Fig. 2. wards, and to the left of the nose, when Fig. 2 is laid over Fig. 1. That we on earth might learn; So now Apollo's son, my friends, For Music's sacred sake, descends, With mortals to sojourn. A NEW CHANT FOR THE "MAGNIFICAT." COMPOSED BY T. K. GLAZEBROOK, ESQ. OF WARRINGTON, The Housewife. to the disorder should meet the commencement of open Tooth-ache.-At this season of the year, and in open weather, many are particularly susceptible of the above distracting disorder; and with a view to its mitigation The Measles. Measles (says a retired practitioner") and cure, a correspondent offers the following remarks:- is a complaint easily cured; and I will venture to assert If the tooth is hollow, after a paroxysm, place in it a that not one case in thirty will terminate fatally, if proper small piece of cotton dipped in spirits of wine, or spirits measures are had recourse to, the only danger being inof wine and camphor; the latter to be preferred. As, flammation of the lungs. In the first instance, I should during the pain, there is a considerable degree of inflam-recommend low diet, namely, barley water, &c., and mild mation going on in the jaw, it would not be then ad- aperients, such as castor oil, rhubarb, Epsom salts, or any visable to use it; but when this inflammation is allayed, other simple medicine: keep the patient in the recumbent each morning, for a month or six weeks, let the above ad- posture, and the room well ventilated. vice be followed, and it will not be repented of. It is well, also, to use a small quantity of spirits of wine on the brush when cleaning the teeth. I need hardly add, that extraction is the most infallible remedy for this distraction, but this is not convenient nor becoming at all times, and when a number of teeth are drawn from the gums, the check is apt to fall in more, in consequence of it, in after-age. Courage, therefore, and perseverance in the above advice, will amply repay the trouble of it. Those much subject To keep away or drive away Bugs.-Make a strong decoction of red pepper, (Cayenne,) and apply it with a common paint-brush to the joints of the bedstead, wainscoting, &c. where these insects usually resort, and it will speedily kill or repel them. There is a large quantity of wood annually iniported from America, which is full of the eggs of these insects, and, therefore, ought to be avoided as to in-door work. Men and Manners. HORA HIBERNICE. No. III. THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL. "Cally we go o'er the salt blue seas, And the wave breaks white before us; The crowded canvas bends to the breeze, And light flies the pennant o'er us." Martner's Song. snatches of his favourite sea-songs, with his Nan by I have strayed thus far from the original object and a large Union Jack flag was thrown over it, stead of a pall. "In hallowed quiet, human stir was hushed, 'Twould almost seem that the external world Felt God's command, and that the sea waves cuffd More blandly, making music as they rushed." Dublin, December, 1827. J.GL Curiosity induced me to inquire who was the vi tim to the fell destroyer, Death, when I learned t particulars I have just related. That he was a fathe and a good one, I might know from the weepin wife and three children, who followed in the mela choly train.-The churchyard lay a short distan As I before said, he and his companions went out off, near the town of B. It is situated on: to the bay on as fine a morning as could well be ex-sea side, and the frail relics of mortality, which tim pected at the season of "cold and chill November," and decay may have brought to the surface of f With a blithsome and merry heart did Davy Wil. with light hearts, and expectations buoyant with earth, are often borne away, when spring-tides liams and his three companions loose the moorings success; but are not our brightest prospects too often, storms are abroad. Here a grave was prepared of their small fishing smack on the morning of the alas! clouded and dimmed, and that, too, when we the remains of poor Williams, and thither 1 twenty-second of last November, to go and fathom least expect it? It was even so with Davy and his panied them. His body was consigned to the Ocean's depths for their own and their poor families' associates, for they had not been long at their labours, amid the shrieks and sighs of his relations, subsistence. A smart breeze from the westward gave when, on a sudden, a gust of wind arose, the sky re echoed in the calmness of the evening air, them cheering hopes of a 26 good day:" the sun, became obscured, and a most violent storm of rain the silent tears of many of his associates. The although low in the horizon, dispensed its beneficent and hail succeeded; the aspect of "old rugged was well suited for such a melancholy scene, f rays, and gave the otherwise dreary coast some looks ocean" soon assumed a terrific appearance; wave was under the "serene and holy smile" of the S of comfort; the dew drops sparkled upon the