Fashions for November. ribbon is all white; but more frequently the flowers are of some delicate colour, on a white ground; the foliage MORNING VISITING DRESS.-A dress of levantine, and flowers always of the same hue. Very fine and light the colour poussière des ruines; trimmed at the border white plumage is added to this hat, and plays over the with two deep flounces, cut in Vandyke points, trimmed crown and brim, in the most graceful manner: a small round with a narrow ruche, pinked; the upper flounce bow of ribbon is placed under the brim, at its extremity, headed by a full rûche. A mantelet-pelerine, of a novel and a bandeau of the same, twisted, crosses the hair in kind, the same as the dress, has one broad, long end, with front. The ear-rings are formed of one very large corthree points, confined by a sash or belt of ribbon of lively nelian. colours, suitable to, though differing from, that of the dress: the mantelet has a falling collar of the same material as itself, and over that is one of fine India muslin, trimmed with a full quilling of tulle. The sleeves are à la Marie, and are each confined at the wrist by two enamelled bracelets, fastened with an antique head. The hat is of very fine Leghorn, trimmed with gauze ribbons, richly and beautifully brocaded in flowers. Sometimes this throat with a full narrow ruff of the same. The sleeves of crêpe-lisse, long and full, and have a narrow manc of embroidered taffety, the same as on the edge of flounces, and consisting of one simple row of inde scallops. On the wrists are two odd bracelets; on the arm, next the wrist, is one very broad, or white and enamel, fastened by a cameo; over that a bracelet form of two gold chains, clasped with a white agate. On right arm are two bracelets, close together, of gold EVENING DRESS.-A dress of white taffety, with two on which are sewn bright garnets, and these are clas flounces, cut in indented scallops, and edged with branches with white agate. A dress-hat is rather profusely of green foliage, in embroidery. Over the upper flounce mented with a variety of field flowers, some of which is a double row of the same foliage, worked on the dress; under the brim, on the hair: the hat is of white cra and the upper flounce is headed by a silk cordon of white and has long strings, floating loose, of brocaded and green. The body is made slightly en gerbe; a pointed gauze ribbon. A belt of shaded green ribbon encing pelerine-collerette of crêpe-lisse covers the bust, trimmed the waist, and fastens behind with a gold buckle. 1 round with a rûche of tulle, and surmounted near the shoes are of black satin. 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." THE MAGICIAN'S VISITER. all I loved. Time has carried down its stream every | him. In the distance rose lofty mountains crowned with thing that once contributed to my enjoyment. The world cedars; a rapid stream rolled in the middle, and in the is a vale of tears, but among all the tears which water that fore-ground were seen camels grazing; a rill trickling by, sad valley, not one is shed for me-the fountain in my own in which some sheep were quenching their thirst, and a heart, too, is dried up. I would once again look upon lofty palm-tree, beneath whose shade a young female of the face which I loved. I would see that eye more bright exquisite beauty, and richly habited in the costume of the Written by Mr. H. Neele, for Ackermann's Forget-Me-Not. 1828.) and that step more stately than the antelope's; that brow, East, was sheltering herself from the rays of the noontide the broad smooth page on which God had inscribed his sun. It was at the close of a fine autumnal day, and the shades fairest characters. I would gaze on all I loved and all I of evening were beginning to gather over the city of Flo- lost. Such a gaze would be dearer to my heart than all tence, when a low quick rap was heard at the door of Cor-that the world has to offer me—except the grave, except elius Agrippa, and shortly afterwards a stranger was the grave." —troduced into the apartment in which the philosopher as sitting at his studies. 2 The stranger, although finely formed, and of courteous meanour, had a certain indefinable air of mystery about m, which excited awe, if indeed it had not a repellent bet. His years it was difficult to guess, for the marks youth and age were blended in his features in a most traordinary manner. There was not a furrow in his Deek, or a wrinkle on his brow, and his large black eye amed with all the brilliancy and vivacity of youth; but stately figure was bent, apparently beneath the weight years: his hair, although thick and clustering, was gray; d his voice was feeble and tremulous, yet its tones were the most ravishing and soul-searching melody. His tume was that of a Florentine gentleman; but he held taff like that of a palmer in his hand, and a silken sash, scribed with oriental characters, was bound around his aist. His face was deadly pale, but every feature of it as singularly beautiful, and its expression was that of rofound wisdom, mingled with poignant sorrow. "Pardon me, learned Sir," said he, addressing the ilosopher, "but your fame has travelled into all lands, d has reached all ears, and I could not leave the fair y of Florence without seeking an interview with one is its greatest