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EDITOR'S BOX.

"Fiat justitia ruat cœlum."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOURIST.

SIR: Should you think this worthy a corner in your valuable "TOURIST," it is at your service.

Some years ago, I had occasion to visit a friend, not a hundred miles froin Weybridge; and staying over the Sabbath, of course went to church. The officiating clergyman was newly appointed to the living; and such was his love of pedantry, that, to use a clerical phrase, not one tithe part of his congregation could understand his discourse; the consequence of which was, a vestry was called, a petition to him agreed to, requesting he would in future clothe his language in a more homely way. To the best of my recollection I present you with a verbatim report of his apology! "Worthy and beloved hearers; my oral documents having been recently the subject of your vituperation, from their incompatability with your mental endowments, I hope and trust it will not be deemed an instance of vain eloquence or supererogation, if I laconically promulgate, that avoiding all sylogistical or hypothetical allusions, all parabolical or hyperbolical extenuations or exagerations, my future thesis and hypothesis, whether logical, physical, methaphysical, political, or polemical, shall,definitively and catagorically, be assimilated with, and rendered congenial to, the cerebums, caputs and sensoriums of you, my respectable and intelligent congregation. Yours, respectfully,

THE GENTLEMAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE

B. C.

TOURIST."

Sare: I am a Frenchman;-my name is Victor Gross-Ane, which I find in your Johnson Dictionary means Big-ass, but what that means I do not know at all. I did come to London last week by the steam-boat, and was set down at the Tower by a waterman; he put me in his skull, which was empty;-he cheat me, but he say it was fare, then laugh at me and say he smoke me! no occasion-your street full of smoke. Well- go to the Post Office, and I ask the postage man for one letter for Mr. Big-Ass ;—I speak English very well, you see! But what do you tink? the postage man tell me I one Jack-ass to ask for my letter! then 1 get in one rage, and I lift my stick, and I hit him one blow, only he mot let me.

Then, after I bid him de good bye, I go into a coffy-house in the Strand; and now I tell you one great big story, upon my soul I tell you the truth! I ask to the vaiter, and I say-you vaiter -you garçon-you bring me my bif-stek and my portare. So the vaiter bring it me, and at that one moment there came one person;-he have very big hat on his head, and one cigar in his mouth, and he sit himself down vis-a-vis de moi, that means opposite to me; and so he say to me="Sare, you dine, sare?" and I say to him "Yes, sare;" and he say "Sare, I dine along with you, sare," and I say "Ver-well, sare;" and the vaiter say "he looks very mush like jentleman," only he have no hair on the top of his head, and little bit of shirt at his elbow, and a great hole in his toe. So the jentleman he eat all my portare and drink all my bif-stek, and I

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tell the vaiter to bring me some more portare and more bif-stek, and the jentleman eat more than half my dinner because he say he very hungry, but he look very musk like a jentleman; and then we did both read the newspaper, which very much surprize me, for the newspaper, he say, one Englishman equal to three Frenchman! Begar that astonish me very much, and account for the jentleman eating three times as much as I did!

When I had done with the newspaper, in which I find great deal of nonsense about Whig and Tory, I say to the jentleman-" Now, sare, you pay for your dinner;" but the jentleman he stare at me, and smoke his cigar very fast, and he say "he never pay the dinner when he dine with his friend." So I hold up my two hands in one grand astonishment, when he call me his friend, for I never did see him in all my lives before; but he look so mush like a jentleman that I pay to the vaiter, and I go to the door, and the

jentleman he go along with me, and he say "Where you go, sare?" so I say "I go to my logement (what you call lodging); and so then the jentlemen he say "he go along with me;" and I say "You not go along with me, sare; I go down the street that way;" and the jentleman he say "he go that way too!" He look very mush like a jentleman, so we go to my logement; and the jentleman say to me take your tea, sare?" and I say "Yes, sare." So the jentleman say "he always take tea with his friend when he dine with his friend." Then

