appearance; long before my sojourn was he a ruined man"-(here he sighed with a broken and heavy sound, known only to those whose griefs emanate from the improvidence of a parent.) "I was his only son; he saw me the hope of his old in the guileless innocence of youth, growage, ing in mind and person; he cared but for me. His brother, a man of more policy, had realised a considerable fortune, and still looked upon my father as in prosperity. Long before my removal from my parental hall did he meditate it, and I being then a dozen years of age, he induced this uncle (a man of extraordinary information) to superintend my education, and relieve my father from what business rendered impracticable to himself. I wept at parting, and yet I joyed at the novelty of a long journey and visit. I did not leave any I cared for but you still we were boys. Time soon estranged my affections, and other associa. tions by degrees stole away my mind from you. You had I forgotten in my every day thoughts; but there were times, Edward, when your memory was hallowed by a tear. Accompanied by my father, I arrived at my uncle's, and all matters having been stipulated for, my exile is dated from that day. E. V. B.

(To be continued.)

ENVY. We invariably envy those whom we deem more fortunate than ourselves; but if we could only look into the private life, or read the secret souls of those whom we envy, we should soon feel convinced that happiness and misery are tolerably fairly portioned out to us all, and that the distribution of sources of pain and pleasure to the individuals who form the human race, has been conducted with an impartial and equitable hand. The world would be a far more happy one, were all people made aware of this great

moral truth.

EFFECT OF GLASSES ON THE SIGHT.-A person with excellent sight using a glass slightly concave, will at first see less distinctly than with the naked eye. He will, however, soon become so accustomed to its use, that it will not incommode, but even become indispensable to him. Gradually increase the concavity, and the organ will change in a similar manner; so that an individual with good sight will, at the end of a few years, become affected with complete myopia, and will untimately require glasses of the shortest

focus.

ARDENT SPIRITS.-There cannot be a greater error than to suppose that spirits lessen the effects of cold upon the body. On the contrary, they always render the body more liable to be affected and injured by cold. The temporary warmth they produce is always succeeded by chilliness. If any thing besides warm clothing and exercise be necessary to warm the body in cold weather, a plentiful meal of wholesome food is at all times sufficient for that purpose. This, by giving a tone to the stomach, invigorates the whole system, while the gentle excitation created by digestion adds considerably to the natural and ordinary heat of the body, and thus renders it less sensible to the cold. It is equally absurd to suppose that spirits lessen the effects of heat upon the body. So far from it, they rather increase them. They add an internal heat to the external heat of the sun; they dispose to fevers of the most dangerous kind; they produce preternatural sweats which weaken, instead of an uniform and gentle perspiration which exhilarates, the body.

THE NERVES.-Dr. Stark gives the results of his examinations, both microscopical and chemical, of the structure and composition of the nerves, and concludes that they consist, in their whole extent, of a congeries of membranous tubes, cylindrical in their fasciculi of various sizes; but neither these fasciculi form, placed parallel to one another, and united into nor the individual tubes are enveloped by any filamentous tissue; these tubular membranes are composed of extremely minute filaments, placed in a strictly longitudinal direction, in exact parallelism with each other, and consisting of granules of the same kind as those which form the basis of all the solid structures of the body; the matter which fills the tubes is of an oily nature, differing in no essential respect from butter, or soft fat; and remaining of a fluid consistence during the life of the animal, or while it retains its natural temperature, but becoming granular or solid when the animal dies, or its temperature is much reduced. As oily substances are well known to be non-conductors of electricity, and as the nerves have been shown by the experiments of Bischoff to be among the worst possible conductors of this agent, the author contends that the nervous agency can be neither electricity nor galvanism, nor that the phenomena are best explained on the hypoany property related to those powers! and conceives the course of the tubes which compose the nerves, by thesis of undulations of vibrations propagated along the medium of the oily globules the contain. He traces the operation of the various causes which produce sensation, in giving rise to these undulations; and extends the same explanation to the phenomena commencing in the brain, as determined by the will, of voluntary motion, as consisting in undulations, and propagated to the muscles. He corroborates his views by ascribing the effects of cold in diminishing or destroying both sensibility and the power of voluntary motion, particularly as exemplified in the hybernation of animals, to its mechanical operation of diminishing the fluidity, or producing solidity, in the oily medium by which these powers are exercised.