boast and ornament." You are right welcome, Sir," returned Agrippa; ut I fear that your trouble and curiosity will be but repaid. I am simply one, who, instead of devoting my Js, as do the wise, to the acquirement of wealth and hour, have passed long years in painful and unprofitable dy, in endeavouring to unravel the secrets of nature, initiating myself in the mysteries of the occult ences." Taikest thou of long years!" echoed the stranger, amelancholy smile played over his features :-"thou, hast scarcely seen fourscore since thou left'st thy le, and for whom the quiet grave is now waiting, gerto clasp thee in her sheltering arms! I was among tombs to-day-the still, the solemn tombs: I saw them ling in the last beams of the setting sun. When I was a I used to wish to be like that sun; his career was so g, so bright, so glorious. But to-night I thought it Etter to slumber among those tombs than to be like To-night he sank behind the hills, apparently to , but to-morrow he must renew his course, and run ame dull and unvaried but toilsome and unquiet ce. There is no grave for him, and the night and bring dews are the tears that he sheds over his tyranus destiny." Agrippa was a deep observer and adroirer of external ture and of all her phenomena, and had often gazed pon the scene which the stranger described, but the feelg and ideas which it awakened in the mind of the latter ere so different from any thing which he had himself sperienced, that he could not help, for a season, gazing pon him in speechless wonder. His guest, however, weedily resumed the discourse. "But I trouble you, I trouble you;-to my purpose 1 making this visit. I have heard strange tales of a Fond rous mirror, which your potent art has enabled you construct, in which whosoever looks may see the distant the dead, on whom he is desirous again to fix his gaze. My eyes see nothing in this outward visible world which can be pleasing to their sight. The grave has closed over The passionate pleading of the stranger had such an effect upon Agrippa (who was not used to exhibit his miracle of art to the eyes of all who desired to look in it, although he was often tempted by exorbitant presents and high honours to do so,) that he readily consented to grant the request of his extraordinary visiter. "Whom wouldst thou see?" he inquired. ""Tis she! tis she!" shouted the stranger; and he was rushing towards the mirror, but was prevented by Cornelius, who said,-" Forbear, rash man, to quit this spot! With each step that thou advancest towards the mirror, the image will become fainter, and shouldst thou approach too near, it will vanish away entirely." Thus warned, he resumed his station, but his agitation was so excessive, that he was obliged to lean on the arm of the philosopher for support, while from time to time he uttered incoherent expressions of wonder, delight, and lamentation. ""Tis she! 'tis she, even as she looked while "My child, my own sweet Miriam," answered the living! How beautiful she is! Miriam, my child, canst Cornelius immediately caused every ray of the light of When he recovered his consciousness, he found himself in the arms of Agrippa, who was chafing his temples, and gazing on him with looks of wonder and fear. He immediately rose on his feet, with restored strength, and, "Died she in wedlock's holy bands ?" inquired Cor-pressing the hand of his host, he said, "Thanks, thanks, nelius. "She was a virgin spotless as the snow." "How many years have passed away since the grave closed over her ?” for thy courtesy and thy kindness, and for the sweet but painful sight which thou hast presented to my eyes." As he spake these words, he put a purse into the hand of Cornelius, but the latter returned it, saying, "Nay, nay, A cloud gathered on the stranger's brow, and he an-keep thy gold, friend. I know not, indeed, that a Christian "Nay," said Agrippa, "but I must know. For every ten years that have elapsed since her death once must I wave this wand; and when I have waved it for the last time, you will see her figure in yon mirror." "Wave on, then," said the stranger, and groaned bitterly: "wave on, and take heed that thou be not weary." Cornelius Agrippa gazed on his strange guest with something of anger, but he excused the want of courtesy on the ground of the probable extent of his calamities. He then waved his magic wand many times, but to his consternation, it seemed to have lost its virtue. Turning again to the stranger, he exclaimed: "Who and what art thou, man? Thy presence troubles me. According to all the rules of my art, this wand has already described twice two hundred years, still has the surface of the mirror experienced no alteration. Say, dost thou mock me, and did no such person ever exist as thou hast described to me?" "Wave on, wave on!" was the stern and only reply which this interrogatory extracted from the stranger. The curiosity of Agrippa, although he was himself a dealer in wonders, began now to be excited, and a mysterious feeling of awe forbade him to desist from waving his wand, much as he doubted the sincerity of his visiter. As his arm grew slack, he heard the deep solemn tones of the stranger exclaiming, "Wave on, wave on!" and at length, after his wand, according to the calculations of his art, had described a period of above twelve hundred