O'er the weary bosom press "He is at rest!" attain'd that shore "We are in tears!" but soon, oh! soon THE MAID of fingal,* ("Or, angels watch o'er thee.") From the Metropolitan. A. C. ANGELS watch o'er thee, young daughter of strangers! Thy beautiful face seems to ask for a friend, And where is the man, that from insult or dangers, His life would not peril that form to defend? Thou art come from thy mountains, all guileless and simple, And woe to the spoiler that dreams of thy fall! Oh! long may that lip wear its joy-wreathing dimple, Young Rose of the mountain, sweet Maid of Fingal ! Angels watch o'er thee, young daughter of Cain! Thou hast wander'd away from thy wild cabinhome, Too bright in thy vision of beauty appearing, In this land of false glitter unfriended to roam. Oh! beware, lest the tongue of the tempter be tray thee, A spot on the lily shows darker than all; A queen might be proud of the chains that array thee, Young Rose of the mountains, sweet Maid of Fingal !t "The fair girls of Fingal" are mentioned by an old writer. The Fingalians were originally an English colony. Written to Hook's beautiful melody, "The Garland of Love," in the drama of Tekeli. MOONLIGHT ON THE SEA. From the Literary Gazette. LIKE a broad chain of glistening stars, the ray sea. As the bright and silvery ripples play Upon that burnish'd line, it seems to be What is it that we see Fades from their view, and yearning heart-tones speaking Of homes away.-Oh, traveller o'er the deep, As moonlight on the sea may God before thee keep! MISCELLANY. FREE CHURCH IN ENGLAND.-A "New Free Church in England" has just sprung up in Exeter. It is announced that it is an Episcopal establishment, which will, however, allow of no Bishop to interfere in its concerns. The Reverend S. Shore and the Reverend H. B. Bulteel, Church of England clergymen, are promoters of this new schism. Mr. Shore has had some disputes with the Bishop of Exeter, who wanted to prevent him from preaching in his church: this church was not firmly attached to the Establishment, and thus Mr. Shore easily foiled the Bishop: he had the church licensed as a Dissenting place of worship and himself as a Nonconformist preacher. These clergymen have issued an address in which they say "It has long been felt by very many who are attached to the doctrines of the Protestant Church, as well as to Episcopal order scrupulously administered, that for the preservation and increase of Evangelical religion, in these days of revived superstition and arrogant assumption, it is highly desirable to attempt the formation of an Episcopal Church, distinct from the Established Church, on a sufficiently comprehensive basis to effect the union of genuine believers in Christ, who may not object to Episcopal discipline, though otherwise differing in some unimportant poin's." [The assertion that no bishop is to interfere in this new Episcopal church is odd !]— Spectator. Queen Isabella the Second was to have been called upon, in conformity with the fundamental law of the monarchy, to begin to govern the kingdom; and on that day, resigning the Regency, he was to have descended to the quietude of domestic life. He declares that he never transgressed the laws, that he neglected nothing that tended to the welfare of the country, and that he was moved by nothing but the desire to deliver up to the Queen, on that day, a nation prosperous within and respected abroad; appealing to his tory and posterity for his vindication. He protested against the revolution which rose against him, not in the spirit of a war-cry, but because the dignity of the nation and the safety of the crown were invaded: the aim of his protest was, "to avoid the pernicious precedent of countenancing, in the name of the Throne, the destruction of the Throne itself." Though removed from his countrymen, the slightest complaint in the kingdom has found an echo in his breast; not a single victim has been bereft of his compassion. He concludes with what seems to betray the drift of this ostensibly bootless address "When circumstances may allow me to return to my beloved country, I, as one issued from the people, shall again dwell among the people; unmoved either by rancor or recollections, satisfied with the share which has fallen to my lot in securing public freedom, the enjoyment of its advantages will be iny only desire in my private station: but if the institutions recovered by the Spaniards should be endangered, the nation, to SPAIN. According to letters from Madrid, of whose call I have ever responded, shall find me the 3d instant, a Ministerial crisis rapidly ap-dence, however, in its inscrutable decrees, should ready to offer my life in her support. If Proviproached. Narvaez is alarmed at Queen Christina's ultra-religious tendencies, and, as a counterpoise, desires to liberalize his Cabinet. S. Mon, the Finance Minister, is at an issue with his col leagues; Narvaez would pay the army at the expense of every other department; others do not like Mon's honesty and thrift, which does not favor the speculations of Madrid money-dealers. The Cabinet, therefore, is expected shortly to break up, from internal dissension.-Spectator. LORD STANLEY'S ELEVATION TO THE PEERAGE. -The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for summoning the Right Honorable Geoffrey Smith Stanley (commonly called Lord Stanley) to the House of Peers, by the style and title of Baron Stanley, of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster." -Spectator. : AWKWARD AFFAIR.-An “awkward affair" has occurred at Mayence. The young Prince of Leiningen crossed the Rhine in a boat, the drawbridge being raised to allow some ships to pass the wife of the bridge-keeper demanded toll of the Prince; who refused to pay, as he had not used the bridge an altercation arose; the Prince raised his walking-stick, and struck the woman : the blow fell on her breast, and she fainted. She has prosecuted the Prince. His relatives have offered her large sums of money to forego the prosecution; but she persists in taking the law of her assailant-Spectator. ESPARTERO.