brown mounted on wave, and their roar made the very bath evening. I remained to muse upon the h and leafless heath; and the side of a neighbouring rocks echo. Our fishermen, of course, quickly pre- tragic affair-silence was afloat, and there was hill, from whence that most lasting of all minerals, pared to tack about for their home: a chaotic dark- thing to disturb my meditations; for compact granite, is daily being taken away, for the ness covered the whole face of the deep, and the Being well acuse of some extensive public works in its vicinity, tumult of the waves increased. ahone like molten gold in the sun's reflection. quainted with the line of coast, they had but little difficulty, even amid the raging of the elements, to Davy, always the first to display that care had no hiding place in his heart, lilted one of his favourite make land, for the wind had veered directly about, FIELD SPORTS FOR JANUARY. sea-songs, (for he had been a man-of-war's man,) and their orison of thanks was silently offered up while he adjusted the sails and tackling, making for the intervention of Providence in rescuing them The pursuit of the grouse, a hardy and manly rea signal preparation to wage deadly war against from the a gry commotion of the boisterous seas. tion, has already ceased, December breezes mo whiting, codling, herring, or any other of the finny When the boat neared a headland, formed by the requiem: but partridge shooting may, and will, be the followed; yet, excepting in situations where they tribe, which might, unwarily, take the "specious intrusion of a craggy rock, on which they had hoped hitherto been but little disturbed, the birds bait." There is a small wretched-looking cabin con- to cast their anchor, (for the water all around the generally speaking, admit of the near approach tiguous to the shore, and sheltered by an immense place was several fathoms deep, and the waves spent fowler. Pheasants in extensive preserves will stone of several tons weight, which, in some revolu- their fury in foaming and bellowing against the jut-ployment for volley upon volley of battu artillery 09.2 in the better good old-fashioned style of shoo tion of nature, had become detached from its native ting sides of the shore,) Williams, always prompt in mean in the hedge rows, and a field, with a s bed, and had rolled on until it received the com- danger, stood up in the bark, with the flukes of the pointer, a clever setter, or a faithful retriever, as mand,-" Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther:", anchor ready in his hand to cast from him, when he but little execution will be done. This was was re -the other, or new-fangled system, is massiere! but the legends of gossip tales of the neighbourhood conceived he was near enough to accomplish his probability, good wild fowl shooting will be to be had a ca do not fail to attribute it to the force of some purpose. The moment came, he exerted his power- latter end of the month, the birds being sought for e giant of olden times, and the traces of his fingers and thumb ful strength, and effected his aim; but, in the effort, cipally in the neighbourhood of fens and marshes. geon Teal, and other ramifications of the wild duck ge are shown upon its weather-beaten, moss-grown sides, he lost his balance, and fell overboard, never more to will follow hard upon the arrival of the first tist as proofs of the story. In this hut, whose ill-thatched rise. Help from his companions was not to be looked Woodcocks have shown a fair average as to numbers roof seems scarcely sufficient to keep off the rain- for, night having covered all around in the gloom of year, and there are yet enough, and to spare, for the tification of the shooter's hopes, or the epicure's feast drops, and whose misshapen windows, the frames of darkness, and the storm still raging without any To hare hunting and coursing we consider Jan which are stuffed with an old hat, a wisp of straw, peculiarly kind the hares, especially if a week's should occur to brace up their sinews, generally r more stout, and standing longer before the harne even greyhound, than at any other period of the The pursuit of the stag is also in its "newest gloss" # abatement. and other such ready substitutes for that more costly They were compelled, in their own defence, to seluxury, glass, serve not to allow the broad light of cure their little boat, their only means of support, and heaven to shine in, but for the breeze to whistle Bly from the "pelting of the pitiless storm," sorrowthrough the chinks, and ventilate the soot-coloured ful, indeed, and the heralds of heart-rending intel-hunting, the most famous, as it is the finest field the world, now wears its highest feather. Every apartments,-lived the wife of Davy, and three fine ligence to the cabin of their friend, where the wife the scarlet is mounted; the cry of hounds in every ruddy children; in their faces were the roses of un- of Davy, with her children around her, were offering