years, the cloud cleared away from the surface of the mirror, and the stranger, with an exclamation of delight, arose, and gazed rapturously upon the scene which was there represented. man dare take it; but be that as it may, I shall esteem myself sufficiently repaid if thou wilt tell me who thou art." "Behold!" said the stranger, pointing to a large historical picture which hung on the left hand of the room. "I see," said the philosopher, "an exquisite work of art, the production of one of our best and earliest artists, representing our Saviour carrying his cross." But look again!" said the stranger, fixing his keen dark eyes intently on him, and pointing to a figure on the left hand of the picture. Cornelius gazed, and saw with wonder what he had not observed before-the extraordinary resemblance which this figure bore to the stranger, of whom, indeed, it might be said to be a portrait. "That," said Cornelius, with an emotion of horror, "is intended to represent the unhappy infidel who smote the divine Sufferer for not walking faster, and was therefore condemned to walk the earth himself, until the period of that Sufferer's second coming." "Tis I! 'tis I!" exclaimed the stranger; and, rushing out of the house, rapidly disappeared. Then did Cornelius Agrippa know that he had been conversing with The Wandering Jew. An exquisitely rich and romantic prospect was before Tuesday ..13 5 56 6 33 11 7 6 11 Festivals, &c. 6 Michaelmas Term begins. [Leonard. 7 Princess Aug. Sophia born. [St. Martin. 11/22d Sunday after Trinity. [Moon's Last Quarter. 6 Britius. 4 Correspondence. USE OF WINE AND SPIRITS. TO THE EDITOR, Miscellanies. C. withdraw it quickly, and immerse it into the oxygen, when Gutting Oysters.-Sheridan has immortalized oyster it will as instantly rekindle, with a slight explosion, and that are crossed in love, but till the following crossed us we never recollect to have heard of any thing half so crossed greatly increased splendour of flame. On alternately reas this anecdote of the simplicity of a raw Pat, who had peating the process, the same result will follow so long as just been transplanted from the interior of Ireland to Dub there is a sufficient quantity of the gases evolved. Car-lin. Pat had been sent by his master to purchase half bonic acid instantly destroys animal life and combustion : bushel of oysters, to the quay, but was absent so long that SIR,-It was, formerly, a generally received opinion it is found in an uncombined state in great abundance in fears were entertained for his safety. He returned at last that wine or fermented liquors are not only unnecessary to nature. In old coal-pits, wells, and cellars, and in large however, puffing under his load in the most musical style "Where the devil have you been?" exclaimed his mas those who are in health, but that they have been the prolific breweries and distilleries it is copiously produced in the ter. "Where have I been? why where would I be but source of the most painful and fatal diseases to which man process of fermentation. Although a single inhalation of fetch oysters ?" "And what in the name of St. Patric is subject; in short, that Epimetheus himself did not, by it is attended with death, it may with safety be introduced kept you so long?" "Long! by my sowl, I think I' opening the box of Pandora, commit a greater act of hos-into the stomach in any quantity, as in soda water, cham. been pretty quick, considering all things." "Consideria tility against our nature, than the discoverer of fermented pagne, ginger beer, and other fermented liquors, the qua- ing the gutting of the fish, to be sure!" what things?""Considering what things! why, conside 66 Gutting wh liquors. Every apartment, it is said, devoted to the circu- lites of which are more or less valuable in proportion to fish?" What fish! why, blood-an' ounds, the oysters lation of the "glass," may be regarded as a temple set the quantity they contain of it. Oxygen is never found in be sure!" "What do you mean ?" "What do I mane apart for the performance of human sacrifices, and that an uncombined state; its presence is absolutely essential why, I mane, that I was resting myself down formenst th they ought to be fitted up, like the ancient temples of to the existence of animal life and support of combustion. Pickled Herrings, and having a drop to comfort me, Egypt, in a manner to show the real atrocity of the superjontleman axed me what I'd got in the sack?-"Oysters, says I." Let's look at them," says he; and he opens th stition that is carried on within their walls: but still, Mr. bag. "Och, thunder and praties," says he, "weari Editor, there exists no evidence to prove that a temperate you these?" It was Mick Carney," says I," aboard th use of good wine, taken at seasonable hours, has ever proved Powl Doodie smack."-"Mick Carney, the thief o't injurious to healthy subjects, at least it does not with me. world!" says he; what a blackguard he must be to gi A popular writer says, "When my stomach is not in good The Telegraph.-The line of telegraphs which has them to you without gutting."