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THEgSPlRIT 0F BEAUTY. Br was Rev. Moons O’Consoa.

“ Where does the Spirit of Beauty dwell ?" “0h l” said one, “ ifyou seek to know, . You'mnst gaze around, above, below;

For earth, and heaven, and ocean tell,

Where the Spirit of Beauty loves to dwell. But, see ! she comes with the early Spring, And winnows the air with her fragrant wing,- Clothing each meadow, hill and tree,

In the bloom of her rich embroidery.

Ask her now, are she pass away,

Where on earth she delights to stay—

And the Spirit will pause, while earth and sky, Ring with the tones of her glad reply."

'1'!!! IPIRI‘I'.

“ Seek for me in the blue harebell,

In the pearly depths of the ocean shell,

In the vesper fiusli of the dying day,

In the first faint glow of the morning ray.

I sleep on the breast of the crimson rose,

I hide on the stately lily's snows, . _ I am found where the crystal dewzdrops shine, No gem so bright in a diamond mine.

' - I bloom on the flower that decks the grave,

I ride on the crest of the dark green wave, we] am seen in the stars, in the leaf enshrined, “I’m heard in the sigh of the whispering wind.

0n the rip ling breast ofthe winding stream,

In the mel ow glow ofthe moon's mild beam,

I fin the air with the bird's light wing,

I lurk in the grass ofthe fairy ring.

My tints in the rainbow arch are set,

I breathe on the fragrant violet,

Look where you may, you will find me there,

For the Spirit ofbeauty is everywhere.

Curtis-ultra or a Pors._——Perhaps one of the prettiest chris~ tunings on Wd, rendered so by t e very apt and beautiful tripletsthnt’c‘ommemorated it, is that related by the quaint old Fuchn the occasion of christening Sir Wm. Pope a little daughter, in the presence ofKing James, who was then .on his

rogresses. While the waterrlrops were sprinkled upon 11,, the be was presented to King James, who acted as sponsor, With (copy of the following verses in its hand:— Seo, this little mistress here Did never sit in a Peter’s chair, Or a triple crown did wear, And yet she is at Pops. No benefice she ever sold, Nor did dispense with sins for gold, She hardly is a sevennight old, And yet she is a Pope. \ No Kin her feet did ever kiss, 0r had rom her worse look than this—— Nor did she eVer hope To saint one with a rope, , And yet she is at Pops. A female Pope,you'll say—a second Joan! . No sure, she is a Pope Innocent, or time.

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SEAT OF THE AFFGHAN WAR.

To give a just idea of the situation of the British troops in Affghanistan, it may be proper to say a few words on the geographical position ofthe country. It forms a sort oftable land west oftlie Punjaub, from which it'isdivided by a range of mountains, slightly marked in most of our-maps, but certainly of great height, since eventhe Bolan Pass, one of its lowest parts, was cover- ed with snow in April, though only in latitude 29. This chain ofmountains runs parallel to the Indus, at the dis- tance of twenty or thirty miles, and extends like a vast will aloii the eastern frontier ofAfi'ghanistan, reaching from. the indoo Coosh or Caucasus to the sea. There are several passes throughit, but l'tll~ of them dangerous and difii'cult; the two which, no doubt, for good reasons, have been selected by our military men in this war, are IthéKyber Pass, in latitude,34. 20, and the Bolan Pass, about 850 miles southwest from it, in latitude 29. Pes- hawar is in the low country, near the eastern entry to the Kyber Pass, which is 28 miles in length ; but the greater part of the line between Peshawar and Cabool,ol' nearly two hundred miles, consists of narrow defiles amidst high mountains. Jellalabad, where Sir R. Sale was stationed, lies about half-way betWeen these towns. It was by this route that Alexander the Great, and at a recent period, Nadir Shah, entOed India ; and the latter is said to have purchased aflnmolested passage through the defiles by the payment of £100,000 to the native tribes. The Bolan Pass, like the other, is rather a suc- cession ofpasses,'exteiiding from the vicinity of Dadur to the Kojeh§Ainran mountains, and by the detours must measure nearly 200‘ miles. ‘ '

Cabool,Ghuznee, Candahar, and Kelat, are situated nearly in a line; between the north end of which, at Cabool, and the:-south, at Kelat, there is a. space of 500 miles. These Afi'ghan towns, which were‘ all lately in our possession, are situated from 200 to 300 miles of

direct distance west of the Indus,. and separated from it by the formidable barrier of mountains plready mention- ed. To speak in military phrase, the Indus, or the low country on its right bank, forms the base ofour operations. At two points here——at Peshawar, on the north, and Shik- arpoor, on the south, among the friendly nations (for they are not our subjects) of the Punjaub and Scinde, we col- leot troops and form magazines; and from these points, four hundred miles asunder, we act on Cabool, 200 miles off, through a series of perilous defiles, often closed up in winter with snow, and on Candahar, which is four hundred miles off, through the Bolan,Q.uetta, and Gozh passes, equally difficult and perilous. If by any efforts the enemy can effectually stop the path at a single point in one of these long lines of passes, the situation of our troop in the corresponding part ofthis country becomes