MARRIAGE. This is to women at once the happiest and saddest event of life: it is the promise of future bliss raised on the death of all present enjoyment; she quits her home, her parents, her companions, her own patrons, her amusements-everything on which she has hitherto depended for comfort, for kindness, for pleasure-and flies with joy into the untrodden path before her, buoyed up by the confidence of requited love; she bids a fond and grateful adieu to the life that's past, and returns with excited hopes and joyous anticipations of the happiness to come."

RESPIRATION. The younger a person is, the more powerful is respiration; the respiration of a male, at a given age, is double in volume to that of a female; in either sex, thirty years represents the plenitude of respiration.

ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

Extract of a letter from an officer on board H.M.S. Terror, dated Port Louis, Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands, July 31, 1842.

a Pack right a-head. After half an hour's beating at the ropes, we managed to get the ship round, but the Erebus missed three times; however, we escaped without much damage, and again stood south. On the 23rd we came in sight of the Grand Barrier, and, as the day was fine, stood within a mile and half of it, finally reaching latitude 789 10 S. in longitude 162 W., having got six miles farther than we did the year before, Not being able to proceed to the eastwhich we did, tracing the Pack edge. On the 5th March we re-crossed the Antarctic circle, and saw but a few icebergs. On the night of the 12th, or rather the morning of the 13th, for it was a little after midnight, the night being pitch dark and stormy, with a heavy sea, ruuning in latitude 60, we were running east, wind nearly aft, when suddenly we found ourselves close to a chain of large icebergs, and in hauling up to clear them, (each ship doing so on opposite tacks) we came into unavoidable (and, as it proved to be, fortunate) contact, striking very violently; our starboard bows met. This ship carried away jib-boom, cat-head, anchor, yard-arms, booms, and a boat &c.; but the loss experienced by the Erebus was much greater; her bowsprit close off to the bows, fore-topmast, cats-head, anchor, aud a number of small spars. Nothing but the extraordinary strength of the ships prevented our being cut down to the water's edgo; as it was, she smashed our strengthening pieces outside, and her bulwarks forwards were cut down to the deck. All the time we were foul we were helplessly drifting towards the icebergs, and we thought we were inevitably lost; but on the ships clearing, we saw one part of the bergs darker than the rest, and, fortunately, it was an opening. Immediately after clearing the ship, we were rushing close past an immense berg, and passed through an opening between two not more than twice the breadth of the ship, the foam caused by the sea against them breaking over us on each side. I have neither time nor inclination to dwell on the events of that dreadful night; it even now makes me shudder to think of it. In this crippled state we made the best of our way, and arrived here in safety, without a man sick, on the 6th of April, after being 135 days at sea-133 without seeing land.

