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ECCENTRIC loNts FaTuus.--Lieutenant Burnes describe, a
curious phenomenon observed on the confluence of the Indus
and Kabul river, half a mile from Atok, in the following wordsx
"An ignis fatuus constantly shows itself in this place ; two,
three, and even four lights are visible at a time, and continue
to shine through the night. It appears, at first sight, to IA the
reflection of the water on the rock, well smoothed by the can-
rent; but then it only shows itself in one particular spot, and
though the whole banks are so smoothed, it is confined to a few
yards. There was and could be no deception. The natives
cannot account for it, and its continuance during the rainy
season is the most inexplicable part of the phenomenon in that::
estimation. The valiant Man Sinb, who carried a war of re-
venge against the Mahomedans beyond the Indus, fought a bat-
tle ou this spot, and the lights are considered by some as the
departed spirits of the slain. For my own part, I cannot solve
the mystery regarding this which I only
credited after having seen it."

INPANTICIDE.—An article relative to the medical test of
ascertaining whether children have been born alive, in the Lon.
don Medical and Physical Journal, gives the following as that of
Ploucquet :—" We are to determine the weight of the body of
the child, then to remove the lungs from the chest, and having
weighed them, to ascertain what proportion the weight of the
lungs bears to the weight of the body. Whatever that propor-
tion may be, it is clear, from what has been above stated, that
it will be nearly twice as great in fcetuses which have respired
as it is in those which are still-born. Of course it was neces-
sary that some standard should be fixed by which the result, in
either case, might be compared; and accordingly Ploucquet
performed some experiments on the subject, and from these he
deduced the following proportions i—lst, That where respira-
tion had not taken place, thie weight of the lungs was, to the
weight of the body, in the ratio of Ito 70. 2d, That where
the act of respiration had been completely performed, the
weight of the lungs was to the weight of the hotly in the ratio
of 1 to 35."

A DREAM.-It happened at a period when there was an alarm
of French invasion, and almost every man in Edinburgh was a
soldier. All things had been arranged in expectation of the land-
ing of an enemy; the first notice of which was to be given by a
gun from the castle, and this was to be followed by a chain of sig-
nals, calculated to alarm the country in all directions. Fur-
ther, there had been recently in Edinburgh a splendid military
spectacle, in which five thousand men had been drawn up in
Prince's-street, fronting the Castle. The gentleman to whom
the dream occurred, and who had been a most zealous volun-
teer, was in bed between two and three o'clock in the morning,
when he dreamt of hearing the signal-gun. He was imme-
diately at the castle, witnessed the proceedings for displaying
the signals, and saw and heard a great bustle over the town
from troops and artillery assembling, especially in Prince's-
street. At this time he was roused by his wife, who awoke in a
fright, in consequence of a similar dream, connected with much
noise and the landing of an enemy, and concluding with the
death of a particular friend of her husband's, who had served
with him as a volunteer during the late war. The origin of
this remarkable occurrence was ascertained in the morning to
be the noise produced in the room above by the fall of a pair
of tongs, which had been left in some very awkward position
in support of a clothes-screen.—Quarterly Review.—Philosophy
of Apparitions.

,i-bippina

,L FRIDAY, 11th Janus
Atntvz D.—Babarnian, Maxi
Terra Leone, (sailed 7th De
pout Ist December—Emperot
.)—Sylvanus Jenkins, C(
thagen.
FlAlaily M•Donald, Wallace,
erto Cabello, 7th December
tai ..Antigua, Driscoll, hence at,
Frances, , hence at :
Tom Tough, W illiamson, fro.
Cumberland, Cook, and Ila
y head. -
Lune. —, from hence fa
____..

wing struck on a bank off Wi
SAlLBD.—William Pitt, Rai
~kritea—Byker, Bruae, Bahia—
'lrina—London, M'Clean, Ni

SATURDAY, 12th Jan
&Intim:b.—Nimrod, Atkins,
4tly Douglas, Cocks, from CI
,Birmingham, Glover, hence

Pee., putting back leaky ' • a st
A large ship was seen at and
'l'een die banks near 'Wexford
kpected would ride out the ga
soon as possible.
Regular, Bond, hence at Bei
Intrinsic, Sharp, do, at Den
Parker, Risien, do, at
Lee, Scott, do, at Barb
Margaret, Moore, do, do.
Doctor, Underwood, do. off
David Cannon, Cain, do,

Grindey, do, at
Sovereign, Mann, do, otr
Capiiciosa, Ravenna, do, at
Dart, Ditcham, do, at
Ann, Brown, do, at(
Robert James Haynes, Grab:
alizabeth, M`Gaa, from Bin
area.

Marathon,
„ Cortney, from I
,;•oatent, Roberts, Powey—An
Vora Poole—Argo, Moss, Yam
'ohn and Elizabeth, Roberts, I

13 D —Llama, Morce, for
41razePPa. Wilson, Buenos A

SUNDAY, 13th Japan
ARRlVED.—Dalmatia, Winds
qom the latter port 2.oth Dec.
`Laura, Taylor, Demerara.
Patriot Kin,, Pinder, from C;
oyage in eight months and thr
I Mary sailed from Bahia i
1' Sth Nov. dlsmasted.
The Flora, I'arlie, hence for I
!Ostern coast of Anglesey ;—ere
I'orcia, Bennett, hence at N
411 having been supplied, prod. Walter Foulk, hence at the t
N.,

,ul4,
Tinley, Robinson, hence at 31
Quebec, 6th Dec.—The James
Pilot returned here yesterday, b
SALLEn.—Belvidera, Hobson,