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did tell my landlady to bring up my tea and my bread and buttare. So the jentleman he eat all my tea and drink all my bread and buttare; and so I say "Now, sare, you go away, sare:' but the jentleman say "He always take his suppare with his friend, when he dine and drink tea with his friend." So I did tell to the landlady "Madame, you bring my suppare.' So the jentleman he eat all my suppare; but he look very mush like a jentleman, and he tell me "I one dam good fellow:"-then I say to him "Now, "he sare, you go away;" but the jentleman say always sleep with his friend when he dine and drink tea and sup with his friend;" and I say Sare, I have but one bed for myself where I do sleep;" and the jentleman say "he sleep there too,' and he look so mush like a jentleman, only he have no hair on the top of his head, and a little bit of shirt out of his elbow, and a big hole in his toe. So the jentleman he go up into my bed-room and he stand against the wall, and then I say to him "Sare, you pull off your coat, sare;" but the jentleman say "he no pull off his coat when he sleep with his friend ;" and I say "Sare, you not sleep with me with your coat on, sare.' So the jentleman he pull off his coat, but he have no shirt on his back, only little bit that hang out at his elbow, but he look very mush like a jentleman: and then I say Sare, you pull off your boot;" but he say "he never pull off his boot when he sleep with his friend." Then I get into one grand passion, and I say 'you no sleep with me, sare, with your black boot on, sare So the jentleman-he look so mush like a jentleman, only he have big hole in his toe-he pull off his boots, and HE HAVE NO STOCKING ON! Then I give him one great blow of his nose, and I call him one dam good rascal, and I kick him down stairs!

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TO PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES.

-The Agency Anti-Slavery Committee are ready to receive the opinions of Parliamentary Candidates on the abolition of Colonial Slavery, before the 5th of October, when the schedules will be made up for the fifth number of "THE TOURIST," and the Provincial papers. By order of the Committee of the Agency Anti-Slavery Society. JOHN CRISP, Secretary. 18, Aldermanbury, Oct. 4.

Where may be had the following short papers,
at 4s. per 1000.

No 1. "A few plain Questions to Plain Men."
-2. "Common Sense against Colonial Logic."
-3. "Citizens and Fellow Countrymen.'

- 4." On Pledges from Parliamentary Candidates." 5." Taxation in aid of Slavery the Worst of all tyranny." -6. "Why and Because applied to Negro Slavery." -7. "£1,000,000!!!-Electors of the United King-8. "A Scene in Real Life."

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W containing at The Weekly Register,

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INVERTING TREES.-In the course of ascertaining how far a circulation of sap is carried on in trees, some interesting facts have been determined by Mr. Knight and others with regard to the effect of inverting stems, or, in other words, of planting the superior part of the stem, and thus converting it into a root. If the stem of a plum or cherry tree, which is not too thick, be bent, and the top be put under ground, while the roots are gradually detached, in proportion as the former top of the stem becomes firmly fixed in the soil the branches of the root will shoot forth leaves and flowers, and in due time will produce fruit.

FREQUENT DRINKING.-Labourers in the fields, in hot weather, who are always drinking and

yet always dry, would do well to try Major Den ham's plan, instead of pouring down their throats such quantities of beer and cyder, the money expended in which would obtain for thema nourishing meal of beef or mutton For health and strength in regard to drink, the half is better than the whole. Frequent drinking after the sun has risen, should always be avoided; it causes the same sickness, drooping, and thirst in the animal, that may be observed in the vegetable kingdom. Plants may be completely saturated with water at night, and will preserve their freshness through the whole of the following day, though exposed to the sun; but if slightly watered in the morning, how different is their appearance! So it is with man. During the whole of our desart travelling, on going to rest, I always drank freely, seldom venturing to put the cup again to my lips till the following night; yet I suffered less from the heat and thirst than my companions, who usually drank during the day.

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THE above description of initiation into the Eleusinian mysteries will give the reader some faint idea of the Persian and Indian mysteries, of which the former were probably the copy.

