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lieve it is confined very much to their own comforts, and I should not have doubted it at all if I had not met by accident with a parliamentary American paper, not very long ago, in which the Americans say, that the export trade to Hayti, in domestic products, amounted to 1,251,910 dollars, equal to the whole of our exports to Russia, Prussia, Sweden and Norway, Denmark, Spain, and Portugal.'"

Admiral Fleming was examined before the Commons' Committee on the same points:

"Can you give the committee any information as to the industry of the inhabitants of Hayti? During the year 1827 I understood there was considerable difficulty in getting labourers, but afterwards 1 heard of none; both white and black people assured me, that there was no difficulty in getting people to labour, and they appeared to me to be industrious.

"Did they work for wages?—Yes.

"Did they work by compulsion?-No, I never saw any people working by compulsion; I have been told that deserted soldiers, and people who were vagabonds, worked by compulsion; people who were about the country, without any fixed residence, or any fixed employment; what would be called vagabonds or vagrants in this country.

"Were they kept to work under the lash ?No, I never heard of that.

"Are you aware that there is a prohibition against all corporal punishment in that country? Yes, I know there is.

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Did they appear to you to be living comfortably?—Yes; the most happy, the richest, the best fed, and the most comfortable negroes that I saw in the West Indies were in Hayti, even better than in the Carraccas.

"Were they decidedly better than the slaves in Jamaica-No comparison.

"What were their victuals, compared with the food of the slaves in Jamaica; were they superior or much the same ?-They were fed on meat principally; cattle is very cheap in Hayti.

"Is meat much cheaper in Hayti than in Jamaica?—Yes; much cheaper: it is 2d a pound, whilst the contract price in Jamaica is 12d.; in both places these are the highest prices.

"Were you able to perceive any difference at the Cape in the latter period of 1829, compared with the former period of 1828; had any progress been made in the interval?-Yes; the country had been tranquil at that time, and it appeared to me that there was more trade the last time than at the former, and there were several more schools

established.

"On the whole, would you say that civilisation was progressing?-Yes, certainly, rapidly."

The same witness fully accounts for the Haytians not exporting sugar; of which fact the pro-slavery writers are accustomed to make so disingenuous a use:

"Do they import any sugar in Hayti?-Not that I know of; I believe they may import. The cultivation of canes is not encouraged in Hayti; they had no means of making it into sugar, nor any capital to set up works.

"What were the causes stated to you?-The destruction of the works, and the want of capital to establish them again; and the necessity of attending to other more urgent concerns, feeding themselves and making clothes: besides, the government do not encourage making sugar, to avoid giving offence to the sugar colonies.

"Did you never hear the unwillingness of the free black population to work at the cultivation of sugar assigned as a reason?-Never, on the contrary, I was told that they were very ready to work if they were paid. "Did you ever hear the necessary rate of wages of free labour, as compared with the lower cost of production in the maintenance of slaves, assigned as a reason why sugar could not be profitably cultivated in Hayti ?-Never; on the contrary, many

Europeans settled in St. Domingo have told me that they thought they could make sugar cheaper in Hayti with free labour than with slave labour in

through any apprehension of evil. Facts establish the principles of the abolitionists. The providence of God unites with the dictates of his holy word; and woe will be unto those who, at such a time and in such circumstances, refuse to exert themselves on behalf of the oppressed!

A COMMON CHARACTER.

T.

our colonies, but the government do not encourage
it.
"If the investment of capital in the cultivation
of sugar by free labour in Hayti would be profita-
ble to individuals, and as it would also be profita-
ble to the state that capital should be so invested,
how do you account for capital not being so in-
vested?-The insecurity of the country; they
have been hardly out of a state of revolution yet;
last time that the Spaniards made a claim upon Nor altogether wicked, but so weak,
it was during the period I visited St. Domingo the
them for the Spanish half of the island, and they That greater villains made of him their tool;
were obliged to raise a large army to defend the Not void of talent, yet so much a fool
country, which prevented their attending to culti-As honour by dishonest means to seek ;
vation."
Proud to the humble, to the haughty meek;
In flattery servile, insolent in rule;
Keen for his own, for others' interest cool;
This man, with abject meanness join'd to pride,
Hate in his heart, and smiles upon his cheek :-
Was yet a pleasant fellow in his day;
For all unseemly traits he well could hide,
Whene'er he mingled with the great and gay;
But he is buried now-and, when he died,
No one seem'd sorry that he was away!

