Poetry. IN LIFE AND DEATH. In life and death, beloved, I'm' thine alone, I'm thine, still thine!-Deem not a love like mine Or form, that shames the sculptor's proudest art, Love gilds the wave on frowning mountains hurled, A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO ANNA, Whilst others costly presents send, To usher in the new-born year, Accept the tribute of a friend, And oh! incline a gentle ear We deem'd its race were well begun : May all a parent's boundless love; Wafted with sighs for thee, above, Sink in thy heart, and resting there, Bender thee Heaven's peculiar care. Sweet maid may the all-bounteous Lord On thee his blessings ever pour; Through life's rough path may he afford Strength to thy soul, that when the hour Of death is past, thou too might sing Anthems of praise to heaven's high King, G. Unto our Sovereign Lord the King, who rules the British helm; To all our fellow countrymen all health and all prosperity, And when we come, as come we must, at times, in sterner shape Should Peers or Gentles need the lash, there shall not one escape. Like freeborn Britons shall we feel, unbrib'd and undeterr'd; And give our feelings utterance in a voice that shall be heard. But now, "God save the king"-lov'd sound! the spell that still imparts New warmth unto our blood, and finds its echo in our hearts! May thousand blessings fall like dew from Heaven upon his head; She sank beneath th' exhausting pangs which follow'd fr its close. Oh! may concord be our watch word, and with patience m we bear The common griefs which all have shared, or should be taug to share! Those griefs, tho' sore, shall fail before united hearts and har Like leagu'd oppressors flying fast from freedom's sacred bas Then merry England shall arise, and robe herself in glee. And dash her burdens to the ground, all heavy though they As her own oaks shake off the snows that, through the w ter's death, Had lain upon their leaves, and feel the spring's reviving bre Yes! England, like a man restor'd, her sickness shall sub While vanish'd years look dim before the brightness of new; And mock the tales with wild dismay and utter ruin fra By those poor souls, whose wish, perchance, was fathe their thought. Blest, then, be he, whate'er he be, who guards from harm scathe His country, and his country's laws-his father's bone faith; sinothers, And far the hour, whose fatal pow'r shall doom him to the dead. Throughout a land which Heav'n ordained to be a ind brothers. Christmas Boxes.-The Athenian Oracle" dener origin of Christmas-money from this:-"The priests had masses for almost every thing: if s tection of some saint, and for masses, as their ca to the Indies, a priest had a box in her, under to be said to that saint, &c. the poor people mul something into the priest's box, which was not opet So shall the lifeblood flow for him, that runs in ev'ry vein: The chivalrous devotion, and the spirit of his sires! As ye extend the goods ye have to such as have them not— So using rank, wealth, influence, which chance alone bestow'd, Between the King and People be it still your proudest boast As mounds, that, proudly standing, may, in civil tempests, The conquerors on land and main, the first in arts and arms! Be blest with health, be blest with wealth, be blest with beauty's charms. May Britain's every son rejoice to view with honest pride, Smile, each on each, like sisters, and walk ever hand in hand; Thus, like the fabled Graces, in eternal union move, Christ mass; the box called Christ-mass-box, or BEL gathered against that time, that masses might be made baucheries of that time; and from this, servants ha the priests to the saints to forgive the people the liberty to get box-money, that they too might be eat to pay the priest for his masses, well knowing the tra of the proverb- No penny, no Pater-noster." Fashions for January CARRIAGE DRESS.-Close pelisse of satin; the that of the bloom on an Orleans plum; the pelise is a dered with a very broad ermine, and a muff is respond. The bust is crossed by Brandenburgh in forming a diamond. The bonnet of black vele, with pink, and ornamented by one long black te Half boots of corded silk, the colour of the peine. yellow kid gloves. HOME COSTUME.-Dress of gros de Naples, si real blue, with four flounces of cockleshells at the the belt of the same material, fastened in front buckle. Head-dress, a fichu, à la marmotte, of Cl lace, edged round with the same material, and d small rosette of white figured riband on the kit s border; cream-coloured shoes and gloves. The we the chin, near the ear. Ponceau scarf, with made partially high, and the only neck covering is a row lace tucker, and a pearl necklace of three rows Thus shall its three harmonious parts, a well according band, 11. Kit-ten-12. Goose berry-13. Car-rot-14 7. Leg-horn-8. Surge-on-9. Mass-acre-10. 45-6 15. Bar-bar-a-16. Asp-arag-us-17: Night-in-pa While years more firmly knit the bonds of their undying love. grave 22. Car-pet-23. Don-key-24. Rag-amyEye-lash 19 Counter-pane 20 Foot-D&EMisle-toe-26. Ship-27. Decanter of Wine-S 29. BULB, from which, if the first half, Bu, be take will leave lb, the sign for a pound. Ye too! who crush'd by adverse fate, lie desolate and poor, God grant that Charity may drive gaunt hunger from your door A. B May come, like woman's smile in woe, to set you free at last; Or, like the angel sent to Paul, in dungeon darkness cast 30. Because it is Chamounix (i, e, sham mcaży)) 31. Because it is not fair. 2. Because it is mine (coal-mine.) 83. Because it is only half well, thus:-we-ll. 34. Because there is much railing about it! here, instead of amusing myself in the holydays as littlee | 35. Because he is an eggs ham eater (i. e. hexameter, see cannot make their own shirts;) but if you accept of my 6. Because it is new ditty (i. e. nudity.) 