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The secret of Dante's struggle through life was in the reck-
less sarcasm of his answer to the Prince of Verona, who asked
him how he could account for the fact, that in the household
of princes, the court fool was iu greater favour than the phi-
losopher. " Similarity of minds," said the fierce genius,
" is, all over the world, the source of friendship."

UNPROFITABLE DELIBERATION.—One half of human life
is made up of wasted consideration. The highways of the
world are strewed with the sands of thoughts cast away.—
The events over which we have no controul affect our des-
tidy a thousand-fold more than the few that we can govern;
and while we ponder over our decision, fate decides for us and
the game is played.
Dr. Cheyne and Tadlow were exceedingly corpulent men,
but the last was much the larger. Cheyne coming into a cof-
fee house one morning, and observing Tadlow alone and pen-
sive, asked him what occasioned his melancholy. " Cheyne,"
said he •` I have a very serious thought dome athwart me :
I am considering how the people will be able to get you and
me to the grave when we die.' " Why," said Cheyne, " six
or eight strong fellows may take me there at once ; but it is
certain that you must be carried there at twice.—Physic and
Physicians..

THE PLEASURES OF DELIRIUM.—In speaking of the sub-
ject of delirium Abernethy observes—" Delirium seems to
be a very curious affection ; in this state a man is quite un-
conscious of his disease ; he will give rational answers to any
question you put to him when you rouse him ; but, as I said
before, he relapses into a state of wandering, and his actions
correspond with his dreaming. I remember a man with a
compound fracture, in this hospita', whose leg was in a hor-
rible state of sloughing, and who had delirium in this state.
I have worried him, and said, 'Thomas, what is the matter
with you? how do you do ?' He would reply, ' Pretty hearty,
thank you ; nothing is the matter with me : how do you do ?'
He then would go on dreaming of one thing and another : I
have listened at his bed-side, and I am sure his dreams were
often of a pleasant kind. He met old acquaintances in his
dreams ; people whom he remembered lany syne ; his former
companions, his kindred and relations ; and he expressed his
delight at seeing them. He would exclaim every now and
then, That's a good one.'—` Well, I never heard a better
joke : ah ! ah ! ah ! give us your fist, my old fellow."—
Physic and Physicians.

THE MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.—The character of the mother
influences the children more than that of the father, because
it is more exposed to their daily, hourly observation. It is
difficult for these young, though acute observers, to compre-
hend the principles which regulate their father's political
opinions ; his vote in the senate ; his conduct in political or
commercial relations ; but they can see—yes ! and they can
estimate and imitate, the moral principles of the mother in
her management of themselves, her treatment of her domes-
tics, and the thousand petty details of the interior. These
principles, whether lax or strict, low or high in moral tone,
become, by an insensible and imperceptible adoption, their
principles ; and are carried out by them into the duties and
avocations of future life. It would be startling to many to
know with what intelligence and accuracy motives are pene-
trated, inconsistencies remarked, and treasured up with retri-
butive or imitative projects, as may best suit the purpose of
the moment. Nothing but a more extensive knowledge of
children than is usually possessed on entering life can awaken
parents to the perception of this truth ; and awakened per-
ception may, perhaps, be only awakened misery.— Woman's
Mission.

LIFE IN BOGOTA.—From eight to nine he (the Bogatono)
breakfasts on arracacha soup, or rice well greased ; fried
eggs, seasoned with garlic ; boiled potatoes, bread, and a dish
of fried beef, which is cut into small strips, without a particle
of fat, seasoned well with cumminseed and garlic, and so
over-done that the juices of the meat are entirely dried up ;
this they eat with a spoon. These people are also fond of
a dish called bollo ; it looks like an apple dumpling, and is
made with pieces of pork, and seasoned like the dried beef,
and well smothered in hog's lard, all enclosed in a thick
paste and boiled. The coffee and chocolate are not drunk
with their meat, but immediately afterwards, and then the
same small cup is made use of as in the morning. The dis-
gusting habit of a whole family using one red earthen goblet,
or tituma, in common for drinking from, is universally pre-
valent. Their dinner varies but little from the breakfast.
Their hour of dining is from one to two ; and a " dulce" of
some kind is invariably added. Pork is of very general use
among them, while they seem nearly unacquainted with mut-
ton. Plantains and arracachas are seldom to be missed at
table, these being their two staple vegetables ; the latter, a
very tasteless sort of thing, yields most abundantly ; indeed,
more so than any vegetable I ever saw, and would, no doubt,
be a great acquisition to any country. The milk brought to
market is shockingly bad, and is generally boiled to prevent
it from souring. In short, their whole living is of the most
miserable description. The wines generally used are
wretched claret, and a sort of mixture made in the country
from brandy and sweet malaga, in imitation of Teneriffe.—
Bogota, in 1836-7, by J. Stewart.

