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LORD ABINGER'S ALLEGORY.

(From the Book of Beauty for 1839.)
At the base of an extensive chain of mountains, whose sum•
mite touched the Skies, once dwelt a people celebrated fur
wisdom, piety, and valour. Time, which destro)s all things,
has obliterated their original name. Divided from the rest
of mankind, on the one side by inaccessible mountains, and
on all other sides by the ocean, it was upon that element only
that they held any commerce with other nations. Their
geographical position, fortified by naval defences, secured
them front foreign invasion. Whilst other countries were
ravaged by I•ostile armies, and by famine and pestilence,
which follow in their track, this happy people read of the ca-
lamities of war only in their gazettes. The song of triumph
was often snug at their festivals, but the shout of victory was
never heard in their holds. In these. were seen only the
traces of agriculture and abundance, whilst their cities re-
sounded with the busy hum of industry, or the cheerful tones
of amusement Their institutions, .founded in great anti-
quity, had been prudently accommodated to the change of
circumstances, and improved gradually by time, and a con-
stant attention,to preserve their true spirit and practical ad-
vantages. In the true spirit of patriotism, they loved their
laws and institutions not only for their intrinsic value, but
because they had inherited them from their fathers, had been
imbued with them from their infancy, and found them
moulded up wit b, and grafted into, their language, their man-
ners, and their habits. Ideal forms of government they
treated as the ;Amusement of conversation, not as the practi-
cal business of life. They considered them as the statesmen
of Rome considered the various systems of philosophy taught
by the Greeks, worthy of being studied "dispatundi causd,
non ita vivendi." They acknowledged nothing abstract, either
in virtue, or liberty, orlaw. Habit. practice, and experience,
they looked upon as the true sources of attachment, and the
surest foundations of knowledge. They were not less remark-
able for devotion to their religion: Before revelation had
sl ed its light amongst men, the constellations of the heavens
were the most natural objects of wonder and venerwion.
'[his people worshipped the sun and the moon. To the first
they ascribed the powers of life and fertility. To his halo-
' once they acknowledged their obligations for their blessings
of corn, and wine, and oil, and all the fruits of the earth by
Which man is nourished, and all the flowers of the field by
which his senses are delighted. Their hearts swelled with
gratitude, and their lips sounded with praise. when they bent
towards his rising orb as the author of these inestimable gifts.
But when, ascended above the horizon, he darted his beams
through the misty clouds of morning, and melted them front
before hint, they found his face too bright to be looked at ;
they averted their eyes front a radiance they could no longer
endure, and sought refuge in the temples dedicated to his
worship, where they adored, in silent awe, the surpassing
splendour of his meridian glory. A sense of unbounded power
aas mingled with their devotion : they felt conscious of an
influence that could destroy as well as preserve; and they were
tilled with reverence and fear when -they sought to propitiate a
god at once iucomprehensible and unapproachable. Not
with less reverence, but with less fear, they worshipped the
moon. in her they contemplated chiefly the attribute of be-
nevolence, which spread a mild lustre over her countenance,
and adorned it with ineffable grace. As she rose teen behind
their lofty mountains, she became a signal for the cessation
of labour, and the approach of pleasure. Those nights of
the month, when she shone in her futlest beauty, were dedi-
cated to social amusement, mixed with religious rites. Songs
of praise and the harmony of musical instruments expressed
and elevated their gratitude. The wide expanse of the hea-
vens formed the temple of the goddess. illuminated only by
the chaste and silvery flood of light which she poured upon
her votaries. These nights were passed in processions, in

