Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-11-18

eve,y street. Il was thus, perhaps, that in the Eeu
sinar mysteries Ceres went abOu. IN search OIL ner
daughter Proserpine who had disappeared from her
eyes amid the yellow plans Of Sicily. Aflers many
rutless researches II seems, II DC not very huch
mistaken, TO hear at 1 distance the festive hymns
that announce the resurrection Of the Saviour IL
would fam hasten in that direction, and make some
advance TO meet him, but Mary Magdalen, who has
followed him at some short distance, comes 10 re-
mind him of the promise he has made 10 the VIRGIN
to monopoZe the first embraces OF her son. 81.
John bows this request and politely falls back 10
yield TO the virgin the happiness OF SO propitions
greeting. But The heart OF mother has anticipated
MS coming Behold she advances with nlnJeslc
pace amid the loud congratulations Of the people, who
advise her 10 lay aside the black mantle III which she
is wrapt In effect, al The appearance OF The redeem
er, no longer habilCd as man OF sorrows but re-
splendent IN gold and Jewels the holy virgin SHOWS
herself 10 the longing eyes of the spectators, at The
same moment peophng The ar WIN NUMBER OF pfas
which escape fFon her bosom. The people sance
around the sacred group which re-cnters the church
amid the ringing Of bells and the firing Of small NOR
lars.
But a I'LL better pantomime Of the sacred kind, -
that represented on holy Thursday, at Soccive,
small village in The district Of Aversa. strapplng
bplman, arrayed like the MAJ OF Nazareth, crowned
with lhorns and bearing on his shoulders ponderous
cross sets out 70 ascend The bill II Calvary. His es-
corl consists Of twenty thirty fellows dressed as
Roman soldiers, with helmets and culrasses. From
10 tle the SaCr.u ElclN MAKES ltlHl ~ iii
und the load Of the cross and the executoncrs that
follow drive HIN along like very Jews, by blows OF
their lances by kicks and cnis applied IN such eood
earnest that The poor fellow remains most sonndiy
pammeled and his only consolation IS that such
harsh treatment will he lusned to good account by be-
mo accepted. in the other world, IN explaton 81 MS
sins. Meanwhile The Virgin and tho Magdaen, bath
ed in tears, follow the redetmer who, after iraVers
np the PRINCIPAL paths ahOnt the village returns acS
companied ~ the whole popuaton who are highly
edited and melted to compassion al the affecting
spectacle
LITERARY BLUNnEns.- When Dante published his
Inferno the simplicity Of the age accepted il as true
narrative Of his descent into hell. When the Utopia q
Sir Thomas More first published, il occasioned q
pleasant mistake This political romance represents
perfect, but visionary republic. in island supposed
70 have been newly discovered il America. As this
the age Of discovery. says Granger "the learned
Budaus and others, took it for genuine history and
considered il highly exped.ent, that missionaries
should be ther, in order to convert 50 wise m
ton 10 Christianity TWAS long while after the pub
licaiion that many readers convinced that GULL
ver's Travels were fictitious But the singular
blunder was produced by the ingenious "Hermippus
Redvivus Of DR.. Campbell curious banar on the her
metc philosophy and tie universal medicine; but the
grave irony closely kept up throughout this admir-
able treatise that it deceived for length OF time the
most learned Of that day His notion Of the art Of pro-
longing life by nhong the breath Of young women, YVES
eagerly credited. A physician who himself had com
posed treatise health influenced By it, that
he actually took lodgings at female boarding school,
that he might be without constant supply of the
breath Of young ladies' The late Mr.. Thcknesse ser
ously adopted the project. Dr. kipas acknowledges
hat after he read the work in his YOUTH the reasonings
and the facts left him several days in kind of fairy
land-Curiosities AZ Literature.
j. :. BrcKINGHAa.-The New York papers 70
have exerted their faculties which be
ravagan in their praises of this gentleman, who has
Gently arrived from England evidently for the purpose
k, most OF his travelling predecessors to enlighten
and reform this dark and sinful generation ofAnericans
Mr. buckingham has been extensive traveller in the
eastern hemisphere and can doubtless deliver lectures
upon the parts ofhe world which he has SEEN full of
history. anecdoe and instr uction. But cauton all
Americans to be tle circumspect in their intercourse
with him. and 10 be prudent and economical IN the us
pensation orther praises Above all, we caution news
paper editors not to lay their aiery with the broad
trowel OFT til the entire trade OF all the
soft soap manufacturers in the country. Mr.. Buckng
ham has extensive plan Of operations in view will
appear by the following extract from his address 10 the
good people of New York -
Il will say more, except TO add, that should my
humble labors among you be crowned with the success
which venture anticipate, and should Providence
spare me life and health to follow out the plan have
long medtated aud designed, it is my intention, after
visiting every part of the United States OF America to
extend my through the British Possessions OF Cam
ada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the West In
dies visit from thence the Ishmus of Darien for the
purpose Of investigating this barrier between the Allan
tic and Pacific Oceans; 10 make an excursion TO Mexi.
CO. and from thence pass onward by the South Sea ISL
ands China visit the Philippines and the Moluccas,
20 onward to Australia and Van Diemans Land con.
nue from thence through the Indian Archipelago, by
Borneo, Java, Sumalra, and Malacca India ira
the Peninsula Of Hndostan, from the Ganges To
the Indus, and return TO Europe by the Red Sea and
the Mediterranean"
When this universal phantlropis, shall have conplet-
ed the oduy he has marked out here he will doubt,
less make voyage the Moon Jupiter Saturn, aud
crscc and return by the way of that part Of the uni
which has been celebrated by John Milton
the Parddisc Of Fools - Boston Courier.