—" And arn't they gutted says I." Devil a one o' them," says he. Must temper it generally desires to have red wine, but when in been erected between this port and Holyhead, began to then," says 1, "what will I do ?"" Do," says he, " best health nothing affronts it more than to put port in it; work on Friday, the 26th ult. though not yet quite com- sooner do it for you myself, than have you abused;" and one of the first symptoms of its coming into adjust-plete. On that day telegraphic information was received he takes 'em in doors, and guts 'em nate and clane ment is, a wish for white wine." at Bidston, in fifteen minutes from Holyhead, that the you'll see," opening, at the same time, his bag of o new packet-ship Napoleon was off the Head; and as the shells, which were as empty as the head that bore th to the house. If we had not this from an Irish p telegraph at Bidston is not yet complete, the news was we should venture to doubt its authenticity. brought by a messenger to Liverpool. The great advan. tage of this mode of communication will be evident from the fact, that when the line is complete, information may be transmitted from one extremity of the line to the other, a distance of 128 miles, in five minutes. The operation of these instruments is, of course, liable to interruption in hazy weather. We are glad to hear that the spirited individual who has superintended the construction of this line, Lieut. Watson, is about to establish telegraphs between this town and Manchester, as a private undertaking. The importance and variety of the intelligence passing between these great commercial towns will render the establishment of such a mode of communication in the highest degree useful.-Mercury, Nov. 2. I am perfectly aware of the topers having liver complaints, &c. which, perhaps, are dependant on the too liberal use of "old stingo." I further imagine, Mr. Editor, you are not wholly ignorant of those bons vivants, to whom the bottle's the sun of the table, and who are not in the habit of crying "go home to bed" while they can see it shining. Cornaro, you know, Mr. Editor, was in the habit of taking seven glasses of wine every day, and you are also aware that he lived to be above one hundred years old. From what has been brought forward on this subject, I imagine you will be as competent a judge as myself, if I may be allowed the expression. Hoping, Mr. Editor, you will find room in your valuable paper for the insertion of this epistle, I will, at a future period, try to convince my countrymen that a bottle of good wine per day, with suitable exercise, will never endanger their health, which, if not valuable to others, is useful to themselves. The Russ loves brandy, Dutchman beer, The Welshman sweet metheglin quaffs, The French extol the Orleans' grape, The Spaniard tipples sherry, The English none of these escape, CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT. (Communicated by a Correspondent.) VERITAS. OXYGEN AND CARBONIC ACID GASES. We understand that the telegraph has been constantly at work since the foregoing paragraph was published.Telegraphic intelligence will soon be as regular an item in our newspapers as the accounts of exports and imports.— The expedition with which intelligence can be commu. nicated by the best constructed telegraphs is almost incredible. We shall just give a few instances.-Extract from the London papers, May 20, 1823:-"The telegraph at the Admiralty on Tuesday se'nnight communicated from the London office to the telegraph, Portsmouth, and an answer was received in one minute, the whole distance being 144 miles.-The following details, with respect to the rapidity of the communications by means of the telegraph, are copied from the French papers:-" At Paris news arrives from Lisle (60 leagues) in 2 minutes; from Calais (68 leagues) 4 min. 5 sec.; Toulon, 18 min. 50 sec.; Bayonne, 15 min.; Brest (150 leagues) 6 min. 5 sec.; Strasburg, (120 leagues) 5 min. 52 sec. " To Correspondents. We are now carefully revising and arranging our på folios, containing the communications of several cat pondents; and we crave, until next week, to make up a arrears into which we may have fallen. MANUFACTURING OF ORIGINAL POETRY.-We should not b inserted the article about Editorial Plagiarism in the Es leidoscope, had not our attention been called by a re pondent to an impudent and unfounded assertion in t number of one of the publications named in a precedin page. The editor says, amongst many things equally curre that we advised the public not to go down into the t of which the said editor had been writing an account do not understand the meaning of this absurd accus but we know that there is not even the shadow of tr probability in it. We never read the account in qu and if the person who trumped up this most absurd ch does not point out the passage in any of our publicbe the public will know how to value his future asserts Altogether the thing is almost too absurd for notice: we understand the drift of such insinuations. The will, however, be baffled. PLAGIARISMS.A wiseacre has made the wonderful di that we have ourselves been occasionally the dupes di giarists. Why, we have proclaimed the fact m once, and have never spared the plagiarist. In last paper we expressly stated, that all editors were this species of fraud, but that it was their duty when t detected the cheat to denounce him. This has always our rule; and we shall always continue to act in the way. If the same writer says much about a certain c pondent, we shall institute a critical inquiry into the b ties of certain long-winded wire-drawn composition lustrated with the appropriate and elegant tropes and metaphors, ship lumber, lee way, &c. We trust the will be understood. THE MAGICIAN'S VISITER.