The extent of our quotations prevents us from dwelling on the conclusion to which the facts of this case so irresistibly lead. The past progress and present condition of the black population of Hayti assure us of the safety with which slavery might be abolished throughout our colonies, and will leave us without excuse if we defer this work of righteousness

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THE castle of Edinburgh stands on a
high rock, accessible only on the east
side. On all others it is very steep, and
in some places perpendicular. It is about
300 feet high from its base, and 383
above the level of the sea. The entrance
to this fortress is defended by an outer
barrier of palisadoes; within this is a dry
ditch, draw-bridge, and gate, defended
by two batteries which flank it; and the
whole is commanded by a half-moon
mounted with cannon. Beyond these
are two gate-ways, the first of which is
very strong, and has two portcullises.
Immediately beyond the second gate-
way, on the right hand, is a battery
mounted with cannon, carrying balls of
12 and 18 lbs. weight. On the north
side are a mortar and some gun batte-
ries. The upper part of the castle con-
tains a half-moon battery, a chapel, a
parade for exercise, and a number of
houses in the form of a square, which are
laid out in barracks for the officers. There
are also other barracks sufficient to con-
tain 1200 men ; a powder magazine,
bomb-proof; a grand arsenal, capable
of containing 8000 stand of arms; and
other apartments which can contain full
22,000 more. On the east side of the

square were formerly royal apartments,
in one of which King James VI. was
born. In this quarter, immediately under

the square tower, is the apartment called
the crown room, wherein are deposited
the Scottish regalia, consisting of the
crown, sceptre, and sword of state, which
were placed here on the 26th of March,
1707. It was long doubted whether these
ensigns of royalty had not been removed;
but, in 1818, when commissioners were
appointed by his late Majesty, then Prince
Regent, to search for them, a large oaken
chest in the crown room was forced open,
and the relics of the Scottish monarchy
were discovered. They were found in a
state of the most perfect preservation,
and have since been open to the inspec-
tion of the public. The crown room was
neatly fitted up for the exhibition of
them; and two persons, in the dress of
the wardens of the tower, attended to
show them to visitors.
The governor of
the castle is generally a Scottish noble-
man; and there is a deputy governor,
who resides in the garrison; also a fort-
major, a store-keeper, master gunner, and
chaplain. In its present improved state
this castle can accommodate 2000 men;
but its natural strength of situation was
not sufficient to render it impregnable,
even before the invention of artillery,
much less would it be capable of securing
it against the attacks of a modern army
provided with cannon.

REVIEW.

A LETTER FROM LEGION TO THE DUKE OF RICHMOND, Chairman of the Slavery Committee of the House of Lords: containing An Exposure of the Character of the Evidence on the Colonial Side, produced before the Committee. London, S. Bagster. 8vo. pp. 196.

THE appointment in 1832 of a Parliamentary Committee to inquire into the State of the Slave Population, surprised and disappointed the country. The friends of humanity had supposed that the design of such a proposition from the Colonial party was too well understood in the present day to allow of its success; and in this opinion they were confirmed by the dispatch of Viscount Goderich, of November 5, 1831. It has been an old manœuvre of the party, and ought to be scouted by every honest man. It is in vain to tell the British public they have not sufficient knowledge on which to act. They know to the contrary, and will not be deluded by any Colonial artifice.Our opponents, like the magicians and astrologers of Babylon, want to gain time. In their desperation, they madly hope that some occurrences may be fal the nation, which shall avert its attention from the degradation and misery of the slave. They dread the emancipation of their bondsmen-and, while hopeless of ultimate success, are yet determined to protract the struggle to the latest possible moment.

