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London, England, 1830-09-20 00:00:00

TIM AFPINITIES OF LANGUAGES.

Since the publication of the ArTiT,7x—i the Affinities of Languages.
in the last Numbet of the Eefenburgli Review, we have read, in the
Bulletin des Sciences Magallanes, an egotism of an Beni stir les
ewe, lairs storms de oessiater les Affinities des Longues Orientates,
by Baron W. de Humboldt ; in which we observe that some of the
more important principles, unfolded in that paper, as constituting the
grounowork or basis of a philosophical investigation into the affinities
of languages, have aintemporancously suggested themselves to the
mind of this celebrated scholar, and received the sanction of an autho-
rity which ranks so deservedly high in all questions connected with the
science of philology. Such a coincidence of views may peshaps be re-
garded as equally tortunate and satisfactory ; inasmuch as the circum-
stance of two different and independent inquirers arriving at subsea-
Italie the same results, seems of itself to afford prima facie evidence of
the suundness of the principles upon which both have proceeded, and to
wart,lnt a presumption at least in favour of the general contusions to
u'ticit their speculations have conducted them.
Peruadcd that India was the cradle of the sciences and arts, M. de
Humboldt thinks that it would be of the greatest importance to deter-
whether &suede was originally a native of that country, or.
wit ;her, as some of the learned have been led to imagine, it was intro.
duce it into India as a foreign language. Our own opinion, we confess,
lt.CliflC% strongly in favour of the latter supposition ; and there are many
eirceinstances in the history and structure of this celebrated Language
itself. as well at in the civil and religious institutions of India, with
which it is intimately connected, that appear to us to render its foreign
()rigid highly probable, if not to place it altogether beyond the possi-
Hay of doubt. But supposing this point completely established,
another question would immediately arise, namely, whence was the
sacred language of India originally derived, and to what elm:onetime
or events are we to ascribe its primary introduction into that country ?
• de Humboldt, whose object it is merely to point out the course
or channel of investigation which ought to be pursued, offers no
solution of this question; and, indeed, in the present state of our
knowledge, it may be regarded as insoluble; because, in reality,
we are as yet furnished with no correct or unch data
from which any safe or sound conclusion can be dedu At the
same time, if it were allowable to hasard a conjecture on such a subject,
we should be inclined to think that the religion of Brahma, and the
sacred language to which its mysteries have been consigned, are both of
Egyptian origin, and date from the era of the expedition of fiesostris.—
It is of course impossible, within the limited compass of such a nodes
as the present, to unfold the grounds upon which this conjecture rests,
hut we may observe en passant, that the unity and universality et the
Brahminical religion in India seem to warrant the inference of its having
been originally established by conquest; that this religion or superstition
beam an obvious analogy in
oalriliaLiarts, and a striking resemblance in
some of them, to that which y prevailed in soden Egypt ; that,
consequently, the one must el have been derived from the other, or
both must bave emanated from a common source t that history, bow-
ever, supplies us with no evidence of the existence of any nation more
ancient than the Egyptians and Indians, or so much as furnishes a hint
to warrant such a supposition ; that the annals of Egypt extend
to a period more remote, or, in other words, reach a higher anti-
quity than thane of India% that in reality there is no event in
Indian history, and no fact in Indian science, which can
be traced to an earlier date than that of the expedition
of Sesostris r—that, supposing the Brahminical religion to have been
introduced into India by conquest, (an opinion for which many strong
reasons may be assigned,) there is no event in ancient history which an-
swers all the conditions of the questions, except the invasion of Sews-
tris ;—that the great Egyptian conqueror entered India by the south,
and penetrated north-westward to the Punjab and the Indus, ensued the
country of the five rivers, ascended the table-land of Central Asia, and,
keeping a northerly direction along the Caspian, and Caucasus, returned
to Egypt, after an absence of more than thirty years, by Thrace and
Asia Minor ;--that along the whole of this route distinct traces of
one original language, affiliated to thetianscrit, may still be found ; and
that the coincidences are so numerous and striking as to render it
difficult to avoid ascribing to the memorable expedition of the
Egyptian conqueror, (which was successful throughout,) the origin of
those resemblances which all inquirers have observed, and which
none has hitherto been able to explain. But, whatever force there
may be In the circumstances and considerations now stated, or whether
there be any at all, let it not be forgotten that they are suggested, not as
the basis of a theory, but merely to give some countenance to a conjec-
ture which, as there are some probabilities in its favour, may not be
undeserving of attention on the part of those who occupy themselves
with speculations concerning* the origin and affinities of nations and
tongues. M. de Humboldt is of opinion that, with reference to such
an inquiry as that here pointed at, it would be important to determine
whether the primitive Idioms of India exist in the Indian Archipelago
—with such differences merely as originate in dialect; and whether they
. derive their origin from the Islands or the Continent.
Further, the same accomplished scholar is disposed to think that, as
the actual state of our knowledge of the languages of India is very
different from what it was three or four and twenty years ago, and as
our means of extending It are prodigiously increased, great discoveries
may yet be anticipated in the vast field of Indian literature. At the
some time he reprobates the system, hitherto so generally received,
which proceeds upon the supposition ist we can judge of the affinities
of tongues from the mere comparison of a certain number of Mesa ex-
pressed in the languages which are compared together. M. de Hum-
boldt does not deny the utility of these approximations, but, on the con.
tray, recognises their importance, when properly executed, and :consi-
dered as a part, not of the whole, of the evidence which such inquiries
admit of. His object is merely to show that this method of convert-
son, viewed by itself, has the double disadvantage of neglecting entirely
the grammatical relations of speech, and of taking isolated words in a
language, not according to their affinities, but according to the ideas
which they express. The comparison of two languages requires that
we should examine whether, and to what extent, their roots and deri-
vatives are common. Hence it is not with terms expressing general
ideas such as sun. moon, man, woman, that we ought to commence our
inquiry, but by a close id careful examination of the vo-
cabulary of each of those languages. It often happens that
words which we wish to render into another language can-
not be translated without a circumlocution ; in which case
it is evident that the words compared—are no longer identical, but al-
together different, or rather that is not so much words as ideas which
are compared, and, con uently, that no safe or just conclusion res-
pecting the affinities of can ever be deduced from such a
heterogeneous process. M. umboldt adds, on this branch of his
subject, that it is impossible to form an exact judgment of the resem-
blance of sounds, without having previously studied with care the sys-
tem of pronunciation of the two languages compared. In two different
idioms—nay, even in two dialects of the same idiom, we constantly
meet with regular permutations of letters, a knowledge of which may
enable us to recognise the Identity of words, which at first sight appear
to have only a slight resemblance in pronunciation; while, on the other
hand, it may happen that an identical pronunciation proves nothing, or
leaves the judgment in a state of great uncertainty, unless it be sup-
ported by a certain number of analogies in the permutations of the
letters.

