W ' '&QE@&Z‘o INVOCATION.

By Mrs. Hemans.

Answer me, burning stars of night! \Vhere is the spirit gone, . That past the reach of human Sight, As a swift breeze hath ﬂown ?——- And the stars answered ine—“ We roll In light and power on hi h; But, ofF the never-dying sou ' Ask that which cannot die.”

Oh! many-toned and chainless wind! Thou art a wanderer free;

Tell me if thou its place canst ﬁnd, Far over mount and sea?

And the wind murmur’d in reply— “ The blue deep I have cross’d,

And met its barks and billows high, But not what thou hast lost.”

Ye clouds, that gorgeously repose Around the setting sun,

Answer! have ye a home for those Whose earthly race is run?

The bright clouds answer’d—“ \Ve depart, We vanish from the sky;

Ask what is deathless in thy heart, For that which cannot die.”

Speak, then, thou voice of God within, Thou of the deep, low tone! . Answer me, through life’s restless din! Where is the spirit ﬂown? And the voice answered—“ Be thou still! r Enough to know is given;

a tide, wind, and stars their part fulﬁl,

him: is to trust in Heaven.”

POLITICS AND NEWS. THE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA.

HIS MAJESTY’S LAST \VILI. AND ADVICE TO HIS SUCCESSOR. Oﬁcial—To the .Minister of State.

two precious documents to be published,

, - Ordiiig to the will of my late Royal father

-* ’ , were. put into my hands on the day

#9 . déath; one of which is headed “My last Will,” mam other begins with the words “On you, my

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Frederick ;” both of which are in his own ‘ hand-writing, and dated lst December, 1837.

The heroic King of our greatperiod is deported, and gone to his rest by the side of the bitterly- lamented and never-to-be-forgottenf I pray to God, the ruler of hearts, that he will cause the love of the people which supported Frederick William the Third in the hour Of danger, which cheered him in old age, and allayed the bitterness of death, to pass to me, his son and successor, who am resolved, with the help of God, to walk in my father’s ways. Let my people pray With me for the preservation of

‘ the blessings of peace, that precious jewel which he gained for us with the sweat of his brow, and cher- ' d with truly parental care. This I know— ﬁld that jewel ever be in danger, which God for-

‘ bi , my people will rise up like one man at my call, as his people did at his call.

Such a people is worthy and qualiﬁed to hear royal words ﬂike these, which are here subjoined, and will perceive that I cannot mark the commence-

ment of my reign by any more worthy act than the publication of these.

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FREDERICK WILLIAM.

Sans Souci, 17th June, 1840.

Mr LAST WILL. “ My lime in trouble, my hope in God."

On thy blessing, Lord, all depends, grant it me now also for tliib work.

. When this my last will shall come to the sight of J’vmy ardently beloved children—ofmy dear Augusta, ‘ and my other beloved relations—I shall no more be ' among them, but be in the number of the departed. May they, when they see the well—known inscrip- tion, “Remember the departed,” remember me too

in love.

May God be a merciful and gracious judge to me, and receive my spirit, which I commend to his hands. Yes, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. In another world thou wilt unite us all again, (may thou in thy mercy ﬁnd us worthy Of it!) for the sake of thy dear Son, Christ our Saviour. By the same decree of God I have had to undergo hea< vy and hard trials, as well as in what personally concerned me, especially when, seventeen years ago, he deprived me of that which was the dearest to me, as by the events which so heavily afﬂicted my dear country. But, on the other hand, God

' setemal thanks to him for it!) has permitted me to ive to witness glorious and happy events. Among the ﬁrst I reckon, above all, the struggles gloriously endured in 1813, 1814 and 1815, to which the coun- try owes its restoration. Among the latter, the hap- py and consolatory, I especially reckon the cordial ove and attachment and the prosperity Of my chil- dren, as well as the especially unlooked-for provi- depce of God in having given me in m ﬁfth decen- niuin, a companion for life, whom ly feel myself bound publicly to acknowledge as a model of faith- ful and tender attachment. My true, sincere and last thanks to all who have solved the state and me with judgment and ﬁdelity. My true, sincere and last thanks to all who were devoted to me with affection, ﬁdelity, and by their personal attachment. I forgive all my enemies; even those who, by mali- cious language and writings, or by deliberate misre- presentations, liave endeavoured to deprive me of the conﬁdence of my people, which is my greatest treasure, but, God be thanked, very seldom with success. FREDERICK WILLIAM.