festivity, in dancing. Devotion was mingled with their
amusement, and piety was a portion of their joy. They had
a religious establishment which enjoined these rites, and cul-
tivated these feelings. The rules of morality were inculcated
by their preachers, and corroborated by the sanctions of reli-
gion; and the habits of the youth were formed to a love of
peace, order, and virtue. But neither the power nor the
happiness of a station can endure for ever. After many ages
of unexampled prosperity—the admiration and envy of the
world—the harmony of this people began to be disturbed by
a sect of dissenters from the worship of the sun. At the first,
these were but few in number, and had only declared a pre-
ference for the moon, as the purest object of adoration. The
unmixed delight which she gave, the .habitual pleasure and
gaiety that accompanied her periodical splendour, were the
first allurements of these her votaries towards their new he-
resy. At length. by the incessant practice of extolling her
superior claims, and directing their devotions to her, the
religious admiration and fervour which she excited began to
he extravagant and exclusive. Her beauty, her charms.-her
power, her virtues, were their constant themes of celebration
and praise, till, like the blessed Virgin amongst the Papists,
she begun to rob the true deity of his worship, and her parti-
sans ventured openly to deny the divinity of the sun. Whilst
their numbers were inconsiderable, they gave no alarm to the
government or the church, and were allowed to breach their
new doctrine without molestation or •controversy. But as
this new doctrine was founded on the mixture of pleasure
with devotion, and appealed for its truth to the senses, it
possessed a charm for the multitude, which engrossed their
passions and inflamed their zeal. The proselytes increased,
and their numbers-encouraged the boldness of the preachers.
It was in vain that the regular clergy endeavoured to call the
people back from their phrenzy by appealing to the past, by
reminding them of the blessings they had enjoyed fur so many
years under the united worship of the sun and 'moon ; by ad-
monishing them that the theories of their new instructors,
however specious; were not founded on experience, nor capa-
ble of 1,1..4. The arguments of the church served but to
kindle new zeal in her opponents. They treated her defenders
as actuated by a sense of personal interest; or as governed by
antiquated prejudices: they ridiculed experience as the
test of reasoning; and treated the wisdom of past ages as a
mere topic to delude the present, to throw a mist of prejudice
over the eye.of reason, and to fetter the freedom of inquiry.
They resettled the aid which the government afforded to the
national worship as an unjust interference with the rights of
man; and they denounced as intollerance the support of one
form of worship. anti the encouragement of one system of re-
ligious opinions. • They published pamphlets, without num-
ber, to prove that all mildness, charity, and benevolence,
flowed from the moon; that the sun was rather an object of
terror; that his influence was malignant; that his burning
rays would dry up and consume the earth, but for the kindly
rain and refreshing dews, which they ascribed to the labours
of the moon. They taught that between these two luminaries
there was a constant struggle, in which the moon prevailed;
that she was engaged, during her recess, in throwing darkness
over the night, to counteract the effect of the excessive light
with which.he dazzletlAe eyes of men in the day ; but when
she appeared in the firmament with him, it was to mitigate
the fervour of his rays; and when she beatned in her soft
glories—the sovereign of the night—it was to give to the
world a foretaste of the undying rapture which would attend
her aisle dominion. From these premises they deduced, by
plain reasoning, that the safety, as well as the happiness of
men, depended ott the moon ; and a corresponding duty on
their part to worship her alone, and by sacrifice and prayer
to propitiate her and to encourage her to shine the brighter
and the longer for their benefit. They gained many prose-
lytes by theif reasoning, but more by their eloquence in
preaching. This they practised, chiefly during the full of
he moon, to vast congregations assembled under the canopy
of the heavens, made resplendent by the orb which the preach-
ers invoked, to which the eyes of all the audience were
turned, and from which they imbibed at once an impression
of the truth and of the delight of their religion. Then the
preachers triumphantly declaimed against the bigotry of the
Sunuites, who persevered in their infatuated worship even
at the very 'nutrient when they were driven by the fury of
their god to hide their faces front his view in temples and in
caverns, where his scorching beams could nut penetrate.
Lastly, they denounced the government, in unmeasured
language, for giving countenance to the established worship,
and for allowing any worship whatever to be established. So
great was the enthusiasm excited by these meet's, ands() vast
the multitude which shared it, that, for three or four nights
in every month, the authorities of the state were in danger;
and it became a question whether a sudden and immense re-
volution would not be effected by the popular fury. When
the leaders of the new sect had advanced thus far, they
thought it better to aim at the power they sought by more
