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Poetry.

LIFE.

Were this our sole abode confest,
And here our final place of rest;
This habitation bleak and cold,
The scene of wretchedness untold;
Were this alone our dwelling place,
Oh! how abhorred life's toilsome chase!
Were this the haven, rude and dark,
For riven ship and shattered bark;
Were this the strand whereon to cast
Our anchoring cable sure and fast;
Oh! better, mid the whelming wave
The shivered bark had made its grave!
And what avails our ceaseless cares,
Consuming toils, and bitter tears?—
Why cherish hopes of coming bliss
If ours alone this wilderness?
Thrice blest the babe, that life confest,
Respired an hour, then sank to rest!

For here has Sorrow built her bower,
Here chill descends the pelting shower;
And friendship wronged, and love betrayed,
All, all for desolation made,

Lives, moves, and has its being here,
And misery flaunts it every where!

But o'er these realms a resting-place
Celestial Hope can smiling trace
A sheltering harbour, and secure,
Wherein who patient still endure,
A crown of glory shall receive,
Worlds cannot take away, nor give!
Yes, yes, there is a region blest,
A mansion of eternal rest;
A starry habitation fair,
(And woe may never enter there,)
Wherein, "life's fitful fever" o'er,
The suffering heart shall pine no more.

Ye storms of night that o'er me roll
And threaten to o'erwhelm my soul;
Ye darksome ministers of ill,

Wound, thwart, torment me as you will;
Faith's glorious banner is unfurled,
And shows a brighter, happier world.
Liverpool.

LITERARY PLUNDERERS.

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all he reads, so as to recognize it upon repetition; and we ries: but, alas! the instruments are so dear we could not affid
accordingly find men of very diversified literary attain- to buy them. However, we are informed you are about to esta
ments often made the subject of the impudent hoax of a lish a Mechanics' Institute. Pray do let me offer my mite.
knavish plagiarist. Some time since, we saw a song of the cannot afford much; and not knowing what your se d
late Mr. Edward Rushton, of this town, given in a very subscriptions is to be I am ashamed to propose my name
intelligent and leading Irish paper as the composition | Oblige a looker at your Kaleidoscope by telling me what is the
of one of its own correspondents; and within the last payment for membership, and you will confer a favour on
month we have seen a similar deception practised upon May 5, 1825.
a popular London journal, in which there was introduced,
as original and new, a whimsical piece which appeared
very familiar to our ears. It began thus,

"I had both money and a friend."
After a little recollection, we ascertained that this new and
original piece was a great favourite when we were young,
Some forty years ago—

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Alas! how time escapes: 'tis even so."

This pennyworth of advice (first used to be sold by the
booksellers at one penny) was said to be an English ver-
sion of a Dutch original, and the first verse ran thus:-
"I had both money and a friend,

Of neither thought I store;

I lent my money to my friend,

And took his word therefore." &c.

SWIMMING SCHOOL.

TOM ANVIL

A letter, of which (with the suppression of the writer's name) we subjoin a copy, was shown us a few days since, and pleased us so much that we put it into our pocket, nolens volens, determined to publish it, as a juvenile curiosity. The writer is quite a boy; and we have great plea sure in adding that his appeal was successful. It would hardly have been otherwise. His father must have been obdurate, indeed, if he could have resisted such an appeal, recommended, too, by excellent hand-writing We suspect that the writer is a reader of the Kaleidcage, as he has adopted our editorial phraseology, with ineral

But we are rambling; and must return to the article commas, in that part of his note in which he calls de Buch with which we set out.

LITERARY PLAGIARISTS versus RESURRECTION-MEN.

