not help exclaiming upon this excellent performance, but, I am sorry to say, Don was not properly rewarded; for, upon reloading our guns, and walking up to him, an old cock bird rose, which we both missed, and, as Matthews says, if that is not a staunch dog, I don't know what is. I have seen many dogs that would stand a long while, but I think few would be so much on their guard as this. Unless, sir, your readers have as much patience as I have shown Don to possess, I am afraid I must have exhausted it by this time. In conclusion I have only to state that the old dog is now in perfect health, but age will show itself, and he can't make a gallop of it for more than a couple of hours. However, he has, in company with another, afforded good sport to me and two friends this season, which I am afraid will prove his last: but, as long as life is not a burthen to him, he shall live; and when he must die, I could attach that to his grave which has graced the burial sod of many of the nobler race, possibly, less deserving of it: namely, "He departed this life respected by all who knew him." I hope you will not think by this I have enough of the Byron feeling about me to prefer the friendship of dog to man; but, I assure you, when old servant is gone I shall look back my with pleasure to the memorial left of him in your pages. September 18th, 1831, October 25. J. W FALL OF PONT NOTRE DAME. 25th of October, 1499, about nine o clock in the morning, the bridge Notre Dame, at Paris, fell down. Its fall was attributed to the avarice of the prévôt des marchands, who received for each of the houses an annnal rent of eighty livres, but laid out a very small sum in repairs. The surveyor of the public works had the year before warned the corporation of its danger in vain. On the morning of the accident, a master-carpenter having said to one of the magistrates that the bridge would fall that day, the worthy magistrate sent him to prison, and denounced the carpenter to Baillet the president of the parliament of Paris, as a miserable wretch for uttering the prediction. The parliament viewed the affair differently. They instantly dispatched orders to the inhabitants of the bridge to remove, and placed guards at the extremities to prevent the passage of individuals. Fissures soon appeared in the pavement and in the houses, and at length the bridge fell with a tremendous crash. Several of the inhabitants, too eager to remove their effects, were buried in the ruins: the course of the river was obstructed; and the sudden elevation of the water carried away several women who were washing linen on the shore. The foundations of a new bridge in stone were laid the same year, and, during its construction, a ferry-boat was established upon the river. The abbot and monks of St. Germaindes-Prés opposed the establishment of this ferry-boat upon the ground of privileges granted to them by king Childebert, and it was necessary to obtain a decree to remove the obstacles which they raised.* On Sundays and fetes, persons were allowed to expose birds for sale upon the Pont au Change, a bridge over the Seine, upon condition that they should let two hundred dozens fly at the moment when a king or queen of France was crossing the bridge in procession.† To be blooded at "spring and fall was the custom of our ancestors; and about this time from ten to twelve ounces of blood used annually to be taken away by the lancet. This custom is now very properly laid aside, and it is found that a few gentle doses of aperient medicine from the first setting in of the autumnal chilling weather, when the body becomes indisposed, answers all the purposes of bleeding, without its inconveniences. The bleeding at the nose, and the fluxes called the cholera and diarrhea, which occur spontaneously in autumn, have been considered as natural indications that the system requires depletion in this season. History of Paris, iii. 141. EFFECTS OF TRADES ON HEALTH AND LIFE. Mr. Thackrah, in a very important work, states a variety of facts, which afford the following results, concerning the occupations of artisans: Out of Doors. Butchers, and Slaughtermen, their wives, and their errand-boys, almost all eat fresh-cooked meat at least twice a-day. They are plump and rosy. They are, generally, also cheerful and good-natured. neither does their bloody occupation, nor their beef-eating, render them savage, as some theorists pretend, and even as the English law presumes. They are not subject to such anxieties as the fluctuations of other trades produce; for meat is always in request, and they live comfortably in times, as well of general distress, as of general prosperity. They are subject to few ailments, and these the result of plethora. Though more free from diseases than other trades, they, however, do not enjoy greater longevity; on the contrary, Mr. T. thinks their lives shorter than those of other men who spend much time in the open air. They, in fact, live too highly for long life. Congestion of blood, affecting chiefly the vessels of the abdomen and head, shortens the lives of numbers who are plump, rosy, and apparently strong. Dr. Murray, of Scarborough, says the high living of butchers assuredly leads to plethora and premature dissolution. He adds, Coulmeters, &c., of London, rarely, if ever, attain the age of forty, though men remarkable for muscular bulk and strength. They work most laboriously, perspire immensely, and supply such waste by extraordinary and almost incredible potations of porter, which ultimately, without much positive and actual intemperance, brings on irregularities of the digestive system, structural changes, and death. It is entitled "The Effects of the principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, and of Civic States and Habits of Living, on Health and Longevity: with a particular reference to the Trades and Manufactures of Leeds; and Suggestions for the Removal of many of the Agents which produce Disease, and shorten the duration of Life. By C. Turner Thackrah. 