-Espartero has issued an address to his countrymen, dated in London on the 10th instant. He reminds them, that, on that day doom me to die in exile, resigned to my fate, my last and most fervent prayers will be for the independence, the liberty, and the glory of my country."-Spectator. BLAIR ATHOL AND GLEN TILT.-What a change in a century! It is not quite a century ROYAL PHILANTHROPY.-A copy of a pamphlet, "On Cases of extreme Distress among the Humbler Classes" (noticed in the Lit. Gaz on its first appearance,) having been sent to the King of Prussia, the king has returned the author (Dr. John Lhotsky) a present of 100 francs as a mark of his approbation. The subject of pauperism, and its remedies, occupies a great share of the attention of the German governments and writers at the present moment; and the celebrated Bettina von Arnim is engaged in a work upon it. OCCUPATION OF Louis XVI.-M. F. Barriere | syrup of raspberries, of which he carries a small gives, in his usual graphic and graceful manner, bottle; and when he does procure food, a very in the Journal Des Debats, the following picture moderate quantity will suffice; but when it is of the occupations of the weak and ill-starred plentiful he eats enough for three days. This Louis XVI, on the very margin of that gulf into wonderful man carries with him only a map, which his empire was slipping, from beneath his a compass, and a Norwegian axe. He has feet. "Twenty years ago," says he, "I fancied already made some wonderful journeys, having my fortune was made. Such moderate and gone from Constantinople to Calcutta and back blameless fortune as a man desires, who is smitten in 59 days, for which the Sultan gave him 2,000 with the love of letters, and longs only for a la- dollars; and from Paris to St. Petersburgh in 13 borious leisure. I had learnt that the royal ar- days. He has certificates from the authorities at chives contained many manuscripts of Louis Calcutta and St. Peterburgh verifying these very XVI., and I obtained permission to inspect them. extraordinary facts. He is about 45 years of age, They were inclosed in an iron chest, itself con- and slightly made. He trusts for safety in perilnected with historic recollections, that encour- ous journeys to his speed.-Athenæum. aged my illusions. In this iron chest had been deposited the first hundred millions of assignats fabricated,-what treasures, then, did it not contain? First, they drew out a little red coffer of red morrocco, covered with fleur-de-lis, figured in small silver nails; then from the coffer were extracted some twenty paper books, written wholly, and very carefully, with the king's hand. And what did these recording pages contain? Day by day, the recital of the hunts which the monarch had attended, particularizing the points of attack, the packs engaged, and the number and quality of the game destroyed. I read them all-ah, fated chest! Behold, my historical treasures down, in a moment, like the assignats, to Zero!"-Athenæum. AN UNTAUGHT MECHANIC.-Our readers may remember a paragraph, in which we gave them some account of a remarkable work of untaught mechanic genius-a clock, with a variety of complicated movements, made by a poor French peasant, on mere report of the wonders of the famous clock of Strasburgh. As in too many other instances, this discovery of a hidden gift has been but a snare to its possessor. Abandoning spade and plough, the peasant Sieurac, took his clock-on the materials and labor of whose execution he had expended a small patrimony and all his earnings-to Paris; and cheered on by men of science and the press, hired a room for its exhibition to the public. But the clock was lost amid the exhibition of the capital. In vain RICHARD THE SECOND.-We read in the De- did the cock flap his wings at the quarters, and bats, "Acurious and interesting discovery in histo- the four Evangelists strike them on the bell; and rical antiquities has lately been made at Bordeaux. vainly did the whole body of the twelve Apostles Mr. W. Burke, of London, had, a short time ago, combine to proclaim the hour of noon-day-the occasion to visit on business the house of a Bor-time, of which they kept the reckoning, passed deaux merchant, No. 8, Rue des Bahutiers. Observing among other curiosities, several coats of arms emblazoned on the walls or wainscoatings, and believing the bearings to belong to an old English family, he made accurate drawings of them. Taking the copies with him to London, he consulted several persons well acquainted with LAUDABLE PATRONAGE.-We are gratified to ancient heraldry, and, after due research, it was hear that, on its being recently represented to ascertained bevond all doubt that they represent- Sir Robert Peel that Mr. Peach, a very meritori ed the arms of Richard II., and his family alli-ous officer in the coast-guard night-service, in ances; and as Richard II. was born and resided Cornwall, with a very large family and small pay, at Bordeaux, previous to his ascending the throne has for some years past, during the intervals of of England, Mr. Burke and his friends are con- his duty, made valuable researches in marine zoovinced that the house in question was the resi-ology, which he has communicated to meetings dence of that monarch's family, and that it was the place of his birth. Therefore the existence of the house is carried back by them to the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century, at which period the ancestors of Richard II. first resided at Aquitaine, then in session of the English, and some time before the reign of King Charles VI. of France."-Athen. pos THE NORWEGIAN RUNNER.