Yes, thou may'st sigh, And look once more at all around, And thou must die. Yes, lay thee down, Be not afraid: "Tis but a pang, and then a thrill, For thou art dead."* Falkland, the deceived Prince enters into some disfrolics, which heighten the horror of his approachtastrophe. Repelled by the virtuous Catharine, the s Rothsay is immured in a dungeon, and starved to death: he is, however, momentarily succoured women, but finally despatched by the assassins. glee-maiden escapes, and informs Douglas, who es, takes Falkland, and hangs these bloodhounds, ny, Dwining, and Bonthron. The interest of the which, as we have stated, grows throughout this lume, still continues to increase as it verges to its with the dreadful contest at the Inch. Of this we quote a few passages. of the Duchess, who has, however, left the place. On | Some sneered at the poverty of the Highlanders, who set guard, struck him with the weapon (his own gift) on the ay, the Prince again encounters Louise, the glee-so mean a price upon such a desperate service. Others side of the throat, directing the blow downwards, into the affected resentment, that they should esteem the blood of chest, and calling aloud, at the same time, You taught , and carries her along with him. She is called citizens so lightly. None showed the slightest intention me the stab! But Henry Wynd wore his own good hauto exercise her talent; and we are told, "the maiden to undertake the task proposed, until the sound of the berk, doubly defended with a lining of tempered steel. a melancholy dirge in Norman French; the words, proclamation reached Henry of the Wynd, as he stood Had he been less surely armed his combats had been ended without the barrier, speaking from time to time with for ever: even as it was he was slightly wounded. Fool!' ich the following is an imitation, were united to a Bailie Craigdalle, or rather listening vaguely to what the he replied, striking Norman a blow with the pommel of s doleful as they are in themselves: magistrate was saying to him. Ha! what proclaim his long sword, which made him stagger backwards, you they?' he cried out. A liberal offer on the part of were taught the thrust but not the parry; and, fetching a MacGillie Chattanach,' said the Host of the Griffin, blow at his antagonist, which cleft his skull through the who proposes a gold crown to any one who will turn steel cap, he strode over the lifeless body to engage the young wild cat for the day, and be killed a little in his service. chief, who now stood open before him. But the sonorous That's all. How?' exclaimed the Smith, eagerly; do voice of Torquil thundered out, Far eil air son Eachin!" they make proclamation for a man to fight against the (another for Hector!) and the two brethren who flanked Clan Quhele ?' Ay, marry do they,' said Griffin; but their chief upon each side thrust forward upon Henry, I think they will find no such fools in Perth.' He had and, striking both at once, compelled him to keep the hardly said the word, when he beheld the Smith clear the defensive.Forward, race of the tiger-cat!' cried Macbarriers at a single bound, and alight in the lists, saying, Gillie Chattanach; save the brave Saxon! let these kites Here am I, Sir Herald, Henry of the Wynd, willing to feel your talons!" Already much wounded, the chief do battle with the Clan Quhele." A cry of admiration ran dragged himself up to the Smith's assistance, and cut down through the multitude, while the grave burghers, not being one of the Leichtach, by whom he was assailed. Henry's Reist air son able to conceive the slightest reason for Henry's behaviour, own good sword rid him of the other. concluded that his head must be absolutely turned with Eachin!' (Again for Hector!) shouted the faithful fosterthe love of fighting. The Provost was especially shocked. father. 'Bas air son Fachin!' (Death for Hector!) anThou art mad,' he said, Henry! Thou hast neither swered two more of his devoted sons, and opposed themtwo-handed sword nor shirt of mail.'-Truly, no,' said selves to the fury of the Smith and those who had come Henry, for I parted with a mail-shirt, which I had made to his aid; while Eachin, moving towards the left wing of for myself, to yonder gay chief of the Clan Quhele, who the battle, sought less formidable adversaries, and again, will soon find on his shoulders with what sort of blows by some show of valour, revived the sinking hopes of his As for two-handed sword, why this followers. The two children of the Oak, who had covered clink my rivets! boy's brand will serve my turn till I can master a heavier this movement, shared the fate of their brethren; for the one. This must not be,' said Errol. Hark thee, ar- cry of the Clan Chattan chief had drawn to that part of mourer, by Saint Mary, thou shalt have my Milan hau the field some of his bravest warriors. The sons of Torberk and good Spanish sword.'