Of all the pests with which this world is curst,
The sneaking Plagiarist is sure the worst;
The paltry knave, whom all men should disown,
Steals others' thoughts, and claims them for his own;
And what heaps more perdition on his soul,
He mutilates or murders what he's stole.
The needy wretch, who, to procure his bread,
Invades the mansions of th' unconscious dead,
Steals but a worthless body; and the deed,
At least, this plausible excuse may plead,—
That whatsoe'er the agent's motives be,
The act's subservient to humanity:
'Tis from anatomy we ascertain
The hidden sources of internal pain:
One corpse, subjected to the surgeon's knife,
Has proved the means of saving many a life.
Then, if the man is by the world contemn'd,
And, when detected, by the law condemn'd,-
Who, to provide his family with food,
Serves his own interests and the public good,-
The greater villain should not better fare,
Some heavier penalty should be his share;
Then say what punishment shall be selected?
He should be hang'd, drawn, quarter'd, and dissected.
No! he shall live, and live to be-DETECTED!
Liverpool.

ON LADIES' EVENING DRESSES.
When dress'd for the evening, the girls, now-a-days,
Scarce an atom of dress on them leave;

Nor blame them, for what is an evening dress,
But a dress that is suited to Eve.

[SEE A NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS.]

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.

TO THE EDITOR.

ADAM.

We transfer the following from the Mercury, as a hint to certain persons whom we have occasionally detected in attempting to put off the works of another as their own. We have never hesitated to denounce such a proceeding in terms of unmeasured scorn and indignation. The pla giarist, as we have often observed, is a vile compound of thief and liar; and, as he often makes the editors of literary SIR, You must know that I have long had a very great journals the unconscious dupes of his cheat, he ought to notion of learning philosophy; but I find that nothing can be be exposed, without ceremony, when detected. There is done by merely reading of books. When in London, some no species of meanness which stirs our gall more than time back, I went with a friend to a place in Spitalfields, this, which it is our mortification to witness but too often. where a society of mechanics gave lectures on Natural PhiloBeing in the habit of seeing so many journals, the most sophy. Truly pleased was I with the illustration of the barefaced plagiarisms often meet our eye; nor is the cir- theory by experiment: and these lectures were by plain meIt was delightful. I came down to Liverpool cumstance the slightest reflection upon the editors upon chanical men. whom the delusion is practised. No man, however ex-determined to get my brother mechanics to assist in getting tensive his reading may be, can be expected to recollect some instruments together, and proceed in making discove

the "best swimming school extant."

DEAR FATHER,-You will please to excuse not dressing you in writing, as I can express myself bet that manner. In all ages the utility of the practic bathing has been acknowledged: the ancient Spart whose heroic deeds history furnishes us with so may amples, owed much of their hardihood and vigour fa practice of diving off the walls of the city into which washed them. And in later days the p bathing is allowed to be both healthful and Lord Byron, that great poet, delighted much in sv and has beautifully described it in one of his pos hot climates it is one of the greatest pleasures thei tants possess. Having stated these thing, I shal come to the point: as the Floating Bath is the " swimming school now extant," and is also the safest is indeed by no means a minor object) I humbly that you will procure me a ticket for the season, Coglan (which is the cheapest way in the end) and m on your goodness, I subscribe myself, Your affectionate son,

P.S. Please excuse hasty writing, &c.

R.G

Miss Corrie's Concert.-Miss Corrie gave her concert in the Royal Hotel Assembly-room; the was led by that excellent performer, Mons. Da overture by Boildieu was admirably played; and from the Russian, "Hark! the Vesper Hymo," truly beautiful effect. Mr. Cohan's piano c a masterly performance, as was also Mr. Renny' on the flute. The duet, "Dear Maid," by Mi and Mr. Henshall was not quite so effective a have wished; but Stevenson's beautiful me Harp that once," was exquisitely warbled by "By the simplicity of Venus's doves" was st interesting manner by Miss R. Corrie, a met which she displayed great taste. Dore's vialin was an exquisite display of art, and received we applause. We have not room for further ob but we regret exceedingly that the audience, a of the first respectability, was not so numerous as the play of talent deserved. We hope Miss C.'s future will be more successful.-Chester Chronicle, May

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Men and Manners.

[SEE A NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS.]

IL GRASSO, THE CABINET-MAKER, (From the Italian.)

AN ANCIENT TALE: THE AUTHOR UNKNOWN.

