Star.
London, England, 1827-08-02 00:00:00

YELLOW LEAVES.

FROM MU LOIIDOII WittELT 11111111 T.
The leaves are falling from the trees,
The flowers are fading all;
More chill and boisterous is the breeze,
Mere hoarse the waterfall;
The sky o'ermantled now with clouds,
Looks grey, and waned, and pale ;
The mist-fog spreads its hoary shrouds
O'er mountain, grove, and vale !
How lapse our years away! how fade
The raptarea of the mind !
Onward we pass to storm and shade, •
And leave blue skies behind:
Like yellow leaves, around us fall
The friends best lov'd and known ;
And when we most have need of all, .
We oft are most alone!
Still more alone ! blithe Spring comes round
Rich Summer-tide smiles by;
And golden Autumn paints the ground,
Till Winter's storm-blasts fly.
One after one, Friends drop away,
As months on months roll on ;
And hour by hour, and day by day,
The Old are more alone .
Still more alone! alas ! 'tis vain
New hopes, new beans to find ;
What magic can restore again
The visions ed Youth's mind?
Age walks amid an alter'd world,
'Mid bustling crowds unknown:
New scenes bath novelty unfarrd,
And left the old alone !
ar Sere leaves that dangle from Llfe's tree,'
The old might well have said,
s' A relict of the past are we;
A remnant of the dead;
Like emblems of forlorn decays
We linger till the last;
But Death's long night shall turn to day,
When Time itself is past!"
This is the anni y of the battle of Blenheim,
when the French bad 57,100 men killed, and 12,000 taken prisoners,
I 1704 ; and of Margaret Nicholson attempting to assassinate George
the Third, 1786.
The woekmen are still employed, preparing for the
erection of a statue to surmount the entablature at the new entrance
to Hyde Park; and when that undertaking is accomplished, the
work will be one of the most striking marks of the spirit of public
Improvement in the reign of thlolllll2 the Fovara.
Several colimns to the Grand Arch, opening upon
the Palace at Pimlico, are of the Corinthian order with pilasters to
correspond. The capitals are on, and nearly finished. Many or
the stage-coach travellers coming from the West, and entering the
Metropollsby Hyde Park, naturally express their admiration of the
taste and novelty, now so conspicuous.
The Admiralty, so long obscured by the smoke of
the town, presents a new face. Having been cleaned and brushed
up by order of his Royal Highness the Loan Mon Aoutaac, it is
seen to great advantage. The winged sea horses over the portal
attract more than usual notice. The bead Sod stern of a ship upon
the walls are now clearly made out, as appropriate ornaments.
Sr. JAMEB.I PAsur.—Several hundred wo: kmen are
at present employed in effecting the projected improvement, in St.
James's Park.—A part of them are cutting out the turf in various
places within the inclosure for the putpooe of planting, and others
are employed In cutting up mad levelling the walks, which It is
intended to convert into one perfect plane. The railing, enclosing
the green, has been carried back about six feet, and the hollow in
which it stood is filling up, which will form a broad walk instead of
the narrow one which formerly existed next the green. The car-
riage road through the Park has been stopped ; and a notice was
issued yesterday requesting the public not to interrupt the workmen,
by frequenting the Malls, during the short period the alterations
are to progress.
INDIAN DEATH.ILAST.—At Bandah, in Bundelcund,
one of the northern provinces of Hindostan, there are
numerous rocky hills, which during the hot winds become
so thoroughly heated as to retain their warmth from
sunset to sun-rise. The natives, at that sultry season,
invariably wear large folds of cloth around their
heads and faces, just leaving themselves sufficiently ex-
posed to be able to see and breathe. This precaution
is taken in consequence of the terrific blasts which oc•
casionally rush in narrow streams from between the hills.
Persons crassed by these scorching winds drop sud-
denly to the earth as if shot by a musket ball. When
medical assistance, or a supply of cold water is instan-
taneously procured, a recovery may generally be ex-
pected, but if no immediate remedy be applied, ran al-
most cut tales death is the r esult.—London Weekly Review.
A most distressing accident occurred this morning,
between eight and nine o'clock, in the premises of Mr.
Isaac Whatley, tallow melter, Peter-street, Clerkenwell.
Two men were occupied melting some of the materials
used in the business, and in raising the fire the boiler
burst, and its boiling contents flew over the workmen,
who in an instant staggered to the door in a dreadful
state. The loud noise alarmed Mr. Whatley, who was
at breakfast, and he ratoto the melting room to ascer-
:sin the cause. At the door he found one of the un-
fortunate men stretched, nerdy dead, and within the
roam was the other, the boiling matter rolling off him ;
he was insensible. Medical skill wa; procured, but the
men are so lamentably scalded, that but taint hopes are
entertained of their recovery. One of them, named
' ‘lrCarthy, has recovered his speech, but has, it is
feared, lost his sight for ever, the boiling tallow having
larted over his bead. The must skilful medical aid
has been called in to counteract the effects of the boil-
, 'mg fluid, at the ezpence of Mr. Whatley. The bursting
f the boiler has been attributed to the furnace being
overcharged.