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the order of fate unto which all of them are subservient, together with all the most curious and secret operations of the universe. And as by a skill in this study we attain to see and experience things that are past, so by the same skill we attain to the knowledge of things which are to come, and, by knowing the time of our birth, are enabled to read in the heavens the story of our whole lives, our blessings and crosses, honour and dishonour, prosperity and adversity, sickness and health, and all the years of our life, and time of our death, even as though we had seen them transacted and come to pass in their several times and seasons; for God hath assuredly given this knowledge unto the "wise man "to know the time and the judgment, and the number of our days, that we may be certified how long we have to live" (Eccl. i. 5—Psal. xxxix. 4, 5); that we may be timely prepared for all states of prosperity and adversity for a long and happy life, or a calamitous speedy death, and that we may support ourselves with fortitude and resignation in proportion to our foreknowledge of these events.

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That the human understanding is also capable of attaining to a very high degree of knowledge in the hidden works of futurity, is likewise proved and recorded by the most celebrated historians, a few instances of which I shall here mention. The Emperor Domitian required the Professor Largius Proculus to calculate his nativity from the supposed time of his birth, which was done and delivered into the Emperor's own hands. Asclatarius, a most famous astrologer of those times, procuring a copy of the horoscope, rectified it, and foretold the hour and manner of the Emperor's death, which, when Domitian heard, he commanded the astrologer to be brought before him, when he affirmed his predictions would prove true. Domitian asked him if he could foretel the manner of his own death? Asclatarius replied that he knew he should shortly be torn in pieces by dogs, but, to confute the astrologer, the Emperor ordered him to be burnt alive. The cruel sentence was accordingly put in execution; the body was bound and laid upon the pile, and the fire kindled; but at that instant there arose a dreadful storm of wind and rain, which drove the spectators away, and extinguished the fire, and Asclatarius was afterwards torn in pieces by dogs, as he had foretold! When Latinus informed the Emperor of this event, he was greatly mortified and very melancholy; and on the day his assassination had been predicted, he feigned himself indisposed, and locked himself up in his chamber. Stephanus, the captain of his guard, went to his door, pretending he had received some important despatches, which he wanted to deliver to him; but Domitian declining to admit him till a certain hour was past, Stephanus persuaded him it was then much later than the time specified. The Emperor, in consequence, concluding the danger to have passed by the hour, or looking upon the prediction as a mere fable, seeing no conspiracy or danger about him, opened the door, upon which Stephanus stept up to him with a drawn dagger, and stabbed him to the heart in the very hour that had been predicted by the astrologer. The same writers add that the famous Apollonius Tyaneus was at that instant of time at Ephesus, standing in the presence of the magistrates, and, in a kind of ecstacy, cried out, "Courage, Stephanus-strike the tyrant!" and, after a pause, added, Tis well thou has killed him." This art of rectifying nativities was a discovery which brought the science to a very high perfection, and has enabled its professors to be astonish ingly exact in predictions of consequence. Thus Lucius Tarutius Finnianus, by the acts of Romulus's life, and the time of his death, found that he was born in the first year of the second Olympiad, the twenty-third day of the month, about sun-rising; and hence he discovered that the building of Rome was begun when the Moon was in Libra, the Sun with Mercury, Venus in Taurus, Jupiter in Pisces, and Saturn with Mars in Scorpio. The archbishop of Pisa consulted several different professors of astrology concerning his destiny, and they all calculated his nativity at different times, and without any communication with one another; but they all foretold him that he would be hanged. It seemed highly incredible at the time, because he was in so much honour and power; but the event justified the predictions; for in the sedition of Pope Sextius IV., in the sudden rage and uproar of the people, he was actually seized and hanged. Petrus Leontius, a celebrated physician and as

