6 crossed himself when what should I see, stitution proposed by Bolívar. They reported leaving the laws the same as at the adjournlookin' towards the house, but the sthrange favourably; and, in conformity to its principles, ment of the constituent congress, and named man himself standin' outside of a windy, and a president was chosen for life. The choice fell again General Santa Cruz as the provisional he was pullin' down a swallow's nest.' And on General Sucre, who accepted the office for president. Since that period Santa Cruz has ye seen him doin' that, Meehowl? then its only two years, on the condition that 2,000 been at the head of the government, which for liikely enough that Bridogue Mooney is right Colombian troops should be permitted to remain prosperity ranks amongst the foremost of the in her sayin." I'll stand up for my sayin',' with him. Sucre declined holding the presi- South American republics. He has established replied Bridge Mooney; he puts the charms dency for a longer period than two years, on the schools, increased commerce by relieving it of on us, howsomever he finds manes to do it.' grounds of having been educated a soldier, and many heavy taxes, and he has concluded a treaty I'll tell ye what I hard of them swallows, having spent the greater part of his life in of peace and commerce with Peru. The exneighbours,' said Daddy Leeach; them swal- the field, he was unfit to be the civic chief of tensive territory of Bolivia is rich in mines of lows, and them birds, too, that goes by the their government. During his administration, copper and the precious metals; the vine and name o' willy-wagtails, I'm tould for sartain schools were established, and plenipotentiaries olive flourish: in many places sugar-cane grows has three drops o' the devil's bloud in them were sent to Buenos Ayres, to obtain the acknow- wild, and rice and flax are produced in abundLord be good to us!' 'Tis often and often I ledgment of the independence of the republic, ance; Peruvian bark and indigo are successtook notice of both kinds of them birds, the which was withheld by that government, al- fully cultivated; and the coca, which is so esfoulhogues, and the spiddogue coppel; the spid- leging that Bolivia could not be free while sential to the Indian's comfortable existence, dogue coppel is never known to sing his varse General Sucre and 2,000 Colombians were per- is a staple of this climate. The erythroxylon of a song only when the day is bitther could, mitted to remain within her territories. This Peruvianus, or coca, at the time of the conand dripping wet; and then it's a mournful act gave umbrage to the Bolivians, and evoked quest, was only used by the Incas and those of thing to hear him, and to look at him, standin' some spirited articles on the subject from them, the royal or rather solar blood. The plant was on a could wet stone by the road side, and by which appeared in El Peruano. On the 15th looked upon as an image of divinity, and no one the river side, liltin' his bit of a croonawn, and of October, 1826, Peru acknowledged Bolivia entered the enclosures where it was cultivated lookin' about him so 'cute, and waggin' his to be an independent state. At present, an without bending the knee in adoration. The long tail, for all the world as if he gloried in agent from Brazil, and a chargé d'affaires and divine sacrifices made at that period were the dark rainy day that puts a cloud over the consul-general from France, are residing at thought not to be acceptable to heaven, unless mind of all Christhin cratures; and them swal- Chuquisaca. The government of the United the victims were crowned with branches of this lows, agin, they skim about from the risin' to States has not yet sent a diplomatic agent of tree. The oracles made no reply, and auguries the settin' of the sun; and they never put foot any class to that country. Notwithstanding were terrible, if the priest did not chew coca to the ground like our own birds; but when that Peru acknowledged the independence of at the time of consulting them. It was an unthe storm is comin' to vex the earth they all Bolivia, she was anxious to obtain the cession heard-of sacrilege to invoke the shades of the get in a row together upon an ould wall, or on of certain territories adjoining to her southern departed great, without wearing this plant in the top of a body's house, and they sing, and boundary. On the 9th of April, 1827, the token of respect; and the Coyas and Mamas, they sing, all of them at once, and as loud as Peruvian plenipotentiary left La Paz, and soon who were supposed to preside over gold and ever they can, makin' merry at the doleful after a Peruvian army, under the command of silver, rendered the mines impenetrable, if the change that's comin' on, and that they know General Gamarra, appeared on the Bolivian labourers failed to chew the leaves of coca while is comin' on, more be-token, better nor the frontier. On the 18th of April, 1828, the gar- engaged in the toil. To this plant the Indian people themselves; and, moreover, there's not rison at Chuquisaca, the capital of Bolivia, re- recurred for relief in his greatest distress; no one among us can tell how they come here to volted, through the intrigue and machinations matter whether want or disease oppressed him, Wind-gap, or where they come from, or where of the Peruvian general. This garrison con- or whether he sought the favours of