constitutional means. They gradually established their in-
fluence in the primary assemblies of the people; and finally
obtained a small majority in the council of time nation.
SVlti
When
o
theyn had accomplished this, they no longer disguised
their
destroying all religion and all literature,
but their own. They prohibited, by law, any worship but that
of the moon; they destroyed the temples erected to the sun,
and made it penal to offer any homage to him, or to profess
any respect for him. Those who still adhered to the ancient
religion, could no longer testifytheir creed by their conduct;
the greater part were obliged to conform to the established
discipline; some were banished by public authority; and
others sought freedom in voluntary exile, and became the
founders of religion in other countries, where they taught the
worship of the sun. No sooner had the followers of the moon
thus gained the power of the state, titan they in their own
turn were disturbed by anew sect which ituproved 'spelt their
doctrines. This new sect was founded upon the admitted
basis of the first,—that all true felicity was derived from the
moon. But they deduced from this, as a necessary conse-
quence, that it was the duty and the interest of all true be-
lievers to come as near to the moon as possible, and to dwell
in her perpetual light. They pointed out that, notwith-
standing the happy change which had recently taken place
in the baeishment of a false worship, and the establishment
of exclusive power in the true believers, yet the moon had
neither shone more brightly. nor increased the number of
nights in the month when she blazed in the fulness of her
majesty; that the nation was in no respect happier, nor
wiser, nor richer, than before; on time contrary, they had lost
certain temporal advantages in the absence of many wealthy
citizens, who, preferring exile
ttro,,,t,isteferaba
rediuln
themselves
oue
tiit ufworship ref their ancestors, had
atnhde
their substance to foreign countries. It was manifest there-
fore, that something yet remained to be done for the attain-
s-net:rot* true happiness, and to carry out the principles of the
late revolution. They showed to the people that, ellen the
union rose from behind time mountain, she always touched it:
that, when she was at the lull, she rested for several inomentS
upou• the summit before she ascended into the heavens;
and that, during such time, her orb was dilated with appa-
rent satisfaction, if not with reluctance to quit the moun-
tain. From these signs, and from the principles already
established, they deduced, as a natural consequence, the
duty of the people to sacrifice every other pursuit in life to
the grand object of approaching and touching time moon.
It was true that the mountain, beyond a certain height, had
beemed inaccessible, but nothing could resist enthusiasm,
aided by the divine influence; that when the whole nation
should arrive at the summit of the mountain, the moon might
very possibly resoive to remain there, and dwell with them
fur ever: but at all events, those who desired it would enjoy
the inestimable privilege of touching her, and be gainers of
immortal life and felicity, whether they became absorbed
into her substance, or were allowed, retaining their present
forms, to accompany her eternal course in the paradise of
her beams. It is incredible with what rapidity this new sect
gained credit with the people. Their old attachments once
broken, they yielded the more readily to the last novelty.
' The acknowledged disappointment of their late hope com-
bined, with the desire of cousiStency, to make them adopt
the new theory. The leaders of the late revolution, in order
to setain their power, were compelled to place themselves at
the head of the new movement, and to increase the impetu-
osity with which time popular tide overwhelmed all judgment
amid prudence. The resolution, suggested by the new preach-
ers, was at length adopted, after much debate and various
expedients of delay. By a solemn convention and decree,
the whole nation was bound to desert their dwellings and
their occupations, anti to 'assemble at the foot of the moun-
tain at a period appointed for the purpose, being the night
before the full of the moon ; thence they were to proceed, in
us mass, to ascend by all practicable means. An inconceiva-
ble moltitude—stime furnished with musical instruments,
sonic with scalitio ladders, some with sacks amid baskets of
provisions—assembled accordingly, and began their march.
Many, worn out and exhausted by their labour, died in their
" progress; many perished by falling between the clefts of the
mountain; many, disappointed and disgusted, would have
turned back, but were pushed forward by- the multitude
moving from below. Repentance came too late to save
them. Their footsteps could not be traced: they were borne
upwards, till in their turn they ceased to exist. Thus this
great and famous nation perished by its own frenzy. The
small number which, by incredible exertion and fanaticism,
reached the summit of the mountain, were mortified and dis-
gusted beyond expression to find that they were no nearer to
the moon than before. They cast themselves down, and wept
in despair. Those who recovered wandered away from each
other, and became dispersed amongst the nations of the earth,
without the name Which distinguished them as a people.
They appeared to have lost their powers of reason and of just
perception; and gave birth to a tradition which long pre-

