Poetry.

LYRA GERMANICA,

OR SPECIMEN OF THE GERMAN LYRIC POETS;

Being part of a series of original translations from the most eminent German poets, intended to convey to the English reader a correct idea of the spirit and manner of the original.

THE BOY AT THE FOUNTAIN.
[FROM SCHILLER.]

Sad he lay beside the fountain,
Wreathing flowers in idle play,
Which the lightly-curling waters
Bore in sportive dance away;
"And so pass my days, as restless
As this ever-flowing stream,
Quickly as these garlands wither,
Withers, too, my youthful dream."

"Ask me not wherefore I languish
In the blooming time of life,
Spring renews her young existence,
All with hope and joy is rife;
But the thousand melting voices,
Which through cheerful nature flow,
Waken in my joyless bosom

Only thoughts of care and woe." "What, to me, avail the pleasures

Which with lovely spring appear? There is only one I covet,

And it flies though ever near: That loved image, like a shadow, From my longing arms is torn, Vainly do I strive to reach it,

And the heart remains forlorn."

"O, descend, thou haughty beauty, And forsake thy lordly towers, All the breathing spring I rifle,

Thee to deck with earliest flowers! Hark! the vocal thickets murmur,

And the streamlet babbling there, 'Room is in the lowliest cottage

For a happy loving pair.'"

TO ZILLAH.

When my youthful heart with joy was light,
And my spirits were buoyant and free,
And each flower and leaf was brilliant and bright,

As sparkling waves on a sunny sea;

Then we met, and there was around thee flung, Charms which the brightest of beauty could throw;

And a cherub's music was on thy tongue,

And thy lips were tinged with the ruby's glow.
And the chastened light of thy soft blue eye,

Was brighter than heaven's pure sapphire blue;
And thy cheeks had a lustre could far outvie,
In its morning pride the rich rose's hue.
And thy guileless soul was gentle and free,

And beauteous as stars on an autumn night,
And bright as the starlit dew on each tree,
And holy and pure as a ray of light.
And time, from my mind, shall never efface
One mark of thy beauty, thy kindness, or tone;
Though thy cheek may be stamped with sorrow's trace,
I will cherish thy love which is all mine own.
Manchester.

W. R.

CASABIANCA.*

(From Whitaker's Monthly and European Magazine, New Series.)

The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had filed;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck,
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;

A creature of heroic blood,

A proud though child-like form.
The flames rolled on-he would not go,
Without his Father's word;
That Father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.
He called aloud:-"Say, Father, say
If yet my task is done?"
He knew not that the chieftain lay

⚫ Unconscious of his son.

"Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet begone!

And"-but the booming shots replied,

And fast the flames rolled on.
Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his waving hair,

And looked from that lone post of death,
In still, yet brave despair.

And shouted but once more aloud,

"My Father! must I stay?"

While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud,
The wreathing fires made way.
They wrapt the ship in splendour wild,
They caught the flag on high,
And streamed above the gallant child,
Like banners in the sky.

There came a burst of thunder sound—
The boy-oh! where was he?

Ask of the winds that far around

With fragments strewed the sea! With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their partBut the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart!

F. H.

Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to

the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the battle of the Nile) after the ship had taken fire, and all the the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.

guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of

CHAPTER ON NERVES.

Small-pox, scarlet-fever, consumption,
Have each passed their public degrees,
But now with unwonted presumption
Comes forth a more dashing disease;
Is a lady's health shattered by raking?
A prude's with her rigid reserves ?
Their friends, fact for fiction forsaking,
Cry out they've got delicate nerves.
Mr. Jacobs, the Bermondsey tailor,
Has laid by his goose on the shelf,
And gone, like a goose or a sailor,

To squander at Margate his pelf;
Old Dobbs, the rich grocer of Brighton,
From sugar to sentiment swerves,
Convinced that the shop has a spite on
His dreadfully delicate nerves.
T'other day I walked into my kitchen,
Where fixed in a chair at his ease
Sate my footman, his fancy bewitching
With Buchan on nervous disease!

