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Simmonds' Colonial Magazine. London : Simmonds
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The spirited proprietors of this valuable periodical com-
mence the present year with an excellent number.

Abbotsford Waverley.—No 71. Robert Cadell, Edin-
burgh ; and Houlston and Stoneman, London.

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This splendid edition continues to maintain ita excel-
lence of illustration and typography. The present num-
ber brings us far into " Peveril of the Peak." The
frontispiece is a line engraving of Castle Rushin, Isle of
Man.

We are compelled to postpone notices of several new
publications, which arrived too late for use this week.

SELECTIONS.

THE FAREWELL CANTER,

lm" The O'Donoghue," by Harry Lorrequer,

ghts which a 5 used
me most, was a chicken-hatching oven : this useful esta-
blishment is at some distance from the walls, and gives
life to some millions of chickens annually. It seems that
the hens of Egypt are not given to sedentary occupations ;
having been hatched themselves by machinery, they do
not feel called upon to hatch. They seem to consider that
they have discharged every duty to society when they have
produced the eggs. No domestic anxiety ruffles their bo-
soms; they care not whether their offspring becomes a
fowl or a fritter—a game-cock or an omelette.—The
Crescent and the Cross.

RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN BRITISH GUIANA.—
British Guiana is remarkable amongst our West India
possesions, for the attention given to secular affairs and
educational purposes. There has been lately erected in
Georgetown a handsome gothic Protestant Church ; the
building has cost upwards of £13,000. Eighteen minis-
ters of the Church of England are now officiating in the
colony. English, Scotch, and Dutch churchesfend Wes-
leyan chapels abound. The provision for the different
religious establishments, in 1839, amounted to £22,942 ;
and in 1838, there were 11,363 persons receiving instruc-
tion in the public schools. Three public, an infant, and
eight private schools exist in Georgetown. New Amster-
dam also supports a large free school. There is a Roman
Catholic cathedral at Georgetown, and a Roman catholid
chapel at New Amsterdam. Two Roman catholic minis-
ters actively officiate. In 1842, there were 2,218 scholars
in the Church of England School, Demerara ; and 843
Church of Scotland scholars. The Wesleyan Missionary
society support a school at Essequibo, consisting of 298
scholars.) the number was in 1840, 1,036,) showing a sad
falling off. The London Missionary Society has a school
of 1,800 scholars at Essequibo.—Co!onial Magazine.

THE MONK.—The man who first discovers treasure in
secret place may become enriched thereby ; but they who
follow will probably find only rubbish. The lofty minds
of an Anthony and Pachomius had grown not only to
strength, but to power, in the hermit's cell, and thousands
hastened to seek for piety in the wilderness, as if it were
some curious natural production which grew there only.
The very desert ceased to be desert ; the solitudes of
Egypt and Syria became peopled with gloomy dreamers,
why seemed to think it was on the body, not the soul,
that the weight of sin lay so heavily. These selfish zea-
lots had no regard to their Maker's scheme of creation, by
which man is rendered necessary to man, for defence,
emulation, counsel, and consolation. They found, no
doubt, a fierce luxury in the lash, and the privations to
which they subjected themselves ; and devils must have
smiled, when they saw the body that God bad made so
strong, and fair, and comely, torn and disfigured by the
penance and scourge—the soul that had been given for the
exercise of genial thought, and love, and friendship, shrouded
by perpetual gloom, and for ever harping, as the ailing body
does, upon its own sordid self. But these men call them-
selves Catholic I—The Crescent and the Cross.

MIS 3 MARTINEAU AND MESMERISM.—Mr. Green-
how, the brother-in-law and professional attendant on
Miss Martineau, has published a medical report, in the
nature of an answer to the letters on Mesmerism, recently
published by that lady, in which she attributed her reco-
very to mesmeric treatment. The following are the con-
clusions at which Mr. G. arrives :—" Knowing well that
no symptoms of malignant disease of the affected organ
existed, I always believed that a time would arrive when
my patient would be relieved from most of her distressing
symptoms, and released from her long-continued confine-
ment. * * She never willingly listened to my sugges-
tions of the probability of such prospective events, and
seemed always best satisfied with anything approaching
to an admission that she must ever remain a secluded in-
valid. This state of mind, perhaps, may be considered
as an additional symptom of the morbid influence, over
the nervous system, of the class of diseases in which this
case must be included. During the last year or two, in
common with many of the friends of Miss M., I had
frequent opportunities of observing the increased ease and
freedom with which she moved about her sitting-room ;
and my conviction became confirmed, that the time was
approaching when she would resume her habits of exer-
cise in the open air. Oftener than once I have made use
of the somewhat strong expression, that some day, pro-
bably before long, Miss M. would take up her bed and
walk. In the history of this case it is probable that the
advocates of Mesmerism will find reasons and arguments
in support of their opinions. But the experienced prac-
titioner, carefully distinguishing the post hoc from the
propter hoc, will have little difficulty in bringing the
whole into harmony with the well-established laws of
human physiology. As regards the pathology of the case,
he will conclude that the condition in December is but
the natural sequel of progressive improvement begun in,
or antecedent to, the month of April; and as regards the
relief from the distressing nervous symptoms connected
therewith, that the time had arrived when a new and

powerful stimulus only was required to enable the enthu-
siastic mind of my patient to shake them off."