Berlin, lst Dec., 1837.

On you, my dear Frederick, the burden of the Government now comes, with the whole weight of its res onsibility. By the position in which Ihave now p ced you in respect to this charge, you are better prepared for it than many other successors to thrones. It is now your part to fulﬁl my just hopes and the expectation of the country—at least to en- deavour to do so. Your principles and feelings are

, a security to me that you will be a father to your subjects.

Beware, however, of the love of innovation, now so general; beware of impracticable theories, so many of which are now in vogue; but at the same tithe, beware of an almost equally fatal, obstinate

7‘ predilection for What is old; for it is only by avoid- "tingtfhese two schools that really useful changes pr0< cee . ,

The array is now in a remarkably good condition; since‘its reorganization It has fulﬁlled my expecta- tions; as inwar, so also in peace. May it never lose sight of its high destination: but may the coun- try likewise‘never forget what it owes to it. '

_ ’ Th‘e'Qdee'n Louisa is meant, but no substantive is men- _ noncdiatl‘ipﬁej-piaii. The adjective being in the feminine, {6" (aﬁcientl Mont who is meant,

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Do not ne lect to provide for, as far as hes in your power-,8 concord amon all .the European powers; but, above all, may Russia an Austria never ' separate from each other. t union, is to be regarded as the keystone of the great

uro can Alliance. .

E Mypdearly-beloved children all give me reason to expect that they will distinguish themselves by a use— ful, active, moral, pure and godly life; for that alone can bring down blessings; and in my last hours this shall give me comfort.

May God guard and protect my dear country. May God guard and protect our homes, new and for ever. May he bless you, my dear son, and‘your government: may he grant you strength and judg- ment to carry it on, and give you conscientious counsellors and servants, and loyal subjects. Amen .

FREDERICK WILLIAM.

Berlin, lst December, 1837.

SPAIN.

The civil contest, which now for- several cars has been waging in Spain, has rarely presente . any feature of interest to the English reader. Obstinate battles, without any visible result, partisan warfare, undigniﬁed by anything beyond animal courage, ruined towns, desolated provmces, cold blooded

just rights.

murders, have, in endless and sickeniiior succession, ﬁlled the scroll of Spanish history. 0 more san- guinary page was ever opened to the disgust and abhorrence Of civilised men. Never had war less of dignity, or a political struggle less of the thehng of universality in its interest. _ ~

It is, therefore, with much gratiﬁcation we learn that, to all human appearance, the struggle now draws fast to a close. In the course of the. last autumn, we communicated the termination of hos- tilities in the Basque, or north-west provinces of Spain, through negociations with the partisan gene- ral, Maroto, and concession of the fueros or local privileges. Espartero has steadily pursued the advantage thus gained; and though much of INS success is, doubtless, owing to the entire exhaustion of the resources, of the insurgent districts, and the general weariness of the inhabitants, of the great sacriﬁces and exertions called for b such a contest, much credit is undoubtedly due to t is general. By a combined plan of operations, and successful sieges of the powerful,strongholds of the Carlists,he has gradually eooped up the insurgents iii-die mountain fastnesses to the north-east, until ‘ ofthe two corps Opposed to him, that of Balmace'da, has been nearly destroyed, and its remnants, with their gene- ral, pushed over the French frontier; and that of Cabrera is reduced to a condition which; no‘doubt is entertained, will compel a similar retreat or surJ render. Nothing would appear to stand in libray 0f the complete paciﬁcation of Spain, ati .. ong with the restoration of her credit, a reduction of taxation, a reform of her commercial 5 'stem, and general re-opening of the resources 0 that ﬁne country, wasted by the desolations of war, ﬁnd the abstraction of labour and capital for military pur- poses. The turbulence and ignorance of her popu- lation, the imbecility of her government, the un- settled notions of the lower classes, and the servility, corruption, and bad faith of the higher, will, we fear, make it many years, before Spain resumes her rank among the nations, and it is very possible new revo- lutions and new wars are yet in store for her.

