that, in addition to those wages, he advances 200 implements, with a portion of raw material equivalent to 200 quarters; and that with one-half of this expenditure he brisates 500 suits of clothing, and with the other half 500 implements.

In this case the farmer's produce, consisting of 750 quarters of corn, and of raw material equivalent to 250 quarters, will be in equal productive cost, and, therefore, alue, to the manufacturer's fabrics, consisting of 500 its of clothing, and 500 implements. Consequently. 50 quarters of corn, with raw material equivalent to 250 Carters, which constitute one-half of the farmer's proce, will exchange for 250 suits of clothing, and 250 imBlements, which constitute one-half of the manufacturer's brics; and when the exchange is effected, the capital of Bath will be replaced with a profit of twenty-five per cent. For the farmer who had advanced 400 quarters, with 200 its and 200 implements, will have 500 quarters, with P150 suits, and 250 implements; while the manufacturer, who had advanced 200 quarters, 200 material, 200 suits, and 200 implements, will be in possession of 250 each of these ingredients of capital.

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Why's Job like one o' the present company? Or V is like your supper?as I can. Your father like to every thing you see? Or why a murder'd bruin's like a man Who has not used a razor for a week? Or canst thou tell me whiskey's name in Greek? What name in Scripture would bring to your mind A jolly well-fed coachman at his post!? The jewels in Satan's crown-say of what kind? What letter in the alphabet drinks most? Why are philosophers like men stone blind? The king in bed like to a butter'd toast? A dead man like a race-ground? (24) Or which tree In all creation is the most like me!!!? If you invite your dearest friend to dine, To mark his welcome, what would you provide? Two dishes-(never mind about the wine, Or whether boil'd, or fricaseed, or fried.) Why does a park of deer look like this line? Or Kirkdale prison like a healthy bride? The next is by a funny fellow, my BillIf there were a passion for saving the whole of the Who is the first man mentioned in the Bible? profit thus created, and for converting it into capital; if Who was't that spoke, yet never told a lie? population increased with the same rapidity as capital, Or how can plants be fed upon farewell? so as to preserve the same proportion between the two; The Devil's like a pawnbroker-say why? and if new lands of the same degree of fertility could be Or why a mild rebuke like Captain Bell? resorted to, the population, capital, and wealth, would If nuts could speak, what would they likely cry? double every four years, and all the additional commodities Or why should you and I be but half well? annually produced would exchange according to their Why's two like vice? This last I'll gratis show, prodactive cost, and consequently the rate of profit would. Because it uniformly ends in wo!" [woe!] continue to be twenty-five per cent.

But a passion for converting the whole surplus produce of industry into capital was never known to exist; if it were to exist, while profits were at twenty-five per cent., population could not be made to increase with the same dity as capital; and, if both population and capital were to double every four years, the necessary supplies of fertile land, even for a moderate period of time, could obtained only in the back settlements of America, or the unappropriated regions of Australia. It is manifest, efore, that a case, in which the whole surplus is applied capital, can never have any real existence. To arrive correct conclusions, we must reason from cases and amples, analogous to those which, in the real business life, are found actually to occur.

[To be continued.]

Christmas Recreations.

"VIVE LA BAGATELLE."

Those subscribers who are in possession of the five vomes of the Kaleidoscope, or any of them, may meet with great variety of amusement for the youngsters during the Christmas vacation, by referring to the tables of contents under the various heads:-Fireside Amusements, Vive la gatelle, Christmas Gambols, Conundrums, Puzzles, nigmas, &c.

RECREATION I.

To cause a person or company to believe that you can make appear to another person, who is shut up in an adjoining room (in darkness) any thing which the former fires upon.

