, Brown, from Quebec; Monarch,
Hodson, and Colombia, Jones, from Miramichi; and
Margaret, Garthan, from New Orleans.
BRISTOL, JULY 15.—Arrived the David, Dale,
from Quebec; and Louisa, Cernfutt, from Cadiz.
HOLYHEAD, JULY 15.—Arrived the Henry, Trite,
froM Charleston. •

GREENOCK, JULY 13.—Arrived the Janet, Leith,
from St. Vincent's ; Crown, Baird, from Charleston;
Cherub, Miller, from Montreal ; Rebecca, Laurie,
and Thames, Adams, from Quebec; Rankin, Wish-
art, and St. John, Nicholls, from St. John's, New
Brunswick; Helen, Gibbs, from Newfoundland;
and Paddy Carey, from Bay Chaleur.
SHIELDS, JULY 13.—Arrived the Sisters, Boul-
ton, from Stockton, with part of the cargo (wine) of
the wrecked ship Reward, from Oporto.
GRAVESEND, JULY 15.—Arrived the William,
Nazeby, from Medemblich ; Friends, Sparrow, from
Guernsey ; Flora, Klock, and Industrie, Capido,
from Rotterdam ; Helen Smith, from 'Riga; Earl
of Liverpool, Major, from Ostend ; Milton, Revely,
from Richebucto; AdMiral Windham, Pye, from
Hamburgh ; William, Davies, from antzic ; and
Bng George, James, from Giternser. Sailed the
ruze, Chappell, for Malta; Matchless, Starling,
for Smyrna; Eagle, Barnes, for Riga; Lucy David-
son, Wiseman, for New South Wales; King of the
Netherlands, Slater, for Rotterdam ; Anne, Drybo-
rough, for Oporto; Swallow, Artis, for Drontbeim ;
and Pearsons, Wood, for Hamburg.

BELFAST, JULY 13.—Arrived the Abeona, Rogers,
Earl of Aberdeen, Tom Bowling, and Hero, Wilson,
from Quebec; and Beginho, —, from St. Übes.
ABERDEEN, JULY 13.--Arrived the Herald,
Goldie, from Savannah; Quebec packet, —,
from Quebec; Brilliant, Barclay, from Quebec;
and James, Lamoden, from Jamaica.

FALMOUTH, JULY 14.—Arrived last evening, the
Spey packet from Carthagena and Jamaica—sailed
from Carthagena the 2d June, from Jamaica, the
10th, and Crooked Island the 20th. Passengers—
from Carthagena, five miners; Jamaica, Mr. M. So-
ferty, and Mr. Herbert, midshipman. The Skylark
packet arrived at Jamaica the 24th of May, and
sailed for Vera Cruz on the 25th. On the 3d of
July, in lat. 39. 10. N. long. 39. 20. W., the Spey
spoke the bark Charles, from Nevis, bound to Bris-
tol, out 18 days; and on the 12th, in lat. 49. 30.
N. long. 8. 32. W., the American brig Juliana,
bound to London. The Brazilian frigates Impe-
ratriz and Izabel, which have lain in this port for
some time past, will shortly proceed to Portsmouth,
from whence they are expected to sail for Rio de
Janeiro with a new Empress for Don Pedro.
ANTWERP, JULY -14.—The Chariot, from Ha-
vannah, ran on the banks of the Cloot, off Flushing,
but was expected to float at high water.
REVAL, JULY I.—The Captain Cooke, Armstrong,
from WybUrg, has been got off the Chalk Ground,
and arrived here full of water—she will be hove
down, discharged, and repaired.

The Faside, from St. John's, N. 8., is arrived in
the Clyde, as stated. •
VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—The Elizabeth, from
Quebec to Padstow, 26th ult., lat. 46. long. 46.—
Cambrian, from Liverpool to Pictou, 29th, lat. 46.
long. 42.—Lord Stewart, from Hamburg') to New-
foundland, 30th, lat. 46.—Charles, from Nevis to
Bristol, 3d inst., lat. 39. long. 39.—Royal Mail,
from Norway to the Mediterranean, 10th, lat. 51.
loag. 12.—John, from Charleston to Gothenhurgb,
out 50 days, short of water and provisions, and sup-
plied by the Quebec Packet, which arrived at Aber-
deen, 11th inst., from Quebec.

BENTHAMITES.