7. Because they die late (i. e. dilate!) 88. Because it ends in wo (i. e. woe!) 19. Because it is between u and i (i. e. you and I.) Because he is a neck romancer (i. e. a necromancer!!) You man, hit I” (i. e. humanity !!!) 41. ** 3 Beneath this stone lies Catharine Gray, CHARADES, CONUNDRUMS, ENIGMAS, &c. [Continued from our last.] 44. [THE FOLLOWING FOUR ARE FROM LINELLA.] first is four-sixths of that word which we say en ideas of abundance we mean to convey, at that pronoun by egotists often proclaimed, d the river by poets Eridanus named, If the number of grains that a scruple will make, My first is a measure by no means uneommon, attend, ye enigmatists all, to my song, I 47. st, by all grammarians, a preposition's reckoned, 49. My first's a preposition known to all, My second mostly grows aloft in air, My first is as white as a fleece, My second we kick with our feet; My whole you may play with in peace, As long as you're absent from heat. 50. My first is a worrying brute, MT second a pastime for fools; My whole is an excellent fruit, Which in summer refreshingly cools, TO THE EDITOR. 51. Why is a young nobleman travelling to a great eastern city like another going to put his father into a sack? 52. Why is an illiterate schoolmaster like a blind man ? 54. What is most like a horse's shoe? This reminds us of another, which used to amuse us in 56. Why is your eye like St. Dunstan's? 58. On which side of a village church should the trees be set ? By G. (a London correspondent.) 59. How is a seaman, waiting for a fair wind, like a good house-dog? 60. How is a young lady, who has received three epistles from her lover, like a cat? 61. When can it be said that a man is with a wig and without at the same time? 90. We are a family of eight sisters living with our mother, a very old woman exceedingly religious, and extremely singular as you shall hear; her mode of thinking is so disconsonant to the age, that a stranger would think her in her dotage, but we are told that for the greater part of her life she has had the same propensities. great promoter of marriages, and has had many husbands She has been a herself, and it is generally supposed that she contracted from them the most of her narrow prejudices; though she is very learned herself, and has long been famed for her extensive eridition, she has always been adverse to the general dissemination of knowledge. Our education and treatment has been most extraordinary, music being the only instruction that was ever afforded us, so that we are We have many admirers, and we know not if our mother obliged to employ an amanuensis to write this narrative. is afraid of them running away with us, but we are locked up like nuns in the remostest attic of her house, and are having learnt from them so long, we despair of ever makseldom allowed any visitors but our music-masters, and ing any further proficiency, as our only choice of improvement is when some more scientific professors occasionally pay us a visit. Our mother has carefully instilled into us a high nationality of sentiment, and we are the first to exult at events denoting the prosperity of the empire, and to mourn for any public calamity, neither have her lessons of philanthropy been thrown away upon us, for it is our wont to rejoice with those who rejoice, and to weep with those who weep; and so far does the feeling of sympathy carry us, that we have been frequently known to waste the midnight oil in welcoming, with vocal harmony, those seasons most particularly acceptable and joyous to our neighbours. Though a life of seclusion is not calculated to improve the temper, or promote happiness, we live in perfect harmony together; this blessing is mainly owing to a laudable custom which we were early taught, of giving to each other alternate precedence in all our occupations, and notwithstanding seine of us are endowed by nature with those commanding qualifications peculiarly fitted to take the lead, we have invariably adhered to this salutary mode of life, and we have now neither the expectation maxim. Long habit has entirely reconciled us to our 69. When may a pair of coach-horses be said to be in-nor the wish for more liberty. Our recluse life would lead 74. Why is a red herring like a person recovered from Fargate, has made his accustomed pie, wherewith to treat a fever? 76. Why are bell-ringers, when at work, like oranges? 78. Why does a Westphalia ham resemble a drained mill-pond? "Cetera desunt"-i. e. DECent. The following are from other correspondents: 80. Why are curds like shadows? 