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Isis, inlaid with' silver foliage. The Apollo with his lyre
is femininely beautiful. A Victory standing on a globe ;
a Mercury flying ; and a Faun asleep, a drunken faun on
his wine-skin. are wonderfully clever works of art. The
figures ofa goat and bull form a fountain. The busts also are
very fine and characteristic of Syll a, Scipio, Africanus, Corn-
modus, Caracalla, Sappho, Tiberius, &c. A statue of Piety,
and the two Discoboli, demand your attention, cum
niultis aliis. There are also a few good, among many

mediocre, paintings in this rare museum, as the Judith,
Cain and Abel, and the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche.
The bronze wings that adorn the vases are of beautiful
workmanship ; and the candelabra, six feet high, and
elaborately adorned, are interesting : so are the tripods.
Two angels, or harpies, are curiously fine.
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wing through this vast collection, containing
fifteen thousand bronze works of art alone, I strolled on
towards the Castle of St. Elmo, and from its height had
a glorious view of the bay and the city, with its four
iundred thousand busy, noisy souls • and pensive musings
tole over my mind, as I watched ihe blue waves of the
tediterranean, and thought that the bright and sparkling
g against the rocks of my native Albion.
panion had left me abruptly, and I felt
imnnrt of fba coned nln, "In rn

sea was beati
My Boston a

alone" impressed its meaning on my mind, heart, and
memory. All around, the scenery about Naples, is rich in

classical associations. The Grotto of Posolippo Balm,
the tomb of Virgil, the Grotto del Cane, and many other
places, carry the mind back to the all-powerful sway of
the Romans. The ruined, but yet vast, remains of the
bridge of Caligula; the temple of Jupiter Serapis, with
its forty-two rooms for its pagan priests, only three of
its huge columns erect, all the others prostrate, broken,

pouring into its palaces and halls. '
one of these ruins at Bake were pierc

xteen pillar
wrought friezes were three feet square
During the temporary absence of my Bostonian cur
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by worm;, or fish,

acrifice were

and statues: the finely-

osity, 1 met with a very kind and polite tierman gentle-
man I had known at Rome. He brought me a ticket for
the Grand Theatre of San Carlo, to which I accompanied
him. It is, I think, larger than our Royal Opera-house,
but not more elegant. Its seven tiers of boxes, the
royal box (which is more conspicuously adorned in all

Ithe Italian theatres than in our English ones), and the
ceiling, are very elegant ; so also are those at Florence
and Lucca.

Mr. Hiechiman started off the next day, a very stormy
one, to see the Blue Caves of the Isle of CaprEea ; but he

for him to be gratified. We visited t
passed Monte Nero ; drank together the ric

Jucrine Lake;
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fo
victims

with African and Cipiolina marbles ; noticed a marble
or vase, to receive the blood of human and bestial
But in our perambulations around the lovely

most cuzious: that to the Palace of Cwsarta the most
magnificent. After 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
arrived at a dreary lake, which might have been that of
Avernus. The man, like Launce, in Shakspeare, soon
appeared with his dog, a large half-bred terrier, near the
Grotto del Cani. We first tried, after the man unlocked
the door of the cave with great state and show of solem-
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 dog : he lay
as if completely dead ; but when restored to the air, a few
convulsive kicks, with foaming at the mouth, hewed
signs of returning animation ; in half a minute the whines
he uttered at entering the cave were exchanged for cheer-
ful, lively barkings, that his task was accomplished, and
he was allowed to run capering and caracoling where he
liked.
_ On our return from this excursion, we stopped at a

nsiung vinage near the ruins of I:angina's _Linage, wnere
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 animals, the Romans,
in their tyranous wrath, would sometimes throw their
hapless slaves ! How then, as now and ever it may,
did irresponsible power create cruelty, extrava

fiance,
ce and

luxury, and tyranny. But my visit to the Pala
Bridge of Cceserta, thirteen miles from Naples, and m 3

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VARIETIES

The age of chivalry is gone! That of sophisters, econo-
mists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of
Europe is extinguished for ever."—Burke.
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.
AN Irussi BULL.—On Friday (says one of the journals)
his Highness dined with the ex-Premier and tally Peel at

CUMnERERS OF THE GROUND.—An American paper
says, " There are too many gentlemen paupers of the pre-
sent day—gentlemen who do nothing—who are maintained
by the public—by their relations—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
certainly one of the most important. It will go far tow-
ards changing—and that to the signal profit of our
country—the main stream of the profit of the world. The

It will be productive of great benefit to the world
at large, as well as to the United States. It will be by far
the shortest and most direct route between the United
States and our territories on the Pacific. It will stimulate
the resources and exertions not only on the western side
of the American continent, but of the eastern portion of
Asia, and all the intermediate islands on the broad Pacific.
—United States Raper.
OCCASIONAL FASTING.—A de tree of abstemiousness