I languish for his aid! my climates fail, O'erwhelmed beneath my woes, I sink, I die, To grow from Chaos into life through Pain ! And hushed, as when on Ocean's breast THE DISCOURSE OF THE SUN. Forth from the blaze of the Eternal Throne To Being's utmost glimmering verge are thrown, Finding in virtue of attractive might. The Highest to the lowliest thus descends, And the extremes of Being's wondrous regions blends. To reach again the Fount whose wondrous flow In GoD all things are one; Essential Life, Calls into being. Know that to Create That on the growth of nascent forms doth wait, (Hidden in those, yet active,) 'gins display More of its light, in human forms enshrined, All things are born; and thus the Vital Ray New wealth of wisdom, beauty, joy, the while (Product of Ignorance.) and grief, and fear, Of Wisdom, Love, and Use, not yet revealed, Pain, sternest guide! the groping seeker draws 'Neath Order's law (sole freedom!) to be healed; Order sublime, with which the Central Cause, As with a signet, all His worlds hath sealed; Order, the law of Love, which yet shall reign Supreme, absorbing and trausforming Wrong and Pain. Then let the mourning Earth rejoice! The Race, Shall to the day of radiant Order grow; Beneath the waves of Joy's perennial flow, For Man, the lowest ring in Reason's chain Must bind, high task! its severed links to Heaven again! When, like its Source, in one all life coheres, While Being's glorious hosts, through ceaseless years, And the glad Universe, in high acclaim The effluent fullness of the Eternal ONE proclaim! While thus the golden Sun made answer high Hung with prophetic brilliance; and the rare Garlanded o'er with fragrant melody, Whose blooming wreaths the grateful orbs prolong, Raising in chorus their rejoicing song; While from cerulean realms where Systems lie The silvery echoes of their wide refrain. CHANT OF THE PLANETS TO THE ETERNAL.-CHORUS OF THE UNIVERSE. Father of all! With joy thy children stand To bless the bounty of thy Parent-hand, And on thy name with loving reverence call. (Chorus.) From farthest realms of light Our grateful strains their choral tide unite, And at thy Universal Throne in adoration fall! Great Worker! we Rejoice thy plans to share, In thy wide labors our high part to bear; Thy Ministers, OMNIPOTENT! to be. (Chorus.) Thus all the realms of light O God! with thee in sympathy unite, And in a holy and ennobling friendship work with THEE! We glory in the might Of thine own uncreated Light, Whose living rays thy sacred brow entwine! (Chorus.) Higher, and ever higher We soar on tireless wing, all-glorious Sire! (Chorus.) To thee we ever tend, Seeking with thee, O Central Life, to blend! Almighty Love, Creation's source, all beings Thee confess! As mountain-summits, bold and high, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL RECORD. THIS dull period of the year has been rendered even more than usually quiet, in a commercial way, through the great interest which was excited by the closing scenes of a Congress called upon to change radically the commercial policy of the government; or rather to abandon those anti-commercial restrictions which have been, by erroneous theory, engrafted upon the action of the federal government. Restrictions upon commerce, protection to manufacturing industry, at the expence of all other, and the use of paper money, were remains of the monarchial connections of the colonies; the evil tendency and general inutility of which were less readily recognised by the public at large, than the direct oppressions of an avowed aristocracy. So slow have the citizens of the United States been to resist this species of governmental usurpation, that even the people of England have outstripped them in the emancipation of commerce and general industry from hurtful special privileges, and in curbing the issues of paper money by existing corporations. The United States have at last abandoned the false theory of protection; and have pass ed a law which recognises taxation only for its legitimate object of supplying the actual wants of the government. They have also officially discarded and discounteuanced the use of bank paper as a currency. These radical changes are now likely to be permanent; but the uncertainty in which they remained, up