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within? Open the door," supposing that his mother had | In the morning he got up and went to the window, in
returned, and had locked the door for some reason, or else hopes some one would pass who knew him; at length
from inadvertency.
there canie up a lad, named Giovanni, who was in the
Filippo, who was within (counterfeiting the voice of Il-secret, had been at the abovementioned supper, and was
a great friend of Il Grasso, who was making a table for
Grasso) called out "Who is there ?" to which the other him. He had been at the shop the preceding day, and
replied, "Open the door." Filippo, wanting to make II II Grasso had promised to finish it for him in four days.
Grasso believe that he was changed into Matteo, and that As soon as Il Grasso saw him, he began to smile and look
Il Grasso was within said, "Matteo, go about your busi. at him. Giovanni appeared as if he had never seen him
ness, I have had trouble enough this evening. Filippo di fellow?" Il Grasso, finding he was not known, said,-
before, and said,-"What are you laughing at, my good
Ser Brunellesco was with me just now, when they came to
tell him his mother was very ill, which has put me out of
humour." Then, as if speaking to some one within, he
said, "Good mother, let me have some supper. You
have behaved very ill to me. You should have come back
two days ago, and you are only come this evening." He
continued grumbling in this manner, still counterfeiting
the voice of Il Grasso.

Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope, by L. Z. of Liverpool.] In the city of Florence, in the year of our Lord 1409, e Sunday evening, a party of young men were assembled supper, in the house of a Florentine gentleman, named mmaso di Pecori, an honourable and worthy man, eerful, and fond of company. Having supped, and ing seated round the fire, talking of many things, one of company said, "What is the reason that Manetto amannatini would not come? We all asked him; but ld not persuade him." This Manetto was, and is Manetto, hearing him scolding, and thinking it was his ll, a maker of inlaid work, and had a shop in the square own voice, exclaimed, "What is the meaning of this! It St. Giovanni. He was thought a master of his busi- appears that he who is above is Il Grasso. He says Filippo ss, and was particularly skilful in making ornaments was in his shop when he was told his mother was ill; and ladies' toilette tables. He was agreeable in person, of besides, he is scolding mother Giovanni. Certainly I am ood disposition, and about twenty-eight years of age; forgetting myself!" He then went down the steps, to call , because he was somewhat plump, he was called "11 at the window, when there came up one Donatello, a sso," or "the fat." He was in the habit of frequent- sculptor, a great friend of Manetto's, and in the secret. the abovementioned society, who were all merry souls, "Good evening, Matteo," said he, "are you looking for spent their time pleasantly together. Il Grasso, either Il Grasso? He is just gone home." This said, he walked ccount of business, or the indulgence of some whim, on. Il Grasso was astonished at hearing Donatello, and ir some other reason, would not come this evening, went into the square, saying to himself, "I will wait here Lgh he had been invited several times. Considering till some one passes who knows me, and will tell me who eason of this conduct, and not being able to account for I am." He was standing thus, quite puzzled, when there e company agreed that it must proceed from a whim; arrived, as had been planned, four bailiffs, accompanied being somewhat vexed, he who had begun the con- by one who had lent money to that Matteo whom Il Grasso tion said, "Why should we not play him some trick, almost fancied himself to be; and, approaching him, he te him of being whimsical?" One of the others re- said, "Seize this Matteo; he is my debtor. I have been "What can we do but make him pay for a supper, long in search of him; and I have at last caught him." Be such trifle ?" Amongst this party was one named The bailiffs took hold of him, and were preparing to carry o di Ser Brunellesco, who was well known for his him away, when Il Grasso addressed them, saying, "What He was very intimate with Il Grasso, and knew his have I done that you should arrest me? Let me alone! stances well; therefore, recollecting he had many You are mistaken; I am not the person you suppose me to ncies respecting himself and his affairs, he began to be, but Il Grasso, the cabinet-maker. My name is not Friends, if you wish, and will assist me, we will play Matteo; and I do not know what Matteo you mean." to a famous trick, to make us all laugh. What I He then began to struggle with them; but they seized his of doing is, to make him believe that he has been arms: and the creditor, looking him full in the face, said, d into another person, and is no longer Il Grasso;""How can you say that I have nothing to do with you? sch the others replied, it would be impossible. Fihen gave them his reasons for supposing it might be and they agreed on the part each was to play, to le him that he was one Matteo, another of their comAccordingly, Filippo, being the most intimate Grasso, went, the following evening, to his shop, before the time of closing it, and stood talking to usual, when a little boy came running in, and asked ppo di Ser Brunellesco was there. Filippo said I am he; who wants me ?" To which the boy, ad been ordered, replied, "You must come home 7. Your mother has met with a terrible accident; almost dead: so come directly." Filippo, pretendat sorrow, took leave of Il Grasso, who said, "I with you; perhaps a friend may be useful to you." 0 thanked him, and said, "You shall not go with #; but, if I want you, I will send for you." po went away, as if going home; but, taking a he came back to Manetto's house, lifted the latch knife, entered, and locked the door, so that no one follow him. Il Grasso had a mother, who was gone verosa, to her farm, for the yearly washing, and was ed back every day. Il Grasso, after he had shut his went to take a few turns in the square di St. Gio, as was his custom, thinking, all the time, about Fiand his sick mother. At last, the day shutting in, d, Filippo will not want me now, as he has not or me." Thus, meditating, he went home; and, up the steps, attempted to open the door; but, havied several times, without succeeding, and imagining s locked inside, he knocked, and cried "Who is