vailed—that the wits of man, when lost, were to be found•in
the moon. The remnant of this people, scattered over the
face of the earth, is still known by an appellation connected
with their fate. Their number is inconsiderable, in com-
parison with the mass of any nation amongst whom they
dwell. But it has, of late, been much on the increase; and
there is reason to fear. that, if they should become the ma-
jority, they would exercise the power and the right, which a
majority is admitted to have, of locking up the minority in
bedlam and lunatic asylums; for it is one of their most in-
veterate maxims,—that reason resides with the multitude,
and that the majority can never do wrong.

RATHER TOO SOON.—An apprentice was brought before
the Warrington magistrates on Monday, and committed for
six weeks, for absenting himself from the service of his mas-
ters, Messrs. Thewlis and Griffiths, file cutters. Forgetting
the adage which says "never holla before you are out of the
wood," on his way down the Bridewell stairs he called out,
" Hurra, my boys, I've only got six weeks of it ;" and for
that pieee of impertinence he was again placed at the bar,
and his commitment was made out for three months, just

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double the time originally awarded His employers haullTeen
at the expense of sending to Birmingham to apprehend
him.

A Pas-Lim—A surgeon and a lawyer had very little good
feeling towards each other, and the following occurrence
took place :—" lf," asked the surgeon, " a neighbour's dog
destroy my ducks, can I recover damages by law ?" " Cer-
tainly," replied the lawyer, " you can recover. Pray what
are the circumstances?" " Why, sir, your dug, last ❑►ght,
destroyed two of my ducks." " Indeed! then you certainly
can recover the damages; what is the amount? I'll in--
stantly discharge it." " Four shillings and sixpence,"
chuckled .the surgeon. " And my fee for attending and
advising you is 6s. 8d.," responded the attorney, " and un-
less you immediately pay the same my conduct will he suit-
able."—The Honest Lawyer.

NV ATERI.OO.—In a letter to Marshal Beresford; written
soon after the event, the Duke of Wellington thus described
the Little of Waterloo :—" You will have heard of our battle
on the 18th. Never did I see such a pounding match. Both
were what the boxers call gluttons. Napoleon did not ma-
ncettvre at all. lie just moved forward in the old style, in
columns, and was driven off in the old style. The only dif-
ference was, that he mixed cavalry with his infantry, and sup-
ported both with an enormous quantity of artillery.- I had
the infantry for some time in srluares, and we had the French
cavalry walking about us as if they had been our own. I
never saw the British infantry behave so well."—Colonel
Gartrood's Dispatches of the Doke of Walling:um

MAN AND S I may here take oecasion to observe,

hat there is a remarkable of constitution between
he man and the sow. Scrofula, which woAis derived from

the Latin name of the sow, "scrof," is peculiar to man and
swine. These last arc also subject to apoplexy : a friend of
mine lost several by this disease. They ale also liable to
softening of the brain; a disease rare, if all to be met with
among other brutes, but common in the human subject.
They are also liable to tubercles in the lungs and liver, to
diseases of the heart, to -ruptures of blood-vessels, accidents
almost peculiar to mankind with them. And, more remark-
able still, they are subject to a species of madness quite dif-
ferent front the hydrophobia of dogs and other brutes, but
bemiring an ( xact resemblance to human insanity. This re-
semblance br.tween man and swine I notice that Juvenal re-
presents the Jews as being in part aware of.
" Nec distare putant, Mat is, the dews,) huraana crane,
suillam."—SATlßE, 'iv., line 98.
—Dick's Diet and Regimen.
ASPII A LTUM PAVEMENT.—The promoters of asphaltic
paving on the Continent mention with triumph, that some
which has been lately laid down in the " Electorial-street,"
at Warsaw, has borne with success a trial which must re-
move all doubts of its stability. A train of carriages lately
passed through Warsaw, carrying machinery from the ma-
nufactory of Cocker-hill, at Seraing, in Belgium, for the use
of a great cotton spinnery; belonging to Mr Geier, at Loda.
The load carried by some of these carriages was nine tons,
their weight was a ton and a half, and the combined weight
of 10i toils passed over "the new asphaltic pavement without
occasioning
i the slightest fracture or other injury. The cir-
cumstance s noticeable in itself, but its accessories give it
additional interest. The " great cotton factory at 1,0da,"
beyond Warsaw, and the machinery supplied t. it from the
workshops of Englishmen settled in Belgium, are striking
facts in the- history of the "march of manufacturers."—
, Meehanice Magnzine.

