MISCELLANEA. Gu exter hora in kven £ 496, jodi EXPERIENCE AND FORESIGHT. — « Experience," says Coleridge, is like the stern-lantern of a ship, which only shows the dangers we have passed; but surely this light may be so thrown forward by reflection as to guard us against the perils that are coming. We can read what is to be We can read what is to be by perusing the book of what has been. Leibnitz tells us that that le présent est gros de l'avenir, and we may fairly conclude that the unborn child will bear the same resemblance to its parent, that an echo, as yet unheard, will bear to the sound by which it was produced. We may question Campbell's, averment that coming events cast their shadows before but there can be little doubt that past occurences cast a gleam behind them, reverting enough to give us glimpses of those that are following them... THE STORY OF THE EGG COLUMBUS ANTICIPATED!Vasari relates an anecdote of Brunalleschi, similar to that recorded of Columbus, though this has unquestionably the merit of being the first, since it occured before the birth of Columbus. (Brunaleschi died in 1446, Columbus was born in, 1442.) A council Jumbus was bor of the most learned men of the day, and from various parts of the world, was summoned to consult, and show plans for the erection of a cupola like that of the Pantheon at Rome!! Brunaleschi refused to show his model, it being upon the most simple principles, but proposed that the man who should make an egg stand upright on a marble base should be the architect The foreigners and artists agreeing to this, but failing in their attempts, desired Brunaleschi to do it himself, upon which he took the egg, and with a gentle tap broke the end, and placed it on the slab. The learned men unanimously protested that any one else could do the same; to which the architect replied with a smile, that had they seen his model they could as VOL. II. 77 easily have known how to build a cupola.-Latilla on Fresco painting. NOVELS AND HISTORY. Fielding thus defined the difference between a novel and a real history: In the former everything is true but the names and dates; in the latter, nothing is true but the names and dates. History is, in fact, a romance believed and yet we may be equally wrong in thus giving or withholding our faith; for Niebuhr has shown that we have been deceived, even as to many of the names and dates of Roman history; while no one has yet disproved a single tittle of Gulliver's Travels. » : ་་ ⠀ EARLY RISING.—The late Chief Baron O'Grady, who, like the matutine planets, was generally up before the sun, was always in the same predicament with reference to his own son, Dennis, whose slumbers were generally prolonged 'far into the morning. Once when the Baron was upon circuit, and knew that his son was engaged as barrister in the first cause, he Hurried into his bed-room, and waking him without ceremony, exclaimed, Up with you," ‚ ̈'«Up with you, Dennis remember it's the der de gril early bird that catches the worm." Serves the worm right for being up still earlier than the bird, replied the sluggard, rubbing his eyes. 0 Joseph Clisid Daniell, of Tiverton Mills, near Bath, 'for improvements in making and preparing food for cattle. March 31; six months. !་ !་ Julius Seybel, of Golden square, Middlesex, chemist, for improvements in the manufacture of sulphate of soda and chlorine. March 31 six months. "William Liversidge Trippett, of Charlton-upon/Medlock, Lancaster, agent, for improvements in looms for weaving by hand, or by power. March 31; six months. John Bevard, of Whitehead's Grove, Chelsea, gentleman, for au improved mode of expelling the air froin certain cases or vessel used for the preservation of various articles of food April 6; si¥ months lobog and neve Lodi James Smith, of Deanston Works, Kilmadock, Perth, cotton-spinner; and James Buchanan, of the city of Glasgow, merchant, for certain improvements applicable to the preparing and spinning of cotton wool, flax, hemp, and other fibrous substances. April 6; six months. John Read, of Regent's Circus, mechanist; Henry Pitland, of Hurstgreen, Sussex, farmer; for improvements in the construction and make of driving-reins, harness, bridles, and reins, and in bridles and reins for riding. April 6; six months. Jean George Sue Clarke, of Euston-grove, engineer, for improvements in supplying and regulating air to the furnaces of locomotive engines. April 6; six months. Thomas Clive, of Birmingham, iron founder, for certain improve ments in the construction of candle-sticks. April 7; six months. John Anthony Tielens, of Fenchurch-street, merchant, for improvements in machinery or apparatus for knitting. April 7; six months. Marc Carlotti, of Little Argyll-street, Regent's-street, gentleman, for certain improvements in the construction and manufacture of boots, half-boots, shoes, clogs and galoshes. April 8; six months. William Falconer, of Clapham-common, gentleman, for improvements in apparatus for attaching buttons and fasteners to gloves, and parts of garments. April 13; six months. John Byron Dawes, of Trafalgar-square, Charingcross, gentleman, for a certain improved chemical composition or compositions, to be employed in the preparation of glass, or other media of light. April 13; six months. John Lamb, of Kidderminster, machinist, for improvements in engines to be worked by steam, air, gas, or vapours, which improvements are also applicable to pumps for raising or forcing water, air, or other fluids. April 15; six months. Thomas Lichards, of Liyerpool, bookbinder, for certain improvements in the art of bookbinding, and also in machinery, or apparatus to be employed therein. April 15; six months. Alfred Jeffery, of Lloyds-street, Pentonville, gentleman, for a new method of preparing masts, spars, and other wood, for ship building and other purposes. April 15; six months. Charles Farina, of Leicester-square, chemist, for a new method of manufacturing soap, candles, and sealing wax. April 15; six months. Cent Kingdon, of Exeter, cabinet-maker, for certain improvements in impressing and embossing patterns on silk, cotton, and other woven r felted fabrics. April 21, six months. William Noel, of Jermyn-street, St. James's, boot and shoemaker, for certain improvements in the manufacture of boots and shoes. April 21 six months. Od .I Alphonse de Troisbrioux, of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, gentleman, for improvements in lithographic and other printingpresses. April 21; six months. adje so0 ad 1, artan dị Otto Rotton, of Gracechurch-street, doctor of medicine, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for spinning cotton, wool, silk, and other fibrous substances. April 26; six months. William Wood, of Wilton, carpet manufacturer, for a new mode of weaving carpeting, and other figured fabrics. April 26; six months. Septimus Cocking, of Birmingham, draftsinan, for certain improvements in the production of light by the burning of oil, tallow, and wax, and in the apparatus for regulating and extinguishing the same. April 26. Raoul Armand Joseph Jean, Comte de la Charité, chevalier de la légion d'honneur, of Leicester-square, Richard Tappin Claridge, of Weymouth-street, gentleman, and Robert Hodgson of Salisbury-street, Strand, gentleman, for improvements in preparing surfaces of fabrics to be used in covering roofs, floors, and other surfaces. April 26; six months. Henry Robinson Palmer, of Great George-street, Westminster, civil engineer, for an improvement or improvements in the construction of roofs and other parts of buildings, and also for the application of corrugated plates or sheets of metal to certain purposes for which such sheets or plates have not heretofore been used. April 26'; six months. Joseph Mege, of Keppel-street, Russell-square, merchant, for improvements in the making or constructing of trowsers. April 96; six months. John Henry Pape of Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, pianoforte maker, for improvements in carriages and in the construction of wheels. April 28; six months. William Losh, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, esquire, for improvements in the construction of wheels for carriages and locomotive engines intended to be employed on railways. April 28; six months. John Varley, of Colne, Lancaster, engineer, and Edmondson Varley, of the same place, cotton manufacturer, for certain improvements in steam engines. April 28; six months. 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