I roused him, and cried out, "How, now, Sir!
Go buy me an ounce of preserves;
He replied, "I can't, seeing as how, Sir,
I've got such susceptible nerves."
'Tis thus that we fool one another,
While time fools us all in return,
We're infants, and Fashion's our mother,
Our queen from the womb to the urn;
T'other day 'twas a popular frolic

To die of West India conserves,
Then we fancied bile, liver, and cholic,
And now the taste runs upon nerves.
This phrensy has touched our Hussars, Sir,
They're nervous in all that they do.
And what is worse, even our tars, Sir,
Are waxing susceptible too;
John Bull has become a John Donkey,
And, spite of his usual reserves,
Sits chattering at home like a monkey-
So much for the triumph of nerves!

The annexed laughable correspondence between Wi and Hopkins, is republished at the request of a com pondent. It brings to our recollection a whimsical are dote, related to us by a gentleman, who assured us that is founded in fact. As we have never seen it in prat may probably be new to the majority of our readers.

There is attached to every theatre a person wh business it is to take charge of various articles requir for the stage business. If a sword, dagger, walking-sti umbrella, &c. is necessary to the scene, he delivers the to those actors who respectively require them, he is call the Property-man.

A stage-struck Irishman, whose assurance was his e requisite for the profession, had to play the part of o in King Lear, on the first night of his engagement. lae of the scenes, when it was his turn to go on the stage, te ka back, and the prompter asked him why he did not procee -"I can't (replied our Roscius) for want of the proper man."-"What occasion have you for the property-ma |(said the prompter;) you have nothing to carry on t stage but yourself."—" Och, but I have, though, and devil a bit will I stir till I get the old trunk."-" The trunk! (exclaimed the astonished prompter;) what you mean ?"-" Why, look at the part, honey; when I go on, must I not say,- Through the world t old trunk I bear;' and how the devil will I look, say that, when I have never a trunk at all at all."

We need scarcely inform our readers that old Kent h alludes to his own weather-beaten frame; but this ac was one of those who never trouble their head about meaning or context of the play, and who know noth of the other parts, except the catchword, or the " ity," Sheridan has it in his Critic.

THEATRICAL CORRESPONDENCE.

The following correspondence was meant, many y ago, to ridicule, by a jeu d'esprit, some bitter quar between the managers of the two London theatres, an stated to have had the effect of allaying them. Faithful Copies of Letters between Hopkins and W Prompters to the Monopolizers. "Dear Wild,-For pity's sake, lend me a couple conspirators for to-night. Recollect you have borres one of ours for a singing Druid, and another of our is Doge of Venice, on Parker's resignation. "Entirely and devotedly yours, "Drury-lane, Nov. 9."

66 HOPKINS

"My dear Hopkins,-I have ordered them to look out two of our greatest assassins, and I'll take care t shall go shaved and sober. Pray tell Farren he m play our Archbishop to-morrow; we'll cut the part, !

may dress time enough afterwards for your General in they were concealed, and walled up for security, for both e Camp. Yours, perpetually, he wings and arms of the Victoria were taken off, and "WILD." "Covent garden, Nov. 9." taid at her feet. "P.S.-If you have a full moon to spare, I wish you'd id it to us for Thursday. I send you some lightning

ut I can venture to recommend."

Dear Hopkins,-Pray how shall we manage with ith to-morrow? I depended on your lending him to for Harry the Fifth, but now I see you have put him Charles Surface. Could'nt you let him come and play two acts of Harry, as you do not want him in Charles your third. And then Hull shall read the rest, with I apology of Smith's being suddenly hoarse, sprained s ancle, &c.-Cordially yours, "WILD." Covent-garden, Nov. 11."

"P.S.-My Vestal Virgin gets so cursed clumsy, I China the Emperor caused the French Captains to be assh you'd lend us Mrs. Robinson for a night.

My Dear Fellow-Here's the devil to do about our esday's pantomime; the blacksmith can't repair our at serpent till Friday; and the old camel, that we aght quite sound, has broke down at rehearsal, so pray d us your elephant by the bearer, and a small tiger, th the longest tail you can pick out. I must trouble u for a dozen of your best dancing shepherds for this ght; for though I see you'll want them for highwaymen the Beggar's Opera, they will be quite in time for us erwards. "For ever completely yours, "WILD."

"Covent-garden, Nov. 12."

