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1 .POETRY.

THE POWER OF THE DEAD av use It. a. snowas. Say not their power is o’er t. . _ Although their lips be mute, thetr limbs be still, thh might unknown before, Those silent forms the living heart my thrill.

Who stands beside the bed

Where rests the icy corpse within its shroud, Nor feels a speechless dread,

With which his soul ne’erto the living bowed ?~

The lowliest son of earth, The veriest babe that death has stricken down, Hath to. a realm gone firth, I To those who gaze upon them,all unknown. An awful mystery—sealed _ Fran the and eyes that weep beside the bet, To them hath been revealed, . _ To thslr anpriaoned souls made plant and clear.

They are the constant sign or“? truth—the daa , both great and; small, Gan am this word divine, ” That “all have sinned, and death hath passed on all.

They are thessed float whence The harvest ofthe Load shall fill the earth, Whenbt's Omnipotsnee Shall coll his myriad: flora her bosom» forth. Say not their wer is o'er! Even whsnnting ng in their native dust, For them our s trits

our Malaria; Ruth 0 holy liope and trust.

Where is the place of‘graves. ' We them not hallowed 9 There is sanctity In every wind that waves I he grasses tall, or thrill! its willow tree.

Where’er some lonely mound

Tells ofthe spot where mortal relth rest, At once that spot ofground‘

(hr hearts with unseen holiness tnvest.

Say not they have. no power?

Perhaps they were our enemies in life, But notv hath come an hour

When endeth all the tumult and the strife.

Another, mightier hand,

Hath “stilled the npposcr;" anger now may cease— Who can the truth withstand,

That“ with the dead, our hearts should be at peace 2"

The early loved and lost.”

Their memories move us as nought else may more, When, wil‘dl tempest-tost,

These to the sou 'as guiding stars may prove.

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And many a gentle word precious Counsel, alltoo long despised, By memory may be stirred", Now tobethought upon, and weighed, and prized.

And when. the wayward heart Doubts how it aha! some dark temptation shun, Th may decide its part, “ Se w" we do, for so would they ltave done!" Say not “ They are no more !" ‘ Those who the heart with tenderest thoughts can fill; Say not their power is o’er, While this its traces are around us still.

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sanctum. ADVANCEMENT AND MORAL DEGRADATION or run FRENCH.

France is unquestionably advancing rapidly in physi- cal and material civilization. It is impossible to travel through the country with an observant eye without be- ing convinced of the fact. Her new roads in her more backward and hitherto neglected provinces,, and im- proved roads throughout the kingdom—her greatly in- creased means ofcommuuication by the almost daily establishment of new competitors in the carrying busi- ness on the public roads, and the formation of new companies for the navigation by steam of rivers hither- to profitlees to commerce—the almost daily commence- mentor completion of quays, bridges, and other public works, in almost every part of the country—the cultiva- tion of much hitherto unenclosed ground in , many provinces, and the general establishment throughout the country of agricultural and industrial societies—are all manifest and easily recognized proofs of the progress France is making in the various branches of material civilization.

The evidences of a nation’s advancement or retro- gression in moral and intellectual civilization do not lie quite so much on the surface of things, and are not by their nature so manifest to observation. But an observant traveller will not pass through the kingdom without finding many a straw which will serve to indi- cate which way the wind is blowing in these respects also. And I saw, both in Paris and in the provinces, enough to convince me that the country is making as decided a progress towards moral barbarism as it is to- wards physical civilization. The history of the world has amply proved that progress in the one of these directions is not incompatible with as rapid an advance in the other. ' " ' '

The most malignant symptom of this moral disease, which is destroying the nation, is the universal want of faith—not religious faith only, but of faith in any thing -—in virtue, honesty, and morality-Lin the reality of any thing not cognizable by the material senses—in the

overament, in their superiors, in their neighbours, and to themselves. Every thing but the material interests ofbodily comfort and wellbeing is spoken of in the sa mecold, sneering tone, of sceptical ridicule; and the existence of any good but that of sensual enjoyment is deemed at best doubtful, and therefore unworthy of pursuit.

It requires but small penetration to perceive that such a temper of mind must lead to a degree of selfishness and individualism which, as soon as ever it becomes sufficiently universal, must sever the bond which binds individuals into bodies politic, and dissolve society into its original elements.

Among a variety of small traits and indications of national feeling, which, as I said just now, serve as straws to show which way the wind blows, many, though producing an impression at the moment of their occur- rence which is not afterwards efi'aced, are themselves ofa nature to slip from the memory. One unmistaka- able index, however, to the moral sentiments of a people may be found in their newspapers and popular litera- ture; and throughout the whole of my tour through the provinces, I took considerable pains to ascertain what newspapers and books were the most read. The cafés and reading-rooms afforded me the means ofjudging of the first, and the contents of the circulating libraries, and the information of the keepers ofthem, supplied a tolerany sure criterion of the latter.