CIRCASSIA.--A(1Vlces from Odessa, state posi- tively that Russia had landed 30,000 fresh troops on the Circassian coast. These troops were shortly to be reinforced by another swarm of Cossacks, who were ready to embark, burnin tofieuenge upon the gallant mountaineers the destruction of their companions in arms.

POINTS or RESEMBLANCE AND or DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, POLITICALLY AND MORALLr.—The late attempt to assassinate our young Queen has caused much sensation here, and has provoked observations which I am afraid are not altogether devoid of justice. The French journalists remark that Oxford is only another Fieschi or Ali- baud, that England and France are both precisely in the same moral state, that in both countries an obscure inquietude, and an obscure disquietude, and an obscure passion for progress, fanaticises' men into crime ;and many of these writers expressly de- clare that the governments, or rather the entire so- cial systems 0 the two kingdoms, are in fault, much more than the unhappy victims,

who are urged into madness by oppressive laws,

and by a denial of their The Courier Francois attributes the disturbed state of England, Chartism, Socialism, &.c., to the Corn Laws, and to the existence of our aristocracy, and evidently rejoices that the attempted assassination, which it says has hence resulted, runs quite parallel with the frequent attentats of which Louis Philip has been the object. On this score, adds the editor, the English papers will no longer be able to reproach the French character, or to boast of the superior morality of the British populace. Now, it must be confessed that these remarks are partly just. There is a very strong resemblance be- tween the facts alluded to, which have happened on both sides of the Channel. The diseased mind which has armed the assassins against their Sover- eigns, has been in England and here of the same sort, and the same false and detestable reasonings, of which I have given a sample, have prompted the unhappy wretches in each instance to their crime. But a resemblance between the cases still more stri— king, still more shocking, so base, hateful, wicked, so indicative of an utter perversion Of all the senti- ments that give rectitude to man, so demonstrative of that worst climax of moral depravity when it lives upon morbid excitements, that may be called the unnatural vices of a debauched exhausted intel- lect, so revoltingly un-English, that I can scarce believe it to be true, remains yet to be noticed. You may recollect that previous to the execution of Ali- baud, several French persons and some ladies, beg- ged to be_ given a lock of his hair, that they might preserve it as a token of the interest they took in his fate. ¥ou may recollect also, that many admirers of Pepin and Fieschi, made pilgrimages . to the graves of those martyrs, to strew them with ﬂowers. Well, I learn by the English newspaper; that alock of Oxford’s hair, cut off by the surgeon, was de- manded by many applicants, to whom the surgeon replied, that he had already distributed it among his most wealthy patients. Can this story be true ? The French journals dwell upon the fact, as proving how thoroughly the popular mind of the two nations are in accordance. Irtrust that in this last particular they Will ﬁnd themselves mistaken, that this hideous disgustful fact will be contradicted and dis roved; but whether it be so or not, this "may be admitted, that the French spirit has to a certain extent invad- ed us, and produced a few traits of character com- mon to both countries. Still the difference between England and France, even with reference to those events. in which they most nearly resemble each otherris immense. Take the present example. The life of our Queen has been attempted, and our whole

population is ther excited to e ress towards her the most ardent and, enmuﬁuticgtwhmem Our r all

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‘ ‘th sending ommons not contented Wi_ I . if)“: Arddrgss of sympathy on the occasion of hei er round her, as it were in a bodtyélt]: ' ' ‘ cordials cutaneous emo i ve utterance “.5333 of party is Sileﬂl‘lt in the gig: ama ' . Our churches 0 er up so lfliliainltcscglivingtdfllind from one end of ﬁe kintgadogg- at; ' a realunmistaka eagi i . 'thdimliiiioiiledﬁdlsof joy at the execrable act audits and: But at the several times when Louis Philip has been ﬁred at, was anything like this feeling ma- nifested here? No. The deed has been of course

