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in these good thing

neighbour, John :—but of a surety the time will come—
and that sooner, perhaps, than the place-loving and heart-
less ministers expect; when the Pull, awakned to the
sense of degradation in which an abandonment of princi-
ple has placed his country, will really be transformed into
an angry beast, and revenge himself on those who have
proved themselves his betrayers.—Dublin Mail.

CHARLES TH.: SECOND AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY.—
When Charles 11. chartered the Royal Society, it is nar-
rated of him, that he was disposed to give the philosophers
a royal, but at the same time a wholesome lecture. " Why
is it, my lords and gentlemen," said he, " that if you fill
a vessel with water to the very brim, so that it will not
bold a single drop more, yet, putting a certain kind of fish
into the water, it shall not overflow the vessel ?" Many
were the sage conjectures : that the fish would drink as
touch water as compensated for his own bulk—that be
condensed the water to that amount—that the air-bladder
bad something to do with the phenomenon—and a hun-
dred others, which were propounded and abandoned in
their turn, much to the amusement of the " merry mo-
narch." At length Mr. Professor Wren (afterwards Sir
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that such would be the case ?';
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account for it :—then I shall not I
I have just given you."

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gentlemen

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THE CONSCRIPTION IN EGYP'

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Vainly do the fish prey on
and the hawk on the feathered
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and 500,000 souls

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are withered from Egypt, witi

• • ••••,...• v. •-• ••••o•-,• OF I‘./l1 IL
only the logs of men that is caused by enrolment, battle,
and disease; hut when the Pasha's press-gangs are out re-
cruiting, whole villages become deserted. The men fly to
the deserts to escape his odious service, and their wites
and children dare not remain behind them to meet the
vengeance of the baffled pursuer. In the desert they pe-
rish by thousands ; and when pursuit has pissed by, and
when the man-catchers have returned to their camp, many
a roof remains deserted, for those who made a home there
lie with bleached bouts upon the desert The dread of
conscription is painfully illustrated in the number of the
maimed you meet everywhere. At least two-thirds of the
male population of Egypt have deprived themselves of the'
right eye, or of the forefinger of the right hand. There
are even professional persons, who go about to poison the
eye, which they do with verdigris, of sew it up altogether.'
Our equipment consisted of twelve men; of these only two
men were liable to conscription, and seven of them were
either one-eyed or fore-fingerless.--The Crescent and
the Cross.

perhaps, a less favoured soil and climate, but a more in-
dustrious population. Instead of making bad calicoes at
high price, let the Spaniards set to work to clear and plant
their despobbidos—let them improve their system of agri-
culture. their mode o, producing oil • let them cut canals
and make roads, and get something like decent cnmmuni-
cations between towns and provinces. The irrigation of
the soil in Spain is also a matter of great importance, and
which, in many parts of the country, is at present sadly
neglected. There are vast districts that remain uninha-
bited and barren, solely because people will not build arid
live where they are beyond a certain distance from water;
districts where every thing is parched and dry for the
greater part of the year, and where the land, although rich
in its nature, becomes worthless from excessive drought.
The system of Artesian wells might, we are persuaded, be
introduced to great advantage in Spain ; end for such, as
well as for canals, railways, and similar improvements,
abundance of foreign capital would be forthcoming, if—
and here is the sticking point—Spaniards would only show
a disposition to remain quiet, and turn their attention to
A TEA DRINKER.—Hazlitt, the celebrated waiter and the arts of peace, instead of ruining their country, wasting
critic, usually rose at from one to two o'clock in the day their blood, and degrading the national character, by all
—scarcely ever before twelve ; and if he bad no work in these unmeaning and unprofitable pronunciamentos and
hand, he would sit over his breakfast (of excessively strong. skirmishings. It is probably not very important at this
black tea, and a toasted French roll) till four or five in the moment who rules over the Spaniards, provided the go-
afternoon—silent, motionless, and self.absorbed, like a vernment have power and energy enough to keep them
Turk over his opium pouch : for tea served him in this ca- from cutting each others' throats, and to prey nt their
pacity. It was the only stimulant he ever took, and at the getting into a confirmed habit of revolutions and rebellions.
same time the only luxury : the delicate state of his diges- "In all the larger towns of Spain," we quote Captain
tive organs prevented him from tasting any fermented Ii- Widdrington, " there is a crowd of idlers, characters with
cuors, or touching any food but beef and mutton, or poul. little or no occupation, frequenters of theatres and cafes,
try and game, dressed with perfect plainness. He never great readers of journals, and considerable politicians, pre-
touched any but black tea, and was very particular about tenders to small places, excessively ignorant, and ready to
the quality of that, always using the most expensive that join in any movement provided it be attended with little
could be got : and he used, when living alone, to consume personal risk to themselves. A large portion of this class
nearly a pound in a week. A cup of Hazlitt's tea (if v.ou took a very active part in opposing the government, and
happened to come in for the first brewage of it) was a were delighted to figure in juntos, or fill other analogous
peculiar thing; I have never tasted anything like it. He situations, giving them a momentary importance, and pos-
alway made it for himself; half-filling the teapot with tea, sibly a few dollars at the public expense." And this is
pouring the boiling water on it, and then almost imrnedi- one of the great causes of the unsettled state of Spain, the
ately pouring it out ; using with it a great quantity of su- immense number of idlers. Wars and revolutions, pro-
gar and cream. To judge from its occasional effect upon ducing an nnflourishing state of trade and agriculture, have
myself, I should say that the quantity Hazlitt drank of this discouraged Spaniards during the last thirty or forty years
tea, produced, ultimately, a most injurious effect upon from putting their children to trades or professions.
him ; and In all proballity hastened his death—which " There is no knowing how long this war may last," they
took place nom disease probe
the digestive organs. Bat its used to say during the Carlist contest; "as long as it
immediate effect was agreeable, even to a degree of fasci- lasts there is no good to be done in Spain" So, instead
station ; and not feeling any subsequent reaction from it, of bringing up their sons to work; they just let them live
be persevered in its use to the very last, notwithstanding on from day to day, gossiping and smoking ; and at the
two or three attacks, similar to that which terminated his present moment there are many hundred thousand, young
ife.—Recolkcir by P. G. Patmore. and middle-aged men of the lower and middle classes, es-