If, however, it was determined by Parliament again to institute inquiry, the country had a right to expect that the composition of the committee should have been such as af forded a pledge for the honest and impartial discharge of its duties. No slave-holding peershould have been permitted to rank amongst its members. Such a pecuniary interest in the existing state of things should have been deemed a total disqualification for such a post.

work, Lord Seaford was, in vulgar phrase, sold
up, and compelled to fly to Jamaica, to look after
the wreck of that property which the whole ques-
tion involved. Was such a man, with feelings
rankling under a sense of recent injury, a fit
judge to be named upon this Committee?

But Spiritual Peers were added to give to
it weight with the public; and was your Grace,
or your Grace's coadjutors, so uninformed upon
the Colonial question, as not to know that the
conduct of all the Spiritual Peers, on this deli-
cate subject, has been such as to lower them in
public estimation? It is known by all who have
taken any part in the controversy that the Bishops
are, ex officio, slave proprietors; and their man-
agement of the Codrington estates has sufficiently
proved, how readily they chime in with Colonial
feelings, and how promptly they echo the Colo-
nial cuckoo-note of amelioration, as a substitute
for freedom! These holy men have an account
to reckon with their God upon this topic; and
to that awful reckoning I leave them. But there
is a vast body of the public who feel with my-
self that the Spiritual Peers, dreading as they
do, and as a large majority of them have ac-
knowledged in reference to this very question that
they do, that all reform trenches upon invasion
of ecclesiastical property, were the least unob-
jectionable of all judges upon the Colonial con-
troversy. Yet, Sir, I am a churchman; I have
been educated as a churchman, in common with
all my relatives; and I love and respect the
church to which I belong, but not its slave-
possessing fathers !"

The object of our author is to show, from an examination of the Colonial evidence, the self-interest, or the implied or confessed ignorance, or the inconsistency, of every witness; and, in some instances, we have no hesitation in asserting, he has proved them fimits will not permit us to extract largely guilty on each count. We regret that our from this pamphlet; but we hope our readers will examine it carefully for themselves.

The following quotation from the examination of the Duke of Manchester, an ExGovernor of Jamaica, displays an ignorance Mere "It will not be disputed, (says Legion) that at once astounding and disgraceful. the members of the tribunal by which such a ques-forgetfulness can scarcely be supposed to action was to be decided should be men of intelli- count for his replies. gence; of information; patient, indefatigable, and, above all, disinterested and impartial; or, if a bias were permissible, that bias, according to the spirit of British law, should have been in favour of the weaker party.

"Will your Grace have the goodness to explain to the Committee how the law upon that subject stood prior to that Act?"

"I am not certain whether there was any law regarding the separation of families before that."

"I appeal not to the party feelings of your Does your Grace know whether, in practice, Grace-not to the personal attachments of your care was taken not to separate families in sales?" Grace-not to the prepossessions of your Grace-- "I do not know that there was." but to that high sense of knightly honour by "Your Grace has had two clauses submitted to which you seek to be distinguished, whether such your consideration; do you consider those clauses was the composition of the Lords' Slavery Com-tending to improve the condition of the slaves ?" mittee. I too declare myself a party man, not in a political sense, but in reference to this question. I am an anti-slavery man to the backbone. But, even in an analysis of anti-slavery and pro-slavery evidence, party-feeling shall not govern me; and, with a consciousness of this, feel myself entitled to ask your Grace whether in the nomination of the Peers' Committee party feeling or party interests were forgotten?

"Look at the members of this Committee; my Lord Seaford, my Lord Harewood, Lord Sligo. Lord Holland, Lord Combermere, and several others. Were not many of them personally and deeply interested in the result? Was it not in fact a question, whether these men were or were not the unconscious murderers of their fellowcreatures?

"I do consider so certainly, so far as they look to marriage, which, perhaps, they may think more of now than they did formerly; but when I first knew the island they thought nothing of it."

"In the latter part of the fifth clause it prohibits the separation of families by sale, only when levied together; is there or was there any and what law, to prevent their separation by separate levies or by voluntary sales?"

