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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

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GIVE TO THE POOR! WARM CLOTRING—FIRING—FOOD—
At once, unsparingly, and !.umbiy give !
PREVENT the winter cough, the frame•ehill'd brood
Of throes which make it weariness to live;
For, 10 November, drenched in fog, and rains,
Glocms in the :Air, and incubates the earth ;
Days, short and fickle. nip th, labourers' gains.
And bring increase—et suff'ring and of dearth.
Lucky the woodmen wh shah find employ ;
The hinds who stall the trine ; or pen the sheep;
Plant the young trce ; or. lest the floods destroy,
Extend the drainage. and the courses keep.
The busy, and the bounteous. at this time,
Are mind and body warm, alone, throughout our c-ime.

OPENING OF THE

(From F,-azer's Mau,
In the heart of the city,

Thu Mammon la; 'still
In the Sleep of Night's silence,
(Hush'd Word and hush'd
When the garner'd gold rested
tintouch'd and unturn'd,
Intl in hard chests of iron
• Man's wealth lay inurn'd !

When London had pass'd all
His crowds to the West,
And the Spirit of Commerce
Grew dull in its rest;
When the haunts of the merchar
No sharp echt)es Woke;
From the heart of the City
The flame-tempest broke.

It rose on its grand wings
In strength and in ire,
lap, up to the red sky,
The beautiful fire.:
It screamed and it crachled
In column and Slake,
Till up-leaped the great city
Alive and awake

In the temple of Dives
The flame-monarch stood
With bright eyes of saffron

And red linibs of blood ;
And as the walls crumbled

Beneath his great tread,
The millions cane round him

And shriek'd as he spread !

ROYAL EXCHANGE.

Too grand and too awful,

razine for November.)
I Thy tryst place of lucre
Math shrunk from the eye,
!And blacken'd or bleaching
Its dead embers lie !

Too vast in dismay,
In the arms of the flame-king
The gold temple lay ;
As swift and as sure

What, ho ! for a Phmnix
To come with new flame,
Up, up, from those ashes
To beauty and fame !
To stand on that dark spot
In glory and pride,
And call back the City
Again to its Bride!

Was his wreck, as the ware
Till the reeking red Mammon
Lay hot in his grave!

They bring the sharp chisel,
They hue the white stone,
They make the crane rattle,
They oil the black hone;
They rear the high scaffold,
They climb, and they run:
Lo again a grand temple
Mounts up to the sun

The Temple of Dives
once more hath its priests;
They will deck it with trophies.
And crown it with feasts!
To-day a grand pageant
Will honour their hand-
When the king-merchants crowd
round
The Queen of the Land !

Come Queen and come Consort
In pomp and in pride,—
Come nobles ! Old London
Now weds his new Bride
Fair plentiful Commerce
(Gold strewed in her way,)
In his grand palace-temple
Of riches to-day !

Old London! grand London !
Low, low in the dust
Thy proud commerce watcheth
Her pride and her lust !

In wealth and in honour,
In pride and in state,
In envy and wonder,
They watch and they wait.
Now the pageant is ended
The million may roam,
And royal Old Mammon
Again has a Home

NOTICES.

M'Phun's Catechism of Phrenology. 32nd Thousand

Glasgow. 1845.
This useful little work, on the subject it discusses, is
capitally adapted to convey the elementary knowledge of
phreitob gical science to bftinners. It does not require
many minutes' perusal, which, with a glance or two at
the outline illustrations, will set the inquirer on the right
path of phrenological investigation.

The Philosophy of Ph,:enology. _ 4th Thousand. Same

publisher. 1845.
These students of this new science of mind, as derived
front the structure and manifestations of the admitted
organ of the mind—the brain, will litre find the ground-
wt.rk of. the data well developed—the logic of the reason-
ing carefully conducted—the cbj. ctions, whether arising.
front ignorance or the prejudices of the old school of
mental philosophy, fairly stated and calmly refuted—the
truth of the observations on cerebral developement as the
corresponding medium of connexion between mind and
the external world, shown and justified from the facts of
healthy and diseased cerebral organization, and finally
the benefits to be derived from taking it as a guide in an
educational course, because it assumes Nature's scaffold-
ing as an index of the strength and particular characters
of thefuturebuilding to be elevated by her pupil Art, proved
to be the sound study of man; whilst a review of the present
posh. ion of the " schoolmaster abroad" is entered into, and
the capacity of the pupil judged of according to the stan-
dard
on which the God of Nature has created him in
omniscient wisdom,.in order that the proper bent may be
given to the twig according to its flexibility or sturdiness
of growth ; the old motto being verified, " Non amnia
onmes possumus." The subject of disease of the brain,
as connected with disturbed manifestation of mind, is
suitably descanted upon. Lastly, it exculpates phreno-
logical study from the idle charges of tendency to mate-
rialism and infidelity, which, in strict logic, are not com-
prehended in the scope of its propositions, and therefore
it is only responsible for its own proper inductions from
facts of nature and manifestations of mind, and not for
any further and gratuitous hypotheses which some of its
followers may speculatively and irreligiously append to
these,—any more than the ridicule thrown upon the cari-
cature of anything is ridicule proper of the original so
(Its orted. The position of the author, as a teacher of
anatomy, will secure a calm peru=al at the hands of all,
and none need fear the result who follow narrowly and
closely on .Nature's track, seeing she is at all times true
to herself, whether in the natural or spiritual world, be-
cause her source and return is from and into the Divine
Essence of Unity.