Nothing can be conceived more solemn than the rites of initiation into the greater mysteries, as described by Apuleius and Dion Chrysostome, who had both gone through the awful ceremony; nothing more tremendous and appalling than the scenery exhibited before the eyes of the terrified

aspirant. After entering the grand vesti-Stobæus: "It was a rude and fearful march bule of the mystic shrine, he was led by the through night and darkness." Presently hierophant, amidst surrounding darkness the ground began to rock beneath his feet, and incumbent horrors, through all the ex- the whole temple trembled, and strange and tended ailes, winding avenues, and gloomy dreadful voices were heard through the midadyta. The Metempsychosis was one of the night silence. To these succeeded other leading principia taught in those temples, louder and more terrific noises, resembling and this first stage was intended to represent thunder; while quick and vivid flashes of the toilsome wanderings of the benighted lightning darted through the cavern, dissoul through the mazes of vice and error playing to his view many ghastly sights and before initiation; or in the words of an hideous spectres, emblematical of the variancient writer quoted by Warburton from ous vices, diseases, infirmities, and calami

next abundant harvest. therefore gone, the poor creatures have

ORACLE OF ORIGINS.-No. IV.

ties, incident in that state of terrestrial bond- Because ignorance maintains the upper-ploughed up for winter fallows; and, unless age from which his struggling soul was now hand, and the blessing's even of elementary the weather be very wet, the wheat sowing going to emerge, as well as of the horrors education are withheld from the islanders. and penal torments of the guilty in a future All the sandal-wood has been felled, and the is completed, to which we are to owe our Forest and fruit state. At this period, all the pageants of only source of their former prosperity being trees, too, are now planted; and the farmer vulgar idolatry, all the train of gods, su- scarcely been familiarized with the wants of a is as busy in his useful and manly labours, pernal and infernal, passed in awful succes- civilized state of being before the means of as the " sportsman" is, in his useless and sion before him, and a hymn, called the satisfying them have disappeared. Metals are unmanly torturing of timid beasts, and Theology of Idols, recounting the genealogy found in the Sandwich Islands, and pieces of beautiful and harmless birds. and functions of each, was sung: afterwards, molten gold have been collected in Owyhee, and the whole fabulous detail was solemnly resilver and copper in O-a-hu; nothing certain, canted by the mystagogue; a divine hymn abundance. The religious and political state of however, is known as to their existence in any in honour of ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE the Sandwich Islands, at the present day, is TRUTH was chanted, and the profounder wretched indeed, and originates in a most demysteries commenced. "And now, arrived plorable occurrence. After the death of the on the verge of death and initiation, every celebrated governor, Karaimoku, (better known thing wears a dreadful aspect; it is all hor- by the name of William Pitt), his brother ror, trembling, and astonishment." An icy Boli, who accompanied Riho-Riho to England, chilliness seizes his limbs; a copious dew, became prime minister in O-a-hu. This like the damp of real death, bathes his individual protected the young king as well temples; he staggers, and his faculties begin against the power of the Eri-tribe as the intrigues of the missionaries. It is now about to fail; when the scene is of a sudden fourteen months since he set sail for the new changed, and the doors of the interior and Hebrides in the brig Tameahamea, for which the splendidly-illuminated temple are thrown king paid 40,000 hard dollars, besides a quanwide open. A " "miraculous and divine light tity of sandalwood. He took about 360 Indian discloses itself: and shining plains and warriors with him, apparently with the view flowery meadows open on all hands before of making descents and conquering new terri him." Arrived at the bourn of mortality, has been heard of her fate; and the conse tories. The vessel disappeared,-not a word after having trod the gloomy threshold of Proserpine, I passed rapidly through all the quence has been, that Kuakini, who brought his own followers with him from Owyhee, consurrounding elements; and, at deep mid-spiring with his sister, the dowager queennight, beheld the sun shining in meridian mother, now reigns paramount in these islands. splendour. The clouds of mental error, and The young monarch observed to me himself the shades of real darkness being now alike one evening, Things will be quite changed dissipated, both the soul and the body of again when Boli comes back.'-But Boli will the initiated experienced a delightful vicis never come back.” situde; and, while the latter, purified with lustrations, bounded in a blaze of glory, the former dissolved in a tide of overwhelming transport.

THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

OCTOBER.