This is a trick upon which jugglers set much value, as it produces great astonishment before the secret is known. The person shut up in the room adjoining that in which you are stationed, is your confederate, with whom you have preconcerted your signals, thus:-When he hears you give one knock, he knows you mean a, two knocks b, &c. When this trick is played off, the performer gene. rally alarms the company by informing them, that it requires great courage to venture into the dark room, where the apparition is to appear. On this intimation there will probably be few offers; and the confederate, with feigned reluctance, ventures upon the experiment. When the confederate has retired to the dark chamber, desire any of the company to write down on paper the name of any object which he may wish to appear to the person in the other room. Suppose he fixes upon the word bee. When you have read the word, burn the paper in the candle, and place the ashes in a mortar, and mix it up with some sand properties. Then take a pestle, as if to triturate the mixor mixture, which is supposed to be possessed of magic ture, and give it two knocks against the pestle, which of course signifies the letter b. Then to indicate the division between the first and second letter, work the pestle round about, without striking it as before, then give five knocks, to signify e, and stir about again; after which, by again giving five knocks, signifying another e, your confederate,

ONUNDRUMS, GOOD, BAD, AND INDIFFERENT, NEW of course, knows the word as well as yourself; and he im

AND OLD.

(From Gerard's Letters in Rhyme.)

Our readers will find amongst the following whimsical ** tundrums, a number of old friends with new faces:Thy is the Caledonian canal

ke the word critic?-parlez, canst thou tell SNIPS like ropers ?-canst thou guess at all? when coach-horses are infallible?

should Bob Batt be wed to Betty Ball?

why the mermaid like a diving bell-e? me in what one word you can command gauger to seize something contraband?

is a ship upon a stormy night

to the sweetest songstress of the grove?

t potato skins-why an't it right?

Thy is an apple like a single glove?

how can darkness give an owl delight? wherein are potatoes like to love? he letter N why like a dirty pig?

why a fierce engagement like a wig? !!! ast thou inform me how the letter P hke a Roman tyrant-and which one?

mediately exclaims, with apparent fright or astonish.
ment, that a bee has appeared to him. We have chosen
the word bee, because it requires but few knocks of the
pestle; but our young readers will readily understand
that any word can be communicated by the same process.

ham, two men, with their two wives and two sons, who stand thus related :

"The two men are each other's fathers and sɔns, their wives' fathers and husbands, and their children's fathers and grandfathers. The women are the children's mothers and sisters; and the boys are uncles to each other; and all without the leat incest."

CHARADES.

1. My first is admired amongst beasts, and despicable amongst men; my second is one of a family, which clothes half the world; my whole is generally about the persons of people of fashion, and yet has always a stiffness not easily worn off.

2. If, ladies, ye my first require,

I'm offspring of a stormy sire;

My second, on an April morn,

Hangs pendant on the budding thorn;
In innocence, and beauty too,

My whole, ye fair, resembles you.

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A B C D E F G H

HISTORICAL PUZZLE.

There never was but one King of England crowned: what was his name?

GENEALOGICAL PUZZI.E.

A B C D E F G H

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THE BLOW-PIPE AND ARROWS OF GUIANA.

"When a native of Macoushia goes in quest of feathered game or other birds, he seldom carries his bow and arrows. It is the blow-pipe he then uses. This extraorditary tube of death is, perhaps, one of the greatest natural curiosities of Guiana. It is not found in the country of the Macoushi. Those Indians tell you that it grows to the south-west of them, in the wilds which extend betwixt them and the Rio Negro. The reed must grow to amazing length, as the part the Indians use is from to eleven feet long, and no tapering can be perceived ini, one end being as thick as the other. It is of a bright fellow colour, perfectly smooth both inside and out. It grows hollow; nor is there the least appearance of a knot joint throughout the whole extent. The natives call it Darah. This, of itself, is too slender to answer the end da blow-pipe; but there is a species of Palma, larger and stronger, and common in Guiana, and this the Indians make use of as a case, in which they put the Ourah. It is brown, susceptible of a fine polish, and appears as if It had joints five or six inches from each other. It is called Samourah, and the pulp inside is easily extracted, by steeping it for a few days in water.

one, it did not become me to turn soft. So, taking a cut-
lass from one of the negroes, and then ranging both the
sable slaves behind me, I told them to follow me, and that
I would cut them down if they offered to fly. I smiled as
I said this, but they shook their heads in silence, and
seemed to have but a bad heart of it.