"I do not recollect; what there may be now I can say nothing at all about."

"Was there at that time?"

"I do not recollect. The slave law is sufficient to answer that question. The slave laws of the day are all in print, and will state that."

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Does your Grace recollect whether any other day was given to the slaves, on the prohibition of Sunday markets after eleven o'clock?"

Were they not called upon to decide whether they had, by their agents and representatives, sanctioned, for their own interests, a "No, I do not recollect any other day being system of oppression and death? And, accord-given, while I was there, than the Saturday and ing to all the principles of equity and common Sunday; the markets were prohibited only after a sense, were these the men to give a verdict upon certain hour in the day." this solemn issue? Let your Grace's military honour answer that question to your conscience. Why, before the Committee had half done its

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The Saturday was given while your Grace
was there, as well as the Sunday?"
Yes."

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"Was that given in consequence of the prohibition of the Sunday market after eleven o'clock ?"

"I do not exactly recollect whether it was at the time."

"Can your Grace, by reference to the Act, state how the law stood upon that point previously to this passing?"

"I cannot, unless I had the Negro code of that day to refer to. I have had nothing to do with these things for so long, and never expecting to have any thing more to say upon the subject, I do not bear these things in mind."-(Vide p. 383.)

"Is your Grace aware what is the penalty for exceeding a legal punishment?"

"I do not recollect what it is. There is one, I

know."

"Has your Grace ever heard an instance of such a penalty being enforced?"

"I do not recollect. I have heard instances of cruelty to Negroes, and punishment for it; what it amounted to I do not recollect.”—(Vide p. 389.)

Mr. Baillie, a twenty-seven-year resident in Jamaica, seems determined throughout his evidence to do good service to his friends, and yet, poor man, there is scarcely one of all the witnesses examined, who has rendered more important aid to the Abolitionists. His admissions, it is true, were undesigned; but they following be taken as a sample.

are not less valuable on this account. Let the

"Does not much licentious intercourse take place between the white classes and the slave population, whether black or coloured?"

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I do not consider that there is any licentious connection between them, if I may be permitted to put this construction upon it: white people are in the habit of having a woman living with them, and I believe in most instances in the same way as man and wife do in this country,-kept mis. tresses as they are culled; but as to any violation

of decency I have not seen it."

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Does that take place to a greater extent than in this country?"

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Not half so much."

"In point of fact, do you not know that almost every overseer, book keeper, and person in authority, keeps a coloured mistress ?"

"Not altogether coloured mistresses; some keep blacks; and I believe the brown population have originated entirely from that connexion. people of that description, when they get chilAn overseer, carpenter, mason, or other white dren, have been the means of having them emancipated. Such constitute the bulk of our brown population."

Can you mention the names of any among your own acquaintance who do not keep a coloured mistress, or who, if they do, practise such secresy that it is wholly unknown to you?"

"I should consider myself a very mean character if I was to investigate the conduct of any of my acquaintance, either here or abroad, as

to their connexions with women."

"So far from meaning to ask you to criminate any friend, you are asked to absolve any friend from such criminality, by giving the name of any one who does not?"

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I do not myself."

The witness is directed to withdraw. The witness is again called in. Can you name any overseer, driver, or other person in authority, who does not keep a mistress?" "I CANNOT."-(Vide p. 109.)

The following quotation from the examination of Admiral Sir L. W. Halsted, may be left to speak for itself. We shall merely adduce another extract, in order to show the opAdmiral had enjoyed. It is thus that many portunities for observation, which the gallant officers of the army and navy unintentionally mislead the public.

"On the last occasion you were resident four years in Jamaica ?”

Three years and four months I was there?"

"At that time you considered the slaves happy and contented, not wanting for any thing, not over-worked, and upon the whole so well off, that you thought they were better off than the peasantry of England?"

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"Completely so.' "Would you think it advantageous to this country to extend the system you saw to the

shores of Great Britain ?"

"In the first place they must have a different sort of clothing here; they can go half-naked ; but the same system would not do here."

