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From the United Stoics Literary Gazette.
LOVE ASLEEP.
Wake him not . he dreams of bliss;
His little lips put. forth a kiss;
His arms, entwined in virgin grace,
Seem linked in beautiful einorace.
He smiles. —and on his opening lip
Might saints refresh and angels sip;
He blushes, —'tis the rosv light
That morning wears on leaving n*rht.
He sighs,—'tis not the sigh of wo ;
He onlv sighs that he may know
If kindred sighs another move,
For mutual sighs are sighs of love.
He speaks,—it is his dear ones name ;
He whispers, —still it is the same ;
The imprisoned accents strive in vain,
They murmur through his lips agam.
He wakes 1 the silly little boy,
To break the mirror thus of joy ;
He wakes to sorrow 7 , and in pain ,
Oh ! Love renew 7 thy dreams again.
THE SISTER S
By Mrs. Hemans.
sne sleeps !—But not the free and sunny sleep
That lifhtly on the brow of childhood lies ;
Though happy be her rest, and soft, and deep,
Yet, ‘ere it sunk upon her shadowed eyes,
Thoughts of past scenes and kindred graves o'er
swept I
Her soul's mock stillness —she had prayed & wept.
And now in visions to her couch they come,
The early lost—the beautiful—the dead—
That unto her bequeath’d a mournful home,
W here with their voices all sweet laughter fled,
They rise—the sisters o hei youth arise,
As from the world where no frail blossom dies.
And well the sleeper knows them not of earth — I
Not as they were when binding up the flowers,
Telling w 7 ild legends round the winter hearth,
. Braiding their long fair hair for festal hours; j
These things are past, a spiritual gleam,
A solemn glory robes them in that dream.
Yet if the glee of life’s fresh budding years,
In those pure spirits can no more be read,
Thence, too, hath sorrow melted—and the tears
Which o’er their mother's holy dust they shed
Are all effaced : there earth hath left no sign, .
Save its deep love retouching every line.
But oh, more soft, more tender, breathiug more
A thought of pity than in vanished days ;
While hov’ring silently and brightly o’er
The lone one’s head, they meet her spirit's gaze;
With their immortal eyes they seem to say,
“ Yet sister—still we love thee—come away !”
’Twill fade, the radiant dream ! and will she not
Wake with more painful yearning at her heart ?
Will not her home seem yet a lonelier spot,
Her tasks more sad, when those Dright shadow 7 *
part ?
And the green summer after them look dim,
And sorrow’s tone be in the bird's wild hymn ?
But let her hope be strong ! and let the dead
Visit her soul in heaven’s calm beauty still!
Be their names utter’d, be their memory spread
Yet round the place they never more may fill !
AH is not over with earth’s broken tie—
Where —where sfipuld sister’s love, if not on high?
THE MOTHER TO HER CHILD.
One kiss my boy, upon thy cheek—
That cheek so young and bright,
And once again I’d hear thee speak
Thy softly lisped “good night.”
Then rest, and not a shade of earth
Can cloud thy slumber fair;
Dark dreams from worldly cares have birth
And thou hast nought of care ;
O, why might not life s silver tide
With thee thus ever smoothly glide ?
Who gazes on the bloom of May,
Nor sighs that all will wither ?
And yet the blossom must decay,
* Ere we the fruit may gather;
And life's sweet morning buds of joy,
Like spring flowers soon depart;
And thou must change, yet wear, my boy,
Life’s freshness in thy heart;
Pure feelings, like the flower's perfume,
Embalm the memory of its bloom.
Man's lot, “ dominion o’* r the earth’’—
Maketh his sinews strong,
And that proud lot will lead thee forth,
All ardent mid the throng :
Life’s onward path is wrapped in night,
And dangers are its fame ;
Ambition holds its eagle flight,
And spurns at quiet’s name ;
And pleasure’s siren songs entice,
And flowers conceal the precipice.
O, wilt thou wander, then, my boy ?
Away, ye idle fears !
Why shroud our sun of present joy,
In clouds of future years ?
There’s One will watch thee, tho’ I sleep,
Where morning never shone ;
There’s One thy faltering steps can keep,
Would’st thou His voice were known ?