81. Into what conveyance does the letter S convert a part of the body? 82. Why is the letter N like a dirty pig? his customers this Christmas. It weighed, before it was baked, from twelve to thirteen stones.Sheffield Iris. In the vicarage of Market Rasen, in the gift of the crown, the vicar is, by the endowment, entitled to the upusual tithe of ale. THE CROSS. The following puzzle, although it is pretty generally known, has never, to oar recollection, been explained by a figure. We her supply the deficiency by a sketch of the mode of folding the paper, although we apprehend there will be some difficulty in rendering it perfectly intelligible. An oblong piece of paper (say about the size and shape of a common card) may be folded in such a manner, that by one cut of the scissors, separate pieces may be pro 83. Why is our King, reclining on a sofa, like a but-duced, bearing considerable resemblance to the following 84. Why is a dog, with his tail in his mouth, like a careful couple ? Not having observed the following bagatelles intered toast? using little work, and as I am one of those who rived great pleasure from it, I wish to contribute and therefore inclose a few. I cannot vouch iginality of them, having selected them from my get, as lost little girls have budgets of one kind . i should have made a larger selection; but 2. 85. What fruit would you name, if you were to desire 36. I wish that some erudite friend would explain, things: The cross, upon which Christ suffered; which, TO THE EDITOR. is The inventor of this perplexing toy is unknown, but the invention is of considerable antiquity; for Cardan, who began to write early in the 16th century. makes mention of the instrument called Complicati Annulli, or Puzzling Rings, and has left a very obscure description of the construction and the art of managing the toy. The annexed diagram will show the reader the structure of the rings and their necessary accompaniment, the staple. After this part is properly comprehended, the method of managing the instrument will soon be acquired, from the directions for working it which conclude this essay. The instrument may be thus described: A thin plate of metal, 1, 5, has any number of holes drilled through it at equal distances; they are five in the figure, and are marked by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. These holes, besides being at equal distances, are round, equal in diameter, and placed in a right line. To each of these holes a metal pin is properly adjusted; that is, it is furnished with a broad head, to prevent it from slipping through the hole: the upper part of the pin is considerably less in diameter than the perforation which it occupies. This circumstance necessary, because the pin is to move with ease, not only up and down, but also in all directions. The top of this pin is bent into a loop, for the reception of a ring, which moves easily in the loop but cannot be taken out of it. The diameter of these rings is less than the length of the pins, but greater than the distance of two adjacent holes. These parts are thus put together, and implicated one with another, viz. let its proper pin pass through the hole 1, and after the pin is so placed, let the upper end of it be so bent into a loop as to receive and retain the ring I. In like manner, let the pin 2 H pass through the hole 2, and also through the ring I; after which let the upper end of it be bent into a loop, as above described, for the reception of the ring H. In the same way, let the remaining holes, 3, 4, 5, be furnished with moveable pins, each of which passes through the ring attached to the preceding pin, and is afterwards bent into a loop, to receive and retain a ring; thus, pin 3 G passes through the ring H, and holds the ring G; in like manner, the pin 4 F passes through the ring G, and holds the ring F; and also the pin 5 E passes through the ring F, and is furnished with the ring E, as in the figure. The figure marked O represents an essential part of the instrument; it is called the staple, or needle. It should be made a little longer than the plate 1, 5, but not of a breadth which would prevent it from passing easily through the rings; and the hollow part of the staple should be of a dimension to permit two rings, with their respective loops, to pass easily at the same time through the cavity, when they are turned down with their edges. When the instrument is finished, pursuant to the preoeding directions, the staple may be passed, with proper management, through all the rings from E to I, and when this is done, it may be again extricated by an inverse process. I here mean, that the staple should not only pass through the rings, but that it should also contain, in its oblong cavity, all the pins attached to the rings.. The method of performing the direct and inverse operations is as follows:-1st. Introduce the ring E through the staple O, by two motions, viz. E through OO through E. This being done, the staple will pass through E, and include the pin 5 E within the cavity. 