the N. Y. Observer, Rev. Mr Brainerden. Make your sitting room, therefore, related a fine incident in the life of Sir as warm as you please with that close, Walter Scott.-While lingering near his fuming, unwholesome abomination, a end, after returning from Italy, with no German stove, and the moment you step hope of being restored to health, he said out of the chamber door, it is like transone day to a friend, 'Bring me a book." planting yourself, in winter, from the hot"What book?' enquired his friend. 'Why,' house into the open garden. To aggrasaid that great man, whose genius has vate these discomforts you have sashes waked the world, how can you ask what that won't fit, doors that won't shut, hasps book! There is but one book?' that can't catch, and keys not meant to turn! Then, again,the same opening that CAUSE OF THE DEATH WATCH.-The lets in the cold, admits the noise; and influence of superstition and ignorance is for a musical people, they are the most astonishingly great. As one proof, what noisy I ever met with. Next to chorus dismay and uneasiness has not the watch singing, their greatest delight seems to like ticking of this grub often excited a- be in the everlasting sawing and chopmong all descriptions of persons? and, ping un of fire wood at their doors; they indeed, as a writer in a certain periodical even contrive to combine music and noise remarks, 'That an insect, almost invisi-together, and the carters drive along the ble, should, in regularity of time and dis-streets smacking a tune with their whips. tinctness of sound, imitate a machine-Hood's 'Up the Rhine.' which has employed so many hands in its

construction,and composed of wheels and THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.-The springs, with the utmost ingenuity, is late Bishop of Caspa, M. Bruiguiere,havabove all ordinary comprehension." It ing been appointed vicar apostolic and was only within a few years past that I head of the Catholic mission in Corea, considered these visitors as solitary and traversed the most important part of the nightly disturbers-since which I have Chinese empire, in the Chinese dress,and accidentally discovered that this is by no aided by his destination. The journal of means the case. Having occasion to his travels has been published in the 'Anstretch a piece of silk paper, moistened nales de la Propagation de la Foi,' No. with glue-water, on a square frame,I was 40. In the course of his journey he passfrequently surprised, at different hours ofed the great wall,his description of which the day, by a noise similar to what we is somewhat at variance with that of preare accustomed to hear in a watch-mak-ceding travellers :

er's window, full of watches,and distinct- 'On the 7th of October, 1834, we arrily audible at five or six yards distance. Ived at the great wall, so highly extolled soon found that my frame was occupied by those who knew nothing about it, and as a drum,by numbers of these little gray so emphatically described by those who vermin, not much larger than mites; and had never seen it. This, and the other was thus enabled to identify the perform-wonders of China, should only be seen in ers, and witness the harmlessness of their pictures, to maintain their reputation. music; and I think it more than proba- The great wall has nothing remarkable that, could those little creatures oft-ble but its length, which is about fifteen ener meet with a proper tympanum, we hundred miles. Its principal direction is should more frequently hear them at cer- from east to west; but a little to the tain seasons, when their little drumming north of Shanse it extends to the westwhich no doubt concerns their own social southwest. This rampart, formerly covcommunity, is constantly heard by their ered with bricks, which have tumbled companions, though inaudible to us. down, forms the frontier of three or four provinces, each of which would, in Eu

WANT OF COMFORT IN GERMANY.-rope, be a considerable kingdom. In the Comfort, the Germans don't even know it plains and ravines it is a regular wall, by name; there's no such word in the fenced with battlements thirty or forty language! Look at the construction of feet high; on the mountains I doubt if it their houses. A front door and a back exceeds ten feet; indeed, on the heights door, a well staircase in the middle, upit is little more than a ridge of earth, which a thorough draught is secured by flanked by numerous projections like rea roof pierced with a score or two of un-doubts, but there is no person to guard glazed windows; the attics by this air them. There are gates at regular intercontrivance serving to dry the family lin-vals for the convenience of travellers,and

the levy of transit duties. I passed thro' time required varies from seven minutes the gate called Chang Tekaku, (Chang- to forty, according to the season and the keekoo,) on the road to Pekin. No one state of the weather; and as not the paid the least attention to me: the guards slightest trace of the effects of light is turned their backs, as if to give encour-visible on the plate, the judgment of the agement to me and my followers. Were operator derived from experience is his a more rigorous watch kept, it would be only guide. In withdrawing the plate, easy to cross the wall in the mountains, great care must be taken that no light or through the breaches which time has whatever falls on it, previous to the opemade.'-Asiatic Journal.