The Charivart' is, comparatively speaking, an expen- Si'e Paper. and would not therefore be found in the smaller .and poorer cafés. But in those of more pre- tt was invariably taken; and was, as far as very could enable I mlayd say, very extensive observation more “man”, in 6. more eagerly asked for and

The nature of the print is u n any Other publication' to make it necessary for me to c‘ely ‘00 we“ known

much particularity. It is written certain “ze “first:

much talent; but its staple contents are blasphemy, obscenity, and unceasing attacks on every apeotesg existing institution, whether Whig, Tory, or Radlca - The Church, the State, the Law, the Tribunals, the Judges, the Peers, the Deputies, the Ministers, be they whom they may, are all in turn assailed \vtthuts iclevelr though somewhat monotonous ridicule. It ts dtflicu t to conceive the idea of a publication ofa nature to be more extensively and deeply pernicious than the Chart- vari. * * 1‘ * _ I If from the cafés we turn to the circulating libraries, their contents, of a nature equally pernicious and little less ephemeral, amply confirm the conclusions we Shall have been inclined to draw from the favourite she‘els 0f the public press. The innumerable volumes of P rede- ric Soulie, Paul de Kock, Eugene Sue, and Balzac. and a few others of similar character. constitute nearly their entire stock. And ihe mass of corrupt and.cor- rupting ideas which address themselves to the passrons, the imagination, and occasionally to the reasoning faculty, throughout a series of works not one of whtc any English father of a family would dream of sulfertng to enter his house, forms the daily and nightly reading of the young of both sexes—From Mr. Trollope 5 “Summer in Western France," just published.

CANTON.—Canton stands upon the north bapk 0f the Chookeang or Pearl River, about sixty mtles'tnland from the “ Great Sea.” It is one of the oldest ctttes tn the southern provinces, and second in importance to no other in the empire, except Pekin, where. the Emperor holds his court. It is the great commercial emporlum of China, and the only port where foreign trade Is per- mitted. It is not very large in extent, the whole circuit ofthe walls not exceeding probably six miles; but. It ts densely peopled, and the suburbs, including the river population, contain as many inhabitants as the ctty proper. The streets of Canton are very numerous, being more than six hundred. Their names sound odd- ly to us, and have rather an ambitious air. Dragon Street, Flying Dragon Street, Martial Dragon Street, Flower Street, Golden Flower Street, &c., are high sounding enough, but some of them have names whtch would hardly bear to be translated for “pars polite.” They vary in width from two to sixteen feet, the eye- rage being from five to sevan feet. Theyare all paved wrth flag-stones, chiefly granite. Wheel-carriages are never seen in them. Those who can afford to ride are borne in sedan . chairs on the shoulders of coolies, and all heavy burdens are carried by porters. The streets are generally crowded, and presenta busy, bustling, ani- mated appearance. They all have gates at each end. which are closed at night and guarded by a sentinel. The houses are but one story high. A few of them are of wood or stone; many belonging to the poorer classes, ofmud, but the largest proportion of bricks. The dwel- lings of those in easy circumstances contain generally well furnished apartments, the walls of which are orna- mented with carvings, pictures, and various scrolls, in- scribed with moral maxims from Confucius and other sages. The houses of the wealthy are often furnished in a style of great magnificence, and the occupants in- dulge in the most luxurious habits. Official personages, however, for the most part, set a commendable example of simplicity and economy in their manner of living. The doors have no plates to tell who the tenant ofthe mansion is, but cylindrical lanterns are hung up by the sides of the gates of all the houses of consequence, with the names and titles of the owners inscribed, so as to be read either by day or night, when the lanterns are lighted. Canton is a large manufacturing as well as commercial town. There are no less than 17,000 per- sons engaged in weaving silk, and 50,000 in manufac- turing cloth of all kinds. There are 4,200 shoemakers, and (which will startle and astound every one) there is an army of barbers amounting to 7,300 !—tlie important office of tonsor can be held only by license of the Go- vernment. The manufacture of books is extensively carried on in this city. Those likewise who work in wood, brass, iron, stone, and various other materials, are numerous; and they who engage in a separate community have each their own laws and rules for the regulation of their business. Both operatives and tradesmen are very much in the habit of herding to- gether. Entire streets are devoted to the same kind of business. There is even a street occupied almost exclusively by professors of the healing art, and is there called by the Fanquis “ Doctor Street.” The signs, gnily painted and lettered on each side, and hung out like tavern signs among us, give the business a lively and brilliant appearance. The population of Canton is a difficult question—it has been placed at a million and a quarter, including the suburbs and river—but this estimate is probably beyond the mark considerably.— From Mr. Dunn’s Book upon China.