-We thank A Reader for his pi ness in pointing out this excellent story to our notice. had it in our eye, and it will be found entire in our pre publication. The following simple experiment finely illustrates the very opposite properties of these two gases. Take two pretty deep glass tumblers, into the one put three or four ounces of powdered manganese, into the other as much A noted punster, the other day, went to see Hook, at Fulwhitening; pour on the manganese two or three ounces of ham, in a pretty considerable approximation to "half seas 99 over. "I am come three miles," said he, "to sup with sulphuric acid, oxygen will be disengaged from the manyou." "Bien obligé," returned the wit," for coming to ganese, and being heavier than the common air, will dis-me; but I should have been more obliged if you had first place it in the tumbler. Into the whitening pour on the come to yourself. same quantity of acid, previously mixed with twice its bulk of water, add it to the whitening in small portions to Prussia, Mr. Counsellor Hesse, in order to prove an appa- To be continued in our next-The Rise and Fall of Artist Novel Experiment.—Burying Alive.-At Neustrelitz, prevent violent effervescence, carbonic acid will be copi-ratus for preventing injury to persons who may be buried ously evolved, and from its greater specific gravity, will alive, had himself buried two feet under ground, in a close readily occupy the place of the common air. Have in coffin, to which two tin tubes were attached, one for breath- CHESS STUDIES-We must postpone our chess departa readiness a small bit of tape or cotton wick dipped in ing and another for communicating with his assistants, by means of a bell. He remained two hours in this situation, wax, and fixed on the bent point of a wire in such a way and was disinterred in good health, except that he was very as to preserve the flame upright. Light it, and plunge hot. The thermometer, which stood at twelve (Reaumur) Printed, published, and sold, every Tuesday, by B. S into the carbonic acid, and it will be instantly extinguished outside, rose to nineteen in the coffin.-French paper. and Co., Clarendon-buildings, South John-street, it Hair, by Dr. Albert, and also the Elder Poets. until next week. This familiar Miscellany, from which all religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending LITERATURE, CRITICISM, MEN and MANNERS, AMUSEMENT, elegant EXTRACTS, POETRY, ANECDOTES, BIOGRAPHY, METEOROLOGY, the DRAMA, ARTS and SCIENCES, WIT and SATIRE, FASHIONS, NATURAL HISTORY, &c. forming a handsome ANNUAL VOLUME, with an INDEX and TITLE-page. Persons in any part of the Kingdom may obtain this Work from London through their respective Booksellers. No. 385. Vol. VIII. The Kaleidoscope. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1827. best to decide, whether a tract of land, to which none of them has any claim, shall belong to a cerLEGED PROPENSITY OF MAN, AND OTHER ANI-tain man, whom they call Sultan, or to another, MALS, TO A STATE OF WARFARE.-SINGULAR MI- whom they call Cæsar,-neither of whom ever saw, LITARY TACTICS OF THE ANTS. "For as the teeth in beasts of prey, or will see, the spot so furiously contended for; and PRICE 340. Some of our readers may think that the labours of Mr. Perkins, to facilitate the shedding of each other's blood, were altogether unnecessary; as the business of human destruction has, in all ages of the world, proceeded with sufficient rapidity. The carnage, during the wars of Julius Cæsar, has been estimated at about two millions of men; and Edwards, in his history of the West Indies, says, "All the murders and desolations of the most pitiless tyrants that ever diverted themselves with the pangs and convulsions of their fellow-creatures, fall infinitely short of the bloody enormities committed by the Spanish nation in the conquest of the new world,-a conquest, on a low estimation, effected by the murder of ten millions of the species." "A King fancies that he has a right to a distant Professed satirists, and, indeed, others who have province. He raises a multitude of men, who have ten in sober seriousness, have contended that nothing to do and nothing to lose,-gives them a red Hare is the natural state of man, and of all ani- coat and laced hat, and makes them wheel to the led nature;-that the spider is made to embowel right and wheel to the left, and march to glory. By; the cat to devour the mouse; and so on up Five or six of these belligerent powers sometimes down the scale to the end of the chapter. With engage together, three against three, or two against It ought to humble our human, or, rather, twopeet to what are termed the inferior animals, four; but whatever part they take, they all agree in legged warriors in their own eyes, when they find e does appear to be some truth in this; but one point-which is, to do their neighbour all pos- that the tactics of the glorious art of war, which cost hough the position may appear startling or para-sible mischief. The most astonishing thing belong- them half a life to acquire, are known in perfection ical