Au rage, M. de Humboldt is persuaded that, without an attentive
examination of the grammatical structure of languages, we can never be
in a situation to pronounce definitively respecting their affinity ; a
doctrine, we may add, which pervades the whole of the article on
this subject in the Review, and which the author of it has shown the
greatest anxiety to exemplify and enforce. 668 i (says M. de Humboldt)
deux leagues, talks, par example, qua le Smoak et le thee, prisentent
des foresee yramestatiooles et use outsize identires, et one une etrolte
analogic dans lents sons, teesl was prow incontestable quo ass dam
?dowses oppartienneni a la aseme famine. Si au contraire, deux
tangoes renfarnent un grand nooks de mots semblables, fltaiS s'of-
Jeent amass identity graounaticale, ants emit: deviant l'objet d'un
dart* sirieux. Dans ce denier as, si les grammaia prlsentent,
comme cellos du Basque et du Latin, un earaetlrc essendellanent
dif-
ferent, it at certain qua les deux bisques ne descendent pas de la
mime souclie." Finally, this learned phikiloger considers h demon-
',trebly certain, firer, that all researches into the affinities of bin-
guages must proceed either upon an examination either of the ma.
terui of words, or of the system of grammatical structure; and,
secondly, that the proofs of the real affinity of languages, that is of the
question, whether two or more languages may be of the same fa-
mily, ought to be principally, and may even be exclusively, deduced
from grammatical structure, since the identity of words only
an affinity which may be either historical or accidental, that the
result of conquest, commerce, or chance. Such are the views
which Baron de Humboldt has promulgated In his learned Bassi sue
'es witless, mynas de constater les 4441inites des Lapses Orientates.
To those who have taken the trouble to peruse the article on the Origin
and Affinities of languages, we need scarcely say bow closely they re.
'warble, or rather coincide with the principles which it was the main ob-
ject of that article to establish ; nor can we feel otherwise than gratified
by observing an accordance which, as we remarked at the outset, affords
at least presumptive evidence in favour of the soundness of the doctrines
themselves—the only point which is material to the imams of truth
and knowledge.—Caledonian Mercury. ' b. E.

CALIDONIAN CANAL.FTOOI the 26th report lately
prhutd, we find that the whole money expended on this canal, from its
commencement in 180$ to the present rime, is 4887,000, of which
about £30,000 arise from camel dues, sale of old materials, ate. making
the amount contributed by Government .10157,000. Of this sum the
proportion disbursed as wages of labour is £473,000. or almost exactly
the half; stones and masonry coat £200000; machinery, tools, and
iron work £129,000; timber t 72,000; land purchased and for de.
lunges £48,000 ; management and travelling means 438,000, and
hipping, hone hire, incidental ripener, make up the remainder of
£21i,000. The number of passages made in the year ending the la of
May. 1830 was, through the canal from west to east 183; do. from
eau to wept 102 ; on peas of the canal 416; passages by steam-boats
221 ; total 1.002. Tonnage rates on these passages 11.3711. incidental
111COMIS 2041-2,6761. ; expenditure for repairs, labour, and entrain.
tendimce 4,11731. As a private speculation six per cent. is the smallest
sum that would cover the expense of repairs and superintendence, and
afford an adequate return on the capital, but let us call it five pa cent.
In this ease the produce of the dues would require to be 47,3001. The
actual produce is 1,8701.

