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When Irish hills were fair and green,

And Irish fields were white with daisies, And harvests, golden and serene,

Slept in the Tazy summer hazes ; When bards went singing through the land,

Their grand old songs of knightly story, And hearts were a every hand,

And all was peace and love and glory ; ’Twas in thoss happy, happy days

When every peasant lived in clover, And in the pleasant woodland ways

One never met the begging rover ; When all was honest, large and true,

And naught was hollow or theatric— 'Twas in those days of golden hue

That Erin knew the great Saint Patrick.

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He came among the rustic rude With shining robes and splendid crozier, And swayed toe listening multitude As breezes sway the beds of osier, He preached the love of Man for Man, And moved the unlettered Celt with wonder, "Pill through the simple crowd there ran A murmur like repeated thunder. lie preached the grand Incarnate Word, ty reck and ruin, hil! and hollow, ‘Till warring princes dropt the sword, And left the fields of blood to follow ; For never vet did bardic song, rhough graced with harp and poet's diction, With such strange charm enchain the throng As that sad ‘tale of Crucifixion.

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rhouwh fair the Isle and brave the men, Yet still a blight the jand infested : ‘Green vipers darted through each glen, And snakes within the woodland nested ; And ‘mid the banks where violets blew, And on the slopes where bloomed the primrose, Lurked spotted toads of loathsome hue, And coiling, poisonous serpents grim 1080, St. Patrick said: ** The reptile race Are types of human degradation ; From other ills I’ve cleansed the place And now of these I'll rid the nation.’’ tie waved his crozier o’er his head, And lo! each venomed thing took motion, And toads and snakes and vipers fied Ip terror to the circling ocean. LV

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Why is Saint Patrick dead Does he not seek this soil to aid To wave hie mystic crook on high. And rout the vermin.that degrade us? Our Jand is fertile, broad and fair, And should be fairer yet and broader : But noxious reptiles taint the air, And poison peace and law and order. For murder stalks along each street, And theft goes lurking through our alleys— What reptiles worse do travellers meet On ladia’s hills, on Java’s valleys, And when we see this gambling host, That “mongst us practice thisjand that trick One knows not which would serve us most—- The Goddess Justice or Saint Patrick.

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RETURN OF SPRING.

God shield ye, heralds of the Spring.

Yo faithful swallows, feet of wing, Houps, cuckouns, nightingales,

Turtles, and every wilder bird,

That make your lundred chirpinge heard Through the green woods and dales.

God shield ye, Easter daisies all,

Fair roses, buds, and blossoms small, And ye whom erst the gore

Of Ajax and Narciss did print,

Ye wild thyme, anise, balm and mint, I welcome ye once more.

God shield ye, bright embroider’d train Of butterflies, that on the plain, Of each sweet herblet sip : And yé, new swarms of bees, that go Where the pink flowers and yellow grow, Yo kiss them with your lip.

A hundred thousand times I call A hearty welcome on ye all; This season how | love—

This merry din on every shore— For winds and storms, whose sullen roar

Forbade my steps to rove. = ~——

THE HEADSMAN OF STRASBOURG.

BY MISS PARDOE. ( Continued.)

«J have now told you all, monsergneur. — You know

every detail of the mysterious and tragical history with which my conscience was 80 over-burthened that I could no longer sustain its weight alone. If I have offended against the law, 1 must submit to pay the penalty of my crime ; but, should you feel that I only yielded to an insurmountable ne- cessity, suffer me to hope that I may not forfeit the pro- tection and favour which [ have for so many years struggled to merit by counterbalancing the hateful duties of my office, by deeds of charity towards my fellow creatures. « Aad what said M. Diedrich?” gasped out Josephine, upon whom the dramatic effect given to the narrative by the manner of the Emperor had produced so strong an impression that sve could not conceal her emotion; “surely he could eondenn the unhappy man ?”

« M. Diedrich,” replied Napoleon, st equal to \ ae sl oiled the latter drew the money from his hosom and held it towards him, he became alarmed. It had at onee been evident to him that the suspicion of the man was a cor- rect cue; and that the individual who had been put to death was DO common victim, Lnstigated, therefore, by this con- viction, and by no means indiflerent to the threat that any recipient of the formidable

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him who revealed it, he refused to risk the responsibility of

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necepting such a charg iE its present owner, but also that he

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your own to the revelations of the heads- |

secret should sbare the fate of act of lenity.

