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London, England, 1825-05-25 00:00:00

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LIFE AND DEATH.

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PROM THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

O fear not thou to die!
1:u rather fear to live, for life
Has thousand snares thy feet to try
By peril, pain, and strife.
Brief is the work of death ;
But. Life! the spirit shrinks to see
How full. ere heaven recals the breath;
The cup of woe may be !
0 fear not thou to die !
No more to suffer or to sin ;
No snares without thy faith to try,
No traitor-heart within :
But fear, oh! rather fear
The gay, the light, the changeful scene,
. The Battering smiles that greet thee here,
From I leaven thy heart that wean!
Tear lest, in evil hour,
Thy pure and holy hope, o'ercome
• By clouds that in the horizon lower
Thy spirit feel that gloom
'Which over Earth and Heaven
'lke covering throws of felt despair ;

And deems itself the unforglven,
Predestined ehila of care !
0 fear not thou to die!
To die, and be that blessed one,
WbR, in the bright and beauteous sky,
Way feel his conflict done—
Wha feels that never more

The tear of grief, of shame, shall come
For, thousand wanderings from the Pow=
Who loved, and cali'd hint home !

WINDSOR, MAY 23.

VACCINATION.

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Yesterday being the Princess of Hum Monazites Birth-day,
the morning was ushered in with the ringing of the Chutch bells j
and a salute was fired in the Bachelors Acre on the occasion.
Yesterday morning, the Foot Guards marched from the Foot
Barracks to the Cavalry Barracks, where both the Regiments heard
Prayers in the Barrack-suare, under the command of Major Ham-
sway of the Foot. and Colonel Vass of the Life Guards.

Dr. CAsPest, a Prussian physician, having been de-
puted to ascertain the effect of Cove/-Pox on the general
mortality of Prussia, has published the following as the
result of his inquiries :
1. That the Small-Pox formerly carried off from one-twelfth to
one-tenth of the whole population.
2. That of twelve children born at Berlin, one formerly died
of Small-Pox ; and that now not more than one in sixteen die from
the same cause.
3. That the diseases of infancy are more common than before
the introduction of Vaccination, because a greater number of in-
fants live.
4. That these disease, formerly destroyed 39 in 100; at present
not more than 34 in 100 die; so that before the introduction of
Vaccination, 51 in 100 died, while at present only 45 in 100 die.
That formerly the general calculation was of one death in
every twenty-eight inhabitants; but that now it is not more than
one In thirty-four.

Advice's from Madras of the 29th January state, that
1.500 European and 3,000 native troops were under
orders on the 15th to advance from Rangoon on Uth-
merapoora, the capital of the Birman Empire.
Advices received f-rom Cadiz to the Ist instant,
state the arrival there of the Spanish sloop of war
Ynca, commanded by Lieutt nant HuLI, from Quilca,
having on board many passengers belonging to the
troops who capitulated to BOLIVAR. No individual.
had, however, been suffered to land except the Captain,
who had gone to La Is'a, and from thence it was be-
lieved to Madrid. No communication whatever was,
suffered with the.vessel, and orders had been given to
fire upon any one attempting to approach her. This
has 'given cause to various alarming reports at Cacra,
and it was apprehended that if the truth was published,
a tumult would take place.
A letter from Mexico, dated March 26, says: " Every
day the internal state cf the country improves, and the
lower classes are gradually returning to habits of in-
dustry. Silver from the different mines is now begin-
ning to find its way to the Mexitan and provincial
mints, and our circulating medium is daily increasing.
Mr. Thompson, Mr. Harvey's late Secretary, is ap-
pointed British Commissioner at Guatimala : he leaves
M.:xicu in a few weeks. Mr. Ward arrived yesterday; Mr.
Alaman, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Esters,'
Miager of Finance, are appointed by Congress to ar-'
range, with him and Mr. Morier, the treaty of com-
merce. It is impossible to express the satisfaction given
by the recognition of this country by England."
Gazelles from Hobart-town, Van Diemen's Land, to
the 24th of December, have been received at the New
England Coffee-houte, but they contain few events of
importance. A large brewery was about to be esta-
blished at Pittwater, which was likely to meet with en-
coor sgement—an essential service to-the colony, by in-
tioduring a cheaper beverage than the ardent spirits
usually drank by the lower classes, and to which many
of the excesses which took place among them were to
be ascribed. Many severe losses had been experienced
by the owners of flocks, through the depredations of
eagles, so that it was necessary to provide the, shepherds
with muskets loaded with buck-shot as a protection
The colonists appear anxious to participate in the sports
of the mother country, as we perceive a subscription
has been raised among them for procuring a supply, of
live game from England. Measures were taken to im-
prove the breed of horses in the colony, which had very
much degenerated, owing to the want of means of pre-'
venting them ranging at large and intermixing with the
'slid horses of the colony. A great scarcity of hemp
and flax existed in Van Dieman's Land, that article
being at the exorbitant price of 255. per lb. An extra-
ordi:eary number of small colonial craft had been em-
ployed in taking seals in the small islands in the straits
which divide Van Diemen's Land from New &nth
Wa!es, and had been very successful. The New Su-
-1)4 erne Court of Van Diemen's Land held its sittings re-
airly, but it appears to use extraordinary circum-
sprcti..n in making its decisions.
The following- ii an extract from a letter from Port-
au-Ps ince :
" A kw has passed tbe Chamber of Deputies, making landed
_property liable, and allowing it to be sold, for the payment o
debts: and from an understanding which exists between his Ex-
cellency the President and some of the leading Members of the
Chamber, there is no doubt that the territorial duty on coffee and
cocas will be reduced, sod the Patent Law sad tariff of Duties
revised this Session."
Such has been the mortality among theyoung lambs
this Inshing season, in the county of Berks, that a
dealer in lamb
skins at w onstage, has putchascd up-
wird* of 30,000 skiais.