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from.without —of her, with whom I fond'y hoped to have tra-.
veiled the weary road of life. Friends approved—fortune smiled
—one little nimith, and we should have been one; but it pleased
Him to whom'in my present frame of mind I dare not-look up,
to blight my beautiful flower, to canker my rose-bud, to change
the lair countenance of my Elizabeth, and send her away. She
drooped and died, even like that pale flower under the scorch-
ing sun; and I was driven forth to worship Mammon, in these
sweltering climes; but the sting remains, the barbed arrow
sticks fast."
Here the cleared surface of the water, into which he was
steadfastly looking, was gradually contracted into a small round
ot about a foot in diameter, by the settling back of the green
spot about a foot in diameter, by the settling back of the green
floating matter that he had skimmed aside. His countenance
became very pale; he appeared even more excited than he had
hitherto been.
"By heavens ! look iu that water, if the green covering of it
has not arranged itself round the clear sput into the shape of a
medallion—into her features ! I had dreamed of such things lee-
fore, but now it-is a palpable reality-4t is her face—her straight
nose—her Grecian upper lip—her beautiful forehead, and her
very bust !—even,

• As when years apace
Had bound her lovely waist with woman's zone.'

Oh, Elizabeth—Elizabeth !"
Here is whole frame shook with the most intense emotion,
but at length, tears, unwonted tears, did come to his relief, and
he hid his face in his hands, and wept bitterly. I was now con-
vinced he was mad, but I durit not interrupt him. At length
he slowly removed his hands, by which time, however, a most
beautiful small black diver, the most minute species of duck
that I ever saw—it was .not so, big as my fist—but which is com-
mon-in woodland ponds in the West Indies, had risen to the
centre of the eye of the fountain, while all was so still that it
floated quietly like a leaf on the water, apparently without the
least fear of us.
" The devil appeared in Pe.radise under the shape of a cor-
morant," said Mr. Bang, half angrily, as he gazed sternly at
the unlooked for visitor; "what imp art thou?"
Tip—the.little fellow dived ; presently it rose again in the
same place, and lifting up its little foot, scratched the side of
its tiny yellow bill and little red-spotted head, shook its small
wings, bright and changeable as shot silk, with a snow-white
pen-feather in each, and then tipped up its little purple tail, and
once more disappeared.
Aaron's features were gradually relaxing ; a change was
coming over the spirit of his dieaan. The bird appeared for the
third time, lopked him in' the face, first turning up one little
sparkling eye, and .then another, with its neck changing its
hues like a pigeon's. Aaron began to smile; he_gently raised
his stick—"Do you cock yOurfia at me, you tiny thief, you?"
—and thereupon he struck at it with his stick. Tip—the duck
dived, - and .did .not rise .again; and all that ,he got was a
sprinkling shower in the face, from the water flashing up at his
blow, and once more the green covering settled back again,
and-the bust of his dead love, or what he fancied to be so, dis-
appeared. Aaron laughed outright, arose, and began to shout
to the black guide, who, along with Pegtop, had taken the
beasts into the wood in search of provender. " Ayez le bontd
de dunnez moi mon cheval ? Bringibus the horsos, Massa Bungo
—venya los quqdrupedos-7-makehaste, vile, macho, macho."
Come, there is my Massa Aaron once more, at all events,
thought I; but oh, how unlike the Aaron of five minutes ago!
" So, now let us mount, my boy," said he, and we shoved
along, and presently the sun bid us goodbv, very abruptly, I
will confess. "Cheep, cheep," sung the lizards—" chirp, chirp,"
sung the crickets—" snore, snore," moaned the tree toad—and
it was night.

THE EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY, VOL, XIII. AND

XIV. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.

These two volumes contain an excellent condensed
History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern, together with a
description of the country—an account of its inhabitants,
antiquities, political condition, and early commerce—the
life and religion of Mohammed—and an interesting
account of the institutions, character, manners, and cus-
toms of the Bedouins. The compiler, Andrew Crich-
ton, has had recourse •to the best sources extant, from
which he has furnished a work of great usefulness,
and from which it is our intention, in some subsequent
number of the STANDARD, to make extracts. These num-
bers are embellished with a map, and ten well-executed
engravings, by Jackson.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH
GRAMMAR. By Robert Wheeler. Dublin : Carson.
This useful little work is admirably calculated to facili-
tate the study of grammar, by rendering the subject more
intelligible, and will be as valuable to the unlearned adult
as to the infant-student.

THE BRITISII FARMERS' MAGAZINE, NO. XXIX. Ridg-
way, London.