(From the Caledonian Mercury.)

The whole theory of Bentham and his followers
hinges upon a transposition. What preceding philo-
sophers have considered as a consequence merely, he
has chosen to denominate a cause. Utility, accord-
ing to him, is the basis or the essence of all that is
good in morals or in politics; in other words, nothing
can be good except what is useful; the latter is in
every case, the measure of the former, and that which
alone entitles it to its character and denomination.
Other philosophers, however, have thought diffe-
rently. According to them, there is no necessary
connexion between the honcstum and the utile; they
conceive of many things as good which are not ne-
cessarily useful ; but they cannot conceive of any thing
as really useful, without being in its own nature, and
independently altogether of this accessory and conse-
quent utility, essentially good. All that Bentham has
done, therefore, is to introduce a mere metathesis—to
put the cart as it were before the horse. Throwing every
abstract consideration out of view, he has attempted to
establish what he considers a practical rule, to which
every possible case must bend. He has taken the
principle of political economy, applicable chiefly to
material products, and extended it to mind and
every thing else besides. And in order to render
his rule determinate, he has referred to a test the
most indeterminate which it is possible for the wit
of man to devise. " The greatest happiness of the
greatest number" sounds well, notwithstanding the
pleonasm it involves; but we defy Bentham, Mill,
and all the rest of them, to produce two men, be-
yond the narrow circle of their own neophites and
disciples, who are agreed as to what constitutes
" the greatest happiness," or who are able fo at-
tach any definite meaning to these terms. The gene-
ral terms of the Nominalists are not a whit more
puzzling or more purely imaginative ; and yet we are
told that this is the discovery which is to go down to
posterity hand in hand with that of gravitation, and to
astonish after times by its magnificent and comprehen-
sive simplicity ! We do not deny that, within certain
limits strictly defined, the doctrine of utility is not
only admissible but true. In politics, for example,
and in all those sciences which have respect to the
condition of man in society, and to his external and
temporal well-being, it is the only standard to which
we can have recourse, because, in these cases, it
assumes a determinate form. Applied to morals
and to metaphysics, it is a mere phantom, which
may well serve to bewilder, but can never serve as
a guide,: and, with reference to the former espe-
cially, if it have any meaning at all, it just amounts
to a reproduction in a fresh disguise of the old,
odious, and exploded principle of pure selfishness,
so ingeniously expounded by Mandeville in the J!ablc
of the Bees, and so earnestly disclaimed by all those
who have since treated of theory of morals and the
true principle of moral obligation.

The typhus fever is now very prevalent i
Carlisle.— York Chronicle.

We have seen a letter, stating some particu-
lars of Count VILLA. notes voyage to Terceira, from
which it appears that it was attended with considerable
personal hazard. The Count embarked on board of a
small French vessel, in one of the northern ports of
France, as a private individual, but found the island on
his arrival too closely blockaded to allow him to enter„
He reconnoitred, therefore, at some distance, and 4,11 in
with a small smuggling vessel, which uwiertool: to land
him on an unfrep.uent4 Haft of the shore. This was for-
ttinately achieved, though with imminent risk of capture
by one of the blockading squadron. His proclamation, on
assuming the command of the garrison of Teyceira, has
already appeared,— Times.

FALLS OF NIAGARA.

(From Mactaggart's Three Years in Canada.)

This wonderful scene I visited in the evening
of the 19th of March, 1827, and for a couple of
,lays afterwards. I have brought to England
specimens of the rocky ledge over which the
great river descends : it is a crumbling blue lime-
stone. After severe frosts it is ever detaching

itself from the mass which flanks the falls, and
somewhat endangers the clambering beneath the
projecting brow in the thawing season. A
plumb-bob, let down from the limestone shelf at

the edge of the surface waters of the falls to the
rubbish of crumbled limestone below, was 111
feet ; and from whence to the still water below

the cauldron the difference of level is thirty-eight
feet ; which makes in all 149 feet ; and if the In-
verted curve of the cauldron, and convexity of
the descending cascade, with the variations
created by floods, be taken into account, I should
suspect that the great falls of Niagara, at a me-
dium, are the above-mentioned number of feet,