-The readers of the Athenæum have already been introduced to the extraordinary traveller mentioned in the following account:-A wonder has lately arrived in India in the shape of a Norwegian runner, who is about to attempt the discovery of the source of the White Nile, on foot, and unattended. He expects to be absent from this only about four months, and he is to go in a direct line, crossing deserts, and swimming rivers. He runs a degree in twelve hours, and can go three days without food or water, by merely taking a sip or two of unprofitably away for the poor artist; and as we learn from the Journal Des Debats, the clock itself, without any regard to the sanctity of the personages, has been seized, to pay the rent of their lodging.-Athenæum. of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; and that he has also made collections in fossil conchology, which have been of much service to the ordnance geological survey of Cornwall; Lady Peel has been pleased to confer on Mrs. Peach a pension for her life, from a small and limited fund which long usage has placed under the control of the lady of the Prime Minister, in consideration of the scientific merits of her husband, and the testimony borne to his good character.-Lit. Gaz. an SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF CROMWELL.-An nouncement of a Life of Cromwell, in the name of the late Mr. Southey and Mrs. Southey, has, as it seems, given rise to a literary fracas. The son of the Laureate denounces the publication, and puts the worthy publisher (Mr. Murray) on his purgation as (strange to imagine possible?!) a vamper-up of an article in the Quarterly into a big book. Of course it must be felt that Mr. S. must be in error.-L.terary Gazette. SCIENCE AND ART. 11, Melina Place, St. John's Wood. METEOROLOGY.-Having, after the labor and study of several months, succeeded in the construction of a meteorological instrument, designed for keeping an accurate register of the total force of wind, which passes over any station in a given time, such as twenty-four hours, as well as not. ing the direction, I thought a slight description of its object and nature might be interesting to your meteorological readers. The object sought in the valuable and ingenious anemometer of Mr. Osler, of Birmingham, as is well known, is a complete picture of the force and direction of the wind for each day; noting the time to a minute or two of every change in the force and direction of the aerial currents; and for this purpose it is the most perfect and elegant instrument ever placed in the hands of the meteorologist. The instrument of mine however is intended to show the collective velocity of the wind, or rather the number of miles of air which passes the vane during the twenty-four hours, as well as the respective directions. By this means, simply by reading off the daily results, without calculation, and laying them down on a map of the country, we are informed of the distance and extent to which a wind penetrates into the interior of a large country, thereby giving strictly predictive results; at the same time giving every facility to the investigation of the causes which stop the progress of a wind, or change its direction, in the interior of the country, as well as of finding numerically the effect of a given surface of air expanded by the rays of the sun. It is easy to see that to procure similar data from the daily sheets of Osler's anemometer would require a very laborious calculation. But it is needless to enlarge on the application and uses of such an instrument, as scientific men must perceive that the whole fabric of meteorology is involved in the direction and force of the winds and clouds, as in the resolution of one vast problem, from which we must be content to evolve the terms, one by one, by dint of accurate and extensive observation, before we can hope or expect to discover the great laws which govern the movements of the atmosphere. Meteorology is at present like astronomy before the time of the immortal Newton, in one inexplicable labyrinth and confusion. We dare not take a single step in the way of predicting, before observation almost invariably contradicts us, and throws us back discouraged and mortified; and we cannot reasonably entertain any hopes of the future progress of the science without we take the same means, and pursue the same road, viz., by extensive observation of those terms of our problem most largely involved; and for this purpose we must be careful to use such intruments as are most suited to the task. I have taken great care to render my contrivance free from errors of malconstruction and friction. How far I have succeeded remains to be proved by observation. I will now give a description of it, hoping that your readers will suggest such improvements as may occur to them. The vane is double, similar to that of Mr. Osler's. It is fixed to, and therefore turns with, the perpendicular rod, which pierces the ceiling, reaching within a few feet of the ground, resting on the end or top of a cylinder of wood, round the circumference of which are placed, level with the top, a series of thirty-two glass cylindrical tubes of equal bore, the intercesses being filled up neatly with putty or cement. Each tube represents a point of the compass; and they are intended to hold a colored fluid, and are therefore sealed over at bottom, similar in fact to test tubes, only considerably larger; they are gradua ted so as to idicate the height of the fluid within them, which height depends directly on the miles of wind which has passed the vane in the twenty four hours. Above the circle of tubes in the apparatus which deposits the liquid into them, there is a contrivance affixed to the pressure plate, by means of which the fluid is deposited at a variable rate, but always depending on the force on the pressure plate at the moment. Thus, if, for instance, a drop per minute would show a velocity of two miles an hour, fifty drops a minute, fifty miles an hour, and so on; and as the tubes collect the daily deposit, therefore, by simply reading off the daily elevation of the fluid, and noting the respective tube or tubes in which it is found, we have at once the number of miles of air which has passed the station, as well as the direction. To describe the apparatus by which the quantity of fluid is regulated, so as to flow in proportion to the wind's velocity, would require a diagram; but the general character is sufficiently obvious to give the meteorologist a good idea of it. Mr. Osler's clock is superseded by a clepsudra arrangement, and the spiral for the pressure plate is replaced by the natural spring of water, which is far superior to any artificial spring J. T. GODDARD, I remain, &c. Late Assistant in Lord Wrothesly's Observatory.