Fortune or in the world they go to in the winter time; sisted only of fifty men, yet it was sufficient Cupid, he found consolation in this divine plant. and I often hard it said, as well as our neigh- to overthrow the then existing government. In the course of time, its use extended to the bour, Shawn Leeach, that the three dhrops o' General Sucre, in attempting to quell the dis- whole Indian population, and its cultivation the devil's blood is in them, and in the willy- turbance, was severely wounded in the arm. became an important branch of trade. It prowag tails,"" Gamarra, under pretence of fear for the per-duced at one period no less than 2,641,487 sonal safety of the president, and anxiety to dollars yearly; and we are told that its leaves restore tranquillity to the state, marched from were once the representative of money, and the Desagaradero, where he was encamped, and circulated as coin. It is sown in the months took possession of La Paz and of the capital. of December and January, its growth being Sucre at once resigned, and sailing from Cobija, forwarded by the heavy rains which fall in the arrived at Callao on the 13th of December, mountainous regions from that time till the where he remained twenty-four hours, but was month of April. It flowers but once a-year, not permitted to land. While there, his wounds but yields four crops of leaves, which are not were dressed by one of the medical officers of however equally abundant; the least so is gathe United States frigate Brandywine; and he thered at the time of inflorescence. It requires offered his services to intercede between the to be sown once in five years. When the leaves governments of Peru and Colombia, then at attain an emerald green on one side, and a war, with the hope of restoring peace without straw-colour on the other, they are carefully having recourse to arms. On the 14th he sailed pulled, one by one, and dried in the sun. The in the Portia (an American ship) for Guaya- virtues of the coca are of the most astonishing quil. Bolivia was soon plunged in a most character. The Indians who are addicted to dreadful state of anarchy. General Santa Cruz its use are enabled to withstand the toil of was called by the constituent congress to be the mines, amidst noxious metallic exhalations, president; but a party, or rather a faction, without rest, food, or protection from the cliforcibly elevated General Don Pedro Blanco to mate. They run hundreds of leagues over the chief magistracy. On the 25th of December deserts, arid plains, and craggy mountains, sushe made his public entry into Chuquisaca, and tained only by the coca and a little parched the next day took the oath of office. On the corn; and often, too, acting as mules in bear31st a revolution took place-he was made ing loads through passes where animals cannot "On the 5th of August, 1825, Potosí, Char- prisoner; and on the morning of the 1st of go. Many have attributed this frightful frucas, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz, formerly con- January, 1829, he was shot, after having been stituting Upper Peru, declared themselves in- president four days! On the 14th of December, dependent of Ferdinand VII.; and on the 11th 1828, Gamarra was received at Lima, amidst of August the Assembly decreed that the re- the rejoicings of the people, who styled him the public should bear the title of Bolivia. They Liberator of La Paz, and entertained him at date the birthday of the nation from the 6th the theatre, and at the Plaza del Acho with a of August, 1825, the day on which was gained bull-bait. On the 15th of February, 1829 (six the victory of Junin. On the 25th of May, 1826, a congress was installed at Chuquisaca, and a committee appointed to examine the con Canvassing is a story of higher life, and also interesting; but we confess we are much better entertained with the Mayor of Wind-gap, and his colleagues of every kind. Three Years in the Pacific; containing Notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, &c., in 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834. By an Officer in the United States' Navy. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1835. Bentley. A LIGHT, lively, well-written, and agreeable publication; marked by good feeling and liberality, which reflect honour on the writer's heart and head. We have, in the course of our critical voy age, which has lasted six times as many years as the author's period in the Pacific, so frequently touched on Brazil, Chile, and Peru, that we seem to be almost native there; and we are sure our readers have so often heard us tell stories of those parts, that they will excuse us now if we simply let the officer in question exhibit his own talents in his own words. Behold us at Bolivia : weeks after the death of General Blanco), the gality and power of endurance to the effects of habit, and not to the use of the coca; but it must be remembered that the Indian is naturally voracious; and it is known that many Spaniards were unable to peform the Herculean tasks of the Peruvians, until they habitually used the coca. Moreover, the Indians without it lose both their vigour and powers of endurance. It is stated, that during the seige of La Paz in 1781, when the Spaniards The characters, &c. are introduced in spunging-houses and the Fleet Prison; and the accounts of these places have so much the air of truth, that there can be no doubt of