POLITICAL DUELS.—The violence of political parties

during the early part of the reign of George.
111. gave rise to
many duels. In 1762 Wilkes discharged a brace of pistols
with Lord Talbot, which.meeting he has described iu a man-
ner irresistibly ludicrous in a letter to his friend Earl Tem-
ple; in the following year he fought his well-known duel
with Martin, the secretary to the treasury, and Was severely
wounded. Just previous to the American war Mr. Whatley
was found daneetously wounded by lieutenant-governor
Temple. In 1779 Mr. Adam called out Mr. Fox for words
spoken in the heat of a debate. Two cases of pistols were
discharged ; Fox was slightly wounded. When the affair
was over, Fox, in allusion to the claMour which existed as to
the badness of the ammunition supplied to the troops, is said,
on discovering his wound to the party, to have remarked,
" Egad, Adam, it would have been all over with me, if you
had not been charged with government powder." In liBo
Colonel Fullerton, the member for Plycapton, wounded the
Earl of Shelburne, for designating him a " mere commis."
in the house of lords; and in the same year Sir Philip
Francis challenged Warren Hastings, then govemor-gene-
ral of India, for severe animadversion on his conduct as one

of the members of the council of Bengal. Hastings waived
his dignity, and gave Francis a meeting, at wi:aich the latter
was severely wounded. Francis, on his recovery, hastened to
England, and accused his antagonist of high crimes and
misdemeanours, and to him Burke was deeply indebted in
his gigantic attacks upon Hastings. In 1786 Gen. Stuart
wounded Lord Macartney in a political duel; and in 179 S
Pit and Tierney discharged a brace of pistols each with a
lucky perversity of aim, and shook hands in the harmless
smoke they had raised. We pause on the threshold of the
19th century.— United• Service Journal.
ADULTERATION oF DRUGS.—Professor Thomson, in his
examination before the Medical Poor Inquiry Committee,
stated, that the trader sorts the drugs: the purest kind he
sells in its natural state, the second kind he reserves for pow-
ders, and the worst of all he uses for tinctures, and this infe-
rior kind is very often in a state of decomposition. Frauds
are often practised in the drug market. Opium often con-
tains a piece of iron embedded in it; calomel often consists
of very little more than sulphate of barytes, which is au inert
substance; and white precipitate of mercury is sometimes