at first thought, we do not hesitate to ing to this infernal undertaking is, that every ring-to what are termed the lower animals. The battles ress our conviction, that the universal instinct | leader of these murderers gets his colours consecrated, of bees have been often described; but we never ich prompts animals to feed upon each other is and solemnly blessed in the name of God, before he before met with so animated a description of the evil dispensation of nature, but, on the contrary, marches up to the destruction of his fellow-creatures." military discipline and gallant exploits of minute Fmuch more compatible with the general enjoy- Since this forcible philippic against war and am- insects, as is to be found in an article we shall here, t of life than might appear possible upon a bition was written, the art of mutual destruction in conclusion, copy from Professor Silliman's American perficial view of the subject. has been brought to a perfection never contemplated Journal of Science and Arts. Goldsmith, a charming writer, of whom it was by the writer. Steam has been pressed into the serstly said, "nihil tetigit quod non ornavit," made vice of man to accelerate his destruction; and if a apparent paradox the subject of a very enter war in Europe should be rekindled, it will, probably, aing and highly moral story, in which he com- be but of short duration, as men may now be tely "killed off" ten times as quickly as they were during the last war. "Justifies the ways of God to man.” Mr. Perkins, in a letter addressed by him to Pro BATTLE OF ANTS; BY M. HANHART. The author in this memoir describes a battle which he saw between two species of ants; one the formica rufa, and the other a little black ant, which he does not name (probably the fofusca.) In other respects there is nothing new on this subject, this kind of combat having been described in detail, and in a very interesting manner, by M. Huber, (Recherches sur les mœurs des Fourmis, 1810,) a work to which we refer, not being able here to enter into the requisite details. M. Hanhart saw these insects approach in armies composed of their respective swarms, and advancing towards each other in the greatest order. The formica rufa marched with one in front, on a line from nine to twelve feet in length, flanked by several corps in square masses, composed of from twenty to sixty individuals. we shall take an early opportunity of re-pubng this story, we shall not anticipate the in-fessor Silliman, and published by that gentleman in Hons theory which it tends to inculcate, but shall the last number of the American Journal of Science and cted to the subject more immediately before us. Arts, speaking of his new steam-gun, says "I have though it must be admitted that the law of eat no fears for the result, neither has Mr. Lukens, since e eaten seems to be recognised throughout the ani- he witnessed the experiment made for the French ed world, yet it by no means follows that it is a Government. He saw the steam-gun discharge at of nature or of necessity that MAN should either the rate of from 500 to 1000 balls per minute, and his fellow man or shed his blood. That canni- the steam blowing off at the escape valve during the , who eat human flesh, are to be found in some whole time: he is equally confident with myself, that rts of the world, can hardly be doubted; but the the steam may be kept up in such a manner as to most aniversal detestation in which the abomina-discharge a constant stream of balls during the whole n is held, only tends to strengthen the position that a was not intended to feed on man. But, although the propensity to destroy each other food is not a human instinct, the history of all ages ads to show that men have, at all times, been prone butcher each other, under the influence of motives that he is now engaged in building steam artillery, at the foot of their hillock, to defend it against any creditable to them than those which the canni- as well as musketry, for the French Government; unlooked for attack. The rest of the army marched I can urge in palliation of his inhuman practices. and if what the projector of these destructive engines to the battle, with its right wing supported by a solid tus hear what a celebrated writer has said upon says can be depended upon, a piece of ordnance, corps, of several hundred individuals, and the left ás subject: which he is constructing for the French Government, wing supported by a similar body of more than a “A hundred thousand mad animals, whose heads will throw sixty balls, of four pounds each, in a thousand. These groups advanced in the greatest re covered with hats, advance to kill or be killed by minute with the correctness of the rifle musket, order, and without changing their positions. The be like number of their fellow mortals covered with and to a proportionate distance. The musket will two lateral corps took no part in the principal action. urbans. By this strange procedure they want at throw from 100 to 1000 bullets each minute. That of the right wing made a halt, and formed an day, if required. As regards economy, I am within Mr. Perkins, in another part of his letter, states, The second species, (little blacks,) forming an army much more numerous, marched to meet the enemy, on a very extended line, and from one to