THIS may be said to be the month in which
autumn is decidedly set in. The leaves now
strew the ground in desolate and dreary
abundance; and most of the birds which
migrate to our shores in the spring, and
delight us with their sweet warblings through
the summer, have now winged their way to
less frigid and more congenial climes. The
trees grow daily more and more bare, and
the stubble-fields and fallows look as dismal
as though they had been laid waste by fire.
But though the fields and the forests have
now parted with the
which they so lately presented to our gaze,
the hedge-rows which received the thousand
pimps of summer we scarcely deigned to
notice, offer some bright colours and beau-
tiful shapes to our view. The nightshade,
the holly, the privet, and the alder, are now
in the pride of their beauty; and boys gather
blackberries, and hips and haws, and almost
forget that-

many

tinted beauties

(Extracted from a letter written on the spot last
summer.)
"O-A-HU is, in every sense of the word, a
second paradise. There is not a single pro-
duction of the vegetable kingdom but thrives
here with the greatest luxuriance, and every
animal imported into the island has increased in
an astonishing manner. The horned cattle
in Owyhee have grown wild, and live in large
herds upon the acclivities of the snow-capt
volcanic mountains. It will scarcely be cre-
dited, that these animals at times attack the
Indian villages and compel the inhabitants to
escape for their lives. The missionaries, who
would almost appear to sport with the welfare
of their flocks, have contrived to have the cul-
tivation of the more important species of colo-
nial productions strictly prohibited. Don Fran-
cisco Marini, a man of vulgar education but
of an intelligent and upright mind, whose name
will always stand foremost in the annals of
Polynesian agriculture, has introduced the
His
most useful plants from every quarter.
The good housewife must now take her
Guatimalo cocoa is of the finest quality ;-he
likewise cultivates coffee, limes, oranges, grapes, bees will otherwise begin to consume it,
sweet store of honey from the hives; for the
asplenia popaya from the Marquesas islands,
tamarinds, cotton, pine-apples, and other fruits. from the failure of the nectar-bearing
A M. Serriere of Batavia has also introduced ers, upon which they disported and ban-
indigo, which has turned out of an excellentquetted during the summer.
description. But every one of these products,
Now, too, is the time for taking wild fowl

"The beautiful summer is gone."

DEODANDS-In our customs, is a thing given or forfeited, as it were to God, for the pacification of his wrath in case of a misadventure, whereby a Christian soul comes to a violent end, without the fault of any reasonable creature. If a horse strikes its keeper and kills him-if a man driving a cart, falls so as the cart wheel runs over him, and presses him to death-if one, by felling a tree, and giving warning to the standers by to look to themselves, yet a man is killed by the fall thereof,-in the first place, the horse; in the second, the cart wheel, cart, and horses; and in the third, the tree, is Deodandus, "to be given to God," that is to the king, to be distributed to the poor by his almoner, for expiation of this dreadful event, though effected by irrational, nay, senseless and deadly creatures.

Omnia que movent ad mortum sunt deodando. "What moves to death, or kills him dead, Is deodand and forfeited."

This law seems to be an imitation of that in Exodus, chap. 21, "If an ox gore a man or woman with his horns, so that they die, he shall be stoned to death, and his flesh not to be eat; so shall his owner be innocent."

PARSON. Though we write parson differently, yet it is but person; that is, the individual person set apart for the service of such a church; and it is in Latin persona, and personatus is a personage; indeed with the canon lawyers, personatus is any dignity or preferment in the church.

with a cross of two bars, armed at the end TURNPIKES-Were originally formed with pikes turning on a pin, and fixed to prevent the passage of horses, &c.—hence

the term.

BARONET.-Signifies a little baron, and accordingly is a degree of honour next below a Baron and above a Knight. The order was founded by James I, 1611. It is the lowest degree of hereditary honour.

CRIER EXTRAORDINARY.-A gentleman informs us that, while sojourning at one of the towns in Virginia, he encountered in the street, a stout doublelunged negro, who was ringing a hand-bell most manfully; after labouring at it sometime, the fellow gridirons-book-oyster.knives, and odder kinds of made a dead halt, and bellowed out something to the following effect:-" Sale dis nite-frying-pansflow-medicines-Joe Williams will hab some fresh oysters will gib imitations ober again-two or three dozen at his 'stablishment-by tickler desire, Mr. Hewlett damaged discussion gun-locks, and-Rev. Mr. P-Q o'clock precise-dats not all; widout money or will deliber a sarmont on temperance, half-past six price-de great bull Phillip will be statint at Squire sugar-cane on a large scale, are lost to the and for brewing the good old English be--s--and dats not all nudder !---dare will be a perlite people of this region: and why are they lost? verage-ale!

on which the prosperity of so many civilized
nations depends, even to the growth of the in the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridge,

and coloured ball at Mrs. Johnson's jus arter dis is

Now stubble fields are done."