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as if I did not know my debtor, Matteo, from Il Grasso,
the cabinet-maker. I have had you on my books, and got
judgment against you a year ago. But you do well to pre-
tend that you are not Matteo: however, you will be com-
pelled to pay me. Take him along, and we will see who
he is." In this manner they conducted him to jail. As
it was about supper-time, they did not meet any one in
the streets who knew him.

On his arrival, the notary pretended to put down his
name as Matteo; and the prisoners, having heard of all
that had transpired as soon as he entered, all addressed
him "Good evening, Matteo: what is the meaning of
this ?" Il Grasso, hearing himself thus named, almost
fancied he was the man, and being perplexed, replied, "I
owe some money to one who has arrested me; but I shall
be set at liberty early to-morrow; and they will all be
ashamed of themselves." The prisoners said, "We are
going to supper; join us; and in the morning you may
get out: but remember, people generally stay longer here
than they expect."

Il Grasso supped with them, and one of the party let him have part of his bed, saying, "You must manage as well as you can, Matteo, for to-night; but if you do not leave us to-morrow, I advise you to send home for a bed." Il Grasso thanked him, and lying down to sleep began to think in this manner:-" What must I do if I am become Matteo, which it seems I must be from all I hear? If I send home to my mother, and Il Grasso is at home, they will laugh at me, and say I am mad; and yet I do think I am Il Grasso." Thus doubting whether he was Matteo or Il Grasso, he spent the night almost without sleep.

about his business.

Do you know one Il Grasso, who lives in the square St. Giovanni, and does inlaid work?"-" Do I know him!" said Giovanni, "he is a great friend of mine, and I am going to his house about some work he is doing for me." -"Since you are going to him, will you do me a favour? Tell him that a friend of his is in prison, and wants his assistance." Giovanni looking at him, and scarcely able to keep his countenance, said, "I will," and went away II Grasso remained at the prison-window, saying to himself,-" "Now I am certain I am no longer Il Grasso, but I am become Matteo. What an unfortunate fellow I am! If I tell this story, I shall be thought mad, and the boys will run after me; if I do not tell it, it may occasion a hundred mistakes like that of yesterday; so that, whatever I do, I shall be wrong. But I will see if Il Grasso comes; I will tell him, and see what he will say." While he was waiting for his arrival, he left the window to make way for some one else, and paced the pavement, with his eyes fixed upon it, and his arms folded. [To be continued.]

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Scientific Records.

A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.

ship Jupiter, Captain David Leslie, which arrived aday, March 6, 1825,) from Manilla, sailed from art (Baltimore) in June 1822, on a voyage round the The editors of the Gazette are indebted to Capt. for the particulars of his voyage.

No sun-beam on that fairy pool
Darted its dazzling light;
Only, methought, some clear cold star
Might tremble there at night.