OPTICAL ILLUSIONB.—One of the most extraordinary illu-
sions is that of Nicolai, a bookseller at Berlin, who communi-
cated an account of his own case to the Prussian Academy of
Sciences. A translation of his memoir was published in 1803,
in an English journal of very limited circulation, and with the
exception of what is contained in the brief abstract of it given
by Dr. Hibbert and Sir Walter Scott, is still but little known
to the general reader. Towards the end of the year 1790 and
the beginning of 1791, M. Nicolai had been agitated by various
misfortunes, which preyed deeply upon his mind, and on the
24th February an event occurred which threw him into violent
distress. About ten o'clock in the morning, when his wife and
a friend had entered his room, for the purpose of consoling
him, he suddenly perceived, at the distance of a few paces, the
standing figure of a person deceased, which remauied from
seven to eight minutes, and which the rest of the party were, of
course, unable to see. A little after four o'clock in the after-
noon, the same figure appeared to him when he was alone, and
upon his going to mention this to his wife, the spectre accom-
panied him to her apartment, alternately vanishing, and reap-
pearing. A little after six o'clock several stalking figures also
appeared, but they had no connexion with the figure already
mentioned. When his mind had become more composed, and
his bodily indisposition had been removed by medical
treat-
meat, our bookseller expected that these appearances would
take leave of him. His expectations, however, were disap-
pointed, for they increased in number, and underwent the most
extraordinary transformations. The standing figure of the per-
son deceased never appeared to him after the 24th FebruarY,
but several other figures occupied its place. These figures were
chiefly those of persons whom he did not know, though he
sometimes saw those of his acquaintances. The figures of per-
sons alive occurred more frequently than those of persons who
were deceased, and he distinctly remarked that tse acquaint-
ances with whom 'he daily conversed never appeared to him as
phantasms. Whea, after some weeks, he had become familiar
with these unbidden guests, he endeavoured to conjure up
phantasms of his acquaintance, and for this purpose he tried to
bring them before his imagination in the most lively manner;
but though he had but a short time before seen them as phan-
tasms, he never could, by this process, succeed in giving them
an external locality. When he was conversing with his phy-
sician and his wife concerning. the phantasms which hovered
around him, the figures sometimes Left him altogether and
again appeared either singly or in groups. The apparitions:
were generally human figures of both sexes, who, like people at
a fair, passed to and fro, as if they had no mutual connexion,
thoughl they sometimes appeared to have business with one
another. On one or two occasions he saw persons on horse-
back, dogs, and birds, all of which appeared in their natural
size, and of the same colours which they exhibited in real life,
though somewhat paler. When these apparitions began to be
seen more frequently, Nicolai began also to hear them speak ;
sometimes they addressed one another, but generally they spoke
to himself, in short speeches, which never contained anything
disagreeable. This loquacity in the apparitions occurred most
frequently when he was alone, though he sometimes heard it id
society, intermixed with the actual conversation of the coMI
pang. Although these appearances had ceased to excite any
disagreeable emotion, and had even afforded him frequent sub-
jects of amusement and mirth, yet, as his disorder had sensibly
increased, and as the figures had appeared to him for whole
days together, and even when he awoke during the night, be
found it necessary not only to take medicine, but to appll
leeches. This was done on the 20th April, at eleven o'clock
the forenoon; and during the operation, while he was sitting
alone with the surgeon, the room swarmed with human formil
of every description, which crowded fast upon ene another till`
half-past four o'clock. The figures then began to move moi°
slowly, their colours became gradually paler, and, after inter
vals of seven minutes, he could distinguish a palpable dirty'
nution in their intensity, without any change in the distinctneo
of their figures. At about half-past six o'clock they hecausi
entirely white, and moved very slightly; their forms, however,
were still perfectly distinct, and without decreasing in nurnberj
they gradually became less perceptible. Instead of moving 0"
or vanishing as they had usually done, they now dissolveduo-
mediately intro air; whole pieces of some of them continuing,
for a length of time, and at last disappearing. About eigt°
o'clock not a vestige of them remained; and Nicolai never
again was disturbed by these spectral illusions. Accustornej
..,
to the investigation of mental phenomena, Nicolai took a grey
interest in studying the facts which had thus occurred to hilly(
self; and he has recorded various excellent observations, °
which the following are the most interesting to the pnetin°:,
tologist.—lst. He endeavoured to discover if the figures wen
presented to his mind by some association with his preyier
thoughts; but though he sometimes thought that he -had (11!'t
covered some such associations, especially during the latt„
period of his visions, yet, he assures us, that on the whole, Pi
could trace no connexion between the figures and the state °
his mind, or the nature of his employments, or the other
thoughts which occupied his attention. '2d. He found that 17,,
could always distinguish phantasms from real figures, and
never once erred in making
~
this distinction. " I knew, °0
tremely welly" says he, "when it only appeared to me f
the door was opened, and the phantasms entered, and the d°° ~riis RIVER SCIIELDT. —Extract
really was opened and some person came in." 3d. The jfir dated Bth January The
pearance of the phantoms was, in every case, involuntaryi. tio‘ received from Flushing, dated
depended little, if at all, upon external circumstances. 11',; Vett The marine authorities, I
were equally distinct, whether he was alone or in societ,3 14V?fused the entrance to vessel
whether he was in broad day-light or in darkness, whether !" whiCiee
permission
was in his own house or in that of a neighbour. lie notiev.; !;'t the
however, that they were less frequent in another person's hod As they arrived here bi
than in his own; and they very seldom appeared when,i', .the
tilarit„.clocks they
,
Dutch Admiral will allow
walked in the public streets. 4th. The figures sometimes '1,1; l
free, the river being full of
appeared when he shut his eyes, and sometimes they remainfoi PRIVATEERING.—The
when they vanished in the former case, nearly the same 60 j ttlle ra_il:tens Rion ve noticed the
retur otl
to Ho
has
appeared when his eyes again opened. sth. The figures W;,i
dtchNs o Holland. Shp upon
neither terrible, ludicrous, nor repulsive, and they appoie t'lned sacred as flags oft ruce a
oftner in motion than at rest. 6th. On two or three oceir,Ori
,L4ceounts are true, she has 'fol
after he had teased to observe these appearances, he felt al' 111;17,706 of England, and turned
pensity. to see them, or a sensation as if he saw somet/11,,, of
in the Surinam trade,
which in a moment was again gone.—Quarterly Review. .07,te_.t.vessel is called the l
ol sophy of Apparitions. ‘t,t7; this day as a capture made h
must certainly be some mist:
1 L
_von as containing a scandalous lib
I'4 uP" the commander of the sh