a .
sold as calomel; but in scamony the adulteration is even
more remarkable, an immense quantity of chalk being found
in it, so that the active ingredient in it often varies from 81;
per cent. to 811 per vent. Gamboge is often a manufactured
article ; Wilk of sulphur commonly contents one-half. of
stucco, as is proved by exposing the composition to heat.
Peruvian bark, as it comes from the hands of the drug-
grinder, consists of charcoal, with Venetian red, Caahage-
nian bark, bpi:air/am, and satinwood. Even so late as
forty years ago this composition was made by the Apotheca-
ries' Company, and was supplied to the army as Peruvian
bark. It is known that, on one occasion, two chests Of the
genuine article having been sent to a drug-grinder, be put,
eighteen chests of extraneous matter to the two of pure bark,
and sold the remaining eighteen chests to his own profit.
Calamine, or carbonate of zinc, as it occurs in commerce,
contains very little zinc at all, consisting principally of sul-
phate of bar) tes, coloured with a little iron. Ginger is adul-
terated with 50 per cent. of capsicums, saw-dust, satinwood,
and flour; and sometimes the article sold does not contain
more than 30 per cent. of ginger. Julep is frequently adul-
terated with twenty-eight pounds of barley-meal per cwt.,
and lignumtitm dust is sometimes used. Liquorice powder
is made of equal parts of common sugar and barley-meal,
with a little turmeric. Lac and plumbago are adulterated
with coal and opium, with extract of senna, and there is
sometimes an infusion of from 30 to 60 per cent, of water.
lihubarb is often made of 14Ihs. of flour, Boz. turmeric, and
98ibe. of rhubarb; and tie article sold often contains no
more than one.lialf of its weight of rhubarb. Nitrate of
silver, which is extensively used in medicine, is often adulte-
rated with nitrate of lead. Tinctures are diluted with water.
A gentleman, now retiring from the drug trade, had been
(dieted any powder he chose for 365. per cwt., and, when the
person making the effer was asked if the artitee was genuine,
his answer was, that it was the best he could make at the
price, thus showing that the powder might be brought down
to almost any price! The druggist himself sometimes sends
out the genuine article to the grinder, mixed with a number
of foreign ingredients; the grinder then does his share of the
adulteration ; so that very little of the. genuine article ever
reaches the costumer! .The apothecaries who are supplied
by the chemists, ouly consider themselves judges of the roots
and drugs as they present themselves in the natural state:
they do not pretend to be able to apply any chemical tests to
the article. Drugs are likely to be procured in their genuine
state where the .apothecary employs a respectable druggist
who grinds for himself. To the knowledge of witness only
two houses in London grind their own drugs. It was his
opinion, that drugs adulterated as described were con-in-Only
sold to country practitioners, and he thought that the educa-
tion prescribed to medical men was not calculated to direct
their attention to chemistry sufficiently to enable them to
detect such frauds. Inasmuch as price is one of the tests by
which medicine is purchased, the poor are more liable than
others to be supplied with bad remedies. A chemist had
urged the witness himself to deal with him, saying, in refer-
ence to his prices, that he could supply bits with drugs for
paupers touch cheaper.
TEMPEKANcE AND SNUFF-TAKING.—"The present age,"
said Mr. Phillipson, "is an age pregnant with quackery.
Every scheme that is fitted to charm the vulgar is set forth
as the regeneration of the race. Diseases are to be cured by
homoeopathy, men ate to be made immortal by animal mag-
netism, and murals are to expand into a milenium by dint of
tee-totalism and temperance societies. I hate drunkenness
and 'immortality, bust even snore do I hate that mercenary
spirit which turns these to a good account, and daubing the
wall with 'unteinpered mortar' keeps men from solid and
real panaceas. The whole system of temperance and tee-
total societies is butt a new edition of Monasticism. The monk
retired from the world rather -than "'use, as not abusing it,'
and the anti-whisky man runs from the blue ruin and its sis-
ter spirits, tether than resist the intemperate use of them.
Both are indolent ways of overcoming evil and ruinous pas-
sions. What think ve o' sneeshin-takinT said one of the
old elders. • I'm thinkinng it's na better than drain drinking.
Ma mull maun be an ee-care to sae partiklar 'partialities;
but it will need muckle logic and main divinity than
poopit or pen can shale out to gar me abjure the custom
o' three score an'ten." Snuff,' said the parish minister,
'must be put on other ground. It never intoxicates—it never
steals away the senses. Its orthodoxy depends on its influ-
ence on the physical system. But it always struck me that
if it had been the design of the creator that we should be
snuff-takers or tobacco smokers, the nose would have been
inverted!' "—Fraser's Magazine. •
SHOWER OF 1%1 ETEORS.—Th e following description of the
meteoric phenomena, during the night of the 12th instant, is
given by Mr. Robert Carr Woods, of Hatton-garden, in a
letter to the Times :—" The night of the 12th of November,
being the time tor the periodical return of au unusual num-
ber of meteors, I determined to leave London, on account of
the obstruction buildings offered in this crowded city, to locate
myself in the delightful village of Richmond, Surrey, for
the purpose of observing the annual return of this remark-
able phenomenon. In the afternoon of the 12th the sun sunk
below the horizon as to predicate a clear night. When be-
lotq horizon, there was a gran play of a rich profusion
of red, orange, and rosy coloured mph: The wind blew fresh
from the N.N.E., and the night was, in consequence, very
cold. At 10 hours 13 minutes p.m. (cluck time) a meteor,
without train, fell from the star Lvra, and took its di-
rection across the Milkey Way. At' 11 hours 48 minutes
a large meteor with train fell from Cassiopeia and
crossed the Milkey Way at an angle of nearly 60 de-
grees. From 12 o'clock (midnight, 12th) till 3 hours 25
minutes on the 13th, nine meteors fell, crossing the galaxy at
angles of from 70 to 80 degrees; six were without trains, ate
three with trains. I now began to despair of witnessing the
'grand display' seen in former years, recollecting, however,
nu cute occasion”, the shower' did lint commence till near
four o'clock. 1 continued to direct tny attention to the N. N. E.
whence the greater number of meteors had fallen. At three
hours thirty-five minutes nothing could exceed the beauty
and grandeur of the heavens: from E.N.E. to N. meteors
fell like a shower of bomb shells in a bombardment, and in
such rapid succession as to defy every attempt to watch their
particular direction and course among the stars, or to ascer-
tain their number. The whole visible heavens were illumi-
nated by the light of such a prodigious number of meteors dif-
fused in their descent towards the earth, and a more beautiful
and magnificent sight cannot possibly be conceived. At
three hours fifty-five minutes the 'shower' ceased, and after
four o'clock all traces of meteors were gone; the stars, how-
ever, shone with no diminution in number or brightness, and
the atmosphere was remarkably clear. The total number
_of
meteors could not have fallen short of from 400 to 500, the
maximum number at three hours forty-five minutes. We
may, therefore, conclude the 'meteoric shower' was equal in
interest and splendour to any of a former year."