No ruffling wind could reach her there-
No eye, methought, but mine,

Or the young lambs that came to drink
Had spied her secret shrine.

And there was pleasantness to me
In such belief-cold eyes

That slight dear Nature's loveliness,
Profane her mysteries.

Long time I looked and lingered there,
Absorbed in still delight;

My spirits drank deep quietness
In with that quiet sight.

at Manilla, some of the officers were engaged in surveying the adjacent coasts, and exploring the mountains of the Phillippines for rare animals, minerals, and plants, and drawing or painting the most interesting subjects of nature and art. The commander himself was employed in making astronomical and philosophical observations. The time of their departure from Manilla was retarded in consequence of the corvette losing her mainmast in the gale of October 30. They were first bound to Cochin China, where the French have lately formed a commercial establishment; thence they intended to touch at Canton, and afterwards traverse the Pacific.

first visited several of the principal ports on the ide of South America, then doubled Cape Horn, pasted along the western shores of the American +tent, stopping at a number of ports and places, after she proceeded up the Gulf of California, as far as tation or trade extended. She afterwards crossed the e Ocean several times between America and Asia (each by a different route) and returned home by the Cape od Hope, thus circumnavigating the earth. Capt. has, during the cruise, determined the situation of islands not delineated in any of our charts; corthe position of some, and ascertained the non-ex-in New York) who had been a midshipman on board be-nal cavity, separated from the preceding by the diaphragm,

The Colombian ship of war, Gen. St. Andero (formerly the Kensington of Philadelphia) arrived at Manilla in November last, and was given up to the Spaniards by her crew who had mutined. After the mutiny, John Green, of Salem, assumed the command; but the crew finding that he was neither seamen nor navigatior, and having nothing to recommend him except being chief mutineer, put him in irons, and gave the command to Frederick Bergman (formerly an apprentice to Captain Charles Wooster, fore the mutiny, in which, however, he did not join. The ship was condemned as unseaworthy, and her crew, like those of the Belgrano, which went there the year before, under similar circumstances, got nothing for their disaffection.

e of others. hilst the Jupiter was lying at Manilla, in October that city was dreadfully convulsed by earthquakes for mber of days. Many store-houses, together with a church and the great stone bridge were destroyed, early all the store-houses were more or less injured; It may not be amiss to add that the Jupiter, although notion was from NNE. to SSW. On feeling the first she has been absent nearly three years, has not lost a spar ks, which were very light, every person fled from the or sail, and has gone over all the ground traversed by houses and slept in tents, bamboo-houses, and boats Lord Anson, and which forms but a small part of her he river, so that few lives were lost. But, on the night route. Capt. Leslie has scarcely had a man sick during he 30th of October, a most violent tifoon was expe- the voyage, but lost one man, Henry Stewart, of Aber iced, which destroyed the bamboo-houses and tents; deen, who was destroyed by wild beasts, in the Gulf of square-rigged vessels, and a number of coasters were California, having imprudently wandered a short distance ven on shore, and a passage-boat, with about twenty from the ship. His mangled body and clothes were found sengers, was lost at the mouth of the river. Almost a few days afterwards.-Baltimore Gazette. Try vessel in the harbour was driven from her anchorage. e Jupiter, however, did not drag any, owing, as Capt. slie thinks to her being provided with excellent chain bles. A French brig drifted foul of the Jupiter, and y athwart her hawse during the height of the gale, which Ave her chains a very severe proof.

At the commencement of the gale the barometer fell ore than an inch, one half of which, in the short space ten minutes, a circumstance it is thought unprecedented tropical climates.

Cape Leslie left at Manilla, a French frigate and coretten a voyage of science and discovery, under comnand of Commodore Bougainville, son of the celebrated ircumnavigator of that name. As usual in French Naional Discovery ships, they were well provided with ofcers, proficient in the various branches of science. Whilst

IMPORTANT ANATOMICAL INVENTION.