Then list, amid the world's wild din,
Tlie still small voice thy heart within.
Instant death by Lightning. —On Tuesday the
10th inst. about 11 o'clock, A. M. Martin Shelly,
aon of John Shelly, was struck dead by lightning
at his father’s residence, two miles west of James
town. We understand, that young Mr. Shelly
was up stairs fixing a window near the chimney,
where the rain was beating in from the violence
of the storm, that his sister was standing near him,
and another person in the same apartment; his
sister was considerably shocked and fell, but re
ceived no injury ; the other person not affected.
(Jrecnsb. Fat.
Maxim.— Reputation. — The way, according to
Socrates, to obtain a good reputation, is to endea
vor to be what you desire to appear. — u Men
should be what they seem.”
Lying y says Montaigue, is a hateful and accurs
ed vice. We are not men, nor have other tie for
one another but our word. If we did but discover
the horror and consequence of it, we should pur
sue it with fire and sword, and more justly than
other crimes. i
Truth we are bound to speak to our neighbor :
for the use and application of speech implies a ta
cit promise oftruth : speech having been given us
for no other purpose. It is not a compact of man-1
kind in general, and a kind of right of nations or j
either a law of nature. Now whoever tells an un
truth, violates the law and compact.— J\'icols.
A gentleman the other day visiting Mr.
Wood’s school in Edinburgh, had a book
put in his hand for the purpose of examin
ing a class. The word inheritance accur
ring in the verse the querist interrogated
the youngster as follows . “ What is in
heritance ? * A. “Patrimony.* “ What
is patrimony V A. “ Something left by a
father.” 4 What would you call it if left,
by a mother 1” A 4 Matrimony.”
The way to Heaven. —ln the neighbor
hood of Hodbam castle, Dumfriesshire
there is a tower called “Repentance.’ Sir
Richard Steel having observed a boy lying
on the ground near the tuwer, very atten
tively reading his bible, asked him if he
understood the book he was reading, and
could teilthe way to heaven? “Yes, sir,”
answered the boy, 44 you roust go by that
lower.”
From the .V. York Commercial Advertiser.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
Three o'clock.
We stop the press to announce the arrival of
the packet ship Birmingham, Capt. Harris, from
Liverpool, whence she sailed on the 13th of May ,
and to which date the Editors of the Commercial
Advertiser have received files of English papers
and Lloyd’s Lists.
The Catholic Question was brought forward in
the House of Commons, on the evening of the Bth
ultimo, by Sir Francis Burdett. The Baronet s
opening speech occupies eight columns and a half
of dose print in the Courier. He concluded by
moving “ that the House resolve itself into a com
mittee to consider the state oi the laws affecting
His Majesty’s Roman Catholic subjects in Great
Britain and Ireland, with a view to such a final
and conciliatory adjustment as may be conducive
to the peace and strength of the united kingdom,
to the’ stability of the Protestant establishment,
and to the general satisfaction and concord of all
classes of His Majesty’s subjects.” The motion
was seconded by Mr. Brougham. The Solicitor-
General followed in opposition to the motion, and
Mr. Spencer Percival and Mr. M*. Fitzgerald sup-;
ported it. Mr. O. Moore spoke against the mo
tion, and having concluded his remarks, the debate
was adjourned over to the evening of the Hth.
On the 9th, the debate was renewed, and seve
ral gentlemen spoke,, 4he principal of whom were
Sir James Mackintosh in favor of the motion, and
Mr. Secretary Peel against it. The debate was
! then adjourned over to the 10th. i lie
House is very fuH, and it is calculated that the
i division will be very close.
I The report that Lord Palmerston has been ap
pointed Governor of Jamaica, is contradicted.
The bill for the repeal of the Corporation and
Test acts, has received the Royal assent.
Don Pedro, of Portugal, is involving his country
every way. The Courier declares s tli<it the Con
stitution is, in fact, abolished ; the Regency has ,
been destroyed; and Don Miguel has, in tact and
J in deed, if not in words, assumed the crown.