trologer of Spoletanum, cast his own nativity, and foretold that his death would be occasioned by water; and many years afterwards he was found drowned in a pond, into which he had fallen the preceding night by mistaking his way. Josephus, the famous Jewish historian, tells us he cast the nativities of Vespasian and his son Titus, and predicted that they both would be emperors, and so it turned out. Cervinus calculated the nativity of his son Marcellus, and foretold that he should come to great preferment and dignity in the church; and his mother afterwards entreating him to marry one Cassandra Benna, he very resolutely declined it, saying he "would not, with the bands of matrimony, bind himself from that better fortune which the stars had promised him, if he continued to live single and unmarried;" and he was afterwards really made Pope. What renders this instance of planetary influence more remarkable is, that this prediction was printed at Venice, and published by Curtius Trojanus in a book of nativities, written by Gauricus upwards of three years before he was proclaimed Pope. But the most noted instance, per. haps, of all, and which evinces the astonishing power of the heavenly host was that recorded, by veritable historians, of Picus Mirandula. This person was a severe writer against astrology, insomuch that he was termed Flaggelum Astrologorum (the scourge of astrologers); and, to stop the bitter malignity of his pen, Lucius Bellantius, and two other astrologers of eminence, procured the time of his birth, and calculated his nativity, which they afterwards sent him, with this prediction enclosed, "That he would die in the thirty-third year of his age." This exasperated him so much, that he began to write a new tract, with inconceivable asperity, against the poor astrologers, attempting to prove their calculations "a mere bubble," and their art "a mere delusion." But when the fatal appointed hour arrived, he saw the folly of his own conceits, recanted his opinion, and sealed by his death a standing memorial of the unerring truth of this celestial science. Many other extraordinary instances might be here adduced to prove the truth and verity of the art, did my limits permit; but it is sufficiently obvious that the intellectual faculties of man, when cultivated by study and improved by observation and experience, are capable of attaining a very extensive degree of knowledge in the doctrine of planetary influence, and which must invariably have a tendency to exalt the mind above sublunary and terrestrial objects, and thus fulfil one of the chief purposes for which mankind was undoubtedly created. Prophet Spirit! thou can'st sweep Where the unborn nations sleep; Or from the ancient ages shroud To judgment call their sceptered crowd. Earth has to thee nor birth, nor tomb, Nor past, nor present, nor to come! Thou can'st take the lightning's wings, And see the deep forbidden things; With thy starry sandal tread On the Ocean's treasure bed; Or make the rolling clouds thy own, Height and depth to thee are one.

REVELATIONS OF TIME.-Time, whose dull hand, passing athwart the picture of our woes, softens the asperity of its hues, opens at the same time the page that was sealed by forbearance or fear, and discloses to our view the hearts as well as the actions of the dead. The dead not alone virtually, but morally, the dead to man, as well as the dead to earth; those who have retired from the busy turmoil of life, take no longer a part in its pleasures or its pains, and have retreated behind the barrier of a living grave, in which the sun still shines, but the birds of hope have ceased to sing; those who have lived their day, but still linger out their evening hour. Time lifts over them his chill and warning hand, but lo! a vast and silent form strides near-death is there-time flies, and through the gate that only opens once, the mortal passes forth into eternity. It is then that his life, his actions, become the patrimony of posterity; the book of the affections and the passions, the virtues and the crimes, is opened by the hand of death, and we are free to read, to comment, and to narrate.

A REMARKABLE VISIT TO THE AUTHOR OF "THE PROPHETIC rounded by the pomp, retinue, and vanities of earthly state.

MESSENGER."

Thus far was it well, nor did the countenance and bearing of the stranger belie the verdict of the heavenly orbs, being even in age expressively dignified, and his form portly." But wrapped in a loose and ample cloak of Spanish make, and sombre texture, little of his other garb was visible, and, except that on one gloveless hand glittered a ruby of surpassing brilliancy, no part of the stranger's vestments implied the station of his birth, but his form and bearing were those of aristocratic command.

T was late in the dreary dusk of an autumnal eve, in the year 1828, that the astrologer had newly trimmed his lamp, and sat down to serious contemplation of an astronomical problem, which involved some remarkable phenomena, when a furious ringing of the bell belonging to his study, and a simultaneous loud and hasty knocking at the door of his residence announced a visitor-vivid interest; for the forthcoming aspects of the orbs were The astrologer perused the celestial figure before him with one who was, apparently, little gifted with the malignant, and cloudy were the portentous omens of the virtue of patience; for, scarcely deigning to wait planetary agents. The Moon went suddenly to a quartile of the announcement of his name and business, the intruder Mars-then came forward a trine of Herschel, himself entered with an air of nonchalance and self-conceit, that told violently afflicted-next followed the lunar conjunction with of his being something more than one of ordinary rank. Saturn, in the house of death and the grave. The astrologer needed no farther gaze, for enough was clearly elicited before him to prophesy of some forthcoming calamity, difficult, if not impossible, to evade. But his reveries were cut short by the stranger, who anxiously inquired, and rather in a confused manner (seeing, perhaps, the astrologer's more than usual thoughtfulness), "What good or bad fortune the stars had allotted him ?"

