Men and Manners. HORE HIBERNICE. No. V. "Capital oysters I declare, Excellent spirits, good ale and beer: OLD SONG. knife ready at a call, in his red waistcoat pocket;-ribbons, and flags of every colour which decks the Every time the wit opens his mouth, Although we are accused, and, perhaps, with justice, of a great many peculiarities, yet, as a nation, After braving all the dangers of a rude and rocky that of epicurism will not fall heavily on us. The coast, he comes with his little cargo, (a part pro poor peasant will be content with his potato, prietor, perhaps,) leaving a home behind him, and, which will be the more delicious if savoured with from the time he quits it, never changes an article salt; and how nectareous is a draught of any thing of his apparel, although every particle of it, in hard in the shape of milk, to wash down his homely meal! weather, may be thoroughly drenched; it is all one The love of every thing Irish pervades us even to to our man of the sea; he never shifts or drys himthat most bestial of our senses, taste. I do not now self, yet never feels any inconvenience, so true is it speak of the gout, or ragout of our mercurial neigh-that "use is second nature." The Re boasts of bours on the Continent; no, I should be sorry to make little of, or retrograde the "march of mind;" I merely say that an Irishman, dine where he may, if it were within the solemn precincts of Palmyra, the sandy plains of Araby, or the simplest shieling in his own isle, will not consider the aforesaid meal comfortable if he have not that scourge of political economists, the potato ;-any more than would the Englishman without his pudding. This may be a species of the amor patriæ, but how low in the eyes of metaphysicians I am not now about to discuss, nor would it be proper, in the pit I have now chosen, to sport my plumed feather. As it is with the potato, it is even so with almost every other edible, whether animal or vegetable. So far are oysters a source of luxury, employme and amusement, and fill the part allotted, in great chain of which this universe, and all creat things we see, form but a solitary link. Dublin, Jan. 31, 1828. J. G. The Kaleidoscope. OBSERVATIONS ON THE MORTALITY AND PHYS MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN. to other causes. From whatever sources this great red We have perused, with much interest, a work unde no tapestried walls or gilded mirrors;-in an ill-foregoing title, from the pen of Mr. John Roberto furnished apartment, low, and soot-coloured, the gentleman highly distinguished in his profession, me glare of a solitary gas-lamp gives out a flickering of different learned societies, and one of the Surge light, but, with the aid of a few additional candles, the Lying-in-Hospital, Manchester. The productio there may be seen "goodly sights" indeed. Here, highly spoken of by gentlemen of the faculty, and the phrenologists who may doubt the existence of the willingly add our humble testimony in its favour. organ of gastronomy, will see its development clearly of the work; it will be sufficient to insure for it the We shall not pretend to give any thing like an a ascertained, and the moralist learn crude lessons of tion which it merits from parents, and others engage the wish implanted in the "human race divine" to the bringing up of youth, to state, that it exhibits the gratify the senses. Here is to be seen the man, in astrous consequences of many prevalent abuses whom no social feeling exists, walk in solus cum solo, treatment of children; the fatal effects of many cal sit down, and not daring to look up lest he should generally esteemed to be harmless, and, sometins, recognise any friend or familiar who might have a salutary; and that it not only points out the evil. claim on his coin or his kindness (pronus obediensque and forcible language, but also suggests the reas ventri.) His first word is "waiter!"--the oysterIt is a melancholy fact, that a great proporti Lord Byron says, "Oysters and eggs are amatory man then in requisition,—a mortality amongst the kind die before they have attained their tenth ye things;" and surely it is not outré that a descendant oysters then follows; and when, as the Marquis of may, no doubt, in part be owing to the prevalence of Saint Pat should "love what is lovely," or what Worcester terms it, "a century" of oysters are gulped, eases peculiarly incidental to childhood, but there causes love; 'tis all one to Paddy; therefore, in every and a glass of the native, he rises and departs, leaving question that it may also, in a great measure, beatri month in the year in which the R is to be found, you his "mite" (though reluctantly) to the obsequious mortality arises, some political economists, in surp will find not only oysters in season, but Irish lads to attendant. The "gay soul" again arrives, but sur-their systems, scruple not to charge Providence with eat of them. There are those who prefer the Mala-rounded with his bons vivans, with whom, Irishman- necessary cruelty, by saying, as they do in effect, hides; for every mother's son in that side of the like, he would share his heart's blood; and, amid sends millions of human beings into the world merel