-I thank your noble quil did not fall unavenged, but left dreadful marks of their Earlship, Sir Gilbert Hay; but the yoke with which your swords on the persons of the dead and living. But the nebrave ancestor turned the battle at Loncarty, would serve cessity of keeping their most distinguished soldiers around my turn well enough. I am little used to sword or har the person of their chief, told to disadvantage on the general ness that I have not wrought myself, because I do not event of the combat; and so few were now the number well know what blows the one will bear out without being who remained fighting, that it was easy to see that the cracked, or the other lay on without snapping.' The cry Clan Chattan had fifteen of their number left, though The mountain minstrelsy, which sounded the appro- had in the meanwhile run through the multitude, and most of them wounded; and that of the Clan Quhele only epibrochs, or battle-tunes, of the rival confederacies, passed into the town, that the dauntless Smith was about about ten remained, of whom there were four of the chief's They fought flent when they entered on the Inch, for such was to fight without armour, when, just as the fated hour was body-guard, including Torquil himself. der which had been given. Two stately, but aged approaching, the shrill voice of a female was heard scream- and struggled on, however; and, as their strength decayed, rs, each bearing the banner of his tribe, advanced ing for passage through the crowd. The multitude gave their fury seemed to increase. Henry Wynd, now wounded opposite extremities of the lists, and pitching their place to her importunity, and she advanced, breathless in many places, was still bent on breaking through, or rds into the earth, prepared to be spectators of a with haste, under the burden of a mail hauberk and a exterminating the band of bold hearts who continued to in which they were not to join. The pipers, who large two-handed sword. The widow of Oliver Proudfute fight around the object of his animosity. But still the also to be neutral in the strife, took their places by was soon recognised, and the arms which she bore were father's shout of Another for Hector!' was cheerfully anrespective brattachs. The multitude received both those of the Smith himself, which, occupied by her hus-swered by the fatal countersign, Death for Hector!" and with the same general shout with which, on simi- band on the fatal evening when he was murdered, had though the Clan Quhele were now outnumbered, the Eccasions, they welcome those from whose exertion been naturally conveyed to his house with the dead body, combat seemed still dubious. It was bodily lassitude alone expect amusement, or what they term sport. The and were now, by the exertions of his grateful widow, that again compelled them to another pause. The Clan ed combatants returned no answer to this greet-brought to the lists at a moment when such proved wea- Chattan were then observed to be twelve in number, but but each party advanced to the opposite extremities pons were of the last consequence to their owner. Henry two or three were scarcely able to stand without leaning on me lists, where were entrances by which they were to joyfully received the well-known arms, and the widow, their swords. Five were left of the Clan Quhele; Torquil with trembling haste, assisted in putting them on, and and his youngest son were of the number, both slightly then took leave of him, saying, God for the orphans' wounded. Eachin alone had, from the vigilance used to e thirtieth man of the Clan Chattan does not appear; champion, and ill luck to all who come before him!'" intercept all blows levelled against his person, escaped uil, on the other side, having managed his absence, After the first terrible onslaught, "it seemed as if the without injury. The rage of both parties had sunk, through e hope that he may get his chiet, as also the youngest Clan Chattan had lost rather fewer of their men than their exhaustion, into sullen desperation. They walked, stagatant, left out of the sanguinary struggle; but it is antagonists; but, in compensation, the bloody plaids and gering, as if in their sleep, through the carcases of the Twise decreed: the heralds proclaim," that if any one shirts of their party (for several on both sides had thrown slain, and gazed on them as if again to animate their take his share with the Clan Chattan of the honours and their mantles away) showed more wounded men than the hatred towards their surviving enemies, by viewing the ces of this day, he shall have present payment of a Clan Quhele. About twenty of both sides lay on the field, friends they had lost. The multitude soon after beheld crown, and liberty to fight to the death in the ranks. dead or dying; and arms and legs lopped off, heads cleft the survivors of the desperate conflict drawing together to are something chary of your treasure, chief,' said to the chine, slashes deep through the shoulder into the renew the exterminating