heard; whilst the melody of the merry-toned horn tainted health, and their sturdy, brawny forms were up the vows and prayers of innocence and affection over hill and valley, covert and plain. well suited to the fatigues imposed on them. In to the great God "who giveth and taketh away." For Anglers, this may also be termed a blank wer the summer season, they assisted their father in all Here was a scene which neither pen nor pencil could then, it is so rare an occurrence to find a favourable d the purposes of his occupation, and, during the in- portray-the intenseness of grief felt: the wife who and unfouled water, at this season of the year, that clement season of winter, were used to carry the pro. has lost a good husband, the children who have lost labour is frequently greater than the profit-the dis pointment far beyond the pleasure of the fisherma duce of their father's nets to the neighbouring town, a dear parent-(but his were not sensible of their exertions. for sale. Their condition, however, was far better loss)-can alone form an idea of it. This melanthan the general class of our labouring peasantry, choly catastrophe I merely relate as a prelude to the and their cabin bore evident marks of that:-maiden scene I saw. His body was discovered next mornray, ling, cod, and other fish, salted and dried, hung ing drifting a short distance from where he met his up all round the ample chimney corner; and, though fate, and brought to that home of which he had so the exterior was so forbidding in its aspect, yet, in- long been the only support. ternally, the hungry traveller would stand a good Round the brow of a hill, in the neighbourhood of chance of not being long without some relief. Davy, his cabin, I was walking, solitarily, when I met a like most men of the sea, loved his can of grog as funeral procession winding slowly on. It was the well as another, and never felt himself truly happy more remarkable as it was principally composed of but when he charmed his boon companions with seafaring men; the coffin was borne by four sailors, METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. [From the Liverpool Courier.] Extreme Thermo-Extreme State of during meter 8 heatru- the Wind Night. morning ring Day. at noon. Remark BOOB Barometer at noon. Dec. 2630 26 28 29 30 56 0 44 O 48 0 34 0 41 0 S.W. Fair. N.W. Cloudy. S.E. Fair. 34 26 0 28 0 30 0 42 0 S.E. Rain. 43 0 44 0 45 @ N.E. Rain. 39 0 9. Fair. 34 0 S.E. Fair. 48 When we consider the precision with which we com. ply judge whether the eyes of another person are fixed on ourselves, and the immediateness of our perception, even a momentary glance is turned upon us, it is very rising that the grounds of so accurate a judgment are distinctly known. Though it may not be possible to onstrate what these are by experiments on the eyes of 12 persons, we may find convincing arguments to prove influence, if it can be shown, in the case of portraits. the same ready decision which we pronounce on the resion of the eyes, is founded, in a great measure, on the Hoof parts which, as far as I can learn, have not been idered as assisting our judgment. ST For. Figure 2, see page 225. the face is pointed downwards, the eyes looking at us When the turn of a pair of eyes partakes of both incli- ne night imagine that the circular form of the iris be a sufficient criterion of the direction in which an boking, since, when the human eye is looking at us, part is always circular, but cannot appear strictly so turned in such a manner that we view it with any ee of obliquity. But we cannot judge of exact circuwith sufficient precision for this purpose, even when whole circle is fully seen; and in many cases we see small a portion of the circumference of the iris to disbaish whether it is circular or elliptic. In a portrait, gh the iris be drawn truly circular, and consequently ars so in a direct view. still, in oblique positions, it At be seen as an ellipse; and the eyes continue to look he spectator, though he views them very obliquely, sees them of a form most decidedly elliptic. fre examine the eyes of a person opposite to us, we the most perceptible variation in the appearance of his in consequence of their lateral motion, is an increase decrease of the white parts at the angles of each eye. he central position the two portions are nearly equal. this we decide that a person is looking neither right But the effect thus producible is by no means limited to ft, but straight forward, in the direction of his nose. the mere extent of deviation, as a total difference of chae turn his eyes to one side, we are made sensible of change by a deminution of the white of the eye, by racter may be given to the same eyes by due representation of the other features. A lost look of devout abstraction, ch alone we are able to estimate in what degree they in an uplifted countenance, may be exchanged for an apate in direction from the face to which they belong.pearance of inquisitive archness, in the leer