their reality : were constantly on the watch, and destitute of am mostly asleep when they takes 'em away! | the first volume is before us, is to demonstrate provisions, in the inclemencies of winter, they But there is no trade now. When I first came the evil of imprisonment for debt; and it is were saved from disease and death by resorting to the South Sea, in 1805, we used to get evidently the production of one who has tasted to this plant. The coca possesses a slightly just as much as we chose to ask for any thing. the bitterness of that condition, and seen how aromatic and agreeable odour, and when chew- Our captain had a barrel of gin fixed in the bulk-ruinously the practice wrought both for the ed dispenses a grateful fragrance; its taste is head, so one-half of it was in the cabin and honest debtor and merciless creditor. The moderately bitter and astringent, and it tinges the other in the mate's room. When the people subject is one of great national interest, and the saliva of a greenish hue. Its effects on the knew we had this liquor, they flocked aboard as far as this exposition goes, we trust it will system are stomachic and tonic, and beneficial with bottles and gourds; and while the captain increase the attention which humanity and in preventing intermittents, which have always drew off gin in the cabin the mate was in his policy have already directed to the application prevailed in the country. The mode of em- room pouring in water; so that I guess the of a remedy. The anecdotes told are obviously ploying coca, is to mix with it in the mouth a barrel was sold three times full for about six facts; and indeed the names of parties are often small quantity of lime prepared from shells, dollars a gallon !' Whalers form a distinct given. We could have wished that a more much after the manner that the betel is used class. When several vessels are assembled at serious tone had been taken, for the scenes of in the East. With this, a handful of parched any of the places of rendezvous, the oldest cap- the "prison-house" are often of too tragical a corn, and a ball of arrow-root, an Indian will tain in company is styled the admiral. They description to be fairly represented by the travel on foot a hundred leagues, trotting on have suppers on board one of the ships every lighter incidents of common misery, or sketches a-head of a horse. On the frequented roads, I night, to which all present are invited by of promiscuous suffering. We must take the am informed that the Indian guides have cer- hoisting a flag before sunset. I attended on book, however, as we find it; and, at any rate, tain spots where they throw out their quids, one of these occasions, and was much amused acknowledge that, if it is not so affecting as it which have accumulated into little heaps that by the peculiar slang of these people. 'Come,' might be, it is for that reason more amusing. now serve as marks of distance; so that, in- said the captain, take a cigar; you'll find 'em stead of saying one place is so many leagues pretty much half Spanish, I guess.' I infrom another, it is common to call it so many quired of one who had been relating some exquids! The Indians sometimes have tertúlias ploits with whales, whether he never felt that for taking the infusion of the leaves, as well as he was in danger? Why, I always think, if for chewing it. In the former mode the effects I have a good lance, the fish is in most danger!' "We say (the author it is who says)—we are agreeably exhilarating. It is usual to say I asked another whether he had ever met with say-Gather up from out the pale of human on such occasions, Vamos à coquear y aculli- an accident? I can't say exactly as how I misery, misfortune, imprudence, and despair, car,' Let us indulge in coca.' have, though I came plaguey near it once. enough of pity to commiserate the situation You see we was off the coast of Japan, right enough of patriotism to advocate the freeamong a shoal of whales, and all hands was out dom, of the prisoner for debt. The one unin the boats except me and the cook. I was varnished scene of the spunging-house, (which lookin' at the creaturs with the glass, and saw is the more unvarnished, because we cannot one on 'em flirt her tail agin' a boat, and it was give it the true polish of life, so far will dea caution to see the scatterment she made of scription ever fall short of nature,)—is yet in her. All the boys were set a swimmin'; so the itself enough to prove how fruitless, how cook and me jumped into a boat and picked 'em foolish, how inhuman, it is for one man to all up. Directly the fish blowed close to us, seize on the person of another, and subject him and I took an iron and sunk it into her, and I to exposure, difficulty, and ruin, by the loss of know how to strike a whale as well as any credit, unless he be previously sure of fraud, man; but the creatur canted the wrong way, swindling, or a dishonest purpose. It is bad and I know how a sparm ought to cant; and enough to plunge an old married member of comin' at us full tilt, with her jaws as wide society into scenes which, if witnessed by them, open as a barn-door, bit the boat smack in two would be so many insults to his wife and chil in the middle. Then she chawed up one end dren- but it is worse to fling a young man on her; and by the time we got hold on the into a well, at the bottom of which temptation other she come at us agin, and, making