LlME.—The benefit to be derived from lime depends much
oes the nature of the soil, or on the number of times it has
been previously applied before the dressing contemplated.
Strong lands are much improved for two or three crops by
this stimulus, but a repetition given in a few years will not
have the same good effect, unless the land in the interim has
been under a clover or other green crop, by which a body of
vegetable matter will be introduced for the lime to act upon.
The deficiency of vegetable matter in light soils is therefore
one of the reasons which prevents lime from acting upon
them beneficially : it should in consequence be used very
sparingly, with an interval of six or seven years between
each liming. Indeed, it is often as necessary to change the
mode of manuring land as it is to change the crops to be cul-
tivated : and it is from not observing this system that many
of the best arable lands become deteriorated, although the
tiller fancies he is doing them great justice by liming them
every three or four years, and fallowing them alternately.
Let but the introduction of one green crop, however, be
tried during this time, and be will find his crops of corn in-
crease two-fold afterwards, and his land be in a better state.
The most beneficial mode of using lime on thin and arid
soils, is to mix it with fresh soil,- different in quality to the
land on which it is to be applied, and blend them well toge-
ther for three or four months before being laid on. In doing
this the lime ought to be well slaked and mixed as evenly as
possible through the heap, and when turned, every clod
well broken. I nave had excellent crops of the Norfolk and
stone turnip by this dressing, even on poor lands, afterwards
good barley and seeds in succession. No doubt, mixing the
lime first with soil will create more labour, but this is amply
repaid by its greater permanency and productiveness as a
manure.

BURNING WOODS.—[Extraet of a letter from U.S.] We
have lately had one of those great fires to which we are oc-
casionally subject, and which intimate pretty plainly that
even we, of the old states, are not yet quite out of the woods.
It occurred about forty miles from Philadelphia, and began
on the estate of a Mr. M`Carthy. The first notice that he
had of it, was the large mass of smoke ascending in the dis-
tance. He was at dinner at this time, and the rush of the
flames was almost incredible. In less than fifteen minutes
from the first alarm, the woods, for miles, were wrapped
in a broad and lurid sheet of flame, while the thick smoke
blackened the atmosphere, and nearly obscured the light of
day. The noise is described as like the mingling of advancing
thunder, and the roaring of the sea. The stream of tire,
when first observed, covered a space of three miles in width,
and rushed on its wild progress with intense fury. Its ex-
tent and velocity may be adequately appreciated, when we
mention, that, in the course of nine hours, it destroyed the
woods and herbage covered an area of twenty-five miles.
The ground was exceedingly dry, the leaves had not put forth
in any strength, and most of the large trees being pine, every
thing seemed to combine to give force to the conflagration,
which was fanned by a gale of wind from the south-east.
The spot over which the element passed is represented as a
melancholy ruin—the trees perfectly leafless, like skeletons,
and the underbush, before impenetrable, now utterly des-
troyed.—Athenceum.
INDIAN LOVE OF WHISKEY.—If an Indian of one tribe is
killed by an Indian of another, the murderer is demanded,
and must either be given up, or his life must be taken by his
own tribe ; if not, a feud between the two nations would be
the inevitable result. It appeared that a young Menonnomie,
in a drunken fray, had killed a Winnebago, and the culprit
was demanded by the head men of the Winnebago tribe. A
council was held ; and, instead of the Menonnomie, the chiefs
of the tribe offered them whiskey. The Winnebagos could
not resist the temptation ; and it was agreed that ten gallons
of whiskey should be produced by the Menonnomies, to be
drunk by all parties over the grave of the deceased. The
squaws of the Menonnomie tribe had to dig the grave, as is
the custom—a task of no little labour, as the ground was
frozen hard several feet below the surface. The body was
laid in the grave ; the mother of the deceased, with the rest
of the Winnebago squaws, howling over it, and denouncing
vengeance against the murderer ; but in a short time the
whiskey made its appearance, and they all set to to drink.
In an hour they were all the best friends in the world, and all
very drunk. The old squaw mother was hugging the mur-
derer of her son ; and it was a scene of intoxication which,
in the end, left the majority of the parties assembled, for a
time, quite as dead as the man in the grave. Such are the
effects of whiskey upon these people, who have been destroyed
much more rapidly by spirituous liquors than by all the wars
which they have engaged in against the whites.—Marryat's
America.