I M’nirs of the East. —There are no later dates
from Constantinople,’ or the Pruth and Danube,
than were received yesterday irfthe Paris papers;
but there are a few additional particulars oi same
dates, and we are enabled to add the opinions of
! the London Courier. The news from those ro-
I gions continues of a warlike complexion. Ere this s
! the Russian armies are supposed to have crossed
i the Pruth ; but there is not any certain intelli
gence of the event having actually taken place.
The most active preparations are making by
the Russian army. Pontoniers are busily con
structing bridges, and reinforcements of horse and
foot are drawing nearer the Pruth. It is supposed
that a double operation will take place at, the same
time—that whilst the Russians on the Pruth will
take possession of the Principalities, the Grand
Army will cross the Danube and Reni and Ismael.
„ The Courier of May 9, says: “The accounts
which arrived here yesterday from Constantinople,
have disappointed those who still clung to the
hope that the peace of Europe might be preserved
by the adoption of a more moderate tone on the
part of the Sultan. He is determined upon war,
and though he is acquainted with the sentiments
of the allied powers, he still ,thinks they will not
suffer the Turkish Empire to be destroyed. 1 his
1 is the substance of the last advices that, have been
received by the way of Vienna, and to the know
ledge of this determination we may probably im
pute the change which is rumoured to have taken
place in the European's plan of operations. It
was supposed that he would, in the first instance,
content himself with occupying the Principalities,
and would not immediately cross the Danube. It
is said now, however, that he will occupy the
Principalities, and pass the Danube at the same
time—pushing on towards Constantinople as
quickly as possible.”
The same paper says, it is pretended, in a Vienna
article of April 26, to attribute the supposed delay
in the Russian operations to the refusal of the
Courts of London and Paris to fulfil a condition to
which they had previously bound themselves, viz:
the blockade of the Dardanelles—a refusal which
had obliged Russia to change her plan of opera
tions. There is not the least foundation for this
statement. The only cause of delay if there has
been any, is the backwardness of the season.
London, M*. r 10.
Half past seven.—We have heard it affirmed
this morning, in a very respectable quarter that af
ter crossing the Pruth by the Russian army on the
27th ult. a communication was forwarded to Oon
stantinople, on the part of the Emperor, with pro
positions, on a compliance with which by the Sul
tan the further advance of the troops into t ie Tur
kish territory would be prevented, fusse propo
sitions are said to relate principally to tnree points:
Ist, Reparation for injury sustained in sending a
way Russian subjects from Constantinople, and
for the seizure of cargoes of Russian vessels. 2d,
Security against future recurrence of such inju
ries. hd, The fulfilment of those conditions, on
behalf of Greece, demanded by the three allied
powers, in virtue of the treaty of the 6th of July,
1627. These statements are entitled to notice, be
cause they are derived from sources of generally
correct information ; but they are so much at va
riance with probability, that it is impossible to
place any absolute reliance on them ; and if these
very moderate propositions should ultimately
prove to have been made, it will rather lead to
doubts of the sincerity of Russia, than the convic
tion that her intentions with regard to Turkey
have undergone so material a change.
According to the German papers, the Russian
army that was in Persia, is to move towards Rze
rum, in the Asiatic Dominions of the Sultan. The
acquisition of the Turkish fortresses in the land of
the Kurds, will be essential importance to the Rus
sians.
LATEST FROM FRANCE.
By the arrival ol the snip Pallas, Capt.
Brown, from Havre, our New York cor
respondents are in possession ot Havre
dates to the 9th, and Paris to the Bth ult.
inclusive The English intelligence has
been anticipated From the New York
morning papers of yesterday, we make the
following extracts. — Phil. Gaz.
TURKISH AFFAIRS
By the latest dates from Constantinople,
the Sultan is as resolute as ever. A Euro
pean agent had requsted the Reis Etlendi
to explain the Hatti-Scheriff ol December
20, in a sense less offensive to Russia, but
received for answer that the language ol
the Porte in that manifesto was nothing
but the truth, and that any other language
would be derogatory to its digimy. This
is plain speaking, after the threatening ap
proach of the Russian legions to the Tur
kish frontier. The Sultan is represented
as immoveable in his resolution, although
the grandees of his empire are somewhat
alarmed at the aspect of affairs. It is said
that the Pachas now at Constantinople had
petitioned the Sultan to avoid war if pos
sible, but he and his generals were prepar
ing for battle, and would not listen to them.
