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from Chiriis by the grandfather of the present emperor.
It was thought that the climate and soil of Brazil would
be suitable for its cultivation ; but the success of the ex-
periment has not equalled the expectations which were
formed of it, notwithstanding that the growth of the
plants and the preparation of the leaves were managed by
natives of China accustomed to such occupations. In the
province of San Paulo a few large plantations of tea have
been established • that belonging to the ex-regent Feijo
containing upwards of twenty thousand trees. The pro-
duce is sold in the shops of Rio, and in appearance is
scarcely to be distinguished from that of Chinese manu-
• 3 flavour is inferior, being more of a herby
)1d at about the same price ; but it is now

ascertained that it cannot be produced so as to give a suf-
ficient recompense to the grower, the price of labour being
much greater in Brazil than in China; to remunerate, it
said that tight to bring five shillings per
is into the Interior of Brazil.

—Gardner's T 1

L. "'T' ON AT THE PRESENT SEASON wears its dirtiest,
dreariest, and 'most disconsolate garb. The streets are
slippery with black mud or blacker ice, a yellow halo sur-
rounds the gas lamps, even the bude lights look quenched
and uncomfortable. Cabmen, peevish at the palm ity of
tares, curse with triple itensity the wood pavement. and
the luckless garroiis that slide and stumble over it ; the
blue and benumbed fingers of Italian grinders can scarcely
turn the organ handles ; tattered children and halt-
starved women, pale, shivering, and tearful, pester the
pedestrian with offers of knitted wares, and of winter
nosegays meagre as miserable as themselves. The popu-
lar cheerfulness and merry-making of Christmas-time are
over. and have not yet been succeeded by the bustle and
gaiety of the fashionable world. London is abandoned
to its million of nobodies ; the few thousands whose pre
sense gives it life, still on the list of absentees
BlacPecod's Maar
THF,

s. CHAMBERS.--These two gentlemen ar
le world as the able editors and proprietor

of the Journal which bears tbeirname. For that iniblicatior
Mr. Robert. Chambers _ wrote a number of interesting

Essays, which have just been re-published in a separate
volume. Those essays no doubt contributed greatly to
the popularity of the former successful work, and the,-
to be followed by other writings from thy,

,n of that

gentleman. In the preface to-the essays
says of his early youth,—" My earliest aspirations were
towards literature. Books, not playthings, tilled my
hands in childhood. At twelve, I was deep not only in
poetry and fiction, but in histories and encyclbpredias.
By day and night I read, and duties required by parents
were grudged if they separated me from study. Even niy
choice of an occupation for needful bread was determined

Nlr: Chambers

by this passion, for I broke from hoMe control at sixteen,
preferring the poorest life amongst books to all ordinary
courses of industry. It was but a proper sequel ,to such
a beginning, that I should have scarcely reached man-
hood, when I had become an author.'

To THE WORKING CLASSES.— - are always more
unhealthy than the country. In the country parts of
England and Wales one person out of every 55 people dies
every year ; and*.in the towns, taken one with another,

-Towris

People ev

. .
compare these numbers together, you will See the truth of
what we have said. All towns are not equally unhealthy.
One out of every 37 people dies every year in London ;
but in Liverpool one, person out of every 28 people dies
every year. London is not a very healthy town, but if
Liverpool were as healthy as London there would be 18C0
funerals less every year in Liverpool than there are. if
Liverpool were as healthy as some other parts of Lanca-
shire, there would be 31;00 lives saved every year. The
very burying of these poor people costs £lB,OOO a year to
their relatives, besides all the trouble and sorrow and loss
caused by their deaths. It is no wonder that there at

many burial clubs in Liverpool to help the poor to hear
the expense. There is also a great deal of sickness more
than there ought to be. It is not so bad for the working
men who live a good deal in the open air, but their wives
and children, who live at home, suffer prodigiously. It
has been calculated that there are no fewer than 100,000
cases of illness every year in Liverpool more than there
ought to be. You will now be able to understand why
there are so many benefit societies and sick clubs ; and you
know best how much of your earnings goes to pay the ex-
penses of illness, and the doctor's bill. Some of you are
not even able to pay that. You are obliged to go to, the

dispensaries, for there are above 5000 sick relieved by
them every year. Do you know that work-people die at
a much earlier age in Liverpool than they do elsewhere ?
One-half of all the children born in Liverpool die before
they reach eight years of age ; but in London, which is a
healthier town, one-half the children born live to be 40

years old. Every your

z- person who lives to be 20 years

befo-rehis time, on account Of the bad state of this town.
Now, nearly all these calamities fall on you, the work-
ing classes. People that live in the better, parts of the
town are far more healthy and longer lived than you are.
In proportion to the population, nearly twice as in: ny
people die every year in Vauxhall Ward, as die in Rodney-
street and Abercromby Wards ; and in Vauxhall Ward,
people, taking young and old together, have the chance of
living eight years less than they have in Rodney-street
and Abercromby Wards. Of course all this sickness and

Address of the

death costs a' great deal of money
Liverpool Health Association.
FATIGUES AND FORTUNE OF BALLET PERFORMERS.
—Few of the amateurs, who, armed with double-barrelled
telescopes, contemplate from box or stall the agile bounds
and graceful evolutions of the houris of the ballet, have
any conception of the amount of labour and torture gone
through, before even an approach to perfection in the
Terpsichorean art is accomplished. Alberic Second, the
very witty author of a very amusing book (albeit in
thorough French taste) " Les Petits Mysteres de l'Opera,"
to whose pages Mr. Hervey confesses himself largely in-
debted, gives many curious details on this subject. An

immense amount of courage, patience, resignation, and
toil, is necessary, to become even a middling dancer.
The poor children—for dancing, above all things, must be
learnt young—commence with the stocks, heel to heel
and knees outwards. Half an hour of this, and another
species of martyrdom begins. One foot is placed upon a
bar which is grasped by the contrary hand. This is
called se casser, to break one's self. After this agreeable

3S. essential to an

greeable elements of the art of dancing
suppose that these rude fatigues are of short
duration. They are perpetual, and on that condition

are the

only dues a dancer retain
week's idl(n;_‘ss must be at,