of a younger their direction, with reference to ourselves, is per-face, turned downwards, and obliquely toward the opposite distinct from this. In judging of which, even in side. The under eye-lid, which, in the former position, eyes, we are not guided by the eyes alone, but are conceals a portion of the ball of the eye, from an effect by the position of the entire face. In a portrait this apparently of mere perspective, will, in the latter, seem be proved by experiment. If a pair of eyes be drawn raised with effort, and thus give the appearance of a smile etly, looking at the spectator, unless some touch be to the same eyes, if supported by corresponding expresto suggest the turn of the face, the direction of the sion of the rest of the countenance. These instances sufdeems vague, and their direction will not appear the ficiently show, that the apparent direction of the eyes, to eto all persons. To the same person they may be or from, the spectator, depends upon the balance of two cirappear directed either to him or from him, by the cumstances combined in the same representation, namely, tion of other features strongly marking that essential 1st, The general position of the face presented to the mstance, the position of the face. spectator; and, 2d, The turn of the eyes from that posi 10. he perspective form which correctly represents a certain of eyes in one position of the face, cannot be an exact esentation of the same eyes in another; but in cases of slight obliquity as is usually given to the eyes in a at, intended to look at the spectator, the variation form of the lide from obliquity is less than the diffe observable in the eyes of different persons. Hence, air of eyes drawn looking at us, best admit of being rped from their intended direction by a new position of other features of the face. tion. With this previous knowledge of the influence which the general perspective of the face in a portrait has upon the apparent direction of the eyes, we shall be prepared to examine why, if they look at the spectator when he stands in front of the picture, they follow, and appear to look at him in every other direction. Pg. 1. of objects, even in the most oblique direction in which the representation can be viewed, are still in the same vertical plane, and, consequently, will seem still to be in a line with us, exactly as in the front view; seeming, as we move, to turn round with us, from their first direction, toward any oblique position that we may choose to assume. In portraits, the phenomena of direction with reference to the spectator, and corresponding change of apparent position in space when he moves to either side, depend precisely on the same principles. A nose drawn directly in front, with its central line upright, continues directed to the spectator, although viewed obliquely: or, if the right side of the nose is represented, it must appear directed to the right of the spectator in all situations; and eyes that turn in a due degree from that direction toward the spectator, so as to look at him when viewed in front, will continue to do so when viewed obliquely. In any extended drawing, the lines of direction admit of being clearly marked in the relative position of objects at different distances; but in portraits, the circumstances are less distinct, for want of some visible mark indicating the direction of the eyes. But if any object be represented in front of the picture, so that the centre of one of the eyes may appear to be exactly over it, we have then a marked line of direction, which, by its permanently ver tical position, renders the relation of the appearances, in a portrait, to the corresponding phenomena in extended views, complete. LIST OF NEW PATENTS. To R. Wheeler, of High Wycomb, for improvements on refrigerators for cooling fluids.-Dated the 22d of Nov1827-6 months allowed to enrol specification. To W. J. Dowding, of Poulshot, Wiltshire, for imIf we consider the effect produced by our change of po-provements in machinery for rollering wool from the cardsition with reference to any other perspective drawing, we ing engine.-22d of November.-2 months. find a similar permanence of apparent position of the ob To J. Roberts, of Wood-street, Cheapside, and G. jects represented with respect to ourselves, and correspond-Upton, of Queen-street, Cheapside, for improvements on ing change of direction with reference to the plane of reArgand and other lamps.-24th of Nov.-6 months. presentation, or to the room in which it hangs; and we To J. A. Fulton, of Lawrence Pountney-lane, Cannonshall be able, in this case, distinctly to trace its origin in-street, London, for a process of preparing or bleaching the simplest principles of perspective drawing. pepper.-26th of November.-6 months. To J. Apsey, of John street, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, for an improvement in machinery to be used as a substitute for the crank.-27th of November.