1831. Longman and Co." 8vo. p. 162.-The present extracts are derived from the Literary Gazette. Cattle and horse dealers are generally healthy, except when their habits are intemperate. Fishmongers, though much exposed to the weather, are hardy, temperate, healthy, and long lived. Cart drivers, if sufficiently fed, and temperate, the same. Labourers in husbandry, &c., suffer from a deficiency of nourishment. Brickmakers, with full muscular exercise in the open air, though exposed to vicissitudes of cold and wet, avoid rheumatism and inflammatory diseases, and live to good old age. Chaise drivers, postilions, coachmen, guards, &c., from the position of the two former on the saddle, irregular living, &c., and from the want of muscular exercise in the two latter, are subject to gastric disorders, and, finally, apoplexy and palsy, which shorten their lives. Carpenters, coopers, wheelwrights, &c., are healthy and long lived. Smiths are often intemperate, and die comparatively young. Rope-makers and gardeners suffer from their stooping postures. Paviors are subject to complaints in the loins, increasing with age, but they live long. Indoor Occupations. Tailors, from their confined atmosphere and bad posture, are subject to stomach complaints and consumption. It is apparent, from their expression of countenance, complexion, and gait, that the functions of the stomach and the heart are greatly impaired, even in those who consider themselves well. We see no plump and rosy tailors; none of fine form and strong muscle. The spine is generally curved. The prejudicial influence of their employment is more insidious than urgent-it undermines rather than destroys life. Staymakers have their health impaired, but live to a good average. Milliners, dress-makers, and straw bonnet-makers, are unhealthy and short lived. Spinners, cloth-dressers, weavers, &c.&c., are more or less healthy, as they have exercise and air. Those exposed to inhale imperceptible particles of dressings, &c., such as frizers, suffer from disease, and are soonest cut off. Shoemakers work in a bad posture, by which digestion and circulation are so much impaired, that the countenance marks a shoemaker almost as well as a tailor. From the reduction of perspiration and other excretions, in this and similar employments, the blood becomes impure, and the complexion darkened. The secretion of bile is generally unhealthy, and bowel complaints are frequent. In the few shoemakers who live to old age, there is often a remarkable hollow at the base of the breast-bone, occasioned by the pressure of the last. Curriers and leather-dressers are very healthy, and live to old age. Sadlers lean much forward, and suffer from headache and indigestion. Printers are kept in a confined atmosphere, and generally want exercise. Pressmen, however, have good and varied labor. Compositors are often subjected to injury from the types. These, being a compound of lead and antimony, emit, when heated, a fume which effects respiration, and produce partial palsy of the hands. Careful printers avoid composing till the types are cold, and thus no injury Is sustained. The constant application of the eyes to minute objects gradually enfeebles these organs. The standing posture tends to injure the digestive organs. Some printers complain of disorder in the stomach and head; and few appear to enjoy full health. Consumption is frequent. We scarcely find or hear of a compositor above the age of fifty. Bookbinders are generally healthy. Carvers and gilders look pale and weakly, but their lives are not shortened in a marked degree. Clockmakers are generally healthy and long-lived. Watchmakers are the reverse. House-servants in large smoky towns are unhealthy. Colliers and well-sinkers seldom reach the age of fifty. Employments producing Dust, Odor, or Gaseous Exhalations. Exhalations from animal substances are not injurious; nor are the vapours of wine or spirits. [?] Tobacco manufacturers do not appear to suffer from the floating particles in their atmosphere. Snuff-making is more pernicious. Men in oil-mills generally healthy. Brushmakers live to very great age. Grooms and hostlers inspire ammoniacal gas, and are robust, healthy, and long lived. Glue and size-boilers, exposed to the most noxious stench, are fresh-looking and robust. Tallow-chandlers, also exposed to an offensive animal odor, attain considerable age. During the plague in London it was remarked that this class of men suffered much less than others. Tunners are remarkably strong and exempt from consumption. Corn-millers, breathing an atmosphere loaded