although my friends the Americans will have it
fiveleet less. The weather was bitterly cold ;
iny fingers would not do. their duty to work my
instruments, or I should have settled this dispute
to half an inch. Poets see these falls with diffe-
rent eyes from other people ; mathematics must
be looked to in giving their real dimensions. I
went full fifty yards beneath the falls, between
the waters and the limestone ledges over which
they roll. These enormous falls are evidently
working up stream, as the banks of the river be-
neath them have every appearance to prove that
they have been acted upon, in times gone by, in
the same way as those at present are which are
influenced by the cataract. It also seems clear
to me that, if they do thus back up stream, they
must increase in height, as the present rapids be-
tween them and Lake Erie make up a height of
near 63 feet ; consequently, when the fall begins
to affect the smooth bosom of the lake, they will
then be 212 feet in height—a circumstance not
likely to take place for 3,000 years to come ;
and when this comes to pass the falls will begin,
of course, to decrease in height, Lake Erie to
shallow, and the rapids of St. Clair to increase in
velocity. In course of time, then, Lake Erie will
become annihilated, resolving itself into a part of
the river Niagara ; while the great falls will probably
change their ancient name to that of St. Clair. From
this train of reasoning, then, we may infer that, if
the world holds out to a great age, beyond the
reach of numeration, the falls will ultimately ar-
rive at St. Mary's, so that science may prophesy
that the wonderful lakes of Canada may dwindle
into the channel of a river, and the roaring of
the huge waterfall be heard no more. The
Americans make a great boast of having pro-
posed the daring plan of tapping lake Erie, as
they say, to feed their great canal ; but, if the
time arrives when the falls of Niagara shall work
back in their.horse-shoe mode so as to affect the
level of the lake, the water in their canal will
likewise become affected, and as the lake keeps
sinking they must keep reconstructing, until they
find themselves baffled to tap lake Erie. Their
engineers then will not think of changing the
course of the St. Lawrence—a thought which

they indulged in until they lately found it would
return to lake Ontario by the vale, I suspect, of
the Tanawanta ; they may, however, continue
to tap the Michigan, and even lake Superior, if
they have a mind. The reason why all water-
falls grind down their channels in a horse-shoe
form seems quite obvious ; in the middle of all
rapidly-running rivers, generally speaking, the
water is deepest ; consequently, when it has to
roll with fury over a perpendicular ledge of rock,
the edges of that ledge will be ground away in
proportion to the mass of waters that are thun-
dering over it, and, there being more at the
middle than there is towards the sides, the ledge
of lock in the middle, grinds faster than the rest,
and so the horse-shoe figure is formed. With re-
spect to the noise of the falls of Niagara I
have said somewhere that it is not deafen-
ing, nor is it disagreeable ; yet, however diffi-
cult to explain, it is not a dashing roar, like
that which a stormy ocean emits by its surges
on a rocky shore ; nor is it all of a thun-
dery nature, as when electric clouds battle over-
head in the sky. Could I compile it to any
thing but itself that I have ever heard I would
say that if a quantity of large round stones, of
from two to four tons each, were tumbled from a
huge precipice into waters of profound depth,
and this hurling trade continued for a time, we
should hear something like the awful and hollow
plunging voice of the falls. According to the
state of the atmosphere so is their noise carried.
When the weather has been frosty for a time,
and a thaw about to ensue, the sound then ex-
tends to the greatest distance ; which sound,
have been told, has been heard at York, the capi-
tal of Upper Canada, which must be upwards of
1 fifty miles from the falls in A straight line; and,
what is a little curious, when the sound is at its
loudest, it is heard to the greatest advantage (that
is to say, on its highest key) about twelve or
fifteen miles from the falls. In soft thawing
weather the sound is hardly heard at the visiting
hotel, situate on the rising ground beside them.
It is quite confined to, the dreadful gulf in which
it is engendered. In frosty weather, too, the
smoke-spray rises from them in the greatest
clouds, and hence may be seen at the farthest dis-
tance off, As to their paver of suction in
dragging birds of the air into floc vortex it is not
a very correct opinion. I think a healthy bird
might fly across the falls with the greatest safety,
even within a few inches of the surfßeq; hut woe
ley ca4uygrahtohrey. theilrertearaiscta;
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tattvool eminy eirr theyeer certainly i
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wthhiso. caTmieleotdrearngtehte falls
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not seem to arise front the percussiion of the
waters,ad
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being
the
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beneath frothg
beneath the triter by the force of the current.—
There were
eight rAftsmen once came over the
falls of Chaudiere, Ottawa river, which are
about thirty feet high. They were all drowned,
but one, and he complained more aY the froth,
that had almost suffocated hix, than of any
thing else.