M. Ouroux, a physician, has presented to the Academy of Sciences, in Paris, a piece of artificial anatomy, representing the body of a man according to its natural dimensions. The solidity of the material employed permits the taking to pieces and putting together again, all the various pieces of mechanism in their very fullest details, and with such scientific accuracy, that a student may, with a book of anatomy in his hand, find out any trace into its most minute particulars, and on every portion of the human frame. Immediately under the skin are exhibited the veinous system, and the superficial coat of muscles. Each muscle may be separately detached, and with it the vessels and nerves that run along its sur

face, or go through it. The succeeding coats of muscles, &c. may, in like manner be detached and studied separately, or in selection with the other organs of the system, until the student at length arrives at the bare skeleton. A portion of the last coat of muscles and of the vascular and nervous system, the separation of which offered no advantage, remain attached to the bones. In the cavities are found all the organs proper to them. The cranium may be opened, and the brain taken out. In this, by means of a cut through its entire mass, may be seen the minutia of its organization. The eye, detached from its orbit, may be studied apart. The muscles, the vessels, the nerves, and the membranes of this delicate organ are represented with scrupulous accuracy; the transparent parts are imitated in glass. The organization of the throat may be examined by means of this piece of mechanism with greater precision than on a natural subject. In the thoracic cavity is seen the heart, and vessels that branch off from it, and which may be followed to their remotest ramification. One portion of the lungs is divided in two, in order to exhibit the pulmonary circulation. In the abdomiare found an exact representation of the viscera. On removing the intestinal mass, the veins, the spleen, the liver, &c. are disclosed to view. The preparation of the organs contained in the cavity of the pelves is particularly worthy of attention. The removal of all these parts leaves open to inspection the azigos, the thoracie canal, and the grand lymphatic nerve attached to the vertebral column. This piece of mechanical anatomy has, over all other representations of the human system, great advantages. From the solidity of its materials, it can be taken to pieces, and handled and examined in its minutest details, without suffering any injury; it is not liable to be influenced by the variations in the temperature of the atmosphere: bcsides its offering the student the greatest possible facility for the examination of even the remotest part of the body, not only in relation with the whole, but separately, it is the least expensive succedaneum for the human subject that has yet been discovered. The price set upon this very ingenious and eminently useful piece of mechanism is 3000 francs. Now it is well known that the wax figure of a man, in the natural proportions, exhibiting merely the outward coat of muscles (the skin being taken off.) cannot be had for a less sum than between thirty and forty thousand francs. The Academy of Sciences has named a commission to draw up a Report upon this invention of .M. Ouroux. The Royal Academy of Medicine, and the Society of Emulation, have already made such favourable reports upon M. Ouroux's first essays in this way, as to secure to him the countenance and encouragement of Government.

Paris, March 27, 1825.

Correspondence.

LANCASTER OR BELL SYSTEM.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR, The "mighty" citizen of the New World has buffetted Dr. Bell's little champion so unmercifully on a late occasion, that one would imagine nothing less than Gulliverian force can extricate him from the attacks of those Lilliputian combatants.

But, Sir, what chance has Philac, even if backed by a thousand of such pigmies as his Reader, to contend with an acknowledged "man of adamant!"

Really, Mr. Editor, the admirers of your Literary Mirror ought to be extremely obliged to me, for affording them admission, at so cheap a rate, to this novel exhibition of system-jobbing.—I beg you will apprize the public, by an early advertisement, that a great Yankee is now on the Liverpool systematic stage, contending with a host of Madras or Indian jugglers.

As Philac and his party cannot force the public into a belief that the world is indebted to Dr. Bell alone for the modern system of mutual tuition," defeat, on their part, must shortly terminate this interesting exhibition.

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every word in my letter." All the facts and arguments which I have advanced in favour of Mr. Lancaster's just claim to original invention, this modern prodigy twists contrary to my intention; and tells the public, that every word in my letter "gives Dr. Bell credit for his discoveries!" This, Sir, is another miracle of the Madras system. I wish we could ascertain public opinion on this subject; and I am confident it will not be given in favour of Philac, unless he contrives to have it decided by Cobbett's rule of superficial measure. It is evident, Mr. Editor, that his cause is sinking, for he has abandoned the primary question of originality. Now he wants to know the difference between the systems. As Mr. J. J. of Wavertree has already told him that he is one of the ignorant, no doubt he will next week brush off his ignorance on this subject. As to A Reader's queries about the poets and the states, when he gets through a course of Dr. Bell's school books, I will treat with him on poetry ; and as to the lines to which he alludes, they applied to the State of old England.

