The Haw of the Eye of a Horse.-"This is not like the membrana nictitans of a bird, but it is a cartilage covered convexly by the membrana conjunctiva: there is appended to it a mass of fat, and next to the fat is the retractor muscle: whenever the eye is excited there is an action of this muscle; the eye-ball is retracted, the mass of fat is compressed, and by the compression of this, the haw, as it is termed, passes over the eye, so that you never see any thing like dirt, or an extraneous body in the eye of the horse, unless a bit of grass gets entangled there. But in the most dry road a horse never suffers from dust, as his rider does, and it is owing to this provision of nature--a third eyelid, as it were, which runs over the eye. At the moment the eye is turned inward, the haw passes over the eye, and having a glandular secretion it removes whatever is offensive to the inner corner of the eye, when it is conveyed out."-Sir Charles Bell. Pressure of the Air and Water on Animals.-"A certain degree of pressure is suited for the proper condition of an animal; when this pressure is greater or less than the creature habitually supports, the animal suffers in proportion to the difference; and, when it becomes very considerable, the creature can no longer exist. Although man can live without unpleasant sensations under a considerable variation of atmospheric pressure, yet upon lofty mountains, such as Mont Blanc, and consequently under a considerably diminished weight of air, he perceives he has attained a situation where his bodily sensations, from the want of the necessary pressure, are most unpleasant; every step requires great effort, his breathing is deranged, the smaller blood-vessels begin to give way, and altogether he finds himself under conditions not suited to him. His sensations therefore teach him that be could only continue to exist beneath a given amount of atmospheric pressure, and that the component parts of his body are suited to it. With regard to marine ani-> mals, it is equally certain that a considerable difference in depth would produce effects of a similar kind a creature living at the depth of 100 feet would sustain a pressure, including that of the atmosphere, of about 60 pounds on the square inch, while one at 4000 feet would be exposed to a pressure of about 1830 pounds upon the square inch. It will be obvious from our knowledge of the structure of animals generally, that we cannot suppose any one creature capable of sustaining such enormous differences of pressure with impunity in the mass of waters, therefore, as on land, there must be a geographical distribution of existence, not only in regard to latitudes, but also in relation to depths."-De la Beche.

Savings Banks.-The number of Savings' Banks in England, Wales, and Ireland, on the 20th of Nov. 1833. the date of the last return, was 484; of which Dumber 76 were established in Ireland. The total amount of deposits at that period was £15.715,111, and the number of individual depositors 467.161; the number of accounts of Friendly Societies 4,598; and of Charitable Societies, 3,366. Ireland contributes £1,380,718 of this sum, and the depositors number 49,170, exclusive of the accounts of 210 Friendly Societies and 492 Charitable Societies. It is gratifying to find that the amounts received and the number of contributors in both kingdoms, exhibit a considerable increase since November, 1831; the only exception being in the number of Friendly Societies in Ireland, in which there is a decrease of 24 since that period. The total increase in the amount deposited since 1831 is £1,403,464; to this increase £334,893 belongs to Ireland. The total increase in the Dumber of contributors and accounts is 45,755, of which number 11,397 are Irish contributors.

Coleridge. - In a lecture delivered upwards of twenty years ago, at some Hall in Fetter Lane, he divided readers into four classes. The first he compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand-it runs in and it runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class, he said, resembled a sponge-which imbibes every thing, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jelly-bag-which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, he compared to the slaves in the diamond-mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserved only the pure gem.-Lit. Gaz.

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Home Happiness: or, Three Weeks in Snow. Faustus: a Dramatic Mystery; the First Walpurgis Night; the Bride of Corinth; translated from the German of Goethe. By John Anster, LL.D. Barrister at Law.

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Twenty Sermons; including two especially addressed to the Young. By the late Rev. W. Howels, Minister of Long Acre Episcopal Chapel.

The Saxon's Daughter; a Tale of Chivalry, in Six Cantos, By N. Michell, author of "An Essay on Woman, &c.

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