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should not divulge to any one the fact of his having mentioned |save the life of the guilty woman hastened to apprise her its existence to himself.” ‘of the fate with which she was menaced, and to entreat that “ Be it as you will, monseigneur,” said his visitor ; “I she would save herself by flight; offering at the same time

| shall, in that case, expend it in masses for the victim who | to assist her evasion that very night, if she would solemnly foll by my hand, and in alms to the poor. It is only by | pledge herself never again to see the rash youug man by |doing so that I can regain peace of mind and conscience.” | Whose imprudence she had been compromised, and to remain | He then signed the deposition that he had made, and with- | uring the remainder of her life a self-constituted prisoner | drew. lhe in a castle in Scotland, where he could ensure her a refuge. | “M. Diedrich was no sooner alone than he placed this ex-} _ ‘‘ As she rejected both these conditions with haughty dis- traordiuary document under cover, and despatched it by aj pleasure, the interview was abruptly terminated by her chival-

courier to the Baron de Breteuil, who was at that time Prime | rous visitor ; Who, although he had been willing to risk his

Minister. A fortnight elapsed ere he received any reply ; | owe life in order to save that of his fair but frail mistress

but at the end of that time a packet was delivered to him/could not contemplate without disgust her steady perseve-

| by the Governor of Strasbourg, which contained these words 1/Tance.in vice, even under circumstances so threatening as ‘Sir, 1 have submitted to His Majesty the communication | those by which she was surrounded. ‘ Pardon me, madame,’

which you addressed to me, and I have been honoured by the | he said coldly as he prepared to leave the room ; ‘ I intruded j commands of the King, to express bis desire that the person | myself in the hope of rendering service to a repentant woman, in question shal! retain the amount which was bestowed on | but I have no help to offer to one who glories in her sin.”

him ; and to inform you that he will receive a second sum of| Unhappily for herself she did not recall! him.

| the same value, provided he maintain perfect silence on all) The room oecupied by the page was situated on the ‘that has ocourred.’ ” higher Storey of the palace, at the termination of a long ‘is But ”—commenced the Empress. gallery, which was repeated ou every floor to the foundation Napoleon smiled. of the building. It was necessary that he should traverse }

“ Well 2” he said, interrogatively. this gallery in order to gain a back staircase by which he Bat”—repeated Josephine; “ we are not surely to infer | Was aceustomed to reach the private apartments of the prin- that the King’=~ cess ; and his destruction was consequently easy. On each ‘* Madame,” interposed Napoleon, impressively, “I am floor, and precisely on the same spot, four boards were re- ‘about to conclude my tale, and perhaps to give you the key | moved, thus forming a wide opening, which terminated only ‘to it, Sueh events as that which 1 have just related are| above the chamber of his royal mistress. The upper gallery | more commen in the history of courts than the uninitiated |10to which bis own room opened, was never lighted ; an ar- | Would apprehend; and, unfortunately, the fact is never known | Tangement which had hitherto been a subject of congratula- ‘until the evil is beyond remedy.” tion to both parties, as it rendered his movements less likely “Good heavens, Bonaparte! Why do you tell us such | to excite observation ; and one upon which they had frequent- horrid stories, and compel us to believe them ?”* exclaimed |!y congratulated themselves. He had, therefore, been long the agitated Josephine. ‘ Are you endeavouring to frighten accustomed to grope his way in the darkness; and—thus ‘us to death 2” wuch.premised—you may readily anticipate the sequel. The “ Are you frightened, Pauline?” asked the Emperor, turn- | wretched page, unsuspicious of the fate which impended over ing towards the fairest and frailest of his sisters, the Princess him, and so familar with his path that he necded no lamp Borghese ; “ I am, as you hear, relating the history — or | to guide his footsteps, sprang across the threshold of his rather the ultimate fate—of a beautiful, a very beautiful | chamber without one misgiving as the last sounds of life died woman.”

der. ‘“ Your vanity as a conteur is really insatiable. You} bounds, and his foot met no resistance—down, down, head- . . . | > °° ‘have beheaded your heroine, so there is an end of the affuir ; | long, from floor to floor, fell the bold and ambitious boy who

