regularly changed twice a week, and placed in a room at a distance from the fire. In fair and frosty weather it lies motionless and rolled up in a spiral form at the bottom of the glass: but before rain or snow it creeps up to the top, where, if the rain will be heavy or of some continuance, it remains a considerable time; if trifling, it quickly descends. Before rain or snow accompanied with wind, it darts about with amazing celerity, and seldom ceases until it begins to blow hard. Previous to a storm of thunder and lightning, it is exceedingly agitated, and expresses its feelings in violent and convulsive starts at the top or bottom of the glass. It is remarkable, that however fine and serene the weather may be, when not the least indication is given either by the sky, the barometer, or any other circumstance, if the animal ever quit the water, or move in a desultory way, so certainly will the coincident results occur in 36, 24 or perhaps 12 hours; though its motions chiefly depend on the fall and duration of the wet, and the strength of the wind, of which, in many cases, it has been known to give a week's warning!

The Grand Canal for connecting the waters of lake Ontario with those of the Atlantic ocean, is in a progressive state. It is known that the authority hitherto granted by the state of New-York, is to connect the Seneca with the Mohawk rivers, and the commissioners have determined to vary the direction of the contemplated line, so that the canal shall begin at Utica instead of Rome on the Mohawk. It is considered that in the different sections of the various contracts there have been excavated and embanked during the last season about 15 miles. And what is more important, the experience obtained during the last year, has proved that the actual expenses will not exceed the estimates, but in many instances have fallen short of them.

The state of New-York may indulge the proud reflection, that she

possesses within herself the genius, the skill, the enterprise, and all the other means, requisite to the ac complishment of an internal navigation, whose utility will surpass any work of the kind which preceding ages have accomplished. The situation and extent of the great lakes, connected together and stretching through several degrees of latitude and longitude, and the wonderful facilities of the country intervening between them and the tide-waters of the Hudson, appear to have been designed by nature to tempt the improving industry of man. To join the east to the west-to unite the 45 degrees of latitude on lake Champlain with the farthest verge of lake Superior-to connect the whole with the ocean, and to bestow the blessings of an easy intercommunication upon the millions of human beings who are destined to flourish along those extended lines, are within the resources of the people of this state. It rarely falls, to the lot of the limited powers of man, to confer any signal, extensive and lasting benefit upon the human race: but the achievement of this magnificent enterprise, surpassing in its effects all the ordinary attainments of human imbecility, would seem, in no partial degree, to emulate the bounty of heaven itself, which showers its benedictions upon whole states and kingdoms.

The Royalists of Chili will not allow the gallant San Martin to be called saint; but recommended that he should change it to Luther.

Count de Malsbourg was lately sent as a prisoner to the fortress of Spangenburg, by the Elector of Hesse Cassel, for having given a fele while the Elector was afflicted with the gout!"

If he had giving bis feet to the Elector, it would have been another af fair. But this is perhaps a poor pun, on account of the difference of the pronunciation—and his fate nobody co

vets.