"Totally yours,

"Dear Wild-I just write you a line while the beasts re packing up, to beg you'll not be out of spirits, as you ay depend on the shepherds, and any other animals you ay have occasion for. I have in orders to acquaint you, o, that as we don't use Henderson for Fallstaff on Fri, y, you may have him for Bosworth Field, only begging a'll return him in time for Coxheath. *Drury-lane, Nov. 12." "HOPKINS." "P. S. Lend me a Cupid, mine has got the measles." "Dear Hopkins-Thank you for Henderson and solrs. Do let them bring their helmets, for ours are tinThe bearer is our Cupid, at a shilling a night, ding his own wings. "Genuinely yours, "Covent-garden, Nov. 12." " WILD."

Scientific Notices.

DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT ROMAN STATUES.

tis, and the Esperance corvette, commanded by Baron French Voyage of Discovery.-The French frigate TheBougainville and M. Ducamper, have arrived at Brest, after a voyage of 28 months. The Thetis sailed from Brest 2d March, 1824, and joined the Esperance on the 19th of May following, in the harbour of Bourbon. M. de Bougainville witnessed at Macao the burning of the convent of St. Claire, the nuns of which were so earnest in remaining faithful in their vows, that one of them was burnt, and in order to save the others from the same fate, the priest of a neighbouring parish was obliged to seize in their presence an image of the Virgin, and to call on them in the name of the Virgin to follow him.-In Cochin sured that the French commerce should always be favoured vessels discovered in the Anambas a magnificent basin, to in his dominions. In the beginning of March, 1825, the which M. de Bougainville gave the name of Clermont Tonnerre. On the 1st of July they anchored at Sydney, in New Holland, and in an excursion which the two captains made with the Governor, Sir Thomas Brisbane, they discovered a cataract, the fall of which is 1500 feet, to which Sir Thomas had the politeness to give the name of Bougainville. The French officers were also indebted to his complaisance for being able to erect a monument to the immortal La Perouse on the sea shore, on the spot where the illustrious navigator was encamped in the last place where we know of his having stopped.

The Beauties of Chess.

"Ludimus effigiem belli."-VIDA.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-It was my chief intention in my former letter to show that the knight could perform the circuit of the I fancy the method of proceeding is rendered sufficiently chess-board, beginning from any of the sixty-four squares. clear by the plan which accompanied the diagram; but shall now endeavour to elucidate it. For this purpose, as you seem to think the rationale is not quite evident, I the simplest method appears to me to be this: first to explain the manner and reasoning for the sixteen squares in the centre of the board, confining myself entirely to them, without taking into the account the piece's power, or the connexion between them and the remaining forty-eight squares; then to show the nature and properties of the great circuits which the knight performs in his march round the board; and lastly, to construct a general diagram on the principles that shall be laid down. Yours, &c.

No. I."

W. C.

On the power of the knight, supposing it confined to the sixteen squares in the centre of the board.

The diagram annexed may be said to consist of four figures, viz. a, b, c, d, and 1, 2, 3, 4, which may be called circles, and which are similar to each other; and e, f, g, h, and 5, 6, 7, 8, which may be called rhombuses, and Rome, August 14-The 21st of July was a day of re- which are also similar to each other. Now, it will ing for all the antiquaries and literati at Brescia, and easily be seen that the knight cannot proceed from one hly interesting to the inhabitants of that city. On a circle into the other, or from one rhombus into the other, ghbouring hill there has stood, from time immemorial, without one or more intermediate moves. It will also be rge marble column, and there was a tradition that it evident, on examination, that the two centre squares in onged to a great Temple of Hercules, which had stood each rhombus are connected with each circle; since, from re in remote antiquity. For these two years past the 7 (one centre square of the rhombus 5, 6, 7, 8) the knight gistrates have caused excavations to a great extent to made on the spot, the result of which confirmed the may move into the circle c, d, a, b, or into the circle 2, 3, 4, 1, and from 5 (the other centre square of the same th of the tradition. From time to time important rhombus 5, 6, 7, 8) the knight may move into the circle numents of ancient architecture and Roman inscrips were brought to light, and every thing indicated that, b, c, d, or into the circle 4, 3, 2, 1. Hence it will ost extensive edifice had stood there. At length the plainly appear that the method of covering the sixteen dations of an immense temple were uncovered, with squares will be to take the figures alternately, viz. first, a circle, then a rhombus, then the remaining circle, and ances to several covered passages. These were ex- lastly, the remaining rhombus, or, vice-versa, first a ned, and on the day above mentioned the workmen rhombus, then a circle. nd in one of them several niches, walled up. They e opened, and in one of them was found a colossal be covered, beginning from any, except the squares e, g, Pursuing this plan, fifteen of the sixteen squares may ged Victoria, of bronze, and of admirable workman-or 5, 7, which are the centre squares of each rhombus; in another, six large busts, one of them representing and, beginning from any of these, fourteen only can be stina, the consort of Marcus Aurelius, and a highly covered. The reason for this is, that in the situation for amented breastplate of a horse; in a third and fourth, bly gilt statue, four feet and a half high, of a captive g, and a colossal arm. All these are likewise of bronze, of fine workmanship. There are also several inscrips in the building, one of which mentions the "Brixia "The eyes of the King and of the Victoria are By They are all in perfect preservation; and, from situation in which they were found, it is evident that