feud on the banks of the river, Earl Marshal; a gold crown is poor payment for breast, showed, at once, the fury of the combat, the ghastly as the spot least slippery with blood, and less encumbered a campaign as is before you.' If there be any man character of the weapons used, and the fatal strength of with the bodies of the slain.” ng to fight for honour,' replied MacGillie Chattanach, the arms which wielded them. The chief of the Clan price will be enough; and I want not the service of Chattan had behaved himself with the most determined dow who draws his sword for gold alone.' The heralds courage, and was slightly wounded. Eachin, also, had made their progress, moving half way round the lists, fought with spirit, surrounded by his body-guard. His ping, from time to time, to make proclamation as they sword was bloody; his bearing bold and warlike; and he been directed, without the least apparent disposition smiled when old Torquil, folding him in his arms, loaded the part of any one to accept of the proffered enlistment. him with praises and with blessings." Imitted to the interior." The second encounter is yet more fatal and decisive than the first. "The wild pibroch again sounded the onset; but the two parties approached each other more slowly than at first, as men who knew and respected each other's valour. Henry Wynd, in his impatience to begin the contest, advanced before the Clan Chattan, and signed to Eachin to come on. Norman, however, sprang forward to cover his foster-brother, and there was a general, though momentary, pause, as if both parties were willing to obtain an omen of the fate of the day, from the event of this duel. The Highlander advanced, with his large sword uplifted, as in act to strike; but, just as he came within sword's length, he dropt the long and cumbrous weapon, leapt lightly over the Smith's sword as he fetched a cut at him, drew his dagger, and, being thus within Henry's pipers of both sides join the battle, and are slain by each In the third and last affray, the standard-bearers and other. "Meanwhile, young Torniot, devoted, like his brethren, by his father Torquil to the protection of his chief, had been mortally wounded by the unsparing sword of the Smith. The other two remaining of the Clan Quhele had also fallen; and Torquil, with his foster-son, and the wounded Tormot, forced to retreat before eight or ten of the Clan Chattan, made a stand on the bank of the river, while their enemies were making such exertions as their wounds would permit to come up with them. Torquil had just reached the spot where he had resolved to make the stand, when the youth Tormot dropped and expired. His death drew from his father the first and only sigh which he had breathed throughout the eventful day. My son Tormot!' he said, my youngest and dearest! But if I save Hector, I save all. Now, my darling Dault, I have done for thee all that man may, excepting the last. Let me undo the clasps of that ill-omened armour, and do thou put on that of Tormot; it is light, and will fit thee = Poetry. EOLUS. What spirit wand'ring near, What mournful spirit comes amid the gloom, Like spectre from the tomb? Hark! now a gentle strain, oft as the voice of Pity, or the moan of widow'd dove, seems as it did complain O'er Joy's funereal urn. The while a wailing voice Whispers the heart in accents breathing woe, And now a requiem wild, solemn requiem for the sainted dead, And gazing on the skies, ees heaven's all glorious gates wide open thrown, And now unsettled, strange, non the storm to highest fury borne; low lover's lute; now Hope, dispensing balm, Now Misery's plaint forlorn. What art thou, wizard, say, Ah, now I know full well lave, and for ever, to thy witch-like spell, Oh! could, like thine, my fingers sweep the shell! Thine were both arts-th' alternate strain should flow; -It may not be too weak the faltering song I would not mar it by my tear-dimm'd lay. The latin version of the above, by Mr. S. G. Fawcett, which is prepared in the type, must be withdrawn until next week, as we think we can detect some inaccuracies in it, which will require the revision of a critical and classical pen. LINES, ADDRESSED TO AN INTERESTING YOUNG LADY ON HER RE- BY HUGH CLARKE. When, lately, o'er thy winning air, Thine eyes of light, and lips of swetness, ON THE MARRIAGE OF A COQUETTE TO MR. HARE.. (From the Morning Post.) Ann once was fickle with her beaux; But now those days of whim are fled, At length is fixed-the nymph is wed, PROVINCIAL NOTES FOUND. FOUND, about a week ago, by Mr. PUGH, Confectioner, on the floor of his own Shop, 31, Whitechapel, some PROVINCIAL NOTES, which will be delivered to the Owner,. if he will call at the Mercury-office, any day, and identify them to the satisfaction of Mr. JAMES WOOD, to whom Mr. PUGH has confided them, and also pay the expense of this advertisement. The Envestigator. [Comprehending Political Economy, Statistics, Jurispru-dence, occasional