After remaining at Sydney three weeks we went to the bay of Islands, New Zealand You must have heard a great deal about New Zealand lately, but I think it will be a failure as a colony; and as long as I could procure a crust of bread and chese in Eng-ward, we were obliged to commence our retreat, land, I would not go there: it will be a loss to all, except land speculators; an honest man will never survive there, in my opinion. We sailed from that place on the 23rd November. On the 13th December ¦ we arrived at the 150° W. longitude, and proceeded | south: on 19th we entered the Pack in latitude 621° and longitude 147 W.: this was considerably to the northward of where we made it last year. We proceeded through it very well till the 23rd, when the | ice became thick and heavy, and we were unable to ¦ proceed, excepting a few miles now and then, by boring and shoving along with poles. We crossed the Antarctic circle on the 31st, both ships at the same time made fast to some floe. We saw the old year out and new year in on the ice between the ships, and on the evening of the 1st had a ball there, and kept the dancing up till three the next morning; so you see, even blocked up by ice on every side, we had some fan; but that was the first and last of it. We cast off occasionally, but were obliged to make fast again; on the 18th January cast off, and on the 20th had a very heavy gale, with a tremendous swell, which rendered our situation for thirty-six hours truly perilous; it was more like being tossed about by an earthquake than a sea, the immense masses of ice threatening, as it were, to grind us to powder; and indeed no ordinary built ship could have stood it an hour; as it was, soon after the commencement of the gale the Erebus had her rudder rendered useless, by the head of it being wrung, and ours was completely torn from the stern-post, although the fastenings were the same size as those used in line-of-battle ships; there we were two ships in an unknown sea, drifting about at the mercy of the winds, and (I may say) ice, without being in the slightest degree able to assist ourselves: fortunately the gale moderated, and the swell went down so rapidly, that the next day we were enabled to make fast and repair damages. We had a spare rudder, and after a great deal of diffculty we were enabled to ship it, although only half as secure as it was before. We experienced no other damage of consequence; a great deal of copper was torn off, although some of it was three times the thickness of that generally used; also everything that in the least protruded from the sides was torn away. However, in a couple of days we got all to rights and were enabled to proceed; and, to our great delight, on the 2nd February, got into open water, having been upwards of six weeks in the Pack: this was in latitude 68 and longtitude 160° W.; here we found the edge of the Pack trend to the westward. At this time the season was far advanced, and, as in the proeceding year, we had to commence a retreat on the 9th of the same month. Captain Ross did not think proper to re-enter the Pack, but proceeded along the edge westward; we went as far as 187 W., then to the southward and eastward: on the 20th we had a gale, but in open water. Still it was very bad, not oa account of the wind, but the spray coming over us formed itself into ice before reaching the deck, so that everything was a mass of ice; coils of rope, and everything else were covered several inches in thickness, and most of our running gear about the bowspit was carried away by the weight of ice formed on them. At midnight on the 21st we came in sight of

THE DAYS GONE BY!

O, we have met again, old friend,
And still that sparkling eye
Is beaming brightly as it shone
In day's gone by!

The days gone by, my friend,

The days gone by;
Oh! those were happy, happy days,
The days gone by!

The friendly hand which now I press
Was often prest before;

But yet its pulse beats warm still,
As e'er it did of yore!

That peaceful brow serenely calm
Was once like virgin snow,
And that pale cheek was crimson'd
A long time ago!

O, we have wander'd thro' the groves
Where vernal blossoms hung,
And heard the cuckoo's early notes

When we were young!

Then let us hope that life's decline
May know no tear nor sigh,
But be as clear, as calm, and bright,
As days gone by!

The days gone by, &c.

F.

HOW TO OVERCOME EVIL.

I once had a neighbour, who, though a clever man, came to me one hay day, and said" Esquire White, I want you to come and get your geese away.' Why," said I, "what are my geese doing?" "They pick my pigs' ears when they are eating, and "What drive them away, and I will not have it."

can I do?" said I. "You must yoke them." "That I have not time to do now," said I; "I do not see but they must run.' "If you do not take care of them, I "What shall," said the clever shoemaker in anger.

do you say, Esquire White?" "I cannot take care of them now, but I will pay you for all damages." "Well, said he, "you will find that a hard thing, I guess.

So off he went, and I heard a terrible squalling among the geese. The next news from the geese was, that three of them were missing My children went, and found them terribly mangled and dead, and thrown into the bushes.

"Now," said I," all keep still, and let me punish him." In a few days, the shoemaker's hogs broke into my corn. I saw them, but let them remain a long time. At last I drove them all out, and picked up the corn which they had torn down, and fed them with it in the road. By this time the shoemaker came in great haste after them.

"Have you seen any thing of my hogs?" said he. "Yes, sir, you will find them yonder eating some corn which they tore down in my field." "In your field ?" "Yes sir," said I, "hogs love corn, you know they were mad to eat." "How much mischief have they done?" "Oh, not much," said I. Well, off he went to look, and estimated the damage to be equal to a bushel and a half of corn. "Oh no," said I, "it can't be." "Yes," said the shoemaker, "and I will pay you every cent of age." "No," replied I," you shall pay me nothing. My geese have been a great trouble to you."

The shoemaker blushed, and went home. The next winter, when we came to settle, the shoemaker determined to pay me for my corn. "No," said I, "I shall take nothing.'

FAREWELL.