reprobated ; an ofﬁcial Address to the King has been

of loyalty. The

'voted, but the country has been unmoved; the press

extenuated the crime by all sorts of SOplllStll'lleS,l()3all- ing it a political offence, the moment as invariably seized on to declaim against the 11101131: 1, and to insist on revolutionary doctrines. n. iite , the French spirit, crude and green in its novicia er, under Socialist and Chartist forms, does exist argon:1 us, but it is not predominant; itis countervaile lanl

kept down by the English spirit of freedom, W 110 i owns no alliance with the foreign intruder; wheieas here that temper, which is but_ partially e1 upltive with us, is universal. Our Chartists and Some ists may ﬁnd a few individuals in the House of Commons who, disowniiig their cause, Will advocate then pif'in- ciples. Every French insurgent Will ﬁnd, not a elw strongly distinguishable from the rest, but the who e body- Of his countrymen, In_ Parliament and out, to act the same part towards hiin._ .A Frenchman can speak no language but that of his great revolution without renouncing his whole theory of own free- dom. We are not obliged to speak the same lan- gua e in defence of our civil liberty, which is differ- ent in its orivin, different in its history, different 11] its naturetota 1y ﬁ'om theirs. ‘ The distinction, then,- between the political mind of the two countries is enormous, despite the superﬁcial resemblances which Frenchmen delight to pomt out as manifest- ing- the progress of their own democrative Views.— Correspondent of the Record.

’ The old Earl of Ducia, father of the Member for East Gloucestershire and the Countess of Denbigh, died on the 22d June. He succeeded his father, the third Baron, on the 20th August, 1808. The family is of Indian extraction. Sir Robert Ducia, banker. and Lord Mayor of London in 1631, was the ﬁrst of the fainin of any distinction in this country. He was banker to Charles the First ; by whom he lost during the Civil Wars £80,000, yet at his death had realized the enormous sum, in those days, Of £400,- 000.

y We have been favoured wi 11 a sight of one of the new stamp~covers, and we 1 ust say we never be- held anything inore ludicrous than the ﬁgures or allegorical device by which it is marked with its ofﬁcial character—why not add embellished! Cruikshank could scarce produce anything so laugh- able. It is apparently a spirited attempt to imitate the hieroglyphic which formed one of the ornaments to Moore’s ﬂlmamwk; Britannia is seated in the cen- tre, with the lion couchant (Whigish) at her feet; her arms are distended, scattering little children to some elephants on the left; and on the right to a group of gentlemen, some ofwhom at all events are not enclosed in envelopes, writing on their knees, evidently on account of a paucity of tables. There are, besides, sundry ﬁgures, who, if they were to appear in the streets of London or any of our high- ways would be liable to the penalties of the vagrant act for indecent exposure. \ Under the table land by Which these ﬁgures are supported, some evidence of a laudable curiosity is depicted by three or four ladies who are represented reading a billet-doux o'l‘ valentine, and some little boys evidently learning to spell, by the mental exertion which their anxious faces disclose. One serious omission We must notice. Why have those Mercuries in red jackets, who traverse London and its environs on lame ponies, been omitted? We must admit that, as they have been recently better mounted, perhaps that is one reason why they should not appear in this Government picture—Times.

A return to an order of the House of Commons giyes some particulars respecting spirits. From this document it appears that the total quantity of spirits distilled in England during the year ending the 5th of January, 1840, was 5,685,698 gallons; ill Scotland, 9,871,652 gallons; and in Ireland, 10,254,- 591 gallons; making a grand total of 25,811,941 gallons. _ Of English distilled spirits 8,186,552 gal- lons paid a duty of 7s. 6d. per gallon for home consumption, making 3,069,955”. 01' Scotch distilled spirits 6,188,582 gallons, paid a duty of 3s. 4d. per gallon for home consumption, making £1,031,430 65.. 8d,; of Irish distilled spirits, 10,815,709 gallons paid a duty of 2s. 4d. per gallon for home consump- tion, making £1,261,832 14s. 4d., and a grand total for the United Kingdom of £5,363,220 Is. The total amount Of duty upon spirits imported into the United ngdom was £107,945 12s. The total num- ber of proof gallons of spirits that paid duty in the United King om was 29,223,748 gallons, and the net amount of duty Was £7,978,652. Of this quan- tity there were 2,830,263 gallons of rum, 1,167,756 gallons of brandy, 18,640 gallons of Geneva, and 8,758 gallons of other foreign spirits, besides 25,- 190,843 gallons of the manufacture of the United Kingdom, and 7,488 gallons of the manufacture of Guernsey and Jersey.