TREATMENT or FRENCH AND ENGLISH SERVAN'rs.—A French master and mistress issue their orders to their domestics with much more familiarity than the English do; take a lively interest in their welfare and happi- ness; advise them about their private concerns; in- quire into the cause of any depression of spirits, or symptom of ill health they may observe, and make themselves acquainted with the circumstances of those in their establishment. This system lessens the dis- tance maintained between masters and servants, but does not really diminish the respect entertained by the latter towards their employers, who generally find around them humble friends, instead of, as with us, cold and calculating dependents, who repay our ltautcur by a total indifference to our interests, and while evincing all the external appearances of profound respect, enter- tain little of the true feeling of it to their masters. Treating our servants as ifthey were automatons, created solely for our use, and who, being paid a certain remu- meration for their services, have no claim on us for kindness or sympathy, is a system very injurious to their morals and our own interests, and requires an amelior- ation. But, whileI deprecate the tone of familiarity that so frequently shocks the untravelled English in the treatment of French employers to their servants, 1 should like to see more kindness of manner shown by the English to theirs. Nowhere are servants sowell paid, clothed, fed, and lodged as with us, and nowhere are they said to feel so little attachment to their masters- which can only be accounted for by the erroneous sys: tem to which I have referred—Lady Blessington’s Idler in France.

The France states that an English maiden lady named Topping, died lately at Vendome, where sin; had lived in such perfect seclusion for six years that during the whole time she never went out of her house except into her garden, which was surrounded by hi h walls. Her residuary legatee is a M. de Maisongs By her will she has left the interest of 4,000 f. to be applied for the maintenance of her two cats durin

their lives, and the life of the longest liver; 2,000 f. to

f and an annuity of200

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' I ' ' su 'rtofherdog, be mvefled m like mall?er ihbtggrsoripzvho is to have Her solicitude was extended to who are to inherit ' the

She even prescribed a them, One of

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the charge of them. the posterity of her dtwp 6:15,") ' l rovision ma e or, e - . filiguriiatfbre and quantity of the food to be_glve and the general treatment they are to receive- the cats is since dead, sq lg? ltlggceprogeny " 'nhaveasentct . sugkvriiid; aTtiy’Buvnns o: I'IORSES.-'-And ngylvil gen‘fi reader, for my inferences a la Martmeaud. l h :28 on you see a horse advertised ' for sale, avor um de ind would a pestilence. If he 15 “a sweet goer, , fl" _ upon it you will be gently dropped into the sweetest en” nel in St. Giles’s; if he is “ well Slllled for a charglflll‘, he is sure to charge a haystack and a park of at“ ery with equal determination ; if “ he neverh shlesmrtl); stumbles,” the chances are three to one that e is s E I blind, 5‘: cannot quit a walk; “the_best horse-tn 1 n gland” is too certainty the worst tn London, 1;"; “ parted with for no fault,” it means lthat he 15 so I ,0 a hundred; if“ the reason Will be satrsfactortly exp atn- ed,” it may be taken for granted that the master has absconded, either for stealing him or robbing hts credi- tors; when “ built like a castle,” he thl move ltkeha church steeple; if “equal to fifteen stone up to t e fleetest hounds in England,” depend upon it he never saw the tail of a hound in his life; tfhe ts a. “beautiful stepper,” you will find that he has ’the actton ofa pg?- cock; ifa “ liberal trial ts allowed, be ntost especur y careful; a deposit of halfthc price, but three times Its value will assuredly be required as securttyfor yo‘ur re- turn ; and finally, whenever you see that he ts the pro- perty of a tradesman who wants to exchange for a horse of less value for his business,” of“ a gentleman who has given up riding from ill health,” or because 5‘ he ts going abroad,” of“ a professmnal man whose evocations call him from town," of“a person of respectability who can be referred to,” or of “ the executors of a gentle- man lately deceased,” you may safelyswear that he belongs to a systematic chaunter, who thl swindle you both out of horse and money, and involve you in all the trouble, cost, and vexation of an Old Bailey prosecutton to boot—Sir G. Stephen’s Adventures of a Gentleman in Search afa Horse. WONDERFUL NATURE or LlGHTNING.—A very sur- prising. property oflightning of the zig-zag kind, espect- ally when near, is its seeming omniprescnce. Iftwo persons are standing in aroom, looking dtfi'eyent ways, and a loud clap ofthunder, accompanied wrth zig-zag lightning, happens, they will both distinctly see the flash at the same time; not only the illumination, but the very form of the lightning itself, and every angle it makes in its course, will be as distinctly perceptible as though they had both looked directly at the cloud from whence it proceeded. Ifa person happened at that time to be looking on a book, or other object which he held in hts hand, he would distinctly see the form ofthe lightning between him and the object at which he looked. This property seems peculiar to lightning, and not to any other kind of fire whatever. THE LOVE or LITERATURE.-—I say that the love of liberty and the love of literature are kindred and cog- nate. The lovo ofliterature is a free, bold, and inde- pendent spirit; for its possessor spurns everything which is low, mean, and vicious. He stands erect, and is not ashamed to show his face either when the multitude sympathises with him to the top of his bent, or when frowns and scowls are turned against him “those bosom was filled with nobler and independent thoughts. For he who prosecutes literature as it ought to be prosecuted —he who possesses the heavenly gift of genius, feels his soul to be free at all times, and rejoices to unfold his wings, whether in the sunshine or in the storm, and de- sires that his brethren should enjoy that liberty which is his birthright. and the power by which he works the miracles that delight and astonish the world—Professor VVilsmt.