"When we got up to the place, the serpent had not
stirred, but I could see nothing of his head, and I judged
by the folds of his body that it must be at the farthest side
of his den. A species of woodbine had formed a complete
mantle over the branches of the fallen tree, almost imper-
vious to the rain, or the rays of the sun. Probably he had
resorted to this sequestered place for a length of time, as it
bore marks of an ancient settlement.

"I now took my knife, determining to cut away the
woodbine, and break the twigs in the gentlest manner
possible, till I could get a view of his head. One negro
stood guard close behind me with the lance; and near
him the other with a cutlass. The cutlass which I had
taken from the first negro, was on the ground close by me
in case of need.
"After working in dead silence for a quarter of an hour,
with one knee all the time on the ground, I had cleared
away enough to see his head. It appeared coming out
betwixt the first and second coil of his body, and was flat
on the ground. This was the very position I wished it
to be in.

"I rose in silence, and retreated very slowly, making a sign to the negroes to do the same. The dog was sitting at a distance in mute observance. I could now read in the face of the negroes, that they considered this as a very unpleasant affair; and they made another attempt to persuade me to let them go for a gun. I smiled in a goodnatured manner, and made a feint to cut them down with the weapon I had in my hand. This was all the answer I made to their request, and they looked very uneasy. "Thas the Ourah and Samourah, one within the other, "It must be observed, we were now about twenty yards from the blow-pipe of Guiana. The end which is applied from the snake's den. I now ranged the negroes behind to the mouth is tied round with a small silk grass cord, to me, and told him who stood next to me, to lay hold of the prevent its splitting; and the other end, which is apt to lance the moment I struck the snake, and that the other nke against the ground, is secured by the seed of the take their cutlasses from them, for I was sure, if I did not must attend my movements. It now only remained to Acuero fruit, cut horizontally through the middle, with a hole made in the end, through which is put the extremity disarm them, they would be tempted to strike the snake the blow-pipe. It is fastened on with string on the out-in time of danger, and thus for ever spoil his skin. de, and the inside is filled up with wild bees'-wax. On taking their cutlasses from them, if I might judge "The arrow is from nine to ten inches long. It is made from their physiognomy, they seemed to consider it as a tut of the leaf of a species of palm-tree, called Coucourite, most intolerable act of tyranny in me. Probably nothing fard and brittle, and pointed as sharp as a needle. About kept them from bolting, but the consolation that I was to in inch of the pointed end is poisoned. The other end is be betwixt them and the snake. Indeed, my own heart, burnt, to make it still harder, and wild cotton is put felt those sensations one has on board a merchant vessel in spite of all I could do, beat quicker than usual; and I and it for about an inch and a half. It requires conderable practice to put on this cotton well. It must just in war time, when the captain orders all hands on deck to large enough to fit the hollow of the tube, and taper off prepare for action, while a strange vessel is coming down nothing downwards. They tie it on with a thread of upon us under suspicious colours. he silk grass, to prevent its slipping off the arrow."

ENCOUNTER WITH AN ENORMOUS SERPENT.

"On ascertaining the size of the serpent which the legro had just found, I retired slowly the way I came, nd promised four dollars to the negro who had shown it ome, and one to the other who had joined us. Aware at the day was on the decline, and that the approach of fight would be detrimental to the dissection, a thought truck me that I could take him alive. I imagined if I ould strike him with the lance behind the head, and pin im to the ground, I might succeed in capturing him. hen I told this to the negroes, they begged and entreated The to let them go for a gun, and bring more force, as they ere sure the snake would kill some of us.

"I had been at the siege of Troy for nine years, and would not do now to carry back to Greece, nil decimo isi dedecus anno.' I mean, I had been in search of arge serpent for years, and now having come up with

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I had now got firm hold of his tail; and after a violent struggle or two, he gave in, finding himself overpowered. This was the moment to secure him. So, while the first negro continued to hold the lance firm to the ground, and the other was helping me, I contrived to unloose my braces, and with them tied up the snake's mouth.