‘for no one can take the slightest interest in a parcel of bar- | had dared to raise his eyes to the wife of his sovereign—

« Nevertheless, and with due reference to your opinion, I | descent, so slight that it failed beneath his weight, and only | will finish my story,” said the Emperor with one of his most served to render his suffering move acute. The planks whieh | sarcastic smiles. ‘‘ The Duke of Wurtemberg married a se- | formed the ceiling of the princess’s apartment had not been dead wife nine years after the death of the first, aud during | removed, Jest the circumstance might attract her notice and my campaign in Italy. The successor of Caroline of Bruns- | thus exeite her suspicions, but they were go skilfully sawn ' wick-Wolfenbuttel was Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess | through that they hung merely by a few fibres; and he had iand, and daughter af George 11. He was at ‘therefore no sooner struck upoa them than they yielded be- neath the sudden preseure, and the bioowing page, with his

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| Royal of Eng | that period only Prince Royal, but succeeded his father on ithe 19th December, 1797.

Le Wuriemberg bad hitherto made common cause with the, iGermanic Empire against France. The new sovereign was, | | however, no sooner in possession of the throne than he hasten- A cry of borror burst from a!! the auditors of the Em- ed to conclude peace ; and opened a correspondence for that | peror, aud his self-gratulation at the effect which his narra- | purpose with me, which was earried on until my departure tive had produced was visible,

‘for Egypt. 1 am vot about to digress into politics, sodo| Nota voice was raised to urge him to proceed with his uot look alarmed, Josephine—Je reviens @ mes mowtons, tale, but each of the party looked earnestly towards him. prcwreeyay tr W urtemberg had been both | ae — understood the silent and agitated appeal. | beautiful and intellectual, bat she was, vevertheless, not per- r a eee oe . “a finger aod thumb in bis mnnfbox, ‘ne i feet ; and whispers soon became rife at court that she had | h e a / one wee wil 1 epicurean deliberation, and {looked with marked favour upon a certain handsome young t paises is habitual arene pees his narration. | page, who, presuming upon her protection, took the liberty e scene must have been a frightful one when Mary ' of attempting to leave the couutry without the sanction of his sovereigu, The motive of his thus seeking to absent him- | | self at a time when his vanity and his ambition may be sup-| | posed to have been alike gratified, was never known ; though | °'™ Sei lldleiedn ten ¥ it was afterwards surmised that his courage did not altogether | com . N a a - ately been the peerless person of her equal his personal advantages ; and he was apprehensive of | 'O¥e" o doubt that her first impulse must have been to

- i ] ; . 7 ning : é » the results of an affair so delicate and dangerous as that ia ‘fling herself upon his body ; to clasp him, crushed and dis-

ie nd himself involved. Be this as it might, this , 284 the | sia Ts — that he had already reached the fron- | its idol; but even passion is not omnipotent, for we are all tier, and had nearly completed his supper, when a peach was | MOF® OF less ee Se Well is it for us that placed before him on a plate of curious old china, beneath | ¥° are 60 perpetually satisfied with the surface of things ; which be found a small scroll of paper, whereon were written | the words : ‘ Return or tremble! | “ He returned.

“8 sly ained the capital, when he Searcely, however, had he regaine i tions of the unhappy boy whom she had Jured to his destrue-

a n his dressing-table a magnificent vase of cut and} . ) olan glass ; and while in the act of examining this new comin LF com of these? A shapeless and gory bauble, and wondering whence it could have come, a second | ee w “wt oe lag a shrank appalled. That scroll, similar to the first, dropped at his feet, which being | thus it a os oe ZS certain ; for the gorgeous apart- unrolled, he found to contain a new warning. On this occa-/ ebb W —_ - ad long been awakened only by tender- sion it bore the injnnction, ‘ Depart or trewble !’ uess and wen of passion, now resounded with wild shrieks, “ Vacillating between these two opposite commands, the and bursts of eal laughter ; while her women, attract- young man resolved to explain the mysterious circumstance ed by m1 nanie a oo re = her assistance, to his royal mistress: to explain to her the peril ia which be eet oT ae a whic meee them, — stood, and to solicit her advice. Its nature may be surmised ° oo re anne to her bed insensible. The by the fact that the youth made no further attempt to leave | S°reams of Aer attendants aroused the other inmates of the palace, and the greatest consternation prevailed. The