"‘rfieklish; if he can shut both, they are completely isolat-

ed, and from mere want of powder to fire with, and mo- ney to purchase corn, must ultimately yield. The Ali‘- ghans, too, are a much braver people than we have,been accustomed to contend with in India. Again, Peshawar and Shikarpoor, which form the base of our operations, are about 300 miles from our own proper frontier; and if the Sheiks,-,gli are now our'lriends, should, with the usual ficklenefij ,. rbarians, join our enemies, our dan- gers would _‘ In ‘short, the Afi'ghan war is ofa‘ more b ' , gdescription than an :e have per- haps ever w 7 *India, and, in judgig‘! of the con-

‘ ,fluct of the ocers who have conducted it, a large al-

§ , .18, 7 id be made for the unexampled difficulties he risituationr.‘ The new Governor General has given 6 erfito try those in chief commands who have failed, ‘by Courts martial, and this is no doubt what the men themlves and their friends would desire. The death of Shah Soojah, if he has really been murdered, is as likely to operate in our favour as against us. It relieves us from the burden of supporting a prince who could not support himself, and may facilitate an arrangement with Dost Mohammed, who is now our pried. ‘-.'- Scots- man. '

THE LATE EARTHQUAKE a'r MARTINIQUE.

The subjoined account, prepared for publication, was brought by Captain Wilbur, of the schr. H. Lawrence, just attired .at New York from Port au Platte:—

The_sky Was uncommonly serene, and the descending sun promised to be bright and glorious in its sitting. Just then, casting my eyes towards Mount Isabella, which overlooks the town, I perceived a dark vapor as-

cending and envel0ping its base and sides; arolling, rumbling sound immediately succeeded, and then came a shock which nearly dashed me to the ground. The level of the square appeared undulating, like the waves of the sea. A faint and sickly sensation came over me, and dizziness and difiiculty of respiration‘ The houses rocked to and fro, like vessels in a storm. The ground was rent in various parts. Many persons were thrown down by the force of the concussion, others were reel— ing as in a state of drunkenness. .

A second shock followed, yet stronger than the former, accompanied by the same appearances, effects and ter- rors. The church, a strong massive building, seemed totterings to its fall; the bricks flew from the solid, ma- sonry, as if from projectiles; wide fissures appeared in the walls and arches, and the whole would have been levelled but for the uncommon strength of the outside buttresses and the lowness ofthe building. It was af- fecting to hear the terrific cries and lanieutations ofthe women and children, and instructive to contemplate, even then, their lowly prostration to the Divinity—im- ploring his mercy, aid and soccer in ther distresses. The second shock must have lasted about 60 seconds. Forttinately for us, our town is almost entirely con- structed of wood, which alone accounts for its preserva- tion. The stone buildings snfi'ered materially, and some ofthe finest were'entirely destroyed. From the ’7th up to the present date we have been in aeontinued state of alarm—upwards of, forty shocks have taken place dur- ing the interval, some more or less severe. Processtpns and prayers are continually on foot, to avert, if possible, the Divine displeasure. The men wear serious and solemn looks; the women, when not in procession, are sitting at the doors of their houses, either in tears or with books of prayer. Business is not even thought of, such is our state of agitation.

The-fine town ofSantiago, about sixty miles distant

merce in this part, has been entirely destroyed. The

population consisted of about 6000 souls, of whom 50"

are buried in the ruins. Further in the interior, the towns of Vega and St. Osero have met with similar fates. The city of Cape Haytien, the deposite ofall the agricul- tural produce of this fine plain—the capital of the north- ern part of the Island—the first city in Hayti, for the beauty and solidity of its buildings, and the second in size and importance, has met with utter destruction, and is one mass of crumbling ruins'.

\A gentleman who left immediately alter the disaster informed me that so sudden - had been the catastrophe, that hardly three seconds were allowed Ito escape from the houses. Thousands were buried alive, and no re- liefat hand. Cries of agony and shrieks would now and. then proceed from the buildings and break the solemn stillness ofthe night. Many dead and putrified bodies were lying in the streets, and nobody to remove them. The air was tainted with the infection, and a pest seem- ed quietly settling over the city.

Since writing the foregoing, further intelligence has reached us from the Cape, which has materially added to the horrors of its former situation. Hundreds of in- dividuals, pouring in from the country, commenced up- turning the crumbling ruins, and drawing from thence all the merchandise and valuables, ofwhatever kind they could lay hold of, despatched the sums to their different hiding places. Opposition was for some time useless, and a summary execution was necessarily resorted to by the authorities to strike a salutary, ,rot.