h, 6 or 8, which are the corners of each rhombus, the knight can only command two squares (according to the position, the sixteen squares only are to be taken into the account) and having shown the necessity of connecting the

The same plan will be adopted to express any square not belonging to any of the following diagrams, as is usually pursued in the Kaleidoscope, as H 1, G2, &c.

left incomplete in order to proceed round the second circle. Beginning in either circle the first rhombus must be The second rhombus must be completed, as the corner will be the last square to cover. Beginning at the corner of a rhombus, it must be completed, as also the circle into

which it leads; but the second rhombus must be left incomplete, for the sake of the second circle: but beginning from the centre of a rhombus, both must be left incomplete. A few examples will best illustrate the preceding rules, and close this part of the subject:-Beginning from a, it will be a, b, c, d (a circle) e, f, g, or e, h, g (a rhombus incomplete); 1, 2, 3, 4 (a circle) 5, 6, 7, 8 (a rhombus complete,) f or h, in this case, must be omitted. From f-f, g, h, e (a rhombus,) d, c, b, a (a circle,) 5, 6, 7, or 5, 8, 7 (a rhombus incomplete), 2, 1, 4, 3 (a circle.) 2, 3, 4, 1 (a circle), g, h, e, or g,f,e (a rhombus incomFrom 5,-5, 8, 7, or 5, 6, 7 (a rhombus incomplete.) plete,) d, c, b, a (a circle.)

The Bouquet.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them." MONTAIGNE.

The correspondent, at whose suggestion we copied from Blackwood's Magazine the following article, is informed, that we shall be rather more cautious, if ever we glean again from that source. The language and the allusions are occasionally and gratuitously coarse; such, precisely, as we should expect from the John Bull. We have, therefore, omitted certain parts, and modified others; but, even in its amended form, we do not think it very creditable to our journal.

ON THE EQUALITY OF THE SEXES.

LETTER TO MRS. M.

MY DEAREST MADAM,-Allow me to return my warmest acknowledgments for the honour done me by your admirable letter on the comparative merits of the two sexes. May I hope that our opinions and sentiments, differing in words, may be found, ultimately, to coincide in spirit? You know my devotion to that side of the question to which you belong, and which you adorn and dignify equally by the charms of your mind and your person. You maintain that women are equal, in all things, to men, and that any apparent inferiority on their parts must be attributed wholly to the institutions of society. Even in bodily powers you are unwilling to acknowledge defeat; and certainly, my dearest Madam, you have argued the topic with the most captivating, the most fascinating eloquence and ingenuity. You refer, in the first place, to the inferior animals, arguing, my dearest Madam, by analogy. Look, you say, look at Newmarket -there you behold mares running neck and neck with horses, gaining King's plates and cups, and stakes of all sorts, against them in spite of their noses, and occasionally leaving them at the distance-post. You then bid me consider the canine species, and I will find the greyhound, and pointer, and terrier, and bull-bitch, equal, if not superior, to the dog, in sagacity, fleetness, fierceness, and ferocity. You then fly with me to the interior of Africa, and showing me in one cave a lioness, and in another a tigress, with their respective kittens; you ask me if the ladies are not as formidable as the lords of the desert? Turn your gaze sunwards, you next exclaim, guided by the lofty yell, and you may discern the female eagle returning from distant isles to her eyrie on the inland cliff, with a lamb, or possibly a child, in her talons. Could her mate do more? You then beautifully describe the Amazons; and will you still obstinately adhere, you ask me, to the unphilosophical belief in the physical inferiority of our sex to yours, seeing that, independently of other arguments, it militates against the whole analogy of

nature?