The stranger appeared to be a man far advanced in the vale of years; evidently youth had deserted his footsteps for many seasons, but still a certain hilarity of manners, a kind of forced elastic spring in his walk, and a restless jerk in his motions, though by no means ungraceful, announced his desire to appear as one who yet enjoyed the blessings of health and vigour.

He entered the astrologer's study, and took, almost without bidding, a seat. Raphael, accustomed to the eccentricities of rank and genius, paused not to notice these peculiarities in his client, but pursued his scientific calculations to the end of the problem, when the stranger addressed him, and, in a tone of mild and gentlemanly politeness, requested the favour of the astrologer's attention to his "future destiny."

"I was born," said the stranger, "in the meridian of this goodly metropolis; but," added he, "I know not with sufficient precision the hour and minute of my entering the world to establish data, I presume, for the theme, you philosophers term the nativity. But I have, in some former period of my sojourn ings, read many books of the ancient seers; and from my recollection (for,' said he, I quote from memory, other momentous cares having of late years engrossed my entire attention),' I remember that a famous man of your profession mentions various methods, independent of what I believe is termed the genethliacal art, for ascertaining one's fate and fortunes. I think the sage gave the preference to-"

"Horary astrology," replied Raphael, filling up the gap the stranger's remembrance

in

"It is even so,' said the stranger; "and I earnestly and respectfully crave the knowledge I am confident you can impart

to me."

"It shall be done," said the astrologer; " for the stars are kind and beneficent to mortals in all cases where knowledge of the future is sought, would they but revere the wise dictates of prescience. Albeit, the present generation are becoming, daily, greater believers in the celestial science; moreover, the march of knowledge is evidently commenced, and who knows where its wondrous powers may terminate, or what mighty lever may yet be discovered to set the vast springs of human intellect into action."

"Your opinion, with some slight reservation, corresponds with my own," replied the stranger; who then caught hold of a new publication that laid on the table, and began earnestly to peruse the contents, as if unwilling to give any interruption in the matter requested.

Seing this, the astrologer drew forth his tables, consulted his Ephemeris, and cast the horoscope, or figure of the heavens for the hour and moment of the inquiry, according to the established rules of the siderial art. But astonishment and awe quickly pervaded his countenance; for the radix before him was indeed singular. It had the Sun, lord of the horoscope, in fair and powerful aspect with the Moon; and Mars, who governed the culminating angle, in trine to Venus; Jupiter was posited in the house of wealth; Mercury located in the north angle; and the Georgian star, Herschel, touched the cusp of the sixth celestial house exactly as the visitor entered; signs which the astrologer knew portended the stranger to be one of high rank, title, and illustrious by ancestry. reover, the Moon had separated from a number of minor d some superior conjunctions, which foreshewed one sur

"As to the first," replied Raphael, "I behold before me the certain testimonials of one who has basked smoothly in the gay retinue and smiles of fortune-who has, perchance, travelled, sojourned, and seen countless multitudes-who has wealth, power, and fortune, at his beck and bidding-who waits but to breathe his wishes, and they are fulfilled, even to the utmost scope of possibility.

"It is such as you have said," replied the stranger; "I give you full credence for the future, since you have revealed the irrefragable past. But apropos, I would have you, Raphael, read a more deep sentence in the page of fate-What say you of my life?"

"As to that particular," replied Raphael, "sorry indeed am I to be the prophet of evil; from the too sure and fatal configurations here congregated before me, which are too many to tire you with the technical enumeration, I grieve to announce but a brief career, indeed, to the present inquirer."

"How brief, say you?" eagerly demanded the stranger. To answer this question more faithfully, the astrologer once more consulted the horoscope, in hopes also to see, if possible, some sign of mitigation to the impending calamity. But in vain; no friendly ray interposed to stay the fell and ireful aspects. The chief significators, especially the Moon, hastened from evil to evil-the remaining planetary indices met junction after junction, quadrature after quadrature. The astrologer, with unfeigned reluctance and grief of mind, announced that death was foretold within the short space of two years.