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'Facts-not fictions."

(From the Antigua Register, June 5,
1832.)
AUCTION OF BUILDINGS AND SLAVES.
-On Wednesday the 13th inst., at 11
o'clock, will be sold, on the premises, those
extensive and valuable buildings, of C. K.
Dow, Esq., with three cisterns, and exten-
sive out-offices, all of which have been
put in most excellent repair, and fit for
the immediate reception of one or more fa-
milies. Immediately after,

THIRTY SLAVES,
consisting of carpenters, house-servants, field-
negroes, sailors, washers, &c. Particulars,
see Herald, of 21st April last. Coleman
H. Lamitt, Auctioneer.

Terms made known at the sale.

Canst thou, and honoured with a Christian name,
Buy what is woman-born, and feel no shame?
Trade in the blood of innocence, and plead
Expedience as a warrant for the deed?
Not he, but his emergence forced the door,
He found it inconvenient to be poor;
So may the ruffian, who with ghostly glide,
Dagger in hand, steals close to your bed-side.
A Briton knows,-or if he knows it not,

The Scripture placed within his reach, he ought,
That souls have no discriminating hue,
Alike important in their Maker's view;
That none are free from blemish since the fall;
And Love Divine has paid one price for all.
Cowper.

in
A clergyman who resided some years
"that many
the West Indies, informs us,
is heard when the marshals' de-
bitter
cry
puties are sent to hunt down and seize the

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victims, and drive them away to the work-
house or gaol, till the day of sale arrives
which is to deprive them of all the little
comforts which make even Slavery, in some
The woman may be
measure, tolerable.
separated from her husband, or parents from

their children. The tenderest ties of nature
are broken in an instant, and the wife's, or
mother's, or children's cries would not be in
the least attended to, any more than the
moan of so many animals."

The following affecting account of the separation of a Negro family was related by T. Pennock, a Wesleyan Missionary, at a public meeting at Newcastle. Doubtless many such cases are continually occurring: "A few years ago, it was enacted, that it should not be legal to transport once established slaves from one island to another; and a gentleman owner finding it advisable to do so before the Act came in force, the removal of great part of his live stock was the consequence He had a female Slave, a

Methodist, and highly valuable to him (and
not the less so for being the mother of eight
or nine children), whose husband, also of our
connection, was the property of another
resident on the island, where I happened to
be at the time. Their masters not agreeing
on a sale, separation ensued, and I went to
the beach to be an eye-witness of their
behaviour in this greatest pang of all
One by one the man kissed his children with
the firmness of a hero, and, blessing them,
gave as his last words-(oh! will it be be-
lieved, and have no influence upon our vene-
ration of the NEGRO?)-" Farewell! BE

HONEST AND OBEDIENT TO YOUR MASTER!"

SLATE QUARRIES.