You then demand, why a lady of good natural and acquired parts, may not be a General or a Judge? and, a fortiori, any thing else? Now, my dear Madam, such has been the power of your eloquence and ingenuity, that they have completely nonplused me-nor have I any thing in the shape of argument to rebut your irresistible logic. ing an answer to it in your next letter. I therefore fling myself on a fact-one single fact-expect

Suppose, my dearest Madam, for a single moment, a Bishop, or a Judge, or a General, in the family way. How could her ladyship visit her diocess? her ladyship's custom to visit her diocess once in three To be sure, it might be years, nor are we to suppose that she is always enceinte. But the chance is greatly in favour of her being so-nor do I think that old maids would make, by any manner of means, good Bishops. I presume, my dearest Madam, that you would not doom the Bishops of the Church of England to Catholic celibacy. Such a law is foreign, I well know, to your disposition; and to say nothing of its gross and glaring violation of the laws of Nature herself, would it, in such a case, be at all efficacious?

I think, my dearest Madam, that I hear you reply, "I would elevate no female to the Bench till after a certain age. What, would you let modest merit pine unrewarded through youth, and confer dignity only on effeté old age? The system, my dearest Madam, would not work well-and we should have neither Kayes nor Bloomfields.

The same objection applies with tenfold force to a female Judge. Suppose, my dearest Madam, that you yourself were Lady Chancellor. Of the wisdom, and integrity, and promptitude of your decisions, there could not be the slightest doubt, except in the minds perhaps of a Brougham, a Williams, or a Denman. But although you could have no qualms of conscience-yet might you frequently have qualms of another kind, that would disturb or delay judgment. While the Court ought to be sitting, you might be lying-in; and while, in the character of Chancellor, you ought to have been delivering a decision,-in your character of Lady, why, my dearest Madam, you might yourself have been delivered of a fine thumping boy.

Finally, suppose Lord Wellington to have been a female. He might have possessed the same coup d'ail, the same decision, the same fortitude, and the same resolution, on all occasions, to conquer or die. But there are times when ladies in the family way (and we may safely take it for granted that had Lord Wellington been a female, he would generally have been in that interesting situation) are not to be depended on, nor can they depend upon themselves; and what if the Generalissimo had been taken in labour during the battle of Waterloo? Why, such an interruption would have been nearly as bad as when his Lordship was supeseded by Sir J. Burrard during the battle of Vimiera.

The lioness and the tigress are both on your side, and I should be sorry to say a single word against such arguments. May I be permitted, however, to hint, that it is in fierceness and ferocity, more perhaps than in strength, that they excel the male; and in fierceness and ferocity, awakened in defence of their young. In these qualities I grant your sex do greatly excel ours, especially when nursing, and at such seasons, in justice and candour, we must allow to you the flattering similitude to the lioness and the tigress. I also admit the force of the analogical argument in your favour, from the birds of prey.

Passing from corporeal to mental powers, you ask, why a woman should not make, for example, a good Bishop? Why, really, my dearest Madam, I humbly confess that I do not, at this moment, see any reason why you your self should not be elevated to the Bench; and sure I am that, in lawn sleeves, you would be the very beauty of holiness. You have Pope Joan in your favour; and although I do not know of any instance of a lady of your years having become a spiritual Peer, yet time flies, and you may expect that honour when you become an old

woman.

I have the honour to be, my dearest Madam,
With the highest consideration,
Your affectionate friend,
JASPER SUSSEX.

Blackwood's Mag. for Aug.

CARLTON HOUSE.

The palace of Carlton-house being now about to be thrown down, the following memoir of the history of this princely residence may be interesting. It is from the Literary Gazette.

stucco, which called for speedy reparation. This, howe was long after its royal tenants had departed, and prio 1783. The entrance gate and lodge to the gardens, wi had a picturesque appearance as seen at the end of they of high trees that formerly extended farther south, designed by our revered late sovereign, the piers to gates of which still remain, an interesting memento of Majesty's architectural taste. And here we cannot ref from expressing a hope, that, whatever alterations and i provements may hereafter occur on this site, these te may be spared.

church), a protege of Lord Burlington's, through his The ingenious Flitcroft (who erected Saint Gi ship's influence, was appointed to make the necessary rations and improvements for the reception of Pr Frederick, his royal consort, and family. Kent was ployed to lay out the grounds, which were then exten to the park; and on the beautiful site created by his perior taste, our late sovereign was wont to recreati juvenile happiness. This celebrated landscape-gard designed a cascade in the grounds, where a saloon erected in 1735, paved with Italian marble, brought England by Lord Bingley and George Bubb Dodg whose political history was so materially interwoven that of this royal mansion.