"The snake, now finding himself in an unpleasant situation, tried to better himself, and set resolutely to work, but we overpowered him. We contrived to make him twist himself round the shaft of the lance, and then prepared to convey him out of the forest. I stood at his head, and held it firm under my arm, one negro supported the belly, and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting ten times; for the snake was too heavy for us to support him without stopping to recruit our strength. As we proceeded onwards with him, he fought hard for freedom, but it was all in vain. The day was now too far spent to think of dissecting him. Had I killed him, a partial putrefaction would have taken place before morning. I had brought with me up into the forest a strong bag, large enough to contain any animal that I should want to dissect. I considered this the best mode of keeping live wild animals when I was pressed for daylight; for the bag yielding in every direction to their efforts. ithey would have nothing solid or fixed to work on, and thus would be prevented from making a hole through it.. I say fixed, for after the mouth of the bag was closed, the bag itself was not fastened or tied to any thing, but moved about wherever the animal inside caused it to roll. securing afresh the mouth of the Coulacanara, so that he could not open it, he was forced into this bag, and left to his fate till morning.

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"I cannot say he allowed me to have a quiet night. My hammock was in the loft just above him, and the floor betwixt us half gone to decay, so that in parts of it no boards intervened betwixt his lodging-room and mint. He was very restless and fretful; and had Medusa been my wife, there could not have been more continued and disagreeable hissing in the bedchamber that night. At cutting wood at a distance; I could have done with half daybreak, I sent to borrow ten of the negroes who were that number, but judged it most prudent to have a good force, in case he should try to escape from the house when we opened the bag. However, nothing serious occurred.

"We untied the mouth of the bag, kept him down by main force, and then I cut his throat. He bied like an ox. By six o'clock in the same evening he was completely dissected. On examining his teeth, I observed that they and not so large or strong as I expected to find them; were all bent like tenter-hooks, pointing down his throat, but they are exactly suited to what they are intended by nature to perform. The snake does not masticate his food, and thus the only service his teeth have to perform is to seize his prey, and hold it till he swallows it whole."

"We went slowly on in silence, without moving our arms or heads, in order to prevent all alarm as much as possible, lest the snake should glide off, or attack us in self-defence. I carried the lance perpendicularly before Odd Proclamation for holding a Fair among the Scotch. me, with the point about a foot from the ground. The-O Yes! and that's e'e time; O yes! and that's twa times; snake had not moved; and on getting up to him, I struck O yes! and that's theird and last time. All manner of pearhim with the lance on the near side, just behind the neck, and pinned him to the ground. That moment, the negro next to me seized the lance and held it firm in its place, while I dashed head foremost into the den to grapple with the snake, and to get hold of his tail before he could do any mischief. "On pinning him to the ground with the lance, he gave a tremendous loud hiss, and the little dog ran away howling as he went. We had a sharp fray in the den, the rotten sticks flying on all sides, and each party struggling for superiority. I called out to the second negro to throw himself upon me, as I found I was not heavy enough. He did so, and the additional weight was of great service.

son or pearsons, whosoever, let 'em draw near, and I shall let 'em kenn, that there is a fair to be held at the muckle town of Langholm, for the space of aught days, wherein if any hustrin, custrin, land-lopper, dub-skouper, or gang the gate-swinger, shall breed any hurdam, durdam, rab. blement, brabblement, or squabblement, he shall have his lugs tacked to the muckle throne with a nail of a twa a penny, until he down on his hobshanks, and up with his muckle doups, and pray to Hea'en neen times.God bless the King, and thrice the muckle Laird of Relton, paying a grout to me, Jemmy Ferguson, Bailey of the aforesaid Manor.So you heard my proclamation, and: I'll gang heam to my dinner.

Correspondence.

ANECDOTES.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-The inclosed "reminiscences" of a stay at Naples, &c. in 1804-6, are extracted froin a letter, written in 1816, in the hope of interesting your readers, by

A SUBSCRIBER AND WELLWISHER.