CHANNELS OF TRADE.—ENGLANA AND,
Fan NCE. —England possesses 30,000 milea of roads, nearly.
4,000 miles of canals, and above 300 miles of railways ;
whereas the territory of France, which is more than twice,
as extensive, does not afford above 45,000 miles of roach,
1,500 miles of canals, and 114 miles of railways, of which
latter seventy-eight are still in a Comae of C011304:00..
Athena-uni,

A coroner (in Latin coronator a corona),
so called because he acts wholly for the King
as chief magistrate of the common-wealth, is
an ancient officer of the realm, of whom mention
is made so early as the year 925, in the charter
of King Athelston of Beverley. It was requi-
site, formerly, that a coroner should be the
wisest and discretest knight that best would and
might perform the prescribed duties ; and there
is a writ in existence, whence it appears to have
been good cause for removing a coroner chosen,
that he was not a knight, and had not a hundred
shillings rent of freehold. He is required by
law to be a man of good ability, with lands in
fee, of the county where chosen, to answer all
people, and if insufficient the county to answer
for him. He is chosen of the freeholders by
writ, and, from the nature of his office, this right
of choice, though little esteemed in the present
day, is of the highest importance. There are
commonly four coroners in each county.

The Ace of coroner is for life, and his duties
are ministerial and judicial. Ministerially he
executes the King's writs, when the sheriff is
excepted to, or party to a suit ; and when the
shrievalty is vacant, writs arc directed to the
coroner. Judicially he takes inquisition by 12.
men or more which next pass by, on persons slain
or suddenly dying; or by his warrant to the con-
stables to summon a like jury ofthe neighbourhood.
He issues his warrant for witnesses, takes their exa-
minations in writing upon oath, and if a majority.
of his inquest men sign an inquisition declaring a
certain person guilty of the death, he commits
the offender to prison if present, or issues a
warrant for his apprehension, and binds the wit-
nesses by recognizance to appear at the next,
assizes. He enrols and returns the inquisition
with the verdict of murder, or manslaughter, or
as it may be, to the Justices of the next gaol de-'
livery ; or certifies it into the Court of King's
Bench, and thereon the criminals are put upon'
their trial. If witnesses die before trial, their.
depositions before the coroner are to be received'
as evidence. He has no authority to take an,'
inquisition without a view of the body. If it be
buried so long that nothing can be discovered.
from the view, the inquiry must be by justices
of the peace on testimony of witnesses ; and none
can take an inquisition on view but the coroner.'
Hence if a body be drowned and not found, the.
justices, and not coroners, are to inquire. A
coroner must take inquisitions himself, and not
by deputy ; an inquisition, by deputy is void.
The coroner and his inquest constitute an open
Court, wherein proclamation is made for all
persons present, having knowledge of the death,
to come forth and give evidence. Sir Thomas
Smith says, that the empanelling of the coroner's
inquest, the view of the body, and the giving of
the verdict, is commonly in the street in an open
place. Of so high authority is this institution,
that on suspicion of an improper verdict by a
jury, the coroner may raise the body, and inquire
by his inquest touching the death of the de-
ceased. The taking of an inquisition in a
close room is a violation of the common law.
It is also a coroner's duty to hold inquests
concerning treasure hidden under ground. By
a statute, in the reign of Edward 111., coroners
were not to demand or take any thing for doing
their office, which only confirmed the ancient
law of England, whereby any one concerned in
the administration of justice is restrained from
taking any fee or reward for its execution. But
by an act of Henry VII., reciting that the office
of coroner had grown into disuse, whereby man-
slaying and. murder had increased, the coroner
was awarded 13s. 4d. upon every inquisition,
and fined 51, for default of making inquisition
and certifying. An act of George 11. allows
the coroner 20s. for every inquisition over and
above the 13s. 4d. and 9d. for every mile that he
shall be obliged to travel. The coroner's in-
quest is familiarly termed " sitting on the
body ;" and so Shakspeare has it in Twelfth
Night, on occasion of Sir Toby's drunkenness :
" Olivia.—What's a drunken man like, fool

Clown.—Like a drowned man, a fool, and
a madman : one draught above heat makes him
a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns

him.