2d. Introduce F into O by these four motions; take I from the end of O -put F through 0-0 through F and E. sd. Introduce G by eight motions, viz. 1st. Let E down by these two motions: take O from E-E from O; then take F from the end of O-introduce G through 0-0 through G and F; put E through O and O through E. By this last operation, the staple passes through the three first rings, F, F, G, and includes their respective pins, 5 E, 4 F, 3 G. In like manner, the ring H, with the three preceding, G, F, E, may be introduced with their pins into the staple, by sixteen motions; also the ring I may be introduced with all the preceding rings, by 32 motions, &c. The converse of the preceding operation, or that by which the staple is again extricated from the rings, wants but little explanation when the former process is understood. It is only necessary to remark on this subject, that the first business is to take down the ring I, which is done thus: take down the three first, E, F, G, by inverting the operation by which the staple was introduced through them; then I may be taken down, and H will remain upon O. Introduce the staple again through E, F, G, and take down E, F; then H may be removed, and G will remain upon O. Again, introduce the staple through E, F, and take down E; then G may be removed. Lastly, put up E, and let down E, F, by which motion the staple will be freed from all the rings. This mechanical toy engaged the attention and the pen of Cardan in the sixteenth century; and the celebrated mathematician and philosopher, Dr. Wallis, has given a clear and very elaborate description of the same instrat ment in the second volume of his works, under the title of Complicati Annulli.-The works of Cardan and Wallis are written in Latin; and I know of no author who has treated this trifling but ingenious subject in English, which supposed deficiency in our scientific literature is my only apology for requesting the insertion of the present essay SECRET LETTER-WRITING. [From Hooper's Recreations.] ANON. [I SHALL BE] much obliged to you, as reading [ALONE] engages my attention [AT] present, if you will lend me any one of the [EIGHT] volumes of the Spectator. I hope you will excuse [THIS] freedom; but for a winter's [EVENING.] I [DON'T] know a better entertainment. If I [FAIL] to return it soon, never trust me for the time [TO COME.] it ranean, have evidently considerable analogy to the cavi above described; and they are rendered the more teresting, from Mr. Cuvier's having formerly been opinion, that the greater number of the animals wh remains this "breccia" affords, belonged to species sti existence, and, consequently, were deposited at a m recent period than that of the deluge. The author h ever had suggested, that the discovery, in the Medi ranean breccia, of any one of the extinct animals, wo be sufficient to establish its more ancient date; and remains have since actually been found: the tasks of extinct lion or tiger occurring in the breccia of Nice Antibes; and bones of the bear in Italy. Mr. C has consequently abandoned his original opinion; a a very full account of the animal remains in several on the coast of the Mediterranean, in the last edin his admirable work on Fossil Remains, he assigns the the same geological period, as that of the extinct s of the more northern parts of Europe.+ We shall this part of our abstract, by giving, in the words o author, what appears to us to be one of the mosting of all the inferences derivable from his researches the present sea and land have not changed places that the antediluvian surface, of at least a large part the northern hemisphere, was the same with the p one. Since those tracts of dry land in which we fin ossiferous caves and fissures, must have been dry, when the land animals inhabited or fell into them, period immediately preceding the inundation by they were extirpated. And hence it follows, that he such caves and fissures occur, i. e. in the greater p Europe, and in whatever districts of the other co such bones may be found under similar circus there did not take place any such interchange of the faces occupied respectively by land and water, writers of high authority have conceived." pp 66 As this deduction appears to be fairly derived fr facts which Mr. Buckland supposes to be proved t ing the caves in Yorkshire, and their antediluvian bitants, and may be extended, by analogy, to eng of the surface of the globe, from the probably diffusion of limestone containing caverns, and the ence, in such caverns, of fossil bones; it readers do necessary the most exact investigation of the evidenc forms the basis of his reasoning. We should see him engaged in controversy; but we bare no di his statements, upon all the points in the inquiry, that he will take every opportunity to confirm, gypsum, in the The following is a curious method of writing secretly to a friend :-Take two pieces of pasteboard, or tolerably stiff paper, through which cut long squares, at different distances, as you will see in the following example. One of these pieces you keep yourself, and the other you give to your correspondent. When you would send him any secret intelligence, you lay the pasteboard upon a paper of are at present doubtful or obscure. the same size, and in the spaces cut out, you write only has ever occurred, of the existence of human b It is still very remarkable, that no authentic inst what you would have understood by him, and then fill up fossil state. The homo diluvii testis" of Scie the intermediate spaces with somewhat that makes a differ-turned out to be a great lizard; the skeletons from ent sense with those words. daloupe, one of which has been described by M in the Phil. Trans. for 1814, are supposed, from of the stone and the character of the situation they are found, to be comparatively recent. The of the reported discovery of the fossil bones of England, are all, like that of the woman of when closely examined, of modern date; and A paper of this sort may be placed four different