MONDAY, 14th Januar;
Orleans—Lancashire
Ross, a
~vrleans--Lancashire Witch, C
uec.)—Prosper, Vasser, from I
Birmingluun, Glover, sailed 8
'elt leaky, and is discharging 1
idiso arrical:—Fortune, Greg
;,--Prince Llewellyn, Mowle
"lrymple, and Lord Nelson, .1
rack ; Hope, Conning ; Howi
Td James, rd!Cleaue, from liilglu-die, and Brilliant, Mather, 1
lan, Lawson, from Annan—S
terits, Irving, from Carlisle—l]
NatriCk, from Poole.—And th
'''.aterfortl—Leeds, from Dublin•
ker. from Londonderry—Clyde
I.Lord Eldon, Dawson ; Bonn:
INdpe, hence at Calcutta.
Alexander, Jefferson, and Ball
Ardent, Hartgrave, hence at I
tllen, Jenkinson, Blundell, he
1 Mary, , Snell, sailed f
4,elt 30th with loss of furetopma
(Murat, Airey, Charleston, fo:
s of sails.
The large ship reported on 12t
ilst at anchor between the l
atson, hence for Calcutta; Mr,
Reamer) from Dublin to her ass

EAST
Bahamian, Maxwell, fm Mau
pater and co —P Dk

UNIT'Ei
kedora, Griffiths, fm Charles
upper, Benson and co-730 ba
q do. order—P Dk
tguperor, Chatter, fm Saran;
Yers and co-209 do, Wainwri;
rt and co-108 do, order—P D
„ gilvanus Jenkins, Coffin, fm
gX-all, Myers and co-24 do, V
own and co-87 do, Hagarty at
• and J D 'rhornely-500 salted
ands, Hodgson and co-100 csk tk,
0, bris apples, Roskell, Ogden
ni Evans-7600 treenails, G HI
Ops, 1 brl apples, I caboose, P
14 Lambert and co-2 brls ap

SOUTH .
tamesi, Smith, fm Laguna, w
"*Lbt 14U t logwoott—abt t lust

EUJ
Dauntless, Green, fm Ostend,
nd co-54 do, W Dixon and cc—
C Kalowski-83 do, Carson am
Baggeson, fm Copenha;
bris tar, Join's, Mann and co•

AF
rederiek, Mo.cklay, fm Sierra
ftt l pus palm oil, 56 elephant
iaes, 1,1; Langley—G Dk

VESSELS ENTER

EAST
Taylor & co, or Ashleys, 40..)
Mph

t.
& Son.

WEST It

266 Nest 4

234 KeLsi,

BRITISH
`..e21, or T Hatton, jun, 307 Mil
14 UNITED
14rIon & It., 388 Rach
(lortion, 29. Elea'
44j4re, or Fitzhugh & co, 331 H(
Wood & co, or Aber- 252 1
crumble,
k 4,4113 & Crary, Silas
`oclou,,h, or J Ilolt & co, 248 J:
aylor 2 co, Join'
Zkury atham & co, 411 Tally
aaj:•l'orLii; co, 374 Vestz
Wood, 396 Hope
& Grimshaw, 451 Rolm,