CANAL ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN.—Ayear or two
ago, with the rest of the press, we noticed a contract, made by
Col. Charles Biddle, for the privilege of making a canal, rail-
road, or Macadamised road, over the Isthmus of Darien. The
Col. as will readily be understood, by those who understand
the nature of the enterprise, has found it expedient to aban-
don it. The contract has now been taken by a rich house in
Guadaloupe, Salmon and Co. and notwithstanding that there
is a penalty of 25,000 dollars, for nonfuliihnent, we have no
doubt that this house will choose rather to make the forfeit
than undertake to prosecute the work. If finished, it will
yearly decrease in value, as it reverts to the government of
New Grenada, after fifty years from the date of its completion.
The advantages of this work have been, we think much
over-rated. To reach the depot, on this side of the Isthmus,
vessels must run down an unhealthy coast, and find at the
termination of their voyage, a place at certain seasons of the
year, absolutely uninhabitable, except to the few acclimated
residents. The voyage would be more unhealthy than almost
any now prosecuted ; and this circumstance would make the
route much more expensive than the old way round Cape
Horn. The trouble and expense for outward bound cargoes
would hardly pay ; and return cargoes for South America are
scarcely sufficient for the ballast of vessels. Once round the
Horn and in the Pacific, the mariner is in the pleasantest
weather, and among the most equable winds in the world.
Storms are unfrequent, and by laying a course nearer to, or
farther from the shore, the coast may be ran up or down as
the mariner wishes. " Keep to the right" is almost as literally
the law of the Pacific, as the law of the road.. Vessels bound
up the coast from Cape Horn, may hug the coast, and have
tolerably fair winds all the way ; vessels bound down have
only to stretch off shore, and have a fair wind down. In view
of these advantages in the navigation of the Pacific, the
isthmus canal becomes a matter of very little present conse-
quence to foreigners. If New Grenada were a great com-
mercial nation, the establishment of a dep.& on this side of
the Isthmus, for the supply of her immediate neighbours on
the other side, would be a most glorious commercial specu-
lation ;—and atthe end of fifty years, a great part of the whole
trade of the Western part of the southern continent might
find its way through this channel, and erect another Venice
or two to be enriched by the passage. Enterprise on the spot
must open this communication however—it is not to be done
by those who have no interest in the soil.—New York "freckly
Dispatch.
MANNERS OF OUR ANCESTORS.—Lord Dorchester, hav-
ing no wife to do the honours of the table at Thoresby, im-
posed that task upon his eldest daughter, as soon as she had
bodily strength for the office, which in those days required.
no small share. For the mistress of a country mansion was
not only to invite (that is, urge and tease) her company to
eat more than human throats could conveniently swallow,
but to carve every dish, when chosen, with her own hands.
The greater the lady, the more indispensable the duty. Each
joint was carried up in its turn, to be operated upon by her,
and her alone ; since the peers and knights on either hand
were so far from being bound to offer their assistance, that
the very master of the house, posted opposite to her, might
not act as her croupier ; his department was to push thel bot-
tle after dinner. As for the crowd of guests, the most incon-
siderable among them—the curate, or subaltern, or squire's
younger brother—if suffered through her neglect to help him-
self to a slice of the mutton placed before him, would have
chewed it in bitterness, and gone home an affronted man,
half inclined to give a wrong vote at the next election. There
were then professed carving-masters, who taught young ladies
the art scientifically ; from one of whom Lady Mary said she
took lessons three times a week, that she might be perfect on
her father's public days; when, in order to perform her
functions without interruption, she was forced to eat her own
dinner alone an hour or two beforehand.—Correspondence of
Lady Mary Montagu, by Lord WharncUe.