POLICE .111PO2TS.‘

Maxstow.Homez.—Saturday, a big rd-beaded potafo.famd Irish.
man, named Timothy Kearney, about 45 last grass, charged his son,
Patrick Kearney, a boy not quits 15 years of age, with having pro.
slued to commit murder.
The complainant said that his son was the wickedest villain that
ever was hanged. When but a bit of a child he began to show that be
bad some of the devil's mother in him, by beating his parenta, and pro.
midair to murther 'em. Well, the father and mother bore a greet
deal, but at last Paddy took up a lapstone, and flung it at his lawful
father.
Defendant (quite a Cockney, although called Paddy)-Plies your
Vonhip, he ant no father of mine, be don't treat me natal; besides
be an'tlike me, for I ba'nt such a chuckle-bead nor such bandy lege. I
thinks as how, my Lord, that he thieved me vhen I vas a young 'on.
(laughter.)
Complainant—Thieve you, you thief ! Oh, then, 'twee you that
wasn't worth stealing. Ood help me, I wish somebody would rob me
of y_ou before Ould Nick does. (Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Upon my word you seem to be a re=
pair. To say the truth, you don't look like father and son,
you seem worthy of each other.
Defendant—There, you see cot his Voesbip say's, I ant no son of
yours. wont to have nothing to say to you, you nasty old
/Heigh
Cemplainant—Afrab,then4Paddy, do you want to make a bastard of
yourself ? (Loud laughter, in which the Lord Mayor could not help
j oin
De lelan
t—l don't can what they calls me, but I'm blow'd if I'm
I your son. Vhy you know mother always laughs when peoples calls you
my father.
Complainant—Oh, yes, then mere dims, tot hoe, fearupon my soul
ifl ant your Tuber its no hi* et Woe; awl I here yews Lordship
will lock him up in gaol, and give Idle main but mew
The Lord Mayor—Bread aid water you mem, I
Complainant—Not a morsel et breed I wed the LwiDless your Lord.
ship, you may give him paters, is the 4-1 a ems he'll eat, and I'd
like to lam hm, bad as he is. (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor thought there must be some truth in the suspicion
of the boy that there was no relatkosidp between them, for anything
like the animosity that existed belied never seen between Tenons allied
by blood. Pray what have you bees& this youth up to
Complainant—l've put him in the tripe trade, please your Lordship,
and he's clever at it, but the d-1 has got alsowld of hint, and I! a body
ever gets into the claws of Ould Nick, it's all the same what trade he
is. (Excernive laughter, at which the reputed father seemed surprissd.)
The Lord Mayor—l can do nothing for you; you must take hbn
away, and put him to his work.
Complainant—Oh C—t 1 and won't you lock him up ? Why
my Lord, he'll come home and murther us all. Hasn't he
to mother us ? and it's the first truth be ever towid In his
Pam'eleadughter.)
Mr. Nobler.—des it not a shame for a great able, hulking fellow like
you to be afraid of such a puny boy as that ? Take him home and give
him a good drubbing, and I dare say you'll see a great change in him.
Whack him again and again.
The LoaD MATOL.That is what you must do if you are his
father, which I suppose you are.
Complainant, after thinking a little.... Why then, upon my marl, I
don't rightly know. You see, my Lord, his mother torrid me I was.
The LORD MATOl.—And, GOD help as, we have DODO Of 125 any
better authority upon that point. (Loud laughter.)
Complainant—But please your Lordship, I had a sort of a notion
that a man that comes to us now and then in a friendly way might have
as good a right, but my wife said she hated the sight of him, and he said
Ire wouldn't touch her with a pitchforks (laughter.)
The LOAD Bberol—Oh, thai, 'tla plain you must be the father, as
they keep at such a distance. Well, I'll not take care of him. If you
don't punish him he'll punish you, you may depend upon it.
Complainant—Shall I lick him with this switch (holding up a stick
as thick as his arm.)
The LORD hlewoa—lf you do, you'll be banged s (laughter.)
Complainant—Why then upon my fowl, my Lord, if I don't be
hanged be will, for as sure as I'm a living man, he'll make a dead
man of me.
The father and son then retired, the Loan limn having obtained
from the son a promise not to murder, but to be in future obedient to
his affectionate parent.
Bow-STIZET.—CIIItIOOS CAM Or BILOAMIN—On Friday night
a very elegantly dressed young female applied to Mr. Mhishull for a
warrant against a young man to whom she had very recently been mar-
ried, and whom she charged with bigamy.
Mr. Bliarsuum. asked what proof she could adduce of the first mar.
dare:better
, the officer, then Introduced a female, apparently upwards
of forty yeses of age, and who, he said, was the:first wife.
The two ladles eyed each other with looks of evident displeasure for
some momenta, and the younger of the two scornfully observed that the
elder female was old enough to be the mother debt accused.
First Wife.—Hold your tongue, you forward minx, you know you
married him at a week's courtship only.
Second Wife.—'Tis false, madam, for be kept company with me for
twelve whole days previous to our marriage. (A laugh.)
Mr. almrsnum. inquired whether she was perfectly willing to pro.
sante the accusal ?