Emporto.

SOUTH AMERICA.

Octavio, (214) W Iloyfield, from Valparaiso. 511 bales cotton, A
Gibbs and Son--38 boxes bark, Templemon and co-1 ox hide,
Hanksley and co—i box specimens, ai tons ox horns and horn tips
W Bayfield-1 box contents unknown order—G D
EUROPE.

Georgina, (227) N Hill, from lbouliro'. 8 cases 8 chests contents
unknown, S A Brandeis-25 eases 1 basket do, order—l 23 bales
do, 13 sample boxes do, Gibbs, Bright and co-8 cases toy mirrors.
1 ease patterns. 1 case spangles, M and B Joseph-50 brls salt pro-
visions, 'l' Hutton-17 pipes gin, Came and I'elo-1 case toys,
E Eastee-3 pees sinolte,l beef, ft 11 Stalker-73 casks spirits, T
Rimmer, jun-3768 plates speller, 13 casks soda, 800 brls flour, 70
bags bread, 1 rocking horse, about 46 tons bark, 1 parcel samples,
6 casks bread, 6casksbeef. 6 casks pork, exportation. order—P D
Gazelle, (211) Ashridge • from Ilambro'. 904 hampers 4 trunks
2 ens 529 cases contents unknown, order-8 cases I cask do, S A
Brandeis-3 casks do 11 Eastec-2 cases do, T Itinunsr, jun-9 do,
2 saniple boxes do. Leech, Haraison and co-1 bag do, 4 casks yel-
low wax, Holdforth and co-3!) casks black lead, J H Elmenhorst-
-5 cas s glass scare, J Bibby and Sons-3 cases toys, E
casks '2 bales 2 chests drugs, It Watkins-2 chests furniture, Carne
and Telo-1 case cotton goods, Keill and Courant-100 bundles
salted hides, 219 brls flour, 6 cases furniture, 2 packages smoked
beef, 2) Irks 1 cask 46 kegs butter. 38 brls beef, 10 Idyls 16 casks
brls bread, R brls pork,. 2 brls split peas, 1 Ithd barley, 102 hams,
9.52 plates speller, 14 casks black lead, about 56 tons bark, 409 bags
pens, 4 tables. 1 sofa, 1 workbox, 3 picture frames, order-0 1)
Frances, (111) 11 F Delpierre, from Ostend, 127 bales flax, A
Swainson-2 do, J C Kalowski-35 do, order-59 tons oak bark,
Boutcher, Mortimer and co—Q D
) Damon, (119)1' Lure, from Jersey, about 70 tons potatoes, 2520
,t bushels 1 box apples and 7c paper stuff, 1 cask apples and pears, P
,r 1 Simon—G

PACKET BOATS.—FA Llllolll'll STATION
GICNMIA I, POST-OFFICE, Nov. 27.

Malls i,vide
Up in
London.

Lat l'ackels

A'ext Packets,
Due.

Tues. &
Tues. & Fri.'

Saturdays..

}Liverpool,
Nov. 19.
Tagus, Nov. 12.
Braganza, 0c..29
11.M.8. Seagul,
Nov. 9.
Reintleer,Nov 10
Lord Melville,
Oct. 3.

Mon. St Thurs.
Tues. & Satur.
Royal Tar,
Nov. 25.

2nd Saturday
4th Saturday
Ist Tuesday
each mouth
Ist Wedues.
Ist (lay of
each month,
15th day o
mouth.ch
15th day ofl
each month.l

11. M B Petrel,
Nov. 17.
1R.D1.8. Tyrian,
Nov. 17.

(,110:Su231,

Lord Melville,
Dec. 26.
Swift,
Nov. 21.

Magnet.
Dec. 10.