It is stated (from Odessa) that the Rus
sians have been making military examina
tions in the gulf of Sisopolis, and they in
tend to act from its shores against Coustan
tinople and also the northern Turkish ar
my—and that they have laid an embargo
upon vessels of all nations, interdicting the
VVhite as well as the Black Sea.
A Tartar had arrived at Constantinople
from the Dutch Consul at Smyrna, to the
Dutch Minister resident. This Tartar had
left Smyrna immediately after an aid of
Gen. Guilleimnot reached that place The
Reis Effendi demanded the nature of the
message from the Dutch minister, but he
refused to give any explanation!
The accounts of the Pacha of Egypt
having ordered his son to evacuate the JVlo
rea, is not confirmed ; he has renewed his
assurances of fidelity to the Sultan.
An article dated Paris May B,says that
the campaign is opened—that the Russian
army was to cross the Pruth on the 27th of
April; that the operations were to com
mence with the seige of Bradaw and Ga
latz. It is also stated that Nicholas was to
issue a proclamation, and at the same time
to address a 4 letter to the Grand Vizier,
containing his ultimatum
M. Minciaki, Russian charge at Bucha
rest, has sent his family from that place,
fearing a surprise from tne Turks In
quietude and alarm augmented hourly at
the latest dates from Bucharest.
The Gazette de Augsborough gives the
following speech of the Reis Eflfendi to the
French Consul—Now tho Russian policy
is unveiled instead of one war, she announ
ces two ; the first for her own particular
interest, the second for the pretended paci
fication of Greece . Things must needs
come to this point, to open the eyes of the
European powers.
The Sultan is constantly with his troops,
partaking the same food, and exercising
them constantly. His favorite manoeuvres
are the charge lor his cavalry, and the at
tack, in column, for his infantry.
According to the Gazette de Augsburgh,
the Divan firmly believed that France and
England were about to declare themselves
anew, allies ol the Porte. It may be so.
An article from the frontier* of Bosnia, :
dated April 8. says that a Capidschi Pacha
arrived there on that day, and ordered the j
Capanaks of Bosnia to report themcelves to ;
him. The result of the interview between
him and them divulged the object of this
measure All the members of the Catho
lic and Greek clergy departed to surrender |
themselves at Salaros. A circumstance so J
unexpected created alarm in both Christi- j
ans and Turks.
News from Odessa, announced great ac
tivity in the military opeiations of the Rus- i
sian army.
FRANCK/
The Count Je Seze, the first President
of the Court of Cassation, (who has just
died of a lingering malady,) is spoken of in
warm terms by the Paris Journals. He
was itfe ad/ocate of Louis If), and distin
guished himself in the defence of that un
fortunate monarch.
The arrival of Prince Ypsilanti is an
nounced at Paris.
The Universal Gazette of Lyons gives
the following news from Toulon : “ That
tiie troops, supposed to he desdued for the
Morea, are about to take possession of the
Balerrie Isles, ceded by Ferdinand 7th, in
payment of the debt due from Spain to
France; and that the Prince of Polignac is
to smooths away all the difficulties raised
by England on this subject.’ The author
ity of me Gazette is doubted by the editor
of the Havre Journal.
The Chamber of Deputies is engaged in
animated discussions, attended by the usual
quantity of murmurs, movements, and great
excitements.
-Gen. La Fayette is announced as Piesi
dent <f tne first Bureau de Chambre.
Measures have just been taken by the
French government, to puisne closely the
Algerine corsairs that cruise off the coast
of Sardinia. A few days ago one of them
w<s sunk and another captured and sent to
Toulon.
A Berlin letter of the 25th ult, says —
“ We understand that the I7th was the day
fixed for the workmen to begin the bridges
foi effecting the passage of the Pruth : and
between the 22d and 28h all the troops
are to he concentrated and ready to march.