The young lady hesitated, and at last, in half s simper, said, " I
don't like to hart the young man, but I don't wish to be imposed
upon."
fib. Mursinn.r. then asked the first wife if she were prepared with
the evidence of her marriage ?
Ledbetter reeled that he could furnish the necessary root
A warrant was issued, and Ledbetter yesterday brought up In custody
the accused, who is a young man fashionably &meg, and apparently
not more than 26 years of age. Upon being placed at the bar its gave
the name of Christopher Thomas Johnson. He was remanded fee fur-
ther examination. He was then removed to the lock-up-room, and
there had an interview with his second wife. The meeting at first ap.
putrd to be very affectionate, as she cried bitterly, and threw herself au
his bosom ; but, finally, a violent altercation ensued ; be censured her
for having emus forward to ruin his prospects in life, and she retorting
by alleihtg that he had another wife in the country.
The wan abruptly terminated these unpleasant recriminations by
remsein the young lady, and leaving the prisoner to the enjoyment of
his isdem alone.

The prisoner, it appears, is a traveller for a oommadal hones In
the city.
LiBIIZTIK-STRZITO-.II7VINILI DILINQUILICTIPOUT boys,
named Childs, Paeook, Bularare, and Ward, the oldest of whom
could not have been more than years of age, were plead within the
bar; the one, Chink, on a charge of brew Wn into the dwelling.thouse
of a person named Wood, at 11181-wall, Poplar, and Mang thereficen
sight sovereigns; and the other three with participating in the plunder.
From the testimony of several witnesses, and the confession of the
prisontas themselves, it appeared that, after they had possessed them-
sdves of the money, they purchased a boat for 41. of it, and spent the
remainder.

--they was fully committed for trill.
Mr. John Ashdown, a master baker, in Brick.lans, Spitallields, was
brought,before the Magistrates, on a warrant charging hint with laving
committed a most serious assault on his wife.
_ . . . .

The complainant, who, fran the severe usage which she bad met
with, was obliged to be brought to the office En a coach, stated that
though she had not been quite twelve months married to the defendant,
the present was the second time she was compelled to call on their Wor-
ships for their protection against his violence, and if something was not
done to restrain him, she had very little doubt her life would be the
sacrifice.

The defendant said that his house was full from morning until night
with the friends of his wife. This he bad a particular objection to, and
it was the cause of unpleasant feeling between them.
The IWmates convicted him in the penalty of 61. for tha meault,
and orderd him to find good ball to keep die place towards his wife.
Twinge Ponce—Bleassor Jens Griffin was charged with rob-
bing John Brown, the third mate of the Claudine East Indianian, of
his watch and seals, a half sovereign, some silver, and other monies, at
a miserable brothel in Brook-street, Ratcliffe. She was reminded.
Thaw Nadas, a dealer in marine stores, Broadwall, and a youth
neared Robert With., were charged with having in their possession two
new street-door locks, which 'bad been unlawfully procured. They
were lied des. each.

WORANCiP•STEZET.—MIN TWTYOZZI4 the sitting Magistrate, was
occupied in the examination of persons charged with committing !rob.
belies at the fire in Chiswell.street, on Friday night. The fire broke
out on the premises of Mr. Hawkes, an importer of fceeign toys, and
communicated to the work-shops of Mr. Hawkins,furnishing ironmonger.
Miniael Xesslas, a blacksmith, was placed at the bar. Robertson,
a constable, stated that while the dicers and °then were busily engaged
fn removing property from the premises of Mr. Hawkins, he saw the
prisoner putting something into his bosom. He stopped him, and said,
you have been robbing these people. The prisoner exclaimed, Oon
forbid ! On their way he dropped a band vice, and in his coat pocket
was found a paper parcel of brass bell maks, &c.
A young man, handsomely dressed in black, was next examined.
The pprirts.oonoeerr was stopped by Sergeant Ashton, and another otiose, at
Mr. wkins'e premises : a number of bell.puUs were found in his
pockets and hat, and braes castors in his fob.
The prisoners were remanded.
HATTON.GARDIXTTEBIPT TO ASSASSINATE ONE Or TIE
WITNESSES IN TEE CASE Or SAPWILLL, TEE .211IIRDISEAl or
Loxes.—Saturday Mary 4,sn Grilliths, alias Steam. one of the pin.
cipal witnesses ageism Sapwell, at his trial for the murder of Long,
the Policeman, was brought up from Sc. Olives watch.bouse. She
had been taken into custody by a police constable at an early boor that
morning in Eagle.strest, Hed Liosiquass, and was brought to the
watch-house, charged with being drunk and disorderly. She was kept
till she got sober, when she told a dns story about an attempt having
been made to cut her throat, by some person who had escaped. She
ra wish to return to her own country, and the Magistrate gave
bed opes of being enabled to doss. For the
.present she is to Maim,
by her own rooks, la the House et Camden.