Until justice is rendered to Mr. Lancaster, Philac and his friends will not cease to hear from-Yours, &c. AMERICAN. Star and Garter, May 18, 1825.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-Though justice is generally represented to be

It must be very entertaining to your readers to observe the Madrasites going up and down the stage, "crying matches, singing ballads, and bawling Sweep! sweep!". and it will be worth more than the expense of the Kalei-blind, yet this blindness, it is well known, relates to the doscope, to laugh at Philac, "hoisted up to the ceiling in

a basket!"

Do not be alarmed, Mr. Editor, to see your correspondent Philacribois thus situated like a bird in a cage, it is not the first time he has been hoisted up and laughed at by "barbarous and stupid savages." As these are his own words, he can have no objection to hear them reite

rated.

By this time, I presume, your readers will be perfectly gratified, therefore we will close this part of the exhibition; and with your leave, Sir, I will devote a few moments to the metaphysical" improvement of my antagonist's dull" cranium."

I have not only to protect the just claims of my friend Mr. Lancaster from the inroads and incursions of the Bellarians, but I must instruct Philac in the rudiments of common arithmetic. If the Madras system teaches him to subtract 1798 from 1807, and leave "six" as a remain der, I must admit the brevity, but not the accuracy of his

system.

Mr. Lancaster states, that "the Institution which a benevolent Providence has been pleased to make him the happy instrument of bringing into usefulness, was commenced in the year 1798."-Now, Sir, according to the decuple ratio of numbers, I cannot help designating that person an ideot, who will insist that Mr. L. was less than nine years in the Borough-road School at the period alluded to in my last letter, namely, 1807.

As I have no other object to answer by this controversy but justice to Dr. Bell, and fair play to Mr. Lancaster, perhaps I cannot do better than transcribe the following incontrovertible fact from the pen of Mr. L. and published in London on the 26th February, 1807. "Joseph Lan. caster, of the free school, Borough-road, London, having invented, under the blessing of Divine Providence, a new and mechanical system of education, for the use of schools, feels anxious to disseminate the knowledge of its advantages through the kingdom."

If the powerful facts stated in my former letters have not been sufficient to prevent Philac from speaking or thinking against Mr. Lancaster, the above document will leave him destitute of the power of writing any more; and will exhibit him as one of the "ignorant persons" alluded to by my friend Mr. J. J. of Wavertree.

But, Mr. Editor, such is the ingenuity of this "enlightened luminary" of the new school,-his systematic intellects soar so far above terrestrial beings, that his microscopic eye enables him to give a new construction to

To Correspondents.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF TER OPEN TIVES. -The letter of Tom Anvil was mislaid when we pente our last acknowledgments to correspondents, but it wa intention to insert it this week, before we were favoured with the communication of a soi-disant secretary of a cha of mechanics. Whether this correspondent be what he calls himself, or not, we can assure him that there is body of men for whom we entertain more friendly feeling than we do for that most useful class, the working m chanics. We have shown the sincerity of our professions by something better than words, and we are doing every thing in our power to promote a Mechanics Institute, which we trust soon to see successfully established in this town. We have, of late, introduced several articles in the Inleidy cope, in the selection of which, we had in our ere, this class of our townsmen. We allude especially to a series of articles recently introduced into our work, under the head Investigator, or Political Economist. The get portion of Mr. Pope's valuable paper on the Rise and Prof Commerce, &c. contained in one of our late publication a sample of the kind of communication to which weal Several selections from Mr. M'Culloch's iertare, which we have laid before our readers from time to time, belong also to the class of subjects from which our la ing fellow-townsmen may derive improvement, embed with amusement. We have in reserve for FRÅ a copious report of Mr. M'Culloch's lecture on Education; and we have been politely permitted jamin Heywood, Esq. of Manchester, to give, through fa Kaleidoscope, the whole of his interesting address to be mechanics, artisans, &c. delivered at the opening of the Manchester Institution.