" Olivia.—Go thou and seek the coroner,
and let hin: sit o' my cox; for he's in the third
degree of drink—he's drown'd."

—And so in Hamlet, the Clowns tllat dig
Ophelia's grave discourse thus :—,
2d Clown.—The crotuner hath sat on her,
and finds it Christian burial."

After a rustical roundelay of reasoning upon
the finding, comes a legal conclusion :
" 2d Clown—But is this law ?
Ist Clown—Ay marry, is't ; crcwner's
quest law."

To the present day the Coroner is popular
among the vulgar as to the " crowner."
___,

Tlie Lord Chief Justice of England is the
sovereign coroner of the whole realm, in person,
wheresoever he abides.

The coroner of the Verge, sometimes called
coroner of the King's house, or household, has
exclusive jurisdiction within the verge of the
Court. By a statute, 33 Henry VIII., every
inquisition on persons slain in any of the King's
palaces or houses, or any other house wherein
his Majesty shall be abiding, is directed to be
taken by the coroner of the King's household, by
the oaths of 12 or more of the yeomen-officers
of the household. But on the Ist June, 1810,
an inquisition was taken by Samuel Thomas
Adams, Esq., coroner of the King's household,
on view of the body of Joseph Sellis, at th.e
apartments of the Duke of Cumberland, :ii the
Kitchen-court, St. James, and none of the jury
summoned were officers of the household, but
housekeepers of the vicinage, 18 being resident
at Charing-cross, and one in St. Martin's-lane.

TherQ are likewise coroners belonging to par-
tiettlar corporations and colleges, appointed to
act within their precincts, by licence of their re-
spective charters.

The Coroner of the City of London is the
Lord Mayox for the time being, or hi deputy.
He takes inquisition of death, as other Coroners,
and also concerning found tr;.,asure, deodands,
And wrecks at sea. The deputy's gratuity for
performing the duties Qi City Coroner appears
to be, according to the pleasure of the Court of
Common Conn,cil, In March, 1751, the court,
consideNd. the petition of John King, Esq.,
coroner of the city, and resolved to allow him
1004, in full consideration for his several in-
quests in the city gaols, and 13s. 4d, for every
future one,

tho Mirronr of Justices, a law book of
great antiquity, edited and largely added to by
Andrew Horne, an ancient Chamberlain of Lon-
don, coroners are spoken of under the reign of
Alfred ; hut there is ground for presuming that
they existed even earlier. The coroner is pecu-
liar to England, for there is no trace of such' an
officer in the jurisprudence of any other country.

ST. PETERSBURGH, APRIL, 1829.