CONDUCT OP SMITH, OR SAPHRLL,

SINGS CONDZMNATIOL

Up to a byte oar het night this wrinsited alOtobsibniely Per-
lisW asserting his innencs. The unheltat hene be evinced
atbe regress ends Wel, and while anew of death was being
peeved him so be a mem of no ovistay am In dais swo—
on unhands( one—be ho sines eselaralL biesediately
after dm dosh Ke was atmdmslsi is on ant aft allotted to
nisei& kr speedy esnemdem. *Aft simplisil et edam.
don, sins Might sofessimaent was suppled bin, and be woe *hod
soon After by the Rev. Mr. Conn, who 111111.111.4 with him tams them
an hoar in oillgisms nennatism, is which the umbsppy men Is said to
have givem Mils sank% his mind being wholly engssuesi in ova
templed= of the sane be bad just quitted.
He amenhod no bkns be the jury, nor did be seem to feel that the
lemmedinige who yosided bed overcharged the can in his summing
up; bathe eftwasesly *skied that the whammies who deposed to the
most material points, bad sworn falsely. He 1, and
with grist vehemence, 64 lam innocent of ther="faCtißev. or-
tinny having adverted to the poeition in which be was Ant smote der
scribed by the whmemes—tbe Immediate fall of the murdered man, and
other obmwesionsas ovally conclusive, as fixing him with the murder
tbe alp* sepid,* Ido net deny that
that
are spinet me, but
againselenaly deem k was not I that did it. This k all I have
to say en the subjeor" Tim reverend gladness, bran him isn.
Vaon this point, earjured bin to apiary the wheisininnal of
al:wed to him in rependsn ter the end Anse, whelk would
assuredly take pine, and rondesil to be with hint st an early bows on
the ',Hewing vesmcing. Smith nil be was thenldal for the niumien
be bad noticed, wed would eadeaveme to relit by des Mein
_ _ _ _

Mow the Orkney had Mired, be kindred if any of his link bed
celled at the prism enhosonsat to the trial; end Wog onmemed in the
nepdvo, ho petwiddy remarked—" I thought so, teat ao matter. I
have nothing be tie with the world now. However, k b Shay they
will emus Wise me whoa I sat." And ho then soak tiler a sullen
and almattsepNststsatYioawandihe Mired to rest. Hissisep,the
turnkey in Moines se beam and nods% inn be was
yesterday m in geed and vas tolerably eumposed du.
ring the day. Hi. bowener, geseielei that be was wh neessnected
with the murder. He stood St a esnvemeties he bed wish Dr. Cotton,
that his real name was Wm. ilepwell, bin be assmei that of John
Smith when taken to the stadoniesse, petering fiat be would be set
at liberty by the Megistrates en the knowing issoloo. He sap be is
a native of Wolverhampton, and dead& hinny oar k Imgelsble dr-
comets:tees. He has been swift for several years in Imams, std at
one time carried on a geed badness as a baker. He has a milk who is
far advanced In pss,ansy, and seven children, the oldest bake in his
fifteenth year. ameantbe gave Dr. Cowes was, thet beital been
spending the erodes with sense *Ws at the"
where be played &match at skinks; that he wasistooniag its=
Gray's Inn-kee.read, when hearer a cry of " step him," be ten along
with the painters, merely from osity, and was ihutct2r4 as the
murderer he was aware that a murder had been e
Saturday afternoon he was visited by his brother and wife; the latter
was deeply affected; but the culprit chid her, as be said, for giving
way to " unavailing regret." His expression was—" You must try
and keep up your spirits. What is done cannot be undone now. I most
have died sometime, you know." To which the tinkled wife sob-
bingly replied—" That's true, William; but to die such a shameful
death will break my heart, and being disgrace on our poor children."
At this instant be was agitated, and said " I hope I'll be allowed to
see them once more, and I shall be satisfied." The wish was comm.
elated to Mr. Wontner, and it was readily conceded. The children
are to be admitted to a last interview of their wretched father this day
(Sunday) after chapel hour.
We have one more fact to mention in connection with this dread-
ful affair, and that is most important. From private information,
received since the conviction of Sapwell, it ap that another in.
dividual has been implicated, who was to be in custody at
a late hour last night. The Information was given at Hatton
garden police-office, but the name of the party was not suffixed to
transpire.

