EDITOR'S BOX. "Fiat justitia ruɛt cœlum." TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOURIST. SIR,- Should you think this worthy a corner in your valuable "Tourist," it is at your service. FREQUENT DRINKING. LABOURERS in the fields, in hot weather, who are always drinking, and yet always dry, would do well to try Major Denham's plan, instead of pouring down their throats such quantities of beer and cyder, the money expended in which would obtain for them a 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 suffered less from the heat and thirst than my companions, who usually drank during the day. SMOKING MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. Some years ago I had occasion to visit a friend, not a hundred miles from 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 incompatibility 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 syllogistical or hypothetical allusions, all parabolical or AMONG the standing orders of the House of hyperbolical extenuations or exaggerations, my fu- Commons, issued about the middle of the seventure thesis and hypothesis, whether logical, phy-teenth century, we find the following:-" Ordered, sical, metaphysical, political, or polemical, shall, that no Member of the House do presume to smoke definitively and categorically, be assimilated with, tobacco in the gallery, or at the table of the House, and rendered congenial to, the cerebrums, caputs, of the seventeenth had not the dignity which persitting as committees." A Member of Parliament and sensoriums of you, my respectable and intelligent congregation." taineth to an M. P. of the nineteenth century, and could, it appears, find pleasure in a pipe-a homely, though a somewhat inelegant, luxury. What a scene must St. Stephen's have presented in the olden time, when probably a representative, in alluding to another, would speak of the "honourable memofficer with the short cut." It must have been ber now lighting his pipe," or of "the gallant amusing to hear disclaimers of any intention to be personal" on the learned gentleman now blowing feelings of the " a cloud opposite," or of any wish to wound the worthy member who has just Yours respectfully, THE MORNING AIR. B. C. THERE is something in the morning air that, while it defies the penetration of our proud and shallow philosophy, adds brightness to the blood, freshness to life, and vigour to the whole frame; the freshness of the lip, by the way, is, according to Dr. Marshall Hall, one of the surest marks of health. If ye would be well, therefore-if ye would have your heart dancing gladly, like the April breeze, and your blood flowing like an April brook-up with the lark-" the merry lark," as Shakspeare calls it, which is "the ploughman's clock," to warn him of the dawn-up and breakfast on the morning air-fresh with the odour of budding flowers, and all the fragrance of the maiden spring;-up from your nerve-destroying down bed, and from the foul air pent within your close drawn curtains, and, with the sun, "walk o'er the dew of yon high eastern hills." But we must defend the morning air from the aspersions of those who sit in their close, airless studies, and talk of the chilling dew and the unwholesome damps of the dawn. We have all the facts in our favour that the fresh of the morning is uniformly wholesome; and, having the facts, we pitch such shallow philosophy to fools who have nothing else for a foot-ball. LONDON DESCRIBED BY AN INDIAN CHIEF. THE Rev. P. Jones, the Indian Chief, thus writes to the Editor of the Canada Guardian: "London is a great city, and is full of people. I wonder how they all get their living, for they are as thick as musquetoes, and almost run over one another. There you may see the rich man who has every thing he wants, and here you may see the poor man who knows not where he may get his next meal." emptied his tobacco-box." CRUELTY OF KING FERDINAND WHEN A BOY. THE Queen had a dog of extreme beauty, and Ferdinand, whilst pretending to play with him, caused him to swallow a little ball, in which were small pins stuck in various directions, and then covered over with paste. The unhappy dog swallowed the fatal ball, when the Prince, holding in his hand a piece of twine, to which he had attached the ball, began to draw it upwards. The dog uttered piteous cries; the Queen ran to his aid, and the young wretch, redoubling his efforts, caused a portion of the intestines of the animal to attach to the pins, and drew it through his throat. INVERTING TREES. In the course of ascertaining how far a circula- others, with regard to the effect of inverting stems, AMONG the cheap publications, one claiming particular attention has just appeared in the form IN confinement the goldfinch has often been of a large and comprehensive Map of London," known to live sixteen or eighteen years. Gesner at the low price of sixpence. It is on a large sheet saw one at Mentz which had attained to twenty- of drawing-paper, about three feet long by two three; but the people of the house were obliged wide, and has the useful appendage