FINE ARTS-DAGUERRE'S APPARATUS

ration that follows. The plate was then fixed at an angle of 45 degrees, in a box at the bottom of which was placed two the mercury was heated to 65 centigrade pounds of mercury in an earthen pan;

OF PHOTOGRAPHY.—The process of pho tographic drawing was publicly exhibited by M. Daguerre, by order of the Minister (about 117 degrees Fahrenheit,) by of the Interior, on the Qua D'Orsai, Paris, means of a lamp beneath the pan and the globules of mercury rising, combinon the 7th inst. The following account ed with the surface of the plate, till in a of the operation as performed on that ocfew minutes the picture appeared. This casion, from the Journal des Debuts, more satisfactorily described the apparatus and operation was watched through a piece process than any previous one that we the moment it was completed, the plate of glass inserted in front of the box; and have seen: was taken out and washed with distilled M. Daguerre took a plate of copper water, saturated with common salt, or plated with silver (not silver merely) and with hyphosulphite of soda, heated to a rubbed the silver surface slightly with degree below the boiling point, the prosweet oil, and very fine pumice powder, cess was then completed. making use of little balls of cotton wool.

The object of this operation is to cleanse M. Daguerre observed, for the inforand dull the surface completely; and in mation of those who wished to make the performing it, it is necessary to rub first trial of the process that after the iodine with a circular motion, and afterwards in of silver has formed, the plate is kept straight lines. That done, he washed the from action of light, can remain for an plate with a solution of nitric acid; the hour without risk of danger; and that plate was then slightly warmed by pnt-after the view is transmitted as above, it ting it over the flame of a lamp with the can remain excluded from light for four silver surface uppermost; and the wash-hours without injury, before submitting ing with diluted nitric acid as before, it to the operation of the vapor of merwas repeated. It was now ready for the cury.

coating of iodine which was thus appli

ed. The light being excluded by clos- AN OLD FASHIONED MARRIAGE PORing the shutters of the apartment, the TION.-Captain John Hull, who was one plate fixed on a small board, was placed of the first founders of the Old South with the silver surface downwards, over Church, Boston, Captain of the Ancient an aperture the size of the picture requir- and Honorable Artillery, a Representaed, in the lid of the box, at the bottom of tive of the town, and in 1680, an Assiswhich was the iodine; half-way in the tant, was a man of wealth. A daughter depth of the box was a wooden frame on of his was married to Major Samuel Sewhich a piece of muslin was strained; wall. As usual in those days, the father as the iodine evaporated, the fumes rose was expected to give his daughter a marthrough the muslin, and were thus diffus-riage portion. So, father Hull, after his ed equally over the surface of the plate, daughter was completely, and richly too, forming on the silver a coating of iodine dressed and prepared for the ceremony, of silver, the color of brass. caused her to be put into one side of a The plate thus prepared was placed in large pair of scales, in the presence of the camera obscura-the focus having her friends, and then piled on dollars and been previously adjusted by trying the crowns, and other silver money, until effects of the picture on a piece of ground they weighed her down. Report says glass; and it was suffered to remain till she was a plump hearty girl. This must the action of the sun's rays on its sur-have been a fat marriage portion in those face was considered sufficient. The days.

MR CATLIN states that at a period of TICKLING A CROCODILE.-The Indians, mourning among the Indian women in it is said, are very expert in catching the certain tribes, they crop their beautiful cayman:-a man dives down upon the hair short off, and as it gradually grows crocodile's back, while asleep, and fastout, they gradually go out of mourning, ens a rope round its body; he then strides till it gets to its full length again, when across it, and, making a signal to his they are entirely out of mourning. Such companions on the river's bank, they are is one of the touching symbols of the In-pulled towards the surface of the water dian's grief. together. By tickling it under the axilla with a stick, the monster, it is stated, be

A WISE JUDGE-A certain learned comes perfectly manageable, and is hauljudge being asked what he would do if aed to the beach, where the rider's comman owed him ten pounds and refused to rades dispatch him with iron-shod clubs.' pay him. Rather than bring an action with its costs and uncertainty,' said he,

LEARNING.Learning, like beaten I would send him a receipt in full of all gold, in proportion to its being more exdemands. Ay,' said he, recollecting him-tended, becomes more superficial. self, and I would moreover send him five pounds to cover all possible costs.'

