quietly that no alarm was given, though the event is supposed to have taken place about six o'clock, a.m. His lordship was eighty years of age, and was one of that group of talented Scotchmen who, as he was fond of quoting from Wilkie, "born in the Manse, had all a patent of nobility." As a judge, we read that he was one of the most notable that ever sat in the Court of Queen's Bench. As a literary man, his "Lives of the Chancellors," and the "Lives of the Chief Justices" which he subsequently wrote, afford a valuable addition to Biography,

Dr. Rodet, the chief surgeon of the Antiquaille at Lyons, is said to have made the valuable discovery that a solution of the perchloride of iron destroys the virus of hydrophobia with certainty, if applied within two hours of the infliction of the bite. The solution of perchloride of iron may be obtained of most chemists, and any person can apply it, which is far from being the case with the only other known preventive, the application of the actual cautery, which scarce anyone but a professional man has the nerve to use effectively or without danger to the patient. In cases of cow-pox, Dr. Rodet has also used the solution, and finds that it completety destroyed the virus. Glancing over the same paper in which this announcement is made, I see it stated that Mr. Simon has reported to the Privy Council, that owing to the indifference exhibited by the poorer classes on the subject of vaccination continual epidemics of small-pox have occurred in various parts of England during the last three or four years, and that wherever vaccination falls into neglect small-pox tends to become the frightful pestilence is was previous to the days of Dr. Jenner. If the solution of perchloride of iron is found efficacious in destroying the virus of cow-pox, is it not worth while to make an experiment of its efficiency in killing the malignant virus of small-pox: surely the experiment is worth trying?

Amongst the free exhibitions in London, especially interesting to our lady readers, I may suggest half-an-hour's investigation of the Messrs. Wheeler and Wilson's sewing machines, at 462, New Oxford-street, to which my own attention was drawn through a paper in the last month's number of this magazine. The visit must convince all but the most resolute believers in the self-sufficiency of the past to the needs of the present, that the only real way to assist our needle-women is to furnish sections of them with a machine which may help them to compete with the outfitters who at present monopolize the labour of the skilled women who have learned to use the machine at but a small advance upon their wages as hand-sewers, while they themselves reap all the advantage of the greater neatness, punctuality, and rapidity of the invention. We have heard of thirty and forty machines being purchased by one house, and yet ladies, as practical in some things as they are philanthropical in others, attempt to make a stand on behalf of distressed needle-women, whose only chance is in equal power of production with the day-workers in wholesale houses. It is in the order of things that manual labour shall yield to machinery, and the occupation of the seamstress is no exception. For years the employment has not (as a rule) yielded daily bread to a moiety of those who make it a business. And now, close upon the heels of the middle-men and women, who cut closer and closer into the miserable earnings of those by whose starvation they enriched themselves, drives up the cleanly, frugal, tireless sewing machine, clearing the ground year by year of hopeless needle women, and steadily advancing from the warehouse to the mantua makers' work room, till now it may be seen in its rose-wood or walnut-wood frame, making an article of drawing-room furniture, and effecting in two or three days the plain work of a family. C. A. W.

Books for review, MUSIC, MSS., &c., must be sent in by the 10th of the month to be noticed, and replied to in the following number.

POETRY received, with thanks: "The Golden Wedding Day;" "Pansies."

Madame de Genlis, Bewdley: The sender is thanked for the offer of the translation, which is declined. The MS. has been returned as requested.

Willenhall: Our correspondent is thanked.

E. F. B., Knutsford, Cheshire: The article shall appear in our next. With regard to our correspondent's queries, we cannot tell, from the titles of papers, whether they are likely to suit us or not; but every attention shall be paid to the manuscripts, if forwarded, and an answer given in our next.

J. M., Greenock: Our correspondent challenges his fate; we yield to his request and publish his verses-the poetry and originality of which will,

we have no doubt, surprise our readers as much as they apparently satisfy himself :

IN REMEMBRANCE.

The flowers that thou gavest me are faded and gone:
How rich in beauty were they!

Sweet emblems of purity, love, and delight,
I cherish them e'en in decay.
They speak to me softly of those happy hours,
When fondly I strayed with thee,

'Mid Nature's wild grandeur, round thy native home, Dear evermore unto me.

Is it possible that J. M. regards this piece of metrical patchwork as his own? We are tempted to print the whole, but one verse affords a fair sample of the entire.

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MANUSCRIPTS received, but not yet read: "Fergus and Henry;" "Furze-bank Lodge.”