DR. PARR'S WRITING MATERIALS. The beau-ideal
of a dandy penman would shrug his shoulders to contemplate Parr's
writing ap s and materials. In that library be could meet with
no spl writing-table, nor desk of satin.wood inlaid with silver and
ivory, nor tortoise.shell inkstand with burnished appendages t Parr
contemned everything of the sort. He never wrote upon any kind of
desk ; he always laid his paper flat on the table ; there was no
Lion. Upon a long deal fable, whose site was between the
commonly stood a supply of ragged.edged foolscap, and which Parr
could convert, with the dexterity of a juggler, into the *edam pro-
priest penmen The mode of operation was this:—when be_hhneelf
was to be the scribe, this foolscap was transferred to the round table
which stood in the centre of the room. He would then detach a eimett
pw it neatly and lightly between his lips, divide it, fold up each kat
double, and thus you had in a moment the sheet of foolscap transfuses&
into something like two passable sheets of pigmy letter papa, with all
its roughness preserved. There was no omi. for paper.atelses.
pen-ludves. The inkstand was en suite ; it was, Mink, of tin I but
so battered and grim from age and service, that its original empsdiles
was doubtful. The stumps it usually contained were awl to the
Doctors hieroglyphics t few besides could use them. A boodle elms
was mostly thrown down for annother writer's use, and a ham dwells
and a wafer-seal, a stick of wax, and Parr's own armorial signet, vas
at:your option—Barker's Amiens.

Columbus arrived at Lisbon about the year 1470. He
was at that time in the full vigour of manhood, and of an engaging pre-
sence. Minute descriptions an given of le palm by his son Fernando,
by La CMS, and others otitis aengsps ku According to these as
counts, he was tall, well.hemsd, —stets, and of an elevated and dig.
ailed dememer. His was lea wed neither full nor more ;
his easegkeien fair and Wed, and LOW to ruddy; his noes aqui.
line ; his else bees was sathwt_ldgh, his eyes light-gm,, and apt to
enkindle; Ms while cioanteense Wan at of authority. His hair, in
his youthful days, was of a light offer; but are and trouble, accord.
isoles Us Cams, soon bused it grey, wad at thirty yaws of age it was
whits. He was moderate and simple In &toad
disammea, eapging and affable with straws, and :gnat=
and why in ad life that sewer mimed his hear hold to his
person. His tempt was tablitilly amble; Mt be labial it by the
nisillmanimitY of IridteadV Weir whit a assateaus and
uamurairy, and new In eny 10101.111111116
Mbe was mei ass life tria minimills ee the lern
religion, sbaniag Tigeeessly polo and meenedne et the church ;
net did bin piety esesiee :la am term. bee ineseek of dist lofty and
alma minim with wide& his whole dartiewe was strongly duo.
tared.—/rekv'e of Umiak*.

Last week the following extraordinary wager for a ramp
and down, was decided in $ meadow at Chichester, between a knight of
the whip and $ sporting butcher, the latter undertaking to carry a me-
dical ',adman, weighing nine Was, 50 yards, while the former ran
100. The doctor's animal wan by eight yards.

r
vOACII ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, it one of the
Stockport ooe.horse coaches was on its return from Mint:hates, the
driver, as he was coming down Lancashire Hill at a very imprudent
rate, ran his each against the wheel of a um which was standing oppo.
I sits the Bowling Green public house, with such violence as to pitch
him from the mat to the ground. He was taken up senseless, and Mr.
Wright being fortunately at band be was bled, and every means were
in to restore animation until the signs of life returned, when
be was home, and has since been improving.—Siockpori Ode.

Friday night, at half-past nine, s fire was discovered in
the warehouse of Mr. Hawkea, an isepestat of toys, in Chiswell-street.
There being a considerable quantity of peeper, of that deseripdon on
the promisee, it soon causes the Amselo bent feeds with the greatest
impetuosity. The engine of Mom Whitbread was peaspdr on the
spot, and was soon followed by these of the different ethos. The next
house that aught was Mr. Illawldsege, an extensive thenlikg boo.
monger ; but here, by the etuntione of die Armen, the Amass were kept
under, with the exception of &theft the beck workshops. The next
bones to Mr. Hawkese le Mans, ass and Algaecides, called the
Atlas fieleacoass ; the hem emedeed an thaterW injury, but the back
premises were nearly desseyed. The hews of Mr. Hawkes is not
gutted—the lower part and Art Seer are burnt, and the attic s
very little injured ; the chief sesibgration was in the rear. Ilyi;Cry
of assistance the pesparty dthe seilinces was mostly carried to Mr. dell's
livery stables, direetAy opposite, sod every facility wee afforded by Mr.
B.ll's people. The seethelthe and ion police were in attendance, and
kept of the aowth Tb epdladen of theniture belonging to Mr. Hawkins
and Mace Wad sal MgLanehlen, is very great ; it cannot be neer-
taboo& bow the the edglethed.