In the principalities apprehensions prevail
that a Turkish corps will enter them for
the sake of plunder before the Russians ar
rive.”
The following is an extract of a letter
from M. Eynard dated Geneva, April £9
“ Colonel de Heideck writes me from Na
poli di Romania, under date of March 8,
that “affairs in Greece begin to wear a
flourishing aspect now that Count Capo d’
Istria is at the head of the Government;
confidence begins to be restored, and the
creation of a national bank, into which con
siderable sums have been already paid,will
tend to consolidate the public credit, espe
cially if he Powers, as we are led to hope,
should assist this credit. Napoli di Roma
nia is under my command, and the order
so happily restored I shall take care to
mainioin.’ The King of Bavaria has
granted to Col. de Heideck, leave of ab
sence for another year, in order that he
mav continue to devote himself to the
Greek cause.
The funeral of the Count de Seze took
ptace at Paris on the sth.
i etlers from Lisbon state that Don Mi
guel has abandoned his intention ol assum
ing the title of King.
A Lyons paper, states that when the
Greeks were expelled from Scio, a consi
derable number of Hellenists who had taken
refuge in the house of the Dutch Consul
were massacred, and the Consul himself
put to death.
M. de Chateaubriand is said to have re
ceived the appointment of ambassador to
Rome in place of the Duke de Laval, who
is to go ti Vienna.
A letter from Marseilles mentions, that a
national ship had just sailed from Toulon,
bound to the Morea, subject to the direc
tion of Capo d’lstria, having on board mi
litary intendanls, military, civil, and geo
graphical engineers, and officers of artillery.
The Toulon government expedition had
not yet sailed.
‘The Moniteur contains a royal ordinance
of the 4th, which calls into active service
the reserve of the conscripts of 1825 and
1826. The day fixed for their departure
from their respective homes is June 15th
In consequence of this order, by which
120,000 men are called into active service,
decline was expected, but the price vl
Stocks has maintained its ground steadily.
From Lisbon intelligence bad been re
ceived to April 22. It appears that affairs
remained in th ir. former state. The In-j
fant was disposed to resist the instances of
his mother, and to defer the execution of
her projects. The Constitutionalists were
still the objects of the outrages o their ad
versaries. A violent quarrel had taken
place the preceding Sunday, in the cum i
of St Roche. The Constitutionalists be
ing pursed after mass, defended themselves,
shouting at the same time, “ long hve Don
Pedro,” and there was great difficulty m
separating the combatants.
An epidemic had broken out in the Jesu
it College at Madrid. The disease was
communicated to one of the Royal Infants
by his governor. The Infant Francis had
left the Capital with ins family, in order to
escape the contagion.
From the Milledgeville Journal.
The Judiciary. —The chief objection
that has been urged against the present sys
tem, is the want of uniformity in the deci
sions of our tribunals. Each cucuit lms
been said to have its own code of law, its
own rules of practice, and its own system ol
decisions.
Our laws are necessarily impertect, tor
they partake of the imperfections of all
earthly things. They are to be expounded ;
and where the intention of the legislature is
at all obscure, or doubtful, it must be as
certained with as much care as possib e,
and defined with precision. This task —a
very important one, and lull oi heavy les
ponsihilities —is performed by eight men,
; entirely independent of each other, and ir
responsible to any power, but public opin-
I ion, the legislature, and their own consci
! ences Tncy have different modes ol think
ing and acting. They see, perhaps, the
very same thing, in totally different lights.
They judge of tho intention of the framers
of the laws by different rules, and where an
! appeal to facts is made for the purpose ol
ascertaining that intention, it may so hap
! pen, that the same facts may not be pre
sented to them, or the facts may he tiie
same, and yet come before them distorted
by passion or prejudice—very slightly even
though it be, vet sufficiently so to produce
perhaps insensibly a strong impression on
their minds.