of three hunonce a week to scrape its nails and bill, that it dred references. We conceive that no one would might eat, drink, and sit on its bar. It had sub-be without this most excellent guide in their walks sisted principally on poppy seeds; it was incapable round "town." It is published by Lacey, St. of flying, and all its feathers had become white. Paul's Church Yard. NO PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES. To -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. No. 1. "A few Plain Questions to Plain Men." WORK dom." Now ready, Part I. of the by Giller, Quilley, and Ward. Prints, 10s. 6d.; Proots, £ 1s.; separate Prints, 5s. London: Moon, Boys, and Graves, 6, Pall-Mall; and Also, just published, ters, £2 2s. deserves, it will have many readers, who cannot fail to find "If this very excellent work has the success it so faily in its pages something more valuable than mere amusement."-Imperial Magazine. "The Double Trial' leads to an acquaintance with most of the topics which engage the attention at the present critical period, and not only the desultory reader, but the politician, the divine, the lawyer, and the philo sopher, may peruse this well-written work to much purintensely interesting to every member of the community." pose, as it conveys instruction on points which are become Cheltenham Journal. Published by Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. OR, Sketch Book of the Times. "I pencilled things I saw, and profited by things I heard."-LETTER OF A WALKING GENTLEMAN. is completed, to which we are to owe our 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 blessings 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 state. At this period, all the pageants of vulgar idolatry, all the train of gods, supernal and infernal, passed in awful succession before him, and a hymn, called the Theology of Idols, recounting the genealogy and functions of each, was sung: afterwards, the whole fabulous detail was solemnly recanted by the mystagogue; a divine hymn in honour of ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE TRUTH was chanted, and the profounder mysteries commenced. "And now, arrived on the verge of death and initiation, every thing wears a dreadful aspect; it is all horror, trembling, and astonishment." An icy chilliness seizes his limbs; a copious dew, like the damp of real death, bathes his temples; he staggers, and his faculties begin to fail; when the scene is of a sudden changed, and the doors of the interior and splendidly-illuminated temple are thrown wide open. A "miraculous and divine light discloses itself: and shining plains and flowery meadows open on all hands before him." Arrived at the bourn of mortality, after having trod the gloomy threshold of Proserpine, I passed rapidly through all the All the sandal-wood has been felled, and the own followers with him from Owyhee, con as the " ORACLE OF ORIGINS.-No. IV. 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, 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, and deadly creatures. the surrounding elements; and, at deep mid-spiring with his sister, the dowager queen-though effected by irrational, nay, senseless night, beheld the sun shining in meridian splendour. The clouds of mental error, and the shades of real darkness being now alike dissipated, both the soul and the body of the initiated experienced a delightful vicis 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. (Extracted from a letter written on the spot last dited, that these animals at times attack the mother, now reigns paramount in these islands. never come back." OCTOBER. THIS may be said to be the month in which "The beautiful summer is gone." Omnia que movent ad mortum sunt deodando. This law seems to be an imitation of that in 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 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. following effect:-" Sale dis nite-frying-pans 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 The good housewife must now take her manfully; after labouring at it sometime, the fellow sweet store of honey from the hives; for the made a dead halt, and bellowed out something to the bees will otherwise begin to consume it, gridirons-book-oyster.knives, and odder kinds of from the failure of the nectar-bearing flow-medicines-Joe Williams will hab some fresh oysters ers, upon which they disported and ban-will gib imitations ober again--two or three dozen at his 'stablishment-by tickler desire, Mr. Hewlett quetted during the summer. damaged discussion gun-locks, and-Rev Mr. P-Q Now, too, is the time for taking wild fowl o'clock precise-dats not all; widout money or will deliber a sarmont on temperance, half-past six in the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridge, price-de great bull Phillip will be statint at Squire and for brewing the good old English be--'s-and dats not all nudder!