We are indebted to the East In- (panions, he replied, who would dies, for Kidney Beans, to Astra- have thought the rabbits undercan, for Pompions, and to France, stood Latin? Knowledge of the Languages.A company of Oxoniaus going shooting, enjoined on one of their Gout. A gentleman groaning companions, who was usually very under the pangs of this disorder, talkative, to preserve silence, or was asked, by a sympathizing he would frighten away the game. friend, "Have you ever tried the However, upon spying a number EAU Medicinale ?" "I have of rabbits, he exclaimed vocifer-tried, Sir, every kind of Oh, (he ously, "Ecce! multi canniculi," exclaimed with the true accent when they disappeared in a mo- of pain) but they don't relieve ment. Being chid by his com- me." Voctry. THE LASCAR AND THE BOY. A Lascar asked charity of a boy who had spent all his pocket A FATHER TỎ HIS SLEEPING money; the boy wept because he INFANT. I watch'd o'er my infant while softly he slumber'd, Delighted I prest his warm lips with a kiss, And could not help praying that blessings unnumber'd, Might make his existence a sojourn of bliss. I kiss'd him again, for a smile play'd around him, And felt all the pleasure that fond. fathers know; But soon, aye, too soon, will the joys which surround him, Wear the canker of sorrow, the aspect of woe. Let the fond task be mine, to instruct and to rear him, With virtue's bright precepts his heart to engage, That the light of religion may comfort and cheer him, Direct him in youth, and support him in age. Too soon shall those eyes which while waking shine brightly, Lose all their warm lustre in sorrow and care; His youth like a dream, shall pass o'er him lightly, had nothing to give. Whilst some through ostentation spare, A trifle from their ample store A pittance give unto the poor. given; Those tears which for my miseries flow, Exhale not here but rise to heaven. And should (since e'en the noblest fall) Your future life some follies stain, Those pitying tears shall wipe out all, And life's pure page be white again. LINES WRITTEN BY MOONLIGHT. "Tis night-and upon the dark, still lake The pale moon-beams are sleeping, While mournfully, through the tangled brake The breeze, at intervals, comes sweeping. The moon, like a silver bark on high, And the woes of the world he shall And all is calm and serenely clear, speedily share. When the time shall arrive, that with head palsy shaken, Arm nerveless, frame tottering, and gasping for breath: To the thoughts of eternity may he awaken, The bells afar off only ringing; ear, The nightingale's lonely singing. This hour is sad and yet soothing too; For memory's faithful hand And religion shall brighten the Pourtrays the friends who are lost to prospect of death. view, B. And breathe in a distant land. And those who by fortune forc'd away, rick as the Eastern Nabob, yet poor as the weeping object of your benevolence; I am mild and gentle as the spring, yet savage and cruel as the Have made the green turf their pil- wintry blast; I am young, beautiful, and low. Yet, though the ocean does roll between, And the tall grass over them wave, Will remembrance, with fond affection lean, To their home-and their early grave. E. S. C-Y. Heathen Form of Prayer. Enigmas, &c. 1 What is sometimes eaten, sometimes drank, sometimes a lady, and sometimes a gentleman ? 2 Why is a knight on horseback like a difficulty overcome? 3 My whole is the cause of my first to my second, and which has caused sorrow from the time of Adam. By the late Right Hon. C. J. Fox, addressed to a Lady. Useful Domestic Wint A great saving may be made by making a tincture of tea, thus,-pour boiling water upon it, and let it stand twenty minutes. Put into each cup no more than is necessary to fill it about one-third full. Fill each cup up with hot water from an urn or kettle, thus will the tea be always hot and equally strong to the end, and one teaspoonful will be found enough for three cups, for each person: according to the present mode of making it, three Permit me, Madam, to come uncalled into your Ladyship's presence, and by dividing myself, add greatly to my consequence. So exalted am I in the Character of my first, that I have trampled on the pride of Kings; and the greatest potentates have bowed down to embrace me; yet, the dirtiest kennel in the dirtiest street is not too foul to have me for its inmate-In my second, what infinite variety! I am times the quantity is often used, Select Biography. reason and probity love to encircle themselves. If a particle of vanity be min "No part of History is more in-gled with the higher and better structive and delightful than the Lives of great and worthy Men." BURNETT, THE REV. EDWARD IRVING. qualities of his mind, how gratifying must it be to Mr. Irving to witness the great personal sacri fices that are cheerfully made, in order to enjoy the pleasure