THE BRIDAL DAT.YeEterdE7 forenoon a man, about
40 years of age, and many ears in the employment of a carver and
gelda, in the neigh of Blackfriars, was married to a young
woman of Ms min cask in life. After the ceremony the happy pak
adjourned to the brill. _.'s dwelling, attended by a few friends, to
enjoy the buds eat the marriage dinner, which In due thpe was
laid oo the table s Wackily some dispute arose between the
newlrmierled eagle, whisk their mutual friends could not allay,
and it woe carried to each a length thee the bsidegresea, aoudad
by a Mod, left the Me and her maids* Ada she dim, while
thoY r ollowlod te Peddle-dock, neav liallabas.briap, about
shies o clock la ease that the bridegroom might demo WNW; with
ibis Intent he dsillmasely pulled of his coat and hat, whim" he dell.
eared to his friend, reseedsil over a number of bargee, and them him-
self into the river. Feetunasely thaw was a llihesssaa, mod Dart.
lett, near the spot, who win all this, and howdy ptemeded le Ids as.
shames with the aid of a bong barge Wok, be was ambled to Ida
she pabdiegeom
mind, show I who, it islameadefier
e he very eagerly of the
when meeZrsat towards Idistand ehiag Grady M k dB it brought
him sib to W. He and his Need dim proceeded homewards, to
speed the Aetnaa with the belle end Isse maids!

SCINTILLA.
I mem net do hoot whose maim Is dyini ;
I omme net du roma when beauty Is ;
Ile the lopes
he lopes dot .wear IND ;
I he worth list I ;
And %bethink me bow vain is my sighing,
Foe ewe emingnidted, is kindled no more.
Thejlaray return with his garland of lowers,
to new WOW the bird en the tree;
The axisur wills soft plough his dayalline bowers ;
The Newby 0f..0m wave brown o'er the lea;
The Rork any be ebsius-.dmt deed may awaken,
But the Mad of my boom returns not to me.

Covrza.—The Mooovay of coffee is generally attributed
to tbe Prior of a la dm* part of Arabia where the shrub is
The aces the ewe, =however, as verified by the learned ,
Ann launnedia is in the King of France's library, sad
by M. irendoter oldie Arabian Tales, are as Mow :—.About
the middle of Iles Illibeenth ry, ooe Gemaleddia, who resided at
Aden near the math if the Red Sea, having occadon to travel into
Pods hand thaw sae of his countrymen, who were' in the habit of
akin alba, and who were load in the praise of its virtues. Oa his
sawn to Aden, he vas eared of sickness by the use of coils. As
MIN at Atka, and having occasion to pms whole nights in prayer,
Ossideddin penteadsd the Dervishes, the better to St them kir watch.
WY. to mike use dila& Ins short time there was no be =sin
Ades se popuhr as aims s lapin took it to amebae their
inishanies and orate to invigarete their bodies ; nasalises to sY dam
ingtween disk Jamey by night s in short, all Ada tog ft. Poem
Aft It pima to Kelm, where It become, in a ism time, V pow.
still maw Tram Arabia Felix It was coded flue Rapt,
theme to eras ad beak is Constindsopla
CURIOUS ItiLICe...43IIAKSPEARN IN SCOTLAND.--it
hes hitherto been asppend by Eibekspeare's annotate% dingle with so
gnayt conhimes, that diet great am mast have hem a bend d
pla &Weed ers hisk Omen 'Macbeth tat emertala hoe Jana
of , w
and whisk is lowa to have ishibited hie that ilwaetin
at Perth in the year MR Mk Ms Soak, in a lest me written toady
sixty yea tige—fer so last; hes Sir Jan been an awase—and which
may be Awl somewheremantbed in his famous Bauistiwl Account,
earleys =ea legalese mgament to draw the pasha* d this coo.
t=ctistirru=direabitepoetattzerrabazhpedzynnsal visit to
knowledge of the kande. of that region as be displays in Macbeth.—
We are fortunately mmisied, by the kindless d a commgenhat, to
mike a decisive satisinem et this pike tithe pest's life, by preinsiale a
latter from Ben MINNS ID Drummond of Hawdanden, la widsh It is
made phin that illiskspere at host visited Ridberde. Re el the
"learned sock," it is welilmown, visited &whirl In NM partly we
believe, foe the purpose of seeing the country of his ancesems for i will
be remembered that Johnson's father was one of the Johnstone ef An.
amadale), and pertly that he might pay a visit to his friend Drummond
at Rambornden. The letter was then written. This curious relic
must be looked upp nas also contributing a mite to the history of the
Mai in ;for which the materlals are so lamentably meagre,
As sods we beg to recommend it to the attention of our two valued
triads the editor of the Glasgow Courier, and the editor of the Early
!refried Mei qf Seedentd, who, se we are informed, have made some
pewees In a lifstory Qf the Rent freahre Drama daring the Six-
tseetCastweri;

