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Give TO THE POOR! WARM CLOTHING—FIRING-I,OOD
M. once, unspaline!y, and t umbiy give !
Paz v i.NT the winter c,•ugh, the frame•chill'd brood
or throes which make it weariness to live;
For, lu I November, (trenched in fog, and rains,
Glooms in the air, and incubates the earth ;
Days, short and fickle, nip the labourers' gains.
Mid bring increase—ot suff'ring arid of dearth.
Lucky the woodmen wh shalt find employ ; •
The hinds who 5t,.11 the tine; or peu the sheep;
• Plant the young trt c ; or. lest the floods destroy,
Extend the drainage. and the courses keep.
The busy, and the bounteous, at this time,
Are mind and body warm, alone, throughout our dime.

OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE

(From Fiazer's Mag,

'azine for November.)

In the heart of the city,
Wien Mammon lay still
In the Sleep of Night's silence,
(Hush'd Word and hush'd Will)
When the garner'd gold rested
Untouch'd and unturn'd,
And in hard chests of iron
' Man's wealth lay inurn'd!

'Thy tryst place of lucre
Hath shrunk from the. eye,
And blacken'd or bleaching
Its dead embers lie !

What, ho ! for a Phmnix
To come with new flame,
Up, up, from those ashes
To beauty and fame !
To stand on that dark spot
In glory and pride,
And call back the City
4lgain to its Bride!

When London had pass'd all
His crowds to the West.
And the •+pirit of Commerce
Grciv dull in its test;
When the haunts of the merchant
Nol.3harp echoes woke;
From the heart of the City
The name-tempest broke.

They bring the sharp chisel,
They hue the white stone,
They make the crane rattle,
They oil the black hone;
They rear the high scaffold,
They climb, and they run:
Lo of a grand temple
Mounts up to the sun!

It rose on its grand wings
In strength and in ire,
Up, up to the red sky,
The beautiful fire !
It screamed and it crackled
In n lumn and flake,
Till up-leaped the great city
Alice and awake !

The Temple of lives
)nce more hath its priests;
They will dec.& it with trophies.
And crown it with feasts!
To-day a grand pageant
Will honour their band
When the king-merchants crowd
round
The Queen of the Land!

In the temple of Dives

The flame-munurch stood
With bright eyes cf saffron
And red limbs of blood ;
And us the Walls crumbled

Beneath his great tread,
The millions tame r,•uat,lhint

And shriek'd as he spread

Come Queen and come consort
In pomp and in pride.—
Come noblest i lid London
Now weds his new Bride
Fair plentiful Commerce
(Gold strewed in her way,)
In his grand palace-temple
Of iiches to-day !

Too grand and too awful,
Too vast in dismay,
In the arms of the flame-king
The gold temple lay;
As swift and as sure
• Was his wreck, as the wave
Till the reeking red Mammon
Lay hot in his grave!

In wealth and in honour,
In pride and in state,
In envy and wonder,
They watch and they wait.
Now the pageant is ended
The million may roam,
And royal old Mammon
Again has a Home !

Old London! grand London !
Low, low in the dust
Thy proud commerce watcheth
Her pride and her lust !

N 0 T

ICES.

.117`Phun's Catechism of Phrenology. 32nd Thousand

Glasgow. 18.6.
This useful little work, on the subject it discusses, is
Capitally adapted to convey the elementary knowledge of
phrrnot gical science to be4inners. It does not require
many minu'es' perusal, which, with a glance or two at
the outline illustratimis, will svt the inquirer on the right
path of phrenological investigation.

The Philosophy of Ph, enozogy. 4th Thousand. Same

publisher. - 1845.
These students of this new science of mind, as derived
from the a ructure and maniiestations of the admitted
organ at the mind—the brain, will here find the ground-
work of the data well developed—the logic of the reasoti-
ing carefully conducted—the cbjrctions, whether arising
from ignorance or the prejudices of the old school of
menu,' pliiiosophy, fairly stated and caimly refuted—the
truth of the obuervatiuns on cerebral developement as the
corresponding medium of connexion between mind and
the external world, shown and justified from the facts of
healthy and diseased cerebral organization, and finally
the benefits to be derived from taking it as a guide in an
educational course, because it assumes Nature's scaffold-
ing as an index of the strength and particular characters
of thefutureimilding to be eletated by her pupil Art, proved
to be the sound study of man; a hilst a review of the present
position of the " schoolmaster abroad" is entered into, and
the capacity of the pupil judged of according to the stan-
dard on which the God of Nature has created him in
oreniscivet ai,dum, in order that the proper bent may be
given to the twig according to its fiexihility or sturdiness
Of growth ; the old motto being verified, " Non omnia
°nines pos..,urnus." The subject iof disease of the brain,
as
_connected ail disturbed manifestation of mind, is
suitably de:carited upon. Lastly, it exculpates phreno-
logical study from the idle charges of tendency to mate- I
rialism and infidelity, which, it, strict logic, are not com-
prehended in the scope of its propositions, and therefore
it is only responsible fur its own proper inductions from
facts of nature and manifestations of mind, and not for
any further and gratuitous hypotheses which some of its
followers may speculatively and irreligiously append to
these;—any more than the ridicule thrown upon the cari-
cature of anything is ridicule pre.per of the original so
dis oited. The position of the author, as a teacher of
anatomy, will secure a calm peru-al at the hoods of all,
and none need fear the result who tollow narrowly and
clearly on ',attire's track, seeing she is at all times true
to herself, whether in the natural or soiritual world, be-
cause her source and return is from and into the Divine
Essence of Unity.