THE BEAUTY OF BRAZILIAN FORESTS.—Delight is a
weak word to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the
first time, has been wandering by himself in a Brazilian fo-
rest. Among the multitude of striking objects, the general
luxuriance of the vegetation bears away the victory. The
elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants,
the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foilage, all
tend to this end. A most paradoxical mixture of sound and
silence pervades the shady parts of the wood. The noise
from the insects is so loud, that it may be heard even in a
vessel anchored several hundred yards from the shore; yet,
within the recesses of the forest, a universal silence appears
to reign.—Darwin's Narrative.
AN AMERICAN CEDAR SWAMP.—These swamps are from
half a mile to a mile in breadth, and sometimes five or six in
length, and appear as if they occupied the former channel of
some choked-up river, stream, lake, or arm of the sea. The
appearance they present to a stranger is singular. A forest
of tall and perfectly straight trunks, rising to the height of
fifty or sixty feet without a limb, and crowded in every di-
rection, their tops so woven together as to shut out the day,
spreading the gloom of a perpetual twilig ht below. On a
nearer approach, they are found to rise out of the water,
which, from the impregnation of fallen leaves and roots of
the cedars, is of the colour of brandy. Amidst this bottom
of congregated springs, the ruins of the former forest lie in
every state of confusion. The roots, prostrate logs, and in
many places the water, are covered with green mantling moss;
while an undergrowth of laurel, fifteen or twenty feet high,
intersects every spring so completely as to render a passage
through laborious and barrassing beyond description. At
every step you either sink to the knees, clamber over fallen
trees, squeeze yourself through between the stubborn laurels,
or plunge to the middle in ponds made by the uprooting of
the large trees, and which the green moss concealed from
observation. In calm weather the silence of death reigns in
these dreary regions ; a few interrupted rays of light shoot
across the gloom ; and, unless for the occasional hollow
screams of the herons, and the melancholy chirping of one
or two small birds, all is silence, solitude, and desolation.
When a breeze rises, at first it sighs mournfully through the
tops ; but as the gale increases, the tall mast-like cedars
wave like fishing-poles, and, rubbing against each other, pro-
duce a variety of singular noises, that, with the help of a little
imagination, resemble shrieks, groans, growling of bears,
and such like comfortable music.—Wilson's American
Ornithology.
AMERICAN FALSE DELICACY.—When at Niagara Falls,
I was escorting a young lady with whom I was on friendly
terms. She had been standing on a piece of rock, the better
to view the scene, when she slipped down, and was evidently
hurt by the fall; she had in fact grazed her shin. As she
limped a little in walking home, I said " Did you hurt your
leg much ?" She turned from me, evidently much shocked,
or much offended ; and not being aware that I had commit-
ted any very henious offence, I begged to know what was the
reason of her displeasure. After some hesitation, she said
that as she knew me well, she would tell me that the word leg
was never mentioned before ladies. I apologised for my want
of refinement, which was attributable to my having been ac-
customed only to English society, and added, that as such
articles must occasionally be referred to, even in the most
polite circles of America, perhaps she would inform me by,
what name I might mention them without shocking the com-
pany. Her reply was, that the word limb was used ; " nay"
continued she, lam not so particular as some people are,
for I know those who always say limb of a table, or limb of
a piano-forte." There the conversation dropped; but a few
months afterwards I was obliged to acknowledge that the
young lady was correct when she asserted that some people
were more particular than even she was. I was requested
by a lady to escort her to a seminary for young ladies, and
on being ushered into the reception-room, conceive my as-
tonishment at beholding a square piano-forte with four limbs.
However, that the ladies who visited their daughters might
feel in its full force the extreme delicacy of the mistress of
the establishment, and her care to preserve in their utmost
purity the ideas f the young ladies under her charge, she
had dressed all these four limbs in modest little trowsers,
with frills at the bottom of them !—Captain Marryat's Diary.
THE REIGNING SOVEREIGN OF BURMAH.—The Alompra
forehead, which distinguishes this family, slopes backward
somewhat too rapidly for a good head, but is high, and has
great breadth. When speaking, his countenance is lighted
up with great animation. Though less literary than his
uncle, the Mekara prince, he is considered more talented,
and to possess more general information. He spoke in high
terms of our country, and acknowledged the impolicy of the
restriction on exports, and other impediments at Rangoon.
In remarking on various countries and their institutions, he
showed not only an enlightened, but a reflective and strong
mind. Respecting the tribes between here and China, he
gave me much valuable information. The object of my visit
to the " golden city" being explained to him, I expressed
much satisfaction in finding our ministers here fully pro-
tected, and enjoying all the rights of citizenship. He im-
mediately drew a comparison between the liberal usages of
this country, in receiving and protecting all foreigners, and
the policy of China in excluding them ; invited me to place
teachers in the adjacent cities ; and recommended me to
travel in the interior, and see more of the country. During
the interview, his lady was introduced, with a lovely infant,
two or three years old ; and nothing occurred to indicate that
odious haughtiness which so generally attaches to men of his
rank in the East. On taking leave, he invited us to visit his
garden next day, which we did ; for I deem a garden a test
of civilization. We found a large space, perhaps an acre,
well laid out, with raised brick footpaths, plastered, and re-
sembling stone. Marble tanks, artificial ponds, with gold
and crimson fish, numerous watercourses and reservoirs, and
several men engaged in drawing water from wells, showed
how much attention to irrigation is necessary to a garden
at Ava. He had the peach, apple, coffee, fig, and many
other foreign fruits, beside the varieties of luscious ones
which are native. In an adjacent enclosure he had wild ani-
mals and some singular birds, perfectly gentle, and going at
large. On the whole, it was a tasteful and pleasing spot.—