Hence the very same provision of a law,
in the course of the discharge of their func
tions, may be brought before them in their
different circuits The same points may
be made by counsel : the same facts may
be proved in connexion with the case to
which the law is to be applied. Yet fr om
the causes which have been mentioned the
decisions involving perhaps property to
an immense amount, may be widely dil
ferent
Hence what is law in one circuit is not
law in another. This is the case, as regards
the different circuits. But once in three
years our judges in the same circuit are
probably changed. Hence, in the same
circuit, what was law under one man’s ad
ministration is not law under that of ano
ther. That which was lasv three years ago
may not bo law now. What was law yes
terday may not be law to-morrow, particu
larly if an elecliou of judges intervene. So
that in truth we have no law at all, if we
take the term law to mean a permanent and
i uniform rule of action. li, m this state ol
things, wt> were to attempt to give a defini
tion of the term, it might be said to mean
eight different , separate , and independent ,
rules ol action on the same state of facts,
which rules are permanent and uniform in
themselves , only so long as the judge shall
remain ol the same opinion, and for the
space of three years, at farthest.
Our state is proverbial for the fickleness
of its legislation. It is meant by this, that
important laws are often passed, and as of
ten modified or repealed before the people,
on w hom they are to operate, whose inter
ests are to be affected, and whose conduct
is to be affected by them, are well acquain
ted with their provisions. It was but tne
other day, that a plain countryman of ex
cellent sense, who was engaged in the dis
tribution of the acts of the last legislature,
remarked in our office that it was useless
to send cut all these books, for next year
many of the laws they contained would per
haps be repealed or altered. This showed
very clearly in what light he was in the ha
bit of regarding them. Though perhaps,
just at that moment, the consideration that
he had made a very hard bargain may have
had some agency in prompting the remark.
Some persons hav** compared these books
to almanacs And the comparison is as ap
propriate as any thing could be. It runs on
all fours. Poet or rhetorician never mane
a better. The great uncertainty, arising
from these causes alone, in regard to what
the law is one would think, would be an
inconvenience scarely to be endured. But
when to this issuperadded the uncertainty
in regard Jo these laws, arising from the dif
ferent construction put upon them by eight
different, and independent expositors, the
inconvenience becomes absolutely intole
rable. Knowing that these grievous evils
do exist—feeling the full force of them al
most every day—finding that it is next to
impossible to ascertain precisely what the
law is, under the present system (and they
can,jot avoid finding it out) —and under
standing that the igrorance of the law fur
nishes no excuse for the transgression of it,
it is really a most remarkable thing that the
people have so long, and so patiently en
dured evils of such magnitude. It cannot
be accounted for, unless it be referred to
the sentiment adverted to in the beginning
of these remarks, that the times were not
suitable for reform. To attribute it to any
thing else, would be to charge them with an
indifference to their personal interests alto
gether inexcusable.
The picture we have drawn is by no
means too highly colored. There is no ex
aggeration about it. Every man who has
attended to the administration of justice in
our state, can bear witness to the accuracy
of it. Many a man has felt the truth of it,
in that most sensitive of all nerves —his
pocket. In this extiemely uncertain state
of things, what enn be more common than
that a man should undertake to recover
what he believes to be- his WolaJod rigim
understate Jir\ from counsel or otherv,.
that decisions have been repeatedly
to suit his case exactly : and yet, idler ii ; ,
most patient investigation befuie the court
and after spending large sums of money [,!
doomed to find that the decision
court is against him. Feeling peiluqj
strongly thatfjustice is on his side, he-is ah.
posed to • eliove that it has been denied
him and he appeals from the decision.—.
And to what does he appeal ? From Pluij,,
drunk to Philip sober No. IJ is case
rather worse than that. He appeals jY,, n ,
onejudge and jury to the-same judge and t
different jury, res mg his case thee pi,,
haps on a little different state of the f H , 1(J
but precisely the same construction of th 0
law. This is mere mockery—the show
justice, without un atom of substance. Ami
so sensible are some men of this, that w ()
have heard of instances in which they have
retrained altogether from the prosecufin,
of causes in which common sense proclaim,
ed that justice and equity were on their
side, declaring that they would just assooq
Stake the issue on the cast of a die, ns g 0
into our courts as they are at present orga
nised; thus preferring to submit to mani
fest, and perhaps serious injury, rather than
avail themselves of the only means of rr,
dress .furnished them by their
While others of warmer temperament u>u
der high excitement, regardless of conse
quences, have been impelled to take redress
into their own hands, thus disturbing the
public peace, outraging public decorum,de
basing the standard ol public morals, ami
bringing upon themselves and their famil
ies, evils incalculable.