country, men, women, and children, oysters and all, cordial and sentimental conversation, the hours are suffer and to die; we say unnecessary cruelty, because boast of being "sons of Fingal," and out of what passed, the fish are devoured, they part cordially, presumed end might have been attained by other in Irish is called Nadhur, or a strong liking from the anxious to meet again, and "the cheerful goblet They assume what is merely incidental to child heart, they think no other oyster is prime. The sip." Contrast the feelings of such a group to the be inseparable from it, and, on this questionable aut powldoodies from the west, again, have their ad- solitary gourmand, who gluts himself and goes off, found what they term a fixed and immutable lav mirers. Such is the increase of the population in big with his owu importance, satisfied with his glut-ture:-with equal justice it might be said that the the oyster colonies in those parts of Ireland, that tony. Such characters are singular in this "island manufacturer makes a variety of articles from that material merely to be broken,-because, from they use, virtually, burned fish, and all fresh from of saints," nor will any person envy any country the the sea foam, to make manure, and help to raise the possession of them. The two opposites of the pic-his labours. But though the political economist handling and various accidents, such is often the murphies. These genera are to be had in abun- ture are drawn; they who do not rise in such relief, with philosophical calmness upon this waste of dance, and the citizen, rolling home in rather a but are, nevertheles, in chiaro-scuro, feast and fun, but life, we apprehend that parents will not be equally serpentine direction, having partaken rather plen-like "the breath on the mirror's bright face," leave ferent, when they are told that improper treatme tifully of potations with "auld acquaintances," or no trace behind; they enter and eat, drink and de- children is, probably, one of the main causes of that perhaps to make new ones, spies the light of the part, after their weary work is done; and many of mense rate of mortality; if this be correct, and in the paper lamp, as sure a guide as the beacon, when the them filling otherwise important stations in society, before us we have many statements and arguments to perils of the deep threaten him who is rocked on the think it no honour to shine in such a sphere, and that it is so,-common humanity, to put the nameles high and stormy billow; and the sedulous oyster- preserve, as sacred, their socialities for their fire-derness of the parental heart entirely out of the quest wench unlocks the shelly caskets, until a sated ap- | sides. Kings and potentates, persons of high and will suggest the course to be pursued. petite, or a sick stomach, cries "stop." This is one low degree, have their gala days, and why should The knowledge of an evil is, generally speaking species of oyster eating, or whatever else you may not oyster-women and men? The twenty-ninth day siderable step towards its removal; and that appro call it; but, if you wish to see the real Carlingfords, of September in every year is "a great day for Iretion must be considerably increased when the end i the jewels of shell-fish, the pearly prize of all who land." All the men employed in the conveyance complished;-both are clearly laid down by Mr. Robe only specified, but also the means by which it is to le can value the fresh and foamy flavour of that of oysters to this city, are up betimes on that auspi. To show the nature of the work, we shall briefly enn sweetest of the shelly brood, let him to the Recious morn, and "with clothes speck and span new," the contents of some chapters, premising that it cont Tavern, there will he see the rude frieze-clad sea without any specks, and neat Barcelonas tied round much statistical information, and other matter, interest man, with his little basket, smelling of sea rock and their white necks, they freight their cars, and march to the general reader, as well as that which comes wit salt water, full of oysters, the true ostrea edulis, his to town in full procession,-their hats decorated with particularly home to the feelings of parents. To S. Wilkinson, of Holbeck, Yorkshire, for improve. ments in mangles.-4th of December -6 months. To Maurice de Jough, of Warrington, cotton-spinner, for improvements in machines adapted for spinning, doubling, twisting, roving, or preparing cotton, &c.-4th of Deccinber.-6 months. To J. Robinson, of Merchants'-row, Limehouse, for an ing, in the preceding sections, given the data on which | To J. Meadon, of Millbrook, near Southampton, for To J. H. Sadler, of Hoxton, Middlesex, for improve- To R. Stein, of Regent-street, Oxford-street, for an To F. B. Geither, of Birmingham, for improvements on castors for furniture, &c.-13th of December-6 months, To J. Gilbertson, of Hertford, for an improvement in the construction of furnaces, by which they consume their own smoke.-15th of January.-2 months. To C. Hooper, of Spring Gardens, in the parish of Marston Bigott, Somersetshire, for an improved machinə for shearin; and cropping woollen and other cloths.—15th of January.