the court. i accident a red so inexplicab!] ao pit aie 1 ig ) pea abie that even horror was par- ts that, about this time, a prince—we will ; #ec!@ent ap eee P pa yepainy Sere ctey pall od: viale ee ‘the theken of the | tially swallowed up in astonishment; and although there audacious page, and laid before him sundry letters, papers | — oa dis a ee owe who looked gloomily upon and love tokens, tending to implicate the wife of the one, and | each other, like men disposed to seek a deeper and darker

the son of the other; and that when the miserable parent | _ than had read them tos end to end, his visitor said sternly: There was, however, one individual of more nerve and pre-

‘ Pronounce the sentence of the culprit.’ The lips of the | sence of mind than those about him, who undertook to explain

: . f ihe frightful tragedy by asserting that, b d 5 ‘ed modically, but he could not the cause o - gedy by as g that, beyon —e oe erred be orerery . clear cold eye of all doubt, the dry rot had destroyed the timbers of the palace :

; : ‘and, in accordance with this opinion, all the galleries on that

d husband remained fixed upon him. eo niee —s & et détsdaadien beside the wide hearth, upon which | Side of the building were closed, on the pretext that they y | were too dangerous for use until the flooring had been relaid.

blazed a buge fire of pine-wood; and at length the modern | . a oe Pediar qredped with caailieg fingers one of the hand-iroas | The public were satisfied with this explanation—let us which chanced to be within his reach, and traced in the oan not quarrel with their credulity.

‘several letters. The word thus written commenced with a (To be concluded in our nest )

'D, and was terminated by anh, The sentence was tacitly | | pronounced, The prince bent for a few seconds over the ill- | ‘formed characters—for the muscles of the writer had proved | less firm than his purpose—and then with a cold bend of the ‘head, he strode from the room and left the house.

« A council was convened, at which were assembled all the frm gy gh te

principal personages of the state, and several relatives of the.

‘princess. The condemnatory documents were produced and oq by Captain Cochrane in his Travels, consumed in that time

| read: and a8 they were conelusive of the guilt of both parties. |the hind quarters of a large ox, twenty pounds of fat, and a ?

each individual presen cae ee eet Bet ae bent taba erring wife vehement- reindeer at a meal, ly opposed what he allirmed to be an ill-judged and dangerous : ‘Her death alone,’ he exclaimed, ‘ can save, There is no other alternative.’ and the council had no sv0UeF | Highlander builds up his Luge members frow porridge, kail,

imbs, fell a shapeless at cet of the royal lady who was awaiting bim.”

assasins, and saw the skirts of her robe dabbled in his blood ;

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Brunswick-W olfenbuttel gazing down upon the mummified

whilst we can. “In this case the illusion lasted no longer; what Caroline ‘bad loved was the brilliant beauty, and the faultless propor-

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UNCOMMON GOOD EATING.

national appetite. An Italian is content with a handful of bread

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the honour of the prince. His opinion was adopted ; ‘broken up than the same in

jaway in the corridors of the palace, and the deep silence of “Why do you appeal to me, Napoleone ?”” was the rejoin-| midnight settled over its dim halls and passages—three

barians who could murder a beautiful woman in cold blood,” |down, down, until he met with one slight obstacle in his

blue eyes, his cloud of sunny jair, his ruby lips, and his : UAGiLumass at ihe

Stuart vainly sought to screen Rizzio trom the daggers of his

but that was mere melodrama to the speetacle of Caroline of

figured as he was, to the heart which had enshrined him ds

that we do not seek to look deeper ; let us retain our illusions

solution of the mystery than they cared to acknowledge. |

dividual who bad endeavoured to and whiskey. So that meat is uolabevlutely essential even to

North-men ; when, by a little unconscious chemistry they supply efficient substitutes, tailing off by units the various properties concentrated in honest beef and mution.