"Except in point of clothing, you would think it advantageous to the peasantry here to be placed in the same circumstances?"

"Their food is different; but with respect to other circumstances, they would benefit."

"It would be an inconvenience to them to be clothed as the peasantry of this country are, would it not?"

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Certainly."

"The question does not suppose they are to be clothed in the same way or receiving the same kind of food; but supposing the English peasantry had the same degree of comfort, and the same degree of food in point of quantity, you would think it advantageous that Englishmen should be placed upon the same system?"

"I believe there are many Englishmen who would be exceedingly happy to be put into the situation of the negroes in the West Indies." "To become slaves?"

"No, not to become slaves."

"Will you state the reasons you have for thinking it would not be desirable to have the system of slavery prevailing in the West Indies introduced

here ?"

"I have never thought the system of slavery would be a good thing for Old England.'

"You think that the slaves are better off than the people of this country?"

"I believe they are better off in many instances; that there is a greater attention paid to their wants." "As you must have a tender regard for the country of which you are a native, how happens it that you do not desire to see the population of England in as happy a condition as the slaves in the West Indies?"

"I should like to see the labouring population of this country in the same state of comfort; I speak from what i have heard of the state of the labourer here, whose pecuniary wages are tremely low, and which can hardly afford them any thing to eat, or drink, or to clothe themselves."

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The witness is directed to withdraw. The witness is again called in. "Would you object to the introduction of the system before alluded to, including slavery as a part of that system?"

"Of course, as an Englishman, I cannot possibly advocate any thing like slavery in England; but what I mean to say is this, that there are, I understand many people in England whose wages are so exceedingly low that they are not so well off, or so comfortable, as the negroes I have seen in the West Indies."

Objecting to slavery, as you would naturally do, what is there that you know, or have observed of slavery in the West Indies, to create so great an abhorrence of it?"

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"With respect to the placing the people of this country in the same situation, there must be a difference as to clothing, and that sort of thing; man who is happy and comfortable in that country, according to the climate and provisions, is a great deal better off than he would be in this country."

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You consider slavery to be an evil?"
There is no doubt about that."

What have you observed of this system of slavery in the West Indies that creates in your mind so great an abhorrence of it?"

"I can only say that my feelings against slavery are, that no man as an Englishman can advocate any thing like slavery; but with respect to their comforts, they appeared to me as happy and comfortable as any people could possibly be, doing away, of course, with the slavery; I cannot

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"You think that the slaves, so far as your observation has extended, had no reasonable ground of complaint?"

"As to the treatment I had no opportunity of seeing." (!!!)

Did

you reside for any length of time upon any sugar plantation?" "No." "Have you ever resided at all on a sugar plantation?"

I have been on a visit for two or three or four days. I was over on the north side in St. Ann's. think I slept three or four nights at a Mr. Parke's. I never saw him before or afterwards."

"Does the general opinion you have delivered of the condition of the slave population relate to the common field negroes, or to th other class mentioned ?"

"To all those that I have had an opportunity of observing."

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Including the common field negroes?"

"Yes; I never was in the field when they were at work. I have seen them go in gangs, but I was never in the field attending them."

"You have never seen the gangs at work for any length of time?"

"I do not remember that I ever did;, but I have seen the gangs going to their work and returning from it."

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Did it ever happen to you to be sufficiently early to see the negroes go to their work in the morning?"

Yes; I have seen them pass by; I have not been in the field; but I have seen the gangs going to work, and I have seen them returning.' "Are you aware that they are allowed a tain time for their dinner?"

"I always understood so."

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"No, I do not."

"Or the difference of the number of hours in and out of crop?"

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No; there is a difference, I know, in crop time; it is much about the same in that country as it is in this during harvest time; they work sooner and later, but I do not know what the dif

ference is."

"Do you know whether there is any nightwork required of the slave?"

attend the boilers, and those things, I should sup"In crop time there must be night-work,-to pose."

"You do not know the amount of that work?" "No, but I know they do work at night-that they relieve each other in gangs; but I believe it is absolutely necessary that they should work at night in boiling the sugar."