INFLUENCE or TEMPER ON THE VOICE—The influ- ence of temper on tone deserves much consideration. Habits of querulousncss or ill nature will infallibly com- municate alike quality to the voice. That there really exist amiable tones, is not an unfounded opinion. In the voice there is no deception ; it is to many the index of the mind, denoting moral qualities; and it may be remarked that the low soft tones of gentle, amiable beings seldom fail to please.

DRUNK AND Sound—We saw a hog lying in the gutter the other day; and in the opposite one was a well- dressed man The first had a ring in his nose—the lattera ring on his finger. The man was drunk, the hog was sober. “ A hog is known by the company he keeps,” thought we—and so is a mam—Scotch paper.

FREEMASONnv.——For centuries and centuries had free- masonry existed, ere modern political controversies were eyer heard of, and when the topics which now agitate so- ‘i'ely were "0‘ known. but all were united in brother- hood and affection. Even the angry breath of warfare was powerless before the ties offreemasonry ; for, during the sanguinary war between England and France, he had been told of the captain of an English merchant ves- 56‘ Wh_0 had been captured by a French privateer, and, on bemg recognised as a freemason, he had been resto- red to his own country in safety. The celebrated Orien- tal traveller, Mr. Buckingham, when in India, had fallen Ento the hands of a horde of robbers, and on entering the nut of one ofthem he was discovered to be a lreemason ; his He was spared and he was again restored to liberty. "v the". he was now in London advocating the doctrines of temperance, he was indebted to freemasonry for his P'esent exrstence.—Sir E. Lytton Bulwcr, Bum—— Freemason’s Quarterly Review for July.

.FLOUNCINGr—In Guernsey. when a young man offers himselfto a young lady, and is accepted, the parents of theparties give what is termed a flouncing; that is they Invite their friends to a feast, the youno' lady ,is led round the room by her future father-iu-laiv, and intro- duced to his friends, and afterwards the young man is paraded round in like manner by his fulure father-in law; there is then an exchange of rims, and some arti: clcs 'oliplate,.according to the rank ofathe parties Afte this it ts horrid for the damsel to be seen walkin. w'tf any other male person, and the youth must scarceglanl I at anything feminine; in this way they court forg eace After this ceremony, if the gentleman alters his in Til the larLy (slain claim half his property; and if the fidlilei basis ou repeat, the gentleman can demand half of

Hts HANDS FULL—A man well occupied when he has a. the other, carrying a basket cigar in his mouth, and a ho skirts of his coat. L

SPIRIT or IMtTATtON._—-The American negroes are remarkable for the pertmacity with which they mimic

is supposed to be tolerany Wife on one arm, a baby on and a cane in his hands, a peful heir holding on to the

their ultimate funereal courtesies the splm is preserved. An epitaph on a- negro baby commences, “ Sweet blighted lily !” , FORCE or IMAGtN.t'r10N.——Some years}.

brated physician,_ author of an 'excellent V 3* force of imagination, being desrrous to ml to his theoretical knowledge, made ,. . minister ofjustice, to.be allowed an oppomr .r , ving what he asserted, by an experiment my! condemned to death“ The mtntster compli request, and the criminal agreed to the p ., ing himself happy tn benfg freed frbm' the. .. bition ofa public executron._ At the time a physician repaired to the prlson, and the PM been extended on a table, hlS eye's bound, and, biting ready, he was slightly prtcked near the,