These remarks are written current cal
amo ; —they are intended to bo geueiai—
nothing like special personal allusion is io
he understood in them. Much that has
been suggested is perhaps already familiar
to our readers. But familiar as it may be,
it cumiot be too often repeated.
Tk° Shull and Face. —Dr. Abernethy
has his own particular way of saying things,
and all that he does say is interestin').—.
The following is au extract from one of his
lectures.
“ There is something to be mentioned
to yon respecting the general form of the
skull. Dr. Hunter and Camper turned
their minds to it about the same time, and,
I believe, without either knowing the in
tention of the other. Camper drew a lino
from the most projecting part of the fore
head to the most projecting part of the up
per jaw ; this he called a facial line- tins
is Camper '* facial line. Now if you draw
another hue through that in a horizontal
manner, so as to pass from the base of tin
nose along the opening of the ear, you
will then have an angle—the two lines will
have nearly all the brain betweeu them;
and the greater the angle, of course the
larger the brain. Here is the skull of an
African—theangle is veiy small, recedes
more and more from the perpendicular to
wards the horizontal line. H3ie is a differ
ent sort of skull, where the lines intersect
each other at nearly right angles. Li this
way Camper distinguished between varie
ties of mankind and animals. I have bees
sometimes talking to an artist over these
specimens of statues left us by the ancients;
what is the reason that we see in thera
something that always fascinates us, at the
same time that we see every thing exagge
rated in them ? The ancients did exagge
rate in their statues ; but theu there was so
much delicacy, so much grace in ther ex
aggeration, that you did not see it but )ou
were fascinated ; their foreheads, toe in
stance Look at them, and you see them
coming forward—they overhang the rest of
the face. You see they do not shelve away
—they are broad and expanded. Animats,
the brutes, have scarcely foreheads; the
monkey s forehead, you see, recedes; and
here is the djg’s forehead—it falls back
completely. The ancients, therefore, with
reason, gave a full projecting forehead to
their statues, to dignify them—to mark, as
it were, ihe striking difference there was
between man and other animals. Now, the
eyebrow is quite peculiar to man; no other
animal has it —mark that. What did the
ancients do ! Why they laboured that part
of the human countenance with extraordi
nary care ; for it is a part that is, in a par
ticular manner, adapted to convey expres
sion. The eyes, too, they managed in tho
same way. Some of the inferior animate
have their eyes so brought forward on th#
surface of the face, that they can see side
ways—they can see around them, and ewft
behind them.
That’s the case with the hare; tire poor
timid animal car see behind him ; and so
constantly does he keep looking backwards
when pursued, that he will rush upon an
obstacle right before him, and, as some*
times happens in the chase, will absolutely
break bis neck by the force with which h®
rushes against it Now, this looking sid’*
ways, at and about one, is the sign of a su 5 *
pick us disposition. The ancients kne*
this, and what did they do? They gave t®
the faces of their statues eyes that looked
straightly and directly on you—that look ca
sternly forwards ; and ihey did this iu uf ‘
der to convey to the beholder that the bri*
finals foil the very reverse of timidity*
appreheusion, anti suspicion.
Preservation. —On Wednesday last, * I
man, his wife and child, was passing I
tenant s bridge in Lyme, iu a wagon, wh l ' B |
ihe horse took fright at a hole in the bririg o I
The man sprang out and endeavored 10 1
nold the horse, in vain ; he backed, ■
the railing and fell 15 teet into the ri' ff I
taking with him the woman, child and ‘ v ' r I
gon The horse cleared himself from u ie I
wagon, while the woman with great p ;, '|
sence of ptind held herself by the seat
one hand and with the other supported “ ■
child above water, until the man swain I
them and brought them both ahem 11 ’ I
safe on shore; neither having ‘
any material injury.