THE "LADIES' CHARITY" BALL.

name. This, I can with confidence say, is the law, and the uniform practice of this country, and I certainly do There is not, perhaps, any one of our public charitie think very highly of it, as not imposing a hardship on is immediately patronized by our fair townswomen,more deserving of approbation and support than that whic either party, but, on the contrary, very beneficial to both whose object it is to relieve and assist poor married fr one year, cannot vacate the possession, and put in a sub-general, indeed, is the admission of the great utility of them. I can also with truth say, that a tenant, for males during the trying period of accouchement. S tenant, unless with consent of the proprietor, who can such institutions in populous towns, that it is matter compel his immediate tenant to bring back to the pos-purpose has not already been erected in Liverpool, on th surprise that an appropriate building for the exclusiv session his household furniture, and other effects, there to plan of those in London and in Dublin, both of whic "Among the persons that interested me most, was H. remain till the stipulated rent is paid, or good security is are an honour to their founders and supporters. Or E. who has been British minister at half the courts in found for payment; and even feudal payment or security Ladies' Charity, perhaps, deserves even a higher euk Europe, and now fills a high and lucrative situation in the does not authorize him to introduce a tenant, that is, a the exertions, the handywork, and the pecuniary offering gium, inasmuch as it is in a great measure supported East Indies. Never have I found a man so gifted by sub-tenant, unless the landlord consents: so strict is the of individuals who court no publicity beyond that of nature. To the most robust constitution, and the sound-law here, as to the landlord's delectus personal, that he is facts which may induce a sympathising public to enabl est sense, were joined the most elegant person and the presumed to have set his house or land to the tenant, in them to extend the sphere of their usefulness. Man liveliest wit.***Playing with him one day at whist, he preference to any other person, and is not bound to permit hundreds, annually, of needy but deserving females, an lost several rubbers. Gentlemen,' said he, with his any other than the person thus selected to possess the sub- through them, supplied, in the hour of pain and peri usual pleasantry, you will force me to have recourse to ject. with such attendance and necessaries as occasion requires my talisman, and that is,. I take out my snuff-box, I and which, though of no great cost in individual cases, ar frequently beyond the reach of the wives of industriou knock upon it three times with becoming solemnity, I but poor labourers, and of others, reduced in the world by take a pinch of snuff, and I say, God bless the King, misfortune, or the loss of natural protectors. This ses and the devil take Buonaparte.' By some accident, jects, and is administered with that kindness and delicacy sonable relief is carried to the dwellings of deserving obthis came to the knowledge of that morose brutal fellow which renders it gratefully acceptable even to those who Alquier, the French minister, who gave in a memorial maintain an honest pride in their afflictions. Nor cat to the Court, accusing E. of being concerned in a plot to it be doubted that this charity has frequently averted poison or assassinate his master. The Court protested disease, and disappointed death of his prey. That the against the indecency of this, but as Alquier insisted upon will at once be perceived by a reference to the reporte funds are dispensed with the utmost economy and effect, it, the memorial was handed over to Mr. E. His andetailing the number of cases annually relieved, and by swer was characteristic. Literally translated it runs as the list of the highly respectable ladies who form the com follows:-* I give my word of honour, that there is not mittee of management. Their excellent endeavour will, the most distant ground for this accusation, the more so, of the Annual Ball, for the benefit of the charity, which we sincerely hope, be substantially assisted by the proceed as it is contrary to my principles to wish to see a man fall by an assassin, who deserves death by the hands of justice.' will take place on Thursday evening next, under the mes I need not add that Alquier took good care not to irritate distinguished patronage, at the elegant suit of rooms in th Town-hall. Surely, if a refined entertainment, in whic him afterwards. the whole of the respectable community may mingle joyous harmony, be desirable, it is doubly so when it pleasures are enhanced by the delightful reflection, that in partaking of them, we are doing a work of charity ans benevolence.

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"Another of my acquaintances was the celebrated Madame de Staël. As cannot fail to be the case with a person who talks so incessantly, I soon fancied myself capable of appreciating her qualifications; and, perhaps, it was owing to this, that I read her works with less pleasure than I otherwise should have done. But I had sometimes good reasons for this. One day she told me that the object of her travels was to publish such an account of different countries as had never appeared before. For this reason,' said she, I have with me Schlegel (the celebrated translator of Shakspeare) and Sismonde Sismondi (one of the most learned and profound historians of the age.) I (added she) having lived much among inen, imagine myself capable of describing their characters and manners. Schlegel has the department of the arts, and Sismondi of the history and literature of the countries we visit.' You may judge from this how high my expectations were raised, and how greatly they were disappointed by the appearance of Corinna."

