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POETRY.

FIRST LOVE.

(From Poems and Ballads of Goethe, in Blackwood.)

Oh, who will bring me back the days,
So beautiful, so bright !
Those days v hen love first bore my heart
Aloft on pinions Ight?
Oh. who will bring me but an hour
Or that de ightful time,
And wake in me again the power
That fired my golden prime ?

I nurse my wound in solitude,
I sigh the livelong day,
And mourn the joys, in wayward mood,
That now are passed away.
Oh, who will bring me back the days
Of that delig itful time,
And wake n me again the blaze
That fired my golden prime?

POETS.

BY T. J. OUSELEY.

Poets are Passion flowers,
That turn where'er the sun
Brightest shines—the showers
An shadows they will shun;
licar a of gold they offer.
At fleauty's chrywal shrine,
Hauls of faith they proffer
tiwee words that sound divine.
Once the sun departed.
The flower its leaves will close,
And the golden-hearted
No more with brightness glows.

Poets ere things of earth,
N\ ith minds of varied dyes,
Like birds th,t 'float to birth
In oriental skies;
What thou;h heir thoughts ascend,
On light a:nd gorgeous wing,
O'er earth and heaven wend,
And love, immortal sing? •
They are but dust, and all
Their beau y they enfold,
Like birds 'neath t.O a's thrall,
Pruning their wings of gold.

Poets are rainbows crowning
Earth with their glorious hues ;
Hearts mid tears are drowning—
Smiles lowly grii.; subdues.
Words of gu le may banish
Young Sorrow from her night;
Smiles, like ra nhows, v
Their memory is but bright—
Trust not an ,heir luring
With light, not heat, they burn,
Pangs are past enduring,
When hope may not return.

Poets have treasures rare;
Their thoughts are silver st rs,
Wand'ring in a.i.bient air,
Beyond heaven's sapphire bars;
They form from unseen things,
Creations of delight,
And quaff from hidde springs
Nectar ambrosial bright.
Like deep r ch laden ships,
Thoughts undulating rise ;
There's music on their lips,
And magic in their eyes.

NOTICES.

Tweddell's Yorkshire Miscellany, No. 1. London :
T. Miller, Newgate-street ; and Brittain, Paternoster-
row. Stokesley : G. Tweddell.
The number before us is the commencement of an
effort to get up in the lovely vale of Cleveland a quarterly
publicat'on, to be su• ported by native talent and pa-
tronized by Yorkshire liberality. The editor has com-
menced well; and we are glad to recognise amongst his
contributors several wilt se names are familiar with the
public, and associated in our own mind with many happy
memories. We cannot but think, however, that he has
found rather too low an cstimat- of the disposition of his
county to encourage such an effort as he is now making.
Yorkshire could surely afford a shilling a quarter, for
which more matter could be given, instead of sixpence,
the price of the present number.

The British Farmer's Magazine. London : J. Ridgway,

There is much valu,tble information of a practical and
scientific character in the present nnmber dads periodical.
We cannot, however, agree with the tone of some of the
articles—that for instance at page 189. If politics are
prohibited at agricultural as octiations, surely contributors
to such a work as the one baud us should shun their dis-
cussion. Ti.e piper entitled "Agricultural Facts" is a
valuable one ; and that " On the Southampton Meeting,"
by C. W. Johnson, Esq., possesses the merit of being
generally interesting to the public as well as to the agri-
culturist.