"Brief, indeed!" remarked the stranger. "The view, Raphael, you have afforded me into futurity, I must confess, is of no cheering kind; but, as it becomes all to ponder well on our finite existence, I cannot but thank you for the results of your calculation. But one word more ere we separate: shall my posterity flourish?"

"Of that," replied the astrologer, "rest assured; for one of your race, I perceive, will have a fame transcendant and unequalled, either in victorious deeds, or some signal achievement, political or military, but the exact affinity is dubious. Moreover, I perceive the omens of mighty changes as connected with your name and lineage."

The stranger seemed more than usually pleased with this prediction; and in warm and friendly terms proceded to compliment the astrologer; expressing his ardent conviction that the "stars spoke truth," and that "astrology was veritably a noble science." He shortly afterwards took leave, in the same strain of gentlemanly amenity, but more saddened and less impatient than when he enterered, the prediction seeming to be impressed on his mind; however, previous to leaving the astrologer's residence, he left, either by accident or design, an enamelled costly card, from which the real station and title of the visitor was manifest. It was even as Raphael had foreseen; he was a man of the highest rank in the kingdom (hence the reason for his concealing the day and year of his birth); and as

to the fulfilment of the horoscope, the reader need only be told FRAGMENTS FOR THE FANCIFUL. that the visitor was no other than his late Majesty George the Fourth.

LIFE AND DEATH.

LIFE! shadowy life! perchance thou art a dream,
One of the visions of the sleeping soul,
Whilst pillowed in eternity-the gleam

Of unrealities and shapes, which roll
As surges over rest-does life but seem;
And will the soul one moment wake to find
That nothing is save the Eternal Mind?

Is birth the closing of the spirit sight,

The even-tide and veiling of its day?
And death the morning when, with rosy light,
The soul awakes, and leaves its cradling clay,
Crowned with the amaranth, clad in purest white,
To wander onward with joy-tripping speed,
O'er Heaven's soft sapphire and star-daisied mead?

Night, the world-watcher, through the sleeping land,
In dusky garb, close muffled, paced the ground;
The dull, monotonous drizzling of Time's sand
Was heard within the ear; no earth-born sound
Of aught arose the stillness to withstand,
Excepting when the hasty Wind came nigh,
Rustling his ample robes, and sweeping by.

On such a night my spirit did essay

Vainly to dive in the obscure dense air,
Until the deep blue clouds, that waiting lay
Far quarter'd in the east, arising were,
With flashing spears, to escort the Prince of Day,
And by their glistening light did I espy
A small white boat upon an ocean sky.

The ocean seemed as balanced in a scale,

A poise to earth, with neither ebbs nor flows,
And the still boat lay covered with a veil,

Like lilies faint with heat,-when sudden rose
A child from sleep, and to the hovering gale
He stretched his little hands, and smiled in love,
Raising his blue eyes to the blue above.

He gazed around, and soon his eye-rays fell

Swift to the boat; he neared it from the shore; What its droop'd veil conceal'd he could not tell, Yet, longing curiously, he wondered moreNow peeped around, then pelted with a shell, And with his footsteps mottled the soft sand,Yet there it lay, but just beyond his hand.

Outwearied and fordone, himself he laid

'Neath an o'erhanging rock, whose mid-day frown Enwrapped the boat and child within its shade!

He slept,-yet when the sun was going down,
He rose unconscious to the boat to wade;
Slipping, he snatched-caught-crept beneath the veil,
Which instantly became a wafting sail.

Dreams are not meaningless, nor lost in air;
Man strives to know the future, to surcharge
His soul, and oft, when sinking to despair,
Unknowingly he dips the Eternal marge.
I gazed until the boat and burden were
Lost in the infinite; and thus shall we
By Death be wafted to eternity!

SETHRON.

CONSCIENCE. How irresistible is the power of Conscience! It is a viper which twines itself round the heart. Imagination, when at rest, cannot conceive the horrors which, when troubled, it can excite, or the tortures to which it can give birth.

REMEMBER. It is not enough that we have once swallowed truths; we must feed on them, as insects on a leaf, till the whole heart be coloured by their qualities, and show its food in every the minutest fibre.