LANDLORD AND TENANT.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-In the number of your well conducted paper of November 23, 1824, I observed a letter from W. on the subject of landlord and tenant, in which the inconvenience to both parties is very distinctly pointed out; and, while resident in Liverpool, my native place, I, as a proprietor of houses, severely felt it. During my residence in Scotland for the last ten months, I have had frequent opportunities of conversing with persons well informed on the subject, and if Mr. W. has not had an answer, I, with great deference, beg leave to offer my mite for his information on the subject. In Scotland, if a tenant take a house from Whitsunday, which is the usual term here as to houses, to the same term next year, either party is free, upon giving notice to the other forty days previous to the 15th of May, subsequent to his entry to the possession; and if neither party give such notice, they are both bound for another year. If the regular notice is given, the ejectment follows, and is attended with an expense scarce worth a

So very favourable is the law of Scotland to the security
of landlords for their rent, that even invecta et illata are
subject to his payment; he can, by what they call here
his right of hypothesis, a process at once summary, and
attended with little expense, detain whatever is on the
premises, in security of his rent. This, however, I con-
ceive rather hard in some cases. For instance, I take fur-
nished lodgings, and there are some additional articles
which I purchase for my own accommodation; these,
though my own property, can be attached by the landlord
for his rent for the whole year, although I may have paid
the rent for my lodgings to the person from whom I took
them. I do not know whether that can be done in Eng
land, but it positively is the practice in Scotland.

I am, yours, &c.
Edinburgh, December 10, 1825.

TO THE EDITOR.

JACOBUS.

reason of Britannia being upon the halfpence, I explained
SIR,-Being asked by a young lady, the other day, the
to her, and composed the inclosed in part. Probably you
may find room for it among the miscellanies of the Kalei-
doscope, for I believe it not to be generally known.
Dec. 20, 1825.
Yours, &c.

VERAX.

on the 2d of January, 1826, will be published, by Mas

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Literary Trifling.

(Continued from our last.)

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-Like most scribblers, in their opinions of their
own productions, I fancy the following is correct, though
however, I will not give up my own opinion yet, and I
a grammatical friend of mine thinks I am mistaken;
shall take the reception it may meet from you as the crite-
rion of its merits.-Respectfully, yours,
P. O.

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It is certain that that that that that that that that gentle-
man alludes to follows, is properly applied.

1st That-A conjunction.

2d That-A demonstrative pronoun, relating to 3d that.
3d That-A substantive in the objective case, being the
object of the verb follows, and antecedent to the 4th that.
3d that.
4th That-A relative pronoun, having for its antecedent

5th That-A demonstrative pronoun, relating to 6th
that.

6th That-A substantive, nominative case, to the verb follows, and antecedent to 7th that.

7th That-A relative pronoun.

To Correspondents.

mous, "Yes, yes," &c.—M'Q.'s enumeration of Celtic Su names-The verses of Amator-Simile, and others alread acknowledged.

W. L. is respectfully informed, that the verses he (or sh alludes to were given to our printer for the purpose of car insertion, and have been mislaid. We shall, in all pr bability, meet with them in time for the next Kaleido THE CLASSICS.-We are obliged to defer the letter of Philan thes until next week.

ERUDITE AND CLASSICAL CRITICISM.-The learned dissertati
of Micromegas shall have a place in the next Kaleidoscope-
In the meantime, we wish our correspondent would favo
us with the air of "Four-and-twenty Blackbirds bak'd
a Pie," in order that we might accompany the critique w
the music to which it was originally associated by so
inspired musician worthy of the poet, "Par nobile fratr
By the bye, did Micromegas ever meet with a critical
ceau, written by the humorous Grose, the antiquarian?
not, we advise him to take a peep at it, as it is just in
way. If we recollect aright, it may be found in a t
miscellaneous volume by Grose, entitled the Olio, in whi
our correspondent will find a capital critique upon the
thetic little ballad-

"A carrion crow sat on an oak,
We have also received the communiation of A.—W、W. N—
And he spied a tailor cutting a cloak."
-An Inhabitant of Chester.