-2 months. To J. Evans the younger, of Moreton Mills, near Wallingford, Berks, for improvements on steam-engines.15th of January-6 months. To J. Blades, of Clapham, Surrey, for an improvement in the waterproof stiffening for hats: communicated from abroad.-15th of January.-6 months. To W. Newton, of Chancery lane, for an improved of January.-6 months. surgical chair-bed, with various appendages.-15th of To G. D. Harris, of Field-place, near Stroud, Glouces tershire, for improvements in dressing and preparing woollen yarns, and in cleaning, dressing, and finishing woollen cloths, &c. and in the apparatus for performing the same.-15th of January.-6 months. To J. Falconer Atlee, of Prospect-place, Deptford, for in provements on bands or hoops for securing made and other masts, bowsprits, and yards, and applicable to other purposes--15th of January.-6 months. To W. Erskine Cochrane, Esq. of Regent-street, for improvements in certain apparatus for cooling, and other purposes-15th of January-6 months. To J. Taylor Beale, of Church-lane, Whitechapel, and G. Richardson Porter, of Old Broad-street, for their new mode of communicating heat for various purposes.-19th of January.-6 months. To W. Percivall, of Knightsbridge. for improvements in the construction and application of shoes, without nails, to the feet of horses, and certain other animals -19th of January.-6 months. To H. Peto, of Little Britain, for an apparatus for To G. Jackson, of Saint Andrew, Dublin, for improvegenerating power.-13th of December.-6 months. To J. A. Berollas, of Nelson-street, City-road, for a ments in machinery for propelling boats and other vessela, method of winding up a pocket watch, or clock, without a which improvements are also applicable to water-wheels, key, which he calls Berollas's keyless watch or clock;" and other purposes.-19th of January.-6 months. and also a certain improvement to be applied to his lately | invented detached alarum watch.-13th of December. 2 months. To Lieutenant A. M. Skene, of Jermyn street, for an improvement in propelling vessels, and for working undershot water-mills.-13th of December.-6 months. To J. L. Stevens, of Plymouth, for a new method of propelling vessels by the aid of steam, or other means, and for its application to other purposes.-18th of Decem ber-6 months. a Miscellanics. ANECDOTES OF GAMBLING. work then describes the food proper for children; fieting in health and sickness; bathing, cleanliness, The first class consists of those newly introduced, with anagement of the skin; improper and proper modes plenty of money at immediate command, surrounded by the ; the effects of air and temperature; the necessity affections and esteem of friends and relatives, great in retp, exercise, and amusement; the treatment of bowel sources, of a contented, happy, healthful, and respectable appearance, with gold watches and a variety of other costly laints; and concludes with a notice of the transmisTo T. Tyndall, of Birmingham, for improvements in ornaments. It is a matter of joke and speculation with if hereditary diseases, and the management proper the machinery for making nails, brads, and screws: com- the second and third class, how long these appendages to municated from abroad.-18th of December.-6 months. sch as are predisposed to particular diseases. a gentleman will be retained, keenly recollecting how they s volume should be put into the hands of every To J. George, of Chancery lane. Esq. Barrister-at-law, had been compelled to part with their own. Some have and every nurse; it might also be consulted with for his invention for preserving decked ships or vessels, so carriages, horses, servants, &c. These are treated with as to render them less liable to dry rot, and for preserving marked respect; bows and smiles at every turn; but, in eneficial effects by all who are engaged in the edu-goods on board such ships and vessels from damage by short time, they begin to feel the griping influence of of females, as, a point which we forgot to mention heat-18th of December-6 months. such places, and all their advantages by degrees to wither, roper place, it points out the mischievous effects of To T. S. Holland, of the city of London, Esq. for com- when most of them are seen descending to the second class. The second class is composed of those who formerly held tem pursued with regard to them, and the advan-binations of machinery for generating and communicating power and motion, applicable to the propelling of fixed ma- a situation in the first. These wear upon their visages a of a contrary line of proceeding. chinery, as also floating bodies, carriages, and other loco-look of care and deep anxiety, and have nearly drained onclusion, we again strenuously recommend it to motive machines.-19th of December.