passages from Parliamentary Speeches of a general nature, occasional Parliamentary Documents, and other speculative subjects, excluding Party Politics.] THE COTTON TRADE.. People who lose their money by speculating are very apt to complain that speculation is not a certainty; and to charge their misfortunes rather to the bad policy of the Government than their own. When, moreover, they lose sufficient to be ruined, they very absurdly identify them-selves with the prosperity of the trade, and cry out that the trade is ruined also. This was the case in the cotton tradetwo years ago. Most people, who previously had an idle or unprofitable capital in hand, ventured it upon cotton. A factitious demand was thus created; excessive stocks were laid up; and when, subsequently, the speculators found that they had glutted the market, they concluded, not that the supply had increased, but that the demand had diminished; and instead of allowing, like reasonable men, that the cotton trade had been pushed to a stand still by their own hurry on the road to fortune, declared that it had been knocked up by act of Parliament. Seeing,. likewise, no probability of their own recovery, they took the same gloomy view of the trade, and a general impression was made upon the public mind, that our cotton manufacture was on the decline. In two years the trade has revived, and the scale of our shipments of printed goods, &c. is perhaps larger now than at any former pe-riod. It should be remembered that this is a favourable phenomenon in a very unfavourable season. The troubled and uncertain state of our connexion with Turkey; the distracted condition of Portugal; the embarrassments of Mexico; and something like depression both of spirit and means in the British West Indies, are circumstances which necessarily keep some of our best customers from the market. The printed and dyed goods, for instance, our exports to Turkey and the Levant have, for the corresponding first quarters 1827 and 1828, fallen from 1,471,895 to 437,336 yards; and the British West Indies from 2,070,092 to 1,089,639. In spite, however, of these and many other disadvantages, the trade has flourished;and in the exportation of dyed and printed goods, in the periods mentioned above, there has been an in-crease of 3,508,364 yards. In those articles, also, which are termed miscellaneous, there has been an increase of 4,054, 921 yards; returns which are a satisfactory evidence that the doleful outcry on the ruin of the cotton trade: was as mistaken as the speculation which brought it into a state of temporary stagnation. Where there is improvement it is hardly decent to grumble; and, therefore, with those who make grumbling a profession, the improvement is disputed, as a matter of course. The increase of our exports is alleged not to arise from any actual increase in the demand, but to a speculation which is taking away our printed goods, to anticipate an American tariff. Even allowing this to be the case, there is no room for grumbling. The increase on our exports to the United States is not so great as the total increase; and, as taking the lesser from the greater will leave a positive remainder, there is still "Indeed!" cried Bayes, "then wash it, pray, good cousin,, something left to prove that the cotton trade has quite re To thee its richness shall bestow, And live on cheeks all bright and blooming; To see thy smiles of grace and gladness, As when with beauty's wreath it crown'd thee. MY SHIRT. (From the Morning Chronicle.) As Bayes, whose cup with poverty was dash'd, And wash it, if you can, into a dozen!" covered from its imaginary decline.-London Courier. The Essayist. [ORIGINAL.] REFLECTIONS DURING A SOLITARY RAMBLE. To be resigned when ills betide, That grateful incense of the heart, Whose fragrance smells to heaven.-Cotton. How fleeting are the joys that men pursue! how soon do they slacken in our grasp, or fade away into the dull obscurity of the tomb! The delights of infancy are but a day; the pleasures of manhood an hour; and, even in that contracted span, too many dark threatening clouds overcast the sunny radiance of life, bringing chaotic gloom, dire refuge for the fiend despondency. Where can the human mind find rest and happiness on this earth? Is it not "born to trouble as the sparks fly upward ?" In vain do we court the idle breath of fame, or seek to gratify the proud dreams of ambition. Vainly does fortune lavish her most fruitful gifts, or pleasure lure us into her silken toils. Still are our desires unsatisfied; still do we own secret wants, that cannot be supplied. Though the smiles of the world are not withheld; though the earth teems forth her bounties to our use, and obsequious friends and servile flatterers surround us, there is a never-dying worm which, vulture like, keeps gnawing at the heart;-a canker in the bud of our affections, corroding every kindlier sentiment, and, with its baleful venom, distilling