Is it within your knowledge that a certain Jamaica ?"" time of respite from labour is allowed by law in

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Perhaps at six or seven o'clock. I cannot recollect exactly."

"Was it after your gun-fire?"

"Yes; certainly after that." "Do you recollect the hour at which you saw them returning from work?"

"I should suppose about six o'clock in the afternoon, as nearly as I can recollect. Unless I saw any thing very particular to notice, it did not make an impression on my mind; but I used to see them returning after we had got up from dinuer, and walked round about the grounds-six o'clock perhaps."

INTRODUCTION OF GARDENING. A KNOWLEDGE of gardening was first introcook-duced into England from the Netherlands, and, until 1509, our vegetables were imported from thence. Currants (or Corinthian grapes) were brought from the Isle of Zante, then belonging to Venice, and planted in England in 1535; about thirty years afterwards the Flemings planted a number of flowers, unknown in England, at Norwich and its vicinity, including gilly flowers, carnations, the Provence rose, &c. In 1552, grapes were brought to England, and planted in Bloxhall, in Suffolk; and in 1587, tulip-roots were brought from 1720, but five years elapsed before they were Vienna. Hops were sent over from Artois in in general use for malt liquors.

"Not that I recollect; I always understood that they had regular times for their meals, like

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Yes; but I do not know at what time; they eut grass with their reap hooks, I believe, as we do our wheat and barley. They are employed occasionally in picking grass."

On the time of labour he is equally uninformed, as the following extract will show.

"Do you not think that the care of the slaves and their families before and after the work, as well as during the period of their servitude, fully compensate for the work they do for their owners?" "I am not sufficiently a judge of the work they do to answer that question satisfactorily." "Do you know how many hours the slave is compelled to labour in crop time and out of crop time?"

WOMAN.

GONE from her cheek is the summer bloom,
And her lip has lost all its faint perfume;
And the gloss has dropped from her golden hair,
And her cheek is pale, but no longer fair.
And the spirit that sate on her soft blue eye
Is struck with cold mortality;
And the smile that played round her lip has fled,
And every charm has now left the dead.
Like slaves they obeyed her in height of power,
But left her all in her wintry hour;
And the crowds that swore for her love to die,
And this is man's fidelity!
Shrunk from the tone of her last faint sigh,

"Tis woman alone, with a purer heart,
Can see all these idols of love depart,
And love the more, and smile and bless
Man in his uttermost wretchedness.

BARRY CORNwall.

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A LAPLAND JOURNEY.

the
as at once the substitute for the cow,
horse, the sheep, and the goat; indeed,
without them the country would be unin-
habitable.

In winter the Laplanders yoke these
creatures to sledges, in which they travel
with prodigious velocity. Their sledges
are made of birch-wood, and are drawn
along the ground. The back part is up-
right, or nearly so, the lower part only
being sloped a little inwards. The body
boat
of the machine is like the hulk of a
with a blunt keel, and consists of five
longitudinal boards, lying one over the
edge of another, that which forms the
keel being about an inch thick. The

every

where about

THE above engraving represents a Lap-whole carriage is six feet in length; and, lander travelling in his sledge, drawn by from the back part to within two feet of a rein-deer. Of the habits, &c., of this the front, its breadth is four feet. useful animal, and of the contrivance by which his services are rendered so available, we present our readers with a short account, principally supplied by Dr. Thomson, in his "Travels in Sweden."

The riches of the Laplanders consist in their rein-deer, and in the extent of ground on which they feed. The poorer people have from fifty to two hundred of these animals, the middle class from three hun

To this carriage they usually harness two rein-deer, driving them by cords fastened to their horns; and it is said they will tread 150 versts in one day, a distance equal to 112 English miles.

APHORISMS.

It is an evident and remarkable fact that there throughout the economy of the world. Things bearing an apparent analogy to its truths sometimes more prominently, sometimes more abstrusely, present themselves on all sides to a thoughtful mind.

