Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-12-10

Let Us suppose ourselves carrieo Dnck
seventy years in the stream OF tlnie, aud
10 live agate the youthful subjects o' The
Young King George Ill. Let us like
wise ,n,ssine that ia those days the d.
vine spirit OF prophecy had come upon
Us, unveiling to cur sight the events OF
the future. La seven years from this
time the Brtish empire shall be rem, In
,wair, (Amcticsn war in l716. In fiji
teen years n,en shall rise from the earth
and fly through the air, Invention of
balloons, i78O.) In twenty years, the
French monarchy, the oldest that ever
was aud now So hourishlng, shall come
to an end. A vir,uous prince Louis
XVI. 1893, not yet king, shall in
twenty three } ears lay down his life on
tho scalfnld his wife and sister shal!
share the same fate. In those same
days, news shall travel with the speed oi
the wind, and what was done at midday
shall bc known ut the lurihcst bounds OF
tbs kingdom ere the setting Of the sun,
lthe telegraph, 1884, Ia twery-sx
years conquerOr shall arise, Buona-
pirtc) who shall water his horses u the
Mic, the Jordan, the Tagus, and the
Bnryslhcnes. This conqueror shall re-
store the chair of ST.. Peter, and throw
down " hat lie had restored, (de,hronc-
Inent of Plus tIl.) Finally, he whom
the world could not coniain, shall die n
captive on rocky island (St. Hclcna}
neither in Europe, ASA, Africa, nor
America, hat IN tho midst OF n vast
ocean; a few ieet of earth, his cnrire,
willow his .,opun,ent In those days
metals shall be found which float on the
pniassiuua, discovered 10y Sir Humphrey
Dayy., Ships shall stem the stprmicsl
ocean S4ihuit sails or oars, Steamships.
Carriages shall run without horses, with
the speed Of the wind, (loconmive en-.
gines. The Ordinary speed of The wind
* ihi,iy y-hve miles an hour that of the
engines on the Great Western Railway
is thnty-niue Men shall be conveyed
'roIn India to the mighty Babylon in a
mouth from America in Il n days from
onc end of England TO the other in eight
hours Bridges shall hang by chain
over the sea, while roads shall be made
under it, (,he Mcnai Bridge and the
Iha,nos Tunnel) The very beasts in
those days shall have laws to protect
them. Those days shall be days Of
grea, light. Men shall plough without
horses, (steam uIough,l they shall spin
w',hou, hands, lpower ioom,) they shall
calcuia,s by whceIs,) Babbages ma
chine the sun shall engrave for them,
(,he Dagucrreoiypc,l they shall write
the lightning, (elcc.rIc telegraph One
machine shall print III one hour many
thousands books, each "i which shall
take u man many dnyslo read, II man
may buy book Tor "a penny for pen /
ny ls may send il to the ends of the en-
pie. They shall read the rock. instead
"f book, (gco!ogy,) aud dtcipher the
history OF beings which lived and died
ere nlsu existed. In tho heavens new
stars hal! ho discovered some, sisters 4
of iI.e cs,,h SOME, brothers Of the sun,
iihe ilanets, five in number, discovered
ruc.e iac American war: and the double
.lsss by sir William Herschrll and Of /
all the culors Of the rainhow) In those
days, likewise, they shall read tho pyra-
,nids. Young's and CrampolIicn's dis
coveries.) They shall find out the
mouth of the Niger and the Magnetic
Poic The way TO every thing shall have
been discovered but the way TO be hap
py. - Edinburgh PhGnir. I