through our thoughts a poison, which, as the deadly upas, turns the sweets of life into gall and bitterness. scene agreed not with my present mood. I sought in vain | tion of their own fancied grievances, that their eyes for a desponding look or lowering brow; and, finding closed to those of others. The blessings they are none, was compelled, in bitterness of heart, to exclaim, sessed of they will not prize, but to those which are de "Alas! there is no unhappy wretch here save myself!" them they fancy every comfort is attached. How mista Maddened with a prospect that served only to inflict a still is the mind of man! how wilfully doth it deceive it deeper wound on a discontented spirit, I left this scene of to the real source of all true happiness! The port gaiety and life; and, wandering into a retired part of the will tell you that it consists in wealth; but did he gardens, gave vent to the gall that overflowed a jaundiced open his eyes to the condition of the rich, he would and perverted mind. The place I had chosen for my re- that it is, generally, most miserable. Some thir tirement seemed, indeed, solitary enough; but still, the power, dominion, place, and influence; but let us g beauty of the prospect before me ill accorded with the de- into the hearts of those who possess these fancied bles formity of my inward communings. 'Twas an early sum- how little shall we find there to envy in their lot! mer's evening, at that enchanting hour when the sun courts not riches or power that can bestow happiness, else the horizon, gilding the broad expanse with his setting kings and princes be the happiest of created beings. rays. The feathered warblers had perched themselves on best gift that Heaven can grant us, that which will the branches about me, and were chanting their farewell yield the bliss we seek on this earth, is a contented song to the god of light. The trees had just assumed their Gain but this, and the cares that afflict others will verdant clothing, and, in their gay green suits, appeared but little power to sting you: with it, you can koh to revel in anticipation of the forthcoming happy season. the most gloomy landscape, and the eye will be su The tall chesnut spread forth its rich branches, and the rest on some bright spot. The darkest night will wide-spreading elm stood out to woo its embrace. The mined by some glimmering star, invisible to those o stately cedar held companionship with the venerable seek it not. The tempest will rage around you urhe oak, whose ivy-crowned head had, for ages, resisted for your thoughts will still dwell on the mild sunshi the rude attacks of the rocking blast, and now afforded returning calm. He who is possessed of a contented a shelter to the larch and fir, which safely flourished knows no want, nor has he any thing on this earth beneath their protecting influence. I had seated myself ask for. Living within the limits of his circuzsa on a rural bench, round which the yew and cypress he moderates his desires to his means of gratification clung in harmonious union, forming a leafy canopy, hath said to himself, Thus far shalt thou go, sufficiently thick to exclude Sol's most powerful beams- farther.' This is the aim and end of all philosophy Before me lay a spacious avenue of the monarchs of the he who hath attained, and can preserve, this des forest, towering in lofty pride, their unbending heads state of mind, hath surmounted the great diffe seeming to kiss the clouds. While gazing with an eye of life, and done all that man can do towards securit vacancy on the lengthening shadows, which, as the even-piness; such, at least, as this world affords. It ing advanced, were fading into a mist before my sight, I grand arcanum that effectually destroys every env Such were the thoughts that agitated my breast, as (un- was disturbed in my reveries by the approach of a ve- jealous feeling in the breast; the ultimatum of kla der the perverted influence of a disordered imagination) I nerable looking man, leaning on the arm of a youth, who which teacheth man to be satisfied with things strolled out one evening, in the early part of last summer, anxiously supported his tottering steps, listening, at the exist; nor seeks to improve that which his Ma at once to exercise my limbs, and give a current to those same time, with placid complacency, to the discourse his already finished; and yet it is but acting agreat fancies which a close sedentary occupation had rendered aged Mentor earnestly addressed to him. After seating reasonable nature, to feel and know that the pr themselves on the bench by my side, they courteously sa- occupy in society hath been allotted us by Pra I had wandered mechanically through the parks, too much absorbed in my inward luted me, when the sage continued his instructive dis- and, therefore, to be dissatisfied with our conditi musings to be mindful of passing occurrences, and found course, which, from his manner, I