106 l'l-IL LIVERPOOL STANDAIta
. ... , . ...._., _...
- „.........
Vottrt). "It said, the pestilence shall come— CHARACTERISTIC TRAlTS.—Recently, as seine gentlemen . E '
ltsaid, the sword shall follow near; were wending their way towards the Penitentiary in Milled e- c ' CCENTRIC Inlets Faeues.-s-Lieutenant Burnes describ
curious phenomenon observed on the confluence of the I
When these their thousands have o'ereorae, villa, Georgia, they were accosted by a tall, tine-looking Indian, ;and Kabul river, half a mile from 'Atok, in the following wc
Then famine shall bring up the rear
in his blunt way, " Where is the Penitentiary ?" They showed s! An ignis fatuus constantly shows itself in this place ;
AN AULD WIFE'S DREAM. (The worst and dreadfulest to bear)
- An' hart its wretched myriads hence; him. " How shall I get in there ?" They told him they were
Till all is waste—a forest drear, going there, and he could pass with them. As they were going three,. and even four lights are visible at a time, and coil
BY TUB ETTRICE SHIM:MD. to shine through the night. It appears, at first sight, to bi
reflection of the water on the rock, well smoothed by the
By famine, sword, and pestilence. on, one of the company said to him, " Well, I suppose you
(From. Faasee's Magazine.) "0 it was dreadful! Then I saw Cherokees are now ready to make a treaty ?" "IV hat's the rent ; but then it only shows itself in one particular spot,
Poor women trailing out the way. use," said the Indian, in the same blunt manner, and without though the whole banks are so smoothed, it is confined to t
NOVENIBBR wind had toutit loud, No house to reek, nor cock to craw, manifesting the slightest feeling,—" what's the use ? you keep
An' titled the wan leaves frae the tree ; Nor bed their heads whereon to lay ; none."—New York paper. yards. There was and could be no deception. The as
The could hues o' the winter cloud No shepherd's pipe nor shepherd's lay. , cannot account for it, and its continuance during the I
Were ghaistly fearsome-like to see: Nor maiden at the ewe-bught sung; STATUE OF WASHINGTON.—The first object of our curiosity season is the most inexplicable part of the phenomenon in
When auld Jelin Graime, o' Goudie-lee. The ewes were bleating on the brae,
was the statue of Washington, by the Phidias of the British estimation. The valiant Man Sinb, who carried a war o
Oat up ae morn free 'mang the clam, And dogs a-worrying of their young. school of 'sculpture, Chantrey. This grand work of art, which venge against the Mahomedans beyond the Indus, fought a
Au' buird the blankets wi' his knee,
"The kie were lying at the stake is partially known to the public through the medium of engrav- tie ou this spot, and the lights are considered by some al
To ties away the greedy flees.
Cauld dead, an' a' their tongues hung out ; ings, ornament the new State House, an edifice of large dimen- departed spirits of the slain. For my own part, •I
cannot
" Lie still, John Gnome—lie still, John Grime, The cocks an' hens had ta'en the brake, mous, and of handsome architecture. It is judiciously p y gp,
laced the myster rearding this ' will-o'-the-wig which 1
I hae some awsome things to say— The calvies gaed an' moo'd about ;
For I hae dream'd a dread?u' dream An' a' the famish'd land throughout in a recess lighted from above; and is seen as approached from credited after having seen it."
Will haunt me till my dying day!" The horses lay dead in the sta'. the grand entrance of the mansion. This greatest of modern
" 0, my auld wife 1 1 dareua stay— Cold desolation in and out, heroes is represented standing, enveloped in an ample robe
I always he your dreams we dread; An' cobwebs hang on ilka wa'. and holding in one hand a scroll. Those parts of the figure noi. INFANTICIDE.—An article relative to the medical to
ascertaining whether children have been born alive, in the
don Medical and Physical Journal, gives the following as th
concealed by drapery, display a modification of modern cos-Pia never gude, but ill, they spae—
" ' 0 waelhe day! 0 was the day r
An' weel k ken they'll soon be read." Ploucquet :—" We are to determine the weight of tie hod
•
Quo' that wee viewless burd again ; turne. Without presuming to cavil at this deviation from the the child, then to remove the lungs from the chest, and ha
"I thought I wandeed a' my lane ' 0 was the day ! 0 was the day? antique, such is the conception and execution of this beautiful
By Yarrow, through the gloaming grays The glory o' our land is game ! statue, that, independent of the association of ideas, the spec- weighed them, to ascertain what proportion the weight o
An' heard a, wee •birdmake a mien The lograthim o' numbur ane tater stands in silent-admiration; but indulging in such, the lungs bears to the weight of the body. Whatever that pia' tion may be, it is clear, from what has been above stated,
In a right wild mysterious way.. Is our gude king tuba us commands ;
effect is sublime.—America and the Americans.
a_its witililsbien ntielaersleywtshviieche
areas gartie.labtbeinrnf.cetousfesc waahrsiech
it
taywae
sreas
I turn'd me round an' round again, A moon that's wearin' to the wane--
An' glowed at bush an' braken shale. An honest man in shamefu' hands. STAGE-COACH TRAVELLING. —lt is difficult to determine
But a' my glowring was in vain, (says a lively article in the last Quarterly) the exact period at "' 0 was the day 1 0 was the day ! thatstandardshould be by •
sarysome
For feint a bird was there ava y tide of sorrow has set in— which a stage-coach at first appeared upon the road, but it either case, might be compared; and accordingly Plouc
" Thinks I there is some glaumry hera, The tide of democratic sway seeua.s to be pretty well ascertained that in 1662 there were but performedthe
some experiments on subject, and. from then
• An' I had better speed me }lame; Is rolling o'er us for our sin. six, and one of the wise men of those days, Jelin Crossell, of ieduced the following proportions •—lst, That where rest
. , , I
For some wee spirit co' the air Brothers at brothers flout and grin— the Charterhouse, tried his best to write them down. It was lion had not taken place, the weight of the lungs was, to
Is singing things I darena name. Fathers and sons are set at strife ; supposed he had the countenance of the country gentlemen,
linw mind, gudeman. I'm no to blame An' wale o' villains only win. weight of the body, in theratio of 1 70. ' d 'll'
y.,
who were afraid, if their wives could get easily and cheaply to the act •
if some wee fairy o' the glen But, blame them not, auld weirdly wife. of respiration had been completely performed,
Thought meet at midnight to proclaim London, they might not settle so welt afterwards to their do- weightofthe lungs •
was to the weight of the body in the i
" "The curse of God! the curse of God I
The names an' wicked deeds o' men." Has aye with selfish knaves begun ; mestic duties at the Hall or the Grange. But too back onl r
"
to 35
"0, my auld wife! I pray i4e ower:— But who can sway the mighty rod 90 years. In 1742 the Oxford stage-coach left London at seven of .
Ye'll put roc daft wt what I thee ; That rules all things below the sun 1 o'clock ia the morning, and reached Uxbridge at mid-day. It A DREAM.—It happened at a period when there was an al
Fu' wee a I ken ye hae the. power Now see the people madly run arrived at High Wycomb at five in the evening, where it rested of French invasion, and almost every man in Edinburgh v