Simmond's Colonial Magazine. London : Foreign and

Colonial-office, 18, Cornhill.
The number before us contains some valuable and inte-
resting papers, among,t wh'ch we may particularize
" Sketches of Cape Breton," an article on the agriculture
of Hindostan, by G. W. Johnson, Esq., continued from
a former number, a graphic description of that unfottu-
nate piece of humbu!„ the Niger expedition, by R. Mouat,
Esq., late of her Majesty's ,tenmer Albert, and an excel.
lent letter on the sugar dutes question, by Dr. Binns.
The most important paper in the numb r, however, is the
" Information for emigrants and interanz s:ttlers, com-
piled from the moot recent official sources." The publi-
cation of this article in a cheap form, for distribution, by
the government emigration agents, at our various ports,
would be indeHd an effort of true philanthropy towards
those industrious rl4,ses or our felow countrymen who
are yearly transporting their snrp'us labour, and sma 1
modicum of spiral, too often with little discrimination a;
to the best market for them, arid encountering, as ihe
result, disappointment and run. The extract below we
recommend to the attention of our emigrating friends:—
" HINTS TO EMIGRANTS TO THE NORTH AMERICAN
PROVINCES.

"1. Caution toprovide means for subsistence and trans-
port after arrival.—M any emigrants having latterly been
found to rtly on public funds for their assistance in the
colonies, they are hereby warned that they have no claim
of right nn such fund, and that they should provide them•
selves with sufficient means of their own for their sub-
sistence and c nveyance into the interior fiora the port
where they land.
" 2. Tools.—lt is not gnnerally considered desirab!e
that agricultural labourers should take out implements of
husbandry, as these can be easily procured in the colo-
nies ; but artisans are recommended to take such tools as
they mar posses., if not very bulky.
"3. Time to arrive io the colony.—The best period is
early in May, so as to he in time to take advantage of the
spring and summer wo►k, and to get settled before the
winter sets in.

" 4. L.ngth of Passage.—The average to Qu-bec is 46
days, and to the other North American Colonies rather
less: but by the P...s.,engers' Act (5 and 0 Vic.. c,ip. 107)
provisions are required to he hid in for 70 days, to which
period passages are sometimes protracted.
"5. Maintenance on arrival, ecc.—Passengers are en-
titled by law to be maintained on hoard in the same man-
ner as during the passage for 48 hours after arrival, unless
within that time the ship sl ould quit the port in the pro-
Isecution of her voyage. The water of the river St.
Lawrence is stated to have a strong tendency to produce
bowel corrphtints in stramers. It should at first, there-
fore, be drunk as sparinely as possible.
'•6. Colonial Tax on Emigrant s. —Tho only British
Colonies in which a capitation tax is levied in respect of
emigrants, are Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward's Island. The tax is one dollar, or ss.
currency (equal to about 4s. 2d. sterling), payab'e by the
master cf the ship on each adult coming from the United
Kingdom, reckoning every person above fourteen, and two
children between seven and fourt-en, and three children
under seven years of age, as an adult. No charge is
made on children under one year of age.
" 7. Caution not to refuse good wages.—Until emi-
grants become acquainted with the labour of the country,
their services are of comparatively small value to their
employers. They should, therefore, be careful not to
fall into the common error of refusing reasonable wages
on their first arrival."

SELECTIONS.

THE " MARINE OF THE GUARD'S" STORY.

From Tom Burke of " Ours."

" The ' Blanche' was under orders for St. Domingo,
and was no way anxious to have our company ; and before
a week was over, we were drafted into a small sloop of
war, carrying eight guns, and called the ' She
was bound for England with despatches from Nelson, one
of their English admirals they're always talking about.
This little craft could sail like the wind, but she was
crowded with sick and invalided men from some foreign
station, and there was not a place the size of a dog-kennel
on board of her that was not occupied. As for us, we
were only prisoners ; and you may think they wern't
very particular about our comforts, and so they ranged us
along under the bulwarks to leeward, for they wouldn't
spoil her sailing trim by suffering us to sit to windward;
and there we were, drenched to the skin, and shivering
from day to dark.
" Four days went over in this way, when, on the fifth,
about eight o'clock in the morning, the look-out an-
nounced several strange sail in sight, and the same instant
we perceived the officers setting the glasses to observe
them. We could remark that the sight did not seem to
please them much, but more we knew not, for we were
not allowed to stand up, nor look over the bulwarks. The
lieutenant of the watch called up the commander, and
when he came on deck he ordered the men to cram on
snore sail, and hold her head a point or so off the wind ;
and, as soon as it was done, the rushing noise at the cut-
water told the speed she was making through the sea. It
was a fine day, with a fresh breeze, and a nice curl from
the water ; and it was a handsome thing to see how the
bent to the gale and rose again, her canvass white as
SLIOW and steady as a board ; and we soon knew from the
er of the officers, and the anxious looks they'd give
• ward from time to time, that another vessel was in
chase of the Fawn. Not a man stirred on the deck, save
the lieutenant of the watch, whot”lked the quarter deck,
anddeek
with his glass in his hand, now lifting it to his
now throwing a glance aloft to see how the sails were
drawing.
.4 . she's gsining on us, sir, cried cried the boatswain, as he
went aloft to the lieutenant. Shall we ease her off a
little more?'