three individuals abreast. They left a detachment army of reserve; whilst the corps which marched in column on the left wing manoeuvered so as to turn the hostile army, and advanced with a hurried march to the hillock of the formica rufa, and took it by assault. The two armies attacked each other, and fought a long time without breaking their lines. At length disorder appeared in various points, and the combat was maintained in detached groups; and after a bloody battle, which continued from three to four hours, the formica rufa were put to flight, and forced to abandon their two hillocks, and go off to establish themselves at some other point with the remains of their army. without any help to their own personal exertions. Desa- The quantity of poisonous ingredients that may be Men of learning, and of the deepest research, have The most interesting part of this exhibition, usually been raised from the generality of mankind by the says M. Hanhart, was to see these insects recipro-habit of acquiring information, and retaining that inforcally making prisoners, and transporting their own mation in the memory. The power of the memory itself wounded to their hillocks. Their devotedness to the is mainly dependant on the habit of exercising it. It is wounded was carried so far, that the formica rufa, related of a comedian, that, from the long use of a natuin conveying them to their nests, allowed themselves rally excellent memory, he was enabled to repeat the to be killed by the little blacks, without any resist the truth of this anecdote, taken in its literal sense, may whole contents of a newspaper without an error. Although ance, rather than abandon their precious charge. be well questioned, yet the most surprising instances are 'From the observations of M. Huber, it is known, well attested of men habituating themselves to the use of that when an ant hillock is taken by the enemy, the their memory. The celebrated Frenchman, Mark Anvanquished are reduced to slavery, and employed in thony Muret, tells us of a young man who, imagining his the interior labours of their habitation.-Bull. Univ. memory to be bad, accustomed himself to the use of the Mai. 1826. mnemonic art, and, by this constant habit, brought in reality his memory to such perfection, that, upon Muret dictating to him 3,000 words, some Greek, some Latin, and some barbarous, all without any relation to each other, and the greatest part without any meaning, he was enabled to repeat the whole of them, not only in the order in which they had been dictated, but also backwards, from last to first. Men and Manners. ESSAY ON HABIT. The tastes, peculiarities, dispositions, and inclinations of mankind are all subservient to the powerful effects of habit. It even sways our love and our aversion. By habit, nations continue warlike or effeminate, antipathies are strengthened or avoided, and by it the mind may be ele vated to the greatest vigour. It is the force of habit which enables the Esquimaux to inhabit the dreary regions of the north, under circumstances that would destroy those not inured to the climate; it at the same time gives to other nations the capability of withstanding the burning effects of the sun at the equator. Even the ideas of mankind, with respect to the decencies of life, are greatly under this powerful control. The filthy Hottentot will consider his nauseous banquet, after the birth of a child, with as great an idea, in his own mind, that he is attending to a proper ceremony, as the European female when tasting the morning repast usually dispensed on similar occasions. If we consider the feelings of men composing an army at the time of its engagement in the most desperate of all struggles, that for existence, we must, I think, attribute the courage of the majority of them chiefly to the force of habit it is on this account that although, in youth, a man may be the most impetuous as a soldier, it is the veteran, habituated to danger, who is the most cool and determinedly courageous. Our partiality to any particular habit may truly be said to "increase by what it feeds on." The most difficult of personal acquirements is the casting off habits to which we have been long accustomed; and, indeed, the ability to do so is but seldom within the reach of men whose capacities of mind are small, and it is only those of the most determined disposition who are enabled to elevate themselves from being the slaves to habits of which they wish to be dispossessed. Miscellanies. THE TOMB OF ALL THE CAMPBELLS. (From the London Weekly Review.) the presence-chamber of Death, with an impressible feeling of reverentialawe; for nothing impresses the mind with such an undefined sense of nothingness and insignificance as the consciousness of being in the presence of mouldering mortality, particularly when we are aware that the silent and motionless dust before us is all that remains of the high-born and the powerful. The contrast between the scene we had just witnessed, and that which was at present before us, was solemn and calm smooth Loch smiling in the rays of the sun, and impressive. A few moments before, and we had seen the scarcely rippled by the light breeze which played over its surface, while the shadowy reflection of the surrounding mountains gave it an appearance of unfathomable