could readily perceive question His all-wise decrees who hath placed us myself standing on the delightful banks of the Serpentine was equally intended to benefit me and his young compa- Let men in general but consider their situation river ere I was aware whither my footsteps had led me. The nion. By a singular chance it turned on the subject which and compare it with that of others who have set refreshing breeze that rose from the water revived my droop- had so fully occupied my late thoughts; for, after raising similar prospects, but have been, by a series of ing spirits, and I gazed with a feeling somewhat allied to his eyes to heaven, and apparently breathing an inward able events, reduced to a much lower grade in sch pleasure, on the gay panorama of moving objects that sur- prayer to the Deity, he looked for a moment in our faces, they will find much to be grateful for: and even rounded me. It was the Sabbath evening; and many a then averting his scrutinizing glance, uttered, with most who have sunk to the lowest ebb of poverty and r group of merry, but unthinking idlers, glided by in persuasive eloquence, the following ness, if (in most instances) they will candidly review quick succession, their holiday suits and cheerful counpast conduct, and not be swayed by prejudice tenances giving animation and beauty to the surroundjudgment, will find that, by their own mismanag ing landscape. Still leisurely pursuing my path, I en- "This, my children, is the season when man should walk they have courted their present condition; and if they tered Kensington Gardens; and, throwing myself on a abroad, and survey the gladness of nature, that he may at first been contented with their allotted place bench, in one of the most frequented walks, endeavoured learn, in fulness of heart, to praise nature's God. The mankind, and not, by wild and chimerical sche to glean amusement from noting, as they passed, the va- fields decked in their verdant green, the meadows sprinkled | tempted to raise themselves above their proper riety of characters that promenaded this delightful rendez- with many a party-coloured flower, trees shooting forth might still have enjoyed a sufficiency to supply vous for the beauty, elegance, and fashion of the metro- their young branches, earth yielding up its abundance for and reasonable wants; still have moved in the circ polis. the benefit of man; all serve to show the wonder-working they were born, and fitted by nature to adorn. In va As the summer season had scarcely set in, the gentry power of Providence, and elevate the heart in praise of its proud, presuming man attempt to alter the had not yet emigrated from the mild but smoky atmosphere Creator. See the young lambs how they disport them-will, or, with pretending ignorance, grasp at that of town, to court the more salubrious air of their rural re-selves on the grass, skipping around in playful gambols. destiny hath placed beyond his reach. Like the treats, or fashionable watering-places; and many a titled Mark the merry antics of the cattle, as wantonly they the fable, his own puny efforts shall destroy him; man and noble dame graced the surrounding scene. My chase each other, braying and bellowing out their glad- it is beautifully expressed by the poet, heart felt ill at ease with itself; and, as I pondered over ness.—Is there this joy in nature, and shall man's heart the present gloomy prospects, and still sadder recollections, alone be sad? why should he give himself up to impious I could not avoid contrasting my own condition in life discontent, and, with his sullen aspect, offend the serenity with what I considered to be that of the gay crowd before of heaven? Man was not born to droop, and pine, and me: and "envy, that rankest weed that grows," crept un- murmur through his life; yet will he, with a most unac"I will not say that at no time ought the mind or feci consciously into my bosom. I deemed myself alone in the countable perversity of nature, array his thoughts against to be disturbed :-cast but a pebble in the still lake. world; solitary amid the multitude; unknown and unre- himself, and, where he might cull sweet flowers, select its surface will, for a moment, be ruffled; but hon garded; fancying, if the eye turned upon me, 'twas but only the thorns and rankest weeds. In traversing through doth it return to its wonted calm and placid stil in cruel mockery: and, in heaviness of heart, I sighed, the various avenues of this life, and mixing with the dif, so should the human breast, which must be debat while glancing over each light elastic form, as it tripped, ferent grades of society, how few do we meet who are not deed, if it can find a pleasure, or satisfaction, in term with graceful movement, on the green turf. repining at the gifts of Providence, and fancying that their tinued indulgence of angry feelings. It is, no da neighbours are happier, and have more cause for rejoicing impossible, amidst the hopes, fears, and uncertaisas than themselves! Se absorbed are they in the contempla- this life, that a man's breast can be entirely free from feverish and irritable. Every heart seemed glad; every eye, lit up with smiles, pespoke a mind at peace with itself. This spirit-stirring ESSAY ON CONTENT. a 'Order is Heav'n's first law; and this confest, 'Save me alike from foolish pride, At aught thy wisdom has denied, Thus saying, the hoary moralist called down a blessing and peace. Leigh-street, Red Lion-square, London. W. P. POWER OF THE HORSE ON RAILROADS. and the horse proceeded without the least distress; and, 4 2 13 4 2 0 0 0 Twelve waggons first linked together 38 Tons.........55 Correspondence. THE MOON'S AGE. TO THE EDITOR. 