Oh the sunshine of beauty and youth will depart,
And hopes sweetly cherished will fade in the heart;
Yet 'tis gladsome at parting one blessing to tell,
One tearlet to shed, ere we utter "Farewell."
There's a sigh for the valiant, a sigh for the strong,
When the fierce helmed chieftain to battle is gone;
There's a sigh when the high note soundeth his knell,
For no friend standeth by to bestow a " Farewell."
There's a sigh and a tear for the days that are pass'd,
Like the sweetness of magic, the speed of the blast;
But tho' nought be discover'd our grief to repel,
Oh! 'tis sweet to remember we bade them "Farewell."
There's a sigh deeper drawn than the others I ween,
When the grief of the heart on the eyelid is seen,
When the moments of pleasure, as ruled by a spell,
Seem all turned to woe-'tis a lover's "Farewell."
Tulla, March, 1843.

tion of recent date, have become an article of consiBERLIN PATTERNS.-These, although a producderable commerce in Germany, where a large amount of capital is employed in their manufacture. They are either copied from celebrated pictures, or (as is more frequently the case) from the newest and most favourite engravings published either in England, France, or Germany. Many subjects, such as flowers and arabesques, are designed expressly. They are first drawn in colours on quadrille or point paper, and as the excellence of the pattern depends principally on the first design, it may readily be imagined that artists of considerable talent are required for their execution. From this drawing, an engraving or etching is made on a copperplate, which has pradam-viously been ruled in squares of the required size, corresponding to the threads of a canvas: various marks and hieroglyphics are engraven on sach check or square, which are to serve as guides to those who afterwards colour the impressions on paper; the part for each colour, or separate shade of colour, being marked with a different figure. The pattern, when in this state, bears a very great resemblance to those published in old books on needlework, above two centuries since; the present mode being, in fact, merely an improvement on the designs which have for years been used by weavers for their figured stuffs. The process of colouring these patterns is curious; the various tints are quickly laid on, commencing with each separate colour on several patterns at the same time; each check, or continuous line of checks, according to the engraved figures, being coloured by one stroke of the pencil, the point of which is kept very square, and of a size adapted to that of the check of the engraving. alone renders the touch perfect: and it is surprising to see with what rapidity and exactness the tints one If we for a moment reflect after another are laid on. on these different processes, and the time they must necessarily occupy, the expense of the design and engraving, and that each square is coloured by hand, we cannot fail to be surprised at the small cost at which they are to be procured; and our wonder will not be diminished when we are told, that in some of these patterns there are considerably above half-amillion of small squares, like those of a mosaic, to be separately coloured.-Miss Lambert's Hand Book.

After some talk, we parted; but in a day or two, I met him in the road, and fell into conversation in the most friendly manner. But when I started on, he seemed loath to move, and I paused. For a moment both of us were silent. At last he said, "I have something labouring on my mind." "Well, what is it ?" "Those geese. I kilied three of your geese, and shall never rest until you know how I feel. am sorry." And the tears came into his eyes. "Oh, well," said I, never mind; I suppose my geese were provoking."

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I never took anything of him for it; but whenever my cattle broke into his field after this, he seemed glad because he could show how patient he

could be.

"Now," said the narrator, " conquer yourself, and you can conquer with kindness where you can conquer in no other way."-Boston News.

Mr. Barry, the architect, has been elected a member of the academy of St. Luke, at Rome.

CANNIBALISM IN THE FEEJEE ISLANDS.-Cannibalism to a frightful degree still prevails amongst this people, and, as it would seem, almost as one of their highest enjoyments. The victims of this ferocious slaughter were regularly prepared, being baked, packed, and distributed in portions to the various towns which furnished warriors, according to their exploits; and they were feasted on with a degree of savage barbarity nearly incredible! They imagine that they increase in bravery, by eating the valorous enemy. Captain Belcher's Narrative.

Practice

EMPLOYMENT OF LUNATICS. The ferme Sainte Anne, at which a colony from Bicetre, for the employment of lunatics in agriculture, was established in 1833, is going on well, both in respect of the health of the patients and of revenue. The value of the produce had increased from 1,957 francs, which

was the amount in 1833, to 51,349 francs.