-2 months. The converse of this may also be shown. Eyes drawn, Finally, looking a little to one side, may be made to at us by applying other features in a suitable position. although a change of 20 or 30 degrees may be effected, n of 90 degrees cannot be produced. If an attempt de to carry the experiment beyond reasonable limits, that the perspective form of the eyes is glaringly ill When two objects are seen on the ground at different disred to the rest of the face, the effect is impaired, but tances from us in the same direction, one will appear, and together lost. Some persons, much accustomed to must be represented, exactly above the other. The line ing the human eye, who are in the habit of attending joining them is an upright line on the plane of the picture, To J. Jenour, jun. of Brighton-street, Pancras, for his inutely to the shape of the lids, may not feel the full and represents a vertical plane passing through the eye cartridge or case, and method of more advantageously infet perceived by others; but still the change of direc and these objects. When objects that are at different closing therein shot or other missiles for loading fire arms. on that is admitted by the generality of those who have elevations are said to be in a line with us, the strict mean--28th of November.-6 months. ating to warp their judgment, shows how little influing is, that they are so placed that a vertical plane from To T. Bonnor, of Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham, nce the eyelids really have in giving apparent direction the eye would pass through them. Now, since the upright merchant, for improvements on safety-lamps-4h of Comparison with the more prominent features. line (drawn, or supposed to be drawn, on the plane of the December.-6 months. picture, and representing a vertical plane) will be seen upright, however far we move to one side, and will continue to represent a vertical plane, it follows that the same set The same principles which apply to the lateral turn of the eyes and face, apply also to instances of moderate inlimation of the face upwards or downwards. For, when To W. Fawcett, of Liverpool, and M. Clarke, of Jamaica, for improved apparatus for the better manufacture of sugar from the canes-4th of December.- months. Miscellanies. NEW YEAR'S DAY. In Paris, on New Year's Day, which is called le Jour d'Etrennes, parents bestow portions on their children, brothers on their sisters, and husbands make` presents to their wives. Carriages may be seen rolling through the streets with cargoes of bon-bons, souvenirs, and the variety of et ceteras with which little children and grown-up children are bribed into good humour; and here and there pastry-cooks are to be met with, carrying upon boards enormous temples, pagodas, churches, and playhouses, made of fine flour and sugar, and the embellishments which render French pastry so inviting. But there is one street in Paris to which a New Year's Day is a whole year's fortune-that is the Rue des Lombards, where the wholesale confectioners reside; for in Paris every trade and profession has its peculiar quarter. For several days preceding the first of January, this street is completely blocked up by carts and waggons laden with cases of sweetmeats for the provinces. These are of every form and description which the most singular fancy could imagine; bunches of carrots, green peas, boots and shoes, lobsters and crabs, hats, books, musical instruments, gridirons, frying-pans, and sauce-pans; all made of sugar, and coloured to imitate reality, and all made with a hollow within to hold the bon bons. The most prevailing devise is what is called a cornet; that is, à little cone ornamented in different ways, with a bag to draw over the large end, and close it up. In these things, the prices of which vary from one franc (ten-pence) to fifty, the bon-bons are presented by those who choose to be at the expense of them; and by those who do not, they are only wrapped in a piece of paper; but bon-bons, in some way or other, must be presented. It would not, perhaps, be an exaggeration to state, that the amount expended for presents on New Year's Day in Paris, for sweetmeats alone, exceeds 500,000 francs, or £20,000 sterling. Jewellery is also sold to a very large amount; and the fancy articles exported in the first week in the year, to England and other countries, is computed at one-fourth of the sale during the twelve months. In Paris it is by no means uncommon for a man of 8,000 or 10,000 francs a year to make presents on New Year's Day which cost a fifteenth part of his income. No person able to give, must, on this day, pay a visit empty handed. Every body accepts, and every man gives according to the means which he possesses. Females alone are excepted from the charge of giving. A pretty woman, respectably connected, may reckon her new year's present at something considerable. Gowns, jewellery, gloves stockings, and artificial flowers, fill her drawing-room; for in Paris it is a custom to display all the