TRUE PHILOSOPHY.-Certainly the highest good is to live happily, and not through a life of mortification to expect a happy death. Should we obtain felicity in life, death will be easy, as it will be natural and in due season. Whereas, by the present system of religious teaching, men are enjoined to value chiefly happiness at the end of life; which, if they were implicitly to follow, they would, by neglecting the first great duty, that of innocent enjoyment during existence, effectually preclude themselves from attaining.

THR DEAD.

The dead are like the stars by day;
Withdrawn from mortal eye,
But not extinct, they hold their way,
In glory through the sky;
Spirits from bondage thus set free,
Vanish amidst immensity,

Where human thought, like human sight,

Fails to pursue their trackless flight.-J. MONTGOMERY. COLERIDGE. In a lecture delivered upwards of twenty years ago, at some hall in Fetter-lane, he divided readers into four classes. The first he compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand-it runs in and out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class, he said, resembled a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jellybag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, he compared to the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserve only the pure gem.

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TO OUR QUERISTS.-This department of our work involves the solution of "horary questions," so called from a figure of the heavens being erected for the hour in which the question is asked, and from the indicaitons manifest in which the corresponding answers are derived. It will, therefore, be absolutely necessary for all correspondents to specify the exact hour and day on which they commit the question to paper for our judgment, and the replies will then be given accordingly. As this important feature of the starry science will necessarily occupy consider able time which he is willing to devote, without reward, to benefit the public, THE ASTROLOGER hopes that the liberality of his offer will protect him from the correspondence of those who desire adjudication upon frivolous subjects, or who are merely actuated thereto by motives of idle and foolish curiosity. All subjects on which they may be really anxious, can be solved with absolute certainty; and the election of favourable periods for marriage, speculation, or commencing any new undertaking with advantage, will be cheerfully and readily pointed out from week to week. All communications addressed to "THE ASTROLOGER" will be considered as strictly confidential, and the initials only given in the oracle.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

NOSTRADAMUS.When we perceive how inexplicable and complicated are the visible productions of nature, how futile are our endeavours to probe and analyse the exact workings of the mysteries of the invisible! Since the germination of a grain of wheat and the efflorescence of the woodbine are enigmas that baffle our investigation, it is not surprising that the human intellect is at fault when searching after the origin and abode of imagination. Some philosophers have conceived the heart to be its residence, others even protested that a single gland was the arena of its operations; however, it is now pretty reasonably ascribed to the cerebral and ganglionic substance of the brain. Still the impulsive properties of this faculty-"fancy"-remain a problem that defies all inquiry: it is a marvel and an obscurity to itself. Our very ignorance, however, upon many tangible things reconciles us, in some measure, to these failures in metaphysical studies. A creature formerly existed at the bottom of the ocean, half animal, half vegetable. It consisted of a single stalk, attached to the ground at one extremity, while its upper portion spread out into several tentacula, or arms. These limbs were always stretched out on the alert, to grapple with their prey and 'convey it to a kind of cup-shaped mouth. We allude to the crinoidea-one single specimen of which was formed by no less than twenty-six thousand separate bones, bound together by a species of fleshy ligaments. Silent, erect, their arms extended in search of victims, stood these extraordinary animals in the beds of the dark sea in compact multitudes, swaying to and fro as the eddies of the water sweep amongst them, sightless, voiceless, without the power of motion, and without sympathy one with another, but ravid and ravenous for food. If Nostradamus will reveal unto us the governing or motive principle of these things of the unknown, we will take his word for granted that no mystery lurks upon the earth the clue to which is not attainable. But, until then-until throwing a cherry-stone into the mould, he can explain the impulse by which a small segment of green shall split that outer shell, and, in time, become a tree bearing its like-until he can explain why this should take place at one moment rather than another-we most deferentially beg to retain our former opinion.

Y. M.-There is a tolerably fair prospect of your invention being, ultimately, of pecuniary advantage to yourself. Before, however, you meet with any definite success, your perseverance and patience will be severely tested. Content your. self with securing the invention, simply with a "caveat." MERCURY IN LEO (Bath).-An article is in preparation on the subject spoken of by our correspondent. Zadkiel's rules are the most comprehensive and are partially adopted by ourself. Dr. Sibly's illustration of astrology, and his works generally, are somewhat passé.

KENUTE.-There is a trouble hanging over you, but it will be surmounted. The tall man is in good circumstances.