another lies instead of truth. And be it observed, bite, took me by the back betwixt her teeth, a youth must have strong principles, more and shook me as a puppy would a ball of yarn; strongly imbued, before he can resist such and I guess she wouldn't have dropped me if temptation. His mind must be well formedthe mate hadn't come up in another boat, and his philosophy well grounded. Vain how shoved in his lance till she was sickened! As vain, supposing that temptation to have an good luck would have it, we was all picked up evil influence is the debtor's imprisonment without any accident; but I got five of her tooth-prints in my back to this day!'" This history of a country, and of its most remarkable produce, being disposed of in a single quotation, we will venture to Lima, the street scenery of which, though often well described before, is so graphically sketched by our author, that we will borrow some of it in our next Gazette. Meanwhile, from the bay of Santa, Truxello, Lambayeque, Paita, and along the coast, the following pleasing extracts are chosen : "On our way back to the landing we passed over an ancient burying-place of the Indians, which has been pretty generally turned up by visiters in search of huaqueros, or earthen vessels, found in the graves. The whole surface is strewed with skulls and bones bleaching in the sun, which receive many a kick by the idle passers-by. The back part of these skulls is almost vertical, and rises quite abruptly from the great hole at the base. The left side is generally much more prominent than the right. The forehead is narrow and retreating; and the line of the face is quite as perpendicular as that of the European." Strange sort of currency:"The want of small coin in Lambayeque has given rise to a curious way of making change. The smallest coin in circulation here is a medio (64 cents), though in Lima the cuartillo, equal to half that sum, is found, but in limited numbers. To remedy this, a conventional law has made two eggs equal to a cuartillo: when the port has been for a long time without visiters, the currency depreciates so much, that three or four eggs are required to equal that sum, though this is less fluctuating than the currency either of Brazil or Buenos Ayres. - as a punishment for the debt:-he, yielding to new and peculiar inducements, imbibes also a We cannot close with a better or truer tale; taste for new pleasures-pleasures utterly deand have only to add, that the author revives moralising in their influence, and at the same many accounts of the horrid oppression prac- time expensive to the creditor, because they tised on the Indians by their Spanish conquer- foster and encourage habits which induce those ors,-exposes the rapaciousness and bigotted whom they lead away to spend in their indulfollies of the Romish church in South America, gence the money that would most frequently -and finally draws a picture of the concord have paid their debt. How often has a young and friendship which existed between the offi- man, arrested for 50%., spent 1007. by dribblets cers of British ships and those belonging to the in the spunging-house, because he could not get United States navy, during his stay in the Pa- the fifty in a lump! How often have honest cific, which must be gratifying to the right- debtors expended five times the amount of their "Paita is a rendezvous throughout the year minded people of both countries. Lord James liabilities in prison by degrees, because they for American whalers, who resort to it to re- Townsend in particular distinguished himself in had not enough at any one time to take them fresh their crews, to cooper their oil, and to fill this contest of courtesy and kindness; and his out! In these reflections, these how oftens' up their supplies of vegetables and provisions. correspondence with the American Captain alone, there is enough to deter the creditor For this purpose they are allowed to sell goods Gregory forms a charming contrast to the ma- bent on harsh measures from their execution to an amount not exceeding two hundred dol- jority of works which have to speak of the in- but when we turn the mirror round, and hold lars duty free; but they generally exceed the tercourse between English and Americans. up another, and a darker face, in reproachful law, and dispose of certain ventures' at the reflection to his view; when, instead of the risk of seizure and confiscation. I asked the Scenes and Stories. By a Clergyman in Debt: man whom he has shut for awhile from socaptain of a whaler in port, whether he was not written during his Confinement in the Debt-ciety, we exhibit that man's wife in tears-that afraid of being detected in these transactions? ors' Prison. 