"The inside of this building was richly adorned painting and sculpture, and furnished with correspond magnificence. Lord Burlington's taste is universally knowledged. Prince Frederick was a distinguished s teur of virtu, and the first patron of English arts of Royal House.-Hence Carlton Palace may be said, its foundation, to have been destined for a noble seat of The grounds were ornamented with marble statues busts: amongst other figures were those of Alfred Great and Edward the Black Prince, sculptured by brack. This mansion, too, has been equally famed elegant hospitality and social intercourse. Its first possessor delighted in having his friends at his board, the dinner and supper parties at Carlton-house were quent and select. Its reputation for the continued n still more elegant and no less princely hospitality wa long after its walls are laid low.

In the year 1783, his present Majesty, then Prin Wales, having nearly completed his 21st year, and bay until that period resided with his royal parents at W sor, at the Queen's Palace, or at Kew, it was thought coming his dignity, as heir apparent, that he should provided with a residence and suitable establishm when Carlton-house appearing an eligible site, bis Majesty sent a message to both Houses of Parliament the subject. That to the House of Commons nounced by Lord John Cavendish, and that to the H of Peers was presented by the Duke of Portland. la important business, the two houses concurred with dissentient voice.

"The splendid alterations at Carlton-house Palace menced, for this next royal occupant, in 1783, unde direction of the late Mr. Holland, who held until his the appointment of architect to his Royal Highness" The interior of Carlton Palace is nearly dis of its gorgeous furniture. The fine collection of am and other valuables is deposited in the riding-scho Buckingham-house, which has been fitted up and a priated for the purpose, until the new palace is res receive them.

LIFE IN DUBLIN.-No. 2.

My last epistle left me in bed at the grand funeral nishing hotthel in that jewel of the world, dear Du battling with the fleas or flays as the Dubliners call

perhaps because their biting gives a body a pretty siderable intolerable notion of being flayed alive; and with these same pestiferous flays, the pothery heat o weather, and the antidigestive nature of mine host's t dering beef-steak, seasoned with inspissated mustard bluebottle-fly vinegar, I was worked up into such as poetic kind of fury that I did then and there perpetrat first Irish melody, in the shape of a savage parody o Thomas Moore. At last

"This estate formerly belonged to the Earl of Burling ton, the great amateur architect of the 18th century, the patron of genius, the friend of Swift, Arbuthnot, and Pope, and the centre of a circle of illustrious British worthies. Carlton-house, with all its appendages, was presented by his lordship to his Mother, the Countess Dowager of Burlington, in 1732, although it appears that an arrangement was made soon after for a transfer of the property to his Royal Highness Frederick Lewis Prince of Wales, the (And my persecutors left me to repose.) grandfather of our present sovereign. The celebrated Earl of Chesterfield was intrusted with the negociation, who, in the latter part of the same year, paid to the Earl of Burlington, as part of the purchase-money of Carlton-house and gardens, the sum of £7000.

"We remember the old mansion, and the dilapidated appearance of its exterior, its heavy sashes and discoloured

"Like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn;"

"Now my weary eyes I close,
Leave me, leave me to repose."

Pity knows I had need enough of it; and a g man's nose, in the next apartment, sounded a G requiem to my subsiding woes :-uckrrrrr hunkph !—fizzzz-whee-ee-e, &c. &c. &c.

When we hear a physiologist contemptuously styled a bumpologist, in what light are we to view the person using the expression? Panurge might as well have derided the editor of the Kalcidoscope for endeavouring to preserve a fellow mortal from death, drowning, or the doctor, by nominating the zealous philanthropist a corkometer or corkotumist.

Finally, I beg leave to advise your correspondents, who are in search of truth, not to attach so much ridicule to the unsuccessful endeavours of philosophers, who have not yet attained this gorgeous arcanum,-lest the deriders, unexpectedly discovering the latent lustre, be so dazzled and confounded by the unwearied splendours of the celestial energies emanating therefrom, as to lose themselves in the radiations of intolerable glory. Liverpool, August 24, 1826.

TO THE EDITOR.

CHIRONIUS.