-6 months. their resources dry, their friends beginning to shy, and erusal of parents. To fathers we would say,-" If turn their backs upon them. From having a good change frest and holiest feelings of our nature have any inof habiliments, they now appear, day after day, with the upon your hearts-if you love your wives and same clothes on, though still of genteel appearance. Their horses, &c. all sold off, and their watches and ornaments en-give this volume an attentive perusal, for it at the pawnbroker's, when many of them rapidly descend ios much to benefit them." To mothers we need to the third class. This being observed, an awkward show thing; their own hearts will prompt them to seize of respect is paid them by the creatures of the hells; in thing that may tend to the preservation and welfare short, they can scarcely treat them with commonly civility. air offspring. To W. Harland, M. D. of Scarborough, for improvements in apparatus for propelling locomotive carriages, which improvements are also applicable to other useful purposes.-21st of December.-6 months. To C. A. Furguston, of Mill Wall, in the parish of All To W. Gossage, of Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, The third class.-Here it would be well if there were nothing more to disclose. The third class consists of those who have descended from the first class to the second, and Scientific Notices. have at last reached a degree of abject misery truly heartrending. Their money all gone, their resources wholly prehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improvedried up, and their connexions and friends (hopeless of ents in Science or Art; including, occasionally, sinthem) entirely lost to them. They present pictures of the alar Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical, Phi-ments in making iron, or in the method, or methods, of deepest distress, want, and despair, not knowing where to sophical, Botanical, Meteorological, and Mineralogical smelting and making of iron.-2d of January.-4 months. obtain a meal one day over another, or how to secure a enomena, or singular Facts in Natural History; To J. Hall, jun. of Ordsall, near Manchester, for im-hed night after night, their clothes faded and threadbare. getation, &c.; Antiquities, &c. provements in dyeing piece-goods by machinery.-2d of The closely buttoned-up coat but ill conceals the absence January.-2 months. of a waistcoat or a shirt, or the soil of them. These, then, are shut out from hell" to " hell," till none but the lowest description will admit them. At night they flock to the English bazard houses, where they bury their mise ries in sleep, upon chairs, or upon the ground. Many will group together, and utter bitter and horrid impreca tions upon their follies and unhappy conditions. LIST OF NEW PATENTS. R. W. Enfield, of Birmingham, for his improvents in tubes or rods produced by a new method of ufacturing, and in the construction only, and for facturing the same, with various other improvements, parts of bedsteads and other articles.-Dated the 4th December, 1827-6 months allowed to enrol specifi. 1: 1006, To J. Cl. Daniell, of Stoke, Wilts, for improvements in dressing cloths, and in the machinery applicable for that purpose-24 of January.-6 months. To W. Morley, of Nottingham, for improvements in, and additions to, machinery now in use for making lace or net-9th of January.-6 months. To J. A. Hunt Grubbe, of Stanton Saint Bernard, Wilts, clerk, for a transmitting heat wall for the ripening of fruit.—9th of January.—6 months. Captain -, late of the Life Guards, was in the habit of playing daily at No. 9, Bennett-street, and coming in his regimentals. It had been observed by one of the dealers, that the captain always played upon the colour nearest to him, whether black or red, and that when that colour lost, he only drew a two one-pound stake, and when it won, he had to pay seven pounds to a five and two one-pound stake. He communicated his suspicions to Fielder, the proprietor, who, on the captain's next coming, narrowly watched him-It is a usual practice with players to put the face of the notes downwards upon the table. The captain lost a stake, the bank drew two one-pound notes. The captain won the next, and turned the notes to be paid. These were two ones and a five at the bottom. A look passed between the keeper and dealer. The seven-pound stake was paid without observation, and a closer watch kept, to ascertain how the trick was done. The captain won another coup, and turned the notes up as before. The stake was likewise the same. The cheat was effected by a five-pound note being kept in the palm of his hand, which, upon turning up the two ones, was adroitly slipped underneath, and thus made it a sevenpound stake. The five-pound note was examined, and the creases from the pressure of the hand left no doubt of the fact. The captain was covered with shame and confusion, and received a torrent of the lowest abuse, in spite of his long sword and regimentals. A well-dressed man, a native, went to a house in the Palais Royale, where they play from five francs to twelve thousand, (about £500 English) He threw a purse, containing that amount, consisting of Louis and billets de banc, upon the colour nearest the windows. The colour lost on which it was thrown. He snatched it up, as if in a great rage, and, with a few sacres, threw another purse, corresponding in appearance, out of the window into the garden, and deposited, unperceived, the rich-filled purse safely in his pocket. The other was fetched. It contained a few francs and two or three Louis, wrapped up in a paper.