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1835. man's children in want that man's home He replied, "Why you see I never know how Baily and Co. rifled by executions which the destruction of things gets ashore; they will have 'em, and I | THE avowed object of this work, of which only his credit has brought about his hopes de 6 stroyed his affections blighted his cherished desolation among his family, and can throw him- and fix on somebody else as the person who did self into prison, till he pay! Pay he cannot, the act.' It will at once occur to our readers, it is evident; pay he might, had he been free that the man who could harbour such a thought to try; but because he cannot, in prison he as this was no longer fit to live among his must and does remain, until one year rolls over species ;-without conscience, without heart; another, and he is perhaps brought out an old barren of every feeling of charity, every warm man-an outcast-or a corpse! You will say, and generous impulse of human love! At perhaps, that he might have taken the benefit first, continued he, ' I did not know on whom of the Insolvent Act: we answer that we have to fix as the murderer; but as I had always a known a man remain eleven years in custody spite against Mosely, because I thought it was for the sum of ten pounds; and the same money him who informed against me when I stole the which would take him through the court would spindle, I at last resolved to revenge myself by enable him to pay his debt. This man is in swearing it was him.' And did Mosely inform gaol now, and we shall say more of his history against you?' 'No; I have found out since anon. But of the instance we have taken that it was my wife's sister, and not Mosely; "Lieutenant Glanning was a gentleman above, had the same man, whose long impri- but I didn't know it then. Well, I was three with a beautiful wife and three young children, sonment has been the result of poverty or weeks making up my mind about this, and positively keeping up a carriage and a pro- dissipation (mind we are always putting fraud arranging my plans so as not to be taken aback, portionate establishment, confined at the suit out of the question), committed some positive and when I thought I had my story pretty plain of his father-in-law, whom he had offended by crime-had he descended from his moral sphere and well by heart, I determined to out with it running away with the daughter, and whose in society as the father of a family, and stooped at once.' Garside next went on to say that he frivolous conditions of release depended on his to the degradations of a theft; had he offended was taken before a magistrate, and made a signing an undertaking not to live within ten against the positive commandment of God, and statement upon oath, that Mosely was the man miles of London! Mr. Bowles was a wild the criminal laws of his country, by stealing who committed the murder, and that he was Irish attorney, whose shrewd cleverness had from a fellow-man; had he, in short, stained accessory to the act. But here he cunningly secured to him a large practice, which his im- his name and character with the stigma of a describes, and gets out of, a dilemma which, he prisonment had entirely taken away; the de- felony-what, unless the crime amounted to an would make it appear, had well nigh proved taining creditor thus having robbed himself of enormity, would have been in all probability fatal to his diabolical scheme. It turned out the means by which he would have been paid! the penal reward? Three, six, nine, or even that there were three parties to the murder, Mr. Riles was a respectable surgeon, confined twelve months' imprisonment-ay, the same and this,' said Garside, I did not know ;' for a bill of accommodation given to a friend: punishment, only in a lighter degree, because so that when he was asked who besides himself his imprisonment had destroyed his business, the criminal is kept, and the debtor has to was concerned with Mosely, he feigns to have and shut up his shop. Mr. Fustace was a keep himself, — as an honest man may be sub- been at a nonplus. At first,' he said, 'I young man of property, engaged in a law-suit ject to for years for owing twenty pounds!" wouldn't tell, for I was downright puzzled, with his father, on the subject of some deeds But the most curious portion of the work, and thought I was done; but the magistrate connected with their joint estates. The son independently of its exposing the frauds, vil- helped me out of the scrape.' This Mosely, of a baronet, he has moved in the highest lanies, and oppressions of Jew bailiffs, roguish I see,' says he, has got a brother, a most notoranks of life,-demoralised by the imprison- attorneys, and other detestable scoundrels, whom rious rascal; I shouldn't be surprised to hear that ment he has already suffered, when his law- the law enables to prey upon their fellow-crea- he has had something to do with the murder.' suit is decided he will go out unfitted for any tures, is a history of the last conversations of Well, I couldn't think of any body else, and society! Mr. Waterland's detention arose the felon Garside, who was recently executed so I said it was him! and that settled it at solely from spite; his plaintiffs having moved for a murder in Cheshire, and which we add as once.' Nothing can be more revolting than him, like a weather-cock, about a dozen times a remarkable sequel to the tale of this strange this tale. The very crimes which this hardened backwards and forwards from the Bench to the transaction. The criminals Garside and Mosely fellow would have made us believe he had comFleet, from mere motives of personal annoy- were confined in the King's Bench for a few mitted, in order to save himself from the galance, and each time at an expense of about 31. days, after being brought up from the country, lows, or, as he states, for the mere sake of the to themselves, and 57. to the prisoner. Dr. and the author relates: reward, are in themselves almost more horrid Tell, a literary man of great and not idle "While the felons were in their confine- than the horrid