graben we wee &ftraking at my Lordis on Sunday am promised yat
son would gett for me my Ladle coppie he lent you of my lord Sam.
pill his interlude callit philotastand ciuhkh Vill Shakspeare told. me
he saw actit in edinburt toun gain he wes yair wt the players to his
great contentment and delight.
my man wafts sour answer
to give him the playo
and lette him awaye
To sour assured Mende
and loving gerund
(Sigel) BEN. JOHNSON.
Pram my lodgeing in ye cannongait
birch the twelft 1619
((Endorsed
)
To my nth good friend
the laftde of Hawthorn—den

Yew.

41dverfiser.

FA AZW2LL.—If this word cornea sincerely from the heart,
as it always ought to do—it cannot fail to have a double effect. But
such hes been the. prostitution of language, that .ddieu God bleu
you I God 14 or you have become mere wads of course. The
clown was learned to ay Good boy! without either know* or feel-
, ing the holiness of the wish. Nay, some learned men of the old school,
who condi:Eder an the value of the word, persist in saying Firemen
without able to give a satisfactory reason for doing so. The
tam is ble r but It loses, diminished when contrasted with the
homely,:slways understood, Formal. There are many situations, and
many endearments in life, where the benedictive wish is felt in its fullest
force. To enumerate, or enlarge upon these, is not my intention. My
wish is simply this, that the term should be need without any hypo.
crisy. Very few, if any pawns ever use it inconsidenttely—but lam
afraid the same cannot always be said of children. Indeed lam ma
winced that, where the:early education has been properly conducted, and
particularly upon the pate of mothers, the term cannot be used lore.
randy. This is a trying prooL At the early age of thirteen, I left my
father's house, after having run over all the school classics, with my
mind strongly and deeply imbued with the /aroma lines of Virgil...
" Hie gelidi fontes t hie mania prate, Lycodz
Hie nemus; hie ipso taunt consumaer ann.
This Is farewell indeed, in the true sense of the expansion. My boil.
new was, to teach. 0 ! bow important I To that year I look back
with satiefsetion. From It an data many early acquired habits,—
good,—and many not so good. I bads liking *a thentads, and, when
my day's task was done, I sought the " genii Iseiss,” and the " se.
men umbels' r" and there was begot the bibit etsolilmuisleg—.lo
which I never will bklfaremoll is the sense that revery uniswrad is
A few more years saw me swag Ibm unilsipibai pan puppies, in
the great. buy, wicked city, ear rim* tiler Illoirr Yaks. After
.bra years, I bed it an eternal farewell, as WNW to the brooks.
the groves, the wanes of innocent delight. Bat waits, farewell ; and
of my aliens, this—this was the most hoontairding. It was
eternal. Fenn is in heaven ! Nona volvo—nentad pledges bed
been enebaoged. The 25th of Dranhor was to nabs a holy union
but that day did not dawn woo be ea surik—oho oshlwated it with
the pun spirits of the Mori I out into a rapid (.:activity. I
could neither read, pm think, net osinoquino. My soul was in heaven.
overpowered with girland impornibla admired= but it was wo
ecstatic to endure, and I was again kneed to may, farewell. Throbs
there a breast like mine ? It an dupla. Joys, sweet, suddenly and
unexpectedly tan from us, leave at sattal, an indelible impression :
but to be deprived of such a joy as this I No! it does not reed
the ban—it hallows it—it and stamps it for eternal
bliss, where there shall be no formai .ive years have since
tolled over me, and the feeling is sendbly alive. Time cannot ease it.
—it shall live through eternity I and shall my Fanny know it ? Yes !
for bee bright and pure lamp was put out unseen, unknown. Her oh
was gqsick: she swooned, and that swoon disembodied her noble, her
isedngent souL Farewell, said I, as 1 read the awful news from the
band of ber mother. Fanny—my dear, dear Fanny is oo more !--no
users ! and my I left ? I es, to admire, to love more sincerely than
over. To thh feeling I shall never say, ortowsxx. Flow, teen of
joy you Sow in sincerity ! May the stream never dry. Who, now,
so dead to bliss, as to bid the thought farewell, Glorious immortality
--Maud se.unionZadien no more ! Who would not cultivate the bay
peril*? Who would not die to live for ever? Who? 0! who
an doubt the reality ? Man is divine ! Yes, all that is worth of him
is divine, and doubly divine is the counterpart of man. A female, whom
soul lives open manna, has attractions which the divinely sensitive can
only prise. For ever unhappy be the wretch who could rob bee of a
moment's peace ! But do I write on earth, or am I already in the blia.
of Elysium? Alas ! the din of my thoughtless boys convinces me
where I an, and forces me, with reluctance, for the present, to bid the
oubjeto—farowell