" No, no,' said he impatiently, ' She's coming I'
over-hand now. Clear the deck, and prepare for
lion.'

"My heart jumped to my throat as I heard the words;
and waiting until the lieutenant's back was turned, I stole
my eyes above the bulwark, a•ol beheld the tall masts and
taper spars of a frigate, all covered with canvas, about
two miles astern of us. She was a good sized craft, appa-
rently of thirty-eight guns; but what I liked best about
her was the broad tricolor that fluttered from her mast-
head. Every curl that floated on the breeze whispered
liberty to my heart.
" 'You know her,' said the lieutenant, laying his hand
on my shoulder, before I was aware he was behind me.
• What is she ?'
" ' Lend me your glass, lieutenant, and perhaps I can
into
my you,' said 1, and with that he gave the telescope
my hands, and leaned on the bulwark beside me. 'Ha !'
said I, as soon as I caught the side of her hull, " I ought
to know her well. 1 sailed in her for two years and a
half. She's the " Creole," of thirty-eight guns, the fast-
est frigate in our navy. She has six carronades on her
quarter deck, and never goes to sea without three hun-
dred and twenty men.'
" • If she bad three tiers of them we'd not flinch from
her,' said a voice from behind. It was the commander
himself, who was now in full uniform, and wore a belt
with four pistols stuck around it.
"There is no use in denying it, the English prepared
for action like brave fellows, and soon cleared the deck of
everything in the way of the guns, but what use was it.
In less than an hour the " Creole" worked to windward,
and opened a fire from her long guns, to which the other
could make no reply. There they came plumping in,
some into the hull, some splintering through the bulwarks,
and some crashing away through the rigging, and all the
crew could do, was to repair the mischief the distant can-
nonade was making.
" It's a cowardly way your countrymen come into
action aeter all,' said the lieutenant, as he watched the
shot hopping and skipping along the water to leeward.
' With four times our strength, they don't bear down and
engage us.'
" As he spoke, a shot cut the peak halyards in two, and
down came the spars with a crash, carrying with it in its
fall that ensign they're so proud of. It was all we could
do, prisoners as we were, not to cheer at this; but the
faces around us did riot encourage us to such a course,
and we sat silently watching them.
" The moment the accident happened, twenty stout fel-
lows were clambering up the rigging, and as many more
engaged to repair the mischief; but suddenly tie com-
mander whispered something to the lieutenant—the men
were called down again, and the craft was let fall off the
wind, trailing the tads and the tangled rigging over her
sides.
" • And the prisoners, sir,' said the lieutenant, at the
close of something I could not hear.
" • Send them below,' was the short reply.
" We cannot, the space between decks is crowded to
suffocation, but here she conies.' And, as he spoke, the
frigate came bearing down, in gallant style, her whole deck I
swarming with men.

" • Down—men, down'—whispered the lieutenant, and
he dropped on his knee, behind the bulwark, and motioned
to the rest to kneel—and I now perceived that every sailor
had a drawn cutlass in his hand, and pistols in his belt, as
be lay crouching on the deck. The frigate was now so
close, I could hear the commands of the officers on the
quarter-deck, and the word Bas les branles,' the signal
to board, passed from mouth to mouth. The next instant
she closed on us, and showed her tall sides, towering
abole us.