murder itself. Supposing him genius, the only thing by which he could ment, there were persons employed to sit with really not guilty, what a load of guilt is he pay his debts, and which his creditors had left them, to prevent, we imagine, any attempts yet ready to acknowledge! For five hundred to lie fallow in a gaol. Here, then, were six which these unfortunate culprits might make pounds he is prepared to take upon his own individuals, four of whom were married, taken to destroy themselves. It is from one of these head the odium of having participated in an from their families and pursuits, and thrown individuals that we gather the ingenious story atrocious assassination-of being himself called into prison to suffer as though they had been devised by Garside to clear himself and his a murderer through life;-he would, too, from guilty of some criminal act, without one rea- companion of the guilt of the murder, in these, a motive of petty malice, swear away the life sonable plea on the part of those who detained the last hours of their hopes and life-for with of another man, his companion and friend; them for their confinement,- one a victim of life hope still lingered-ay, even to the last! and lastly, to get rid of a point of embarrassspite, another sacrificed to his good-nature to a Garside must have been, by his own account, a ment, he would involve that man's brother in friend; two more in durance simply because their ruffian of the most outrageous cast; and, al- the common death which would have awaited lawyers had not settled their affairs; and the though a pitiably ignorant person, appears to them all, if he had not exonerated himself by literary man and the attorney totally deprived have been capable of devising plots which, for the false story, which he would fain have imof employment, and of course of the means to cunning and contrivance, might rank with those pressed upon our minds he had the ferocious pay. Policy and humanity must alike shrink of John Thurtell or Eugene Aram himself. His hardihood to invent. For,' said he, when near from such a system as this-a system which story, in protesting his innocence, was as fol- his last moments, to the person who remained admits of no reason to uphold, no comparison lows: He declared that for stealing a spindle, with him in the strong-room of the Bench, 'up to justify it. Alas! it does but point out the or some tool or tools connected with a manu- to this time I do not know who committed the fearful inequality of our laws of punishment, factory, he had been sentenced to spend eighteen murder, and I am as innocent as you are of of which it becomes awful to reflect, that per- months at the tread-mill. Whilst engaged at the whole matter.' There cannot, we believe, haps the only one that is evenly and equitably this rotundary occupation, I saw,' said he, looking at the forcible and convincing evidence, administered is Death! Have illness or po- an advertisement in the paper of the king's be a doubt of Garside's guilt; but we are far verty-nay, put it upon a less excusable footing proclamation, offering a reward of five hun- from being so sure of that of his companion. -have imprudence or dissipation encumbered dred pounds and the king's free pardon to any When both prisoners took the sacrament on a man's finances, and plunged him into debt-person implicated, but not actually having the Sunday previous to their execution, Mosely, no matter what his chances of recovery-no committed the murder, who would turn king's either before or during the ceremony, remarked, matter how brightly his prospects may open evidence against the real murderer. At this I can take the sacrament with a clear conthrough the vistas of renewed industry—no time,' continued Garside, ‘I knew no more science, and that is more, Garside, than you matter even if his ruin hang upon the doubtful of the murder than the babe unborn; but I can say.' And Garside himself, after the sothread of his liberty-one vindictive creditor thought it would be a good way of getting five lemn rite was concluded, addressed the clergycan take him from his home-can scatter his hundred pounds and my liberty from the cursed man and said,Now, sir, I have taken the household gods about his hearth can fling treadmill to say, that I had helped to do it myself, sacrament, and if all that I told before against 6 · Uranus in Capricornus D. H. M. 2 2 9 10 6 28 13 3 1 20 18 1 25 6 35 Mercury in Capricornus ...... 28 12 9 favourable time for observation. 13d 4b 37m_ in quadrature. 1-the major axis of Saturn's ring, 38"-98; minor axis, 917; the northern plane of the ring visible. Uranus, between a Capricorni and Aquarii, is too near the Sun for observation. Deptford. J. T. BARKER. Mosely is not false, I wish I may go to hell.' perigee. The Moon will be in conjunction ginis, is a morning star, and approaching a Garside repeated this before he mounted the with scaffold, and Mosely protested his innocence to the last. On Tuesday morning, the day of their execution, they were removed in a mourning-coach, like men going to their own funeral, and were taken to Horsemonger-lane, where the gallows was erected. From the top windows of one of the staircases of the King's Bench the whole of the sad scene was visible, and the imprisoned debtors rose at an early hour to see their fellow-prisoners' die! Several of the principal officers and turnkeys of the King's Bench were distinguished upon the scaffold; the felons were seen to mount it with a firm step, the rope was adjusted, the drop fell-and in a few minutes their spirits were on their long journey, to answer for their innocence or their guilt." The volumes to come promise the true history of Johnson the famous smuggler, which ought to be one of a very eventful nature. מדרש מלים MISCELLANEOUS. μ LITERARY AND LEARNED. CAMBRIDGE.