MRS. BENNETT.-We never addressed any letter of the kind to you. Pray forward us the particulars of the case, as we feel assured the whole circumstance is founded upon an error. LEO (Manchester).-You will enter into business yourself, but not yet awhile. You will, however, encounter good fortune in mercantile matters, from Mercury being dignified in his own house.

J. S. JONES (Bristol).-In answer to your communication, we have to assure you, that your intended voyage will prove so agreeable as to confirm you in your determination of continuing a sailor. The arbitrary calls of duty will raise several obstacles in your way, at first, but your predilection for the sea will be, at last, triumphant.

TONY GOODENOUGH.-This correspondent appears to us something like an embodied skittle, incessantly being put up to be knocked down. For the rest, let Tony look in that admirable play Cymbeline, where he will find that Shakspere was, in some degree, a scion of astrology, for the first scene opens with the words

"You do not meet a man but frowns: our blood

No more obey the Heavens, than our courtiers,”

W. PARKER.-We feel much obliged to our able and intelligent correspondent for the attention he has paid, and the extract which he has forwarded. In the following excellent remarks of our brother adept in the astral science we beg most heartily to coincide:" Astrology is, of all human science, the most sublime; in its pursuits the most innocent, and in its application the most interesting and most important. Its instructive and moral precepts have borne the test of every age and of every nation; and so firmly is the truth of its doctrines impressed on the human mind, that few individuals reach the age of maturity without having sought, directly or indirectly, to drink at this fountain of intellectual refinement. Indeed, when we consider the very many eminent and literary characters who have studied this celestial knowledge, it is impossible to doubt the validity of its tenets or the genuineness of its principles. The origin of the science is undoubtedly coeval with the existence of man; his fears and his necessities, combined, drew his attention to the heavenly bodies and their motions, and were the earliest objects which engaged the intellectual capacity, and eventually produced those rude symbols which gave birth to language, and also to every other art and science. In the East astrology is held in the highest estimation, and venerated to enthusiasm by millions of human beings; and can it be supposed that a science which accords with the sentiments of so vast a portion of society, which has existed through all ages, could be continued, nay, advanced to the present time, unless its principles were those of virtue, of reason, and of indisputable veracity. What is usually called fortune-telling is as much opposed to the spirit of astrology as the poles are to each other, the former being all mystery, imposture, and superstition, while the latter courts public inquiry, or solicits strict investigation. The one is practised as a cunning art, for the sole purpose of extracting money from the ignorant and unwary, while the other unfolds to all, by study and research, the grand principles of a highly-cultivated intellect, and a truly interesting species of rational amusement." TG-Unhappily, the relation of whom you speak, like many of his fellow-mortals, forgets a kindness as soon as prosperity returns: you must abandon all expectations of deriving any remarkable benefit from one who is, evidently, provided with so little susceptibility, or even ordinary gratitude. You will either marry within the next three years or never; in the former case, the partner allotted to you will be of middling stature, fair, and goodlooking. The most successful business upon which you can embark would be one combining the mercantile and the maritime.

S. BENSON.-There are remarkable prognostications of vicissitude in this horoscope, though, from certain indications in the third house, we augur favourably of the remote future for our correspondent. A singular number of short journies will be made, which will prove advantageous, though we recommend the native to abstain from removals to any great distance. The indigenous plant is most strong and fruitful, while the lime and the citron, when transplanted to strange ground, gradually resign their vigour and beauty, droop, despond, and die. SIMPLEX.-Your condition is lamentable enough just now, but it may readily be improved, and all your troubles be dissipated. Borrow the amount necessary for the payment of arrears and also a small additional sum of money from a friend, so as to enable you, comfortably, to enter upon the matter you mention. Remove, at once, from your present residence, and fortune will smile propitiously sooner than you anticipate. There are repeatedly the germs of prosperity in the very meanest and worst of our misfortunes, as there are pearls on the rugged and ill-shaped oyster.

E. R. Coupled with such a powerful and extremely gratifying introduction we have very great pleasure in answering your inquiries. Your husband must continue in his present situation; improvements, in many respects, are in store for you both. There is, however, a call for much assiduity and determination before anything desirable will occur.

ANDREW MORAN.-Next year will bring a decided change to your fortunes, and involve you in an affair of love which will fall close upon, if it even do not result in, matrimony. Your general destiny is good, but you must not allow opportunities to slip past that will tend to your benefit.