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It was like a subterranean world! the blasted walls of slate, smooth as a mirror, and several hundred feet long, scarcely enough of the blue heaven was visible to enable me to distinguish mid-day from twilight. The earth on which we stood was likewise blasted rock; just in the middle was a deep cleft six or eight feet wide. Some children of the workmen were amusing themselves in leaping across the chasm, for the sake of earning a few pence. The perpendicular sides were hung with men, who looked like dark birds, striking the rock with their long picks, and throwing down masses of slate which fell with a sharp and clattering sound. But on a sudden the whole mountain seemed to totter, loud cries of warning re-echoed from various points-the mine was sprung. A large mass of rock loosened itself slowly and majestically from above, fell down with a mighty plunge, and while dust and splinters darkened the air like smoke, the thunder rang along in wild echoes. These operations, which are of almost daily necessity in one part or other of the quarry, are so dangerous, that, according to the statement of the overseer himself, they calAt length he had to take leave of his wifeculate on the average of a hundred and fifty there he stood (I have him in my mind's eye men wounded, and seven or eight killed, in a at this moment), five or six yards from the year. An hospital, exclusively devoted to mother of his children, unable to move, the workmen on this property, receives the speak, or do anything, but gaze, and still to wounded; and on my way I had met, withgaze on the object of his long affection, soon out being aware of it, the body of one who to cross the blue wave for ever from his had fallen the day before yesterday;-" car aching sight. The fire of his eye alone gave c'est comme un champ bataille." The people indication of the passion within, until, after who escorted it were so smartly dressed and some minutes standing thus, he fell senseso decorated with flowers, that I at first took less on the sand, as if suddenly struck the procession for a wedding, and was shocked down by the hand of the Almighty, when, in answer to my inquiry for the brideNature could do no more; the blood gushed groom, one of the attendants pointed in sifrom his nostrils and mouth, as if rushing fence to the coffin which followed at some from the terrors of the conflict within, and distance. The overseer assured me that half amid the confusion occasioned by the cir- these accidents were owing to the indiffercumstance, the vessel bore off his family ence of the men, who are too careless to for ever from the island! After some days remove in time and to a sufficient distance, he recovered, and came to ask advice of ME! though at every explosion they have full What could an Englishman do in such a warning given them. The slate invariably I felt the blood boiling within me, splits in sharp edged flakes, so that an inconbut I conquered: I brow-beat my own man-siderable piece thrown to a great distance, hood, and gave him the humblest advice I is sufficient to cut a man's hand, leg, or even head, clean off. On one occasion, this last, as I was assured, actually happened.-(Tour in England.)

case?

could afford.

Mr. P. then narrated several other anec

dotes to prove the liberality and quickness
of intellect inherent in the slave population,
most of which were highly descriptive.

Let those who attempt to justify West
Indian Slavery from Scripture, reconcile this
with the Mosaic law: "Ye shall have one
manner of law, as well for the stranger,
as for one of your own country."-Lev.
xxxv. 22.

"Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with thee. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; what shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me, make him? And did not one fashion us?"

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ADVANTAGES OF TEMPERANCE.

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The cheapness of production is the great point to which we shall call your attention, as we give you other examples of the good Two glasses of gin every day, at three-halfpence of machinery. In the case of books pro-three pence in a year; which would pay fora glass, cost four pounds eleven shillings and

A highly respectable Correspondent, who has fur-duced by the printing-press you have a cheap
nished us with the extracts from the Voyage of article, and an increased number of persons
Messrs. Bennett and Tyerman, shall hear from us in
a day or two.
engaged in manufacturing that article. In
almost all trades the introduction of machines
has, sooner or later, the like effects. This
we shall show you as we go on. But to
make the matter even more clear, we shall
direct notice to the

THE TOURIST.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1832.

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MY NOTE BOOK.-No. 2,

THE MUSIC OF NATURE.

NATURE seems to have mingled harmony in all her works. Each crowded and tumultuous city may properly be called a temple of Discord; but wherever Nature holds undisputed dominion, Music is the the hum of bees, the chorus of birds; nay, if these partner of her empire-the "lonely voice of water," be wanting, the very breeze that rustles through the foliage, is music. From the music of Nature, Solitude gains all her charms; for dead silencesuch as that which precedes thunder-storms-rather terrifies then delights the mind:

It is about 350 years since the art of printing books was invented. Before that time all books were written by the hand. There were many persons employed to copy out books, but they were very dear, although the copiers had small wages. A Bible was sold This little book is intended to consist of for thirty pounds in the money of that day, 216 pages, to be printed, eighteen on a side, which was equal to a great deal more of our upon six sheets of printing paper, called by money. Of course, very few people had the makers demy. These sheets of demy, at Bibles or any other books. An ingenious the price charged in the shops, would cost man invented a mode of imitating the written fourpence. If the same number of words books by cutting the letters on wood, and were written, instead of being printed-that taking off copies from the wooden blocks by is, if the closeness and regularity of printing rubbing the sheet on the back; and soon were superseded by the looseness and unevenafter other clever men thought of casting ness of writing, they would cover 200 pages, metal types or letters, which could be ar- or 50 sheets, of the paper called foolscap, ranged in words, and sentences, and pages, which would cost in the shops three shillings; and volumes; and then a machine, called a and you would have a book difficult instead printing-press, upon the principle of a screw, of easy to read, because writing is much was made to stamp impressions of these types harder to decipher than print. Here, then, On earth 'twas yet all calm around, A pulseless silence, dread, profoundso arranged. There was an end, then, at besides the superiority of the workmanship, More awful than the tempest's sound! once to the trade of the pen-and-ink copiers; is at once a saving of two shillings and eight- Perhaps it is the idea of mortality, thereby because the copiers in types, who could press pence to the consumer, by the invention of awakened, that makes absolute stillness so awful. We cannot bear to think that even Nature herself is off several hundred books while the writers printing, all other things being equal. But inanition; we love to feel her pulse throbbing bewere producing one, drove them out of the the great saving is to come. Work as hard neath us, and to listen to her accents amid the market. A single printer could do the work as he could, a writer could not transcribe this still retirements of her deserts. That solitude, in of at least two hundred writers. At first little book upon these 200 pages of foolscap panding the heart and tranquillizing the passions, truth, which is described by our poets, as exsight this seems a hardship, for a hundred in less than ten days; and he would think though far removed from the inharmonious din of and ninety-nine people might have been, and himself very ill paid to receive thirty shil-worldly business, is yet varied by such gentle sounds as are most likely to make the heart beat in unison probably were, thrown out of their accus-lings for the operation. Adding, therefore, with the serenity of all surrounding objects; thus tomed employment. But what was the con- a profit for the publisher and retail tradesman, Graysequence in a year or two? Where one a single written copy of this little book, which written book was sold a thousand printed you buy for a shilling, could not be produced books were required. The old books were for two pounds. Is it not perfectly clear, multiplied in all countries, and new books then, if there were no printing-press, if the were composed by men of talent and learn-art of printing did not exist, that if we found ing, because they then could find numerous purchasers at all for this dear book at the readers. The printing press did the work cost of two pounds, we should only sell, at more neatly and more correctly than the the utmost, a fortieth part of what we now writer, and it did it infinitely cheaper. What sell; that instead of selling ten thousand then? The writers of books had to turn copies we could only sell, even if there were their hands to some other trade, it is true; the same quantity of book-buying funds but type-founders, paper-makers, printers, amongst the few purchasers as amongst the and bookbinders, were set to work, by the many, two hundred and fifty copies; and new art or machine, to at least a hundred that therefore, although we might employ times greater number of persons than the old two hundred and fifty writers for way of making books employed. If the pen-week, instead of about twenty printers in and-ink copiers could break the printing- the same period, we should have forty times presses and melt down the types that are less employment for paper-makers, ink. used in London alone at the present day, makers, book-binders, and many other pertwenty thousand people would at least be sons, besides the printers themselves, who thrown out of employment to make room for are called into activity by the large demand two hundred at the utmost; and what would which follows cheapness of production? be even worse than all this misery, books Results of Machinery. could only be purchased, as before the invention of printing, by the few rich, instead of being the guides, and comforters, and best friends, of the millions who are now within reach of the benefits and enjoyments which they bestow.

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Now fades the glimmering landscape on my sight,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,

And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.
Even when Nature arrays herself in all her ter-
rors, when the thunder roars above our heads, and
man, as he listens to the sound, shrinks at the
sense of his own insignificance even this, with-
out at all derogating from its awful character, may
be termed a grand chorus in the music of Nature.
Almost every scene in the creation has its pecu-
liar music, by which its character as cheering,melan-
choly, awful, or lulling, is marked and defined. This
When the splendour of day has departed, how con-
appears in the alternate succession of day and night,
sonant with the sombre gloom of night is the hum
of the beetle, or the lonely, plaintive voice of the
seasons revolve, a corresponding variation taks place
nightingale. But more especially, as the different

in the music of Nature. As winter approaches, the voice of birds, which cheered the days of summer, ceases; the breeze, that was lately singing among the leaves, now shrilly hisses through the naked boughs; and the rill, that but a short time ago murmured softly as it flowed along, gushes headlong in a deafening torrent.

It is not therefore in vain that, in the full epirit of prophetic song, Isaiah has called upon the mountains to break forth into singing, "the forests, and every tree thereof." Thus we may literally be said to find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks;" and as we look upward to the vault of Heaven, we are inclined to believe, that

There's not the smallest orb which we behold,
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim :
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

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