ways, remaining case, attended with any doubt, is ma either by putting the bottom at the top, or by turning the introduction to the petrefactenkunde of over; and by these means the superfluous words may be Sclotheim. It appears, that the caves and f the more easily adapted to the sense of the others. There occur in beds of limestone and are various other methods for secret writing, well known the Elster, not very far from Leipsic, contain the to the "cognoscenti," in that department of science; but various animals, belonging, both to extinct and to the far greater number of them, especially the more anspecies, the latter including man. In one such cient ones, are insecure; and however their respective in-human bones were found at the depth of eight ventors may have held them up to public notice, the art those of a rhinoceros, and twenty-six feet fr of deciphering has of late been so ably cultivated, that face. They appear however to have been introdes very few indeed are entitled to full confidence in a time of subsequent period, into the diluvial loam, which extremity. The learned Conrad thinks that the expli- fore contained more ancient bones and pebbles cation of any secret writing may be securely undertaken what means, or at what precise period, remains for a large wager." certained. A single fragment of a human bond, unequivocally, and under the same circumst those of any extinct species of other animals, conclusive on this point, which is of the great human art be so found, there is really no physic tance; because, till such remains, or some pro of the existence of man before the deluge-So cumstances point to the East, as the most ancient tion of mankind, that the discovery might p expected from thence, if the condition of the c want of roads, and consequently of open grave the rare access of intelligent inquirers, did nota us out from that extensive region. The remains of hyænas had never been dis Scientific Records. [Comprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improve ments in Science or Art; including, occasionally, singular Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical, Phifosophical, Botanical, Meteorological, and Mineralogical Phenomena, or singular Facts in Natural History; Vegetation, &c.; Antiquities, &c.; List of Patents; to be continued in a series through the Volume.] GEOLOGY OF THE DELUGE. (From the last number of the Edinburgh Review.) The fissures containing frag nents of bone, cemented by stalactitic matter, which occur at Gibraltar, and in several other places on the northern shore of the Mediter- Phil. Jan. 1823. کا Ingland till the opening of the cave at Kirkdale; but chief proofs of diluvial action on the surface of the of that Island; and, on the Continent, from the writings The most important information, however, in proof of have occasion to recur. ORIGIN OF IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES. Glass. It is certain, says Pliny, that the most valuable discoveries, have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. "As some merchants were carrying nitre, they stopped near a river which issues from Mount Carmel, and not happening to find stones for resting their kettles, they substituted in their place some pieces of the nitre, which the fire gradually dissolving, mixed with the sand, and occasioned a transparent matter to flow, which, in fact, was nothing else but glass. Bark.-An Indian, in a delirious fever, having been left by his companions by the side of a river, for the purpose of quenching his thirst, conceiving him incurable, drank large and copious draughts of the stream, which, having imbibed the virtues of the bark from the trees which grew upon its margin, soon vanquished the fever, and he returned to his astonished friends perfectly restored. The singularity of the circumstance excited their surprise, and waked their superstition; the indisposed crowded round the holy stream, as they termed it, and experienced its healing effects, without being able to discover the cause from which it was derived. The sages of the tribes, however, found out, at length, in what it consisted, and disclosed the important secret. In the year 1640, the Americans became acquainted with the use of this excellent medicine; and, in 1649, its fame had extended into Spain, Italy, and Rome, through the representation of Cardinal Lugo, and other Jesuits, who had beheld its surprising and wonderful effects. Telescopes. It is said that the use of telescopes was first discovered by one Hansen, a spectacle maker, at Middleburgh, in Holland, whose children playing in the shop, casually placed a convex and concave glass in such a manner, that, by looking through them at the weather cock, they observed it appeared much larger and nearer than usual, and, by their expressions of surprise, excited the attention of their father, who soon obtained greas credit for this useful discovery. That such effects are not confined to the lower regions of the earth's surface, is proved, decidedly, 1st, By the forms of the highest mountains, which are universally modified in the same way as the lowest hills of the globe; the highest valleys also containing diluvial gravel like what occurs below. 