To give anything like a correct picture of the de- pressed state of trade in Birmingham, and its conse- quences, would be no easy matter ; a few facts may give some idea. The oldest, most extensive, and respectable merchants, manufacturers, and traders, concur in representing the present depression as un- precedented in their experience. Ten thousand ap- plications, by working ~men and women, for free passages to Australia, have been made, and refused, within the last two months, at one emigration-ofﬁce in the 'town._ Between twenty and thirty good hou- ses and retail-shops are untenanted in three of the principal streets, and thousands of middle and small rented houses are unoccupied in every part of the borough. I The Walls are literally covered daily with auction-bills, and a purchaser can hardly be found for either leasehold or freehold property. The bro- kers shops are crammed with goods purchased at half the cost-price. The pawnbrokers, beino' com- pletely stocked, refuse any except what are lferiiried best pledges. Thousands of mechanics are living on half-wages, thousands on quarter-wages and numbers of creatures are sustained by means known l(inly to the Almighty himsele Upwards of three Kindred a plications were made to the Gloucester

' ilway ompany, for situations as guards, &e Within the last month. The poor-rate is doubled: . .nuinbers are leaving their houses to escape pa - mg it. All is gloomy, and no one can see a pros slit of improvement—Erminng Journal. p GENUINE ELoQUENcn.—One man whom I shw

sitting on the ground, leaning his back against the a degree of squalor

attracted my attention by

appearance, which I had rarel befo Even in Ireland. His clothes we¥e rag1:eciibstlbwiief3 ecency—a very common circumstance, however,

with the males—and his thee was pale and sickly.

He did not address me, and I passed by; i: one a few paces, my heart smote mg.“ geek. “ If you are in want,” and I, with gree of peevishness, “why do you . “Sure it’s begginglam,” was the :9 did not uttera word.” “No! Is it_ n i, with me, Sir?" Lock there !” holding . tered remnant of what. had once been t .. you see how the skin is speaking holes of my trousers? and the bones through my skin ? Look at my sunken e . the famine that’s staring in my 6 es! I“ isn’t it be ging I am With a bun dt x . Leitch Rite 112’: Ireland.

PHYSIOLOGICAL PnENonENpN—Thec.” I, mas Bradley, of Deighton, still continues to much attention. We have received the jib particulars from an individual who has I v place and made inquiry into the circum i also respecting the preVIous habits of th or :-——Thomas Bradley is the son of John and . Bradley, of Deighton, near Huddersﬁeld, born on the 4th November, 1817, and m quently 22 years of age last birth day. A ﬁve feet ten inches high, weighed about , stones, and was particularly straight and FrOm his birth till he was fifteenyean‘fof was not subject to any serious disease, ' of the family were ever subject to ﬁts, _ his sixteenth year he fell into a sleep H, tinued nine weeks. In the same year 1" relapsed into a sleep which_continued‘z intermission forty weeks. During this lo lie was greatly emaciated, and a consrden , ‘ of time elapsed before he was able to smack . ‘ he, however, gradualiiy recovered, ' strength, and continue in good he latter end of August of last year, wa more than usually drowsy, with less”. 011 Friday, the 30th of that menth, Whil A in the afternoon, he again sunk into sleep,” ‘ he has ever since remained, being a period ' = two weeks last Friday. His parents, ' the instructions of Mr. Lockwood, of and of Mr. Jones, Of Brighouse, the sur have attended him, have been enabled to in a better condition than on the previous His position in bed is altered three times a: V. linen is repeatedly changed, and nourishinen _ larly administered. The nourishment he a“, consists chieﬂy ofbeef-tea, given in minute . . i ’ which, on reaching the top of the gullet, is : »- lowed down by a convulsive effort. By this i... j V he receives sufﬁcient sustenance for the state in.—-—-Brad_/brd Observer. » *

RECORD or ROYALTY.———A London paper lislied in 1810, contains the following singular illustrating the dangers Of Royalty :-— V . V

“ It appears that ofthe ﬁfteen monarchs of' E ' who were tranquilly seated on their. thrones in year 1788, George the Third, of England, al possesses the kineg power. The sum ofthis n - ' choly record of Royalty stands thus :—

One murdered, One assassinated, Five deposed, One abdicated, I . One expatriated, One died a lunatic, Two poisoned, One natural death, One sudden death, One still reigning.”