SIR,-As I have been in the country since Monday, I have been unable to answer your correspondent L. until to-day; but, as my letter will be very short, I hope that it may still be in time to obtain a place in your next week's Kaleidoscope.

L. begins by stating that I quarrel with Amicus Justitiæ on account of the name which he has bestowed upon phrenology. Now I would have him to know, that it is perfectly indifferent to me by what name it goes; nor did I answer A Lover of Justice to defend the name, but the substance of the science.

I am very much astonished to see that L. has seriously attempted to defend his champion's quibble about the fingers and toes, which, no doubt, was only intended by its first inventor to show off the superfine quality of his wit. But L. goes over the whole argument, applauding at every step the justness of the reasoning, and the ingenuity of the writer. But, unfortunately, he is in the dark, and, as might be expected, misses his way. The short of Mr. Combe's argument is this, which must at once for ever send all the toes and fingers of Amicus and his friend L. to their long home. We see, as far as regards the influence which the brain has over the body, and the part it takes in the senses, that each hemisphere has the same power; and, therefore, we may conclude that the same is the case, when the brain is considered as the organ of the mind.

I had in my former communication said, that phrenology admitted the influence of education on the mind, and reasoning upon this admission, L., after much learned arguing, proceeds with wonderful acuteness to discover that the mind is influenced by education. But that this influence renders phrenology null and void, the only thing which he ought to have proved, he contents himself with simply asserting. I will just consider an analogous case: If a child is never taught to walk, nor allowed to use and exercise its legs, they will never grow as they would with exercise, and they will never be strong; and if a fullgrown man is never allowed to use his legs, they will not shrink up to the size of those of a child, though they will have soon no more power. Thus, if education is applied to a child to prevent it from making use of any obnoxious propensity, the organ in the brain will remain small and powerless; but when the subject is grown up, and the brain and skull hardened, however much pains they take to subdue the propensity, the organ will not diminish, but from long want of exercise it will lose its power: but still the propensity is there, and only wants to be indulged to regain all its former activity. The influence of education, therefore, is not incompatible with phrenology.

I have now answered all that this new opponent has advanced, and I hope that Amicus Justitia, for his own sake, will make the next answer himself; for if he leaves his arguments in such hands as L.'s, he will receive more damage from his friends than from his enemies. Yours, &c.

August 18, 1826.

A PHRENOLOGIST.

[SEE A NOTE to correspondents.] PHENOMENA IN NATURAL HISTORY.

"'Tis strange, methinks.”—SHAKSPEARE.

TO THE EDITOR.

into a shower-bath, extinguished the flames at the ris her life."

This is really too much. We can very well believe it is not often the good people of Aberdeen see the t mometer at 84 degrees in the shade; but, when the e does take place, there is no occasion for their suppo that the general conflagration, or any other remark period in the world's history, is so near at hand.

SIR,-Walking through Rodney-street this morning, I came up with a gentleman who was examining a small One story which was handed abroad proclaimed that crab, which he said had just come down in the rain from reflection of the sun from the Cairngorum stones or La the clouds: the little creature was evidently in a state of editor of the North Star has successfully combated na-gar had set fire to the heath. This story the inte exhaustion, and could hardly creep on the wet pavement. philosophical principles: but there is another tale I expressed, at first, some reluctance to give full credit to hath puzzled him right sorely. Leezy Splashfeet ca such an extraordinary circumstance as the production of almost breathless, declaring (and it was corroborate shell-fish from the clouds. But the gentleman, who Roree Redgills) that Woodend Cottage, a “wee hot on the Don, was on fire; that the sun, reflected ag seemed, by his conversation, to possess no mean know-through some tumblers, had set fire to the towels, ab ledge of natural history, assured me that it was very pos-destructive element from thence, spreading to the f sible for small animals to have been "inhaled by the calorific influence of the atmospheric air;" and, to corroborate the fact, he related an instance of a number of small frogs being showered down close to himself, some quarter of a mile from any habitation; so that they could not possibly have come from the top of any house, wall, &c. Another no less extraordinary circumstance he related was, the falling down of a number of tolerably sized eels in a court yard! To this he was not himself an eye witness, and has only the assertion of a gentleman who said he was present when the eels were literally rained down!