'o' seeing things which nane can see : To that which is their deadliest bane. for the night, and proceeded at the same rate for the seat of soldier. All things had been arranged in expectation of the 1
Ye keep me in a quandarye We canna help it—all is done— learning on the morrow. Ilere, then, were ten hours consumed ing of an enemy; the first notice of which was to be given
Fracis bat month
the to
ev mon
it th, an' year to year;— The glory u' our land is gane 1' " each day in travelling '27 miles, and nearly two days in per- gun from the castle, and this was to be followed by a chain of
'T day shld be
All unfereseen, though it be near." "0 my auld wife ! forsooth I say, forming what is now done with the greatest ease under six nals, calculated to alarm the country in all directions. :
That little burd has been the de'il; • hours ! Well-born coachmen prevail on the road. A gentle- ther, there had been recently in Edinburgh a splendid mil
" Gudeman, 'tis best to be prepared, There's downright treason in its lay— man, connected with the first families in Wales, and. whose spectacle, in which five thousand men had been drawn t
l'a tell you, an' I'll tell you true, The Whigs are honest men and feel : . father long represented his native county in Parliament, horsed Prince's-street, fronting the Castle. The gentleman to w
The plain hut awfu' words I heard, ' The SCOTSMAN says 't, an' he kens weel.
Though we the tale should dearly rue, Better than either you or me. and drove one side of the ground (between London and the dream occurred, and who had been a most zealous vc
The note was like the redbreast s whew : But keep this frae the SHEPHERD chiel, Brighton), with Mr. Stevenson, (who had been a Cambridge teer, was in bed between two and three o'clock in the most
But then it sang iu words sae plain, Or ruined, ruined we shall be,'" University graduate) : and Mr. Charles Jones, brother of Sir when he dreamt of hearing the signal-gun. He was in
' I thought the elfin's voice I knew— 41trive Lake, November 22, 1832. TAM/IS Hem Thomas Tyrwhit Jones, has now a coach on the Brighton road, diately at the castle, witnessed the proceedings for displa
'• An' ay it sung them ower again : • When old Mrs. Graham related this dream to me last year about called the Pearl, which he both horses and drives himself. The the signals, and saw and heard a great bustle over the 1
' " ' Thou bonny dame o' Goudie-lee.' this very time, I thought it such a farrago of wild prophetic nonsense, late Mr Stevenson, mentioned above, (for he no longer exists), from troops and artillery assembling,
especially in Prin,
'• ' That was the first note that it sung—" that I only took a note of it, although her husband assured me that it became a coachman by profession; and it is only justice to his street. At this time he was roused by his wife,who
" Now, my auld wife, I beg you'll be would be fulfilled But some late symptomatic movements have in- memory to admit,that
A little dooce, an' haud your tongue ; aimed me to put it into metre, to draw the attention pf those who wish he had • d perfection his His
arrive at in art. education and early noise and the landing of an enemy, and concluding with
• Though bonny ainee when ye were young, to be prepared for the worst,
. habits, however, had not been lost upon him; his demeanour death of a particular friend of her husband's, who had se
An' bunny, bonny still to me,
Oltif.
Ye canna trow an auld gray rung
' • Is lovely to a fairy's ee."
VARIETIES. him, that he introduced the phenomenon of refinement into a this remarkable occurrence was ascertained in the morme
stage-coach. At a certain change of horses on the road, a silver be the noise produced in the room above by the fall of a
" !Thou bonny dame o' Goodie-lee.'
saiadwich-box was handed to his passengers by his servant, accom- of tongs, which had been left in some very awkward posii
1
heard it say, I heard it sing ; DR. CHANNING.—In his discourses he displays much ing-
' Your kindly heart—'tis kind to me— nious speculation on a future state; arguing in favour of e Panted by the offer of a glass of sherry to such as were inclined. in support of a clothes-screen.—Quarterly Review.—Philos,
Loes weel your country, an' your king;Q./Apparitions.
doctrine of the soul's immortality, even from reason ; ' because,' ON THE CURE OP BURNS BY COTTON Woos.—Burns and
Then list to me—for 1 maun sing
• A sang o' fearfu' tendencye; said the reverend preacher, ` nothing in nature is annihilated. scalds are probably the most common injuries to which the OPTICAL ILLUSIONB.—One of the most extraordinary
But dinna let my tidings bring Everything, upon decay, resolves itself into new combinations; people of England are exposed. In our mines and manufac- sions is that of Nicolai, a bookseller at Berlin, who comm
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' Your hopes to dark despondency. therefore, why should mind be an exception ?' He rejected the tones they are constantly occurring. Even in ordinary life we cated an account of his own case to the Prussian Acadeir
e 'Then, bonny dame, .
'Us meet ye ken doctrine of a local hell, substituting the idea of the stings of hear almost daily of such accidents. It often happens that Sciences. A translation of his memoir was published in 1
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The curse o' Heaven hangs o'er this land— conscience tormenting us. Upon the subject of the atonement, females, by standing incautiously too near a grate, set fire to in an English journal of very limited circulation, and with
Nae tongue can speak, nae hand c
hand— an pen. the reverend orator attacked the orthodox notion of the re- their cotton dresses, and the flames spreading rapidly along the exception of what is contained in the brief abstract of it g
The miseries that are nigh at deinption of mankind by the act of shedding the blood of Christ. soft texture of the cotton, soon envelope the whole of their by Dr. Hibbert and Sir Walter Scott, is still but little kn
The wrath of God who can withstand ? He considered, that Christ dying for us, and saving us by his persons. Reading in bed by candle-light is a freq
That he has lighted up the branduent source to the general reader. Towards the end of the year 1790
And all who are not blind may see
blood, was to be understood in the light of a most virtuous of similar disasters. Servants again, while engaged in the re- the beginning of 1791, M. Nicolai had been agitated by vat
Of Britain's rueful destinye. teacher, setting a perfect example, and falling a martyr for his 'novel of boiling water for domestic purposes, are often, through misfortunes, which preyed deeply upon his mind, and os
principles, ' just as we Americans, said he most eloquently, carelessness or accident, the subjects of scalds.—Burns and 24th February an event occurred which threw hint into vie
" ' When he in vengeance sees it meet ' arc saved by the blood of our patriot forefathers, who died for scalds are exactly of the same nature. It is the intolerable distress. About ten o'clock in the morning, when his wife
A guilty people to destroy,
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That they may have no last-retreat Dr. Chinning is in person slender, and of a delicate con- heat of the liquid or of the solid substance inflicting the injury, a friend had entered his room, for the purpose of cense
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From their great enemy's decoy. stitution, although his voice is sufficiently powerful. His man- which is the cause of both. -In looking, therefore, for the means him, he suddenly perceived, at the distance of a few paces,