2dly, By the existence of great masses of rock, transported across valleys from the most elevated points; as from Mont Blanc, the highest point of Europe, to the Jura. 3dly, By the discovery of the remains of animals in the diluvium of the highest regions; as of the mastodon, and fossil species of elephant in the lofty plains of Quito and Mexico; the former at the height of 7,800 feet above the sea;-and still more remarkably, by a re cent discovery of fossil hones in the Himalaya mountains. These last remains, which are now in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, were procured by Captain W. S. Webb, from the Chinese Tartars of Daba; who assured him that they were found in the north face of Coffee.-A Prior belonging to a monastery in that part the snowy ridge of Kylas, in lat. 32°, at a spot which he of Arabia, where this berry grows in the greatest abundance, calculated to be not less than 16,000 feet high. They are having observed that the goats which ate it, became exonly obtained from the masses that fall with the avalan-tremely brisk and alert, resolved to try the experiment ches, from the regions of perpetual snow; and are there- upon his monks, of whom he continually complained for fore supposed by the natives to have fallen from the clouds, their lethargic propensities. The experiment proved sucand to be the bones of genii. They belong to a small cessful, and it is said, that it is owing to this circumstance, species of deer. Their medullary cavities and cancelli that the use of this Arabian be.ry became universal. are filled with white crystalline carbonate of lime, and their matrix is a grey calcareous sand, interspersed with small concretions of carbonate of line. The occurrence of these bones," adds the author, at such an enormous elevation, in the regions of eternal snow, and consequently in a spot now unfrequented by such animals as the horse and deer, can, I think, be explained only by supposing them to be of antediluvian origin, and that the carcasses of the animals were drifted to their present place, and lodged in sand, by the deluvial waters.” pp. 222, 223. • To be published in the Geol. Trans. Vol. i. Part 2. New found, upon the same spot. Qy. Rev. No. 57. pp. 155, 156. To produce an Electric Spark from a piece of Brown Paper.-Thoroughly dry before the fire a quarter of a sheet of stoutish brown paper; place it on your thigh, holding it at the edge with one hand, while with the cuff of the sleeve on the other you must rub it smartly backwards and forwards ten or fifteen times; if the knuckle be now placed near the paper, it will emit a brilliant spark, accompanied with a snapping noise; the prongs of a fork similarly placed will produce three distinct streams of light. The experiment must, of course, be performed in the dark, and the trowsers and coat be of woollen cloth.--Mechanics' Magazine. st of England affords similar proofs of the currents; the highest summits of Devon and We have not yet experimentally ascertained this e being strewed over with pebbles, that must phenomenon, but it reminds us of another very simple lodged there before the excavation of the pre-mode of exciting electricity with which we have repeatedly In Scotland, Colonel Imrie has detected rition on the surfaces of the rocks, from the amused our young friends. ge of heavy bodies apparently driven by water. nes Hall concludes a very able paper, + in the agency of similar currents in the vicinity of gh, by stating, that all the diluvial facts in that rhood concur in denoting one inundation overthe solid mass of the district.-this inundation last catastrophe to which it has been, exposed." idence of diluvial action in Ireland, is derived memoir of Mr. Weaver, on the eastern portion Trans. Vol. v. Let a piece of writing paper (half a sheet of letter paper for instance) be thoroughly dried at the fire, and then laid fiat on a clean mahogany table. Then take a piece of Indian rubber, and rub the whole surface of the paper briskly several times, until it is warm with the friction. If the paper be then lifted up by one corner it will be found slightly to adhere to the table by electrical influence, and when it is separated from the table it will be attracted by the face, and the hair of the head will also be sensibly affected.-Edit. Kal Steering Ships.-Heylin, in his Cosmography, tells us that the art of steering was discovered by a man of the name of Typhis, who took his hints for making both the rudder and helm, from seeing a kite in fiying, guide her whole body by her tail. The Purple Dye. The purple dye was found out at Tyre, by the simple circumstance of a dog seizing the fish conchilis or purpura, by which his lips were observed to be tinged with that beautiful colour. The Pendulum.