THOUGHTS AND MAXIMS.-It is the property of sorrow to draw bitterness from all things. When it sees fellow In such a country as this, there must sorrow by its side, it is pained by the not only be public spirit, but a jealous parallel. When all around is gaiety and guardianship over the morals of the peo-gladness, it is still more pained by the ple. Men must speak and act as though contrast.

Ladies and sovereigns enchain their admirers with smiles and ribbons.

they felt that the hope of this nation lay The river of time has its cataracts and in its morality. If parents and guardians falls-and these are revolutions. among us, if the influential and the wise see, or suspect, that vice is making in roads in the habits of the rising generation, they must arouse themselves and set themselves to arrest it, as they would to stop an army of incendiaries approaching our cities and villages. And it is high tude of people, but the society of those

time to look to one of the fruitful sources of vice among any people-I mean youthful extravagance-and I may add, extravagance among all classes.

A true believer, when blessed with a smiling imagination, is the happiest of mankind.

The reverse of solitude is not a multi

we love.

The Pianoforte was invented in London, in 1766, by Zumpi, a German. GOLDSMITH.-This erratic genius thus

ANECDOTE.-At the Centenary meeting held in Dublin, half a crown was beautifully describes his loneliness when, a found in one of the collection bags, en-wanderer, poor and penniless, he sat amið closed in a piece of paper on which was

written words to this effect: A servant the Alps.

maid desires to thank God that this money E'en now where Alpine solitudes ascend, will not be left to buy prayers for her soul! sit me down a pensive hour to spend after she is dead.

Give liberty of conscience to all men. said the amiable Fenelon; not as if all opinions are alike indifferent, but that it

Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast.'

Traveller.

THE STEAM SHIP UNICORN.—Wednes

is our duty patiently to permit that which day, the 3d of June, was a proud day for God permits, and to lead men from the Boston. The Unicorn entered her port in deviations of error by the sweet and gen-beautiful style-a thing of life,she sped her tle powers of persuasion. way to our shore. Her coming announces the commencement of a new epoch in the AVARICE. How absurd is avarice in an old man! It is like a man scraping mercantile history of this flourishing city. money together to pay his turnpikes af- Henceforth her watchword will be onter he has got to the end of the road ward.

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vine order of the economy and constitu tion of nature? Away with the thought. Its statement is its refutation.

The chief and only difficulty in the way of the marriage of the literary man (if we

LITERATY MEN AND THEIR WIVES.-By some sad mistake, either in the estimate of woman's character, or from having made the poorer specimens of woman the subjects of their observation, some wise men except poverty) is the danger of selecting have concluded that the married state is a woman who lacks the taste or the pruincompatible with the growth and devel-dence necessary to make her fit to be his opement of genius. Its peculiar and in- companion. She may have taste, but not creasing cares, together with the hostility the taste requisite for his wife. He may be of the wife to that close confinement in the an astronomer, and she an enthusiast in study necessary for the perfection of genius, poetry or in painting. Having no taste for are thought to present so many perplexities his nightly star-gazings, she may torture to the head and the heart, that the mind of him by her complaints, and even act the the sufferer becomes bewildered-his spirdestroyer over his papers and his instruits depressed-his genius strangled: the ments. Or she may not have a cultivated conclusion is, that literary men had better taste, and be also devoid of prudence suffiremain in the unfettered state of celibacy. cient to lead her to study her husband's We give a few authorities on this side of happiness. In either case, the poor genius the question. Fuessli, a Swiss artist, says is miserable. His wife may become as D'Israeli, declared that the marriage state'jealous of his books as other wives are of is incompatible with a high cultivation of their husbands' mistresses. The wife of the fine arts. Peirse, the great French Bishop Cooper one day consigned the volcollector, refused marriage, convinced that ume of many years to the flames. The the cares of a family were too absorbing for wife of Whitlocke often destroyed his manthe freedom necessary to literary pursuits.uscripts. The learned Sir Henry Saville, Boyle lived as a boarder with his sister, who devoted half his life and nearly ten Lady Ranelagh; and Bayle and Hobbes thousand pounds to his edition of St. Chryand Hume and Gibbon and Adam Smith systom, led a very uneasy life between that decided for celibacy.' saint and Lady Saville. One of those Here are great names arrayed against the learned divines who translated the scripladies, but nevertheless, we believe this tures, kept a diary of his studies and of his opinion to have been one, at least, of the domestic calamities, for they both went on great foibles of genius-one of its strong together; and while he was busied with prejudices. Our limits forbid a fair discus-his books, his wife ran him deeply in debt sion of this interesting question, but we and he was obliged to sell his library.'will give one reason, which, in our view, But these instances prove nothing against outweighs the mere opinion of a score of the marriage of literary men: they only men of genius. We cannot believe that a show the necessity of care in making a high elevation in the order of being unfits wise and suitable choice. But we must its subject for the performance of any duty leave this theme at present, for want of In our next, our readers may exgrowing out of his relation to society and room. to God. That our relation to society and pect more; meanwhile, if they wish for an to God requires marriage generally, if not array of fact on this matter, we refer them to a work entitled 'Curiosities of Literauniversally, is, we think, a clear and granted point. At least, it is with us. Can ture,' from which we have gleaned our facts in this trifle.' be, then, that the highest order-the most intelligent-the most elevated of human TO OUR EXCHANGES.-Will our exchan minds, for such are men of real genius, are ges please be careful to address us by our to be considered unfit, from the fact of their proper cognomen; to wit: "The Ladies' superiority, for the maintenance of the di-Pearl, Boston."