" ' Now, men,' cried the commander of the ' Fawn,'

now, forward. All who care to live. there's your ground,'
said he, pointing to the frigate. ' Such as Ike to die on
a British deck, remain with me.' The boarders sprang
up the side of the ' Creole' before the crew could fasten
the grapples. Tonnerre de Dieu, what a moment it was.
The fellows cheered like madmen, as they poured in to
certain death—the lieutenant himself was one of the first
on board, and fell back the same instant, dead upon his
own deck. The struggle was a bloi.dy, but a brief one—
for a few minutes the English pressed our men back, and
gained a footing on the quarter deck, but a murderous fire
trom the tops cut them down in numbers, and they now
fought, not for victory, but vengeance.
" ' Now, cap'ain, now,' screamed a youth, in a lieuten-
ant's uniform, but all covered with blood—and his face
gashed with a cutlass wound, as he leaned over the bul-
wark of the Creole,' and waved his cap in the air.
" I'm ready,' replied the English commander, and
sprang down the main hatchway, as he spoke, with a pistol
in his hand. At the same instant, a fearful cry burst
forth from the prisoners, tor, with the instinct of despair,
they guessed his de4perate resolve was to blow up the
vessel. We were tied, wrist to wrist, and the rope run
through the blocks in such a way, as to prevent our mov-
ing more than a few inches—but what will not the fear of
a dreadful death do ? With one unanimous effort we tore

the lashings in pieces, and got free. I was myself the first
at liberty, and sprang towards the Creole.' Alas ! they
had divined the awful doom awaiting us, and were endea-
vouring to shove off at once. Already there were some
ten or twelve feet between the vessels. I rushed forward
to gain the bowsprit, a vague hope of escape suggesting
the effort. As I did so, my eyes caught sight of a book,
which, with his hat, the captain threw from him as he
hastened below. I stooped down, and put it in my bosom
—why, I knew not. Life, and life only, was my thought
at that moment. Then, with lightning's speed, I ran
along the deck, and out on the bowsprit. At this instant
the frigate shot ahead of us—l made a leap, the last effort
ofdespair, and caught theflue of the anchor—a friendly hand
threw me a rope, and dragged me on the deck—as I gained
it, a thunder clap, louder than ten broadsides, broke forth,
and the frigate fell over on one side, as if sinking—while
over her rigging and masts flew spars and timbers, blazing
and burning, am;rl a black smoke. that filled the air on
every side. Evety roan about dropped wounded, or ter-
rified, on the deck—where they lay, amid the falline fire
of the wreck, and the terrible carnage. 1 wiped the blood
from my eyes, for 1 was bleeding profusely from a splinter
cut, and looked about me. The deck was a mass of dead
and dying ; their piercing cries and groans were mad.
dening to bear. The frigate, however, was flying fast
throt:h the water—the ' Fawn' was gone !"
" 7'ele bleu ! he blew her up," said three or four in a
breath.
Paul nodded, and resumed—" Av, comrades, and the
half-dozen of her crew who stood alive on her quarter-
deck cheered the explosion as if it was a victory ; and one
fellow, as he lay bleeding on the planks, cried out, ' See
there; look if our gay flag is not high above you's, as it
always will be,' and that time he was right, for the spar
that bore it was nigh the clouds."