- Marquess Camden, Chancellor of the Martial. Ode- Delos; 2, For the Latin Ode-Belisarius; 3, For The subjects for the present year are-1, For the Greek the Epigrams Amphora cœpit Institui, currente rota cur urceus exit? The Porson Prize is for the best translation into Greek verse of Shakespeare, 3d Part of King Henry VI. act ii. scene 2, beginning, Clif. My gracious liege." "To hold thine own, and leave thine own with him.” FINE ARTS. Lunar Occultations.-8d-the Moon occults 38 Arietis ; immersion, 12h 17m; emersion, 12h 57. 11d 6 9ma near approach to Tauri. 134 occults Geminorum; immersion, 10h 24m; emersion, 11h 3m. 134 occults m Geminorum; immersion, 15 38m; emersion, 16h 38m. 18d occults Virginis; immersion, 12h 30m; emersion, 13h 36. Id 22h 36m. Mercury in conjunction with b Sagittarii; difference in declination, 6. 6d 3h 33m-with 2 Sagittarii; difference in declination, 1° 12. 8 6h 21-in aphelion. 10d 0h 31m in conjunction with Sagittarii; difference in declination, 1° 25'. 10d 3h 50m-with Sagittarii; difference in declination, 1° 29′. 25d 13h 15m— in superior conjunction with the Sun. This An English and Hebrew Lericon, by planet is a morning star until the 25, after Michael Josephs. Part II. (London, Wortheim; Hatch- which it is an evening star to the end of the ard.)-We sometime ago noticed the first Part of this month. 14-Venus is midway between Serexcellent and useful lexicon; the second, which completes the work, has now appeared. We have nothing to add pentis and Sagittarii. 1011 3m-stationary. but that our former favourable opinion is amply borne 14d 15h-in perihelion. 15d. .the illuminated out in the present instance. Mr. Josephs has displayed portion of the disc is 0-162; the diameter of unexampled industry and erudition, and has produced a work worthy of a place in the library of every Hebraist. the planet being considered as unity. 25d 16h 53m The Composing-Room: in Three Cantos, by George Brimmer, M.L.U.C., &c. 8vo. pp. 92. (London, Simp-at its greatest brilliancy. 26 semi-diame- ONE of the most extraordinary and curious kin and Marshall.) In the Lit. Gaz. No. 871, we noticed ter, 1985. Towards the end of the month exhibitions that we have ever seen, was opened the first two Parts of this production, and have nothing to this planet will be north of the bow of Sagit- to the public on Monday last, at Mr. Stanley's add to what we then said, except it be the explanation of tarius, shining with a beautiful crescent, and rooms, in Old Bond Street. It consists of the letters M.L.U. C. after the author's name, lest our readers should be as much puzzled as the printers in peculiarly bright as a morning star. twenty-five statues, carved in wood, by Andrea Scotland were upon receiving a petition for charity from Mars is now in opposition to the Sun, and Brastolina, which formerly supported, as Caryone of their craft, signed "John Macdonald, E.C.W.H." "What can E.C.W.H. mean?" cried they; "yon's some one of the most conspicuous objects in the hea- atides, an extensive gallery in the library of the learned mon fra' abroad!-there's na siccan a Society as vens in the lyre of Castor, near Geminorum, celebrated church of St. Giovanni è Paoli, at E.C.W.H. in a' the North," At length, after sundry vain forming the summit of an inverted isosceles Venice; whence they were removed by Buoattempts to elucidate the matter, the unfortunate great was requested to explain who and what he was- when they triangle with the bright stars Castor and Pollux. naparte. They represent that number of the found him to be "John Macdonald, of the Edinburgh Semi-diameter, 7′′·15. 12d 23h 13m in con- most famous Protestant Reformers. But the Charity Work-House!" In like manner, it appears the above" M.L.U.C." stands for Member of the London junction with Geminorum, 1° 54′ north of description prefixed to the catalogue conveys Union of Compositors!" Verily the "spread" of these the star. 15d the illuminated portion of the so correct a notion of them, that we cannot do "E.C.W.H.'s" and "M.L.U.C.'s" gives great weight to disc is 0.991, the diameter of the planet being better than adopt it. the adage-" Vita sine LITTERIS mors est!" A Treatise on Marine Surveying,, by T. C. Robson, considered as unity. 31d-Mars forms a triHon. E. I. Company's Service. 8vo. (London, Longman and Co.; Edinburgh, Smith.)-Not being acquainted with the subject of which this volume treats, we submitted it to an experienced naval friend, whose note in return informs us that he considers Mr. Robson's volume to be a very able and very useful work. The Riches of Chaucer; in which his Impurities have been expunged; his Spelling modernised; his Rhythm accentuated, and his Obsolete Words explained. Also, a few explan atory Notes, and a New Memoir of the Poet, by C. Cowden angle with and Geminorum. 23d-Vesta Juno, in the early part of the month in the Clarke. 2 vols. 12mo. (London, Wilson.)