profu were floating gaily and securely on its surface, and there dity and imperturbable serenity. A few small boats might dimly catch, in the distance, the figures of the shepherds tending their flocks among the lofty hills. All was so calm, so beautiful, that it seemed to our excel imaginations that the very winds and waves were soothed into peace by the sacred influence of the Sabbath, and the splendid amphitheatre, which surrounded us, forms one vast temple of nature, lighted up and adorned for th worship of its Creator. We had seen all this-we ha felt the genial warmth of Nature smiling in her richest an once famous in story were sleeping the cold sleep of dea most splendid array-and now, an involuntary shudde if crept over us as we entered the silent house where the the sun-beam was glancing upon its roof; but all wi was cold, damp, dreary, and comfortless. And ist thought I to myself, the only hall of audience that mains to the once powerful Campbells ?" On each of the interior of the building are erected buttresses stone, about four feet in height, and eight in project from the wall, on which were deposited the coffins of f of the house of Argyle. It is impossible for me to deser the complicated feelings which crowded my mind a beholding all that remained of the once proud and fi famed Dukes of Argyle; for there they lay-the end mighty of the land, neglected and alone--silent and d solate. My friend mounted the elevated stone bir which the coffins were placed, and read the long list of tile which were blazoned on the coffin-plate of the eldest dauke and which proclaimed, as if in derision, that," the high, the puissant, the noble Argyle" was lying bel mouldering heap of ashes. He who had once drawn after him the hearts of many, and who had lived the petty sovereign of a widely extended domain, now lay inl tary church-yard, in an unfrequented and neglected part which covered his coffin were the sole relics of the sple of his own, extensive property. The crimson adornmen dour which had once surrounded him; and the curt and sword which lay rusting on his bier seemed to s the senses," the head that wore, and the arm that wid -where are they now ?" Alas! the eye needed ba glance downwards on the fast-decaying pall, beneath the worm had long since finished its work of destruction Oh! what a mortifying lesson does such a sight to human pride! Their virtues, their vices even are al forgotten, and there they lie-the princes of the merely distinguished from the vulgar crowd of mera which surrounds them, by the paltry distinction of of the passer-by-a melancholy and impressive mon covered with a crimson pall, exposed to the gaze and of the instability of human grandeur, and of the ciency of wealth and power to ward off from their the pride of ancestry, the pomp of power! sors that dart which levels all distinctions. So muž Barometer It was on the forenoon of an October Sabbath, that my friend and I hired a small boat at the Labaretto, on the banks of Holy Loch, in Argyleshire, to cross over to Killmunn, "the tomb of all the Campbells.' Although so late in the season, a sun of summer brightness was shining over our heads, and the Loch and its surrounding scenery were richly illuminated by the unwonted splendour of his beams. A light breeze was on the water, and the small waves played gently and smilingly around our little bark, which, in our opinion no doubt, contained Indeed, on every side the astonishing effects of habit Cæsar and his fortunes. On our landing, we walked about strike our attention; and although the most numerous in- a mile along the beach, and arrived at the church of stances are passed over by us without remark, yet we are all Killmunn, which is pleasantly situated close to the banks surprised when uncommon instances are within our ob- of the Loch, with a fine avenue of trees approaching it Oct. from the northward. It is a small ordinary looking. servation. Thus a person, who, from habit begun in in-building of gray stone, in the style of most of the old fancy, has a greater use of the left than of the right hand, parish Kirks; but close to its north end is a handsome or, to use the common expression, is left handed, we re-ruin of what was once a monastery. After having wangard with curiosity: it is thus, also, that we look with astonishment upon those who, being long accustomed to bodily exercise, are enabled to accomplish feats, some of which would fatigue the stoutest horses. We read that the royal messengers of Ispahan are trained to go thirtysix leagues, or one hundred and eight miles, in fourteen or fifteen hours; some travellers also state that Hottentots will outrun lions in the chase; and several other nations of savages, who live by hunting, will even catch deer dered about for a few moments, a venerable sybil-like 31 at noon. N.W. Cloudy. Nov. 1 2 3 29,68 42 0 44 O 53 0 N.W. Stormy. 46 0 51 0 O N.N.W. Fair. 53 0 W.N.W. Cloudy. 50 0 51 0 55 0 W. Rain. 30 19 50 0 52 0 55 0 W. Rain. 51 0 53 0 55 0 W.N.W. Cloudy. 4th,-Rain during night. 6th,-Heavy rain during night. REMARKS FOR OCTOBER.. Monthly mean of atmospherical pressure, 29:59; me 52; noon, 56:18; extreme during day, 57:2: g temperature,-extreme during night, 47:21; eight, a mean, 53:10; prevailing winds, S.E.; highest tempe 'ture during month, 65; lowest, 40. |