Well may it be said with the poet— . “ Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” ‘

THE PATRIARCHAL THORN AT DUDDINGTO This truly venerable relic of the olden time, blown down in ahurricane on the 25th ult., as

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nierly mentioned. From inquiries, which 1 s time ago pushed in various quarters, I was one to establish the existence of this tree'in the time . our ill-used Queen of beauteous memory, (A. 1 1543 ;) but an antiquarian gentleman and fa . ‘ artist, resident in the neighbourhood, has, I belie ascertained that the Duddington Thorn existed as far back as the reign of Alexander the Fierce, (1107)- when it was one oftbe land marks on which it [,7 and now belongs to the Marquis of Abercorn. h is mentioned, I have been told, in the title dads of the property; and hence the desire on the of his Lordship’s doers, to preserve a precise lino I ledge of the spot on which it stood. The trunk? the deceased them was about nine feet in circullr t'erence, and the principal part of the woodbl been removed to Mr. Thomson’s weed-yard int!» neighbourhood, for the purpose of being mnd‘e’lﬁ-l into various fancy articles, furniture, rustic chili", deer—Correspondent of the Edinburgh Observer. ‘

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NEW BRUNSWICK. .1 ST. JOHN, July 22. ARRIVAL or THE GOVERNOR GENERAL.-—Ithiiv , ing been unanimously determined by all classes'of" our citizens to give his Excellency the Right - C. Poulett Thomson, a hearty Welcome into the Province, and a reception justly due to his rank and ,- staiiding as Governor General of British North v America, all past political feelings were buried: -* beneath such a determination, and, for the last two " days, a diversity of means have been devised to that (i effect—so that his landing among us this day We!» one of the most splendid displays that we have ,4 ever witnessed before in this city. He landed from ‘3 the steamer Nova Scotia, from Windsor, 5“ hump“: f 3 tea o’clock—accompanied by his suite, viz: '- i Major IIall, principal A. D. C. and Military Secro‘ tary. Captain Le Marchant, 7th Dr oon Guards, ., and Capt. Campbell, 7th Hussars,,A. . C. T. W. : C. Murdoch, qu., chief Secretary. W. R. Gray, Esq. Private Secretary, and his Excellency .SirJohn ' Harvey. . - The streets presented a crowded mass‘ofindi- viduals from the landing place to the Hotel—'whilo 0 every nook and corner that could command a sight of his Excellency was ﬁlled by all classes of :7 both sexes. We have not the time, to-day, to I give full particulars of this extraordinary arrival; ' but merely to give a programme of the different " processions, which certainly offered a very imposing appearance. The troops in garrison, and several of~ our militia dress companies, appeared to a great ads 7 vantage, and, amid the variety of the scene, produced" . an excellent effect. A portion of the New-Brunsn » Wick Regiment of Artillei were stationed on King’s 7 Square, and gave a ene salute as His Excellency ' entered the Court case. We regret much that his . stay here will be so limited, as we learn it is his in~ : tention to leave for Fredericton to-morrow morning, and return here on Saturday—proceeding to Halifax , on that day—there to take passage in one of Her ; Majesty’s ships for Quebec. “ A Triumphal Arch was erected between the New 3 Market-House and the Coffee-House comer, (18001?“ "V ted with evergreens, ﬂags, and a Crown on the to]; over which ﬂoated a ﬂag with the Crpwn inscribﬁ thereon, and presented a Very ﬁne 313me m materials and work were the gratuitous of the- Corporation and the Association Of HOUSE Carpen- ters, and was superintended by several of our moot, , able constructors and architects. ’ ‘ , ' His Excellency held a Levee at the Court-Home 3,

this mornin , when a number of presentations. :. place. Ad resses from the Body .j