That there is a kind of brownish snow, rather inclining to red, found in part of the arctic regions, I am fully aware, and likewise that many and singular meteoric stones have come from the clouds I believe is incontestibly proved to be true; but of living animals also coming from the upper regions, where so little pasture of any kind seems provided for them, is a little staggering to stubborn people. Can you, Mr. Editor, or any of your correspondents, give any information on this subject? It is surely worth inquiry, as, "if such things be," we may yet have an opportunity of angling from our parlour windows into the streets, and spread our nets as well on the squares of our "good old town," as in any part of old Neptune's dominions. I write hastily, and immediately after my rencounter with this Rodney-street naturalist. Wednesday morning, Aug. 23.

CONFLAGRATION EXTRAORDINARY!

L.

"The kindled vengeance rears its dreadful head,
And all around Etnean terrors spread:
With dismal wings the crackling flames arise,
Shoot out their ruddy tongues, and lick the skies."
Blackmore.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-It appears that in some of the northern counties of Scotland many of the moors, mosses, and woods, have simultaneously taken fire. How they have been ignited, north country ingenuity cannot discover, unless it be accounted for by the unprecedented heat of the atmosphere, which, in that frigid quarter, has risen to the enormous temperature of 84 degrees.

The Edinburgh Observer makes the following remarks upon this momentous affair:-" We find, by the papers from the north, that all Aberdeenshire is in a blaze. The thermometer rose to 84 degrees in the shade, and instantly the woods and hills and moors and hedges caught fire. Three little boys went into the river Don to bathe, and were scalded to death in boiling water. A cottager's wife went to feed her chickens, and found them all ready roasted. Haddocks became finnan haddocks three minutes after they were taken out of the sea. Professor C, of Mareschal College, who wears a straw hat, was surprised to find it in flames, as he walked along Dubby-raa. The flames caught the Leghorn bonnets of three ladies who who were passing at the time; and two of them, who wore wigs, had them burned to the ground before the fire engines could be called out. The third flew home, and, rushing

ture, enveloped the fabric in flames. The sun "refe again" through tumblers! and setting fire to a hou To discover the "philosophy" of this operation was a nearly cracked his cranium, when the professor of puzzle to the editor: the poor man, with thinking, manity," together with A. S. S., the astrologer, cam his relief, and declared the impossibility of the "this nevertheless the house was on fire, and no one but fore him, and he had drunk up the loch of Skene. could be blamed, for the very rivers had disappeared

"Here monstrous Phoca panted on the shores;
Forsaken dolphins there, with their broad tails,
Lay lashing the departing waves: hard by 'em
Sea-horses flound'ring in the slimy mud,
Toss'd up their heads, and dash'd the ooze about'en
Yours, &c.
Dr. TIMOTHY TWIS

To Correspondents. SUPPLEMENTAL NUMBER. In conformity with our plece.

to compensate for the space occupied by music and e we shall next week present our readers with a foursupplement.

CHESS GAMBITS.-A correspondent, who signs W. C. and w beautiful problem we shall introduce next week, with know the precise meaning of the word gambit. We be the explanation we are about to offer will be found factory. Those particular modes of conducting the called king's gambit and queen's gambit, have been minated gambits, because they lead the way to the ing of various stratagems, by which the person, who b the game, may overthrow, or give the trip to an incad adversary. The Italian word gambetto signifies trigg of the heels, and is derived from gamba, a leg.-Lalit, 20, p. 217.

MANCHESTER INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB-W in reserve for the next Kaleidoscope an article on the ject, which we have translated from a late number Reveu Encyclopédique, communicated originally, we le by Dr. Albert, professor of French Literature, now re in Manchester.

SHOWERS OF FISH, FROGS, &c.-Phenomena similar to 1 related by L. have been described by so many perso titled to credit, that it would be an excess of sceptic doubt them. Pennant and Bingham are no mean a rities on subjects of natural history, and in our ne shall give an extract from their works, in which th traordinary circumstance is stated. In the meanhs our correspondent has access to our second volu will refer to page 397, he will meet with the inform he asks for.

PHRENOLOGY.-Panurge is most welcome, and shall b place in our next publication. The RETALIATION addressed to J. B. H. of the Liverpool Co The lines of S. S. and the letter of Amicus have been t has just reached us. We have not had leisure to per

stant received.

MATHEMATICAL PARADOX.-If a Constant Reader will loo

some mathematical works for a definition of Asyme Azymtote, he will meet with the information he seek

GLASSFULS OR GLASSES FULL.-We shall reply to a Ca