-Life in the West. The Drama. THE THEATRE. comedy: he looks as a statue of Jupiter Tonans would do, The Beauties of Chess. "Ludimus effigiem belli."-VIDA. 2 Pawn ......F-6 STUDY CLXIX. White to move and win in four moves. Black. Young comes here regularly for a fortnight every season. He made his first appearance this year on Saturday, in the part of Iago. Every body seems to like Youngnot only the public, but even his professional brethren; and it is no easy task for a performer to make himself liked by them. Young is probably more of a gentleman than any one now on the stage, and the social affability and urbanity of his manners operate powerfully in his favour. But, as an actor, though we have always acknow. ledged his fine taste and sound judgment, we have never been able to discover that he possessed much original genius: almost all his pictures are admirably finished, and the general impression produced by them, you feel satisfied, is such as the author meant to convey; but there is no particular part which the eye singles out as more de lightful than another: all is smooth and mellow-toned as one of the landscapes of Nasmyth, but there are no touches here and there to remind us or Salvator Rosa-no glimpses into heaven such as a Titian or a Raphael would have given. We do not mean to advocate that species of acting which prides itself upon a total disregard of all the laws of common sense, and yet which, in spite of ourselves, electrifies us occasionally by its brilliancy: we like a more sustained effort; yet, if obliged to make a choice, we should rather see the actor who, although he sometimes only skimmed the surface of the earth like the swallow, could, when the mood was on him, rise up to the sun with the eagle, than he who regularly sustained himself at the respectable height of the lark. Mr. Young is a performer of the latter description, and, therefore, it is in grave, gen. teel comedy that we like him most, considering the higher walks of tragedy almost beyond his reach. Give him a part where the passions never become so overwhelmingly SIR,-I am now at a "certain age," and the follies and strong as to interfere with the studied grace of action and vanities natural to my sex have become dissipated: I am no musical intonations of voice, and no one will do it so much justice; but try him with the stormier emotions, and he longer charmed with a fashionable dress; no longer feel breaks down under them, perhaps partly because advanc-pleasure in going to a theatre, concert, or assembly; no ing life has somewhat impaired his physical resources. longer wish to display my fine person to the best advantage. For this reason, his Othello is not good; his Macbeth, I no longer endeavour to attract the attention of the young Hamlet, and even his Brutus are cold and tame; and he and gay, by the beautiful tiaras which I delighted to disdares not attempt Coriolanus or Virginius. For the same reason, his Iago-a deep, quiet, calculating villain-his play; neither do I feel gratified with showing the elegant Lord Townly his Penruddock-his Stranger, and many snood of blue ribbon, with which I bound my luxuriant other similar parts are exquisite representations. Vanden- tresses: these have all passed away, and the follies of youth hoff is, in many respects, quite the reverse of Young: he have become sobered by the years of maturity. has not the taste, or the ease, or the delicacy of perception which would enable him to enter into many of those re WHITE Correspondence. MY FIRST BALL. TO THE EDITOR. It was in the summer of the year 17-, when I was in finements in which Young so much delights. He is, my seventeenth year, and my buoyant spirits were unclouded therefore, always out of his element when he attempts by one tinge of sorrow, that I was to make my début at a public ball. How shall I describe the fears, pains, anxieties that occupied my mind for several months vious; the fear that I should not outvie my comped to beauty, although I placed great reliance on my per charms; the anxiety I felt, afraid that the milliners not make my dress so as to show, to perfection, my moulded figure; and even the very ribbons that wen decorate it, were chosen and re-chosen a hundred times but, above all, my fear that I might not obtain an ami and handsome partner? For above a week before I sa slept one hour-for the ball-room, with all its paraph nalia of building and grandeur, incessantly floated my eyes. At length the momentous day arrived, and before the hour of rising I had left my bed to prepare the evening-notwithstanding the many preparation already made. The moment came, and with it brought anevi anxieties; and I was ushered into the ball room master of the ceremonies. I well remember the b applause and admiration which greeted me ou entrance. It was a considerable time before I dare raise my eyes to notice whether there was any appearance was superior to my own, or whose dres constructed with more elegance and richness. I had not been long seated before my hand was s for the evening, by a gentleman possessing all the sites which I had, in the warmth of my imagination picted. His person was noble and graceful, his com tion delightfully agreeable, and, indeed, his whole d ment indicated him to be a man possessed of superis lities. I need now only add, that he became the p of my after years, and I never had cause to regret the moment I met with him at the ball. Just published, price 2s. 6d. An English POLITICAL DICTIONARY, and panion for Students in the SCHOOL of REFORM ་I do love My country's good, with a respect more tende More holy and profound, than mine own l Shak Sold in Liverpool, by EDWARD WILLMER S SMITH, Lord-street. To Correspondents. 