The Casan Church is a correct imitation of
the Cathedral of St. Peter's, at Rome, and as
such is necessarily a most superb structure, but it
does not "show off" well. The Vatican, the aci sp -
ous area in front, and the fountains are wanting,
and a different style of building would have
harmonised better with the architecture in the
immediate vicinity. In consequence of some
superstitious observations connected with the
history of this Cathedral, it still remains in an
unfinished state, and in the portico, most screened
from public view, the capitals of most of the
columns are merely roughly shaped, and so they
are destined to remain till a more enlightened
age puts a finishing stroke to the noblest Church
in the Russian empire. The interior of the
Casan is not so striking, it has all the gloom
without the painted windows and the light orna-
ments of the Gothic architecture, and entirely
wants the space and majesty of the Grecian ; it
appears, in short, like a hall of exhibition for
the numerous colossal pillars which support the
roof; these columns appear unnecessarily numer-
ous, are badly placed, and engross a consider-
able part of the Church ; each column consists
of one piece of porphyry granite, about thirty-
five feet high and five in diameter ; the bases are
brass and the capitals, which are Corinthian, are
most richly gilt ; the decorations throughout are
superb, the cornices and entablatures are also
gilt, and the dome is painted. In this Church
are deposited the trophies taken from the French
in the last war, as well as a number of Persian,
Turkish, and Polish standards. Amongst the
French trophies I remarked a Field Marshal's
baton, preserved in a glass case; suspended to the
columns are likewise the keys of the cities which
have at different periods surrendered to the
Russian arms. Another object of attraction is the
tomb of Kutusoff, before which a lamp is kept
constantly burning. One Sunday morning dur-
ing Lent I went to the Cathedral, but the doors
were closed, there was a considerable crowd
eagerly waiting for admission, and a detach-
ment of the police to keep order. In a short time
an ecclesiastic in pontificals (I believe the 'Me-
tropolitan) arrived in a coach and six, but not-
withstanding the appearance of so great a per-
sonage, the doors continued closed for a consi-
derable length of time after, so long, that my
patience was exhausted, and I deferred my visit
to the afternoon, when I procured admission. I
cannot say that the congregation was either
numerous or respectable ; in the Greek Churches
there are no pews as in Protestant, and no chairs
as in Catholic places of worship, the congrega-
tion were standing in a dense mass in front of
an open space railed off by a silver balustrade,
like the place where the communion service is
celebrated in English churches; though there was
no altar there was evidently a sacred spot, but
not so sacred as the " sanclum sandontin," from
which it was separated by a screen covered with
exquisite paintings and the richest gilding; in
the centre of the screen is a folding door, on the
pannele of which are six paintings, which are
perfect gems. As yet no priest had appeared, and
though the congregation were evidently waiting
in anxious suspense for the commencement of
the service, still their thoughts were not unem-
ployed, as the repeated borings and crossings
without any visible cause would induce a specta-
tor to believe they were engaged in private devo-
tions; all was profound silence and attention, when
an elegantly dressed lady entered the space I
have already described, and approaching a pic-
ture of the Virgin, commenced a series of
prostrations that I never saw equalled, ex-
cept in a convent of " Howling Dervishes,"
at Scutari, near Constantinople. When her devo-
tions to her favourite saint were concluded, she
lighted a small wax candle, and placed it on a
stand appropriated for offerings of this descrip-
tion; there were other ladies whose devotions as-
sumed a prominent character in different parts of
the cathedral, and amongst the objects of pecu-
liar veneration was a lamb, fixed to one of the
pillars, and intended to represent the Virgin
Mary. Whether from the antiquity of the paint-
ing, or the intention of the artist, I know not,
but the countenance of the Virgin was nearly as
dark as the face of the same saint, adored in some
Catholic countries under the name and title of
" Notre Dame de Montserrat," who in Spain
is described as a Negress. Notwithstanding the
examples of female devotion I have just alluded
to, it is a fact worthy of observation, that in all
the Greek churches I have yet seen, the men
formed unquestionably the majority of the con-
gregation, whilst in Catholic countries it has
justly been remarked that the females predo-
minate. The service at length commenced, and
was prefaced by the withdrawing of a curtain be-
hind the door of the screen which then appeared
partially transparent ; this movement, I presume,
was merely a signal, as the interior of the
sanctum sanctorum" still continued invisible,
but the moment the curtain was withdrawn, the
choristers within commenced a series of the most
melodious, the most thrilling symphonies, I ever
heard. My attention was rivetted to the spot, and
the effect was by no means diminished by the
circumstance of the performers being invisible.
The service appeared to consist of a litany, the
sentences of which were chanted at short inter-
vals, at the commencement of each sentence the
whole congregation bowed and crossed them-
selves. At length the door was opened, and
the very "penetralia" of the temple displayed to
the public view. I remarked nothing more than
a few priests in the most gorgeous pontificals, a
colossal picture of the Virgin, and a table covered
with gilt crosses, models of churches, and other
items, which reminded me not a little of the ap-
paratus with which the table of a respectable
conjuror is furnished—(the members of the
Greek Church must pardon the profaneness of
the allusion.)
The Greeks, I am aware, have not the same
faith in the doctrine of Transubstantion, which
forms the principal feature in the Catholic com-
munion. Still great mystery is affected, and the
place " within the veil," unimportant as it may
appear to the eye of a common observer, is ne-
vertheless the " Caiba" of the Greek Church,
the point to which the attention of all is at-
tracted, and which is never approached but with
feelings of the most profound veneration. Jn
the Greek Church there is no instrumental
music, nor are there a variety of altars, as are
seen in every corner of the large Catholic
Churches, so that the body of the cathedral, like
St. Paul's, is considered more as a depository
for national trophies and monuments, than a
place of religious worship ; and during service
the public may walk round without any moles,
tation whatever.

We understand that the fly, which created so
mach devastation last year among the wheat crop, has
again made its appearance, and is likely, especially in the
Carse of Gowrie, to produce the same disastrous come-
gnences.—Strathniore Journal.