--dare will be a perlite verage-ale! fields are done." Now stubble and coloured ball at Mrs. Johnson's jus arter dis is MEMS. OF A SLAVE. "Facts-not fictions." (From the Antigua Register, June 5, put in most excellent repair, and fit for THIRTY SLAVES, consisting of carpenters, house-servants, fieldnegroes, sailors, washers, &c. Particulars, see Herald, of 21st April last. Coleman H. Lamitt, Auctioneer. Terms made known at the sale. SLATE QUARRIES. Above 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 calculate on the average of a hundred and fifty 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 believed, and have no influence upon our veneration of the NEGRO?)-" Farewell! BE HONEST AND OBEDIENT TO YOUR MASTER!" At length he had to take leave of his wife: field-there he stood (I have him in my mind's eye at this moment), five or six yards from the men wounded, and seven or eight killed, in a mother of his children, unable to move, the workmen on this property, receives the at this moment), five or six yards from the year. An hospital, exclusively devoted to 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 to cross the blue wave for ever from his had fallen the day before yesterday;-" car out being aware of it, the body of one who 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 What could an Englishman do in such a warning given them. The slate invariably case? 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 could afford. Canst thou, and honoured with a Christian name, A clergyman who resided some years in the West Indies, informs us, that many a bitter cry is heard when the marshals' deputies are sent to hunt down and seize the victims, and drive them away to the workhouse or gaol, till the day of sale arrives which is to deprive them of all the little comforts which make even Slavery, in some measure, tolerable. The woman may be 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 Mr. P. then narrated several other anec- Let those who attempt to justify West 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?" head, clean off. On one occasion, this last, as I was assured, actually happened.-(Tour in England.) LACONICS. "The best words of the best Authors." Morals impose silence on the laws, and it is they alone that either aggrandise, or overthrow empires. The virtues of a mother give virtue to her children; the virtues of a father give only fame. Riches take away more happiness than they bestow, but one must have a soul to feel this. trammelled in the magic of one, whom his reason bids him despise. Your only true woman hater, is he who becomes The man who is most slow in promising is most sure to keep his word. A great talker never wants enemies; the man of sense speaks little, and hears much. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties. The more haste a man makes to unravel a skein of thread, the more he entangles it. money. THE TOURIST. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1832. The cheapness of production is the great! your very book you hold £4 11 2 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: This little book is intended to consist of 216 pages, to be printed, eighteen on a side, upon six sheets of printing paper, called by the makers demy. These sheets of demy, at the price charged in the shops, would cost fourpence. If the same number of words were written, instead of being printed-that is, if the closeness and regularity of printing, were superseded by the looseness and unevenness of writing, they would cover 200 pages, or 50 sheets, of the paper called foolscap, which would cost in the shops three shillings; and you would have a book difficult instead of easy to read, because writing is much harder to decipher than print. Here, then, besides the superiority of the workmanship, is at once a saving of two shillings and eightpence to the consumer, by the invention of awakened, that makes absolute stillness so awful. We printing, all other things being equal. But inanition; we love to feel her pulse throbbing becannot bear to think that even Nature herself is the great saving is to come. Work as hard neath us, and to listen to her accents amid the as he could, a writer could not transcribe this still retirements of her deserts. That solitude, in little book upon these 200 pages of foolscap panding the heart and tranquillizing the passions, truth, which is described by our poets, as exin less than ten days; and he would think though far removed from the inharmonious din of himself very ill paid to receive thirty shil-worldly business, is yet varied by such gentle sounds with the serenity of all surrounding objects; thus as are most likely to make the heart beat in unison Gray It is about 350 years since the art of print- less employment for paper-makers, ink. WOMEN. Oh! nought of self is in their gentle hearts Danger and death, the dread that sin imparts On earth 'twas yet all calm around, Now fades the glimmering landscape on my sight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. It is not therefore in vain that, in the full spirit 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, thatThere'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. |