gifts, in order to excite emulation, and to obtain as much as possible. At the palace the New Year's Day is a complete jour de fete. Every branch of the Royal Family is then expected to make handsome presents to the King. For the six months preceding January, 1824, the female branches were busily occupied in preparing presents of their own manufacture, which would fill at least two common sized waggons. The Duchess de Berri painted an entire room of japanned pannels to be set up in the palace; and the Duchess of Orleans prepared an elegant screen. An English gentleman, who was admitted suddenly into the presence of the Duchess de Berri two months before, found her, and three of her maids of honour, lying on the carpet, painting the legs of a set of chairs, which were intended for the King. The day commences with the Parisians at an early hour, by the interchange of their visits and bon-bons. The nearest relations are visited first, until the furthest in blood have had their calls; then friends and acquaintances. The conflict to anticipate each other's call occasions the most agreeable and whimsical scenes among these proficients in polite attentions. In these visits, and in gossip. ing at the confectioners' shops, which are the great lounge for the occasion, the morning of New Year's Day is passed; a dinner is given by some member of the family to all the rest, and the evening concludes, like Christmas Day, with cards, dancing, or any other amusement that may be preferred: One of the chief attractions to a foreigner in Paris is the exhibition, which opens there on New Year's Day, of the finest specimens of the Sevres china, manufactured at the royal establishment, in the neighbourhood of Versailles, during the preceding year.-Every Day Book. Insect in Solid Wood.-We, some time ago, informed our readers, that the workmen of Mr. Atkinson, cabinetmaker, in Liverpool, in sawing up a log of hard zebrawood, had discovered, in the centre, a large grub or insect, which we imperfectly described. The insect is still ing, that we are preparing an exact engraving of it, which living, and the phenomenon is, in our opinion, so interestwe shall soon present to our readers, with a more minute description of the insect than we gave when we first noticed its discovery. The Fireside. "In order to employ one part of this life in serious and important occupations, it is necessary to spend another in mere amusements."-JOHN LOCKE. "There is a time to laugh and a time to weep."—SOLOMON. In our last we intimated that if our readers would refer to our 6th volume, page 243, they would find an excellent recreation with cards. We are sorry to have occasioned considerable trouble by misquoting the page, which is 213. Our readers would do well to make the correction with a pen, to prevent useless researches. No. VII. VIVENT LES BAGATELLES. SOLUTIONS TO THE PUZZLES, &c. IN OUR LAST. Another Solution to No. 23. I think that I can, If you wish for a plan To plant your new grove, send you one; I shall not claim from you, Permission to see it when done. At each side, if you please, Plant three sycamore trees; You may sit 'neath their shade in warm weather; But in order to enter, I have placed, as you'll see, Should stand.-Now may not I claim The permission you granted, And when your grove's planted, Occasionally visit the same. ELIZA B. 26. Because it is herring (her ring.) 27. Because she is Mersey full (merciful.) 28. Because it is a corp oration (corporation.) 29. Brace. 30. Carnation. 34. Compère, commère. NEW CONUNDRUMS, CHARADES, &c. CONUNDRUMS. 35. Great K, little k, and k in a merry mood? 36. Who was that scriptural king whose name comprises a father calling his son and the son's answer? 37. What was the name of the person buried beneath the stone containing the following inscription ? So did he live, and so did he die; So, so! did he so? So let him lie. 38. There is a certain word in the English language, of| three syllables, containing only four letters, three of which are vowels. 39. There is another word, in very common use, espe cially in epistolary correspondence, of only two syllables, and yet containing five letters, four of which are vowels. 40. My first's the guard of peasant's lowly cot; And of my next is happiness the lot; My whole a harmless form remains, Of iron laws and slavery's chains. USEFUL AMUSEMENTS. Question from Bonnycastle's Arithmetic. Multiply 10ft. 4in. 5pts. by 5ft. 8in. 6pts. decimally, so that the result may be the exact answer, which is 59ft. 2in. 2" 66", and the decimals not to exceed 8 places from the separating point. How are these operations accounted for? Having occasion to pay for a goose that cost 5 how must this be done, I having no other coin but half-crown pieces? guineas, and the person of whom I bought it having CAR To Correspondents. THE PLAGUE IN MANCHESTER.