He first sends rulers to annoy ner in the pulpit is exceedingly engaging and impressive, rivet- ,of cure, we should try to discover some remedial agent which standing figure of a person deceased, which remained I
Thy very fount of wisdom's spring, ing the attention of his hearers; his style of thinking and mode ' will favour, in the highest degree, the restoration to a healthy seven to eight minutes, and which the rest of the party were
To stop the ear and blind the eye, of illustration display much origidality; and when he happens state of those parts of the body that have been impaired or course, unable to see. A little after four o'clock in the a
And all the soul's sweet chords unstring. to touch a chord, as, in alluding to those who fought for the destroyed by the action of heat.—The pains of treatment which noon, the same figure appeared to him when he was alone,
" ' Those men are sent like frosts in May. liberties of his country, the effect was electrical.—America and ' have been introduced from time to time are various ; but they upon his going to mention this to his wife, the spectre ace
That o'er the flowers destruction sited; the Americans. may be included under two heads,—namely, those of a soothing panied him to her apartment, alternately vanishing, and r
The rose Of England's in decay—
and those of a stimulating character. Of the stimulating class peering. A little after six o'clock several stalking figures
The thistle hangs her buriyhead; Sin WALTER SCOTT'S PERILOUS DESCENT:—(ReIated by
Aud, 0 the harp I old Erin's mead. himself.)—"lt happened several years ago, when I was tra- are spirits of turpentine, spirits of wine, whisky, brandy, fice., appeared, but they had no connexion with the figure airs
is sadly, Sadly out of tune! versing the Highlands, along with a much-beloved, but now with any of which the burned parts are kept moist until imme- mentioned. When his mind had become more composed,
A mildew's on our lands indeed— departed friend, we were among the thickly strewn mountains diate pain is subdued, and the process of restoration is begun. his bodily indisposition had been removed by medical ti
Our day of grace is past the noon. and rugged -rocks of the wildest brunch of the Ilighlaads, After these changes have taken place, ointments or poultices meat, our bookseller expected that these appearances w'
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I. • While truth and reason thus are fled. where there is a remarkable natural ravine, which we visited are usually had recourse to. Heat has been also tried as a take leave of him. His expectations, however, were di
The pestilence approaches nigh, and explored. It is, rather than a ravine, a fearful pit, or stimulating remedy for burns ; and, however singular it may pointed, for they increased in nunaber, and underwent the I
To lay its thousands with the dead. dungeon, descending deep among the yawning rocks. It is, seem, many persons hold the parts burned near to a fire in extraordinary transformations. The standing figure of the
And all time skill of men defy: as if a volcano had boiled- there, but in course of time spouted order to remove the effects of heat. The soothing class of son deceased never appeared to him after the 24th Febru
Coon shall the poor and wretched haremedies includes the application of cold water, of ice, of oils, but several other figures occupied its place. These figures 1
out all its lava, forming strange adjacent peaks all around;
In heaps unhallowed, old and young;
No hand to close the dying eye, thus leaving the furnace or crater dry and em pt It is a and cotton wool.—Cotton wool bids fair to supersede many of the chiefly those of persons whom he did not know, thougl
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No requiem o'er their couches sung. terrific throat wide open, on the very edge of which one may common remedies in the treatment of burns. It is said that sometimes saw those of his acquaintances. The figures of
stand and look down to the very bottom. There is a mode of cotton wool was first used with this intention in America. sons alive occurred more frequently than those of persons
!" But., lovely dame, ye maunna take—' " descent into its depths which visitors may command. This is There is nothing improbable in this, for the practice is of recent were deceased, and he distinctly remarked that tee acqin
"sow, my auld wife, that winna do; by means of rope and windlass, as it were into a coal-pit, which origin, and cotton is both . grown and manufactured in that ances with whom 'he daily conversed never appeared to hit
I really wish, for gudeness sake,
country. The discovery of its sanative virtues has been at- phantasms. When, after some weeks, he had become fam
are fixed and worked from a prominent brow of the highest,
Ye tsarina try to gar ane trow
A fairy wad sing sae to you ; frowning peak. To the main rope a machine is attached called tributed to accident. As the story goes,—the child of a woman with these unbidden guests, he endeavoured to conjure
' Flse it has been in mocktife way. a cradle, by four shorter cords, that tie to its distinct corners. who was engaged iu the preparation of cotton, happened, in phantasms of his acquaintance, and for this purpose he trie
Indeed the hale, I tell ye true, He that descends takes his stand or seat in the cradle within some way or other, to get itself extensively burned with boiling bring them before his imagination in the most lively mans
Is nought like what a hand wad say." the stretch of the four diverging cords that meet above his head. water. The mother, in her agony, having no person with her but though he had but a short time before seen them as ph
• •' Gudeman, I've ae remark to make, A rough old Highlander presided at the windlass, who ap- at the time, laid the child down in some cotton on the floor, tasme, he never could, by this process, succeed in giving t
An' ye may take it as you see ; pointed my friend first to go down. Ere the cradle came up
which promised to be the safest and softest position, and hasten- an external locality. When he was conversing with his I
1 really wish ye wadna take for me again, a presentiment of some horrid accident about to ed away to procure medical assistance. The medical man of sieian and his wife concerning the phantasms which hov,
Sic liberties o' speech we me, happen to one of us began to take hold of my nature, and I the village, however, was from home. The poor woman, on her around him, the figures sometimes Left him altogether,
When did I ever tell a lee, could not resist inquiring if all was right with my friend below. return, found that the child had rolled about in the cotton and again appeared either singly or in groups. The apparit
Or say what did not wife beseem ? " Hoo, surely," was the answer. "And the cradle will be for had become covered in the burned parts with a thick coating of were generally human figures of both sexes, who, like peop;
Then what for jibe sae saucilye ? The cotton appeared to have produced great relief of pain ; a fair, passed to and fro, as it' they had no mutual connex
you in a minute: ye are as heavy as twa on him." "Is the it.
Remember it was all a dream.'
the child had now ceased to cry and was actually
.cheerful. though they sometimes appeared to have business with
rope frail?" "No very rotten ava; the last ane was rotter