THE LADIES' PEARL.

VOL. I.

THE WRECKERS.

A CORNISH TALE.

ler, and under his arm he carried a bundle of clothes.

"Good luck, Norris?" tremulously, and

BY JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES. half doubtingly inquired she.

[Concluded from our last.]
CHAPTER II.

"Yes!" was his sullen reply. "Why do you ask with such a face as that?" "I was afraid you had not met with any." "Why!" demanded he, sternly. "From your looks," timidly responded

she.

By the fire of a miserable hut, was seated upon a stool a female, of youthful but haggard appearance. She had an infant "Curse thee!" muttered the ruffian; at her breast, and was endeavoring to lull "what business hast thou to mind my it, rock ing to and fro, with a low melan- looks? Here! Lend a hand, and help choly hum. Every now and then, she this load from my back!" The trunk was paused and listened, and after a second or deposited upon the floor. "What! Notwo resumed her maternal task. thing ready? Hast thou not victuals in "Be quiet, Shark! be quiet!" she would the house? Hast thou not fire? Hast occasionally cry, as a lean, black, rough-thou not hands? and why is not my dincoated dog, between the Newfoundland ner ready? Bestir thee! I have someand the mastiff, and which was stretched thing to do in the next room. On thy across the hearth, would raise his head, life let me not be interrupted till I have and, turning it in the direction of the door, done. Haste! Give me the key of the keep howling amidst the gusts of the big chest!" storm, which was slowly and fitfully subsiding.

"Don't wake the baby!" entreatingly enjoined the wife. "He has not slept the whole morning, and is only just now dropped off."

At length the infant fell asleep, and was transferred from its mother's lap to a wretched pallet in an adjoining room.- "Curse the child!" cried the wrecker, Her charge being thus disposed of, she re-thou thinkest of nothing but the child! turned into the the outer apartment. A Look to my dinner!" He went into the cooking vessel was on the fire. She lifted next appartment, shut the door after him the lid. The steam faintly rose from the and bolted it.

contents.

He examined the jewels again. He emp"Will it never grow hot!" she impa- tied the purse of its contents and counted tiently exclaimed; and resorting to a bel- them. He opened the rest of the pockets. lows, through the creviced sides of which The trowsers he had taken from the bunescaped the greater portion of the wind dle and thrown upon the floor of the other which was intended for the proper vent, room-all contained riches. He placed proceeded assiduously, but almost in vain, them upon the ground, applied the key, to urge the sluggish fuel. "He'll brain and hastily began to deposit them in the me, if he comes home and nothing ready!" chest. In the progress of his work, he she cried to herself, in a querulous under-started and stopped short, at a shuffling of tone. "Heaven send him luck, and I feet he heard in the outer apartment, acshall have peace for a day or two," con-companied by the sound of voices, as of tinued she. "But for my baby, I wish I persons speaking in a low key. Mutterhad never seen the face of Black Norris!" ing a curse, he proceeded. "Let me in!" cried the wrecker at the door.

"Thank heaven, he has met with luck!" ejaculated the wretched wife. She let

Norris! Norris!' whispered his wife at the door. He replied not, but went

on.

'Norris' she whispered again. 'You

him in. He had a trunk upon his should-are wanted!' He answered not, but lis