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The following are extracts of a letter from a young English lady, now at Naples, to a friend in this town Liverpool)

"Naples, November 22, 1825.

** I can scarcely believe myself in Italy. Whilst I am iring, my fingers shake with cold; the rain is pouring w in true November style; and there is as gloomy a above as ever suggested to an Englishman the exdiency of hanging or drowning to escape from its depressginface. To complete the illusion (and the only grecable part of it, too) I am sitting in a room surrounded views in Wales, including those of Carnarvon Castle, d, Llanberris Lake, Dolbadern Castle, &c. They not very good engravings, but, as remembrancers of trip into those districts just before I quitted England, Excite feelings of pleasure which the perfection of Independent of that association, could not afford me. I would require a talent for description far beyond todo justice to this place. The Panorama which I Liverpool gives a very correct idea of the appearof Naples from the bay, but, of course, cannot depict Jeterogeneous scenes which the city presents on a ar acquaintance. Such a mixture of gaiety, wretchedand dirt, is scarcely to be met with elsewhere; such Bd medley of monks, mountebanks, and mendicants, ben statues and Christian saints.

The other night I visited San Carlos, which is conted the most splendid theatre in Europe. Being the versary of the Queen's birth-day, it was a gala night; on such occasions the house is always crowded with nak, beauty, and fashion of Naples. Fortunately ve had an offer for the night of one of the best teboxes in the theatre, it being nearly opposite to his jesty's, and on the same tier. There is no gallery Sain the London Opera-house. The tiers of boxes, hich there are six, entirely surround the theatre from ciling to the pit, and give it a much more magnificent eance than if there was a recess left above for a

Mottram-R. Wagstaff;
Newcastle-under-Lyme-J.Mort;
Newcastle-u.-Tyne-J. Finley;
Newtown-J. Salter;
Northwich-G. Fairhurst;
Nottingham-C. Sutton;
North Shields-Miss Barnes;
Oldham-J. Dodge;
Ormskirk-W. Garside;
Oswestry-W. Price; Edwards;
Penrith J. Shaw;
Prescot-A. Ducker;

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1826.

Preston-P. Whittle;
I. Wilcockson;
Ripon-T. Langdale;
Rochdale-J. Hartley;
Sheffield-T. Orton;
Shrewsbury-C. Hulbert;
Southport-W. Garside;

Sunderland-G. Arbutt;
Ulverston-J. Soulby;
Wakefield-Mrs. Hurst;
Warrington-J. Harrison;
Welchpool-R. Owen;
Wigan-Mrs. Critchley;
J. Brown;

guished. The opera performed was The Destruction of these ideas, I beg leave, with your kind aid, to offer a few
Pompeii.' During the last act, Vesuvius rumbles behind additional remarks conducive to the same truly laudable
the scenes, in very good taste and time,-taking care not end. I have long contemplated, with a feeling of deep
to interfere too much with the singing going on in front. regret, the degraded state of numerous antique effusions,
The piece concludes with a very respectable eruption, most unjustly and unaccountably neglected by the learned,
which, with the extra visitation of an earthquake, destroys and ready to sink, for ever, into the oblivious gulph of all
the city, and puts the inhabitants to flight; during the devouring time, were they not fortunately rescued from
confusion, the hero (Sallust) and the heroine (Mrs. Sal-impending fate by the traditional skill of the unwearied
lust!) who were just on the point of being entombed alive, assistants of infant education, and assiduously committed to
make their escape, and the curtain drops. We had also the retentive faculties of the tender objects of their super-
a Ballet, in which the dancers, so far as clothing was con- maternal care. For the present essay, I have chosen one
cerned, were so extremely primitive as to make an Eng-of these lyrical relics as a specimen; should my humble
lishwoman look rather demure. I understand the per- endeavours to display its merits and beauties, happily
formance gave some offence to his Majesty of Naples, meet your approbation, and that of the public, I shall,
who has ordered it to be suppressed; it is therefore pro- with the greatest alacrity, proceed to examine a large col-
bable, and certainly desirable, that, for the future, the lection of similar productions of the "olden time."
ballets may be shortened and the dresses lengthened.