Many of the marauders were shot, and now, to crown the whole with the extremity ofhorror, a slow fire, which had arisen and had been gradually creeping onward from the time ofthe catastrophe, spread at once into a general confiagration, consuming what had escaped the former calamity and the sacrilegious hand of pillage. Hundreds had taken refuge on board the ships in the harbour, with the trifling efi'ects whichgan agonizing haste suffered them to lay hold of, together with as many of the maimed and wounded as wege thus favored by their good fortune. The other towns and villages besides our own and those enumerated above, which have most seriously suffered (some of which are entirely demolished) are Port Paix, Gonaives, St. Marc, Mole, St. Nicolas, St. Louis du Nord, Fort Dauphin, Limbe- port, Margot, Borgne, La Grand Riveiere, Laxavon, and Altamira, which, together, with Porta Plata, Cape‘ Hay- tien, Santiago, St. Osere and La Vega, before mention- ed, rlrliake in all 17 towns and villages, with loss oflives in a . ‘

It is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the se- yerity of the blow which will be given to commercial Interests in general, through all their channels and rami- fications-—'many years will be required to restore mat- ters to their former footing.

It will be equally difficult to conjecture at what period thc signs ofravages will he removed, and the towns and cities again approach their former condition.

During the earthquake Qt Santiago, the inhabitants rushed into the Roman Catholic church, to implore mercy from the Most High, and filled it to overflowing, and when it fell, rivers of blood were seen to pour through the ruins, proceeding from the bodies of the poor unfortunate souls crushed within.

Momma or MAJOR GENERAL G. Pouocx, C. B.»- This gallant officer, whose excellent arrangements in conducting an immense mass of stores, provisions, and baggage through the Khyber Pass. without the loss of a smglefw of burthen, have excited an'admiration only equa e the cool and determined valour with which that formidable barrier was forced, nothwithstauding the desperate manner in which it was defended, is a colonel in the’Bengal Artillery. He received his mili- tary education at the Royal Academy, Woolwich, and proceeded to India in 1803. - Almost immediately after his arrival, he was sent, with five other young officers, to join the artillery under General Lake, who ,was then about to open the campaign against the most active and enterprising of the Mahratta. Chieftains, Jeswaunt Roa Holcar; and it may afford some idea of the arduous nature of Indian warfare, if we remark, en passant, that in the short period of four months, the subject of this article was the only individfil of the male party.‘ just mentioned who remai ,ed fit for duty—three of them having been killed and 0 disabled. At the battle of Deig, which took place soon after Lieut. Pollock joined he attracted the favourable notice Of his superiors by the spiritedand judicious manner in which he directed the fire of the brigade of guns entrusted to his charge. At the siege and capture of Deig, and the less fortunate attack on Bhurtpore, he was equally distinguished by the steady, gallant, and cheerful performance of his duty which, from the poverty of Artillery officers, and “the: arduous nature of the service, was extremely severe. 0n thebreaking up'of the grand army, as it was called,

Colonel Bowie’s force, employed in reducing and set-

in the interior, and the centre of our agricultural com- ‘

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tending all these operations was. such, that nonhgoi} lock, bv mere right of seniority, attained the ,r b_ Captain (Capt. Lieut. in this regt.) before he had een three years in the service, and such had been his gene- ral good conduct, that Lord Lake appomted him to fine of the first vacancies which occurred in the Artillery le- o‘imental staff, and subsequent commanders-in-Chief iiominated him successively to the Situation of Adjutant and Quartermaster, Brigade Major, and finally A5515: ant-Adjutant of Artillery, in which latter posttion he he a considerable share in remodelling .the Bengal Ord- nance department, and placing it on its present excel- lent footing, though his strenuous endeavours to procure a more effective complement of officers, (the want of which has ever, and particularly at the late unfortunate catastrophe in Afi'ghanistan, been so severely felt,) proVed unsuccessful. Soon after obtaining the rank of Lieut. Colonel, which was not until May, 1824, Colonel Pol— lock was nominated to the Command of the Bengal Artillery, serving in Ava with Sir Archibald Lornpbell s army, and was actively employed during the whole of the memorable campaign which enabled that General to dictate his own terms of peace almost. at the gates of Aeinapoorah. Throughout these operations the steady and efficient manner in which Colonel Pollock super- intended the executive duties ofhis department, under circumstances of a very trying description, was the theme ofuuive'rsal approbation; and he notonly receiv- ed the repeated thanks of the Commander-in-Chief, as well as of the Government of India, but was honoured by his Sovereign with the decoration ofa Companion ofthe Bath. In 1834 he obtained his regimental colonelcy, havmg previously been promoted to the: army rank cf colonel by the Indian brevet of 1829, which led to his being included in the general brevei. of 1838, as major General. At this period he had the command of the fortand district of Agra, but it may serve to show the estimation in which he was held by the whole serVIce, when it is stated that on every occasion when the for- mation of a field force was spoken of, General Pollock was invariably reported to be the individual likely to command it; so that his recent nomination as General of the British Forces on the West of the Indus—a post for which he has shown himself so admirably well qua- lified—may almostbe said to have been made by public acclamation. General Pollock is a. younger brother of Sir Frederick Pollock, her Majesty’s Attorney-General.