Food is very unequally distributed among us. There ia the poor man, who can never give his children a hearty meal; and there is the rich man, gorged with unimaginable luxuries : on the one side Lazarus, with a hunger never sated ; on the other Dives, who, between the ages of ten and tweaty, consumes forty wagon-loads of superfluous meat and drink, at the cost of eee thousand pounds, according to the calculation of Sidney

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But even more varied than amount is kind. There is no®li- mit to the odd dainties affected by different peoole. The New Brunswickers find a special! charm in the moufle, or loose nose of the moose deer. Sharks’ fins and fish-maws, unhatched ducks and chickens, sea slugs and birds’ nests, are all prized by the omnivorous Chinese. The Esquimaux revels in the foreigu luxury of a purser’s candle; and the Abyssinian intoxicates himself with raw meat and warm blood, which are as intoxicating pin their way as ardent spirits, Paris has lately gone mad about horse-flesh ; and, in the Exhibition of eighteen hundred and fifty-one a Monsieur Brocchieri showed and sold delicious cakes,, patties, and bon bons of bullocks’ blood ; rivalling the famed marrons glaces, or baptismal dragees, of the confiserics of the Boulevards. ‘This seems to us almost the triumph of the ar’. Meat biscuits, made in Texas for the use of the American navy, were also exhibited. They are like light-coloured sugar cakes in appearance. One pound of meat biscuit contains rather more nutriment than five pounds of ordinary meat. Portable soup is anotber matter of culinary condensation, wherein nutri- live power is out of all proportion to bulk ; snd pemmican, so well known to Arctic voyagers, is again a condensation of solid meat finely ground ; then mixed with sugar, fat. and currante. The Siamese dry elephants’ flesh, as Germany beugs her beef and pork. Cuba feeds her slaves on dried meat imported iu enormous quantities from Buenos Ayres and the United States ; and, al] through America, the trade in this article is brisk and lucrative, extending even to Europe ; which imports and con- sumes a goodly quantity to her sliare.

The extreme north presents, perhaps, the oddest specimens of luxuries in food, Blubber, the unruminated food ef reindeer, serving as an accompanying salad ; whales’ skin, cut into cubes, black as ebeny, and tasting like cocoa-nut; whales’ gum, with the bone adhering, not unlike cream cheese in flavour, and cali- ed Tuski sugar—ihese were some of the chief dishes ats Tuski banquet: while, at a feast given by some respectable Green- landers, were half-raw and putrid seals’ flesh, putrid whales’ tail, preserved crow-berries mixed with reindeer's chyle, aud preserved crow-berries mixed with train-oil. Walrus is good eating, It is ‘ike coarse beef; and walrus liver raw is a dish on which to grow poetical. Frozen sea! is excellent asa stand- by in travelling ; and putrid seal, which hes been buried under the grass a!] the summer, is a winter’s special charm. Thea reindeer's maw is made into a dish called nerukak, or the eat- able, and sent about, as presents of game or fruit might be with us. The entrails of the rypen, mixed with fresh train-oil and | berries, meke another favourite dish ; and the Greenlander’a winter preserves are cake-berries, angelica, and eggs in every stage of incubatory progress, flung al! together into a sack of seal akon, which is then filled up withtrain-o1l. An Esquimaux will eat bis sledge—when it is made of dried salmon sewn between two skins ; the crose pieces bemg renmidicer-bones, — This is pot so marvellous a8 it seems to be: it is not quite lke feedinz of |a one-lorse cheise or clarense with C. springs; but it must be / a Curious sight fo see a party turn out, and makes mea! of their carriage. Reindeer ia the great delight of the Eequimaux— when he can get it: and frozen reindeer, eaten raw, is better, to his taste, than all the royal venison ever cooked fur reyal feasts,