Malcom's Travels in South-eastern Asia.
HALL'S PATENT HYDRAULIC BELT, OR WATER ELE-
VATOR.—On Tuesday last, by invitation, we went to the pre-
mises of Messrs. Eveleigh and Neave, hat manufacturers,
Greengate, Salford, to see a newly-invented apparatus for
raising water from great depths, which has been erected and
in operation at those premises about a fortnight. The in-
vention consists of an endless woollen band or belt, seven
inches wide, passing over two plain rollers, one (in this in-
stance about two feet in diameter) fixed at the top of the
well, and another, and smaller one (about six inches diameter),
two or three feet below the surface of the water (the well be-
ing supplied from, and consequently always on a level with,
the river Irwell, which flows past'the premises.) The roller
beneath the water is so fixed, that the ascending half of the
belt passes ovee it, while the descending portion of the belt
doe, not come tightly over the roller, there being always se-
veral feet of loose belt in the water. The upper roller, in this
instance, is fifty-five feet above the surface of the water ; and
when its axis in this case makes 150 revolutions per minute,
it indicates the velocity of the woollen belt to be about one
thousand feet per'minute, which, as we learn, is the speed at
which the apparatus is found to work most efficiently. The
motive power in this case is derived from a steam engine,
the power of which we did not learn, and which, it may be
observed, having no governor to regulate the rate of speed
and keep it uniform, works very unequally—sometimes too
slowly, and at others, too fast for the belt. When put in mo-
tion, and the speed of the belt about a thousand feet per mi-
nute, the ascending belt is seen to rise rapidly, saturated with
water; and at that velocity the adhesion of the water is found
to overcome its gravity, and a larger quantity of water than
could be raised by a common pump is thus lifted, and dis-
charged as the belt passes over the roller at the top, flying off
by the contrifugal force into a small reservoir, from which it
runs, by a spout about eight inches wide, in a continuous
stream of about an inch in depth, into two tanks, connected
by a pipe, from which it supplies water for the purpose of
washing and dyeing the hats. The small reservoir under the
upper roller is boxed in ; but, on looking through a ,small
glass window in the side, the water is seen flying off from the
roller, in a sort of parabolic curve, and in quantities which
would hardly be credited until actually seen. It has been
ascertained, that the quantity raised at these premises, from
a depth of fifty-five feet, by a single belt, averages from fifty
to fifty-six gallons per minute, as proved by the water in the
tanks being raised a certain height in a given time-40 1-3
gallons raising the height one inch. At the Portman
Market London, one of these endless belts has been in ope-
ration for some time, and there it raises on an average 50 to
56 gallons of water per minute, from a well to a height of a
hundred and thirty feet above the surface. This is accom-
plished by a single belt, seven inches in width, but of course
with a much greater expenditure of power than at Messrs.
Eveleigh and Neave's, where the water lifted to scarcely half
the height. It is, however, obvious, that at the velocity of
a thousand feet of belt per minute, about the same quantity
of water can be raised from various depths, at a greater or less
expenditure of steam power. What that expenditure may be
in any given case, we have no means of ascertaining, though
it is clearly the most important ingredient towards deciding
the question of the advantage of this apparatus over the or-
dinary and other pumps in general use. Should this be found
to be as stated, this revolting bolt would undoubtedly possess
various advantages over pumps where water is to be raised
from considerable depths. It combines simplicity of con-
struction with regularity and efficiency in operation. The
rapid emotion of the belt occasions it to act as a ventilator,
and therefore serves to increase its value in mines, pits, and
other places, where ventilation is needed. We understand
that Mr. Hall, the inventor and patentee, is at present en-
gaged in fitting up this apparatus at Mr. Wheater's, the Vic-
toria Brewery, Salford, where its work will be to raise from
a deep well the water required for the purposes of the brewery,
to a height of more than eighty feet above the surface of the
water. We have also heard, that the proprietor of a colliery
in the neighbourhood intends to have the hydraulic belt pla-
ced in one of his coal pits, where its labour will be to raise
upwards of a hundred and fifty feet. The woollen band,
which is the subject of the patent, is a single fabric. which
appears to mill up or shrink, and also to increase in thick-
ness, from the action of the water ; and we understand that
it costs about ls. 3d. per yard. A number of scientific gen-
tlemen and master machiners, we understand, have visited
the apparatus, at Messrs. Eveleigh and Neaves, and seen it
in operation ; but we have not heard what their opinions were
respecting it.—Manchester paper.
WONDERS OF SCIENCE.—What mere assertion will make
any man believe, that in one second of time, in one beat of
the pendulum-of a clock, a ray of light travels over 192,000
miles, and would therefore perform the tour of the world in
about the same time that it requires to wink with our eyelids,
and in much less than a swift runner occupies in taking a
single stride ? What mortal can be made to believe, without
demonstration, that the sun is almost a million times larger
than the earth? and that, although so remote from us that a
cannon ball shot directly towards it and maintaining its full
speed, would be twenty years in reaching it, it yet affects the
earth by its attraction in an inappreciable instant of time ? a
closeness of union of which we can form but a feeble and to-
tally inadequate idea, by comparing it to any material con-
nection ; since the communication of an impulse to such a
distance, by any solid intermedium we are acquainted with,
would require, not moments, but whole years ; and when
with pain and difficulty we have strained our imagination to
conceive a distance so vast, aforce so intense and penetrating,
if we are told that the one dwindles to an insensible point and
the other is unfelt at the meanest of the fixed stars, from the
mere effect of their remoteness, while among those very stars
are some whose actual splendour exceeds by many hundred
times that of the sun itself—although we may not deny the
truth of the assertion, we cannot but feel the keenest curi-
osity to know how such things were ever made out.—Sir
John Herschel.