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A human being, if deprived of access to fresh air for a very few minutes, will expire, as a lighted candle NOMALOUS PHENOMENA OF ANIMAL LIFE. goes out in the exhausted receiver of an air-pump; and although the vital spark may not be actually ex- Shell Fish alive many months after removed out of their the Kaleidoscope of January 22, where we de-tinct in that short period, the means resorted to, with Mr. Bullock, at the Liverpool Museum, purchased bed the living insect lately found in the centre of of no avail at the expiration of half an hour, or America. Some months afterwards, as he was making a view to restore the action of the lungs, become some small shells from a sailor who brought them from solid log of Zebra-wood, we observed that the cir- an hour at the furthest. A supply of fresh air, up an assortment of these shells, he perceived that they stance brought to our recollection some curious which is thus necessary to human existence, is, how-still contained the fish. On applying a pin point, he ts connected with the phenomena of animal life, ever, by no means indispensible to some other animals, found, to his extreme astonishment, the animals were alive; ich had fallen within our own immediate obser- although, like man, they may be furnished with to convince himself further, he broke several, and found ion, and which we should take an early oppor- lungs, which, it is natural to suppose, would require in each a live fish. I myself this day saw one of the shella City of relating.* a regular atmospheric supply. Now, when we are called upon to give credit to the where they may have remained for ages, if we have broken, and was convinced of the fact. E. S. Living Animals in Horse-beans. My brother-in-law, Mr. Eyres, had a cargo of beans, which were unfit for use, from the strange circumstance of many of them containing small winged animals within I cracked above a score furnished with these them. flies, which, on opening the beans, immediately flew away with great activity; though there was not any aperfinest needle, yet the fly was as large as a middle-sized perhaps in some newspaper, that a toad or other for a single day without access to fresh air, we must ture before the beans were split, large enough to admit the pea, and must have remained some time to acquire such strength and capability of escaping. The Bouquet. E. S. necessarily conclude that such animal is sustained by Any well authenticated fact, therefore, that goes to prove that the laws which govern human organization, and the organization of what are termed the inferior animals differ materially, facilitates our belief in those most surprising phenomena-the discovery of living creatures in solid rock. brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them." We PICTURES OF SOCIETY. copy the following pleasing and spirited article from the Athenæum, an interesting and classical new periodical, from which we intend to make occasional selections, for the amusement of our readers. We were particularly struck with the delineation of manners, and reminiscence of dialogue, contained in the g animal has been lately found by certain workengaged in sawing up stone or timber, in a certain ; and the paragraph passes from journal to jour without leading to any examination of its truth; if the chain of evidence were investigated, it would n be found incomplete,—as the workmen who ediscovered the animal, have, probably, destroyed brown it aside, being too much occupied with rown immediate concerns to feel any interest in scovery which has nothing to recommend it to notice except its rarity. phenomenon of so very extraordinary nature as xistence, in solid stone or timber, of living anifurnished with lungs, should not, however, rest Dr. Darwin, in one of his notes to his Temple of" Pictures of Society, by a Nobleman," evidently vague report; but ought, whenever it is practi- Nature, observes, that some of the microscopic ani- a gentleman, who, whatever his present station to be traced up to its source, in order that our mals are said to remain dead for many days or weeks, may be, has once moved in the highest and most fiological theories may rest upon sound data. when the fluid in which they existed is dried up; polished circles of European society. The chaay well authenticated facts, therefore, which tend and quickly recover life and motion by the fresh ad-racters of several of the personages, who are the Stow light upon the anomalies of animal life, are dition of water and warmth. Thus the Chaos Re- subject of the following sketches, are so well known ble: and, although those facts may not be so divivum of Linnæus, which dwells in vinegar and to the public, and have been so long associated with falar