Star.
London, England, 1830-07-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Arrived at Standgate Creek. the Lord Godericb, Scott, from
Alexandria, and Caknith, Pascoe, from Cephalonia.
Off Margate, the Eliza, Redmore, from Faro.
DLit, Juxv 3 and 4.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W.—Arrived the
Duke of York, Duke of Sussex. Buckinghamshire, and Hereford.
shire, from China ; Marquis of Wellington. from Bengal—sailed
i22d May from St. Helena ; Orient, White, from Bengal; Planet.
Barclay ; Duke of Brunswick, Castle Lachlan, and Clifton, from
Jamaica; Fortitude, Butcher, from Barbadoes; and the Repulse,
Gribble, from China.
PORTINOUTII, Juts 3 and 4.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Hus.ar, from Halifax. Sailed the Lord Hunger.
ford. Farquharson, for Bengal.
FaLmotrrn. Juts. 2.—. Wind W.N.W. fresh breezes.—Arrived
the Hope transport, from Portsmouth ; and Stanmer packet, from
Lisbon—ailed 27th ult.
JuLy s.—Sailed the Cygnet packet, for Lisbon.
Six. rag —The Tyrian packet, from the Brazils, is now entering
the harbour—mail not yet landed.

THE PANHARMOIVIAN GARDENS, AND SUSPENH
SION RAILWAYS.

The great Improvements of Mr. Blaxwell Dick in the construc-
tion of Suspension Railways have been already described at some
length in a former paper. It will be recollected that one of the
advantages he proposes to us is to obviate the difficulties and the ex.
pease of the erection of common railways on uneven ground, by
raising the track or way on pillars mconunodated in their height to
the level of the earth. By thus enabling carriages to move in the
air on a frame of rods, laid down at the expense of about
1,4001. a mile, while the ground rail-roads average five or six thou-
sand. Mr. Dick hopes to accelerate the adoption of the great int-
provanents in communication which must result from the employ.
went of rail-roads, and at the same time to increase the speed of
travelling, which he proposes, on his road, to make fifty or sixty
miles an hour. The proprietors of the Panharmonian Gardens, in
Liverpool-street, Gray's Inn-road, have erected one of these suspen.
sion rail-roads, to the extent of something more than half a mile; and
they propose, we understand, to exhibit the practicability of the plan,
and the velocity which can be attained, by conveying visitors of the
gardens from one end of the line to another, at the rate of :10 or 40
miles an hour. The whole of the machinery is extremely elegant
and simple. Arches of neat proportions, supported by metal pil-
tars, are raised at convenient distances; and • beam of wood,
placed on these arches, receives a grooved wheel, to which a chair,
capable of containing one or two persons, Is suspended. The as-
vellas, in this short distance, propel themselves by means of a
hand crank at the rate of fifteen or sixteen miles an hour • bet
the machinery is so constructed es to admit of the applladen
of limes worked by steam, which might accelerate the velmley
to any speed which has ever been conceived by the most Dar-
wenian projector. The motion, when produced by amnia
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LITERARY' INWILLICEPICA
We have perused the Brieles Mosinfor he this month, and we
do ft but justice to say that Its contests me of that instructive, and,
at he same time, amusing character, which never falls to engage,
agraeably, the attention of a reader, sod to lead him inconsciously
on from the first page to the last ; while good taste is never offended
by self conceited and boastful pretensions.
Mr. Pa 'sots, in the lint paper. a South Africa's sketch, has
afforded some entertaining soologial information'i and given
an example of what an attentive traveller might yet do
to explain the metaphorical !angler of the Bible. He Informs us,
in confirmation of a Biblical critichm, in a work by a Professor
Paxton, of Edinburgh, that the isebi of the Hebrews, which is
translated in the versions of the Bible, roe and roe-buck, should be
translated antelope, which animal is still, by the Bechuana Whys,
termed isebi ; and is the same called by the Dutch, at the Cape ol
Hood Hope, the spriswbok. We have lest this animal, and its
eye is, we can testify, truly « worth a Jew's eye." Perhaps the
frequent use of the roe in the sacred oral song of Solomon, as
applied metaphorically to other female charms, might, on a close
examination of the springbok, or African antelope, sad its man-
ners, be found not so uncouthly inapplicable, as it at present
seems, to a modem intellect.

The visit in June 2000, to the Grand National Cemetery,—an
undertaking which, we trust, will actually be visited at the above
data, to the credit of the taste, feeling, and judgment of the present
generation,—is a very ingeniously-imagined jest d'esprir, from
which, had we space, we would gladly make considerable quota-
tions; but newspaper critics must learn to be moderate, even in
their thafts.—Proceeding along a terrace commanding a fine view
of London New-Town, lately erected upon the old heath at Hemp-
stead, in an inner inclosure appropriated for the reception of the
remains of remarkable persons of past ages, the visitor approaches
the monument of the Rev. EDWARD limit), on which is the
following inscription :

" Extending some leagues along this space
lies the great Leviathan of oratory,
the foasil.remains of the most popular of preachers,
the Mammoth of metaphors ;
who, with a tale eloquent and ornamental,
lashed the rebellious into obedience, .
and the torpid into admiration and awe.
The greatest orator of the age
by at least two inches,
he looked Aown on his contemporaries with contempt ;
and being superior to the rest of mankind,
he was free from the meanest dell passions—envy.
He rivalled, in the flow of his figures,
the multiplication table, oe a quadrille.
Like Sampson's
His strength might be said tole in his hair;
the curls whereof reached from the Highlands to Hatton-garden;
so that every Lock
was as an Essay on the Human Understanding.
His eloquence operating like steam,
in drawing a considerable number of carriages,—
havingexercised the hones of the nobility for three successive weeks—
having withered the bower of Moore's fame with a glance,
and dispelled the pyramid of Byron with a breath,
he ascended in an imaginative balloon
in search of the Millennium •
;but unfortunately striking his head against a star,
he was thrown out,
and fell into a stupor, or poetical tram*,
from which he never recovered."

On some future day we may, perhaps, find a corner foe the epi.
taph on the Poet Laureate, which we think peculiarly felicitous.
There are three beautiful Poems from the pens of L. E. L. the
Rev. Thomas Dale, and Mr. (or more correctly Dr.) Bowring--and
one entitled '6 My Mother's Last Kiss,"—an importation from
across the Atlantic, of great delicacy and feeling.