WELLINGTON AMONG THE PEERS FOR THE FIRST
TIME.—It happened to be my duty, when I was Chancel-
lor. upon the Duke of Wellington's first coming into the

Muse of Lords, to return him the thanks of the house
for his great services to his country. I em not aware of
any other instance in the peerage of an indivi.lual being,
at his first entrance into the ht,use. a baron, a visclunt,
an earl, a marquis, and a duke, having had from time to
time each title conferred upon him for distinct services to
his country. 1 made the singular fact a distinct and
leading topic in my address to him. Individuals of the
loyal family may have been introduced, having by patent
all the dignities of one moment conferred up in them by
royal favour. But this nobleman rose, from time to time,
from one dignity to another, until he had every dignity,
each conferred by distinct grants, and upon diff: rent oc-
casions for different services, and all those rendered t, the
country before he could return to it to take his seat after
the grant of the dignities.—Life of Lord Chancellor
Eldon.

EARLY PRINTING PRESSES.— A famous
Cll9 Badius Ascensianus. has exhibited ttiPs press in tl,e
title page of a book printed by him in 1498. Up to the
middle of the last century this rude press was in nse in
England; although the press of an ingenious Dutch me-
chanic, Blaew,—in which the pressure was rapidly com-
municated frotn the screw to the types, and all the parts
of the press were yielding so as to produce a sharp but
not a crushing impression,—was gradually superseding it.
The early printers manufactured their own ink, so that
Caxtf,n had to learn the art of ink-making. The ink was
applied to the types by balls, or dabbers, such as one of
the men holds who is working the press of Badius. Such
dabbers were universally used in printing thirty years
ago. As the ancient weaver was expected to make his
own loom, so, even this short time s'nce, the division of
labour was so imperfectly applied to printing, that the
pressman was expected to make his own balls. A very
rude and nasty process this was. The sheep-skins, called
pelts, were prepared in the printing-office, where the wool
with which they were stuffed was also carded ; and these
balls, thus manufactured by a man whose general work
was entirely of a different nature, required the expendi-
ture of at least half an hour's labour every day in a very
disagreeable operation, by which they were kept soft.—
Biography of William Caxton.
VALUE OF SALT AS A MANURE.—At a recent meeting
of the Broomsgrove Farmers' Club, reported in the
British Farmers' Magazine, the following letter was read
from Mr. Mathews, of Park Hall, near Kidderminster,
addressed to Mr. H. F. Fardon :—" If salt were found
only on the shores of South America, and imported here at
the price of guano, I think it would be in more general
use than it is at present. Its value no one attempts to
question, but nevertheless its application is very limited.
My experience of its effects is confined to light soils; and
upon such, I know of no article so greatly and so gene-
rally beneficial. Its copious use to every description of
stock I regard as indispensible. For turnips, barley,
clover, and wheat, it is equally beneficial, used either as
a top-dressing or worked into and incorporated with the
soil. Nor is it of value only as regards an increase of
produce, for I have always found the quality greatly im-
proved where it has been used largely. The fold-yard
should have an abundant supply ; it should be applied at
the least once in every week. Upon grass lands, whether
upland pastures or watered meadows, I have found its use
alike advantageous. I have generally applied it in the form
of a compost with soils, but I do not consider this as ne-
cessary. Last spring I dressed a meadow of five acres
with salt and soil, putting on about 30 cwt. per acre of
:all; and the effect was most convincing both in the hay
crop and aftermath. The sheep and cattle I turned into
it had access to an adjoining meadow, and their preference
for that which had been salted was really ludicrous ; they
could not be induced to leave it when it was as bare as a
common, while the other meadow had abundance of grass
upon it. Pray do the community the good service of
urging the more general use of salt, especially in the rye-
land district. I am satisfied that every man whom you
can prevail upon to adopt its use largely, will ultimately
thank you for the good you confer upon him." These
letters, Mr. Farndon said, afford practical evidence of
the value of salt, and 1 hope farmers on light land will
try it. Salt may operate in fixing ammonia by convert-
ing the volatile carbonate of ammonia into the fixed
muriate, being converted itself into carbonate of soda, a
valuableeliffehecttof consistent of manure. Salt may also benefit
BritisdhryFraseronmidleerrisbn,z by its
herbage attraction
more
alatrab l
eand o its
stock.—
the
Magazine.