6 2 SIR,-If any of your astronomical friends will solve the following query, they will oblige A READER. In most, or all, of our publications on chronology, the rule for finding the Golden Number, or Lunar Cycle, is to add 1 to the given year, and to divide by 19-the remainder being the Golden Number. From this rule the time of New Moon, in any given month and year, is ascertained in the following manner :Example :-What is the Moon's Age March 17, 1828 ? 1828-the given year. 1 add Divide by a cycleĮ 19)1829(96. 119 A wager for a small amount, as to the power of draught of a horse on the Monckland and Kirkintilloch railway, was lately decided in presence of several of the members of the committee of management of the railway, and from Gargill colliery, drawing a weight of fifty tons, which a great crowd of spectators. The horse in question started remainder..... 5 or the golden number for 1828. it conveyed to Kirkintilloch, a distance of seven miles, in the short space of one hour and forty-one minutes. by subtracting 1 from the Golden Number, multiplying The Epact for the year is next required; and is found The first two miles of the above distance was on a dead level, and the remainder was on a descent varying from the remainder by 11, and dividing the product by 30-the don paper. one in 120 to one in 1100, with several level tracts.-Lon-remainder being the Epact; as follows: hat anxiety shall not occasionally cast a cloud of gloom | more could I advance, my children, to prove to you how Fart the mild serenity of a contented spirit. Indeed, essential it is to man's happiness on earth, and how much uld not envy the man who could view, with placid it affects his eternal salvation, that he should endeavour so placency, every crossing event that checquered his to frame his mind as to be satisfied with his allotted place ence: but cares may be evaded, anxieties softened, amongst mortals, nor foolishly repine at his destiny. But subdued, and even the bitter frost of grief shall melt the shades of evening are gathering thick around us; the he mild dew of resignation, by a constant conviction night dew falls; the birds have sought their nests; and the all-wise decrees of a Supreme Being, who pointeth curfew, sounding distantly on the ear, warns me that we, arts that appear to wound, only with a view to our too, must for the present part. If I have been so fortunate ate happiness. While bending beneath the heavy as to impress on your young minds opinions so beneficial to of affliction, we have but to suppose that the yourselves, it will give me a proud satisfaction to know rtune which has now overtaken us, may serve to that I have been an humble instrument in the hands of some worse calamity, which, had it reached us, the Almighty to effect a great good, by inclining your have crushed us beneath its influence, never hearts, at all times, to join in that prayer which ought to to rise,' and we shall find comfort in believing, be so truly universal, since it conveys the essence of Christhe stroke, though heavy, is not so destruc- tianity :— s it might have been. Our pleasures may frey fall short of our expectations, but if we could our own hearts, how seldom should we find them ort of our deserts. We know, that even our hopes erally less sanguine than our desires, and cannot, re, doubt that those desires must be inordinate. candidly examine our own thoughts, and we shall is the ardent love of aggrandisement which absorbs reasonable consideration, and that, while panting irsting for rank and power, we are blind to our own infitness to support the station at which we are aimhe mind is tortured, and the thoughts are racked in g schemes of advancement in life, instead of seeking nfortable enjoyment of that which Providence hath ed it, thus making that a curse, which would othere a blessing. It is a necessary step towards the sion of a contented mind, for men to form such a I connexion as shall soothe and cheer them during tours of solitude. Let them do this, and they will Field them more pleasure than even the joys that om friendship; for what can equal the gratification feels, who is at peace, and can commune, in y intercourse, with himself. It is impossible