in their nature as the discovery of toads or bookbinders' paste, revives by water, after having been the history, politics, and literature of the age, that living creatures in solid stone, they are va-dried up for years, and is both oviparous and vi- we think we cannot render a more acceptable service le in their degree, if they tend to assist us one than by transcribing the whole of the article. in our reasonings upon a subject so apparently concileable with our theories of the laws of orized life. viparous. We have been led, almost insensibly, into a long chapter, which may, to some of our readers, appear rather a disproportionate preface to the two short When we first introduced this insect to the public atten- extracts from our portfolio, which led us to take up We promised that we would watch its progress, and oc- the subject, and which we are about to transcribe.-onally put forth a bulletin on the subject. In conformity Those extracts are copied from one of our manu h this promise we paid it a visit on Saturday, and found as well as could be expected." It is, to the full, as lively as script volumes, and their only importance arises from Fas when we first saw it; but it buries itself deeper than their being scrupulously faithful records of phefirst, in the sawdust, which serves it for bed, and (we pre-nomena which we personally witnessed, and closely ange which usually precedes the transformation from a investigated at the time we described them. ne) diet also. It does not seem to have undergone that ub to a winged insect, PICTURES OF SOCIETY, DRAWN FROM LIFE. SCENE-Clichy; the Residence of Madame Recamier, "Le souvenir, présent céleste, On the banks of the Seine, at about half a league from Garenne, the chateau which was once the residence of the Dukes of Levis. She was then scarcely twenty years of age, and her extreme beauty and rare qualities, even more than her immense fortune, rendered her an object of general interest; so that all the men of note in Paris, and all the foreigners who visited France, were anxious to gain an introduction to one of the wonders of an age which was fertile in wonders. ture on literature and elocution. Nothing could be more droll than his manner of spouting the part of Orosmaine, and making Juliette recite that of Zaire. A shawl rolled round his nightcap, by way of a turban, a dirty silk dres sing-gown of a large flowery pattern, which he threw on like a Turkish pelisse, gave him the most grotesque appearance imaginable. His manner of delivering the celebrated passage "Zaire, vous pleurez!" was a convincing France was then in the enjoyment of one of those short proof of the short distance which separates the sublime intervals of peace which were succeeded by so many from the ridiculous. He was no longer the converted long and sanguinary wars. The laws of proscription philosopher; he was the pupil, the spoiled child of Volagainst the emigrants were less strictly observed than they taire, whom he never called by any other name than the had before been, and the dawn of a happier future seemed great man,' imitating the tones of his voice, and dwelling to be rising. I had recently returned from Sweden, whi-emphatically on those passages which he had induced Volther I had followed my family on their emigration. I did not recover the property, the restoration of which I had come to claim; but, in my disappointment, I was consoled by the generous benevolence of a woman, who seemed to intervene, like a tutelary genius, in all the misfortunes of my childhood, and all the vicissitudes of my after-life.Thus, while yet suffering from the privations of exile, I was suddenly transported from a vale of tears to a palace of Armida, and in the fairy land of Clichy I found the most accomplished being that an ardent imagination could desire to call a friend. The clock of the chateau had struck seven, when, one fine morning in August, Juliette crossed the carpet of verdure which extended to the foot of the terrace, on her way to the village church, whose bell was summoning the inhabitants of Clichy to the morning mass. She was dressed in white, with her beautiful brown hair simply arranged beneath a gauze handkerchief. Her mother, Ma dame Bernard, was leaning on her arm, and she was followed by her cousin, Madame Franchiskini, her friend, Mademoiselle Lameflueri, Monsieur La Harpe, and my self. Having undergone purification with the holy water at the door, the little procession walked primly into the church; and it was very edifying to see us, after that pious act, return home to join in the noisy amusements of a day, such as was then often spent in the Château de Clichy, and which I will attempt to describe. taire to alter, for which he received the thanks of the phi- General Junot had that morning brought him to Clichy thus: Un soldat parvenu, ce mot de l'insolence most esteemed poets. Shortly after came Monsieur a Accustomed as she was to the brilliant part s The church of Clichy, like all those which were now again open for the reception of the pious, still exhibited traces of revolutionary vandalism. Having served for the sittings of a popular assembly, it was afterwards converted into a house for the poor; and