-In consequence of a note felt called upon to address to our readers last week have received a communication from the writer Plague in Manchester, who observes, that he was surp and hurt at our having called him "capricious." forms us that he has by him the whole of the manus of his romance; but that it requires some correction revision before he can forward it to us. In a week er he promises us the whole; but we are compelled t that he assigns no adequate reason for a procrasting which has so much the appearance of trifling with readers, as to justify the expressions we used in all to it. If J. H. had been indisposed, or absent from b he might have intimated as much, and thus have read any suspicion that we had any share in the delay would behave with all due courtesy to our corresponde but we, also, owe respect to our friends and reader, was natural we should be solicitous to exonerate from the suspicion of being capricious, or disrega those to whom it is our pride and pleasure to ach our obligations. The verses which accompanied the of J. H. are reserved for our next. Lares is informed that the following note was, as requere addressed to him in the Mercury, but was withdraw want of room :-" Lares is informed, that we fear that establishment will not admit of any offer worth a ceptance. If he would himself make some specie posal, we could give a more definite answer." One of our correspondents, who has sent us a charade word candle, seems to have forgotten that dell is not ap dle. H. W. J.'s two favours have been duly received, and sh disposed of according to uniform custom. This este correspondent will find one of his former pieces in 15 ceding page. SUPPLEMENTAL SHEET.-Next week, or the following it is our intention to present our readers with another tuitous supplement, in order that they may be no le the Music, or by the insertion of those articles wh occasionally copy from the Mercury. SONNET OF AN IMPROVISATORE.-One of our correspo has succeeded in the very difficult task of giving an version of the Italian sonnet, which we re-published the Winter's Wreath, in the Kaleidoscope of Dec. 4. the peculiar construction of the original scnnet is dered, we think our correspondent has acquitted hi very cleverly., SCHILLER'S GHOST SEER-In order to make room for three long, and, in our opinion, very interesting articles have postponed the conclusion of the Ghost Seer until week, when it will be brought to a termination. 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Louis de Craon, Scaligero della Scala, and others whose names were spurs to their valour, other hand, were directed by Misach Palæologus, of joined this illustrious company. The Turks, on the the imperial family of Constantinople, who had risen by apostacy to the rank of first Pacha of the Turkish monarchy. shall continue to be a railroad, or a road formed of For, suppose OP to pents in Science or Art; including, occasionally, sin-yield to the pressure of M N, and let N sink to ", mprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improve- equally unyielding materials. lar Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical, Phi- then m n represents the wheel so sunk—whose centre ophical, Botanical, Meteorological, and Mineralogical is q, and qr the direction of the propelling power, Phenomena, or singular Facts in Natural History; Vegetation, &c.; Antiquities, &c. capable of drawing the wheel along O P, but not along o p, (which, of course, follows.) At the point S, where the periphery of the sunk-wheel touches O P, join at right angles to o P, then S p represents the resisting power of the hole which the wheel makes for itself in the yielding material ;-join q S, and at the inclination of the plane on which the wheel must S join S T at right angles to qs then S T represents travel to get out of the hole, and before it can get on O P: now, before the wheel can travel on the incommunicated to the editor of the Sunday Times, clined plane S T, the propelling power must take the person of the name of Geo. Bruges, 14, Baker- direction qf, parallel to S T. Hence the propelling teemed the key of the town of Rhodes. The Grand unfortunate persons now wasting their time and power must, on a hard road, take the direction Q R; the breach; his helmet was knocked off by a stone; TO THE EDITOR. -Thinking you may not have seen the aned diagram, I have thought proper to extract it na London paper, as the subject has, I believe, ited no small degree of interest in this town. It 66 et, Bagnigge Wells, "in pity," as he says, to tance in silly speculations; and by which to onstrate, mathematically, that no steam-carriage possibly travel except on railroads, or roads formed equally unyielding materials." He concludes demonstration by stating, he is aware that to his sory may be opposed what seems to be the evidence facts; and that it will, doubtless, be asserted, that -carriages have actually travelled on other than roads. To this he replies, that no well authented instance can be produced of a steam-carriage elling on a road where the materials have been laid for the purpose of making a new, or mendan old road; and until this be done, he asserts his theory will remain unshaken.