He that made all things for himself seems to have willed that there should be a great system

to bablems, reflecting or shadowing that system of

principles in which we are to apprehend him, and
So that reli-
our relation and obligations to him.
gion, standing up in grand parallel to an infinity
of things, receives their testimony and homage,
and speaks with a voice which is echoed by the

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Mr. Morison,

CURE OF ASTHMA.

Sir, I feel it incumbent on me to let my fellow-crea! tures know the great benefit I have received from taking the Universal Medicines. I have been afflicted for ten

years with an asthma, and strong billious affection, often attended with great vomitings of blood, scarcely an appetite, and reduced to the lowest ebb of existence. Having had all the best advice, with no beneficial effect, I at length fell within the channel of your fame, and procured a supply of the "Universals" of your agent, Mr. Pearson, at Hanley, which completely cured me, by taking eight to twelve pills a day, the extent of which was performed for less than ten shillings. For the good of mankind you are

dred to seven hundred, and the rich pos-is a certain degree of correspondence to religion No. 25, New Town, Landport, July 2.
The lands are
sess a thousand or more.
from three to five Swedish miles in ex-
tent. It very often happens that those
whose herds are large lose some of their
rein-deer, which they generally find again
in the ensuing season, and they then
drive them back to their old companions.
This animal feeds almost entirely on the
rein-deer moss, which grows in prodigious
quantities in Lapland, whitening whole
districts of great extent; sometimes in
autumn, when there is no snow lying, a
sudden frost freezes up this plant. When
this fails, the animal has no resource, for
he will not eat hay. His keepers fell the
trees in order to supply him with the
filamentous lichens which clothe their
branches; but this kind of food but ill
supplies the place of what is natural to

creation.-FOSTER.

It is in the relaxation of security, it is in the expansion of prosperity, it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and mirth, that the real character of men is discerned.-BURKE.

The study of divinity is, indeed, difficult, and we are to labour hard and dig deep for it; but then we dig in a golden mine, which equally invites and rewards our labour.-DR. SOUTH.

There are moments of despondency when Shak

at liberty to give this what publicity you please, and am,
most gratefully, dear Sir, yours, &c.,
THOMAS TAYLOR.
Hanley, Staffordshire, 16th July, 1832.

The " Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College, New Road, King's Cross, London; at the street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's, Royal Exchange; Mr. Surrey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street; Mr. Field's, 16, AirWalker's, Lamb's-conduit-passage, Red-lion-square; Mr. J. Loft's, Mile-end-road; Mr. Bennett's, Covent-gardenmarket; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur-de-lis-court, Norton-falgate; Mr. Haslet's, 147, Ratcliffe-highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford; Mrs. Stepping, Clare-market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell-alley; Miss Varai's, 24, Lucas-street, Commercial-road; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane-square, Chelsea; Mrs. Chapple's, Royal Library, Pall-mall; Mrs. Pippen's, 18, Trinity-grounds, Deptford; Mr. Taylor, Hanwell; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth; Mr. Payne, 64, Jermyn-street; Mr. Howard, at Mr. Wood's, hair-dresser, Richmond; Mr. Meyar, 3, May's-buildings, Blackheath Mr. Griffiths, Wood-wharf, Greenwich; Mr. Pitt, 1, Cornwall-road, Lambeth; Mr. J. Dobson, 35, Craven-street, Strand; Mr. Oliver, Bridge-street, Vauxhall; Mr. J.

him. It is astonishing with what readi-speare thought himself no poet, Raphael no painter Wingrove-place, Clerkenwell; Miss C. Atkinson, 19, New

ness he gets at his proper food, through the deep snow that covers it, and by which it is protected from the severe frosts.

The rein-deer feeds also on frogs, snakes, and even on the mountain rat, often pursuing the latter to so great a distance as not to find its way back again. The herds are driven home, night and morning, to be milked. A maidservant and a dog are sufficient to drive a whole herd. If the rein-deer prove refractory, the dog easily makes them obey the word of command, especially when seconded by the hissing of the woman, at which they are extremely terrified. In general, however, they are exceedingly tractable, and are so essential to the Laplanders as, in fact, to constitute their only resource, being considered

when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.-COLTON.

