Star.
London, England, 1819-04-26 00:00:00

SPRING-TIME.

Thy beams are sweet, beloved Spring!
• The Winter shades before thee fly ;
The bough smiles green, the young birds slog,
Their chaining current glistens by,
Till countless towers, like stars, illume
The deepeniag vale and forest gloom!
OM welcome, gentle guest, from high,
Sent so cheer our world below—
To lighten Sorrow's faded eye,
Nature's social glow;
Oh! he is o''r his fellows blest

Who Tees theein a•guiltless breast!
Among the numerous slug birds which delight us with their
Dotes in the Spring, the lark must not be forgotten. The me-
lody of this little creature continues during the whole of the
Satrirser. It is chiefly, however, in the morning and evening
din its strains arc heard ; and as it chaunts its mellow notes on
the wing, it is the yeculiar favourite of every person who has
taste to relish the beauties of Nature at the most tranquil seasons
of the day, particularly at dawn.
A pleasing picture of the Farm-yard, In this month, is drawn
by Dr. 13111LAIM, in his Poem of The Yew:
With ceaseless clamour now the Farm-yird rings;
The cock crows shrill defiance, strutting proud,
And claps his sombre wings, while all around
His uoop of hens, obsequious, favour seek;
He hears disdainful from the distant house
His challenge answered; while low hiss the geese,
Loud quack the ducks, that with their cleaving feet
Sail o'er the pond. irhe snarling mastiff barks
As baggars pass; and, proud with circling tail
And sweeping wing, the turkey gobbles harsh. •
The irritable hen, with her lend train
Of new-hatched chickens to the humbler cots,
Incept to pick the scatterei rumba, ixtrudes
Fearless, though oft expelled. Cluck:ng she calls
Her family more dose; at each attack
Her ruffled pinions speak her sadden ire;
The little brood, some widow's humble wealth,
• Scant aid of age, partake congenial heats
And chirp incessant round the blazing hearth!

The wonderful instinct of the hen in constructing her nest and
re acing. her young is a subject worthy of our observation. With
what caution does she provide herself a nest in places nuke-
vented, and free from noise and disturbance! When she has laid
r eggs ha such a manner that she can cover them, whp-tt care dots
she take In turning them frequently, that all parts may partake
of the vital warmth! When she leaves them, to provide for her
risteenary sustenance, how punctually does she return befoge they
have time to cool, and become incapable of producing an animal !
In the summer, you see her giving herself greater liberty, and
qoitting her care for above two hours together; but in winter,
when the rigour of the season would chill the principles of life,
and destroy the young ones, she grows more assiduous in her at-
tzndanee, and stays away but hnif the time. When the birth
approaches, with how much nicety and attention does she help
the chi& to break its prison ! Not to take notice of her covering
it from. the injuries of the weather, providing it proper nourish-
ment, and teaching It whelp Itself ; nor to mention her forsaking
else nest, if, after the usual time of reckoning, the young one
does net snake ita appearance. A chemical operation could not
be folkAred with greater art or dafagence than is seen in the
hitching of a chick.
The hen, considerod In other respects, is without the least
glimmering of thought or connuon sense. She mistakes a piece
of chalk for in egg, and sits on it in the same manner; she is in.
secsible of an increase or diminution in the number of dune-she
lays; she does not distinguish between her own and those of
anotr species ; and when the birth appears of ever so different
a bird, will ctwaisit it for her own. In all these circumstances,
which do not carry an immediate regard to the subsistence of
horself or her species, she is a very idiot. In other birds, too,
the object cf this instinct appears to be merely the preservation
of their specks ; for, netwithstan lag the natural love of brutes
is much IWA'a violent and Intense than in rational creatures, Pro-
vide-tee has taken care that it shall be no longer troublesome to
the parent than it is awful to the young ; fee as soon as the wants
of the latter cease, the mother withdraws her fondness, and leaves,
them to prcr6 e fe- rhemsehes: :NI. what is a very remarkable
circumstance in this part of instinct, we find that the love of the
parent may be contihieri beyond its usual time, if the preserva-
tion ciithe species require it ; as we may see in 111.-ds that drive
away their young as soon es they are able toga their livelihood,
but continue to feed them, if they are tied to the nest, confined to
a cage, or by any other means appear net in a condition is supply
their own necessities.

. FROhr run PARIS PAPERS.—The Cachemire goats
are arrived at Marseilles, and are now landing. Out
of the 568 destined to that port, 160 have died on
the passage; but the loss is in part compensated by
y it..lg ones dropped in the same period. The eight
14es embarked are reduced to five. M. Ten
nanX, member for Paris, is the person to whom we
owe this boon to our manufacturing industry. Having
learned front different travellers, that the Schahs of
Persia transported with success these animals from
ruler., their native region, to the eastern provinces
of Persia, horn Grand llucharia. to Kerman, he con-
ceival the idea of importing some of them into
Frarrze, to furnish the materials for manufacturing
shawls, and thus assure to our industry a tribute to
European luxury. M. Jaubert, our distinguished
Orientalist; and traveller, undertook the execution of
this project. The Duke of Richelieu declared him-
:cities protector, and the revered name of the founder
of Odessa awakened in all the Russian provinces,
through which M. Jaubert passed, the most lively
sentiments of kindness, and procured for him all the
succours which he could desue. For a long time M.
Tereauz received no intelligence from M. Jaubert,
and did not hear of his arrival on the sea of Asoph
bet by the journals. After having obtained his flock,
the difficulty was to carry them home. He lost 200
of them in the Seer*, of Oaral, and was obliged to
carry in 17 waggons those that became ickly and
diseased from hunger, fatigue, and cold. The hard-
ships endured from the last cause in traversing a re-
gion where the thermometer stood at from 18 to
22 degrees, and the danger of being devoured br
wolves, were not the only difficulties with which this
project.had to contend. The passage by sea to Prance
was still more hazardous, and occasioned the loss
above-mentioned. M. Jaubert still remains in the
Crimea with some of the sickly animals.
We are requested to inform our Readers, that
Messrs. Cloorsta and Co. Surgeons, of Charlotte-House,
Great Charlotte-street, Bluish iars-road, hrve, in con-
sequence of their extencive practice, and fur the ac-
commodation of patients at the West-cad of the town,
established a Ifedical Board in Woedstock-street,Ox-
!Ord-street, a few doors from Bond-street, where a
Physician, of 40 years experience, and a Surgeon of
great eminence, reside, and where all the Board alter-
nAtely attend, the whole of whom are Members or the
P.oyal Colleges—that thousands have been restored to
perfect health by their united talents is universally'
aeltnowledged, many of whom had been discharged
from Hospitals, and otherwise improperly treated.—
They are consulted at Woodstock-House, Woodstock-
street, from Eight in the Morning until Eight at
I+,,ght ; and at the Medical Board, Charlotte-House,
Black liars-road, from twelve till eight in the evening.
_Mechanics have advice gratis every evening from
six till eight, at both houses, and on Sunday mornings
u.. til twelve o'cldcls.--4.N. B. Messrs. COOPER and Co.
be;; to observe, they have no connection with any
her Content, therefore all letters are to be directed
CliArlotte-Hotue, adjoining Blackfriars-road.

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