THE ROMANCE or Lina—Some short time ago, in one of the villages on the Firth of Forth, lived a lady whpse husband had long before gone to sea, and never having heard from him for some years, she believed him to have been dead. At the time her husband went to sea,.Mrs. S. lived in a. town in England; but, after giving up hopes of his return, she removed, with her only daughter, to her native country, Scotland. In the course ofyears a probationer of the Church of Scotland came to ofliciate as a mispionary in the parish, and form~ ed an attachment for Miss S. Seeing no immediate prospect of obtaining a church at. home, be resolved on transferring himself to one of our American colonies, and received an appointment there from it Colonial Mis- sionary Society. Having been united to Miss-S. he took his departure, leaving his wife and mother-in-law to fol- low as soon as he should have prepared for their com- fortable reception. They accordingly left this country some time afterwards for America. In the meantime, among the settlers over whom the youngdivine’s charge extended, was a comfortable farmer, also named 8., who made inquiries after the history of the minister’s wife and mother, and expressed an anxious desire to see them on their arrival. They did arrive safe, and on reaching the minister’s habitation, Mr. S. was sent for, to be intro- duced. Judge ofthe surprise of all when’, on the entry of Mr. S., the newly-arrived females found in him the long-lost husband and father! Having been unable to trace his family in England, after a protracted absence, he had returned to America, where, by a singular coin- cidence, both ‘ie and they found those they had given tip as lost. The parties, we are glad to say, are now living comfortably and happily in the New World—Ed- inburgh Paper.

,Soncnnv iN FRANCE—The Correctional Tribunal of Bayonne on the 24th ult., presented a curious spectacle. A man named Costello, and his wife, appeared at the bar on a charge of fraud and deception in exercising pre- tended magic and sorcery, and in administering medica- nients without any legal authority. The table of the Court was covered with strange objects. Among them was a lamp of a shape never before seen in the ancient or modern world, surrounded by a palm branch, said to have received holy benediction, and crowned with a multitude of cards of unknown kinds, covered ‘with figures in colours or in ink, representing saints and devils, signs of the zodiac, and cabalistic emblems, bear- ing the likeness of nothing in heaven or earth, or the waters under the earth; by the side ofwliich were pots of pommades, and phials of liquids of all sizes and hues, to which the virtues ofimmense power had been attri- buted, and, in fine, about 30 large volumes filled with characters which no one could decipher, and Castella himsglf, perhaps, less than any one else, though he had pretended that they were the works of Albert the Great and Cagliostro. The witnesses were almost uncount- able, coniprismg the lame and the blind and the paralytic, who had been deluded oftheir money by promises of re- liefwhich were never realised; and at last a young and pretty girl, who, when she came to be examined, depos- ed that for a pom-made which was to insure h.er perpetual beauty she had given the prisoner a louis d’or, her whole fortune, which, she added, with great naiveté, would not have been too much, if the promises had been realized. The eVidence was of the complexion of fraud and dupery, which might naturally be expected it? such a case. Cas- tella was sentenced to be imprisoned 'for a year and a day, to pay 50f. fine, and all the costs, but his wife was acquitted. When the judgment was passed, Castella Who had conducted himself throughout with great of1 frontery, announced, with aloud voice, his intention to appeal.——Galignani’s Messenger.

.Lorto Rossn’s CIGANTIC TELESCOPE.—A number of scientific gentlemen, from many parts of the kingdom, assembled at the Castle, Parsonstown, last week, to wit- ness the casting of the. speculum for the magnificent telescope now constructing by the Earl of Rosse, (a no. bleman better known in the annals of science as Lord Oxtnantewn,) the dimensions of which are superior to any thing of the kind .on record. Among the gentle- men connected with science, and who came to ins ect the casting, were Major-General Sir John BmgoynepR E., Dr. Robinson, of Armagh, Professors M‘Culla h,and Lloyd. The weight of this wonderful Speculghm is three tons, its diameter six feet, and its thickness five feet. The proportion in which the metals we ' d is 126 of copper to 58 parts of [tin Th re mlxe furnaces in re uisit‘ " ere'were three