Hypocrisy is part of the homage which vice pays

to virtue.

CHANGE IN THE VALUE OF MONEY.

Deptford; Mr. Cowell, 22, Terrace, Pimlico; Mr. Parfitt, Monck, Bexley Heath; Mr. T. Stokes, 12, St. Ronan's, 96, Edgware-road; Mr. Hart, Portsmonth-place, Kennington-lane; Mr. Charlesworth, grocer, 124, Shoreditch; Mr. R. G. Bower, grocer, 22, Brick-lane, St. Luke's; Mr. S.

T. Gardner, 95, Wood-street, Cheapside, and 9, Nortonfalgate; Mr. J. Williamson, 15, Seabright place, Hackneyroad; Mr. J. Osborn, Wells-street, Hackney road, and Homerton; Mr. H. Cox, grocer, 16, Union-street, Bishopsgate-street; Mr. T. Walter, cheesemonger, 67, Hoxton Old Town; and at one agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta; and through

THE following scale of prices for seats at coronations is amusing, as showing the relative value of money, if not of public curiosity and J. Avila, pawnbroker, opposite the church, Hackney; Mr. love of exhibition :-Edward ist, half a far-J. S. Briggs, 1, Brunswick-place, Stoke Newington; Mr. thing; Edward 2nd, a farthing; Edward 3d, halfpenny; Richard 2nd, a penny; Henry 4th, ditto; Henry 5th, twopence; Henry 6th, ditto; Edward 4th, ditto; Richard 3d, ditto; Henry 7th, ditto; Henry 8th, fourpence; Edward 6th, ditto; Mary, ditto; Elizabeth, sixpence; James 1st, one shilling; Charles 1st, ditto; Charles 2nd, half-a-crown; James 2nd, ditto; William and Anne, ditto; George 1st, five shillings; George 2nd, half-a-guinea; George 3rd, in Printed by J. HADDON and Co.; and Published abbey, ten guineas-in street, from one to ten guineas; George 4th, in street, from one to twenty guineas.

out the whole of the United States of America.

N. B. The College will not be answerable for the consequences of any medicines sold by any chymist or druggist,

as none such are allowed to sell the "Universal Medicines."

by J. CRISP, at No. 27, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, where all Advertisements and Communications for the Editor are to be addressed.

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"I matchless talents, boundless stretch of To deathless laurels and immortal fame, thought,

If Science at the sacred fountain sought;
A spirit kindling with that fervid glow
Whence only great and daring actions flow;
If friendship, ardent, springing from the soul,
That ne'er knew guile, nor interest's base control;
Philanthropy that burn'd tow'rds all mankind,
By wide-spread seas or continents disjoined,
Wherever Phoebus' glowing axle rolls,
Flames at the line, or glimmers at the poles;
But chief on fire, beyond th' Atlantic wave
To rend the fetters of the groaning slave:
If these-if heaven-born genius give the claim

That meed is thine-eternally enshrined
In every generous Briton's patriot mind.
Virtues like these above yon azure vault
Of blazing orbs our grovelling race exalt:
Virtues like these make trivial faults appear
As the faint spots on day's refulgent sphere!
Yet not for these the muse resounds thy praise,
Not that thy genius poured the living lays :
But that with fervid and electric strain,
That warm'd the raptur'd hearer's throbbing vein,
Thy powerful voice that rival's glory spread,
* Mr. Pitt,

And gave due honours to the mighty dead.
No more your thunders strike th' admiring ear,
But close by his is laid thy laurell'd bier;
Extinguish'd high ambition's glorious thirst,
Together mingled your distinguished dust
In peace repose, where yon imperial dome
O'er shrouded grandeur throws its awful gloom-
Where kings and heroes strew the hallow'd floor,
'And York and Lancaster are foes no more!" "

THE above engraving represents the monument to Fox, to which reference was made in the notice of Westminster Abbey contained in our last. It was exe

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