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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

'Jim to be gratified. We visited the

passed Monte Nero ; d.

rank together the rich Fa

wine ; explored the temples of Neptune and Jove, adorned
*th African and Cippolina marbles ; noticed a marble
iive the blood of human and bestial
3ut in our perambulations around the lovely
vicinity of Naples, the one to the Grotto del Cani was the
most curious, that to the Palace of Ciesarta the most

font, or vas

titter passing through the Grotto of Posi-
-
lippo, climbing up to see the tomb of Virgil, the fig-trees
growing wildly around ; listening to the rumblings far
down in the grotto, and the distant sounds of the sea; we
rived at a dreary lake, which might have been that of
The man, like Launce, in Shakspeare, soon

agnificent

A.vernus

appeared with his dog, a

ge half-bred terrier, near the
irst tried, after the man unlocked
nd show of solem-

the door of the cave with great scat

nity, the effect of the exhalation upon our lungs by stoop-
ing► near the earth, when the carbonic acid gas nearly took
all sensation from us. Then followed the apparently, if
not really cruel deprivation of life of the poor do
as if completely dead ; but when

convulsiv

kicks, with foaming at
_the mouth, shewed

exchanged for cheer-

ful, lively bart

he was allo
liked.

I to run capering and caracoling where he

On our return from this excursion, we stopped at a
fishing village near the ruins of Caligula's Bridge, where
we refreshed our weary frames with bread, wine, and the

celebrated fish called lampreys, which in their flavour re-
semble the delicate pike of Windermere : and to the pre-
serves of these ferocious, shark-like aitmals, the Romans,
in their tyranous wrath, would sometimes throw their

did irresponsible power create cruelty, extravagance,
luxury, and tyranny. But my visit to the Palace and
Bridge of Cveserta, thirteen miles from Naples, and my

VARIETIES

The age of chivalry is gone! That of sophisters, econo-
mists, and calculators has succeeded • and the glory of

An American paper asserts that a man who is residing
on Long Island, was born in the seventeeth century, and

is now 150 years; of age

On Friday (says one of tl

Durnals)

I'amworth, at a pa
CUMBERERS OF

breakfast

HE GROUND.—An American paper
There are too many gentlemen paupers of the pre-

by their

•elations—or

by their wives

They are great nuisances."
ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC.—Among the great topics
connected with the commercial and territorial advantages
and prospects of the country, which the present position
of our foreign relations brings into view, the plan of unit-
ing the Atlantic and the Pacific through this isthmus is
Lon- I certainly one of the most important. It will go far tow-

anis c

country—

iging—and that to the

the main stream of the p]
ject is no doubt, receivin;

it of tl

ation at the hands of the administration to which it is en-
titled. It will be productive of great benefit to the world
at large, as well as to the United States. It will be by f
the shortest and most direct route between the
States and our territories on the Pacific. It will
sources and exertions not only on the western side
American continent, but of the eastern portion of

ited States paper

United