of hearing him. How mighty is the power of genius! Possessed of that talisman, a young Scotch Dissenting Minister, about thirty years of age, is enabled to raise Perhaps there are few persons either now living or heretofore who have excited greater curiosity and admiration than the subject of the present memoir. Of his life and parentage (of which in Biographi- from the couch of indolence the cal Sketches an account is ex-most luxurious inhabitants of this pected) we can only say that he wealthy metropolis, and to make is the second son of a respectable them listen with mute attention family at Annan, in Dumfriesshire. and enthusiastic rapture, "While His parents are, we believe, still truths divine come mended from living, and enjoy, no doubt, all his tongue." His thoughts are those pleasing and gratifying strong and original, and the lanemotions which parental affection guage in which they are conveyed naturally derives from the celebrity extremely figurative, while the of their offspring. Mr. Irving, exuberance of a brilliant imaginaafter he had completed his studies, tion is kept within proper bounds resided at Haddington three years, by the united powers of sound whence he was removed to Kil-sense and good taste. His voice kardy, to co-operate in the higher is rich, full-toned, and powerful, classes of literature. The Rev. but when he is declaiming with Mr. Mae Naughtan having been great vehemence, occasionally beremoved two years ago from the comes discordant. His general Caledonian Asylum, Cross Street, deportment is animated, energetic, Hatton Garden, Mr. Irving was and impressive, he appears cominvited by the elders to London, pletely absorbed by the subject and engaged for five years, at he is discussing; he resigns him£150 per annum, besides the seat self unresistingly to the guidance rents. His success has far ex- of his enthusiastic feeling. The ceeded all his most sanguine ardour and vehemence of the wishes could anticipate, unless he preacher indicate the intense inhad indulged wishes which spurn-terest which he takes in the suc◄ ed the rigid confines, within which cess of his mission and tend conM m siderably to produce the rapt attempts to embody." The tone of tention which is paid to Mr. Mr. Irving's mind is bold, spiritIrving's discourses. In reading, ed and independent; it is unMr. Irving's enunciation is deli- shackled by the trammels of preberate and distinct, and his em- judice, but bows obedience only phasis correct, while the deep to the dictates of conscience, to unaffected solemnity of his voice the laws of God. He is not and manner render it impressive. trifling and superficial, or satisHis style displays both faults and fied with skimming the surface of beauties; it is occasionally ob- a subject, but endeavours, and seure, which in a pulpit is parti- often succeeds, in drawing from cularly objectionable, as the mind their depths the richest treasures of the hearer, if it fails to receive of reflection and of thought. the idea when first presented to it, It is when advocating the nobler has no other opportunity of ac- sympathies of our nature, such quiring it. His sentences are as devotion and benevolence, that frequently too long, and involved his great warmth of feeling, by one in the other, both of which its fervour and intenseness, so have a very destructive influence effectually co-operates with his upon the clearness of his style. arguments, in awaking in the Diffuseness of thought and lan- breasts of his hearers the dormant guage is another of Mr. Irving's sentiments of religion and virtue. besetting sins. The whole of Mr. Irving never omits an opporMr. Irving's faults are excesses: tunity of exposing and refuting this remark is applicable to his the errors and anomalies of Unigestures, the management of his tarianism; he resolutely and skilvoice, and to his style. He cer- fully unravels the web which it tainly combines words in a manner has spun round Christianity, and indicative of great talent: for a displays its close affinity to Deism. tame succession of common-place In mental painting he has few phrases he substitutes those which equals; the deep tinge of poetry have novelty and vigour for their with which his spirit is imbued, characteristics. His metaphors and communicates to his pencil the similes are often felicitously ima-power of tracing all that is grand gined, but it rarely happens that in outline, or beautiful in colourhis words do justice to his ideas;ing. with him, to borrow one of his He is likewise deeply read in the own beautiful expressions, "All pages of the human heart; he language is a pale reflection of tears open its secret recesses, and thought, whose faint lustre imper- traces to their source all its mazes fectly represents the brilliance of and windings. His irony is keen, those conceptions which it at-caustic and pointed, and, unawed |