with flour, are pale and sickly, and rarely attain to old age. Mullsters cannot live long, and must leave the trade in middle life. Tea-men suffer from the dust, especially of green teas; but the injury is not per there were, in the village of Arkendale (in the heart of the mining district) not less than thirty widows under thirty years of age. The prevalent maladies appear to be affections of the lungs and bowels. Smelting is considered a most fatal occupation. The appearance of the men is haggard in the extreme. Machine-makers seem to suffer only from the dust they inhale, and the consequent bronchial irritation. The filers (of iron) are almost all unhealthy men, and remarkably short lived. Founders in brass suffer from the inhalation of the volatilised metal. In the founding of yellow brass, in particular, the evolution of oxide of zinc is very great. They seldom reach forty years. Copper-smiths are considerably affected by the fine scales which rise from the imperfectly volatilised metal, and by the fumes of the "spelter," or solder of brass. They are generally unhealthy, suffering from disorders similar to those of the brass-founders. Tinplate-workers are subjected to fumes from muriate of ammonia, and sulphureous exhalations from the coke which they burn, which appear to be annoying rather than injurious. The men are tolerably healthy, and live to a considerable age. Tinners are subject only to temporary inconvenience from the fumes of the soldering. Plumbers, being exposed to the volatilised oxide of lead, are sickly in appearance, and short lived. House-painters are unhealthy, and do not generally attain full age. Chemists and druggists, in laboratories, are sickly and consumptive. Potters are affected through the pores of the skin. They are remarkably subject to constipation, and become paralytic. Hatters, grocers, bakers, and chimneysweepers, suffer through the skin; but, though the irritation occasions diseases, To heaven hath a summer's day? A man whose tuned humours be Wouldst see blith looks, fresh cheeks, beguile In summe, wouldst see a man that can Of physick, that's physick indeed. Richard Crashaw. they are not, except in the last class, October 26.-Day breaks fatal. Dyers are healthy and long-lived. Brewers are, as a body, far from healthy. A robust, and often florid appearance, conceals chronic diseases of the abdomen, particularly a congested state of the venous system. When the men are accidentally hurt or wounded, they are more liable than other individuals to severe and dan gerous effects. Cooks and confectioners are subjected to considerable heat. Our common cooks are more unhealthy than housemaids. Their digestive organs are frequently disordered; they are subject to headach, and their tempers are rendered irritable. Glass-workers are healthy. HEALTH IN OLD AGE. Hark hither, reader, wouldst thou sce As thin aëreal vail is drawn O'er beauty's face, seeming to hide, No mists do mask, no lazy steams? A happy soul, that all the way Sun rises Twilight ends October 27. 6 54 27th of October, 1708, died in her fifty-eighth year, lady Mary Howard, eldest daughter of Charles Howard, ear! of Carlisle, the amiable widow of the profligate Sir John Fenwick, bart., o! Wallington, in Northumberland, who was executed for high treason. She endeavoured with as much zeal to gain the liberty of a faithless tyrannical husband, as if he had been true and gentle. She even attempted to bribe two of the witnesses against him, Porter and Goodman. The former pretended to be overcome with her promises; and having drawn her ladyship, with Chancey, an agent, into a private apartment, persons whom he had placed as witnesses in an adjoining room, came in and seized them and the money. Upon their evidence Chancey was convicted of subornation of perjury, and pillored. Tthe lady Howard succeeded in buying off Goodman, who disappeared; but she could obtain no other favor to Sir John than the indulgence that he should fall by the axe instead of the halter.* [For the Year Book.] "Tell me what wants me here, to worke delyte, The simple ayre, the gentle warbling winde, To waterfalls their tunes attemper right." This question I proposed to myself as I strolled leisurely onwards one summer'sday through the green fields and shadowy orchards of the garden of England, lulled into contemplation by the pleasant lapse of waters every now and then crossing my path, or gliding away fleetly beside me. I was wandering towards Otham, a pretty village not far from Maidstone, through scenery beautifully. undulated, and beneath a sky whose silent depth was studded with bright clouds like ice-flakes, broken on the slope of some weary current, and floating rapidly apart through the calm hyaline above, while the scene below was as full of life as in one of those brightest days of the year's youth when "all things that love the sun are out of doors." I have attempted to describe it in the following lines : The air is brisk, and the green lowland rings With tinkling waterfalls and bubbling springs, The clouds glance fleetly by, and, as they pass Fling their light shadows o'er the glittering grass The wild thyme trembles as the reckless bee Springs from its dusky flow'rets fearfully, The distant hills give back the tedious cry Of some lone crow that wings it wearily, |