-I am, Sir, respectfully, ringfield, January 2d, 1828. S. J. The force destined to besiege Rhodes was comone hundred thousand troops. In May, 1481, the posed of one hundred and sixty large vessels, and Turks commenced the siege, opening their first battery against Fort St. Nicholas, which was esMaster himself, accompanied by his brother, defended and, on a soft road q f. he took a soldier's hat, and continued to fight with Now, as all inanimate power acts always uniformly desperation, till the Janizaries, after suffering imThe Turkish in one direction—and it has been shown that, in case mense loss, were obliged to retreat. of steam-carriages, a power is required to act accord-general then resorted to other measures, and directed ing as circumstances may demand, in more directions his artillery against the quarter of the Jews, where the wall was known to be weak; but when his canthan one-some contrivance must be discovered to set non had made considerable impression, he found, to aside the laws of inanimate matter, before a steam- his dismay, that D'Aubusson had built a second wall carriage can possibly travel on other than railroads, or behind the former, of stronger and better materials. Thus foiled a second time, he attempted, by emisroads constructed of equally unyielding materials. N. B. The same diagram readily explains the saries, to poison the Grand Master, but the plot was discovered, and the emissaries torn to pieces by the reason why wheels sunk to a certain depth do, when people. He then returned to the plan of attacking acted on by a given power, continue to revolve, with the fort of St. Nicholas. This fort was separated out obtaining a progressive motion; for, suppose the from the Turkish camp by a narrow channel. The wheel m n sunk to n, then S P will represent the Pacha built a bridge of boats, and one of his soldiers quantity and direction of the power which impedes a rock under water, close to the fort, and passing a diving a considerable depth, fastened an anchor to the progressive motion of the wheel. Now let qf cable through the ring of the anchor, hoped to draw represent the power acting on m n at q, then it is the bridge of boats to the wall. But an English plain that m n, as a wheel put in motion, must re- sailor, of the name of Gervas Roger, who perceived volve in some direction: if it be impeded by a resist the stratagem of the Turk, dived in his turn under The Turks, thus ing power greater than the propelling power, as it water, and detached the cable. baffled in their stratagem, towed their bridge, by cannot revolve with a progressive motion, it must means of a number of boats, close to the fort. They revolve with a motion not progressive or retrograde; began the attack during the night, and attempted to but if the propelling and resisting powers be equal, scale the wall, but the fire of the Christians, directed then will the wheel move with neither a progressive by the sound, was exceedingly destructive. The few who reached the top of the wall were all slain. nor retrograde, but a stationary revolution. After several repulses, the Turks still renewed the assault; the whole of the night passed amidst the noise of artillery, the confused voices of the assailants, the cries of the wounded, and the explosions MN be the wheel of the steam-carriage, tracaused by the fire-ships of the Grand Master. When day at length appeared, the cannon from the fort Eng on the road O P; and let QR be the probroke the bridge, and all who were on it were g power, acting at right angles to the spoke Q N; drowned. The Turks, in despair, were obliged to plain that the wheel M N will revolve on the retire, with the loss of numbers of their best and OP only when Q R is parallel to O P, and dis- From Lord John Russel's recently published work,-a Discourse bravest soldiers. After some fresh attacks, the Pacha on the Establishment of the Turks in Europe. 1 from it by a space equal to Q N. Now Q R tried the way of negotiation, and proposed to the be parallel to N P, and distant from it by a space besieged an honourable capitulation. Many of the The island was in possession of the Knights of knights, seeing the immense force of the enemy, al to Q N only when N P is a straight line. Now St. John of Jerusalem; on the approach of danger were inclined to listen to terms, and even blamed P will continue to be a straight line only when they assembled in council, and agreed to pay implicit the Grand Master for his obstinacy; but D'Aubus P shall continue to support, without yielding to, the obedience to their Grand Master, D'Aubusson, who son, using the absolute power with which he had estare of M N; or, in other words, so long as O P joined to the wisdom of a prudent commander, the been invested, called the knights together, and said, ardent courage of a knight, and the enthusiastic faith "Gentlemen, if any one of you does not think him M f m T N R |