This little piece begins with a simplicity that proves it
"I have deferred writing until now, in hopes of send- to be of very ancient date, though we can but darkly guess
ing you an account of an excursion to the summit of Ve- at the exact period. The author, by the very nature of
suvius, which about a dozen of us have had in contem-the singular story it contains, plainly intimates that it
plation for some weeks, but hitherto the weather has con-
stantly disappointed us.
"E. R."

Criticism.

CRITICISM EXTRAORDINARY.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-Of all the subjects that claim attention and consideration from the enlightened and ingenious professors of the liberal art of criticism, there can be none more emi"Sing a song of sixpence, a bag full of rye." nently useful and agreeable than those which contribute How fine an example of elegant alliteration in the repeto promote an accurate knowledge of the early state of tition of the letter S, which, though in our days condemnour native muse. What a gratification to trace the glo-ed for sibilation, gives here a singular power to the exrious progress of mind! to tread, in imagination, the steps by which we have at length attained an eminence so near perfection, in the most sublime of all human en dowments!

A celebrated master of the tuneful art tells us-

"Great souls, 'tis true, peep out but once an age,—
Dull sullen prisoners in the body's cage."

It is not, therefore, from a few transcendent examples In addition to the usual lights, there were several that we can form a just estimate of the national genius, or and extra ones in full blaze. For a few moments of its gradual advances towards refinement; but, by vave entered, I felt almost blinded by the dazzling rious unsophisticated and spontaneous efforts of nature, liance of the scene; after riding through the dark neither excited nor assisted by the delusive splendour of tait has almost the effect of a flash of lightning. The heathenish lore. The energetic perseverance and incomBere pit was nearly filled with the officers of the Aus-parable penetration of several distinguished antiquarians, and Neapolitan troops, in white and scarlet uniforms. have enabled them to make numberless invaluable disere were no ladies' black dresses allowed to appear; coveries amongst the fragments of our forefathers' literary the diamonds and feathers in Naples were in requisi#, and I observed that by far the greater part of them lamented our side of the theatre, a circumstance which, informed, was owing to its being opposite the royal , in which sat his Majesty, with the Queen and the Princess Christina. The house was so crowded that yde of the music could be heard, or at least distine Panorama is still exhibiting in this town, and all ers who have seen it are unanimous in their opinion

the

seriectuses of the various scenes exhibited. See adv.

achievements: various traditionary remains, breathing
the odour of times long past, have been subjected to the
strictest critical investigation: and who is there that will
not acknowledge the incalculable benefit that must accrue
to society at large from the spirit which has prompted
such labours, and the sound sense and erudition with
which they have been conducted? Still the fund seems
inexhaustible;-certainly much more may yet be done in
exploring the trackless regions of antiquity. Actuated by

pression!

"

Sixpence !" Sing (heavenly muse) a song of (the value of, how much }) The poet modestly puts it up at this very moderate price, and leaves it to the judicious reader to determine its full value. He adds, " a bag full of rye," typically to denote, is replete with substantial morality: in this point, truly, that, for minds capable of digesting such nourishment, it far unlike many of our recent productions! Next comes

on the narrative, no doubt founded in fact:

Four-and-twenty black-birds baked in a pie.” We have on record several pies of enormous magnitude; for instance, that from which the famous dwarf, Hudson, walked forth to delight a King and Court,

In the line just quoted, we have another notable specimen of alliteration in three B's: this figure, inconsiderately denounced as " feeble," by Mr. Pope, does most certainly give strength in composition; the recurrence of the same articulation gives a practical facility to the organe of speech; reiterated sound more powerfully excites the auditory nerves, keeps attention awake, and fixes the subject more deeply in the memory.

The smoothness of the versification is equally to be admired; no harsh jarring from the horrid approach of rude