-It is said that Galileo accidentally fixing his eyes on the waving to and fro of a lamp suspended from the roof of a lofty building, had the first idea of a pendulum suggested to his mind. A CABIN COMPANION. This day were published, illustrated with a Chart of the World, and nearly One Hundred Engravings, copied from the original Voyages, price 10s. 6d. bound, or 128. elegant, ALL the VOYAGES ROUND the WORLD, from in 1820, including those of ANSON and Cook, and indeed, every Voyage round the World that has been published in England or abroad. the first by MAGELLAN in 1420, to the last by FREYCINET As a companion to a young Seaman, both for Amusament ence in a ship's cabin, this Volume has no equal. and Instruction, and as a pleasing book of constant refer Abridged from the originals, by CAPT. S. PRIOR lane, and sold by all Booksellers. or Modern Travels in all Countries, with 100 Engravings Also, by the same Editor, the UNIVERSAL TRAVELLER; and also the VOCAL LIBRARY of 2500 Songs, among which are nearly 1000 Sea Songs, both at 10s. 6d. bound. WONDERS OF THE WORLD. This day is published, the fifteenth edition, revised and Im proved, with upwards of 100 striking Engravings, price 10s. 6d. bound, and 12s. calf gilt, THE HUNDRED WONDERS of the WORLD, and of the three KINGDOMS OF NATURE, described ar cording to the best and latest Authorities, By the Rev. C. C. CLARK. but this Work will prove that the Moderns may boast of thale Also, of the same size and price, Correspondence. TO MY COUSIN IN THE COUNTRY. DEAR COUSIN, I went from Liverpool to Preston yesterday. The coach was to set off at half-past four. I slept in town, at my sister's, and the watchman awoke me, as agreed on, at half-past three. I got up-breakfasted-put on my top-coat-hung my travelling surtout on my left arm, and shouldering an umbrella in my right, sallied forth, eu bonne heure. Church-street was desolate, save where was heard the measured step and voice of the trusty guardian of the night. Lord-street, that throngs with noon-day crowds, I think had not a single being but myself in its borders; and Castle-street, that teems with myriads in working hours, was, at that period, still, almost as death. The morning was beautiful: the air cool, but bracing. The stars twinkled sweetly over head: Venus was tripping gaily along the firmament, as if in lovely consciousness of her silvery lustre: Saturn was visible: Jupiter would have been more brilliant, but that the moon rode high in dignity and peerless splendour, and threw the bright attendants of her glory into comparative shade. Wrapt in the beauty of the scene, and in the solemn stillness of that early hour, the mind turned involuntarily to the contemplation and praise of the great Architect, by whose almighty fiut all nature sprang into being-and the heavens spread out themselves as open volume of their Maker's power, and wisdom, and harmony, for the meditation and study of man. An occasion for opening a conversation soon occurred. The elder of the two had borrowed the guard's ponderous water-proof coat; and when the coach drew up to an inn on the road, he asked the latter (as a sort of bonus for the use of it) if he would have a glass of anything. "I'd much rather have a good dinner of beef-steaks," said he. In fact, it appeared he had previously ordered breakfast: for there was a blazing fire in the bar, the maid was in waiting, the kettle was singing on the hob, the coffee smoking on the tray, the table spread, the toast made, every thing ready; and in less than five minutes he had broken his fast, and we were again bowling along the road. Seated once more, and in motion, the younger observed, New Patents. PHILEMON. At a quarter before five, we started. The walls of the houses on each side Dale-street now echoed with the Sir W. Congreve, of Cecil-street, Strand, Bart. for va sound of the wheels, as the coach rattled over the pave-rious improvements in fire-works.-Oct. 16. ment; and we seemed passing through a solitude, in a A. Buchanan, of Catharine Cotton Works, Glasgow, place, where, in a few hours more, the busy hum of com- merchant, for his improvement in the construction of merce would issue from innumerable haunts, and the din weaving looms impelled by machinery.-Oct. 16. J. Ranking, Esq. New Bond-street, Westminster, for of labour rend the welkin with a thousand reverberations. his newly-invented means of securing valuable property Indulging the luxury of such reflections, as all around in mail and other stage coaches, travelling carriages, wagand above was well calculated to excite, the mind was gons, caravans, and other similar public and private venot much disposed to seek inferior gratifications: but, hicles, from robbery.-Nov. 1. having once cleared the town, hailed the mild and moonlight aspect of the country-and devoured, with eager eye, the contrast of the works of nature with the works of att; then, indeed, I turned round to examine the composition of my stage-coach company, and, if possible, pick up some useful speculation, or derive some amusing or substantial instruction. Opposite me sat the guard, a jolly pleasant-looking man, with traits of intelligence in his features, and what is more rare, and yet more commendable in this useful class of people, I believe also he was a sober and temperate character. Beside him, on the same seat, sat two men, who seemed to be neighbours or acquaintances, not exactly of a labouring, but say of the working sort. One was young; he might be thirty: the other was evidently older, from the additional and deeper furrows in his brow. They both seemed (from what transpired) to have addicted themselves to the baneful and degrading practice of taking what is called an extra glass, on friendship's account; or, as the mischievous song says, "for the sake of auld lang syne." Thou inquirest what I mean. Sweet innocence! I'll tell thee. They come to town on business-meet a tradesman they have to do with-call him "My good old friend!" -or, "My hearty good fellow !"