W. H.-We have carefully examined the nativity forwarded, but, from the inaccuracy of the signs, are somewhat in doubt respecting the general indications manifest in the figure. One thing is, however, certain. Some malignant influences flow from the malific Mars, which will produce many accidents and misfortunes, and pecuniary troubles will be constantly arising. Instead of quarrelling with your best friends, take every opportunity of extending your connexions. You will not benefit by any immediate removal.

HOPE. In your new speculation you will not gain enough to repay you for the trouble and time bestowed upon it. We see no indications of marriage until 1847.

2.-The book has been abstracted without a felonious intent, and, after the lapse of a brief period, it will be returned in a manner equally mysterious as the way in which it was

taken.

JULIUS.-You have nothing to fear from the sorrows that seem to affright you, or the cares by which they were produced. The shadow on the sun-dial is the monitor of time and not the effulgence of the great luminary itself which "dies and makes no sign." So is it with life-we trace our path and measure the distance we have gone by the glooms of disappointment, whilst the sunlight of prosperity passes over our heads unheeded.

W. W. W.-Be warned in time. Stir not abroad on the 14th of next month, or an accident will follow.

RECEIVED.-J. HARRISON (You will not acquire any share of the property mentioned; but your attachment to F. B. will terminate prosperously).-J. B. [Kilsyth] (Unless your usual application to business be increased very considerably, your approaching undertaking will prove, inevitably, a failure).—A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER [Camden-town] (For certain reasons we decline answering).—J. B. [Darlington] (The days mentioned are most unpropitious, but the 31st of August is an excellent one for speculation).-J. BuSVINE (There are divers stumbling-blocks visible in your path, but the perspective is strewn with flowers and gilded by the sunshine. Follow up your profession with determination).-C. H. W. (Go on, and prosper; your career in Vulcanean handicraft will be successful).-S. A. (Judge of the future by the past).-P. G. (If your husband goes to law he will lose).-M-R-N (Through parties inimical to your husband's interest, you have, undoubtedly, lost an excellent customer. Nevertheless, a change, at least for the present, is not advisable).-J. S. B. (Unsuccessful at first, prosperous afterwards).-J. D. H. (Storms are frequently the nearest when the skies are the most serene); JAMES EGGS (A situation under government will be provided for you before long).-J. BROOKS (The preceding answer equally applies to this correspondent).-AN ANXIOUS MOTHER [Portsea] (Your son is still alive, but in such a remote quarter of the globe that a communication cannot be received from him until a year has elapsed).-FANNY COOK (On your ensuing birthday expect a favourable offer of marriage).-GALLOIS [Southampton] (Your affection is cordially reciprocated by the young lady. You had better, in future, order the numbers of "THE ASTROLOGER" of Mr. Rayner, bookseller and news-agent, High-street).-DELTA (We have carefully examined your nativity, and find therein not the slightest foundation for those most erroneous predictions. These unfortunate charlatans are the bane of this glorious science).-MAUD (We do not see any probability of your ever entering into the bonds of matrimony; but content yourself with the assurance that your life, hence forth, will be attended with more comfort and happiness than you have ever before experienced).-M. A. (Yes; she has seen the individual who is destined for her spouse).-W. X. B. (In the fourth year from this time you may expect to participate in connubial bliss; the person indicated will be engaged in small, but lucrative, undertakings).-R. S. CRISPIN (Saturn was in the ascendant at the moment of your birth; its influence is peculiarly malific. Several directions will appear at a later period of your existence which will materially improve your position. The proposed alteration in your mode of life promises well).-MARY CLARK (Before two years more have merged into the past).-E. CARTER (Prospects in the country appear brighter than in town; choose, therefore, the former).

-A. BAGSTER (Unquestionably you will be united).~~A LOVER (Wait until the 17th of August, then write).-SIGNORAH (Defunct).-ELIZABETH DOUGLASS (The swallow flies about the globe in search of perpetual summer; let the instinct of this creature admonish you as to your movements. Persevere in your present occupation, as such behaviour will prove beneficial).SCROOGYL (Your speculation will progress well, and customers will throng in before one can ejaculate your sponsorial patronymic).-SCHAROWSKY (Within sixteen months your position will considerably change).-J. E. A. (A milkman).-R. S. T. (Your next birthday will bring the desired change). Others in our next.

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