to the close of the session, served to keep the commercial world in suspense. Their passage, and the final settlement of the policy of the government, has imparted a feeling of relief to the mercantile mind; and, as it were, a decision to which it has long been a stranger. As far as the incidental protection afforded by the necessary revenue tax goes, the manufacturing interest appears to be fully satisfied. There have been attempts, however, by political partisans, to create a panic, but without effect. The new law, accompanied by the warehouse bill, and the independent treasury, are so palpably beneficial to the great interests of the whole country, that however much party rancour may stimulate expressions of disappointment from partisans, the industrious and intelligent of all parties look forward with confidence to a renewed season of prosperity. The laws which have been passed are but responses to the liberal measures of England, with whom our greatest trade is transacted. That country, in the thirty years that have elapsed since the war, has been in a state of transition from an almost strictly prohibitive to a free-trade policy; scarcely a year has elapsed without some important modification of her commercial policy. Taxes, and restrictions upon articles of import from the United States, have followed each other with rapidity in the last few years; and liberal opinions are still making progress, as far as the United States are concerned. The next great reform of the English laws will be the modification of the tobacco duties. Nearly all the tobacco consumed in Great Britain is imported from the United States. Neither her colonies, nor the mother islands, raise any of the article. There has, therefore, been no motive to impose a tax for any other purpose than revenue. The necessities of the government have, however, always been such as to require the greatest amount that they can raise; and often their ability has not been equal to their wants. Tobacco 1846.] revenue. Financial and Commercial Record. is, of all articles, one that will bear a heavy cents. adulteration of the article as manufactured EXPORT OF TOBACCO FROM THE UNITED STATES, FROM 1821 TO 1845, INCLUSIVE. Al Value per 1821, $5,798,045.. $149,083.. 66,858.. $5,648,962.. $84 49 1822. 6,380,020. 157,182. 83,169. 6,222,832. 74 82 1823, 6,437,627.. 154,955. 99,609.. 6,282,272. 63 46 1824, 5,059,355... 203,789. 77,883.. 4,855,566. 62 34 1825,. 6,287,976. 172,353. 75,984. 6,115,623.. 80 48 1826, 5,557,342.. 210,134.... 64,098.. 5,347,208.. 83 42 1827,. 6,816,147.. 239,024. 100,025.. 6,577,123. 65 75 Average 7 years... $6,084,073 1828,. 5.480,707...... $210,747.... 96,278.... 18 29,. 5,185 370.. ... 202,306. 77,131.. 4,982,974.. 64 60 1830, 5,833,112.. 246,747. 83,810.... 5,586,365. 66 65 1831, 5,184,863. 292,475.. 86,718.. 4,892,388.. 56 40 1832,. 6,295,540.. 295,771...... 106,806.. 5,999,769. 56 18 1833, 6,043,941... 288.973.... 83,153.. 5,755,968.. 69 29 1834,. 6,923,714. 328,409.. 87,979... 6,595,305.. 74 96 Average 7 years... $5,849,749 1835,. $8,608,188. 1836, 10,494,104.. 435,464.. 109,442. 10,058,640.. 91 54 1837, 1838, 6,223,483. ... 427,836.. 100,232. 5,795,647.. 57 82 577,420...... 100,593.. 7,392,029. 73 48 1839, 10,449,155. 616,212. 78,995.... 9,832,943. 124 47 1840, 10,697,628. 813,671.... 119,484... 9,883,957.. 81 05 1841, 13,450,580.... 873,877...... 147,828. 12,576,703.. 1842,.. 1843, 1844,. $10,066,245... $9,540,755.... $60 11 4,929,298. 278,319. 94,454.. 4,650,979. 49 23 163,042... 8,397,255...... 51 50 50 75 1845,. 8,933,855. 536.600. 538,498...... 147,168...... This period of 21 years is divided very nearly into the operation of three distinct tariffs. Those prior to 1828 were high. The onerous tariff of that year was modified by the compromise act of 1832. The first reductions under that tariff took place in 1834, and continued biennially, until they ceased in 1842, at the general level of 7,469,819.... It is a remarkable 20 per cent.; at that time the tariff of August, 1841, took effect, followed by the high tariff of 1842. to 1834 evinced high prosperity and abun circumstance, that although the years 1828 dance of money, both in England and the United States, they were marked by a lower average price for tobacco than |