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impartiality of that admirable virtue; and, in truth, Sir, LECTURES FOR MECHANICS-W, whose letter of the the eye of impartial justice is requisite to be constantly on the watch, in order to defend the rights of those who I have are either ignorantly or designedly attacked. already proved, beyond all controversy, that Dr. Bell was the real inventor of the new system of education; and, though I am free to acknowledge all the merit due to Mr. Lancaster, yet out of his own mouth" it has been

clearly shown, that, from Dr. Bell alone, he adopted the principle on which "the system" hinges, however it may be varied by the several "modes of operation" to which it is applicable.

ult. is now before us, shall not be lost sight of th present, we insert the postscript, in order to offe observation upon it:-"Having the occasional enem of a large room, capable of accommodating upward hundred persons, I had planned to give a few lectu mechanics and astronomy, and so on, during the to which I purposed to invite the mechanics; hover :Mechanics' Institute will make it unnecessary."-T do not see why our correspondent should not tar design into execution. If, as we expect, it be very i determined to establish a Mechanics' Institute in pool, a considerable time must necessarily elape lectures can there be delivered. In the meantime, in earnest, we will undertake to find him a coope out of the four or five hundred mechanics, whost are deposited in our office. The York-street found alone would make him up a tolerable party w hear him, and capable of understanding him.

We see the different pretenders to "the new system" vanish in their turn from the scene of action. Lancaster, indeed, did not originally pretend to be a discoverer of the grand principle; but openly and honestly acknowledged the source from whence he drew it, and adapted IL GRASSO, THE CABINET-MAKER-The correspondent v to it "a mode of operation" of his own contrivance. This is the true view of the whole matter. The Perrys and the Hamiltons are among the pretenders. The former seem now altogether to have disappeared, and the latter are evidently on the wane. The great and boasted establishment in our town, which was taken on "a long lease," (and, large as it is, was not accounted sufficiently capacious,) after a few months, was silent and deserted, and closed with the final intimation in its windows of— "This House to Let, inquire within."

The fact is, both these last mentioned gentlemen borrowed from Dr. Bell, whose "mode of operation," founded on a principle of his own invention, stands triumphant, and must, inevitably, continue to rise in estimation the more it is extended and known.

As to your correspondents, Lancasterian, American, and J. J., of Wavertree, they have wandered so far from the point at issue, that I shall merely apply to them the following parody on a well-known culogy on one of our greatest poets:

Three letter-writers in one age were born,
And all at once did Liverpool adorn:
The first in scantiness of thought surpast,
In vulgar spleen the next, in both the last;
The force of dulness could no further go,
To make a third she joined the former two.

favoured us with the translation of this whimsical informs us that it is an original translation, expresta dertaken for the Kaleidoscope, but intimates, at the time, that there is another translation of the se illustrated by Cruickshank. We shall give the r portion next week, after which we intend to lay befor readers some other anecdotes of the force of images which are said to be founded on fact.

BELL AND LANCASTER SYSTEMS-If the sticklers for Lancaster prolong the controversy, they must e carry on the contest in a more circumscribed area; un cannot afford two columns of the Kaleidoscope weet i adjustment of the rival claims of two indiv meritorious soever they may be. We also advis batants to preserve their tempers in the struggle. Mr. M'CULLOCH'S LECTURE ON NATIONAL EDUCATION ourselves obliged either to postpone until next week divide the report of this lecture supplied by #.1.6 parate such a document is to impair its effect; and therefore, preferred a week's delay, which will ea, give it entire. In order to spare W. D. G. any fr trouble, we will forward a small parcel to him, be Music.-In publishing the air set to Burns's words last w

favour us with his address.

we omitted stating that the music was composed Samuel Smith, of Manchester, whom we take thi tunity of thanking for the original March received d

the week.

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I have great pleasure in remaining, Sir, your very hum- STUDIES IN DRAWING. The letter of Mr. Gregson

ble servant,

Liverpool, May 13, 1825.

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P. S. My cousin, Philotect, desires me to say, that he will dictate to our common secretary another letter for you very soon.

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