- We very country, not only by his good conception, but by his able handsome casket; and the dross is judiciously kept from mixing with the purer ore. The young and fair may here study the father of English poesy, without encoun Pallas, in the middle of the month, a degree north of 2 Ophiuchi; but is not in a favourable position for observation. 1a Ceres in conjunction with 49 Libræ. 3a -four degrees north of the bright star 6 Scorpii. This planet and Pallas are advancing to favourable positions for observation. "The figures are as large as life, stand on emblematic pedestals two feet six inches in height, and are exhibited in positions the most expressive and energetic. The attitudes indicate the extreme pressure which they have to sustain. The design is to represent the individuals whose portraits, as far as recognisable, are admirable likenesses-enduring, in another state, the sufferings which their heretical opinions were believed to deserve. The action is, therefore, varied in the most surprising manner; displaying the consummate skill of the artist, and his profound anatomical knowledge. His elevated genius stamping him incontestibly as a man of first-rate talent, these subjects, on which he was employed great part of his life, were peculiarly suited to its exercise; and the grandeur of design is accompanied by the nicest attention to detail, and the greatest fide Jupiter shines with peculiar brilliancy betering matters which the refinement of manners has tween the Hyades and Pleiades in Taurus. caused to be offensive to decorum. Again we repeat our 26d 9h 29m-stationary. 31d semi-diameter, lity of execution. Some of the figures have resigned themselves to their fate, the countenance bearing the striking indication of hopeless despair: even here, where it might be supposed the artist had little scope for the exercise of his extraordinary powers, he has embodied that calm dignity-more touching than strong action-which few artists have ever successfully accomplished. The majority of the figures, however, indicate, by the energy of action and marked expression of countenance (which is effected without the least contortion or extravagance), the excruciating pangs which they endure, but from which they cannot escape, by reason of fetters by which they are bound to Saturn, midway between and Spica Vir their places. These chains, introduced with Second Satellite, emersion 25 10 23 42 22 11 29 29 Third Satellite, immersion.. .. 7 emersion The Lily. highest place; lover's grace, angel face. The Knight. Oh, Ladye Lily, my true heart is clear and much skill, form judicious accessories to the tout Yet Still, cast in prison, long and lone, my weary lot must be image of the maid I love, there's one more dear to me. The Carnation. the gardener's joy and That must be me For And beautiful are my striped leaves with many a varied dye odours through my summer-life within Every statue is a subject of interesting study, and in all much may be found highly deserving of admiration :-in one the form of the skull, in another the expression of the countenance, in another the anatomical marking of the limbs, in another the skilful management of the drapery, in another the contrivance of the position. I ask If we were required to name our favourites, we should say,-Anna Burgius, Memno Simon, I stand amid my large dark leaves, a little hidJohn Bugenhaig, William des Amore, Sebastian Polonus, Mathew Gribald, Bernardine I seldom speak ;-if now I break the silence of Ochinus, John Calvin, Desiderius Erasmus, Moses Gerundensis, and Peter Pomponatius. ORIGINAL POETRY. VERSIONS FROM THE GERMAN. (First Series.) The Beloved always Near.-Goethe. I SEE thee when the sunshine lies golden on the sea When the pale moon trembles in the brook, I think, love mine, of thee; I see thee when the clouds of dust obscure the I go into the thicket green, where all beside is The Lovely little Flower.-Goethe. I know a lovely little flower, a flower for which [confine; I pine I would go gather it, but bars my heavy hours Oh, grief, when free, how easily that little flower was mine! How dark and stern the wooded rocks around my tower ascend! [tower. I love the gentle Violet, so modest and so sweet, The little love on this steep rock, alas, you Beside a brook the truest maid now roams She seeks a little azure flower amid the waters lot must be, Though long within a prison's walls my heavy vain, And welcome Death stood by to loose the Ah, name me the Forget-me-not, I'd wake to The Black Hunt of Litxou. What the dark ranks that are onwards dashing Who are they that thundering go?- With the shriek of dying foes? Well do the French those rifles know- Where the Rhine's flowing, and the vine's They spring in their arms from the shore; For the enemy flies before! Ask what dark swimmers heedless go? Around the spark of freedom they rally, It is the Black Hunt of the bold Litzou! Who are the brave ones now laid low? The glorious hunt of the foe is over Calm be the rest of the honoured brave! Weep ye not for the friend or the lover Ours is the day which but dawned on their Ask ye what true hearts sleep below? The Gathering.-Koerner. the lea Dishonour on thy useless hand! A German maid shall kiss thee not, And German wine shall warm thee not! A German maid shall kiss thee not, When our trumpets like thunder in heaven But shame thy sunny cup shall brand! And German wine shall warm thee not! And German wine shall warm thee not! And the dead are strewn beside the dying; Literally, "Fie upon thee, boy, in the oven!" |