-extend the band, and the proportion and strength of friendship is often estimated with these poor creatures by the force of the squeeze for shake, and the width and number of the vibrations. Then off they go together to the alehouse, finish business, sit down to the bottle, and tamely submitting to the tyranny of custom and opinion, they rashly disfranchise Reason (Heaven's precious and distinguishing gift) and to show their kind friends how highly they esteem and look up to them as men, ignobly place themselves down below the level of the beasts! Town, Middlesex, ship-builder, for his improvement in G. Hawkes, Lucas-place, Commercial-road, Stepney Old W. Burdy, Fulham, mathematical-instrument maker, T. Gowan, Fleet-street, London, truss-manufacturer, J. Day, Esq. of Barnstaple, Devonshire, for certain im- J. Ward, Grove-road, Mile-end-road, Middlesex, iron- S. Servill, of Brower's Hill, Bisley, Gloucestershire, clothier, for his new mode or improvement for dressing of woollen or other cloths. No. 18. R. Green, Lisle-street, St. Anne, Middlesex, sadlers' ironmonger, for certain improvements in constructing gambadoes or mud-boots, and attaching spurs thereto, and part of which said improvements are also applicable to other boots.Nov. 13. R. Stein, Tower Brewery, Tower-hill, brewer, for his improved construction of a blast-furnace, and certain apparatus to be connected therewith, which is adapted to burn or consume fuel in a more economical and useful manner than has been hitherto practised.-Nov. 13. J. Gillman, Newgate-street, silk warehouseman, and J. H. Wilson, Manchester, silk and cotton manufacturer, for certain improvements in the manufacture of hats and bonnets.-Nov. 18. J. Heathcoat, Tiverton, Devonshire, lace-manufacturer, for a machine for the manufacture of a platted substance They were both aching under the consequences of the composed either of silk, cotton, or other thread or yarn. last night's intemperance. Nov. 20. To Correspondents. VIVE LA BAGATELLE.”—The department of our paper which we usually allot to the amusement of our holiday friends, in this week so fully occupied that we have been under the necessity of postponing several New Year's offerings, amongst which is the clever enigma, commencing "We are a family of eight sisters." Whilst we are upon this sube ject, we shall take the liberty to say a few words to the manufacturers of such "motley ware" as conundrums, charades, &c. We would not be over scrupulous in og selection of such bagatelles, at this season of the year Christmas is the English Saturnalia, when all jokes free; when the master winks at the very pranks of little urchins, for which he might use the rod or ferries other times. We would, in like marmer, give great latim to those who amuse themselves or others by the species badinage under consideration. There are, however, s rules by which even the eccentric professor of conundr and charade must consent to be regulated. In the change we conceive that the regular syllabie division of each way ought to be strictly preserved. Thus, the words coo surgeon, ought not for the sake of the charade to be dis cated thus coo-ling, surge-on, according to the practice Jemima's young friend. The conundrum, also, whimsi as it is in its very nature, has proper bounds, beyond whe it ought not to be permitted to trespass. The conundr as we observed before, is twin brother to the pun. Now, th pun is addressed to the ear, not to the eye, as some of its p fessors seem to conceive. Thus, one of our correspondet! splits the word comedian into come-dian/ which altho it is perfect to the eye, has none of the requisites of p The pun is often perfect to the ear when it is as dive as light and dark to the eye;-suppose, for instany, d query was to discover an English pronoun, which the same time, a French verb. We might produce ve 108 out; which are perfeet to the ear, but, to the eye, pre no points of resemblance, as they have no one letter common, neither do they consist of the same number letters. With this hint, for the guidance of punsters, w must, for the present, take our leave. We intreat the indulgence of any correspondent, whom we may have appeared to slight at this particularseas, owing to the attention we have bestowed upon subjects, calculated to amuse a portion of our readers with whom we can only hold communion at the Christmas or Midsummer holidays. GEOLOGY OF THE DELUGE—A correspondent who has addresse us on the subject of the interesting article we have set on this subject from the Edinburgh Review, observes, th the majority of our readers have access to the Review which we have transcribed it. This may be true, and e reason for the selection be at the same time setista The article is highly interesting as our correspont admits; but it was the unusual circumstance of the mission of engravings in the Edinburgh Review, that termined us upon adopting the article; as those thr whose hands the original work has passed, will be ple to have these illustrative engravings in their own posses for reference, at so a cheap rate as we afford them. Th gravings, with which we occasionally embellish our pub ations, form no trifling item of our establishment AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.—In our next we purpose gelag description of a Mummy, now exhibiting at New Y together with an engraving, which we have faith copied from the journals of that city. 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