the walls and some Gothic windows were now the only things which, in any degree, indicated its original destination. On the wreck of an altar, decked with flowers, for want of richer ornaments, the sacred mysteries were performed by the parish priest, who had miraculously escaped from the massacres of the Abbey on the 3d of September. Beneath the vaulted roof of the sacred edifice, pious hymns had succeeded the blasphemies of profligacy and crime; and here a woman, lovely as Hope, now raised her pure soul to the Giver of all Good. If true piety be a remnant of our celestial in heritance, never did more fervent devotion, and more unostentatious virtue, form part of that inheritance. Beside this angel of goodness knelt Monsieur de la Harpe, forcibly striking his breast, and loudly demanding pardon of Heaven and earth for the errors of his turbulent youth, and the The ladies had no sooner withdrawn, than M. M. de Narfatal influence which his opinions and writings had pro-bonne and E. Dapaty arrived. The former was celebrated duced at the beginning of the Revolution. Misfortune for his talents and his graceful manners, and was regarded had restored him to religion; but he made too great a as a perfect model of French urbanity. Emanuel Dupa'y show of repentance, and his expiation would, perhaps, was the son of the President of that name, and his literary have been more touching had he made less parade about it. productions had already placed him in the rank of our Mass being ended, Monsieur de la Harpe and Madame Junot felt a landable pride in relating the origin of his Bernard returned to the chateau, while the ladies, repair ing to the river, which washed the walls of the park, bathed in the pure waters of the Seine, beneath tents which were pitched for the purpose. They returned before offered himself; hardly had he finished the first page of his ten o'clock, when Monsieur de la Harpe delivered his lec-manuscript, when a howitzer, fired from the works, fell so Excuse me for leaving you, said Juliette to the General, as soon as his speech was ended, for I must go and change Breakfast was now announced, and we proceeded this morning-dress to put on something more fit to be seen handsome room, which looked to a beautiful partent. in; for I every moment expect Mr. Fox, Mr. Erskine, order, one would think, to gratify all the senses and Mr. Adair, to whom I have been lately introduced, and the same time; and when the character of the and who have requested that I would invite them to break-viduals assembled together that forenoon is recollected fast with General Moreau. They will be delighted to will excite no surprise that, in a few minutes, they know you, and therefore I hope you will stay; and if throw off the reserve of new acquaintances. Monsieur Lafond will also favour me with his company, we will resume our lesson after they are gone. Lafond excused himself, having to attend a rehearsal at the Comédie Française at one o'clock. He therefore returned to Paris in Junot's carriage; and the General, having no engagement, gladly seized the opportunity of meeting the interesting travellers, whose brilliant reputation had preceded them to France. "It was from the recital of this venerable man, that Madame Recamier got Munerey to paint a picture, representing the last benediction, given by the Abbe L'Enfant, Louis the Sixteenth's confessor, to the victims who were collected in a chapel of the Abbey, during the massacres in the prison, brilliant military career, for which, like many other men Madame Bernard performed the honours of het dag ter's table with her accustomed urbanity. Juliette s to Fox and Moreau, who both seemed perfectly For me, good luck placed me next to Mr. Adair, ried me with him into every corner of England, 1 at once so lively and piquant, that, on leaving the plumed myself on having made the tour of the threa doms. This gentleman spoke of his illustrious friend an enthusiasm that evidently came from his heart, seemed like the spontaneous effect of second nature. remarks on French affairs were so profound and ju that I could not too much appreciate the benefit of this versation. It will not be expected that I should endeavour to said during the two hours we sat at breakfast. Wed word for word, all the shrewd and witty things that w at that period, he was indebted to a happy moment and an cussed war and politics, literature and the fine arts. trials at the store ce fomon, advanced before the line to drew comparisons between the two nations, and e ask for some one who could write to his dictation. Junot voured to allot to each her peculiar merits. Fox and Moreau are entitled to the first notice. The near him as to cover him with dust. The enemy has been seemed like two friends meeting after a long absend kind enough to send me some sand just when I want it," said he very coolly, shaking his paper. This pleased Buo- The former joined to the most amiable wit, great naparte, and he made him his Aide-de-Camp. ruled both their destinies, and Junot made a rupid ad vasterliancy of conversation, and a gaiety as unrestrained as ment, which, however, was closed by a very tragical death. ducing. The latter, simple and modest, gave his op |