" alv Teel auld woman, I forgot, afore it brak, an' let a man fa'," was the alarming reply. Some hours elapsed before the medical attendant arrived, but another. On one or two occasions he saw persons on he
Ail' winna say the like again; "Was he killed say you?" "Killed, though he had had a as the child continued cheerful and the cotton had become back, dogs, and birds, all of which appeared in their nat
bay what you like—but dinna pout. hundred lives, he wad has: been killed ;he was smashed to Pretty firmly adherent to the sores, the mother would not allow size, and of the same colours which they exhibited in real
Nor look at me wil your disdain ;
pieces on yonder jagged rock," quoth the hard-hearted Celt. of its being removed. Within the period of ten or twelve days though somewhat paler. When these apparitions began n
Ye ken I wadna gie you pain,
Or bring a scowl upon your brow, I now examined the rope, and it appeared much worn and to be the cotton began to drop. off spontaneously; and in a fortnight seen more frequently, Nicolai began also to hear them spi
For a' that I can ea' my ain, old. "How old is it?" inquired I. "Just five years auld; from the receipt of the injury, the whole of it was detached, sometimes they addressed one another, but generally they si
The head an' guide o' which is you. the last was a month aulder afore it brak," was his next tan- leaving a perfect cure,—the skin being without mark or con- to himself, in short speeches, which never contained anyti
talizing information. With some irritation of manlier I put it traction, and, in short, quite naturaf.—The cotton treatment disagreeable. This loquacity in the apparitions occurred i
" Say out your dreaM, be't right or easing ; to him, why a neer one had not been provided before any risk has since had a pretty extensive trial in different parts of Eng,- frequently when he was aloue, though I3e sometimes heard
But have a care ; for when 'tis done, land and Scotland. As might have been expected, scientific society, intermixed with the actual conversation of the c
could attend the descent; and, to make things worse, he pro-
That Hoag may turn it to a sang :
observation has enabled medical men to point out the way in pany. Although these appearances had ceased to excite
And there are despots looking on— vokingly announced, "We are to get a new ane the morn :
For Grey, an' Brougham, an' Palmerston ye'll likely be the last to try the auld."—But already the cradle which the cotton may be most advantageously applied, and it disagreeable emotion, and had even afforded him frequent
Are tyrants to the last extreme ; waited for me to step into it: I could not disappoint my coin-
has also enabled them to define the limits of its utility.— jects of amusement and mirth, yet, as his disorder had sew
And if they can, by pro or con, pinion by not doing as he did; and, ashamed to seem to hesi- In relation to their degrees of severity, burns may be divided increased, and as the figures had appeared to him for w
- They'll punish you—even for a dream." tate before the hardy Highlander, at once I took ms seat. It into fuer kinds,—lst, When the injury is of the slightest nature, days together, and even when he awoke during the night
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"But, my auld man, I scarce dare say was perhaps to encourage me, that he said, as he let me off, the skin remains of its natural colour and without blisters. 2d, found it necessary not only to take medicine, but to a
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The names I heard that burdie siring; "A far heavier man than you geed down yesterday." "Then When the injury is somewhat greater, the superficial skin be- leeches. This was done on the 20th April, at eleven o'cloc
Not only Mae, but mony mae, he strained the rope," cried I; but it was too late to return, comes elevated, and blisters are formed. 3d, When the injury the forenoon; and during the operation, while he was sit
' I t jabber'd over in a string, and after all I
.got safe down. The sun shone brightly, and is still more severe, the deep-seated skin is burned brown and alone with the surgeon, the room swarmed with human ft
' An' then it sang a right queer thing— made every intricacy, even in the deep crater, clear and open dry, and it feels like leather. 4th, When the injury is of the of every description, which crowded fast upon ene anothei
I'll tell it, though they shied(' avenge them—
most violent kind, not only the deep-seated skin is scorched, half-past four o'clock. The figures then began to move m
to the eye. The 'floor might allow a hundred' and fillele
That Heaven had sent our laws and king,
But the dell had sent us men to change them. to stand on it at once; and consists of a fine sand that sparkles ,
but the parts beneath it, to a greater or less extent, are burned slowly, their colours became gradually paler, and, after ii
• with pebbles, which have dropt from the surrounding and im- to dryness and are consequently dead. The cotton treatment is vals of seven minutes, he could distinguish a palpable d
" But I the very words maun take-- pending rocks. The face of these rocks is also gemmed by little applicable to burns coming under the fourth division, we nation in their intensity, without any change in the distinct
The very words it sang to Inc, thousands of the same .sort, that glittered beautifully to the sun- shall therefore, in this place, speak only of its application to of their figures. At about half-past six o'clock they bee
Like plaintive redbreast of the brake : beam: all which has naturally suggested the idea of a work of those of the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd kinds, and more particularly entirely white, and moved very slightly; their forms, how(
The warst of a' is yet to be— to 'the 21),(1,1 and 3rd. We must impress upon ourg readers were still perfectly distinct, and without decreasing in nun
enchantment, for it is called the Fairy's Palace. But I con-
A sword—a bloody sword—l see
here, as we are anxious to do in all other cases of medical they gradually became less perceptible. Instead of movin
1, O'er this devoted land suspended— fess, though a palace, it had few attractions for me; for besides
The sword of civil entnitye, the disheartenings the Highlander filled me with, ere my de-
treatment, that the safest plan, wherever practicable, is to apply or vanishing as they had usually done, they now dissolved
The heaviest curse of Heaven offended. scent, my friend„ now that I was down, though without any for professional aid. The difficulty which an unprofessional mediately intro air; whole pieces of some of them contin
mischievous intent, crowned my fears, by giving, with startling person must always feel, is that of distinguishing between one for a length of time, and at last disappearing. About t
-" For seven days the Thames shall flow class of injuries or diseases, and another class. However, as o'clock not a vestige of them remained; and Nicolai 11
effect, the following narrative :—" A young man once ascended
With bloated tides of sanguine hue ;
burns and scalds require immediate attention, we proceed to again was disturbed by these spectral illusions. Aceusto
" The Humber an' the Tyne shall glow from this, but when he came to the top, he incautiously stood
In crimson to the ocean blue. bolt upright. in the cradle, and then a moment ere it was landed, state the mode in which cotton may be employed, when no to the investigation of mental phenomena, Nicolai took a