THE FORCE OF CONSCIENCE.—WhiIe in Bengal (says Mr.
Forbes) my society was assiduously cultivated by one of the
most enlightened natives. He was a person of profound parts,
and most acute discernment. We became deeply attached to
each.other, and daily spent hours together in the investiga-
tion of moral and physical science. Years after our acquaint-
ance had commenced, I received from England the present
of an elegant microscope. This, upon his next visit, I ex-
hibited to the Brahmin, and directed his attention to the
animalcules in water. He made no observation, and I saw
him not for some time. After months of absence, he called
and said he was desirous of purchasing the microscope. "It
is a present from a friend, and it is impossible for me to sell
it." " That friend's object was to afford you gratification.
Were I to give you ten or twenty times its value, your friend's
object would be equally obtained." "You place the matter
in a new, and perhaps a correct point of light. Pay me
rupees, and the microscope is yours." He handed me the
money, and I gave him the instrument ; seizing it eagerly,
he at once dashed it upon the floor, and broke it into a thou-
sand pieces. " Why this frantic act ?"—I exclaimed—" it
was for the promotion of science I believed you had made the
purchase." "No ! lam taught by the religion to which I
firmly adhere, that he who destroys life will be eternally
punished. I have, however, learned by that instrument, that
I cannot either breathe or drink without destroying myriads.
My knowledge and my faith are therefore at variance, and I
am made miserable during existence. I bid you farewell; and
farewell for ever !" . He left me, and I again never saw my
conscientious friend.—Oriental Memoirs.

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Alarktto.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 25.

We continue to have a good demand for Cotton, but holders seem
Mtle disposed to meet it, even at an advance of id to id lb on
Friday's prices; the sales yesterday amounted to 6000 bales, and to
day 5000: American at 62d to gid, 500 Pernams gd to gid, 300 Ma-
ranhams Bid to gid, 200 Bahia Elid to gct ; 100 Carthagena bid, 100
Laguira 82d, and 200 Egyptian at 1 lid to 13d. Exporters have
taken 450 American, 150 Pernams and 150 Maranhams.

LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JtiLY 52.
Batter is coming in freely, and prices may be noted Is to 2s
lower. Belfast 92s to 93s ; Carlow and Kilkenny 88s to 925.
Pickled Butter 88s (Dr seconds. Not much doing in Beef and Pork
beyond the usual ship store demand. Prime Bacon commands 52s
with a fair consumption.