-Athenæum. SYRO-EGYPTIAN SOCIETY.-A society has lately been established in London, called the SyroEgyptian Society, for the purpose of collecting and supplying information on all matters which can interest persons who travel in the East, and whose attention may be specially and systematically directed to objects of antiquity and historical importance. Hitherto, from the want of cooperation and system, but little has been done to promote our acquaintance with Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, and the countries adjacent, although numerous European travellers continually visit them. They not unfrequently pass by the most interesting localities from want of proper instructions: many of them are able and willing to add to the stock of information already before the public but though most people who travel in these lands write letters to their friends, detailing their observations, few think their notes and memoranda of sufficient importance to communicate them to the public, and others will not incur the expense: yet the information they contain is often valuable; and if communicated to persons who are able to appreciate it, would enable others following in their track, to profit by their experience, and not only to avoid dangers and difficulties, and (it may be) an unnecessary outlay, but to economize their time and resources, visit other localities, and institute new inquiries in districts imperfectly known, or perhaps never explored. Many inscriptions which are already before the public, might thus be compared with the originals, their accuracy be confirmed, or their errors corrected; whilst others of which nothing is known, might be copied and in the hands of a society, like that which has now been established, be given to the world. How much more then should we have known of these countries, their antiquities, and natural history, had any system been adopted, say, only ten years ago, by which the experience of those who had trodden the same ground, or only a small part of it, could have been more available! By the establishing at home and abroad of competent agents to collect, record, and diffuse through the medium of a society, authenticated facts which are essential to the inquirer into subjects connected with the present or past condition of any part of this interesting portion of the globe, our knowledge of them may be advanced at a very rapid rate, and arrangements may be made for affording protection to, and diminishing the expenses of, travellers who place themselves in communication with the society's correspondents; so that persons of comparatively small means may visit the scenes of those events which are of interest to all. Some agents have been already appointed; and the publications of the society will be open to original contributions on the present and past condition, antiquities, institutions, &c., of the East, so that benceforth the biblical student, the antiquarian, the philologist, the historian, and others who take pleasure in oriental researches, or in watching the important changes which are now going on, will have an opportunity of imparting the result of their observations to persons who are capable of appreciating their labors, and of turning them to some practical good. The society have already two works in the press, and are preparing a catalogue of ancient manuscripts, inscriptions, books and maps. Several donations have been received, and papers which will be submitted to the members. We perceive by the prospectus, that there are to be lectures and conversazioni, to which ladies will be admitted.— Athenæum. SUNFLOWER COMPANY.-It is a fact, that a company is actually being organized for promot ing the cultivation of sunflowers to supersede bread-corn, flax, and other vegetable products hitherto held to be essential to the wants of man. Mary-gold, china-aster, chrysanthemum, and Jerusalem-artichoke companies may also be expected to issue their prospectuses immediately. It is suggested that the poet Moore should be at the head of the sunflowerists, and his verse on that turning plant their epigraph. "As the sun-flower turns to her God when he sets, The same look which she turn'd when he rose. CARDINAL RICHELIEU'S LETTERS.-From Paris we learn that the Minister of Public Instruction has determined on including a collection of the letters of Cardinal Richelieu in the grand collection of the hitherto unpublished Monuments of the History of France, preparing under his direction; and has intrusted the task to M Avenel, putting at his disposal all the public archives for the purpose. We find, in a list given, as that of the persons about to be included in a new creation of peers, by the King of the French, the name of Victor Hugo.-From the same capital, we learn that the naturalist, M. Delgorgue, reported to have been killed by the natives in Southern Africa, had after great dangers and hardships in penetrating where European foot had never before trod, returned safe to the Cape; which he had already quitted for France, by way of London, bringing with him a large harvest of objects of natural history, of great rarity and value.— Athenæum. |