0 Britain long the day shall rue. being impatient to get out of it, he made an adventurous leap medical man is at hand.—The cotton should be applied to the interest in studying the facts which had thus occurred to
That turn'd the tail above the hea,a! for the breast of the rock. But the cradle being still pendant burned parts as soon after the injury as is possible; and, if self; and he has recorded various excellent observation
. And her dread curses aye pursue in the air, without a stay, fled back on the impulse of his spring, blisters have formed, they should not be opened. Where it can which the following are the most interesting to the poem
" The sordid hearts that did. the deed. and, fearful to think, let him fall between it and the landing be done without incurring considerable delay, the cotton should tologist.-Ist. He endeavoured to discover if the figures
"'But, brand them not—unblest, =shriven. place." " Wort-lisle! most horrible !" was my natural exch.- be carded before its application into thin flakes. These flakes presented to his mind by some association with his preen
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Unhouselled, tainted, though they ho— illation. "But," continued my friend, "keep ye your seat in should be laid on the injured part, and piled one on the other thoughts; but though he sometimes thought that he had
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The scourges in the hand of Heaven the cradle till it be firmly landed on the rock, and all will be until they form a soft covering, which, under high pressure, covered some such associations, especially during the 1
Are like a plague or leprosye, safe." He ascended, and I prepared to follow. I thought of should be about an inch in thickness. A. bandage should then period of his visions, yet, he assures us, that on the whole
Sent for mankind's catamitye. the young man's leap and fall: I figured to myself the spot be passed around the patient to prevent the cotton from falling could trace no connexion between the figures and the sta
• With hearts and spirits bent on ill--
off, but care must be taken not to draw the bandage tight or his mind, or the nature of his employments, or the c
where he alighted, and the rebound he made when he met the
Yet brand them not—for certainlyo
allow it to press the body. Its object is simply to retain the thoughts which occupied his attention. '2d. He found the
Their baleful ends they must fulfil. ground, never more to rise. And as I took my seat, my limbs
• smote one another, and my teeth chattered with terror. When cotton in its place. After this, the first step, is taken, nothing could always distinguish phantasms from real figures, as
" ' As well may you arraign the peat
' remains to be done while the cotton is observed to stick to the never once erred in making this distinction. "I knew,
s4_ -I had descended I kept my
the
bent downwards, and was
4-- That sweeps its thousands in a day, encouraged the nearer I' of to the bottom. But on my ascent, surface of the injured part and to remain dry. Should any tremely welly" says he, "when it only appeared to me
Or typhus fevers that infest
portion of the cotton, however, become wet, either through the the door was opened, and the phantasms entered, and time
though I looked all the while upwards, I was trembling alive
Our shores to sicken, svrack, and slay,
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As blame poor Russell, Brougham, or Grey ; to the fact, that I was ever getting into higher danger. I held aischarge of water from the blisters, or the formation of puru- really was opened and some person came in." 3d. 11(
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• For all are of the same degree-- the spread_ cords as with the gripe of death, never moving my lent matter, and continue wet for a day or two,
the
attendant clearance
of the phantoms was, in every case, involuntary;
All sent by God to work dery, eyes from the blackened creaking main rope. "There! there should, at the end of that time, pick the wetted cotton gently depended little, it' at all, upon external circumstances. .
:•• . And execute his high decree.' it goes !" I gasped the words,' for did I not first see one ply of away, and supply its place with dry -cotton. The general rule, were equally distinct, whether he was alone or in sot
the triple-twisted line snap asunder as it happened to touch a consequently, is very plain. While the patient is free from pain, whether he was in broad day-light or in. darkness, wheth(
~ " 0, my auld wife ! I really fear
That little burd has been the dell ; pointed piece of granite ? And when once cut. and liberated and the cotton dry and adherent to the surface of the burn, no was in his own house or in that of a neighbour. II e not
• For sic a sang man ne'er did bear did the ply not untwist and curl away front its coils 1 Did i change should be made; but should the cotton become wetat however, that they were less frequent in another person's b
Frae bunt sae gentle an' sae leel, not see another ply immediately follow in the same manner, any part, and continue so for a day or two, the wetted portion than in his own; and they very seldom appeared wbe]
'Tis true—an' thae ken.fu' weel--- leaviug my life to the last brittle thread, which also began to is to be removed, and its place supplied with dry cotton. The walked in the public streets. 4ih. The figures sometime'
t - lboded little good tope : grow attenuated, and to draw so fine, that it could not lone treatment is to be conducted thus until the cure is completed.— appeared when he shut his eyes, and sometimes they reniai
C But Heaven forfend that we should feel have borne its own weight? I was speechless : the world The manner in which cotton acts in the cure of burns is very when they vanished in the former case, nearly the same 4
So sore an' sad a destiny !"
evident, It excludes the air and forms a warm and softcoveruag appeared when his eyes again opened. sth. The figures
. whirled round,. I became sightless, and when within one short
" I canna help it, my auld man ; foot of•being landed, I fell !—I fell into the grasp of my friend, for the injured parts. Under this protection, the restorative neither terrible, ludicrous, nor repulsive, and they apps
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The words of truth to you I tell ; who, seeing me about to tumble out of the cradle from stupor, powers of nature quickly repair the injury. Every day's ex- oftner in motion than at rest. 6th. On two or three ocea.
But whence the message youtuay scans-- opportunely snatched and swung me, cradle and all, uon the Perience tends to prove that the less we interfere with those after he had ceased to observe these appearances, he felt a
Whether from heaven or from hell. ro,k. Wllen strength returnee I ran from the edge of the pre- vowers, or permit them to be interfered with, iu the medical pensity. to see them, or a sensation as if he saw somett
But on my sleeping ear it fell
treatment of superficial burns occurring amongst persons of which in a moment was •again gone.—Quarterly Review.--
Ltke chime of meltin„.. melodye ; cipice; still in the athirst trepidation, shaking tearfully, and
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An' I too surely can foretell a giviug unintelligible utterance to the agony of any awe-struck healthy constitutions, the more successfulwill be the practice.— hooray of Apparilicrus.
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