to be indulging in the conversation of those we but the mind may, at all times, retire unto itself, fer to its own treasures for enjoyment. Friendship frequently has for its uncertain basis the caprice opposite tempers and dispositions) may be easily a, and therefore it is better worth our while to cula friendly acquaintance with our own thoughts, t can be to seek that of others, which, like the bloom ppies, we may find to vanish, even as we gather it. eldom we are disappointed in the delights of memory templation; and the reason is, that they are ruled influenced by ourselves. Nothing is more sinful, eat the same time, more foolish, than the indulgence rrow, which delighteth in drawing gloomy and ing images of life; even anticipating the hour of when assisted by art, was shown near Croyden. The Sur"An unparalleled instance of the power of a horse, y, and prolonging it when it is arrived; for it is rey iron railway being completed, and opened for the showing that the Moon will be 2 days old on the 17th of n, that such a state of mind, as this produces, is carriage of goods all the way from Wandsworth to Mersunequal to receive virtuous impressions, or revel in tham, a bet was made between two gentlemen, that a The question I beg to propose to any of your correspondfeelings. Peace must fly, where sorrow retains its common horse could draw thirty-six tons for six miles and the healthful bloom of happiness will wither along the road, and that he should draw his weight from ents, more conversant with this subject, is-Will these a dead pull, as well as turn round the occasional wind-rules apply to years at any distant period for finding the die beneath its blasting contamination. But a ings of the road. A number of gentlemen assembled near Moon's Age, say for March 17th, 3158,-seeing that a rful habit of mind will cherish and support virtue Merstham to see this extraordinary triumph of art. Twelve Cycle of the Moon is not exactly 19 years, but completed piety, by inclining our hearts still to receive with waggons, loaded with stones, each waggon weighing above ikfulness all that Providence vouchsafeth to bestow, three tons, were chained together, and a horse, taken 1 hour and 28 minutes sooner than this period? view with envious repinings the prosperity of our yoked into the team. He started from near the Fox pubpromiscuously from the timber-cart of Mr. Harwood, was ;hbour; for with what language can we address the lic-house, and drew the immense chain of waggons, with ty, when our unreasonable complaints either accuse apparent ease, to near the turnpike at Croyden, a distance 1 or deny his Providence! Our very health dependeth, of six miles, in one hour and forty-one minutes, which a great measure, on the freedom and vigour of the ani- is nearly at the rate of four miles an hour. In the course 1 spirits; and, as they are entirely under the regulation of this time he was stopped four times, to show that it was not by the impetus of the descent that the power was SIR,-In reply to Inquirer, in your last Kaleidoscope, I control of contentment, to gain this is to secure an acquired; and after each stoppage he drew off the chain I take the liberty of informing him why the inverted ido te to corporeal suffering and mental imbecility: for of waggons from a dead stop. Having gained his wager, comma is used instead of the small c. In writing the sure as man shall fret and murmur, and disquiet him- Mr. Banks, the gentleman who laid the bet, directed four names Macfarlane, Mackenzie, &c., it is common to conat trifles light as air,' that cross his humour, so more loaded waggons to be added to the cavalcade, with tract the first syllable of the name with a small, or, rather, ely shall he bring upon himself nervous irritability, and which the same horse again set off with undiminished power. And still further to show the effect of the railway what is more correctly termed a superior c. Now, as the housand attendant ills, that shall shorten the term of in facilitating motion, he directed the attending workmen, superior c, and, indeed, all the alphabet of the same kind a existence, and make it miserable while it lasts. Much to the number of about fifty, to mount on the waggons, of letter, is but rarely made with the various sorts of We can very readily believe this circumstance, because we recollect a similar experiment made many years We shall here transcribe the paragraph from the Sporting ago, when railroads were beginning to be appreciated. Anecdotes, observing, by the bye, that there is this curious coincidence in the two accounts, that the horse, in the experiment we have just recorded, drew his load seven miles in one hour and forty-one minutes, being precisely, to a minute, the time which the horse in the following experiment took to draw his load six miles. Those who wish to see the original account of what we shall now transcribe, may consult the Sporting Anecdotes, pages 21 and 22. |