Keeping for ewhile among the cetacea, we find that the manatus, or sea-calf, give a white delicate flesh, like young pork ; a lean or fibrous part like yery red beef; and fat which ie like hog’s lard, with an exceptionabie porticn lying between the entrails and the skin, like almond oil in taste, and an excellent substitute for butter. ‘The tail is the tit-bit, and ts covered with a fat of firmer consistence and more delicate flavour than that on the body. But the mavatus is too human to be pleasant. “Tt appears horrible,” says Mr. Land Simmons in his Curi- osities of Food, ‘to chew and swaliow the flesh of an animal which holds its young (it has never more than one at a litter) to its breast—which is formed exacily like that of a woman-— with paws resembling buman hands,” ‘The tongue of the sea-lion (phoca jubata) is preferred by some to ox tongue; and the heart is said to be equal to roast cali’s heart. The walrus has a tongue, a heart, and a liver, al! serviceable and palatable, though we think the meat coarse and strong; the female sea-bear is like lamb, and its cub the very counterpart of roast pig. Seal flesh we think strong end oily ; but we have already taken the Greenlander’s opinion en it. Tie black skic of ihe whale, too, we have tasted, and found its ebony cubes with the cocoa fla- vour simply delicious, but its coarse red flesh like inferior meat. Porpoise, or sea-piz, is not to be despised by British sailors suffering from salt junk and scurvy ; but it ie not much soughe after now, though in the days when peacocks in their pride, swans, and herons were at HKaglish tables, porpoises, or sea- pigs, had their place of honour as well. All sea things have the recommendable quality of being highly iodised, This is one of the virtues of cod-liver oi] ; one of the reasons why sea- side air is good for the scrofulous and consumptive ; and almost the sole benefit to be found in tlie Iceland moss, once so famous as a specific against consumption. Isinglass has also a fishy origin. The court plaister of the chemists’ shop is isinglass and balsam spread on silk. Cavaire is the dried roe or salted spawn of fish; tie black, which is the best, comes from the sturgeon, the red is from the mullet and the carp. Botargo is a kind of caviare made from the spawn of the red mullet, and of great esteem in Sicily ; the roe of the pollock makes eon,- mendable bread, and the roe of the methy (Kotha maculose) can be baked into biscuits, which are used in the fuur countries as tee-bread

Jn Beloothistan the cattle are fed on a compound of dates and dried-fish ; the inhsbitants living almost entirely on fish ; and we here, in England, fiing huadreds of pounds of sprets and other fish upon our fields to fertilise the land, poison the air, and deprive some hungry thousands of a dinner. The Atlantic tunny is like veal, but drier and firmer ; and the sturgeon, sv prized by Greece and Rome. is also of the veal type; thet is, like flesh without blood. The sharp-nosed sturgeon is like | beef, very coarse, rank, unsavoury. ‘The shark ie dry and acid. |Havaua is the only plece where shark is openly sold in the warket, and the Chinese are the only people who ascribe any specially invigorating virtues to the fins and tail.

The Gold Coast negroes ere all fond of sharks ; a8 they are of hippopotami and alligators, and the Polynesians surfeit the:- selves to indigestion and disease by their luve of sharks’ fiesh,

Nothing is more variable then national diet, except it be | quite raw.

Scotland, and some other northern countries, eat the pickled

‘and grapes, but an Esquimaux willl devour twenty pounds of ;}shark end the dog-fish. ‘The conger-eel, dried and yraied, | flesh ine day : a Hindu picks upa few spoonfuls of rice between | thickens soup in catholic countries, eud ts a Jersey dain‘y, tasi- ‘ing lke veal. In Cornwal!! they meke conger-eels, a6 they du twenty-four hours, forty pounds of meat. Nay,a Tartar mention-| everything else, into pies. The Chivnocks dry a little tieh— | something like a sardine—then burn it as a candle; and the i ecales of the delicious aud delicate callipevi make exceeding'y

t was invited to pronounce sentence on proportionate quantity of meited butter for drink ; and three of | beautiful ornaments. the appeal declared | the same tribe—the Yakuti—think nothing of polishing off a! In London ond New York the average | consumption of weat is haifa pound te each person daily ; in| Paris it 16 one-sixih of a pound, with a jower fraction stil! for. ‘the villages and country ; yet the Jrishman’s bone and muscle jare elaborated from potatves, not from fesh; and the brawny ,

Other people beside the Gold Coast negroes feed on, end take pleasure 1 reptiles. We ourselves eat one of the wibe when we devour calipash and calipee. But though we revel in turtle, we keep an adverse coun‘enance to tortowe ; yetyhaif ihe soup eaten by travellers iv Italy aod Sicily is made of jand tortoise, boiled down to its essence. In Trinidad, and other of the West India islands, and tortoises are in omich tepate 3, the eygs of ihe cluse torivise ‘testudy clause) are heid a supieme