The agriculturist will'find in thiS number some articles
worthy of his attention, and the statesman some valuable
hints respecting the corn law question, and on " the home
colonization of the poor." We perfectly agree in opinion
with the author of the latter paper, "that the industrious
labourer is, when employed, a source of Wealth to the
state where he resides;" and most cordially assent to his
position "that to send such persons forth from our shores
is to send forth the very foundation of our strength." To
us emigration has always been a subject fraught withme-
lancholy reflections, for we cannot view otherwise than
with deep regret the drains upon the life blood of Eng-
land caused by this voluntary expatriation of our

-" bold peasantry, the country's pride"
to other countries, that will the sooner by this accession
of strength be in a position to defy—perhaps to anni-
hilate us as a nation. On inquiry we believe it will be
found that emigrants are invariably persons desirous of
living by honest industry, and that a real or supposed
want of a proper field for the exertion of that industry is
the reason why they fly from home, country, a•ad friends,
to encounter the horrors of almost savage life in the wilds
of Africa or America. The political unionists and pot-
house politicians, the turn-outs, or the thieves of London,
Birmingham or Liverpool, are content to prey upon the
industry of others ; for them the prospect of a workhouse
in old age has neither shame nor terror ; when such as
these emigrate, it is "by compulsion" and at the state's
expense. _ _

To stem the tide of emigration, the author of the pa-
per before us proposes that an experimental parish shall
be formed out of one of the tracts of waste land belonging
to the crown, - consisting of allotments of land to indus
trious busbandrnen, of not less than seven acres each, to
be cultivated by the spade, on. which he proposes that
small inexpensive cottages shall be built; the cottager
to •be charged a moderate rent that will reimburse the
state for the outlay of the required capital. On this sub-
ject he observes that " the legislature, but the other day,
voted twenty millions for the emancipation of slaves, and
for this money no interest is to be received, neither is
any part of it to be repaid ; a vote of one twentieth part
of that sum would be sufficient for the present, and would
serve for the founding of eighteen parishes such as those
contemplated, and would put 5,400 industrious families,
consisting of at least 32,400 individuals, in a way of earn-
ing an independent and comfortable subsistence ; and •at
the same time increasing, to an immense extent, the
national wealth." We cannot at present enter into the
details of this scheme, but we think it one deserving of
attention.

THE LIVERPOOL MEDICAL GAZETTE ; OR, MONTRLY
JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, AND TILE COLLATERAL
SCIENCES. No. XI. John Churchill, London; and
Kaye, Liverpool.

This number contains some valuable papers, that may
be perused with equal advantage by the unprofessional
as well as the professional reader, and reflects great credit
on its editor, Dr. Hunter Lane, and the gentlemen who
conduct the medical and anatomical schools of Liver-
pool. " Cases from the Clinical Reports of the Liverpool
Opthalmic Infirmary," and " Passages" from Mr. Gill's
introductory lecture at -these schools,- show that the pro-
fession in this place is entitled by its high talent and in-
dustryto general confidence.

TUN BNGEISII CHCRCII.---Let us be spared the painful task
of tracing the fatal consequences of the extinction of religion
among us. They are indeed such as no man who is ever so lit-
tle interested fur the welfare of his country can contemplate
without the deepest concern. The very loss of out Church Es-
tablishment, though, as in all human institutions, some defects
may be found in it, would in itself be attended with the most
fatal consequences. No iirudent man dares hastily pronounce
how far its destruction might not greatly endanger our civil in-
stitutions. It would not be difficult to prove that the want of
it would also be in the highest degree injurious to the cause of
Christianity; and still more, that it would take away what ap-
pears from experience to be one of the most probable means
of its revival. To what a degree might even the avowed prin-
ciples of men, not altogether without religion, decline, when
our inestimable Liturgy should no longer iemain in use. A
Liturgy justly inestimable, which continually sets before us a
faithful mode of the Christian's belief, and practice, and lan-
guage restraining us, as far as restraint is possible, from exces-
sive deviation, furnishing us with abundant instruction when
we would return into the right path; affording an advantageous
ground of no • little value to such instructors as still adhere to
'the good. old principles of the'Church of England; in short,
daily shaming us by preserving a living representation'of the
opinions and habits of better times, as some historical record
Which reproaches a degenerate posterity by exhibiting the wor:
'thier deeds of their progenitors. In such a state of things, to
what a depth•publie morals might sink may be anticipated by
those who consider what would then be the condition of society;
who reflect how bad principles and vicious conduct mutually
aid each other's operation, and how, in particular, the" formei
make sure the ground which the latter may have gained; • whip
remember that, in the lower orders the system of honour and
the responsibility of character are wanting, which in the supel-
rior classes,. in some poor degree, supply the place of higher
principles. It is well for the happiness of mankind that such a
coinmunity could not long subsist. The cement of society be.
ing no more, the state would soon be dissolved into intlividu-
aLty.— Ifrilbryforess,